Bass Singers #1
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- Опубліковано 22 жов 2009
- Here's my first bass notes video! The highest note to be found in any of my bass videos will be the E2 (other than those notes included in slides down to notes E2 or lower), or the second E up from the bottom of the standard piano. Thanks to all who allowed me to use their video clips (credits will be in each clip to the person who allowed me to use the clip). There are a few clips that involve some sort of fry, subharmonics, or other extra-modal techniques to reach certain notes, and even some falsetto and whistle register in the first clip! Enjoy this video (and those to come in the future)! :)
1. Adam Lopez does a demonstration of his vocal range. He starts off with a D#2 and proceeds to go 6 octaves higher after that.
2. Josh Turner sings a few D2's in his song, Everything is fine.
3. Basso Profundo Giorgio Tadeo sings and sustains a very nice D2 with no close microphone!
4. Richard Sterban sings a C#2 in the song Jesus is coming soon. This is from their latest 2009 DVD release.
5. Tim Riley slides down to a sustained C2 at the end of Moving up to Gloryland.
6. TV celebrity (who I've heard had some opera training back in the day) Mike Rowe sings a C2 at the end of the Dirty Jobs theme song (I know if you watch the video it looks like Dave Barsky sings the low part at the end, but I read that Mike Rowe recorded all the voice parts himself, so it's really him singing the C2).
7. Now we leave the Great Octave and go into the Contra Octave, starting with a B1 by Josh Turner. The song is Firecracker.
8. Here's Richard Sterban with a very nice slide from A#2-A#1 from the song Where the soul never dies.
9. Aaron McCune, who recently left Gold City and will be missed, is heard here singing an A#1 at the end of Midnight Cry.
10. Here's Aaron again with a few quick but good A1's from the song Get up, Get Ready.
11. Joe Brown, former Bass singer from the Capstone Quartet, sings a few boomy A1's in the song I know what lies ahead.
12. Richard Sterban gets another low one during a very short low passage from I ain't never. He starts at an E2 and ends on an A1.
13. Larry Hooper, the well-known bass from the Lawrence Welk Show, sings an A1-B1-C#2-D2 at the end of Minnie the Mermaid. Very nice!
14. Tim Riley from Gold City hits a few A1's in another performance of Get up, Get Ready.
15. Here's Paul David Kennamer with a very boomy and powerful sustained G#1 at the end of It's almost over. I think this is actually great sounding fry instead of chest voice. See my annotation on this clip.
16. Josh Turner hits his lowest recorded note (so far) while singing King of the Road live with who I believe is Country legend Randy Travis. A very nice G1 at the beginning of the clip from Josh Turner is heard.
17. Aaron McCune sustains a G1 at the end of one of my favorite Gold City songs, For the sake of my heart, here heard being sung live.
18. This is a recent one. As a Gold City veteran, Tim Riley was called in to take Aaron's place after he left until they can find another bass. Always good to hear Tim Riley singing bass with them. Here, he sustains a powerful F#1 at the end of Under Control. New Tenor Chris Cooper is also heard here.
19. You don't think I would dedicate this video to JD Sumner and not have him in it, right? Here's JD with the Masters V in 1991, singing Just a little talk with Jesus. He slides down about 2 octaves at the end, bottoming out at an F1.
20. Here's JD again, this time with the Blackwood Brothers WAY back in the day. This is during the low part of Hide me rock of ages. JD gets all the way down to a sustained E1 here.
21. Paul David Kennamer hits a nice E1 and sustains it in the song Old Ship of Zion. Very nice E1!
22. JD is heard here singing a different version of Just a little talk with Jesus. He bottoms out at an E1 (might touch on D#1 at one point) and finishes the song off by quickly sliding down to a C2.
23. One more from JD. This time, he's with the Masters V from the same 1991 show as the first clip of him in this video. The song is I'm gonna keep on singing, at the end of which JD slides down to a D#1! Very nice!
