Singers With the Widest Vocal Ranges (5+ Octaves!)
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- Опубліковано 27 сер 2022
- I saw Matthew Dockray's video on bass singers' vocal ranges and thought I should do one of my own but with singers of any voice type (and any with over 5 octaves).
I tried to include only notes that I thought were countable, but what is considered “countable” is debatable. Feel free to ask any questions about why I did/didn’t include a particular note.
Quite a few familiar faces here - Thanks for featuring the boys, Matteo!
You’re welcome! Thanks for watching!
😍
“Thanks for featuring the boys”
Bobby: *sad bass noises*
@@daniellepg Is Bobby the only one who doesn’t use whistle voice among The Bass Gang? I think he has an ability for 5+ octaves vocal range too.
And girls
5:47 OMG!!! Thank you Sooo much for including Me!!! The video is super intereting!!!!
You’re welcome!
Your lower range is off the piano sir
@@kkchnnl821 😅
One of my biggest influences is Mike Patton from a variety of bands and musical projects such as Faith No More, Mr Bungle, Tomahawk, Fantomas, Dead Cross and others. He is said to have a 6-octave vocal range which he is said to have the widest vocal range of most well-known singers in America. His complete range is said to be a D1 - F#7 (6 octaves, 4 seminotes)
Most of these people were just sitting in their homes singing probably just for fun, while Dimash, Mariah and others are actually performing live and they are not just singing, they're moving, dancing, they should stay focused not only on their vocals, but on their stage presence as well. I wouldn't even call most of the people in the video "singers" because what are they even singing? Just hitting the notes isn't singing. No melody, no performance, no feels, no words, not even a song, just notes. And woah - instantly record. I would not be surprised If Dimash's vocal range is actually wider, but he hasn't shown it yet, we'll see in the future. But what I'm trying to say is when you are on stage you are being nervous, you should be concentrated on what you're doing, It's not the same as staying in home hitting ultra notes. No hate towards the creator of the video, you did a good job, I just wanted to point out some differences
He actually got way lower than in Stranger. He easily got those full fry bass notes which many on the video performed. He’s quite achieved something around 8 to 9 octaves.
its vocal range not how good of a vocalist they are lol, it doesn't matter whether its live or not.
@@youtube.4fun its not possible to get 8/9 octaves lol, dimash at best has 6 octaves, and fry doesnt count
So excited!!
Now do one with only actual singing sections not snippets of people trying to make a deep or high noise. Just because you can growl down low doesn't make that part of your voice useable.
Thank you so much for including me! :D
Great video!
You’re welcome! Glad you enjoyed it!
That D6 will be dope :)
@@manavsharma869 MMHMMM🤝🤝🤝
Not actually concerned about the authenticity of the recording, it’s just interesting to see the limits of the human voice, it seems like anything outside of a 3 - 4 octave vocal range is really a novelty.
This kind of thing is so subjective! I have "hit" a B-3 (around 4 hz) in pure fry, but I only include my lowest first subharmonic (C1) in my real vocal range. Also, I've squeaked up to an A7 but only count my falsetto/whistle register F#6 in my range. My point is that I could say I have 10 octaves or only 5.5, it's really kind of subjective.
Yeah, definitely.
What a cool video! I’m sure there’ll be a lot of people complaining about wether certain notes are countable and such but I guess that’s always the case with these types of videos…
Thank you so much for including me bro! It really means a lot!
Btw. Where did you get Casper’s D6 from?
You’re welcome! Casper sent me the D6 personally.
thanks for the love matteo!
You’re welcome!
Dimash hits lower notes, but I guess the videos have copyright. He hit an F#1 as far as I remember, in a song called "drunken concubine". I can't remember of him hitting lower than that.
I’ve seen a C#0 but I don’t remember exactly, not sure if it was in that 3 parts show in Kazakhstan.
Huge difference between singing and just making growling or some sound.
David Kahn's E6 is very beautiful!
2:30
Well applied vibrato.
thanks larissa😁
I have the same range as the guy at 2:00.
Cool vid! 🤘🤘
Thank you!
Dimash G0-D8 7,7octaves
I’ve seen him hitting C#0.
