Just a side note for people who are unfamiliar with opera: The special thing about operatic vocal types is that they are based on the voice's unamplified carrying power. Some ultra-light tenors can sing low bass notes very well into the microphone, but in a big theater those notes will not reach the listener's ear. Also, you have to bear in mind that the orchestra can be very loud and drown a singer's voice if he is singing in the wrong tessitura. In non-classical music, the sound engineer or mixer can bring even a weak note to the forefront. That said, even in opera there are lots of basses who sing baritone roles and vice versa, and some baritones who make the transition to tenor, to sing heavy stuff like Wagner. For a tenor it is virtually impossible to transition to bass, because his lower notes - even if he is able to produce them perfectly - will not carry properly in a big theater.
I would consider myself as a low tenor maybe, and I can sing very very loud, my singing teacher used to step away to avoid damage in his ear. I can sing even low notes lets say down to F2 loud enough so they do not disappear, but i must admit that i don't have a baritone richness when singing too loud (sounds kinda forced/aggressive), or i have this timbre, but only if sung softly. So i would say those fachs can also be applied in contempory music, as knowing your voice characteristics surely helps in getting the maximum out of your voice and precisely finding your 'sugar notes'.
@@pascalwinkler6727 it should be as powerful but feel easy ! i am a leggero and due to the order i developed my voice i have strong lows till g2 but there quality is not as beautiful as my notes d#3 onwards even though they feel comfortable as i can inflect anywhere from c4 to b2 when talking! my habit is of expressive intonation while talking!
@@pascalwinkler6727 I'm starting to think I'm a tenor. I thought I was a bass-baritone, occasionally hitting E2 and struggling above E4, but keeping my tongue in the "ng" position, I thin out badly below C3. I also found my head voice and can hit D5 with little effort. It would make sense that I have a tenor voice because I have a smaller frame and a relatively high speaking voice.
Ken, I regularly play guitar and sing BV's - aside from lead vocals and BV's in other band/duo contexts - with a great singer called Paul Da Vinci, who had a No. 1 pop hit in the mid 70s ('Sugar Baby Love', which was attributed to The Rubettes but it was Paul's voice heard) - and I've known Paul since the 80s (when he was doing lots of top level session singing in the UK). I was actually in band with Paul for several years in the mid-80s and, while rehearsing round his house one day he told me that his vocal range was five octaves! His range is still pretty incredible to this day - he has always taken great care of his voice; and his grandson (an operatically trained singer with perfect pitch) has inherited his grandfather's amazing range. My point is, I'm honoured to be regularly gigging with Paul (we resume gigging in a few weeks' time after almost a year off due to COVID) and, compared to Paul's range, my 3.75-octave range - last time I checked - is pretty good, but not extraordinary. I need to sing some pretty high harmonies for certain songs and I'm OK with that, but I need to work on developing my technique. My tessatura varies according to, I believe, whether I'm singing a country, blues or pop song, even a bit of jazz and, just occasionally something rather rocky (see ahead for a bit of an elaboration) - I declare that I'm typing this before having finished watching this video, so I need to check what my fach actually is, not that I'd be limited by initial categorisation. I should mention that one of my duo partners, herself a vocal coach, told me not long ago that she really loves hearing me sing in my lower register because she feels it's much more sexy! (We're not in a romantic relationship and she's good friends with my partner.) So, I'm inspired by the likes of Justin Hawkins, my bandleader Paul, and your good self for amazing high register; but then again I'm known primarily as a country guitarist and country singer (yes, I sing a few Johnny Cash songs as well as more contemporary repertoire and I love singing and playing the blues), so the baritone of, let's say, Barry White or, country wise, Toby Keith, pulls me another way. I should also mention in passing a truly great (Scottish) singer, George Payling Jr., whom I've known for about 30 years and whose band I have worked with (playing guitar and singing BV's) on many an occasion (country music clubs and UK festivals). He's one of those guys who just opens his mouth to sing and the most amazing sound comes out! He's a naturally gifted singer - do you believe in such creatures? - but I'm sure you'd insist that he must've had some training along the way, and so I must ask him about that next time I see him. By the way, I recently watched a documentary on the late, great Teddy Pendergrass and he was uber-successful and the ladies loved his sexy voice and the man himself! I'm mindful that you will have nothing to do with anyone who's only into singing for fame and glory or, most superficially, just in it for the money, but may I assure you that, aged 59, I'm mature and wise enough to know that playing (guitar) and singing for the love of music is... a calling. Peace and love.
Thanks man! Between you and my personal coach (Phillip Fox), my voice has become better. it's been 10 months and I've added 3 half steps to the bottom, and 7 half steps at the top. More importantly, I'm starting to sing in key. LOL!
Thank goodness there are people who oppose the ancestor worship approach to classical music: Leonard Bernstein, Marin Alsop, Karl Jenkins, John Rutter. And I agree too about the durability of Fach. Sutherland was originally a mezzo, same as her mother. Training produced the colorature. Counter tenors are commonly originally baritone etc
Well, now I know what a University level vocal lessons sound like. I can't say college level because I took a course titled voice 1 at the local community college thinking I would get some information on how to exercise my voice. Found out in the first class they should have titled the class Performance 1. "You picked a song, you learned the song, you performed the song." That wasn't what I signed up for so I dropped it. You really shouldn't have to read the description of a class to know what it is basically about, especially when they hide the description in somewhere in the back of the course catalog..
I will definitely rewatch this video again. Thanks Ken for sharing bunch of great information about singing. And ken, if you don't mind, please explain about relaxation response that you always talk about (in the next video). Maybe some piece of it will be great. It still leaves me in awe when I see you go for a high note, and with the 'relaxation response' you mention, the volume raises, vibrato comes and the note held for a long time. Just wow. Cheers. GBU.
