Here is compilation of opera tenors going for that extra high note. I´ve not included the
Here is compilation of opera tenors going for that extra high note. I´ve not included the puritani high F:s since they´ve already been covered in a video. These notes are indeed very rare. My own favourite is the high E-flat. The tenor can still sound manly at this pitch but the intensity is much higher than on a high D. High E:s and F:s are purely for spectacularity, the sound is seldom pleasant. I start with some common opera tenor notes:
1. Luciano Pavarotti with a solid A4 from "O sole mio", most tenors sing this aria one or two semitones lower.
2. Pavarotti again, this time with a Bb4 from "Pourquoi me reveiller".
3. Pavarotti with the classic Nessun Dorma ending, B4 to A4.
4. The famous high C (C5), done here by Pavarotti in "Pour mon Ame" from "La fille du Regiment" by Gaetano Donizetti.
5. A splendid C#5 by Tito Beltran, from "Povero Ernesto" from Donizetti´s Don Pasquale. Does anyone have a high D by Beltran?
6. A glorious high D by Nicolai Gedda from "Ronde du Postillion" from "Le postillon de Lonjumeau" by Adolphe Adam.
7. Now time for the E-flats...first is a short but good one by Alfredo Kraus in "O muto asil" from Wilhelm Tell by Giacomo Rossini.
8. John van Kesteren with a sustained Eb5 but not with so much chest tone, from "einsam und verlassen" (german version of "Deserto in terra" from opera Don Sebastian by Donizetti).
9. William Matteuzzi with a slightly thin Eb5 in "Languir per una bella" from "L´Ítaliana in Algeri" by Rossini.
10. Matteuzzi with a much better Eb5 in "Che ascolto" from "Othello" by Rossini (not Verdi!).
11. Gregory Kunde with a Eb5 in "Ascolta O Padre" from "Bianca & Fernando" by Vincenzo Bellini.
12. Guiseppe Morino with a Eb5 in the Lucia di Lammermoor duet (as written in the score!) by Donizetti.
13. Morino again, this time a Eb5 in "Non lungidalle torri" "Les Hugenots" by Giacomo Meyerbeer.
14. And another Eb5 by Morino in "Quando Il Cor Da Lei Piagato" from "Maria di Rohan" by Donizetti.
15. Chris Merritt with a nice Eb5 in "Brezza del suol suol" from "I due foscari" by Guiseppe Verdi.
16. Pierre Duval with a stunning Eb5 in the Puritani duet "Vieni fra queste". The duet is pitched up a semitone which means that Duval and Sutherland take a Eb5 and a Eb6 towards the end!
17. Morino with a short E5 in "A cosi triste" from Ermione by Rossini.
18. Morino with a beautiful head voice E5 in "ah dove" from "Semiramide" by Rossini.
19. Chris Merritt with a somewhat strained E5 in "Loin de son amie" from "La Juive" by Jacques Halevy.
20. Matteuzzi with a slightly thin E5 in "La speranza" from Semiramide.
21. Matteuzzi with a better E5 in the duet "D'alma celeste Dio" from "Il viaggio a Reims" by Rossini.
22. Matteuzzi with a stunning E5 from the Ermione duet "A cosi triste" by Rossini.
23. Ivan Kozlovsky with a chesty F5 (very old recording though) in "Ecco ridente in cielo" from "The Barber in Seville" by Rossini. Kozlovsky goes down to a F#2 (!) after this passage, it can be found here on youtube.
24. Matteuzzi with a great F5 in "Languir per una bella" by Rossini.
25. Matteuzzi with another great F5, this time in an aria from "la scala di seta" by Rossini.
26. Can we go even higher? Yes we can...matteuzzi´s highest note is a F#5 (!) in "Partageons son butin" from "le Comte Ory" by Rossini. But maybe matteuzzi has done a high G also?
27. We finish off with a great F#5 by Gregory Kunde in ""Ascolta O Padre" from "Bianca & Fernando" by Vincenzo Bellini.
Guiness book of world records lists tenor Stefan Zucker with a sustained high A (!) (A5) in an aria from a live recording of "I Capuleti e I Montecchi" by Bellini. Does anyone out there have this recording? But by judging from his singing of "pour mon ame" (in my favourites here on youtube) it is not worth hearing!
