| flash00. 22.09.2015 18:19 |
This article is 12 months old, apologies if it's been posted before. I was surprised at this about who had the greatest vocal range, i know nothing about music but know there are a few on here who do, i'm sure Freddie had a greater range than his placing on this article. Link below. link |
| Oscar J 22.09.2015 18:58 |
The authors don't know what the hell they're talking about. Freddie (low tenor) had a 4 octave sung vocal range (F2 - F6). 2.92 octaves? I have never seen a source state that states anything like that. Apparently they've studied "sheet music" and drew conclusions from that. Bruce Dickinson (baritone, lower voice), has a sung range of 3 octaves and 8 semitones (E2 - C6). But then if the article was aimed at people actually having a clue about music, they wouldn't write octaves in decimal form anyway. Don't know why "0,92 octaves" would be easier to understand that "11 semitones". |
| flash00. 22.09.2015 20:44 |
Great reply, I've heard many say Freddie had a 4 octave range they ranked his voice close to Cheryl Tweedys range? Hilarious.
Cheers.
Oscar J wrote: The authors don't know what the hell they're talking about. Freddie (low tenor) had a 4 octave sung vocal range (F2 - F6). 2.92 octaves? I have never seen a source state that states anything like that. Apparently they've studied "sheet music" and drew conclusions from that. Bruce Dickinson (baritone, lower voice), has a sung range of 3 octaves and 8 semitones (E2 - C6). But then if the article was aimed at people actually having a clue about music, they wouldn't write octaves in decimal form anyway. Don't know why "0,92 octaves" would be easier to understand that "11 semitones". |
| stevelondon20 23.09.2015 01:07 |
Blimey. They need to sack their Journalist pronto. What a load of shit that was. |
| Biggus Dickus 23.09.2015 01:14 |
Oscar J wrote: The authors don't know what the hell they're talking about. Freddie (low tenor) had a 4 octave sung vocal range (F2 - F6). 2.92 octaves? I have never seen a source state that states anything like that. Apparently they've studied "sheet music" and drew conclusions from that. Bruce Dickinson (baritone, lower voice), has a sung range of 3 octaves and 8 semitones (E2 - C6). But then if the article was aimed at people actually having a clue about music, they wouldn't write octaves in decimal form anyway. Don't know why "0,92 octaves" would be easier to understand that "11 semitones".Bruce Dickinson is a tenor, not a baritone. You class Freddie as a low tenor and Bruce as a baritone. To me that makes no sense, as Bruce had much more consistent, natural and frequent 5th octave usage than Freddie, including live performances. |
| Oscar J 23.09.2015 04:28 |
Never mind the baritone comment, must have though of somebody else. Funny enough, in an interview with Peter Freestone by Gregsynth, Freestone claims that Freddie's natural voice was that of a light baritone, and apparently Montserrat Caballé encouraged him to use that quality of his voice on the Barcelona records. So the vocal type for Freddie is definitely up for discussion. :) |
| Biggus Dickus 23.09.2015 04:46 |
Oscar J wrote: Never mind the baritone comment, must have though of somebody else. Funny enough, in an interview with Peter Freestone by Gregsynth, Freestone claims that Freddie's natural voice was that of a light baritone, and apparently Montserrat Caballé encouraged him to use that quality of his voice on the Barcelona records. So the vocal type for Freddie is definitely up for discussion. :)Yeah I agree on that. Sure Freddie could sing songs in tenor range yet he wasn't able to use the 5th octave like most tenors do. So yeah low tenor is pretty good description to me. |
| Oscar J 23.09.2015 07:23 |
"Most tenors"? Traditionally, most tenors hardly ever go above the tenor high C, C5. Which Freddie quite frequently did in studio - hell, in their later albums it's almost difficult finding songs where he doesn't move up into the 5th octave. Freddies vocal in Don't Try So Hard would make many light tenors jealous. |
| Biggus Dickus 23.09.2015 07:34 |
Oscar J wrote: "Most tenors"? Traditionally, most tenors hardly ever go above the tenor high C, C5. Which Freddie quite frequently did in studio - hell, in their later albums it's almost difficult finding songs where he doesn't move up into the 5th octave. Freddies vocal in Don't Try So Hard would make many light tenors jealous.I guess I'm listening to especially good tenors then. |
| The King Of Rhye 23.09.2015 08:59 |
