EXPLAINED || What is Vocal Range & Tessitura?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 13 ส.ค. 2022
- The Voice: EXPLAINED, is a music education docu-series created by award-winning multi-disciplinary artist Milik Kashad, designed to educate listeners and viewers on the science and history of music and singing in a way that's easy to understand and engaging!
This episode will focus on the differentiation of vocal range and tessitura.
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“For some people it’s every noise you can make“. LMAO. Just stop it!
Was that shade ☠️☠️☠️
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I caught that too
So range is all of what you can technically do on a good day .... but tessitura is what you can do well at any time ....
Exactly
Mariah carey is a very good example of 4:34. Every era she sings songs entirely different from how they were originally sung to compensate for her new style and technique of singing. Vision of love is the best example.
Life gets significantly better when you find your vocal G-spot
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Thank you for your analysis. Taylor Dane’s song “I’ll Always Love You” is a classic that also shows her vocal range.
Love Will Lead You Back as well
Thanks for this. This discussion only made me appreciate the genius of Whitney Houston in mastering and playing with every note within her beloved tessitura. Although she had a 3.5 Octave range, she ever rarely utilized the entirety of it in her legendary career. Instead, she knew exactly what her money notes were and she mastered other aspects of vocal performance including tonality, seamless transitions, lyric-phrasing and emotive weight. Whitney Houston knew her voice inside out -- and for me, as well as for many other music experts and vocal pedagogues, this stellar quality made her The Greatest Voice of All.
Yes Cissy worked and worked her until she knew every aspect of her voice inside out. Her training given by her mother was outstanding combined with her talent produced something spectacular.
@@Jdman5000 I agree 100%.
@@Sttephy30 Yes, she knew this. But Whitney was also very proud of her low notes. Her Arista 25 Years performance was more of a showcase of her low notes than anything.
The problem comes with the hit song I'm Every Woman. Those G5s arent as easy for her to access live as they were recorded. She always lipped the last one(s).
@@Sttephy30 It is. If I were her though, I would use that part in the bridge as an opportunity for maybe one of her background vocalists, preferably the soprano, to take it and demonstrate that she too is "every woman." Corny, I know, but given that she always sang that song to close out the show, I think that we as an audience would have had more patience for it than the blatant fraud of a lip sync...which she clearly didn't enjoy or was good at.
Good vid. The online singing community is pretty cringe and full of misinformation about fach/tessitura. I'm a high tenor, but I'm not hitting G4s-A4s all day without fatigue.
Yeah, I thought I was a Baritone for a long time because I couldn't breathe out G4s and A4s lol.
@@deyoncew3311 💀😭
@@deyoncew3311 On an even more weird situation, I used to thought I was a baritone with some issue since I couldn’t be hitting G#4-A4 with ease 🤡
I'm a baritone that could scream G5 days and days (in head voice) without any fatigue, for years ^^
A lot of people on the Internet think if you cannot sing a B4-C5 consistently, you are a baritone and not a tenor.
Seriously, those notes are the extremes for most male tenors, and vocal classification is measured by their tessitura, not one's total range or the notes they can hit.
“I’ll Wait” has been stuck in my head for the past two days thanks to this video 💙💙💙
Same
As it should. It's a bop.
She tore this song up!! My favorite from her plus its from the movie "Blank Check" lol
Taylor Dayne is MEGA talented. She could outSANG alot of vocalists.
Not really, her musicality sucks too. 💀
Hope all is doing better with you and yours! So glad you uploaded today!
Thank you for checking in. I have a few videos that are essentially done that, I'm wrapping up. Once they're up, I hope to return to consistently posting sooner rather than later!
Jill I second that!!! I was literally about to send a message saying the same thing.
@@BlackMusicArchive Good to here! No rush at all cuz we're here, and we appreciate all you do!
@@BlackMusicArchive I WUUUUUUUUUV YUUUUU MILIK...............!!!!!!!!!!---(BTW, DO YOU DO GROUPS AS WELL!??.....OR JUST SOLO ARTISTS.............RACHEL FERRELL WOULD BE A GOOD ONE.....