(more)
(less)
Added: 5 months ago
Views: 43,221
OK folks, time for the big debate(and my longest video!): falsetto or not? Let me first sa
OK folks, time for the big debate(and my longest video!): falsetto or not? Let me first say that I have nothing against falsetto as such. It can add much beauty and emotion to a note but I don´t like whiny falsettos used just for reaching high notes that are harder to reach by mixed voice. Mixed voice is used by mixing the normal speaking voice (chest voice) with head voice (very simply put: singing from the throat), btw head voice is not falsetto but the term is often used as such in classical singing. Head voice is sometimes referred to as "open throat falsetto" because the vocal chords are kept "wide open" in contrast to falsetto where they are "folded".
I may not have 100% correct answers here but I´m pretty sure about THESE notes. Some notes and singers are very hard to tell though (e.g. Tim Owens, Steven Tyler, Brian Johnson, "painkiller" voices used in speed metal etc.). While the difference between strong mixed voice and weak falsetto is obvious it´s much harder to differentiate between weak mixed voice and strong/raspy falsetto. So, how does one go about? I use these criterias: 1/ does it sound very different from the singer´s normal voice? 2/ is the note way beyond the singer´s singing range? 3/ Does it have an airy/unconnected/ethereal sound?.
Here are some (the list is a non-exhaustive example!) famous singers who many people think use falsetto on the high notes but they don´t:
William Matteuzzi, Russell Oberlin, Rob Halford, Geoff Tate, Michael Matijevic, Mark Slaughter, Jim Gillette, Freddy Curci, Bobby Kimball, Robert Plant.
And here are some singers who use falsetto on the high notes (but in some cases not always):
Ian Gillan (only one exception recorded, the hey, hey HEY scream up to Ab5 at the end of Strange kind of woman from Made in Japan), Glenn Hughes (almost all high notes), David Byron (all high notes), Steve Perry (all extra high notes).
1. Dennis Deyoung demonstrates first mixed voice and then soft falsetto, both notes are C#5 and the song is "Don´t let it end".
2. A bit harder to discern is the same principle executed by "natural" counter tenor Russel Oberlin.
3. Time now for opera tenors and the elusive high F (F5), first Pavarotti with a falsetto F5, from Credeasi misera from I Puritani.
4. Same passage but in weak mixed voice by William Matteuzzi.
5. Same note but with strong mixed voice by Matteuzzi, from opera La scala di seta.
6. Time now for counter tenors who purposely sings in falsetto to avoid strain and screaminess, first Aris Christofellis with a scale up to C6, from song "Il tenero momento".
7. Same note by metal singer Mark Boals, a bit more screamy and strained but in mixed voice!
8. Same note (he starts at B5 though) by modern pop counter tenor Vitas. This note is in falsetto but the strain is gone, song is Ulybnis.
9. Now we move into rock and metal: Steve Perry with a solid F5 at the end of the scale. Notice the smooth scale with no register breaks. Song is patiently live 1980 from Houston.
10. Steve again but this time in falsetto, an ethereal passage of F5:s and a sustained A5 at the end.
11. Steve again, first singing in mixed voice and then utilising (weak) falsetto for the G#5:s, song is La do da.
12. The famous A5 from Number of the beast, first by Bruce Dickinson in falsetto and then...
13. by James Labrie in mixed voice (the note is a bit flat though).
14. Glenn Hughes does first a G5 in strong falsetto from Burn live in japan.
15. and then same note from "only women bleed" in mixed voice.
16. A weak but loooooong G5 in mixed voice by Freddy Curci, a live version of "kept me coming".
17. a very strong F#5 in falsetto by Ian Gillan from "strange kind of woman" from Made in Japan.
18. A strong mixed voice F#5 by Mark Boals from song "Fly".
19. A very chesty G5 by in mixed voice by Robert Plant from "Since I´ve been loving you".
20. A falsetto G5 (ending on A5) by Freddy Mercury, from "under pressure".
21. A A5 in weak mixed voice by freddy curci from "you remind me".
22. same note by Glenn Hughes in falsetto, from "from now on" live in japan.
