I've always wondered why modern pop groups don't take in a bass singer like that. The only place I ever hear voices like that is in gospel quartets and some older classic country music quartets.
Because modern music uses electronic bass or at least acoustic bass. Such low voices are quite rare and it's easier to replace them with instruments. There are some acapella groups with low basses though, like Home Free or VoicePlay.
I am a low baritone and I have learned to extend far into bass range with subharmonics, I can still reach up to F5 though so I do well up in tenor. Flexibility is key, sing and listen to all types of stuff.
There's actually a great many Tenors and Counter-Tenors in the Realm of Southern Gospel. If you listen to enough of it, you will hear some of the Most amazingly Talented voices you can imagine.
I had the opportunity to see the Blackwood brothers with Ken at our church, and they went through each key on the piano and he hit every key, and then kept going, and his mighty voice made our whole church shake. It’s amazing how much power a voice has, to be able to make a 2 story building feel like it was going to fall to the ground.. it was wonderful.
Just to clarify, I’ve been blessed with an ear for music that categorically separates each part individually. The reason Ken Turner could “fry so low” is because he wasn’t actually using vocal fry, he was using a vocal technique known as subharmonic singing. It involves vibrating your false vocal cords. If done correctly they will vibrate at a resonant frequency exactly one octave below your main vocal cords. There are tutorial videos for this all over TH-cam.
it doesn't sound like subharmonic. subharmonic sounds like there is 2 notes at the same time, because there is actually 2 notes when using subharmonic.
Tuvan throat singing generates 2 tones at once, but subharmonic is not the same thing. It’s similar in that both techniques use both your regular vocal cords and your false vocal cords, but the main difference is in how you generate the pitch. Throat singing uses forced air and is tougher on your voice, subharmonic requires much less force and is easier to do in my opinion. Ive been trained to sing in the subharmonic register myself and I will tell you if done correctly nobody can hear the second tone. I’d bet money that’s what he’s doing here.
@@jaredmiller2237 in the morning I can do a C1 in mixed chest/fry, and it sounds similar to this. yes maybe I'm wrong, but I'm not sure that it's subharmonic.
Daniel Ferreira Terres If you can reach that register then I suggest you learn how to sing in the subharmonic register. The lower your regular voice, the lower you can go in subharmonic. You might just surpass the bottom of the piano, my friend.
I met Ken Turner, I am also a bass, I showed him how low I can sing and he said nice are you in a band, and I said I'm in a Barbershop Quartet, and he said awesome
this is so good,i always loved hearing barber shop quartets .it just pure harmony ,glad you guys react to all different kind of stuff.I love watching you two
Actually it’s be a gospel quartet. Barbershop is Acapella which is only the human voice, gospel is accompanied by other instruments like a piano and drums
If you want to hear real super crazy CHEST low register... react to "Why Me Lord by J.D. Sumner". It's just SUPER LOW! Also you can react to his vocal range if you want... "J.D Sumner Vocal Range G0-A4". J.D. Sumner have a SUPER low chest voice. It's no growl or fry, it's natural chest register...
Aleksandr Koptev For a time, J.D. Sumner was the lowest recorded voice. He and the Stamps Quartet toured with Elvis Presley. You can see them on Elvis's "Aloha From Hawaii" Special.
I can't stop coming back to this video. 😂 It just makes me so happy seeing your reactions to Ken Turner's voice, lol. I love all the good bass singers out there, but Ken Turner blew me away.
Strataluke The note he sang was a C1, so called because it’s the C from the first octave on the piano. A chord is a group of notes, which they sing together.
I was actually here for this the guy in the red is my dad Wayne Little now tenor for blackwood brothers purple is Larry Pippin guy in the green is Wallace Nelms guy in the blue is Ken Turner this was 90s
At the end he went from the E1 at the first syllable of every then an Eb1 at the second syllable. Then he finally went down to the Db1 when singing “cloud”.
Ken has a wonderful range! These guys have a great sound - love it. If you guys love gospel and bass singers, you have to check out JD Sumner and the Stamps version. He drops the bottom out of this song...... and keeps going.
Classic quartet singing, awesome! As a kid, this is what I got to listen to before a capella started to gain interest. Have you ever listened to to Tim Storms, the bass Guinness World Record holder?
Should wait until reaction is over before commenting, sorry about that. Still, that is so typical of quartets of my childhood, especially the almost comical transition from a really low bass to a high tenor at the end. This really was a fun, random reaction.