Hey Matteo,
A little bit ago I posted a bunch of videos of me chesting some super low notes while I was sick, down to ~C#1, but I have come to announce that I have broken my chest record again this morning. I don't have a recording of it, but I hit an Ab0 with zero fry whatsoever. I'm not sure which demon possessed me to do such a thing. What's even stranger is that I can't even use subharmonics to get below that, modal or otherwise.
So I guess my "official" range is Ab0 to F5.
Hi, I have a hard time believing that you have a G#0 in full chest, but if you actually hit it, that's quite impressive! What is the lowest note you have a recording of this morning?
@@BassManMatteo
I didn’t think to record anything this morning, but that C#1 is on my profile
Hell, I have a hard time believing it myself! I barely hit it, and I may have strained my voice a bit in that moment, as I’ve only been able to hit ~G1 throughout the day.
Also, I wouldn’t quite say I “have” a G#0, bc I’ve never even touched the 0th octave before this without weird techniques 😅
@@EveryWayWorks Still nice! I was wondering, would you be interested in collaborating on a bass project together at some point?
I would love that!
@@EveryWayWorks Because I can't get notifications for UA-cam, I'll start a discord chat
how are you getting people with -octaves? the human ear can only pick up as low as 20hertz and that equates to around an E0?
While the human ear can only hear down to a 20 hertz sine wave, the human voice is not a sine wave so the 20 hertz rule does not apply. You aren’t hearing the fundamental frequency of the note, but you can hear the overtones produced by the voice.
and how can you tell from the overtones how low the fundamental frequency?
I know very little about music or sound enginearing@@BassManMatteo
@@windbringer9890 I use an audio editing program called Audacity
There is 2 other female singers you could add to this mix. Nina Hagen and Vanessa Caran, both at leats have more than 5 octaves if you want to check them :)
Thanks!
This video does not capture Geoff's full range, he could definitely go higher and can definitely go lower using subharmonics. If he can hit an f1 in chest, he can for sure hit an f0 in subharmonics
There are no clips of him hitting any lower or higher notes, so I could not include them.
He does not hit F1 with that easy.
Easy, my friend.
Nice！！
Thank you!
Queen Mariah
Axel rose has more range by far
First of all, some of the singers you listed really surprised me as I didn't know they had that range such as: Kayamar, Casper Fox, Marwan Ayman, Peter Barber, David Kahn, Joy Chapman, Ciaran Jordan, Casey Moo, Alexander Rts , Adam Kraft, Krispy DeRato whom I already knew but hadn't heard her reach that G#0 😱, yours is a very good range by the way 😯
Others are correct like: Piet Arion and Adam Lopez who by the way has a Guinness record that supports it.
But others are wrong such as: Geoff Castelucci whose highest grade is correct is A5 but her lowest grade is a C#0, Mariah Carey her lowest grade is G#2 and her highest G#7 and I'm not saying it, I'm saying its Guinness record that it holds, Georgia Brown goes from G2 to G10 and neither am I saying it, but rather its Guinness record that it still has an entire range of 8 octaves, Tomi Pizur from F0 (correct) but it goes as far as the G#6, Dimash, one of the ones you have made the worst mistake with, goes from G0 to D8 exceeding 7 Octaves, Nicola Sedda from C1 to A9 exceeds 8 Octaves...
Thank you! All the ranges that you have listed as higher I didn’t include because of either
1) No proof of them hitting the note (Georgia Brown)
2) Note might not be real, could be pitch shifted (Nicola Sedda)
3) Note is of poor quality or non-musical (the rest you mentioned)
A lot of notes in category 3 are debatable, and could be either included or not included, depending on how strict of a definition of “vocal range” you want. This was just based on my opinion of what should count, there are various opinions.
Thank you for watching!
@@BassManMatteo there is very much so proof of georgia brown hitting the note.
@@z01nk3r5 no video to include
@@BassManMatteo 1) There are no records of the G10 from Georgia because the G10 is a note that exceeds the human hearing range, however this note is certified by the Guinness World Records...