“Being able to sing a note does not mean you can sing it repeatedly or for long periods of time”
Jennifer Hudson enters the room
👋 I'm Patti Labelle
Y'all goin' 2 Hell 🔥 . . . 🤭
@@nesq4104 U said it; I'm just agreeing 😤☝🏾!!
@@dominiquedevereux7205 lol.
@@dominiquedevereux7205 I actually meant Patti in a positive way.
Excellent video. I'm a baritone and singing opera. I'm exploring my vocal range and tessitura so this was most helpful. Thanks.
I really want u to talk abt Sarah Vaughan,she is definitely a unique singer
Ooo! Another great upload! Masterful work!!!
As always, love your videos!
I'm learning so much about music and localizing from your videos. Please consider explaining Nancy Wilson and Shirley Bassey. Two of my favorites. Also Angela Bofill, Gladys Knight and Donna Summer.
Glad to have you back Milik! I hope your life circumstances are better. Thank you for the excellent content! Much love!
Masterfully done as usual!
Thank you! I learned plenty, as always. 🙏🏾
Thank you so much for this!! I want to improve my range so really appreciate it man💗💕. Now I will try to use it properly.
As a music enthusiast this channel is all what've been missing these last two years. Thank you so much. I'm obssesed and so focused on each analysis and I've learned a lot from you man. thanks 😍😍
I am So INSPIRED by Your STYLE & DESIGN of your videos! They are the PERFECT Accent to go with The Knowledge You Give!👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾 Also, Thank You for giving Taylor Dayne the Credit & Honor She Deserves because BEFORE celine, there was SHE!!! #AnAnotherAMAZINGvideo💯
I love your channel's commitment in appreciating underrated talents. While people always talk about the 90s Trinity, it is refreshing to learn other names outside the trinity and explore their talents.
I first knew Taylor Dayne from a charity concert in TV years ago. She hit the stage together with Aaliyah and Aaron Neville. Diane Warren was on the piano, playing for them. Diane briefly said that Taylor's voice was one of her favorite. When I heard her voice, I was mesmerized. And it continues until today. Her performance in "The Masked Singer" was great. Unfortunately, she did not reach the final.
Another fantastic video! Thank you for all the effort you and the team put in to these. I hope you are doing okay too ♥︎
This is so interesting! Thank you for this!
This is so helpful, thank you so much for sharing.
Glad you're back 😁
Great video!! Would love to see a video about vocal fach and popular singers.
People on TH-cam seem to think every female singer is a Soprano just because they have a light voice or because they can hit high notes. They don’t take tessitura into account at all. You’re Toni Braxton video briefly addressed this very well.
Taylor Dayne is one of my favourite vocalists. I grew up listening to her music played amongst Soul, Dance and Freestyle music radio as well as Mainstream/CHR radio. I have sang along with her songs as a fan for long time. She was a mainstream artist between 1987-1995, her entire time on Arista Records. She has continued to record and scored hit singles in both the Club/Dance and Adult Contemporary music markets. Taylor is awesome live in concert!
Thanks. Great content!
Your one liners are killing me🤣” every noise one can make”, that reminds me of that subtle shade in the X-Tina video.
Thank you !! I appreciate such Great job!
Absolutely wonderful informative and educational vocal video
You didn't have to blow out my headphones starting off with patti like that. What performance is that clip from?
Too Close to Heaven, Merv Griffin Show
Love your informative vids
Great video, very informative. I would love to see videos about singers like Linda Ronstadt and Teena Marie, who don't get much attention these days.
Great video for people to watch who have judged power singers & belters (do they even exist anymore?) for not being able to replicate live what they recorded in the studio.
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I wonder if Ms Patti Labelle has a video coming?