My range is B2-F5. I can sometimes go down to A2, but it takes some effort and i have to flip to head voice around F4 (trying to get rid of that vocal break!) I've been classified as contralto, although i did a mini experiment and most people who heard my singing anonymously thought i was a tenor (a couple even described me as a teenage boy). Songs in the tenor range are the most comfortable for me to sing anyway :D
ReiKoko Yes! It's true. Contraltos are similar to high tenor (Tenorino). Mine is like that too (l have an A2). I sound like a very young version of my brother (Ugh) who speaks in a dark inky baritone (I've never heard him sing, he said he once claimed he sang "bass"in choir). Yes l can sound a bit like him when l deliberately try to speak lower in my low register now. Good grief. I'm proud to be a Contralto though. They are cool and besides they are unique and rare. Tiny women can have big, dark powerful voices too. They really inspire me. Timi Yuro and Judy Garland were both only 4 ft 11. Basically like you're a boy in the process of "breaking". Reality: it already is!!! Mezzo Sopranos on the other hand can sound like pre pubescent boys when they speak/sing! FYI Altos are often relegated to sing trouser roles as young boys or young men in opera. They are perfect for filling the roles once sung by the castrati because you, know they don't exist any more. However today we have male Altos now, the newfangled counter tenor competing for the same roles. It's come full circle. Oooh the irony
Thank you so much, dear Ken, for re-doing this topic for us...even though we know you're still not feeling 100% yet. I thoroughly enjoyed the Live Stream (when it was LIVE) and have already re-watched it (once!)...will probably need to watch it again as there is so much information to absorb! I have quite a range...can go down to about an A2 and up to an F#6 (sometimes G6!)...not whistle register. I was a soprano in the high school choir but I think my tessitura is somewhere lower...maybe mezzo-soprano/contralto. Looking forward to tomorrow's Live Stream!!! ❤❤❤
I find in my learning that the all time best opera singers are not tight in any way at all. In fact the demanding roles that great opera singers have taken on requires a lot of freeness to sing in often big ranges without the aid of a microphone
My nephew says my sister and I are the only people he knows that turn rock into opera. I took lessons from Carla Riggs while we were at Fort Knox. At my first lesson she said "You're on key and pitch!" I asked her why I wouldn't be? I thought it such a strange thing to say. Then she said "Do you ever yell, when your mad or excited?". Well, duh, yeah. She said "Then you can sing a LOT louder and lower and stop tightening up when you transition from your head voice (as a soprano that's where I sang) to your chest voice. She asked why I was there and I told her I wanted to learn to sing "Kryptonite". And "Its Been Awhile". I have a better chest voice and can sing much lower, but I wouldn't hit the stage for sure. Not til I take your course, lol.
This is double blind nill insanity!!! You have a higher IQ than just about anyone I've ever listened to before! How you present information is so fluid and logical, yet artistic and dynamic, you just might be the most gifted teacher I've ever watched, in any area of study! Of course, I'm listening on a laptop without much range in the speakers, so I keep turning up to hear you speak, and your singing is scaring people in nearby rooms, but it's well worth it!!! I've got to get my daughter to subscribe to your videos!!!
Today become historical moment. I can set zero level on autotune support on my Acoustic Singer Live device. Singing is so pure, that is possible listen self. Without second support voice pixelate. In song Still Loving You from Scorpions. And it so all thanks the Ken Tamplin Vocal Academy here on TH-cam support. After 6 week of intensive exercise. Thanks Ken...! No exist any limits for some type of voice. Because where is the Will, there is way, and there is the Target.
Hi Ken! I just started watching some of your videos and I think you know what you're talking about. I'm super excited to try some of these techniques you're talking about and become the best singer I can be. Thanks!
Thanks man. This is really cool and interesting. Anyone singing the role for Dracula would be a baritone singer which is why Christopher Lee played the part so perfect in all his Dracula movies. Check out Christopher Lee Charlemagne: The Omens of Death. That's his Heavy Metal album and he's singing baritone. He made that album in when he was in his 80s and kept making heavy metal album's. He loved Black Sabbath and Heavy Metal when he was making Dracula. If you love his voice from his horror films you'll like his voice on this album.
My highest Range in powerfull belting chest voice is a d5 And My loweet is F2 in mix VOICE I can only do mix voice at The Bottom of My Range and in my Light with few chest resonance Head voice My highest Range is i6 and My lowest is d3 Thats What i think I am An contratenor contra alto i think finallly after si many consfused years
Golden info here. I was really hoping to here more about bass and baritone. It seemed like you skimmed over it, and all the focus was on the female voice. I have a similar range as you. I feel my voice is deeper, but you can project your lower notes more if that makes sense .
I would love to get your take on vocalists like Daniel Tompkins or Chris Barretto. Vocalists like these are extremely underrated due to the style of music they contribute to and the stigma against it, but they are bringing extremely high levels of expertise and talent to a genre of music that is not generally associated with classically trained musicians, although more and more musicians of a certain ilk are contributing their talents to it, I would love for someone like you to do a comprehensive deconstruction of some of their techniques and articulation/their approach to their vocals for someone like me, and many others who are very interested in following a similar path in our own vocals, not to mention it would just be extremely interesting, maybe even for those unlike me with different tastes in music.
I’ve been told I’m a leggiero tenor because of my light and high voice but also my because because when I sing low I have this baritone sound to my voice
I have a question. I got sick and completely lost my voice and it has been different since. I lost some range, can’t transition as well between my head voice, but I can create more distortion and have a natural rasp that wasn’t there before. It’s kinda weird doing Robert Plant songs one day and then waking up all Roger Daltry imitating Joe Cocker after a few weeks of a bad cold. I don’t know if the sickness damaged something or I did coughing up all crud. I just know I can sing some stuff I could not before better now and other things I can’t do the same. I don’t know if I can even get back to my former self. Love all the tips brother.
What would you say Paul Rodgers would fall into, fach-wise? I always placed him as more of a tenor with some baritone girth rather than a baritone with good highs but I’m not sure. What about Layne Staley?
Hey Ken, Was wondering if Michael Jackson was a 'Lyric Tenor' as a child and adult singer? because as he got older he had the ability to sound aggressive and breathy yet still retained his vulnerable and angelic style. Thanks for this video, never heard of vocal fach before this, only knew about vocal registers
I talk like a tenor I sing like a tenor most of the time .. but when I sing lower than e3 my voice sounds almost an octave lower I don't use my low notes that much the lowest I can go is G2 but whenever I use my bottom register people think I'm a bass lol
I was singer in a touring band but I've never learned the letter key or voice types.. I would love help on singing.. Would I have to learn the difference between G flat or E minor for example?
Hello, thank you for this video again:). It's really helpful. Here's one thing I don't understand...(sorry it's not about this topic you talked in the video) How can I use influences in my singing style? Like we can try to imitate how they sing? If I do so, will it hurt my throat? And...(sorry I have too many questions)My voice always sounds like it's covered with something, and I feel like I use mask to sing, how can I improve that?
Franklin, watch this video on vocal influences: th-cam.com/video/6PS7N4hPhbc/w-d-xo.html And this one about vocal tone: th-cam.com/video/dCz3F1Hzero/w-d-xo.html
Ken, you made a comparIson early in this video to kind of an opera run vs a blues (brother) run. In a lot of cases to me it really seems like many (not all) opera singers are maybe a bit stuck doing only one thing. Do you remember Aretha Franklin doing Nessun Dorma with really no warning at all at the Grammy’s in 1998? I know she’s The Queen but Michael Bolton performs it regularly and well. Does that make soul a more versatile singing style or just the two people I mentioned unbelievable lol?
Just how I see it, REAL opera singers with REAL technique have no limitations, and truthfully Michael Bolton and Aretha Franklin never did a very solid rendition of Nessun Dorma, and could never carry their voice without a microphone the way an opera singer can. Of course that is just my opinion
Thanks for the great video! If my first passaggio is around E4/D#4 and my second passaggio is right at the A4, what voice type would I be considered as?
