Vocal Coach Mary Z Explains: EPICA! Singer Simone SImons
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What's the magic behind the ethereal singing of Dutch Soprano, Simone Simons of the band Epica? In this video I take a look at a song from their 10th Anniversary DVD and explain how the singing styles change and how you can learn to do this yourself (eventually!) Enjoy!
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What you forgot to mention is that in this particular concert, S. Simons is 7 months pregnant, which it makes it a bit difficult to have that breathing control for belting, mixing and go classical.
That's a great vocalist, there!
I saw her perform pregnant and also at a different time with a full on staph infection in her leg! She's awesome!
Wasn't this the retrospect concert??
3 months pregnant...
@@voicehacks Your analysis of simone's voice is very out of date, that video was from 2013. Today after her pregnancy she herself declared that she obtained her powerful voice because she changed her body. listen to her today makes another analysis. Thank you.
When vocal coach really explains! Not making reactions like others :-)
Simone is one of my favorite symphonic metal singers, just amazing...
And my most favourite of all time :) ❤️ Simone and Floor ❤️ And Tarja too.
Amanda was also a backup singer for Epica ❤️
Please do the same with Sharon den Adel from Within Temptation live at Black Symphony on the song "The Promise". Ya rock, girl!
Yes, Sharon next please.
Or Somewhere with Anneke from the same performance
I absolutely adore Simone Simons. She has a gorgeous singing voice
This is brilliant! Love the explanation.
I have a similar mixing technique to Simone, yet was told by a "big singing coach" that it was wrong. I've always sung in that "classical/Disney" (for lack of better description!) and was told I was doing it all wrong and thought I was a horrid singer... Till I discovered Epica! And I was like well holy crap I sound like her and couldn't believe it! Boosted my confidence hugely, and to hear it broken down as to what it is that's being done is super super helpful as it makes me (just an amateur!) understand my own voice! Thanks!
Love Simone, she has a beautiful timbre, I think a better option to show this though would have been "once upon a nightmare" "unchain Utopia" or "storm the sorrow" but nice video anyways.
Just a curiosity, if I'm not mistaken she was pregnant in that show already
It seemed like she was. She seemed to struggle just a bit with her breath control in this piece.
Yup, she was pregnant! It was also their special 10 year anniversary show that lasted for something like 3+ hours, so I'm very impressed with her performance for the whole show, knowing how hard it is to breathe when pregnant :o
she was! :)
She was, yes!
she's just amazing
Great video, so glad to hear a professional take on some of my favorite singers. Simone may not be most versatile singer or have the best technique, although both are still very good, to my ears her timbre is one of the most beautiful in modern music.
As someone who’s seen this wonderful lady live 4 times, I can confirm that Simone has definitely gotten better with time. Last saw Epica in 2017. Even got to meet her a couple times!
A lot of people have opinions on who’s the better singer, but to me, that’s all a matter of opinion. Each person has a preference. And each vocalist is unique, so it’s unfair to say one is better/comparable to the other.
You’ve earned a sub from me! I very briefly took vocal lessons in 2010, but after a while it droned on because we weren’t getting anywhere and I wasn’t learning anything. Looking forward to going through more of your videos!
More Epica please !!
Feint
Quietus
Tides of time
This is the tome
Desing your universe
Yes!!!!! This is the video I've been waiting for.
Amazing job as always!
Really good stuff, I'm glad to hear analysis from an expert about my favorite vocalist of all time. Since I discovered this band over a decade ago, I've been fascinated with Simone's capabilities and how she naturally glides between styles, all while maintaining her unique gorgeous tone. But most of my friends don't seem to share my fascination, so it's really great to hear you talk about this in detail.
If you haven't heard them yet, check out songs like The Essence of Silence (?v=oePrtEMmX9Y) or Tides of Time (?v=eALDD5XaQuw) or In All Conscience (?v=09e0jIYT5e4), or their best live performance of Design Your Universe (?v=hib0Gle35YE) ... could go on but I'll stop there lol. Such pieces sound absurdly difficult to sing like she does, and really show off the maximum extents of her abilities IMO. It would be awesome to hear you talk about any of those.
I WAS EXPECTING THAT !
I've been looking for an analysis on Simone's singing for such a long time, thank you for being the one to deliver! It was a great watch.
That's one of my favorite bands , great job mary
Love this channel!
She learnt some jazz and pop also. It's great to ear and watch live.
One thing I love about this channel is discovering great bands, because I can't listen to a band if I don't like the singer! I'm going to have so much fun singing along to this one.
Great channel! I couldn't sing a note to save my life, but I love your comments on singers I really admire like Simone, Elize and Floor. Please do one on Amanda Somerville! I love her voice and would love to learn more about it. Thanks!
Amazing! That's why I love your channel, Mary! Thanks for the great and sharp explanations! Please do the same with Anneke van Giersbergen!!!!!