What about the men? Ray Charles Stevie Wonder maybe David Ruffin. Thank you.
i feel like my most comfy notes can be sung in a straight tone. i naturally add vibrato to tougher notes
Explained Whitney's voice, in all eras, 🇧🇷
i honestly feel like taylor could've handled it 2 steps down, i remember when someone (I forgot the young lady's name) sung this on the Mickey mouse clubhouse and it was two semi-tones lower and it sounded good to me, but great example. i know you don't take requests but i'd love to hear you discuss Easther from Eternal's vocals
thank you for this video!
Well done... watched this 3x.
Excellent !
Can we get an explained episode on Taylor? I’ve always been intrigued by her voice and what causes her to sing that way.
I think it's gonna be an interview with her qs well...he taken a pic with her a month or so ago.
Her voice is interesting and nice! She sounds funky
Why did I thought you were talking about Taylor Swift? 🤦🏿♀️
@@TooOldForThis 🥴
@@TooOldForThis hell naww! Since you said it, I'm intrigued by what makes Taylor [Swift] sings that way (flat)
Def needed this distinction broken down. Between both, I wasn't sure which one dictated vocal range, but fair to say I think tessitura does.
Is there somewhere we can submit topics we'd like to see in future videos? Watching this one sparked a few questions that I'd like to get your perspective on.
explained: vocal range and tessitura A.K.A. explained: taylor dayne
She use her as an example it's not like he explained her entire life in this,he still explained how tessitura's work🤦
Very insightful
I've always loved "I'll wait"!!🕺
Thank you!!!
please can u do one video in where you focus N emphasize more on BILLIE HOLLIDAY´S VOICE N SINGING, i love her, PLEEEEEEEASE!
DONNA SUMMER...PLEASE !!!! 😅😅💗💗💗💗
yeah, donna has the best tessitura range voice i dont know why she never included in this video about tessitura range its clearly this video about analyzed taylor dayne's range
Def don't feel bad for my vocal range now so def learned!
Chaka would have killed those Taylor songs live effortlessly
Agreed. Noticed similarities in their tone and vocal styling
It’s OK to turn those that high into head voice people. Even if it’s a very powerful and open head voice, belted like.
That’s what I was thinking. The Taylor Dayne example is her chest voice range. And it sounds like a mezzo soprano chest voice. She has at least 5 more notes in head voice or even mixed voice above that.
@@Vishnu6 Dayne's entire singing range is: D3-A5. Dayne's highest note in chest voice is A5. Her highest note in head voice is also an A5 as heard in, "Dance With A Stranger," which she reaches through a vibrato-less slide. A developed voice will have options on the same note. She can sing A5 in either her chest or head voice, but no matter what register she uses, A5 is her limit. A limit is a limit, and a change in registration will not change that.
@@BlackMusicArchive i was wondering about this. Thanks for explaining!
@@BlackMusicArchive The registration would only lead to less muscle overcharge (too much TA makes stress), but as a limit, always will be.
yes i LOVE your vids boy, oh boy!!!!!
Thanks for teaching 😃😃
Are you going to upload your old explained videos again? I loved watching them before
you are the beeest ❤️
How do you tell the difference between cracking on notes outside of your testitura vs having an inconsistent technique that causes strain (
good question...
Taylor and Patti in one video! Nice!
Pls can you explain Etta James voice thank you 😊
Ms Dwayne understood the assignment on I’ll wait 😮💨😮💨
I’ve never known the correct words for what I was hearing since I was 7 years ago. I like the “entertainers” that knew to stick within their range like Madonna, Janet Jackson, and Grace Jones. Janet acknowledged in one song how she couldn’t hit the note.
I have a question.
When we talk about Tessitura, to what extent does vocal register come into question? The highest notes that I can reach in my chest voice, are more comfortably hit in my mix. And the notes that I can reach in my mix, I can access more easily in my head voice. So my question is, does the tessitura include or exclude falsetto?
If it sounds good and its easy to hit then yes
I would say yes. As you are at most comfortable in head voice.
@@danielng7795 You see, I would think so.
So now returning to Taylor Dane: hitting that G5 in her mix voice may be a challenge, but in her falsetto it may have been easier- we'll never know...🤷🏽♂️
Do you now see why I am confused about this tessitura topic?