24. Time for the last note of the Contra Octave! Mike Holcomb from the Inspirations Quartet sings his famous passage live in 1996 during the song Hide me rock of ages. The lowest note is a C1. It seems to be in fry, though. Mike finishes off the song with a nice long sustained C2.
25. One last clip. Here's World Record Holder Tim Storms with the Rescue Quartet, singing an F0(!!!) before quickly sliding up to a B0. Notice the throaty sound and the reduced amount of tone during the F0 and B0...seems to be some vocal fry here.
This is a good collection...
It came from a video uploaded by youtuber markcash...it's from 1996 when the Inspirations Quartet performed it live. Mike Holcomb does the C1 twice in this performance (though the second time it seems he goes into the vocal fry range).
Taddeo sings without a microphone in a large hall. He sings solo. In groups natural singing can go a little lower than that but not much. The problem is that unlike the top where the voice just suddenly stops (you can either sing a High C or you can't) the low voice trails off into inaudibility as it goes lower. Lots of people can make a sound below Low C but you can't hear them standing right next to them. The mic fixes that up. Especially a cardioid mic.
Great video man.
that midnight cry song was amazing!
@Agorante I know what you mean. However, one prominent bass singer that doesn't use vocal fry or any other tricks is Tim Riley of Gold City. I actually talked to him after a concert and he showed me a climb down from G2 to G1. I could still hear the tone loud and clear down to about Bb1 or A1. And he didn't have a microphone while he did that. I'm sure if there were no people talking in the room he could have gone down to F1 without a mic and I could have heard the tone clearly.
@daevilone87 (continued from last post) The bass guitar isn't frying the notes just because it requires amplification. Heck, in some cases these bass singers can be heard with no mics while singing with other people.
Sorry for the long response, haha, but I usually need a lot of room to explain what the difference between fry and full voice is and sounds like, and not only that by also why just because a note can't be projected without amplification doesn't make it vocal fry.
Btw, who was the group that was singing it's almost over?
The group is Valor. I've tried to reply to this question several times, and my post doesn't seem to be posted, lol. Sorry.
@look4hiram (continued from last post) The letters and # (sharp) or b (flat) symbols are the notes themselves. The number denotes which octave it belongs to. Just look at the little "chart" I put in the previous post. Hope this helps! :)
What was the song that Paul David Kennamer sang at 6.53?
Tim Storms part is just a joke.
@daevilone87 (continued from last post) Another couple things to remember are that pretty much all notes lower than around C2 or B1 will have an almost "broken up" quality to them even when they are sung in full voice. Even JD, who you see hear, who has a smooth voice that sounds like a bass guitar, will have a slightly broken up sound to his voice. And so will pianos and any other instrument that goes this low. It's because the frequency is extremely low. (continued in next post).
@GamingDrummer89 yes sorry about that i dont usually name the notes with the corrosponding octave number so he sings to B1
Hey Matt, do you have access to studio recordings of e.g. Gold City while Aaron was their bass?
Several bass singer clips have vanished from youtube... I'm sad.
Hello everyone, I recently had my voice tested and was told I'm a bass, so I'm trying to learn more about this sort of music. Could anyone recomend some good songs for a beginner to try learning?
7:10 why did you cut out the "get on board" part from PDK's Old Ship of Zion?
He's the bass singer from the group "Valor"...don't know if they're still performing or not, though. Just check out biglhot75's video called ****WORLDS LOWEST BASS SINGER****. There's a bunch of clips in that video, including his C0-C1 slide!
Could you (uploader) possibly tell me the song that Paul David Kennamer sings, and also if there's a way to get some of his material. Thnaks :)
@BenBistro004 The names of the songs are in the info of this video. As for the songs themselves, you can hear samples of all of them on valor's website (google "Valor Music" and then when you get to the site, click the "music" link. I can't seem to post direct links in youtube comments, sorry about this!). I don't know if he's still with Valor, though, or if Valor even is together anymore. Try google searching his name and you might find some recent info about him. Hope this helps.
at 9:24 I can hear the individual pulses 20 times a second F0, the AP Tuner on my comp says its a C2 note.