Oscar J wrote: The authors don't know what the hell they're talking about. Freddie (low tenor) had a 4 octave sung vocal range (F2 - F6). 2.92 octaves? I have never seen a source state that states anything like that. Apparently they've studied "sheet music" and drew conclusions from that.Exactly. My first thought when I read that was that they were just going by notes sung on studio albums, but still, that doesn't add up to only almost 3 octaves. Look at "The Range Place" (Gregsynth's thread on Freddie! :D), it says F2 on Mother Love, and E6 on It's Late, that's almost 4.... Justin Hawkins should be somewhere on that list too... |
| master marathon runner 23.09.2015 10:55 |
...Cheryl fucking Tweedy? |
| Nitroboy 23.09.2015 11:12 |
Before people kill each other: Voice type =/= vocal range. Voice type helps to describe the sound. It has NOTHING to do with range. |
| Oscar J 23.09.2015 11:36 |
Nitroboy: don't take everything people at The Range Place say for a fact. While tessituras, register transition points, vocal timbre etc. also play part in voice classification - certainly the first thing you look at when you want to classify a voice type, is vocal range. The Fach method is a commonly used and almost scientific way of classifying singers. http://libres.uncg.edu/ir/uncg/f/umi-uncg-1296.pdf |
| Chief Mouse 23.09.2015 11:54 |
Don't really care about these polls and lists. Range doesn't really make a singer although of course it can help the delivery of the particular song. I can squeeze out a D5 (in full voice not falsetto) but I sound like crap. And I'm certainly not a tenor as I am much more comfortable singing songs in lower octave (like Yesterday by The Beatles or Nikita by Elton John). To be honest, I reached higher notes over time as at first doing anything above an F4 seemed impossible. Not that I know anything about singing though, it's just that the first person I can compare to is myself. In Greg's conversation with Peter Freestone they came to the conclusion that Freddie was originally a baritone who pushed his way to tenor notes thus making himself a "Mercury tenor", as they called him. I'm inclined to believe this. |
| Fireplace 23.09.2015 12:02 |
All of you seem to be missing the most shocking point: Mark friggin' Knopfler is in the list. I am quite sure he never sung outside a range of about 8 semitones, and if they used sheet music they either mistook Sting's vocals on Money For Nothing for his or they confused his singing with his guitar work. What a load of utter phish! |
| stevelondon20 23.09.2015 12:57 |
The whole article is pure crap. |
| scollins 23.09.2015 16:47 |
lmfao this article is a joke and the journalist is as much use as stevie wonder playing table tennis? I wouldn't take much notice of this tripe. Its all plums lol |
| musicland munich 23.09.2015 19:20 |
Chief Mouse wrote: I can squeeze out a D5 (in full voice not falsetto) but I sound like crap. ,Actually that's a well known problem for a lot of singers. Reaching a note is the one thing....make it sound good or "work" with it, is the other thing. |
| dysan 24.09.2015 03:13 |
'Sting's vocals on Money For Nothing' Easy mistake to make :) But yeah, that list is rubbish. |
| Chief Mouse 24.09.2015 04:38 |
musicland munich wrote:Yeah, exactly.Chief Mouse wrote: I can squeeze out a D5 (in full voice not falsetto) but I sound like crap. ,Actually that's a well known problem for a lot of singers. Reaching a note is the one thing....make it sound good or "work" with it, is the other thing. |
| miraclesteinway 26.09.2015 09:23 |
They explained their methodology in the article - they used sheet music song sheets to take the highest and lowest notes of the melodies of all the songs in the back catalogues of each singer for comparison. OK fine, but most singers work their melodies within a limited range of course, all good and normal. They haven't looked into the backing vocals...... |
| Biggus Dickus 26.09.2015 10:31 |
miraclesteinway wrote: They explained their methodology in the article - they used sheet music song sheets to take the highest and lowest notes of the melodies of all the songs in the back catalogues of each singer for comparison. OK fine, but most singers work their melodies within a limited range of course, all good and normal. They haven't looked into the backing vocals......Good point. Freddie went a lot higher in falsetto during live performances than he did in the studio. That's probably one reason why his range isn't as wide in that article as it really was. |
| Oscar J 26.09.2015 11:50 |
I bet they only found sheet music of the hits too. Unlikely that they found the E6 in It's Late for example. |
| Biggus Dickus 26.09.2015 12:39 |
Oscar J wrote: I bet they only found sheet music of the hits too. Unlikely that they found the E6 in It's Late for example.I agree. Of course some of the high notes might be absent from the sheet music anyway, like the high notes in Save Me. They're pretty buried in the mix. |
| Chief Mouse 26.09.2015 12:47 |
They should have checked this video. . |