The Beatles Bible - Topic: Comparitive Vocal Ranges

gotagoodreason on Comparitive Vocal Ranges

Wed, 17 Oct 2012 17:47:05 +0100

The Walrus said

The highest note I can remember John hitting is "takes to fill the Albert Hall".

It's a high G but it's not very high (and sung in falsetto too ).
Actually, I may be wrong but I think John's peak throughout his career, as far as his vocal range is concerned, is the first two notes of the terrific intro to Mr. Moonlight.

annab93 on Comparitive Vocal Ranges

Tue, 18 Sep 2012 19:40:07 +0100

I think it's really interesting to look at. I'm no musical genius, but I definitely could tell that Paul, in my opinion, was the better singer, mainly for his huge range. I wish I knew more about the technicalities of it cause it seems very interesting!

Ben Ramon on Comparitive Vocal Ranges

Tue, 18 Sep 2012 12:16:50 +0100

Not quite. Singers with four octaves of full voice are very rare. Paul is only one tone away from four octaves though with a frankly insane A1-G5. John's range is still pretty impressive, maybe less impressive by the fact that his top notes were achieved by wild screaming rather than more controlled singing, but still a very decent three octaves and five notes (if you're talking semitones as "notes").

minime on Comparitive Vocal Ranges

Tue, 18 Sep 2012 11:01:45 +0100

Awesome,I really appreciate your efforts. I'm not really sure I undersand it totally, though. Does it mean John's vocal range was four octaves and two notes? If it does, I'm awed

Ben Ramon on Comparitive Vocal Ranges

Tue, 18 Sep 2012 05:00:02 +0100

Sorry to dig up this old thread but a B1 has been discovered by John, the spoken "yeah" in You Know My Name (Look Up The Number). If I find the time I may make a Lennon vocal range video to accompany the Macca one.

Ben Ramon on Comparitive Vocal Ranges

Tue, 03 Apr 2012 11:36:08 +0100

I know this is dredging up a relatively old thread but I do know quite a lot about this (because I'm a geek!)

Paul had the greatest range of the Beatles, a staggeringly enormous A1-G5 in full voice, and was totally comfortable with singing the higher tenor harmony which often went up to around the tenor high C (C5): here's a youtube video I made showcasing his range. See the video description to see what each note is and from which song.

John was a light baritone with pretty strong lows, who was out of his comfort ...

Paulrus on Comparitive Vocal Ranges

Tue, 04 Jan 2011 14:11:08 +0000

Oh, whoops. This is why I shouldn't give advice on these things.

jdenicholls on Comparitive Vocal Ranges

Tue, 04 Jan 2011 13:18:59 +0000

Paulrus said:

Middle C is C4, I think, so your lowest would be A4.

There seems to be a lot of confusion on the internet as to how Scientific Pitch Notation works. There is a good article on Wikipedia as to how it works: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.....h_notation but I will try and explain it for you how I understand it.

Middle C is usually designated as C4, although I've seen it written as C3 and C5 in some places, which is wrong. The High C an octave above Middle C is C5. The notes between C4 and C5 all ...

Paulrus on Comparitive Vocal Ranges

Mon, 03 Jan 2011 01:52:47 +0000

Middle C is C4, I think, so your lowest would be A4.

MotherNaturesDaughter on Comparitive Vocal Ranges

Mon, 03 Jan 2011 01:43:11 +0000

I'm sad to say I don't know my range in the terms you guys are using because I haven't had to learn stuff like that yet. But if I want my voice to sound good I can hit the second note on the bottom of the picture I'm putting on the bottom of this post (It's a B. But I'm not sure which one) as my highest and my lowest would be the A below middle C. (Which isn't on there.) So I have a pretty good range.

MeanMrsMustard on Comparitive Vocal Ranges

Thu, 30 Dec 2010 23:33:00 +0000

Paulrus said:

I have no idea what my range is. But you know, that's cos I don't sing.

That's where absolute pitch comes in handy.

Actually, it also comes in handy when you're doing an a cappella piece in choir and your conductor doesn't want to go to the piano.

Marcelo on Comparitive Vocal Ranges

Thu, 30 Dec 2010 21:19:17 +0000

The Walrus said:

The highest note I can remember John hitting is "takes to fill the Albert Hall". I've always internally compared him hitting that note to Freddie Mercury hitting "love me and leave me to die" in Bohemian Rhapsody, in terms of how hard it seemed to be for them.

John's highest and lowest notes in one song are in "Happiness is a Warm Gun".

mithveaen on Comparitive Vocal Ranges

Thu, 30 Dec 2010 20:43:48 +0000

LOL!! Thanks. Actually my sister's dogs have good taste if they like Beatles music. (Well after all Lucy was named after Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds song)

StarWisher on Comparitive Vocal Ranges

Thu, 30 Dec 2010 20:42:10 +0000

mithveaen said:

My voice is so awful that even the karaoke feedback says "Please put down that mic and shut the hell up"

Hell, one day I was singing a Beatle song and my sister's dogs started howling. I'm not kidding.

Ah, no, Mith! They heard how wonderfully you were singing, and just had to join in!

It was like the end of Hey Jude for them; you just can't help but join in!

That's what I'd be telling myself, at least.

mr. Sun king coming together on Comparitive Vocal Ranges

Thu, 30 Dec 2010 19:43:12 +0000

HUH