2) Nicola Sedda with telling you that he even has a concion with a frequency of the human voice, that is to say his voice... that reaches up to an F10 the curious thing is that the spectrometer detects the frequency when only absolute silence is heard this because the same as the F10 It already escapes the human hearing range, I was even reading comments on that video and one of Sedda's close friends commented that it is capable of reaching the eighth 11th, I comment all this because I really don't know if it's true or not, but in his song The call, emits the following notes: Bb8, D9 and A9 which if you can appreciate, in the video the making of nicotomia (which is where you got the fragment you used in your video) at minute 3.2 emits a C1 ...
3) In the same way, what you say about some notes not being musical is correct but at the same time incorrect, let me explain😅: You say that you did not include the notes of some because they are not musical (although you put many examples like that) however The vocal range should not necessarily be sung, it is only about frequencies, the note that the person is capable of emitting from its lowest frequency to the highest frequency, this is how the vocal range works...
But in truth I say all this to share what I know and I know my job is not to fight or do that kind of thing the truth is that I admire your work and what you do and thanks to you I have known incredible basses that I had never heard before so I thank you very much...
Dimash has never sung below C2.
The lowest note I've ever hit was e1 (I reached subharmony somehow I'm a rock tenor singer so idk how to do that whenever I want lol) and the highest was f6 after a warmup (casually I can reach c6) so my max range is 5 octaves.
2:20, 6:04 and 3:38 what's the song titles? what's the youtube title of these videos?
Dimash has used growl notes down to F#1, so his range would actually be 6 Octaves +8 semitones.
They're non-melodic and not worth counting in my opinion.
@@BassManMatteo tbf, a lot of clips in this video are also “non-melodic”
@@WeAlwaysPlay Geoff seems to have more control over it imo. To be honest, a lot of this can be very subjective as to what notes are seen as countable. There is no one correct answer for what notes in someone’s range should count as actual range since everyone has different standards.
@@BassManMatteoAgreed
Dimash had a E1 growl on a live performance of "Our Love" i think
Non-melodic.
@@Ascension721 okay
Dimash real lowest note is G0
@@FPEFUNDEM55 just now?
The world record is Tim Storms with a 10 octave range.
I can safely say I can hit Bb1 - A6 . How much octaves and semitones is that . I onced hit C7 but never been able to hit it again. I should work on my lower notes more
Four octaves 11 semitones to one semitone of the 5 octaves counting the C7 would be 5.2 octaves
0:35 As a bass, seeing THAT in printed music would make my have nightmares! A octave lower than the famous Bb's in Mahler's 2nd and 8th symphonies.......
To me its funny because of how ridiculous it looks.
What about Tim storms? I wonder why he is not part of this compilation :)
Because at the time of the video he didn’t have 5 octaves on tape. He does now, but his lowest note isn’t very countable.
I got really confused when my face showed up at Jordan’s part hahahahah
Axl rose: you can have anything you want but you better not take it from me
Nice
Thank you!
If you use white text you really need to give it a drop shadow or something...
if you counted geoff's A0 growl, why not tim's C0 fry, geoff's C#0 fry and dimansh's F#1 growl?
also tim storms needs his own video XD
Some of the lows sound like Barney belch, my bro hits those all the time.
How do you calculate notes using Audacity?
Use either spectrogram or plot spectrum, or for fry notes you can calculate the distance between clicks and use some math to find the pitch.
I feel that Adam Craft had the best control of getting to that lowest note. That was impressive.
Axl rose : well done kids xD
Where’s *@Tim Waurick?* He has a video where he sings all 88 notes of a standard 🎹 piano.
The top notes arent real sadly. Hes got a crazy range though still.
@@Ascension721 Why do you think the top notes aren't real?
Mariah Carey highest note is F#8, and her highest note in a good quality is G#7 or Bb7
dimash 7,7 octavas de un B0 a un D8
Can someone explain the difference between some of these low voices and just doing this:
ua-cam.com/video/2_ZbBQQ-vps/v-deo.html
where did you find casper g#0 clip
On the Bass Singing Nation discord server
Then there's Tim Waurick singing 9 octaves
Here for Mariah
little disappointed that vitas not included.
Oops, sorry if I missed anyone.
His highest notes are pitch shifted, so it would be a bit dumb to include. Without his pitch shifted notes his range is only around (for this videos standards its only) 4 octave i think
@@Ascension721 u mean Vitas????
