Which artist had the greatest vocal range - news article

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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.



http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/singer-best-vocal-range-uk-4323076

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".

Great reply, I've heard many say Freddie had a 4 octave range they ranked his voice close to Cheryl Tweedys range? Hilarious.
Cheers.



[QUOTE] [b]Oscar J wrote:[/b]

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".[/QUOTE]

Blimey. They need to sack their Journalist pronto. What a load of shit that was.

[QUOTE] [b]Oscar J wrote:[/b]

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".[/QUOTE]

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.

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. :)

[QUOTE] [b]Oscar J wrote:[/b]

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. :)[/QUOTE]

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.

"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.

[QUOTE] [b]Oscar J wrote:[/b]

"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. [/QUOTE]

I guess I'm listening to especially good tenors then.

[QUOTE] [b]Oscar J wrote:[/b]

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. [/QUOTE]

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...

...Cheryl fucking Tweedy?

Before people kill each other:
Voice type =/= vocal range.
Voice type helps to describe the sound. It has NOTHING to do with range.

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.
[url=http://libres.uncg.edu/ir/uncg/f/umi-uncg-1296.pdf]http://libres.uncg.edu/ir/uncg/f/umi-uncg-1296.pdf[/url]

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.

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!