Respect to Ken for his detailed knowledge but I just want to point out that to my knowledge a contralto is not just about the notes she can hit but a major trait of a contralto is the androgynous quality of the voice. Singers like Cher, Annie Lennox and Karen Carpenter spring to mind. Also Michael Jackson's "real voice" is actually low but he chooses to sing up there with mix voice due to his SLS training and to preserve his brand and association as a child singer in the Jackson 5 (before his voice broke). There are TH-cam videos of Michael doing vocal exercises with Seth Griggs where Michael went all the way down to sounding almost like Barry White and there is that audio recording of Michael in a sedated state where he rambled on using his "real" male voice with a very clear baritone timbre as opposed to his trademark high pitched voice.
OnceAndFuture King There are many types of contraltos, but the best definition of one is a low female voice who sings in pure chest voice all the way up to F4 and G4 similar to men (passagio). The calling card for any Contralto is her powerful, dark, weighty belts (Toni Braxton) most notably in the fourth octave (Timi Yuro and Lila Downs--Lila belt it a pure G4!). Their chest notes are extensive and project all the way down to D3. They can sing as high as Mezzo and Soprano voices but in their low register they do start to get a Tenor like quality. The weight is similar, so is the colour or darker. Generally in the Contralto range (F5 and below) their voices are thick, weighty, dark and rich. Look for a dark smoky timbre in their chest notes that carries into their mixed (but very short middle register). I know this because l am proud to be one. Sade is a contralto and her voice is warm, rounded and feminine but is still different from a typical mezzo soprano counterpart, though not by very much (it is accurate to say she just made it) her voice is neither large or as powerful/dramatic as others are. The longer/larger the the vocal folds on the Contralto the lower, darker, heavier and Androgynous her voice will sound (and usually the more dramatic voice). This is why low set contraltos legitimately struggle past F5! Their pure head voices on the other hand are much weaker, and seem overly bright compared to their heavy, dark chest voice. If you want to see that in action check out singer Lyves. I am a contralto myself l can sing everything a tenor can. After my voice fully matured in the mid twenties l started getting clues I don't sound like other women do. When l started lessons before that time a little younger l was told l could be an alto and another person l went looked at me funny and said l have a low voice ('for a girl'). I didn't believe it though. Accessing my chest was a lot of struggle. I believed l had a higher voice because access to my high register was much easier. Imitating higher register female singers did not help but ultimately damaged my voice. It was painful but l guess it had to be. My voice darkened so much l finally understand it for what it is. I have been working on rehabilitating my voice and it's amazing. l thought l just had no talent. I've been frustrated with my singing for years. I had to readjust my mindset and my alignment of my singing. Accessing my chest register is like finding my true voice, not the tension laden falsetto I had been using for too long. I have endured being called "Sir" or being mistaken for my brother on the phone... He's a Baritone! Anyway Ken you didn't talk about dramatic voices that much but l can tell you this. Dramatic voices can sound great one fach down. Take Jill Scott she is a huge, rich, dark sounding dramatic Soprano who definitely is in her element singing like a Mezzo but her top is truly explosive, l mean still rich and heavy at the very top though doesn't really do it often. When it comes to the Dramatic Contralto look out, they are true female Tenors in sound and weight. They can carry their chest they way up to Ab4 (Godly!!!) I think in pop is gotta be Tracy Chapman. It is rare even among Contraltos to sound that close to a guy.
My range is d2-f4(sometimes f#4 with serious strain and I've gone up to g4 only twice ever) and head voice goes up to c5. Would this make me a baritone or bass?
@@lesthermiranda1794 The initial starting point for the bass vocal range is around D2-E4. For Baritones, its G2 and G4. Obviously, Ken proves that you can extend each register higher with proper technique over an octave or more.
Hi Ken! I think my voice is tenor and I feel very comfortable when I sing tenor. If I try and attempt to sing soprano like Tarja from Nightwish, would it cause bad influence on my voice? I tried several times but it doesn't do well.
I know it’s a bit late to mention this as I missed this stream two years ago XD but I thought I’d comment anyway, in reference to the bass voice, you said that you can’t really get much power below a C2 but I’ve heard men such as Glenn Miller project an F1 over a choir by himself, I know John Ames had a role written for him in opera that went down to an A1, if we pull out all the stops we find men like Alexis lukianov and Mikhail Zlatopolsky who have actually projected a D1 and C1 respectively over a choir. Writing this I realize it sounds like I’m trying to have an “aha! I know more than ken” moment, please realize this isn’t my intention by any means, I just wanted to bring profundos some attention bc they are often overlooked (granted they are incredibly rare so that does play a factor) I love your videos so much and your course has helped me immensely! Keep up the incredible work!
Krikionis Probably the profundo. They have the longest/vocal folds possible in the human voice. There are some true freaks of nature out there. Oktavists are just out of this world. In opera it is also helpful to be a larger person (height) to carry the sound... to dramatic effect. Very imposing and powerful like Kurt Knoll
Ken I would love if you can help me figure out if I'm a mezzo or contralto. I've heard people say diff things cause I like to sing low but I can also go higher but it's more difficult. I have a few videos of me singing. Probably the best recording quality are theones are the recent ones. Sometimes I think I'm a dramatic mezzo cause when I go high I hear those ringing notes such as in my cover of Alice in Chains Love Hate Love and I'm very chesty and very loud. Gritona ftw!! Haha
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I am capable of easily hitting a B5 (sometimes D6, my highest was a F6 by screaming) with my chest voice and I am a male. So, Would I be considered a countertenor?
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When i started your vocal program, I was 19 years old and my vocal range was A2-E5 (with chest voice since I didn't know what that, head voice, and falsetto were at the time and since i didn't know how to access head voice) (also I could technically sing higher than an E5 with chest but it was way out of my comfort zone). What voice type would you classify me as? (If you need for me to post something in the singing forums, i would love to)
@@kentamplin When I started learning about the chest voice, head voice, and falsetto for the first time I was able to go up to a C5 with chest voice before I made my first vowel modification. Most of the time my primo passagio notes are based on the upper 2nd-octave notes up to the lower fifth-octave notes and although i sometimes now can go up to a Bb5 with chest voice in warm-ups, it's much easier for me to access the upper soprano notes (F5-C6) with the Segundo passagio. I am currently 22 years old now and I turn 23 in February. I hope that answers what you were trying to ask. If not, I can post a private link to a video of me singing an A2, A3, A4 and A5.
My range is F3 to F5, which puts me almost perfectly in the contralto classification (and makes me very happy, because that's where I wanted to land :-) ). Most singing instruction I've found seems to focus a lot on extending the higher range, but I actually really want to extend my lower range. I've heard from multiple sources that for most women, it's not really possible to actually extend one's lower range (though it's possible to strengthen the lowest notes a woman can already reach and make them fuller and more dependable). I'd love to make it down to a usable D3 - do you think that's possible? What would you recommend for getting the most out of the lowest end of my range?