Tessitura includes all registers. Her range is D3-A5 period. She has an A5 in chest voice in, “There Is No Heart That Won’t Heal.” She has an A5 in head voice in, “Dance With A Stranger.”
A developed voice will have options on the same note. She can and has sung the upper fourth of her range in both her head or chest voice, but the notes are all sang similarly through a run or a slide with no vibrato.
Her limits are her limits, and singing in a different register will not change that. She’s going to feel pressed regardless because G5-A5 is the end of her range.
I hope this helps.
@@BlackMusicArchive So what about (former) singers like me who had no vibrato no matter what part of their range or tessitura they're in? The ONLY time I had vibrato was SOMETIMES on mid-range notes, and it would only kick in right when I was 3 or to seconds from ending the note. I used get frustrated that I naturally didn't have vibrato & I would sometimes try to force it, but my voice teacher told me it could be damaging to my voice. It was very disheartening given she was trained in the opera houses in Turkey 🇹🇷, so she was the "REAL Deal," & being a professional opera singer 😲🎵🍷, she, of course, had vibrato for DAYZ!!
I NATURALLY was born with a very STRONG, LOUD, RESONANT voice & COULD HOLD notes, especially my mid-range notes 🎶 for about 15 seconds b4 I started feeling like I might need a breath. I had the power of a gospel singer, but in my younger days kind of had a "straight" voice --- meaning it didn't have that gospel affectation, meaning, you really couldn't tell I was a black singer just by listening to me. It made me self-conscious growing up in a black church ⛪️, so I had to kind of add that element to my voice in the beginning. It was probably cuz I spent my formative years attending a predominantly whyte, private Christian ✝️ school. But that's a story for another day 🙄!
Anyhow, given I had that "indistinguishable" voice originally, combined with the natiral power, you would think I would have naturally had or developed the vibrato in time, but it never came 🤷🏾♂️. By the time I was 17, I had worked my way up to having 5 octaves --- I know it sounds unbelievable, but it was true. I sat down at the piano 🎹 everyday for 5yrs. and went up the scale & practiced. Naturally, I has about 2/2 1/4 on a good day & just had to work for the other 3. I sang tenor in the choir, though I think by the end I was more of a counter tenor. My ultimate range was C below middle C 🎼, and roughly five octaves above that in chest, then started going into mix about the last fourth of my 3rd octave. My tessitura (though I didn't know what that was back then) was a lil' below middle C 🎼 and maybe 2.5/3 octaves above that. My head voice/falsetto was always 💩 😬🤦🏾♂️. I never learned how to growl either, which also made me feel incompetent as a black singer raised in the church ⛪️. Also, my voice teacher told me it would damage my voice so I never tried back then, & when I got older & wanted to, I never could.
I said all that to say, is it normal for someone to have the voice I was born with NATURALLY, combined with the training I receive not to ever develop any vibrato?? Was there something I wasn't doing (or was and shouldn't have been doing in my technique) that could have caused me not 2 develop any vibrato? It's hard for me to understand the concept of vibrato indicating a voice is relaxed if it's constantly fluctuating pitch (if that's the correct term) to produce the vibrato. Perhaps, I pushed my range too far out of its tessitura trying to develop it b4 it was ready? Maybe it's just me & the way my voice is naturally designed. I always wanted a vibrato like Whitney, Tevin, or Stephanie Mills. Oh well 🤷🏾♂️!! My voice is a shadow of its former self now (and that's being kind). My voice started acting wonky the latter part of my senior year in high school 🏫 even though I took excellent care of my voice, and for the most part always did a day on of practicing for 2 or 3hours, then would rest a whole day in between. Well, as far as at home practice went. I still had to sing for maybe 15 or 20 minutes in chorus class ea. day, & if I had choir practice @ church, then I didn't practice at home that day. I don't know if it was some unknown medical issue like a thyroid issue or something but ever since then my voice became extremely temperamental. Someday it might come out decent & others I can barely get to the top of my second octave. My power is reduced to 25% less --- at least --- of what it used to be. So vibrato is TORALLY out-of-the-question now 🤦🏾♂️.