He's using some kind of inwards vocal fry (ingressive phonation is what I've heard is the technical term for it)...it sounds REALLY cool. As far as someone NOT using fry and going this low, that's pretty darn rare. I'd estimate that in most cases, when somebody is able to get to the mid to low 1st octave just by lowering (or pushing) their genuine speaking/singing voice down, there's probably some fry mixing in with it. Maybe there are even rarer exceptions within this category that can do those notes in full voice, but without JD and Zlatopolsky around, I'm not too sure (though Alexander Ort probably has the best shot at this).
Would love to hear some George Younce with the Cathedrals. Would love to see your reaction, if you can of "This Old House" or "Going Home". Great reaction by the way, love to see your reactions.
You should listen to Zlatopolsky. He sang a C1 in chest voice over a whole choir. Or to the patram institute. There were 10 oktavists descending to a D1 in a choir.
While this does use vocal fry, it’s considered subharmonics. Because his chest voice is producing the octave above what you’re hearing, but the resonance created by introducing vocal fry drops it an octave. This is a very difficult technique to master, and as they said seldom has a good place especially in live performance. Having a microphone is very beneficial for this as well.
You have a ton of comments but he is using sub-harmonics. Someone may have mentioned it but he inspired me to learn how to do it! I could listen to this song over and over.
always did like your reaction vids guys~ hope you'll react to KZ's Wildcard Performance on the Singer 2018's Episode 12 next.. she'll be singing a mixed Filipino and Mandarin version of the Filipino song, "Anak" (or "Child" in English)..I just know you'll both love it💕 especially you Marco 😉👍
So he wasn’t using fry or subharmonics. He was actually using a technique that is commonly used by beat boxers called ingressive phonation. It allows you to get very low on the piano, some people are even able to go off of it.
Lowest note I think was a C1, and he was using some sort of inwards fry ("ingressive phonation") on all the stuff after the tenor motioned for him to go lower.
Lmao, he never did inhale at that time, it's just pure voice, just listen to him talking, his talking register sometimes hits F1 so yeah, it's chest voice.
I'm so happy! Ken Turner is one of my favorite bass singers. Here are two more songs that he sang that you guys might like: Just a Little Talk with Jesus: th-cam.com/video/65j2H-Jci84/w-d-xo.html Lonesome Road: th-cam.com/video/cePDoV_FDVQ/w-d-xo.html
The reason that the bass can sing lower than the average male, is because his vocal cords are longer. This particular bass used a technique called subharmonics. A subharmonic note is reached when one of your vocal cords relaxes, and starts to vibrate at a resonant frequency of a perfect fifth. I can verify this opinion, but, rock guitarists will use a power chord, (Root, 5th, root)and add a lower 5th on the bottom of the chord and it will make it sound like it is an octave lower. Reason being, is because one of your vocal cords starts to vibrate the exact opposite way of the original.
I don't know what you talking about commenters. That was sunharmonic it sounds like fry or bit like chest fry mix but it is subharmonic just mics didn't picked up this well
Suggestion: Cher Lloyd - Stay. Xfactor UK. Her performance for the Halloween show. #2 Emily Middlemas -Creep. Not really comparable to last week's but worth an honorable mention.
I have turned the internet upside down and still cannot find the date of this recording. From the clothing style, and the fact that it's in color, I would guess the "80s. His hair is graying in this video and he is now 84, so that about fits.
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I've always wondered why modern pop groups don't take in a bass singer like that. The only place I ever hear voices like that is in gospel quartets and some older classic country music quartets.
Because modern music uses electronic bass or at least acoustic bass. Such low voices are quite rare and it's easier to replace them with instruments. There are some acapella groups with low basses though, like Home Free or VoicePlay.
Check out Josh Turner
Because they are so unbelievably rare
I am a low baritone and I have learned to extend far into bass range with subharmonics, I can still reach up to F5 though so I do well up in tenor. Flexibility is key, sing and listen to all types of stuff.
@@sweet_krona Are they really that rare cause I can hit subharmonic and I feel like I know multiple people who can
And still I gotta say, the high vocal guy at 4:48 is pushing some amazing Freddie Mercury type of vocals!
More like Roger Taylor
@@nickhynds9123 was about to comment this
That's some straight up countertenor stuff
There's actually a great many Tenors and Counter-Tenors in the Realm of Southern Gospel. If you listen to enough of it, you will hear some of the Most amazingly Talented voices you can imagine.
Yees@@nickhynds9123
I had the opportunity to see the Blackwood brothers with Ken at our church, and they went through each key on the piano and he hit every key, and then kept going, and his mighty voice made our whole church shake. It’s amazing how much power a voice has, to be able to make a 2 story building feel like it was going to fall to the ground.. it was wonderful.
OMG. I love this!!! Pure delight boys
React to this!!!!