I wholeheartedly second both the compliment and request!
Love that I have found your channel, so many amazing women singers in Metal, and you're giving them their due, and this old metalhead appreciates it. Now can you do Elize Ryde of Amaranthe or Anette Olzon of The Dark Element? :)
Epica rules
Simone ❤️
Thanks for this! This is awesome! I always like the quality of her voice. She may not be as belty as Floor or as classical as Tarja, but the colour speaks much for me!
Can you react to Sharon den Adel or Anneke van Giersbergen next!? :)
yeeeep Anekke 😍
If you touched that epic symphonic metal bands. You've made an interview with Dianne van Giersbergen. She is very cool. So in next explanations it would be interesting to hear about her singing. How she makes that powerfull parts with chorus. How to train this dramatic style. XANDRIA - Nightfall for example. In Ex Libris she also made new beautifull work.
Dianne is great!
Thank you so much for your analysis, I'm really learning a lot with your videos. Simone is one of my fav singers in metal, it's so sad that my absolutely favorite, Vibeke Stene (ex-Tristania singer) is no longer on the scene, because it would be interesting to have an analysis of her voice like this one, because she's also a singing teacher.
Now she is again in scene,her new band called veil of secrets and in October had their first album.
@@stasa-X Yes, I know and I'm super happy for that :D
Yess I'm the frist to comment...so get video thanx Mary for breaking down simone voice for all of us..
Thank you very much! Please do a Daniel Heiman break down too!
This please!
Simone is *so* beautiful; if Floor Jansen is the Queen of Metal, then surely Simone is the Red-haired Siren of Metal! (as in the sirens of Greek mythology).
Isn't Doro the Queen of Metal ?
@@nienienie7567 A long time ago in a galaxy far away.
Simone is the Princess of Metal ;)
Floor is a Valkyrie, as she has insane raw power. Simone is amazing, need the right word choice. The siren is Tarja, as she very much has a slightly ghostly voice and one of her best songs is literally "the siren"
Great review of a very talented and beautiful lady. She keeps amazing me, although Floor is still my favourite, together with Sharon.
Yeeeeeesssssss 🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤
Would really like to see a breakdown of Winston McCall singer of Parkway Drive.
Please do a video on Joe Duplantier from Gojira!
EPICA
Noora Louhimo from Battle Beast!!! 💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖 Please!!!
Yannis Papadopoulos from Beast in Black. :)
Sure! Noora and Yannis deserves videos
I have another great Dutch vocalist to react to/explain: Zora Cock from Blackbriar.
I read on some reactions to Floor and Simone singing a Opera song that Floor had to help Simone a little bit on the song. The song was an opera duet. It isn't Terra Sancta. Simone was 3 months pregnant at this time.
I think you meant Stabat Mater Dolorosa from Retrospect 10th anniversary?
It's not true
check out mold by infected rain another European band with a female vocalist that screams and sings and is friends with tatiana from jinjer
I keep hearing people say, "Increase your range", but I'm curious: is it actually possible to increase your range, or should one mostly focus on increasing their vocal strength within the range that they have? How much range can be learned vs what you're born with?
EDIT: Nevermind, I found the answer to this in one of your other videos. Thanks.
You need just exactly 0.000000001 seconds to fall in love for Simone Simons.
What would you say for male high voices? Belt + mix + classical on top still applies? Usually I feel like belting and mixing are great but when it comes to classical it's lackluster on volume for males up there and it's more rock'n roll to scream it out (Like E5 and above). I usually mix until around D5 but if I go into falsetto higher it's just not the sound I'm looking for so I scream it out.
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Plz Feature Katrina Velsrde/somewhere over the rainbow..teach.us how she attacks the song...i really admire her style..im very very curious how she does it..thnxzz
This was my favorite band before I started moving towards metalcore. They’re still progressing so well, just not my favorite style anymore! Love hanging out in memory lane though!
Awesome video!
Can you please react to Marco Hietala from Nightwish? Love your videos!
Three hour show... 7 months pregnant! 🥇
I think 3 months
@@cancelled_user3 month show? Wow, what a stamina
She is wonderful, she make pop and classical voice with the same color of voice the passagio it’s one color between classical and belt or pop 😍
Could you react to some Gojira?
Can you maybe react to Sam Carter from Architects?
Simone is actually lyric coloratura mezzo, so she sounds sopranoish.
She is not a mezzo. In her beginnings she claimed to be mezzo but later admitted she's a soprano.
@@cancelled_user She never "admitted" anything.
@@snowwhitebeautyful I think she did. But anyway, mezzo sounds like this - ua-cam.com/video/D1W0uFbcSjA/v-deo.html
Simone is a soprano.