Jennifer Doneske True contraltos project down to D3. Low Mezzo Soprano E3. Ken is right, in modern day pop music it favors low range singing for women but it doesn't make everyone a Contralto! To be placed in a certain Fach you still need to be able project WITHOUT A MIC. To give you some hope even Sopranos can sing C3. They will really have to scrape the basement to get there but if Taylor Swift can do it so can you. Most pop songs written for women is usually F3 at the lowest. There is an odd E3 here and there. C3 and below is very very rare. Real contraltos can stay a lower tessitura and project and have real clarity in their lows. Toni Braxton's famous Unbreak my Heart for one. I have never really seen any other female attempt the multiple lows performing that song (she has Bb2's). Brandy also sings really low these days but people seem to get confused at her wide range and think her light, dark voice as SOPRANO... Hint: she's not!
You're not a contralto if you cannot sing lower than F3, and don't feel completely comfortable with F3. Also, if you can hit F5 easily, you might be a soprano. An alto would struggle to reach F5.
@@somebodysvideos7876 I actually agree but I feel she's more of a lower set mezzo soprano. It depends on her comfort and experience but as of now shes more of a lower mezzo soprano. Also until she hits her mid late 30s she won't know where her voice will sit the rest of her life.
Recorded range is F2-F6 in entire range, and F2-F5 in full voice. But live it was usually only up to B4 in full voice. Freddie also stated that he could only sing the high notes loud, and that he could scream perfectly for 3 days in a row before he went hoarse. He envied the big operatic tenors who could sing the high notes softer, and someone like Paul Rodgers who did in fact take voice lessons. Here is a quote from Freddies personal assistant that you might find interesting: "Freddie didn't like the fact that his vocal placement and tessitura were lower than some of the more famous rock singers of the 60s and 70s, so he developed his own particular tenor voice in his own way. In a hilarious twist, Peter Freestone said that the term "Mercury Tenor" (which was simply a joking term) actually made sense (since Freddie created his tenor voice through sheer determination)!"
K e n, I'm a female common natural female! LOL I can sing the lowest basement that I've heard Sun including the Johnny Cash and lowrider songs period one of my favorite songs is Johnny Cash's treatment of hurt The Nine Inch Nails song and I can see it in his octave or an octave higher and play with it with harmonies. I can do Pat Benatar, haven't tried and Wilson for a while but I'm sure I could work up to it I'm not really sure what my vocal fach wood be. I've gone online and search the lowest female note sung and I can match that note. I can just relax into it. What would my fach be? I had smoothness through the passage and I can sing very loudly and powerfully I can also sing at a stage whisper. I could sing bass in high school and also sing with the first Sopranos but I've had a hard life and it's taking a toll on my voice so I don't really attempt the first soprano stuff anymore. Don't get me wrong I would love to get there again.
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You, being a Christian, will understand when I say that I had a calling when I was six years old and saw the first episode of Judy Garland's TV show. She touched me so deeply and something in my soul told me all you ever really want to do with your life is to sing and to touch people the way that she did. I'm telling you Ken it was like the light of Heaven! Can still see everything in the room and I'm 64 almost 65 years old. The two things in my life that have been constant are writing poetry and lyrics and singing. They have been both the greatest therapy and the greatest inspiration of my life and I know that there was I am here to do. Now that I've raised my family I have the time to work on these things more. I decided to become an activist writer again into Spotlight particular issues. I also have a gift for comedy. Things just go through my head that you would not believe! LOL LOL LOL! I have a n hilarious inner life! Michael is a singer is to reach into people's hearts and make them understand that we are all one! That none of us are free as long as one of us are chained! I have two causes of the homeless because where I live people freeze to death and we have Mayors who won't help! Doing whatever I can to help bridge the racial divide is very important to me. Global warming, it's something we all need to really get a grip on and do something about or our great-grandchildren won't have a world to live in. These things give me great courage! You said singer is only a cigarette because they have the guts to be period causes bigger than ourselves, that take our Focus off of ourselves and put them onto the issues, gives you guts! I tell myself to call myself that I'm only there to tell a few stories. Is that beginning on the remind myself that I need to really be calm to pay this song it's due. It's quite a reverent thing. When I was younger I had a service where I would perform for local pastors and I would choose and perform songs or write and perform Originals that were related to the sermon. I would do a lot of original work there. Healing songs. I would look out to that portion of the audience that I could see and I would see people weeping and after the performance people will come up to me and tell me how the song that I had been blessed with head help them to heal. What could possibly be more humbling?
My vocal range is F2-F5-F#6-B7, I have a whistle register and I train my falsetto alot, and I feel most comfortable around D3-C5. I support B2-B4 though, and I'd love to know my vocal type.. Thanks!! (I'm also rather agile, so maybe coloratura. My fastest run had 8 notes in one second, and they're fluent).
Usually, I can transition from falsetto to chest from D6 down to F#4, and my passagio upwards is from D3 up to C6 (My comfort / mac I feel I can go right now) , but my secondo passagio sometimes breaks, and is still in training.. it usually happens at about bb4 tho
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Just a side note for people who are unfamiliar with opera: The special thing about operatic vocal types is that they are based on the voice's unamplified carrying power. Some ultra-light tenors can sing low bass notes very well into the microphone, but in a big theater those notes will not reach the listener's ear. Also, you have to bear in mind that the orchestra can be very loud and drown a singer's voice if he is singing in the wrong tessitura. In non-classical music, the sound engineer or mixer can bring even a weak note to the forefront.
That said, even in opera there are lots of basses who sing baritone roles and vice versa, and some baritones who make the transition to tenor, to sing heavy stuff like Wagner. For a tenor it is virtually impossible to transition to bass, because his lower notes - even if he is able to produce them perfectly - will not carry properly in a big theater.
Renat Melamed Well said.
I would consider myself as a low tenor maybe, and I can sing very very loud, my singing teacher used to step away to avoid damage in his ear. I can sing even low notes lets say down to F2 loud enough so they do not disappear, but i must admit that i don't have a baritone richness when singing too loud (sounds kinda forced/aggressive), or i have this timbre, but only if sung softly. So i would say those fachs can also be applied in contempory music, as knowing your voice characteristics surely helps in getting the maximum out of your voice and precisely finding your 'sugar notes'.
@@pascalwinkler6727 it should be as powerful but feel easy !
i am a leggero and due to the order i developed my voice i have strong lows till g2 but there quality is not as beautiful as my notes d#3 onwards even though they feel comfortable as i can inflect anywhere from c4 to b2 when talking!
my habit is of expressive intonation while talking!
@@pascalwinkler6727 I'm starting to think I'm a tenor. I thought I was a bass-baritone, occasionally hitting E2 and struggling above E4, but keeping my tongue in the "ng" position, I thin out badly below C3. I also found my head voice and can hit D5 with little effort. It would make sense that I have a tenor voice because I have a smaller frame and a relatively high speaking voice.