I just infuriates me that singers like Aretha, Pink, Whitney, & many others smoked 🚬, or did drugs or drank a lot & still for the most part their voices suffered negligibly OR it took years for the damage to become evident, & I lost everything I worked for with mine in less than a year after getting my full range & I took care of my voice like it was my "baby 👶🏿." Such is life 🤷🏾♂️.
Dunno much about Taylor Dane but this was interesting.
Man, I've been looking forward to an analysis of Taylor Dayne.
Trying doing Jackie Wilson... we'll wait for your description of THAT!!
I Thought though the only way to increase your vocal range is to practice and higher notes because as you saying your voice get stronger and you can do more notes
0:35 I've been seeing this Jennifer Holliday still a lot. Is there a video of this?
It’s just like demi lovato Bb5 on Fall in line
Exactly... She really has a hard time with that note
Can you do a video of Cissy Houston?
pls do marvin gaye explained😩
So I’ve found where the live is from but I don’t know where to watch it… seems like it’s from the late show with David letterman in 1993.. Does anybody know where I can watch it please ?
Can somebody please tell me where to find those live performances ? I just can’t find them
Can & are you going to do Marian Anderson?
Well, this explains why I've never been able to find a LIVE performance of Taylor singing 🎤🎶👱🏻♀️ the "Whatever U Want" remix 💿, cuz girlfriend was WAILING 😆🔊 on that 1. Especially that last "LOOOOVE!!" She literally held for like 20 seconds!! Unless they used studio trickery to make it seem like she held it longer. That note HAD to be in the upper 3rd octave of her range. That song 🎵 will 4EVER be 1 of my ETERNAL bops 🕺🏾!!
Just listened to it and its a bop. She sustained that note for her life
Thanks for the introduction to that song
@Sophisitcated 1 Glad U "met" the song's acquaintance ☺️! All I got to say is the clubs betta be glad I wasn't up in them when it came out cuz my 2 left 🦶🏾 non-able 2 dance 🕺🏾🎶 a$$ would've have tore everything UP 👏🏾 in there & shut it DOWN 👇🏾 !!
@@dominiquedevereux7205 😂😂😂😂😂😂 ikr!!!
Period!!! I know you woulda been on it in them clubs.
It seemed like we missed out on the golden era our parents experienced in the 80s and 90s.
@Sophisitcated 1 Oh. I didn't miss out, Honey . . . I AM an 80s baby 👶🏾!! They just never played this sonf in the clubs I went to. The album this came out on was released in '99. I saw Taylor live when she came to a town near where I live to promote it. Though she didn't sing this sing. She mostly sung her old hits. The only song I remember her performing off this album --- titled "Naked Without You" --- was "Unstoppable." But the whole album was good. It was very eclectic--- had some alternative, R&B, dinner club torch songs 🎵 & of course House songs like "Whatever You Want Remix." The original version is also on the album. Fun fact: Taylor wrote "Whatever You Want" & Tina Turner 💃🏾 recorded & released it 1st. Taylor re-recorded it herself dor this album & sounds basically like Tina's. Or I shoukd say Tina's sounds like Taylors since I'm sure she based her version of Taylor's demo. Then Taylor has the remix at the end of her album. Here's Tina's version 👇🏾. I LOVE the choreography. One of the dancers looks like she could be Tina's daughter 🤯!!
th-cam.com/video/x4biLdTPFsc/w-d-xo.html
I am patiently waiting for an analysis on Miss Celine Dion's voice. Why wont you give us one?
**BLACK music archives
Taylor isn’t black, so this question stands.
I think that he will, but it´s take a lot of time and effort.
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I find Patti LuPone's performance to be much better sustained and her crack to be barely audible.
Are you trying to call Patti a Baboon with that “Lupone” comment?
@BMW Jourdan Dunn Goddess! This is the most American comment I've ever seen in my life.
