While I have been posting more analyses in allkpop, I have realized that many of you have the same questions/opinions about my criteria, my procedure or other factors that contribute to the creation of each analysis, those that I will try to explain in this thread.
Also I will post, for the third time, a more optimized “vocal chart” with a different presentation but the same methodology, in order to make it easier for the reader to understand the procedure of the project.
- Until now, I have mostly analysed those idols with which I am most familiar and/or those who are the most demande dones by the readers and that actually deserve to be analysed. For example, I have analysed the whole vocal line of groups that I follow the most like Girls’ Generation or 2NE1, but as the project gets bigger, the chances of other idols to join the list increase. My next projects are Lee Hi, Uji and Hani’s analyses, as well as some updates of current reviews.
- The criteria is only based on technical matters, but the weight of each factor is determined by the analyst, who happens to be myself in this case.
Intonation – 15%
Support – 15%
Breath Control – 10%
Lower register – 9%
Mixed register – 12%
Higher register – 9%
Placement – 15%
Consistency – 15%
TOTAL SCORE – 100%
[i]This method is, however, still trying to be optimized in order to reflect a more accurate rating for each vocalist.
- Yes, I take each one of your requests in consideration for further analysis, but in some cases I have to drop the possibility due to the vocalist’s lack of material and/or his lack of ability to even join the vocalists chart.
INTRODUCING THE NEW VOCAL CHART
As many of you might have noticed in the beginning of the series, the first idea of the vocal rating was not with numbered scores, but with “greek lettered tiers” as despicted in the image below.
Due to the subjective rating of the numbered scores (subjective because it is me who puts the weight on each factor of the vocalist’s techniques), I created a not numbered vocal chart, which might also be easier to understand for the readers.
Where the highest chategory is deemed as “Alpha + vocalists” which includes those vocalists that can be considered as great, with almost no flaws when it comes to singing. Followed by “Alpha vocalists” that includes vocalists that are “Good / Very good”, “Beta vocalists” that refeers to those singers that can be deemed as “Competent” or “Outstanding”; “Gamma vocalists” for those who are in the average line; “Delta vocalists” for the vocalists that are in between the line of being “weak” and “average” and finally “Omega vocalists”, created for those vocalists who are technically bad or weak.