Ken, I regularly play guitar and sing BV's - aside from lead vocals and BV's in other band/duo contexts - with a great singer called Paul Da Vinci, who had a No. 1 pop hit in the mid 70s ('Sugar Baby Love', which was attributed to The Rubettes but it was Paul's voice heard) - and I've known Paul since the 80s (when he was doing lots of top level session singing in the UK). I was actually in band with Paul for several years in the mid-80s and, while rehearsing round his house one day he told me that his vocal range was five octaves! His range is still pretty incredible to this day - he has always taken great care of his voice; and his grandson (an operatically trained singer with perfect pitch) has inherited his grandfather's amazing range. My point is, I'm honoured to be regularly gigging with Paul (we resume gigging in a few weeks' time after almost a year off due to COVID) and, compared to Paul's range, my 3.75-octave range - last time I checked - is pretty good, but not extraordinary. I need to sing some pretty high harmonies for certain songs and I'm OK with that, but I need to work on developing my technique. My tessatura varies according to, I believe, whether I'm singing a country, blues or pop song, even a bit of jazz and, just occasionally something rather rocky (see ahead for a bit of an elaboration) - I declare that I'm typing this before having finished watching this video, so I need to check what my fach actually is, not that I'd be limited by initial categorisation.
I should mention that one of my duo partners, herself a vocal coach, told me not long ago that she really loves hearing me sing in my lower register because she feels it's much more sexy! (We're not in a romantic relationship and she's good friends with my partner.)
So, I'm inspired by the likes of Justin Hawkins, my bandleader Paul, and your good self for amazing high register; but then again I'm known primarily as a country guitarist and country singer (yes, I sing a few Johnny Cash songs as well as more contemporary repertoire and I love singing and playing the blues), so the baritone of, let's say, Barry White or, country wise, Toby Keith, pulls me another way. I should also mention in passing a truly great (Scottish) singer, George Payling Jr., whom I've known for about 30 years and whose band I have worked with (playing guitar and singing BV's) on many an occasion (country music clubs and UK festivals). He's one of those guys who just opens his mouth to sing and the most amazing sound comes out! He's a naturally gifted singer - do you believe in such creatures? - but I'm sure you'd insist that he must've had some training along the way, and so I must ask him about that next time I see him.
By the way, I recently watched a documentary on the late, great Teddy Pendergrass and he was uber-successful and the ladies loved his sexy voice and the man himself! I'm mindful that you will have nothing to do with anyone who's only into singing for fame and glory or, most superficially, just in it for the money, but may I assure you that, aged 59, I'm mature and wise enough to know that playing (guitar) and singing for the love of music is... a calling. Peace and love.
Thanks for sharing that, Lee!
Ken, I am a soprano / mezzo-soprano / contralto, and I am a voice major at a music school.
Morning couch ken Tamplin your voice Amazing wonderful voice
Thanks!
Thanks man! Between you and my personal coach (Phillip Fox), my voice has become better. it's been 10 months and I've added 3 half steps to the bottom, and 7 half steps at the top.
More importantly, I'm starting to sing in key. LOL!
That's fantastic, Tony!
Thank goodness there are people who oppose the ancestor worship approach to classical music: Leonard Bernstein, Marin Alsop, Karl Jenkins, John Rutter. And I agree too about the durability of Fach. Sutherland was originally a mezzo, same as her mother. Training produced the colorature. Counter tenors are commonly originally baritone etc
You're a monster coach, Ken, and it's super-cool you're doing these long live feeds.
Thanks so much, Rollo!
Thanks Mr Ken Tamplin
Well, now I know what a University level vocal lessons sound like.
I can't say college level because I took a course titled voice 1 at the local community college thinking I would get some information on how to exercise my voice. Found out in the first class they should have titled the class Performance 1.
"You picked a song, you learned the song, you performed the song."
That wasn't what I signed up for so I dropped it.
You really shouldn't have to read the description of a class to know what it is basically about, especially when they hide the description in somewhere in the back of the course catalog..
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You should consider using some of your fancy mics for these livestreams :) Thank you for sharing all this awesome wisdom!
Ken dropping knowledge !
I will definitely rewatch this video again. Thanks Ken for sharing bunch of great information about singing.
And ken, if you don't mind, please explain about relaxation response that you always talk about (in the next video). Maybe some piece of it will be great.
It still leaves me in awe when I see you go for a high note, and with the 'relaxation response' you mention, the volume raises, vibrato comes and the note held for a long time. Just wow.
Cheers. GBU.
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Thanks Ken.
VIDEOHEREBOB You are very welcome!
My range is B2-F5. I can sometimes go down to A2, but it takes some effort and i have to flip to head voice around F4 (trying to get rid of that vocal break!) I've been classified as contralto, although i did a mini experiment and most people who heard my singing anonymously thought i was a tenor (a couple even described me as a teenage boy). Songs in the tenor range are the most comfortable for me to sing anyway :D
ReiKoko Yes! It's true. Contraltos are similar to high tenor (Tenorino). Mine is like that too (l have an A2). I sound like a very young version of my brother (Ugh) who speaks in a dark inky baritone (I've never heard him sing, he said he once claimed he sang "bass"in choir). Yes l can sound a bit like him when l deliberately try to speak lower in my low register now. Good grief. I'm proud to be a Contralto though. They are cool and besides they are unique and rare. Tiny women can have big, dark powerful voices too. They really inspire me. Timi Yuro and Judy Garland were both only 4 ft 11.
Basically like you're a boy in the process of "breaking". Reality: it already is!!! Mezzo Sopranos on the other hand can sound like pre pubescent boys when they speak/sing! FYI Altos are often relegated to sing trouser roles as young boys or young men in opera. They are perfect for filling the roles once sung by the castrati because you, know they don't exist any more. However today we have male Altos now, the newfangled counter tenor competing for the same roles. It's come full circle. Oooh the irony
Thank you so much, dear Ken, for re-doing this topic for us...even though we know you're still not feeling 100% yet. I thoroughly enjoyed the Live Stream (when it was LIVE) and have already re-watched it (once!)...will probably need to watch it again as there is so much information to absorb! I have quite a range...can go down to about an A2 and up to an F#6 (sometimes G6!)...not whistle register. I was a soprano in the high school choir but I think my tessitura is somewhere lower...maybe mezzo-soprano/contralto. Looking forward to tomorrow's Live Stream!!! ❤❤❤
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I find in my learning that the all time best opera singers are not tight in any way at all. In fact the demanding roles that great opera singers have taken on requires a lot of freeness to sing in often big ranges without the aid of a microphone
My nephew says my sister and I are the only people he knows that turn rock into opera. I took lessons from Carla Riggs while we were at Fort Knox. At my first lesson she said "You're on key and pitch!" I asked her why I wouldn't be? I thought it such a strange thing to say. Then she said "Do you ever yell, when your mad or excited?". Well, duh, yeah. She said "Then you can sing a LOT louder and lower and stop tightening up when you transition from your head voice (as a soprano that's where I sang) to your chest voice. She asked why I was there and I told her I wanted to learn to sing "Kryptonite". And "Its Been Awhile". I have a better chest voice and can sing much lower, but I wouldn't hit the stage for sure. Not til I take your course, lol.