@@cancelled_user she did mention sth., but never exicitly stated. Also, there are different types of mezzo. She has a tessitura similar to that of a mezzo, also her timbre is totally mezzo when she sings higher notes. Her voice type is somewhat confusing.
@@snowwhitebeautyful Yeah, not just her. Many voices are more or less confusing. And they usually overlap. Simone is mostly a soprano, but ask 10 different voice coaches and they will not all say the same thing. However, most sources I checked, say that Simone is a soprano.
Just wondering for future reference, do you teach vocals for some extreme metal sub genres? Specifically Black Metal, Death Metal, Deathcore and maybe some Grindcore
I do! Try my screamer series playlist
Can you do the same with Tarja 😊
❤️ Simone ❤️ Tarja ❤️ and Floor ❤️
What's in the water in The Netherlands?
Chemtrails :-0
please make a video on carnifex vocalist
Scott Lewis
and By the way i really like your videos
How do you think Simone compares to Floor Jansen, Anneke van Giersbergen and Sharon den Adel?
We don't compare here. They're all great. Simple enough.
Can someone tell me the name of this song
Serenade of Self-Destruction (from the album Requiem for the Indifferent)
You failed to mention that Amanda Summerville actually replaced for Simone for the US leg of the 2008 tour because Simone was dealing with a MRSA infection.
“failed to mention” lmao 😆it’s not labeled as a “wholly inclusive Epica documentary about every detail possible” 😆 btw I saw Simone perform in a chair on the tour right before Amanda filled in because of that MRSA infection. She first acquired it here in the States before needing further treatment abroad.
Name of the song?
Serenade of Self-Destruction
Still waiting for the best Dutch vocalist, Anneke van Giersbergen.
Still a great video though!
krisdaschwab912 Hehe see her tonight again, and tomorrow...and a few more times 😁😍. Anneke is so great! ❤️
@@The-Punnkk Wow, very civil response, fuckface.
Aguante Vuur 🕷️
Floor r better
@@pedjavukmirovic6770 No. Floor's fine, don't get me wrong, but Anneke has such a diverse style.
I believe she was pregnant at the time of this live recording. Hence the outfit isn't what she usually wears.
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Nice. Could you do a similar analysis/explanation about Floor Jansen based on i.e. "Floor Jansen - Best Nightwish Moments" that you can find here in UA-cam. After all, Floor is ranked #1 female metal vocalist in most rankings that you can find using Google?
everyone has different tastes, I prefer simone over floor
@@deminybs me as well
React to Austin Carlile next?
React to Death's songs
Epica Stabat Mater Dolorosa feat Floor Jansen LIVE
Two beautiful singers in the video. First, I agree with much of what you said. However I can see that by changing the vocal techniques, it's the same vocalist. In the course of the song I get sick of the voice - maybe because the band is busting Simone, not to mention that the orchestra kind of disappears. In the case of Floor, it is clear the change of technique and it is as if two vocalists were heard. ___________________________ English errors are the fault of google translate.
Thanks for another vid. I'm not too much into epica though
Have you heard their more recent stuff? They changed a lot over the last two albums. The Holographic Principle is absolutely crushing.
Hey you try out Epica whit Floor Sancta Terra
Pls react to Slipknot 🤘
Do evanescence please 😊
I’m confused, while I sing I guess I use the same techniques but I thought I was singing in my head voice the whole time
I would regard the mixed voice and one of two types of head voice. So you could call this a sub type of head voice
@@voicehacks I’m very confused, so you think that if you will ever have a minute you could check if I’m belting? ( in the chorus) ua-cam.com/video/CJ9-YnJNS54/v-deo.html - sorry for bothering you but I have no idea what it is called what I’m doing 😢🥲😅
“A Dutch band from the Netherlands”
Hmmm.... yes. The floor here is made out of floor.
It’s a redundant statement but a lot of Americans are terrible at geography and don’t know the difference between Dutch and Danish and I wanted to be extra clear since the majority of my viewers are American.
VoiceHacks Fair enough then
then she was a +- 3 months pregnant
I know you did a comparison of the Nightwish singers a while back, but I would love to hear your in depth reaction to and analysis of Floor Jansen singing "Ghost Love Score" live at Wacken 2013. Here is a link: ua-cam.com/video/JYjIlHWBAVo/v-deo.html
That is one of her all time great performances and definitely worthy of your attention.
Mezosoprano not soprano.😉 The best singer forever!!!!❤️❤️❤️❤️🤘🤘🤘🤘
Simone said on one of the live Facebook chats that her vocal trainer told her she's a soprano
@@MrsNaranja bullshit. She is coloratura mezzo.
Nope, Simone is a soprano.
so bad They are Usa......
eh?
I love you so much right now: ua-cam.com/video/cx22Yuj2nzg/v-deo.html Epica - Sancta Terra (feat Floor Jansen) Live Retrospect show