I'm not a musical expert but I'm intrested in vocalists. So would you class Roger as a singer who can/used to be able to sing in the highest vocal register known as the 'whistle register'? I know not very many male singers can but Roger can sing incredibly high without much aide of machines or helium so I was wondering.
I don't think he used the whistle register. He did use falsetto several times though.
Roger's range was quite large, actually, since he could hit very high notes without falsetto (such as the high E in 'More Of That Jazz'), but he could get them quite low as well ('Strange Frontier', 'I Wanna Testify').
goodco wrote: All I know, is that within 10 minutes of playing 'In The Lap Of The Gods', half the neighborhood dogs would be on our front yard.
that song came to mind when i saw this thread! XD
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As far as I know the note at the start of "In the Lap of the Gods" is only an A5.
Freddie hits at least a G5 (one note under that) in the intro to "Rock in Rio Blues".
I think it's "just" falsetto.
Unless the sound has been "tampered with" - it just doesn't sound like the squeak / shriek of whistle register to me.
well.
i dont think so.
because you can hear freddie in japan doeing a d5 and i think that he cannot do higher.
maybe f5 but thats it.
and roger cannot go higher then his f4 on bohrap.
thats almost impossible
Indeed that's always been a neverending debate. I'm positive he was a tenor: neither his speaking voice nor his singing matched that of a baritone. Montserrat's comment could be a misquote or she simply didn't take enough time to study his voice and properly classify it.
Sebastian wrote: Indeed that's always been a neverending debate. I'm positive he was a tenor: neither his speaking voice nor his singing matched that of a baritone. Montserrat's comment could be a misquote or she simply didn't take enough time to study his voice and properly classify it.
Well I was just trying to see if anyone would go for the bait (as this has been one of those muchly-argued topics over the years) but thanks for the food-for-thought.
I always rather figured that those definitions were more aimed at classical singing? I never found them very valid concerning Freddie, or other rock singers, who *really* don't do opera very well in the traditional sense.
I'm not bagging his work on Barcelona for a second; I loved it. However.... it really is just a rock singer singing prettier songs.
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Freddie was a god he was a rock singer who could also sing opera very well, he is the best singer of all time and there never will be a better singer!!!!!!
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Sebastian wrote: Indeed that's always been a neverending debate. I'm positive he was a tenor: neither his speaking voice nor his singing matched that of a baritone. Montserrat's comment could be a misquote or she simply didn't take enough time to study his voice and properly classify it.
Well I was just trying to see if anyone would go for the bait (as this has been one of those muchly-argued topics over the years) but thanks for the food-for-thought.
I always rather figured that those definitions were more aimed at classical singing? I never found them very valid concerning Freddie, or other rock singers, who *really* don't do opera very well in the traditional sense.
I'm not bagging his work on Barcelona for a second; I loved it. However.... it really is just a rock singer singing prettier songs.
I loved 'Barcelona' too, but I'm aware that it shows that Montserrat's technique goes light years beyond Freddie's. Since pop/rock singers usually employ head voice most of the time, rather than chest, indeed the ranges involved are different, and so are the tracks themselves. Freddie was an extraordinary vocalist but of course he'd got loads of flaws.
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NO! NO! NO!@!!!!!!
You go to hell and you die!
Freddie was a god he was a rock singer who could also sing opera very well, he is the best singer of all time and there never will be a better singer!!!!!!
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<font color=brianJM>RollingBowieQueen wrote: Roger as a singer who can/used to be able to sing in the highest vocal register known as the 'whistle register'?
Actually on Sheer Heart Attack there are many vocal parts by Roger that we as Humans cannot hear. Play the album and watch your dog carefully, particularly Tenement Funster.