Brilliant! That could be an existential philosophy class.
David Bell Call me "professor". 😜
This is double blind nill insanity!!! You have a higher IQ than just about anyone I've ever listened to before! How you present information is so fluid and logical, yet artistic and dynamic, you just might be the most gifted teacher I've ever watched, in any area of study! Of course, I'm listening on a laptop without much range in the speakers, so I keep turning up to hear you speak, and your singing is scaring people in nearby rooms, but it's well worth it!!! I've got to get my daughter to subscribe to your videos!!!
Thanks for the kind words, d3w4yn3! I'm glad you're enjoying the content!
Today become historical moment. I can set zero level on autotune support on my Acoustic Singer Live device. Singing is so pure, that is possible listen self. Without second support voice pixelate. In song Still Loving You from Scorpions. And it so all thanks the Ken Tamplin Vocal Academy here on TH-cam support. After 6 week of intensive exercise. Thanks Ken...! No exist any limits for some type of voice. Because where is the Will, there is way, and there is the Target.
Ken Therapy You're on your way!
Amazing information and great explanation!
Name It Build It Hope it helps!
Hi Ken! I just started watching some of your videos and I think you know what you're talking about. I'm super excited to try some of these techniques you're talking about and become the best singer I can be. Thanks!
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Merry Christmas, Everyone's Princess!
My full range is F2-F#5 and my Tessitura lays at around B3-F4
Thanks man. This is really cool and interesting. Anyone singing the role for Dracula would be a baritone singer which is why Christopher Lee played the part so perfect in all his Dracula movies. Check out Christopher Lee Charlemagne: The Omens of Death. That's his Heavy Metal album and he's singing baritone. He made that album in when he was in his 80s and kept making heavy metal album's. He loved Black Sabbath and Heavy Metal when he was making Dracula. If you love his voice from his horror films you'll like his voice on this album.
Tony Bennett Thanks for the tip!
My highest Range in powerfull belting chest voice is a d5 And My loweet is F2 in mix VOICE I can only do mix voice at The Bottom of My Range and in my Light with few chest resonance Head voice My highest Range is i6 and My lowest is d3 Thats What i think I am An contratenor contra alto i think finallly after si many consfused years
Golden info here. I was really hoping to here more about bass and baritone. It seemed like you skimmed over it, and all the focus was on the female voice. I have a similar range as you. I feel my voice is deeper, but you can project your lower notes more if that makes sense .
I would love to get your take on vocalists like Daniel Tompkins or Chris Barretto. Vocalists like these are extremely underrated due to the style of music they contribute to and the stigma against it, but they are bringing extremely high levels of expertise and talent to a genre of music that is not generally associated with classically trained musicians, although more and more musicians of a certain ilk are contributing their talents to it, I would love for someone like you to do a comprehensive deconstruction of some of their techniques and articulation/their approach to their vocals for someone like me, and many others who are very interested in following a similar path in our own vocals, not to mention it would just be extremely interesting, maybe even for those unlike me with different tastes in music.
I’ve been told I’m a leggiero tenor because of my light and high voice but also my because because when I sing low I have this baritone sound to my voice
Rock on!
Brittany Sheets (Mars Argo) would be a cool voice to discuss.
I have a question. I got sick and completely lost my voice and it has been different since. I lost some range, can’t transition as well between my head voice, but I can create more distortion and have a natural rasp that wasn’t there before. It’s kinda weird doing Robert Plant songs one day and then waking up all Roger Daltry imitating Joe Cocker after a few weeks of a bad cold. I don’t know if the sickness damaged something or I did coughing up all crud. I just know I can sing some stuff I could not before better now and other things I can’t do the same. I don’t know if I can even get back to my former self. Love all the tips brother.
I’m a lyric baritone
C#2-C#5
What would you say Paul Rodgers would fall into, fach-wise? I always placed him as more of a tenor with some baritone girth rather than a baritone with good highs but I’m not sure. What about Layne Staley?
Hey Ken, Was wondering if Michael Jackson was a 'Lyric Tenor' as a child and adult singer? because as he got older he had the ability to sound aggressive and breathy yet still retained his vulnerable and angelic style. Thanks for this video, never heard of vocal fach before this, only knew about vocal registers
I talk like a tenor I sing like a tenor most of the time .. but when I sing lower than e3 my voice sounds almost an octave lower I don't use my low notes that much the lowest I can go is G2 but whenever I use my bottom register people think I'm a bass lol
Great topic!! :)
Thanks, Rachel!
Ken can You please tell me What is The name of one of your students Who si a bass and can sing high?
I love you dude, youre awesome
Thanks, Johann!
I was singer in a touring band but I've never learned the letter key or voice types.. I would love help on singing.. Would I have to learn the difference between G flat or E minor for example?
Hello, thank you for this video again:). It's really helpful.
Here's one thing I don't understand...(sorry it's not about this topic you talked in the video) How can I use influences in my singing style? Like we can try to imitate how they sing? If I do so, will it hurt my throat?
And...(sorry I have too many questions)My voice always sounds like it's covered with something, and I feel like I use mask to sing, how can I improve that?
Franklin, watch this video on vocal influences: th-cam.com/video/6PS7N4hPhbc/w-d-xo.html
And this one about vocal tone: th-cam.com/video/dCz3F1Hzero/w-d-xo.html
Ken, you made a comparIson early in this video to kind of an opera run vs a blues (brother) run. In a lot of cases to me it really seems like many (not all) opera singers are maybe a bit stuck doing only one thing. Do you remember Aretha Franklin doing Nessun Dorma with really no warning at all at the Grammy’s in 1998? I know she’s The Queen but Michael Bolton performs it regularly and well. Does that make soul a more versatile singing style or just the two people I mentioned unbelievable lol?
Just how I see it, REAL opera singers with REAL technique have no limitations, and truthfully Michael Bolton and Aretha Franklin never did a very solid rendition of Nessun Dorma, and could never carry their voice without a microphone the way an opera singer can. Of course that is just my opinion
Thanks for the great video! If my first passaggio is around E4/D#4 and my second passaggio is right at the A4, what voice type would I be considered as?
can you make a cover of the song *Long Live Rock'n'Roll* by Rainbow?😊😊
Annie :)
Thanks for the request, Annie!
19:34, please ken I’m interested. Was that your chest voice or head voice? Because I REALLLY wanna grow my chest voice
18:33 like Coverdale
Ken Tamplin: "A5 is really low guys."
Me who just searched how to sing high notes: Interesting...