23. A A5 in strong mixed voice by Mark Boals, from "far away from here" from the Genius Pt. 2 CD.
24. Steven Tyler singing in his trademark raspy falsetto voice G#5:s from "Back in the saddle".
25. Roberto Tiranti singing a long passage in falsetto. A single note falsetto doesn´t need to sound alien in regards to the other notes but a long passage like this one surely does!
26. At last, the great "Child in time" passage where Ian Gillan soars first to F5 and then all the way to A5, all in falsetto.
27. Mark Boals in the same passage (one semitone lower though) but in mixed voice, the difference is very clear I think but the drama and intensity of gillan´s falsetto wails is gone.
Enjoy and let the debate begin!
PS. See watch?v=SJDHd3ax8qY for Tony Harnell´s head voice take on the Child in time wails!
DS
(more)
(less)
Added: 6 months ago
Views: 35,677
This has been discussed a lot so I thought I´d make a video of it. There´s a break around
This has been discussed a lot so I thought I´d make a video of it. There´s a break around F4 in the male voice. The male speaking voice rarely goes over that pitch and if it does it sounds strange and funny. This break can however disappear with lots of vocal training (e.g. scales and dynamic shifts) and it is absolutely necessary for singing high. A key factor is to tighten the stomach and keeping the vocal chords zipped. The hardest melodys to sing are those who constantly jumps up and down this break. It is thus easier to sing high throughout a song than it is to sing both mid and high. Professional singers have no problem with this though. I´ve chosen here to focus on steve perry simply because of the wealth of material I have with him. There are of course other examples with other singers. Sometimes the falsetto transition is a mistake because of strain or it can also be on purpose to add colour to the note.
1. Beautiful example of singing through the passaggio by James Labrie, from "Metropolis part 1".
2. Another stellar example, this time by Toby Hitchcock from "Inside these memories" from the Genius part 3 CD.
3. AOR legend Steve Perry with a nice scale without breaks up to F5 (but it actually starts above the passaggio), from song "Patiently"(live 1980 Houston). This type of scale (glissando/portamento) is very common in hard rock and heavy metal. Singers with undeveloped HIGH head voices rarely uses scales for obvious reasons (e.g. Ian Gillan, Bruce Dickinson, Dio, Glenn Hughes etc.).
4. Perry again but this time with a transition into falsetto, from "do you recall". The note is a F5.
5. Perry with another scale and this time it sounds like a flip into falsetto at the end, an E5 from "dead or alive".
6. Perry with a passage from "homemade love", top note is A5. A clear case of transition into falsetto.
7. Lastly, another perry falsetto transition but this time in a beautiful setting, falsetto does not need to be a bad thing! From "Patiently"(live 1979 Comisky Park, Chicago).
(more)
(less)
Added: 6 months ago
Views: 7,927
|
So now it´s time to go down below. I don´t count vocal fry or growling, it should be real
So now it´s time to go down below. I don´t count vocal fry or growling, it should be real speaking/singing voice.
I start with the low C (C2) which every bass singer shoule have no problem with. Baritones can also reach it but the volume is not so impressive. Even some tenors can reach it (michael kiske, joe lynn turner, geoff tate) but that is rare.
1. a C2 by swedish folk singer fred åkerström, from the song "glimmande nymf".
2. a C2 by opera bass kurt moll, from Rosenkavalier.
3. an outstanding C2 from russian bass wiktor wichniakov, from the song "do not cast me off in the time of old age".
4. famous gospel bass JD sumner hitting an easy (for him) C2 in the elvis song way down.
5. JD begins climing down into the cellar, here´s a A1 from "where the roses never fade".
6. JD hitting a G1 from the same song.
7. russian bass, ivan rebroff, climbing down to a F1, song is "Im tiefen Keller", this could be a growled note though.
8. JD hitting a F1 from the song "give the world a smile".
9. JD humming his way down to an E1, from elvis song "I got a woman" live.
10. the famous C1 (almost, he misses the C1 and starts on a E1 instead, then he slides down to a whispered C1) by JD at the end of elvis song "way on down".
11. a better C1 by JD off the song "you´ll never walk alone".