@daevilone87 (continued from last post) And secondly, not only do low frequencies sound broken up because you can hear the individual vibrations, but it also requires a LOT more power to get these notes to have significant volume. This is another thing Tim Riley told me. He said that the lower the frequency, the more air it takes to push out. You can hear an electric guitar decently without an amp, but not with an electric bass. Why? Because it's LOW. (continued in next post)
@look4hiram Here are the names and numbers of the octaves on a piano as well as their respective notes:
Triple Low (Subcontra, 0): First two notes on the low side of the piano, A and B
Double Low (Contra, 1): Lowest C on the piano up to the next B.
Low (Great, 2): Second C on the piano up to the next B.
Small, 3: Third C on the piano up to the next B.
One-line, 4: Middle C up to the next B
And so on for Two-line (5), Three-line (6), Four-line (7), and Five line (8).
richard sterban definately wins
Mike Holcomb was awesome on that song! Which recording did that come from?
Please give me more info on Paul David Kennamer. I have never come across that name before, and he really does have a good bass!
Have you checked out Nic Val? That guy is never in any of these montages but absolutely should be! He has a mega 4 1/2 octave range and he has at least 2 videos on his channel that show him sustaining a B0 in full chest. Absolutely worth looking at, just type his name in and it comes up.
Lanky not chest he uses a mix of fry and growl
Lanky sumner got G0 in full chest though
Just listened to him...Tim Riley and George Younce are still the best overall if you ask me, but I'm very impressed...He sounds like he's hitting a B0 in one of your videos (and in mixed/full voice, too!). J.D. Sumner and Paul David Kennamer are still the only 2 I know for sure can go below the piano in full voice, but a B0 is close. I'm gonna have to include a few clips for Nic in my next bass video!
@GamingDrummer89 Thanks for your help :)
Bases can sing pretty low but how high can they sing?
Depending on the singer, Jd could go a semi time above middle C in chest and up to an A4 in head/falsetto
Ayee my dad made the list!!
Just saw this comment 3 years after the fact when I was looking through some old ones...I've made some more videos since this one and he's featured in a few clips in the newest one. Check it out!
@GamingDrummer89 I don't object to vocal fry or anything else if it supports the music. Some singers can slip in and out of fry just as tenors can slip in and out of falsetto. It can be terrible if done poorly (think Tiny Tim or Slim Whitman). You might want to check out "Fra l'Ombre e Gl'orrori" maybe the lowest opera aria (also one of the highest). However most of the singers are in fact very light bass-baritones so as to manage the high notes.
@panda123456789ed Yup, that's the amazing grace video. He touches on the A0 and then jumps right up to a C1.
I actually looked up who did the vocals, and Mike Rowe actually did them all himself...it was funny how Dave Barsky lip synced to it, though...I was cracking up the first time I heard the song on tv, lol!
@daevilone87 Actually it doesn't depend on volume whether or not it is fry. Vocal fry is basically vibrating your throat and it has very little if any tone. I can hear tone in most of these and it doesn't have the same "dry" quality as vocal fry.
I've been told that Tim Riley, who is in this video, has sung as low as F1 without a microphone and can be heard at the other end of a decent sized room. And Tim himself told me once that he does not use vocal fry. (continued in next post).
@WTFisJamieUp2 I think you mean a B1. Since each octave starts at C, it'd be a B1. When you say you can sing a D2, you do mean the second D up from the bottom of the piano, right? If so, your friend would be going to a B1.
TIM STORMS AND MIKE HOLCOMB YOU MUTANTS!!! Those are so scary.
@BenBistro004 It's a B1.. A B1 is the second B on the low side of the piano (the second on up from the bottom), and that's what his note seems to be. When you say B2, do you mean the second B up from the bottom of the piano or the third one? It's definitely not the third B, which is a B2. You might be using a different notation, but either way Josh's note there is the second B on the piano. Try playing the note on the piano and then listen to Josh sing it and you'll hear it.