Please react to this RVA
Just to clarify, I’ve been blessed with an ear for music that categorically separates each part individually. The reason Ken Turner could “fry so low” is because he wasn’t actually using vocal fry, he was using a vocal technique known as subharmonic singing. It involves vibrating your false vocal cords. If done correctly they will vibrate at a resonant frequency exactly one octave below your main vocal cords. There are tutorial videos for this all over TH-cam.
it doesn't sound like subharmonic. subharmonic sounds like there is 2 notes at the same time, because there is actually 2 notes when using subharmonic.
Tuvan throat singing generates 2 tones at once, but subharmonic is not the same thing. It’s similar in that both techniques use both your regular vocal cords and your false vocal cords, but the main difference is in how you generate the pitch. Throat singing uses forced air and is tougher on your voice, subharmonic requires much less force and is easier to do in my opinion. Ive been trained to sing in the subharmonic register myself and I will tell you if done correctly nobody can hear the second tone. I’d bet money that’s what he’s doing here.
@@jaredmiller2237 in the morning I can do a C1 in mixed chest/fry, and it sounds similar to this. yes maybe I'm wrong, but I'm not sure that it's subharmonic.
Daniel Ferreira Terres If you can reach that register then I suggest you learn how to sing in the subharmonic register. The lower your regular voice, the lower you can go in subharmonic. You might just surpass the bottom of the piano, my friend.
Yes Ken does indeed use subharmonics but it's only a true vocal cords technique
I met Ken Turner, I am also a bass, I showed him how low I can sing and he said nice are you in a band, and I said I'm in a Barbershop Quartet, and he said awesome
WOW!
Could you tell more about it?
@rtsbass7829 that was pretty much, he's such a nice and positive guy
It was a c1. I sang along, with him until he dropped the bottom out if it. Got this one on my laptop. Good reaction as usual guys.
I love Ali's face at 4:00! An expression that clearly says WTF!! 😀😀😀
That gentleman's bass voice is completely off the charts. Could easily strip paint of wall. Unbelievable. Wish I had a voice like that.
If he ever needs a job I've got a wall ripe for the paint stripping.
3:57 - Their expressions are like "Wait what? How... He went... What?" 😂
oldies but goldies
Can’t believe you actually reacted to this!! Ken turner is an amazing bass, even though he used vocal fry in this, he sounded absolutely amazing! 🙏🏻
I could be wrong, but, at least in other performances, it sounded like he is using a subharmonic vocal technique.
kitchenmaiden81 that was too but mics didn't picked it up right
kitchenmaiden81 definitely wasn’t subharmonics
It was his chest voice, just to let ya know. Even more mind blowing
@@aaronjesse4913 agreed
this is so good,i always loved hearing barber shop quartets .it just pure harmony ,glad you guys react to all different kind of stuff.I love watching you two
Actually it’s be a gospel quartet. Barbershop is Acapella which is only the human voice, gospel is accompanied by other instruments like a piano and drums
His daughter Kenna Turner is one of todays top new gospel song writer too fyi boys
At 3:58 it took him a while to process the bass on the left
J.D. Sumner with The Stamps sang Raimbow of Love. It' wonderful!!
Ken Turner is the master!
If you want to hear real super crazy CHEST low register... react to "Why Me Lord by J.D. Sumner". It's just SUPER LOW!
Also you can react to his vocal range if you want... "J.D Sumner Vocal Range G0-A4".
J.D. Sumner have a SUPER low chest voice. It's no growl or fry, it's natural chest register...
Aleksandr Koptev For a time, J.D. Sumner was the lowest recorded voice. He and the Stamps Quartet toured with Elvis Presley. You can see them on Elvis's "Aloha From Hawaii" Special.
JD Sumner doesn't have the lowest voice...
th-cam.com/video/Vw6NdbRhOfQ/w-d-xo.html
great that you mentioned the most powerfull oktavist in history. next to some others
neil johnson What is with that old man? His vioce isn't THAT deep.
I can't stop coming back to this video. 😂 It just makes me so happy seeing your reactions to Ken Turner's voice, lol. I love all the good bass singers out there, but Ken Turner blew me away.
Yay!!♡
Edit: it was a C1, and his name is Ken Turner
im a guitar player and maybe people say 1 in singing but is c1 just c because its the root of the chord
strataluke It’s not a chord, it’s referring to the octave.
Strataluke The note he sang was a C1, so called because it’s the C from the first octave on the piano. A chord is a group of notes, which they sing together.
C#1*
I was actually here for this the guy in the red is my dad Wayne Little now tenor for blackwood brothers purple is Larry Pippin guy in the green is Wallace Nelms guy in the blue is Ken Turner this was 90s
Ken Turner's fry on this was so low, my earphones and my brain rattled like as if there was an earthquake inside my head...
