Basic Trope: Contrasting high and deep vocals, usually by a female and male singer respectively.
- Straight:
- Sarah Soprano and George Gravel sing for the band Troperium.
- George Gravel collaborates with Sarah Soprano for a new single.
- Troperium's label-mate The Lampshades has Alice Alto, who does both soprano and gravel.
- Exaggerated:
- Sarah Soprano sings notes higher than the piccolo can play and George Gravel sings lower than the double bass can play.
- Alice Alto can sing both of those roles.
- Downplayed:
- George can hit low notes, but doesn't sound as deep or gravelly.
- Alice prefers gravel over soprano, but does clean background vocals.
- Justified: George and Sarah play Beast and Beauty in a Rock Opera.
- Inverted:
- Troperium has George on soprano and Sarah on gravel.
- Sarah collaborates with Alice, whose low register has...confused a few listeners.
- George teams up with the classically trained Tony Tenor.
- Subverted:
- George and Sarah collaborate, but both of them do only gravel.
- Tony teams up with Alice, but both sing.
- Double Subverted:
- But then Sarah develops throat problems after several demos, so she switches back to clean singing and leaves the gravel to George.
- Alice performs as a guest singer with Tony, but then surprises everybody when she incorporates gravel into her parts.
- Parodied: ???
- Zig Zagged:
- George and Sarah are both capable of soprano and gravel, and are prone to swapping roles within the same song.
- George has a deep, yet smooth voice. Meanwhile, Sarah's high voice is also very raspy.
- Averted:
- George and Sarah use the same vocal technique without sounding vastly different from each other.
- Alice sticks to only clean or only harsh vocals throughout the song.
Back to Soprano and Gravel.