I know this is about true Bass singers but I really liked that high Tenor note @ 2:33.
@MrEvillarry And some people will likely get mad or offended because of what I'm about to say, but I will admit to not being a huge fan of Mike Holcomb's lower range. Tim Riley, London Parris, Richard Sterban, Big Chief Wetherington, Aaron McCune, Eric Bennett, George Younce, and many others have mostly clear tone when they get really low.
But to me, Mike Holcomb's lower notes almost sound like a bass guitar with too much distortion effects on it. So I somewhat agree with you on him.
What would you consider low for a 15 year old?
Thumper depending on the voice, maybe if your a bass then bout Bb1-G1
@IchBinSchtiffy In full voice? If so that's a major gift. I know Tim Riley told me he could do a low C at age 14 so you must have a deep voice.
if i can proove to you that i am deeper than jd sumner what would you do?
Oh wow that's great, what do you want now ? A cake ? A party ? No one cares how low you can sing
I'm not a singer, but I'm a drummer, so I can relate to you as a fellow musician. I've come to learn that practicing techniques is even more important (though not as fun) as practicing songs. You might want to do a search on google about training your voice, and then maybe private message one of the many bass singers here on youtube. As far as songs I'm not too sure, lol. But I'm sure someone here on youtube could point you in the right direction.
There's a bass-singing forum if you want to create & get involved in some discussions: thats-me.net/bass-singing/
@WTFisJamieUp2 Yeah it is low. Usually a bass in a choir is the equivalent of a baritone in a quartet (Since you are at a D2, you are probably lower than the average high school student), and a tenor in a choir is the equivalent of a lead in a quartet.
dude i'm 14 and i can go just as low if not lower but i cant sing worth crap awsome
i was wondering why it sounded like him! anyways its my favorite theme song. second would be mythbusters haha
UA-camr thebassmanadam has clips of JD Sumner's highest and lowest, and they seem to be G0 on the low end and C4 on the high end (just over 3 octaves). Both of these extremes might be mixed voice as they don't sound as strong as his mid to low range. A less experienced bass might have more like 2 or 2.5 octaves. With falsetto they can go really high, though for the most part this seems to be used for comedy, haha!
@bottomfeeder73 Yeah, pretty much anything lower than about Eb1 is vocal fry (aka fake) for Tim Storms. JD Sumner could sing Eb1's way better than Tim Storms. I used to think Tim Storms was awesome until I found out how to tell vocal fry apart from real bass singing. Now he's just kinda good in my book. I'd rather hear a nice full voice G1 than that F0 any day. Lol, I pretty much put Tim Storms in here just to have a note below the piano.
Mike Rowe!? Didn't know he had a voice like that!
Really? I actually read about the song and I read that Mike Rowe did the vocals...never said anything about Dave Barsky. But I'm not shutting out what you said. Where did you hear or read it was Dave? If you give me a source, I'll put an annotation in to correct it and I'll acknowledge that you were the one who gave me the correct info. :)
over J.D.?
Mike Rowe.
I lol'd
why the hell can i hit b1?
Only thing I can think of is that he had to conserve as much air as possible on the lower notes...those high notes must take a heck of a lot of air and lung power to belt out. Also, I don't think that first note was even close to vocal fry (unless you mean that it was likely getting close to the bottom of his chest voice range, then you'd be right).
@MrEvillarry Richard is indeed a great bass singer. He sounds great down to at least a G1, and his C2s are hard to beat.
But I'd hardly say J.D. sounds bad when he's really low. I will admit his voice gets somewhat muddy when he gets that low but he still has plenty of tone in his voice.
My personal top 3 favorites (with Richard Sterban as my 4th favorite) are Tim Riley, London Parris, and "Big Chief". You can see some of London and Big Chief in my other 2 bass videos.
there is no such thing as a note below about 20hz because then, the ear perceives sounds as individual beats. I.e a 20Hz or approximately a F0 would be a higher note, in the 2nd octaves, abouut 20 times a second.
what about Paul David Kennamer's C0)
+Dk Davis I believe Kennamer is using some kind of fry or subharmonics technique to reach that note. I think the same thing about the Ab1 he does here. Back when I made this my ears weren't as discerning about different forms of fry and overtone singing. I wrongly thought that if a note had tone that it automatically made it chest voice. Glad I learned differently in recent times.