Subharmonics not fry
At the end he went from the E1 at the first syllable of every then an Eb1 at the second syllable. Then he finally went down to the Db1 when singing “cloud”.
a C1*
Ken has a wonderful range! These guys have a great sound - love it.
If you guys love gospel and bass singers, you have to check out JD Sumner and the Stamps version. He drops the bottom out of this song...... and keeps going.
Classic quartet singing, awesome! As a kid, this is what I got to listen to before a capella started to gain interest. Have you ever listened to to Tim Storms, the bass Guinness World Record holder?
Should wait until reaction is over before commenting, sorry about that. Still, that is so typical of quartets of my childhood, especially the almost comical transition from a really low bass to a high tenor at the end. This really was a fun, random reaction.
What is it about basses named Tim? Seems to be several of them down there in the vocal basement...
Elvis liked this type of singing so much that he hired JD Sumner and the Stamps to do his backup vocals.
He's using some kind of inwards vocal fry (ingressive phonation is what I've heard is the technical term for it)...it sounds REALLY cool. As far as someone NOT using fry and going this low, that's pretty darn rare. I'd estimate that in most cases, when somebody is able to get to the mid to low 1st octave just by lowering (or pushing) their genuine speaking/singing voice down, there's probably some fry mixing in with it. Maybe there are even rarer exceptions within this category that can do those notes in full voice, but without JD and Zlatopolsky around, I'm not too sure (though Alexander Ort probably has the best shot at this).
If you like this kind of music then you should definitely react to the Notre Dame Medley by Ringmasters
Thier harmonies are so incredible
The lowest note was a C#1...a pretty nice one too
Would love to hear some George Younce with the Cathedrals. Would love to see your reaction, if you can of "This Old House" or "Going Home". Great reaction by the way, love to see your reactions.
4:00 face reaction 😂😂😂
The bass, Ken Turner, once sang with the legendary Blackwood Brothers.
Yes. Saw him in Muskegon.Check out Blackwood Brothers "On the Jericho Road"
@@strobx1 my mom talks about a bass singer walked the piano down. may have been with the Blackwood Brothers. would love to hear it
@@douglasrawe Try ON The Jericho Road.
You should listen to Zlatopolsky. He sang a C1 in chest voice over a whole choir. Or to the patram institute. There were 10 oktavists descending to a D1 in a choir.
That bass sound is legendary, but, ppl should also pay more attention to that AMAZING high note near the end! o.o
KEN TURNER THE BEST
Yes
Don't do George Younce and Tim Riley like that
@@Robin-ij6ks and JD Sumner
While this does use vocal fry, it’s considered subharmonics. Because his chest voice is producing the octave above what you’re hearing, but the resonance created by introducing vocal fry drops it an octave. This is a very difficult technique to master, and as they said seldom has a good place especially in live performance. Having a microphone is very beneficial for this as well.
Finally getting into some proper basses, about time.
Definitely do some Nic Val.
Val is the best.
And John Daniel Sumner
You have a ton of comments but he is using sub-harmonics. Someone may have mentioned it but he inspired me to learn how to do it! I could listen to this song over and over.
Never heard them before, but I like! I love the harmonies, too, and AMAZING bass! ;-) Thanks for sharing this! It was so much fun!
YEEEEES rainbow of love
The Bass guy's name is Ken Turner.This is probably from the late 70's or early 80's
Alecia B Carty (now Alecia B Anderson) covered this with all the low notes. She is a female bass singer.
always did like your reaction vids guys~ hope you'll react to KZ's Wildcard Performance on the Singer 2018's Episode 12 next.. she'll be singing a mixed Filipino and Mandarin version of the Filipino song, "Anak" (or "Child" in English)..I just know you'll both love it💕 especially you Marco 😉👍
His name is Ken Turner. It was recorded late 80’s early 90’s
Cool reaction. Very enjoyable group. :D
White Christmas - VoicePlay (reaction please)
I was looking for a TED MOSBY reaction.. Thanks man! Loved HIMYM
I'm impressed you got the correct low note. Ken Turner hit a C#1 at the lowest note. So you were really really close to the correct note
Ken Turner is one of my favorites, especially in this song!!
The most beautiful voice!😍
Checkout J.D Sumner, his group sang backup for Elvis and he held the record for lowest Bass voice for quite sometime.