Respect to Ken for his detailed knowledge but I just want to point out that to my knowledge a contralto is not just about the notes she can hit but a major trait of a contralto is the androgynous quality of the voice. Singers like Cher, Annie Lennox and Karen Carpenter spring to mind. Also Michael Jackson's "real voice" is actually low but he chooses to sing up there with mix voice due to his SLS training and to preserve his brand and association as a child singer in the Jackson 5 (before his voice broke). There are TH-cam videos of Michael doing vocal exercises with Seth Griggs where Michael went all the way down to sounding almost like Barry White and there is that audio recording of Michael in a sedated state where he rambled on using his "real" male voice with a very clear baritone timbre as opposed to his trademark high pitched voice.
OnceAndFuture King There are many types of contraltos, but the best definition of one is a low female voice who sings in pure chest voice all the way up to F4 and G4 similar to men (passagio). The calling card for any Contralto is her powerful, dark, weighty belts (Toni Braxton) most notably in the fourth octave (Timi Yuro and Lila Downs--Lila belt it a pure G4!). Their chest notes are extensive and project all the way down to D3. They can sing as high as Mezzo and Soprano voices but in their low register they do start to get a Tenor like quality. The weight is similar, so is the colour or darker. Generally in the Contralto range (F5 and below) their voices are thick, weighty, dark and rich. Look for a dark smoky timbre in their chest notes that carries into their mixed (but very short middle register). I know this because l am proud to be one. Sade is a contralto and her voice is warm, rounded and feminine but is still different from a typical mezzo soprano counterpart, though not by very much (it is accurate to say she just made it) her voice is neither large or as powerful/dramatic as others are. The longer/larger the the vocal folds on the Contralto the lower, darker, heavier and Androgynous her voice will sound (and usually the more dramatic voice). This is why low set contraltos legitimately struggle past F5! Their pure head voices on the other hand are much weaker, and seem overly bright compared to their heavy, dark chest voice. If you want to see that in action check out singer Lyves.
I am a contralto myself l can sing everything a tenor can. After my voice fully matured in the mid twenties l started getting clues I don't sound like other women do. When l started lessons before that time a little younger l was told l could be an alto and another person l went looked at me funny and said l have a low voice ('for a girl'). I didn't believe it though. Accessing my chest was a lot of struggle. I believed l had a higher voice because access to my high register was much easier. Imitating higher register female singers did not help but ultimately damaged my voice. It was painful but l guess it had to be. My voice darkened so much l finally understand it for what it is. I have been working on rehabilitating my voice and it's amazing. l thought l just had no talent. I've been frustrated with my singing for years. I had to readjust my mindset and my alignment of my singing. Accessing my chest register is like finding my true voice, not the tension laden falsetto I had been using for too long. I have endured being called "Sir" or being mistaken for my brother on the phone... He's a Baritone!
Anyway Ken you didn't talk about dramatic voices that much but l can tell you this. Dramatic voices can sound great one fach down. Take Jill Scott she is a huge, rich, dark sounding dramatic Soprano who definitely is in her element singing like a Mezzo but her top is truly explosive, l mean still rich and heavy at the very top though doesn't really do it often. When it comes to the Dramatic Contralto look out, they are true female Tenors in sound and weight. They can carry their chest they way up to Ab4 (Godly!!!) I think in pop is gotta be Tracy Chapman. It is rare even among Contraltos to sound that close to a guy.
My range is d2-f4(sometimes f#4 with serious strain and I've gone up to g4 only twice ever) and head voice goes up to c5. Would this make me a baritone or bass?
Bass probably
Extremely low baritone I'd say, but there's classifications on what TYPE of Baritone you might be, maybe a dark baritone.
I don't sound like a bass at all, but my lows are pretty good. I've always just considered myself a bass-baritone.
@@lesthermiranda1794 The initial starting point for the bass vocal range is around D2-E4. For Baritones, its G2 and G4. Obviously, Ken proves that you can extend each register higher with proper technique over an octave or more.
Hi Ken! I think my voice is tenor and I feel very comfortable when I sing tenor. If I try and attempt to sing soprano like Tarja from Nightwish, would it cause bad influence on my voice? I tried several times but it doesn't do well.
I know it’s a bit late to mention this as I missed this stream two years ago XD but I thought I’d comment anyway, in reference to the bass voice, you said that you can’t really get much power below a C2 but I’ve heard men such as Glenn Miller project an F1 over a choir by himself, I know John Ames had a role written for him in opera that went down to an A1, if we pull out all the stops we find men like Alexis lukianov and Mikhail Zlatopolsky who have actually projected a D1 and C1 respectively over a choir.
Writing this I realize it sounds like I’m trying to have an “aha! I know more than ken” moment, please realize this isn’t my intention by any means, I just wanted to bring profundos some attention bc they are often overlooked (granted they are incredibly rare so that does play a factor)
I love your videos so much and your course has helped me immensely! Keep up the incredible work!
Thanks for the thoughts.
@@kentamplin thank you for taking the time!
I'm not so sure though I never fully undestand myself
What voice type is rarer? Bass-baritone, basso cantante or basso profundo?
Krikionis Probably the profundo. They have the longest/vocal folds possible in the human voice. There are some true freaks of nature out there. Oktavists are just out of this world.
In opera it is also helpful to be a larger person (height) to carry the sound... to dramatic effect. Very imposing and powerful like Kurt Knoll
nice
Thank you, nikhil!
Ken i keep missing your live shows when's the next?
Tomorrow at 9.00am (Pacific Standard Time)….every Wednesday/Saturday at that time...see you there! ❤❤❤
Thanks, Shauna.
You're very welcome, Ken! ❤❤❤
Thanks Shauna
Thats why I miss the live shows its 1.00am in Scotland
Ken I would love if you can help me figure out if I'm a mezzo or contralto. I've heard people say diff things cause I like to sing low but I can also go higher but it's more difficult. I have a few videos of me singing. Probably the best recording quality are theones are the recent ones. Sometimes I think I'm a dramatic mezzo cause when I go high I hear those ringing notes such as in my cover of Alice in Chains Love Hate Love and I'm very chesty and very loud. Gritona ftw!! Haha
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I am capable of easily hitting a B5 (sometimes D6, my highest was a F6 by screaming) with my chest voice and I am a male. So, Would I be considered a countertenor?
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Wait.. who is the korean girl?
i can only go up to about a g4 in my chest voice but up to an a5 in my head voice. does this mean i can build my chest into singing higher notes?
Yes, it does mean that, as long as you go about it safely and use good methods. That's part of what I teach in my course.
When i started your vocal program, I was 19 years old and my vocal range was A2-E5 (with chest voice since I didn't know what that, head voice, and falsetto were at the time and since i didn't know how to access head voice) (also I could technically sing higher than an E5 with chest but it was way out of my comfort zone). What voice type would you classify me as? (If you need for me to post something in the singing forums, i would love to)
Please tell me what notes your Primo Passaggio and your Secondo Passaggio are on. That is part of the determining factors for vocal fach.