+Matt W Actually he doesn't hit it, it's just a heavily fried C1.
WLord 1310
Really? I don't know, it sounds to me like he really got it. Frying, at least in certain ways, seems like it's more about slowing down the flow of air as compared to lowering the voice down like you'd do in chest register. So couldn't PDK have just slowed the flow of air down to half the speed of the C1, which would technically make it a C0? Not saying you're wrong or anything, but couldn't he be doing it like I described here?
Matt W The C0 everyone hears only lasts about 0.5 seconds before going an octave higher. Maybe it sounds more airy in other sound equipments so it seems the frequency is twice as slow.
The same thing happens in "Lead me to the Rock", he seems to hit a D0 but it's just a badly controlled fry that starts weak for a second before the real note (D1) is hit properly.
With that in mind, his lowest REAL note ever is a G#0 (in the same song that you put in your video), which was a good chest-fry mix in both occasions.
pd: sorry bc of bad english.
WLord 1310
Oh yeah, I knew he went up to C1 after a short C0. You can hear the frequency speed WAY up on the word "display" in that song.
Storms isn't the only one using vocal fry in this video lol
+Teun Buwalda Lol I need to update the part of the info where it says there isn't fry (the part in all caps). It actually says in the clip descriptions and some of the annotations that I added that other clips are indeed examples of fry or some other non-chest techniques. Don't know why I missed that first part.
You made an error. Josh Turner's "B1", is actually a B2.
FTW dave barski at 1:40!
Why is everyone always 14?
Anyway, im 14 too, and I can go as low as C2 and then up to G4 in chest. I think thats good :)
That’s my exact range and I’m 14 too(ur now like 22 or something 😂) I had nodules in 6th grade and maybe if I didn’t have them once then I would have a better range
I'm a low tenor singer myself.
My lowest possible note is like a G2 xD
@bubes00 I have been told that Sarah Vaughn could sing a C2(!!!!), but I've never actually heard her do it. I heard her sing a G2 before though, which is insanely low for a woman. She did smoke all her life though, so that might have aided her in getting low.
How Great Thou Art by valor....paul kenemmer hit a triple low C
sounds like an engine
It's one thing to hit those ultra low notes, but it's another to sound good doing it. When these guys hit the really low notes they sound like shit. That's why Richard Sterben is, in MHO, THE best. He sounds awesome even when pushing his vocal chords. JD may be slightly lower but you can almost hear his voice telling him to "fuck off, this hurts."
Sorry but a lot of that is fry in my book...
If they can sing it without a mic and still be heard from the other side of the hall then that's different. just most of them can't.
I sing bass myself, I bottom out in full voice at about C2, sometimes a little lower. However I can make 'noises' that basically go to the end of a piano. Singing they are not though. However I can make it sound like a lot of the latter half here. Not as good but then I don't bother practicing it....
@GamingDrummer89 yea and then my friend shames me by getting down to B2
How come these are mostly all old white guys singing gospel? nyone know where I can find some other types of music to practice my low register to?
Richard Collins check out The Fairfeild Four! Btw my dad is Aaron McCune on this video.
where is neil fallon? listen burning beards, at 2:00
"the highest note in my bass videos will be E2"
I am probably a bass and this fucking ruined my dream.
I can hit A1, but it doesn't sound good at all.
I just listened to him to and he's low but has very poor quality when he gets below about a G1/Ab1. And he is not the lowest bass singer on earth. Take into account PDK, Tim Storms, and J.D Sumner. He's not bad though.
Hard to beat JD
some of these are almost inaudible lol... LOW
Is it strange for a 14 yearold to be singing a G1? bc I can...
Josh Turner sounds like a burp. I don't think its a true low b.