Ma'am, there are 2 different Pattis in this video, Patti Labelle (the first clip in the video) and Patti LuPone, the woman singing in what looks like a musical towards the end of the video.
She sounds like Natalie Cole in those upper belts.
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what are the typical tessituras for the main voice types?
Tessitura is individual to the singer, and there are different tessituras within a singular voice type.
@@BlackMusicArchive Sure but a soprano tessitura will be different than that of a contralto (for example)
I’m 15🤭 and my full range is f#2-f6 while my supported range is a2-f5 is that good plus I feel like I need a vocal coach LMFAOO
see where your range is in 10 years and you'll get an approximate gauge as where your adult range will be. then again range changes throughout a persons life but by then you should see where youll be heading.
Can somebody please tell me what is the key if you have a bass tessitura? Like i can go a low E2 and a vocal fry and i strain up to C4 😭 I'll be like watching this girl's sing and, I'm not even half of them it's not that yes i'm jealous and slowly realizing this and learning this kind of things makes me so conscious of my voice it doesn't really fit with today's vocal standards either you're a Soprano with a good range perfectly executed run's etc or fo the male category which is the tenors or the baritones rich tone or high notes, I rarely even know bass singer's and for myself i do sound boring i'm in the verge of just giving up 😞
But it's sometimes "Fun" tho HAHAHHA for like example the lowest note of a song is a G3 i can sing it in a G2 so it's like transposing it 1 octave lower and the highest note is a Eb5 i can hit it with an Eb4 you get the point but yes it does exactly sound boring and low and not so "Impressive" when hitting those notes.
And i do have a not so reliable falsetto i do sound like a girl when using it actually but a lot of air is released and my voice is very agile when using it but it cuts off when i go up higher so there's no really good at that
I do have some operatic voice and my vibrato really sounds good because I'm shouting C5 above but with that thin operatic notes above
Tell this to Idina Menzel. Her tessitura is definitely lower than she tries for. Therefore, all her higher notes are like nails on a chalkboard. Just because she can, doesn't mean she should. It isnt pleasant on the ear by any means.
Taylor Dayne is my girl!
Was that shade toward Queen Patti 🤔
Can’t tessitura determine a vocal type?
Of course your voice was determined by your tessitura most idiot delusional stan will not take this into their account.for them if a singer sound light and thin even if they struggle and tense above E5 then they are soprano.which is something funny and doesn't make sense
Dropping that high note in the chorus was very noticeable, she lost a lot of dynamism there.
Agreed
Same. But it´s a shame that the music got written in her vocal range extremes. The dynamism of chorus is a perfect fourth leap, in the moddification would be a sixth leap to E5 or a fifth for the F5, to recreate the dynamism.
Thanks to know, we know Taylor’s full range is D3-A5, but what is her voice type? I’m thinking lyric mezzo soprano.
@@justinbraylock757 she is not
Why type of music does Taylor Dayne make ?
Pop, dance-pop, freestyle, adult contemporary, blue-eyed soul
says wiki
@@clamclam3 thank you
@@clamclam3 I’m sorry but I hollered at “blue-eyed soul” 😂😂😂 such a funny term for a white woman singing R&B lmaooo 😂
Taylor was nominated for a Grammy in the Best R&B Performance, Female in the late 80s for “I’ll Always Love You”.
You should have used Whitney's I'm every woman as an example. She has never sung that bridge live. That is outside of her tessitura. Even I'm your baby tonight...
Super helpful. Can we have a black version?
All producers on the channel are black. This is the "black version." Thanks for watching!
@@BlackMusicArchive lol i meant black mainstream artist to explain this as well. 😂😂😂
@@BlackMusicArchive get them together Malik! 😭🤧🔥
@@Anfani Why, because you couldn't get the concept in this video?
Boy, please 🙄
And who's Taylor dayne
Well, this explains why Mariah lost her voice so early in her career.
😆 🤣...
Good point.. self preservation and singing in her tessitura may have saved her voice long term