@@kentamplin When I started learning about the chest voice, head voice, and falsetto for the first time I was able to go up to a C5 with chest voice before I made my first vowel modification. Most of the time my primo passagio notes are based on the upper 2nd-octave notes up to the lower fifth-octave notes and although i sometimes now can go up to a Bb5 with chest voice in warm-ups, it's much easier for me to access the upper soprano notes (F5-C6) with the Segundo passagio. I am currently 22 years old now and I turn 23 in February. I hope that answers what you were trying to ask. If not, I can post a private link to a video of me singing an A2, A3, A4 and A5.
Well my range is C2-C5.
Thanks for listening! 😊
My range is F3 to F5, which puts me almost perfectly in the contralto classification (and makes me very happy, because that's where I wanted to land :-) ). Most singing instruction I've found seems to focus a lot on extending the higher range, but I actually really want to extend my lower range.
I've heard from multiple sources that for most women, it's not really possible to actually extend one's lower range (though it's possible to strengthen the lowest notes a woman can already reach and make them fuller and more dependable). I'd love to make it down to a usable D3 - do you think that's possible? What would you recommend for getting the most out of the lowest end of my range?
Jennifer Doneske True contraltos project down to D3. Low Mezzo Soprano E3. Ken is right, in modern day pop music it favors low range singing for women but it doesn't make everyone a Contralto! To be placed in a certain Fach you still need to be able project WITHOUT A MIC. To give you some hope even Sopranos can sing C3. They will really have to scrape the basement to get there but if Taylor Swift can do it so can you. Most pop songs written for women is usually F3 at the lowest. There is an odd E3 here and there. C3 and below is very very rare. Real contraltos can stay a lower tessitura and project and have real clarity in their lows. Toni Braxton's famous Unbreak my Heart for one. I have never really seen any other female attempt the multiple lows performing that song (she has Bb2's). Brandy also sings really low these days but people seem to get confused at her wide range and think her light, dark voice as SOPRANO... Hint: she's not!
You're not a contralto if you cannot sing lower than F3, and don't feel completely comfortable with F3. Also, if you can hit F5 easily, you might be a soprano. An alto would struggle to reach F5.
@@somebodysvideos7876 I actually agree but I feel she's more of a lower set mezzo soprano. It depends on her comfort and experience but as of now shes more of a lower mezzo soprano. Also until she hits her mid late 30s she won't know where her voice will sit the rest of her life.
Freddie Mercury's range?
Low tenor who could hit some very high notes.
Recorded range is F2-F6 in entire range, and F2-F5 in full voice. But live it was usually only up to B4 in full voice. Freddie also stated that he could only sing the high notes loud, and that he could scream perfectly for 3 days in a row before he went hoarse. He envied the big operatic tenors who could sing the high notes softer, and someone like Paul Rodgers who did in fact take voice lessons.
Here is a quote from Freddies personal assistant that you might find interesting:
"Freddie didn't like the fact that his vocal placement and tessitura were lower than some of the more famous rock singers of the 60s and 70s, so he developed his own particular tenor voice in his own way. In a hilarious twist, Peter Freestone said that the term "Mercury Tenor" (which was simply a joking term) actually made sense (since Freddie created his tenor voice through sheer determination)!"
K e n, I'm a female common natural female! LOL I can sing the lowest basement that I've heard Sun including the Johnny Cash and lowrider songs period one of my favorite songs is Johnny Cash's treatment of hurt The Nine Inch Nails song and I can see it in his octave or an octave higher and play with it with harmonies. I can do Pat Benatar, haven't tried and Wilson for a while but I'm sure I could work up to it I'm not really sure what my vocal fach wood be. I've gone online and search the lowest female note sung and I can match that note. I can just relax into it. What would my fach be? I had smoothness through the passage and I can sing very loudly and powerfully I can also sing at a stage whisper. I could sing bass in high school and also sing with the first Sopranos but I've had a hard life and it's taking a toll on my voice so I don't really attempt the first soprano stuff anymore. Don't get me wrong I would love to get there again.
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You, being a Christian, will understand when I say that I had a calling when I was six years old and saw the first episode of Judy Garland's TV show. She touched me so deeply and something in my soul told me all you ever really want to do with your life is to sing and to touch people the way that she did. I'm telling you Ken it was like the light of Heaven! Can still see everything in the room and I'm 64 almost 65 years old. The two things in my life that have been constant are writing poetry and lyrics and singing. They have been both the greatest therapy and the greatest inspiration of my life and I know that there was I am here to do. Now that I've raised my family I have the time to work on these things more. I decided to become an activist writer again into Spotlight particular issues. I also have a gift for comedy. Things just go through my head that you would not believe! LOL LOL LOL! I have a n hilarious inner life! Michael is a singer is to reach into people's hearts and make them understand that we are all one! That none of us are free as long as one of us are chained! I have two causes of the homeless because where I live people freeze to death and we have Mayors who won't help! Doing whatever I can to help bridge the racial divide is very important to me. Global warming, it's something we all need to really get a grip on and do something about or our great-grandchildren won't have a world to live in. These things give me great courage! You said singer is only a cigarette because they have the guts to be period causes bigger than ourselves, that take our Focus off of ourselves and put them onto the issues, gives you guts! I tell myself to call myself that I'm only there to tell a few stories. Is that beginning on the remind myself that I need to really be calm to pay this song it's due. It's quite a reverent thing. When I was younger I had a service where I would perform for local pastors and I would choose and perform songs or write and perform Originals that were related to the sermon. I would do a lot of original work there. Healing songs. I would look out to that portion of the audience that I could see and I would see people weeping and after the performance people will come up to me and tell me how the song that I had been blessed with head help them to heal. What could possibly be more humbling?
By the way I also have the lung capacity of a male. I swear to you I am a completely one-hundred-percent, natural, heterosexual female.
I just want to be effective for my hacktivist causes! I want to use my voice to help people.
My vocal range is F2-F5-F#6-B7, I have a whistle register and I train my falsetto alot, and I feel most comfortable around D3-C5. I support B2-B4 though, and I'd love to know my vocal type.. Thanks!! (I'm also rather agile, so maybe coloratura. My fastest run had 8 notes in one second, and they're fluent).
What notes are your primo passaggio and your secondo passagio on?
Usually, I can transition from falsetto to chest from D6 down to F#4, and my passagio upwards is from D3 up to C6 (My comfort / mac I feel I can go right now) , but my secondo passagio sometimes breaks, and is still in training.. it usually happens at about bb4 tho
But is that a hint to me that I'm a tenor? xd
Alegriaa each passagio is on one particular note........... you did not get it
Do you like Neutral Milk Hotel?
Are you a Baritone?
Yes.
@@kentamplin That's what I thought.So am I
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My pasaggio D4 G4 tenor o baritone?
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But I can Jackson 5 sing too
Merry Christmas! 🎅⛄🎄
Thanks Ken for more great advice, I trained my voice through your program to hit notes I never thought I could as an Alto!
Rachel Lovely That's fantastic!! Rock on, sister! 🤘