First time when i love the reaction of someone
More postmodern ft. Haley Reinhart reactions please !! :D
Ps : they also did a cover of "Focus" with LaVance and this blow my mind every time
So he wasn’t using fry or subharmonics. He was actually using a technique that is commonly used by beat boxers called ingressive phonation. It allows you to get very low on the piano, some people are even able to go off of it.
owwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwjust tears of my eyes
Ohhhh yessss the machine !!!!!
Please look up Tim Riley singing Rainbow of Love. His version of it is the best! If you want to hear a true bass look up Tim Riley!
Why are so many of the best bass voices in FRIGGIN gospel?
Kevin Olusola dropped a new KOver!!! You should check it out!
Lowest note I think was a C1, and he was using some sort of inwards fry ("ingressive phonation") on all the stuff after the tenor motioned for him to go lower.
Subharmonics:D
ITS NOT FRY!! It is the inhale Technique and he sang a C1
Lmao, he never did inhale at that time, it's just pure voice, just listen to him talking, his talking register sometimes hits F1 so yeah, it's chest voice.
sounds like a C#
@@anicedan90 What are you two talking about?
That was subharmonics, check yt tutorials to understand how it works, it's actually interesting!
Bass singers name is Ken Turner
That looks like Ken Turner who followed JD Sumner and Big John Hall In the Blackwood Brothers Quartet in the '70s. That was probably mid '90s.
Ken Turner in my opinion was the greatest bass vocalist of all time. I’m 64. Incredible
my Grandfather has this group on a VHS tape. it is from the 1990's.
Awesome. Hey, y'all should check out "let freedom ring" by the gaither vocal band live at Carnegie hall
Yikes. That was worse than being rick rolled. Heck, I'd rather watch a Wix add than listen to those guys.
Yes, boys!! Ken Turner (the bass) Rocks!!
Please react to kz Tandingan sing "Anak" in filipino and mandarin Version... In singer 2018. Wildcard episode 12
I'm so happy! Ken Turner is one of my favorite bass singers. Here are two more songs that he sang that you guys might like:
Just a Little Talk with Jesus: th-cam.com/video/65j2H-Jci84/w-d-xo.html
Lonesome Road: th-cam.com/video/cePDoV_FDVQ/w-d-xo.html
Before watching this, i thought Geoff is the best in Subharmonics, but now Ken Turner...oh...you know what i have to say.
Its from the 80s or maybe early 90s. His name is Ken Turner. Hes 80 now.
Never gets old hearing such talent sing in honor of our Lord Christ Jesus!!
Lonesome Road by Ken Turner. Please react to that one!
The reason that the bass can sing lower than the average male, is because his vocal cords are longer. This particular bass used a technique called subharmonics. A subharmonic note is reached when one of your vocal cords relaxes, and starts to vibrate at a resonant frequency of a perfect fifth. I can verify this opinion, but, rock guitarists will use a power chord, (Root, 5th, root)and add a lower 5th on the bottom of the chord and it will make it sound like it is an octave lower. Reason being, is because one of your vocal cords starts to vibrate the exact opposite way of the original.
I don't know what you talking about commenters. That was sunharmonic it sounds like fry or bit like chest fry mix but it is subharmonic just mics didn't picked up this well
no. it doesn't sound like subharmonic. it's a chest/fry mix.
That last note was fry definitely.
It was a subharmonic, not a fry
Oh, and this base is Ken Turner
It's C1. Even lower. Ted is a sensei
C1 guys! Ken turner is amazing.
Suggestion: Cher Lloyd - Stay. Xfactor UK. Her performance for the Halloween show.
#2 Emily Middlemas -Creep. Not really comparable to last week's but worth an honorable mention.
Random viewer passing through. But, you guy's should React to "Why St. Patrick drove the Sakes!" By Heywood Banks
The low note was c1 :D
I think ken turner's C1 was in subharmonic register
You're right he has never used inhale register
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Funny stuff there
I have turned the internet upside down and still cannot find the date of this recording. From the clothing style, and the fact that it's in color, I would guess the "80s. His hair is graying in this video and he is now 84, so that about fits.
His name is Ken Turner
he summoned a portal to tHE DEAMON WORLD MWAHAAHAHAH
That fellows is a Basso Profundo
This was early to mid 90s if I recall.
y’all should look up “Just a Little Talk With Jesus” by JD Sumner it’s very good and also humorous to a point
C1!!!!!
Gosh
Beau mariage de voix!
Hello boys 💋
i think it was a Db1
it was kind-of in-between D and Db because it is a old recording
After some googling, I found out that this guy's name is Ken Turner. I don't think he's with this band anymore? He's not listed on the website...
Some Anon he’s in his 80’s now
wow
And slid down to Bb0 after the Eb1
it wasn't fry.. it was chest voice
According to what I know, he was doing subharmonics.