Beard grew up in and around the market town of Shrewsbury, and her voice retains the soft inflection of the Midlands rather than the plummy tones of Oxbridge, where she has spent most of her adult life.
Normally, Nelly's voice alarmingly combined rasping loudness with soft, lilting inflections.
"In the end," she said, her voice soft, her inflection no-nonsense, "I'm a paper pusher, I'm a meeting going to-er.
Before I knew what I was doing, I'd set the bottle down on the desk and I was pulling on my coat, furious suddenly, and then I was out the door and into the night, the snow swirling overhead and Steve's voice — "So you want a hit of tequila?" — trailing off behind me with a soft, hopeful, rising inflection.
The album's soft illumination and pop inflection hardly disguise its earnest intent, and you might reasonably have expected it to inform Mr. Metheny's stand at the Blue Note this week.
His voice lifts an octave and its inflections are softer, as if, in his parlance, he has moved from the locker room into the light of more discerning eyes. .
"In Too Deep," is a spacious, ambient affair guided by soft percussion and curious vocal inflections.
Experiment with your vibrato on these notes and pick hard and soft to see how the different inflections affect the tone.
Instead of speaking in her usual tough inflections, she offers a soft, intimate whisper; you can hear the hurt in each syllable, but there is also an undercurrent of determination.
In writing, it would help a lot if we had some intermediate punctuation marks to indicate soft questions, soft exclamations, and different inflection in dialogue.
Chambers' soft tones paired with Fanning's masculine inflection create a convincing harmony – and make for a bittersweet listen.