12. tim storms humming/singing a C1 from song "amazin grace" live version with Rescue.
13. Tim touching a A0/Bb0 (bottom note on the piano!) in the beginning of this clip!! also from "amazing grace".
Enjoy!
(more)
(less)
Added: 10 months ago
Views: 127,173
So here´s a chance for us all to start threads about singers not yet featured in my videos
So here´s a chance for us all to start threads about singers not yet featured in my videos. This video is just a picture with no audio.
I´ll start some threads and then you can either start a new one or reply to one of the them.
Let´s start the discussions and bring forth the singers!
(more)
(less)
Added: 6 months ago
Views: 4,252
Geoff is a baritone with a very good head voice which can take him up the high note ladder
Geoff is a baritone with a very good head voice which can take him up the high note ladder. He also has a nice low extension which gives him some bass notes.
1st clip-three high E:s (E5) from "queen of the reich".
2nd clip-a high G from "roads to madness".
3rd clip-a high G#/A from "blinded".
4th clip-songspoken low C:s (C2)from "the hands".
5th clip-songspoken low C#:s from "tribe".
PS. see the video response for a A1 and a A5 by geoff!
DS
(more)
(less)
Added: 1 year ago
Views: 53,495
|
This is a clip of the males I know of who have hit the soprano high C without resorting to
This is a clip of the males I know of who have hit the soprano high C without resorting to falsetto. It is not pure chest voice either but rather a head voice where the resonance is at the top of the throat.
1. Mark Boals in the song "dealer from hell". 2. Ski (from deadly blessing) in the song "silent madness". 3. Mark Slaughter (live clip!) in the song "loaded gun". 4. Michael Sweet (also live!) in the song "in God we trust". 5. Michael Maniaci (male soprano who´s larynx never changed in puberty) from a BBC clip. 6. Aris Christofellis (male soprano who does the C6 in falsetto). Wrong picture of Aris though, a mistake.
Enjoy!
PSS. check out the following links for a guy belting out C6:s!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVQ9XNO7Qxs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DWBEEQatTc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EidvdTvIFMU
DSS
and this guy who also does the extra soprano C ending to cemetary gates, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9J8orNxaICc
NEW INFO: youtube user unflexablegrace has hit both D6, E6 and even a F6 in mixed voice. here are the links:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVkdfA9LE_w
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptVOL67hsrc
(more)
(less)
Added: 1 year ago
Views: 170,555
Here are clips of 4 ladies who have hit the soprano high C (C6) in full voice (no female h
Here are clips of 4 ladies who have hit the soprano high C (C6) in full voice (no female head voice or falsetto). 1. Patti Labelle with a C5-A5-C6 series, powerful. It was taken from a candid camera glass shattering episode here on youtube, that video has been removed unfortunately. 2. Monica Naranjo with a strong Bb5-C6 from her, bad girls/chicas malas, song. 3. Vanessa Amorosi in a live performance of, I am woman . 4. Anika Noni Rose in a live performance at the oscars with the dreamgirls. The 5th clip is labelle once again but this time with head voice for comparision, from a live version of, somewhere over the rainbow. 6th clip is opera soprano victoria de los angeles with a beautiful head voice B5 from the Jewel aria for comparision (I originally thought it to be a C6 but the comparision is still valid concerning the technique).
(more)
(less)
Added: 1 year ago
Views: 71,508
Here are 6 clips with Rob showing his almost 4 octave vocal range. 1st clip is the low spo
Here are 6 clips with Rob showing his almost 4 octave vocal range. 1st clip is the low spoken rap in the middle of Nightcrawler with a low D (D2) as the lowest note, clip 2 shows a low E (from Monsters of Rock from "ram it down" CD), clip 3 has him hitting a soprano B (B5) in his painkiller voice (don´t know for sure if it´s falsetto or not) song is "sad wings of destiny" from "live insurrection" CD, clip 4 is a soprano A (A5) from the ending of the song "ram it down", clip 5 is another A5 (live from 82/83, ridin´on the wind) and last is a great B4-F#5-B4-A5 cadence off savage.
Enjoy all U screamers out there!
(more)
(less)
Added: 1 year ago
Views: 125,630
|