@@Ascension721 How do u even come to this ridiculous conclusion?
I know his notes are debated, but I’ve never seen any evidence that he doesn’t actually sing those notes. I’m willing to accept that he doesn’t always do them live, but I’d need some proof that his recordings aren’t legit
Some honorable mentions:
Tim Foust: A0 - A5
Caleb Hyles: C2 - B5
Johnathan Young: C1 - A5
David Larson: F0 - D5
Brendon Urie: D2 - C7
Freddie Mercury: F2 - F6
Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong on any of these
Tim Foust has B0-A5, the A0 was confirmed to not be real by Tim Foust and he said his lowest was in fishin in the dark.
I believe Tim Storms has the widest range, but i could be wrong. I know he's the lowest singing voice by quite a lot and he can sing very high as well. He has 10 octaves, so he's definitely in the top 3 if not at the top.
The most he’s shown on tape is just under 5 octaves, so I couldn’t include it in the video.
@@BassManMatteo fair enough
Kago Ai
Lowest note:C3
Manly voice
Highest note:E7
Dolphin scream
Vocal range:4 octaves,4 semitones
Not sure if anyone else mentioned him but Tim Waurick has a video singing 9 octaves and also has a world record from what I understand.
A lot of those notes do not sound real to my ears.
@@BassManMatteo They really are though. If you look into him more you will see. He’s an absolute beast vocalist. Can also hold a note for almost a full minute.
David khan bruh😭💕
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It's just me or almost EVERY SINGLE note in octave 0 is actually octave 1???
I know this was probably before but Tomi P has a C#0 in wayfairing stranger and Dimash has hit a G0 growl
I have heard that Dimash has supposedly reached G0 but I am not sure if it is that note but he has reached an F#1
Mitch Grassi? (A1-B7)
I wouldn’t count either of those as musical notes.
@@BassManMatteo I understand not counting the B7, but the A1 was a solid growl, and if not counting the whiteboard squeak impression B7, it would be A1-F7. I guess different opinions though
You forgot Tim Foust from Home Free!
Nicola have melodic F#10, A9, F#9, D9...
This is important , but without songs , true emotion , specific color , texture - mean whole package -singer is average or unworthy .
Yeah, definitely. Just having a wide range doesn’t mean you’re a good singer. This video was just made for fun to show people the limits of the human voice.
True octave range is without falsettos which is usually 3 octaves.
If you want to see ranges with just chest voice, check out this video. ua-cam.com/video/ZS52GLi3ldM/v-deo.html
😂😂😂 dumb comment
0:43 Train
There is a diffrence between lowest and highest possible note, and notes that are controlled and tonally plesent enough to be used in a musical comtext.
Not all the people on this video, but a couple.
Just cause they can hit the note dosent mean it sounds good.
Definitely.
I think I’ve seen claims that both Tomi and Dimash are recorded at over 6.5 now. D0???? 😮 Congrats on 7 octaves! DANG!
Mariah can hit f#8
And dimash can sing Gb1 in vocal fry
And jeoff can sing c0
And what about morissette amon? She can go from g2 to d8
And prince can sing from g#1 all the way to g7
And Tim storms got 10 octaves range and he's live notes go from b-2 to a4
ua-cam.com/video/lGFWT7WLIto/v-deo.html
Live g10 that only Georgia brown can hit so it has to be her singing
And Justin stoney can sing fry notes in the first octave and whistle notes in the 7th octave
ua-cam.com/video/52WYVvCR9Ac/v-deo.html
Nicola sedda can sing d1 and a9
Mariah low note is F2 and high Bb7.
Sorry if I missed/couldn’t find any notes. This video is certainly not perfect and what notes are countable is subject to debate.
My vocal range is A2-C7 :3
That's great!
Very very impressive for a circus number !!! But real good singing is much more than making a noice on a pitch !!!
Why didn't u include Freddie Mercury? He's range was c2-e7 so 5 octaves and 4 semitones.
Me in Bb2 to G#6
Now A2 to G6
hate it when men fry and then force their whistle and say they have like a 7 octave range... like no-
the low vocal fry is definitely not part of a true range if they cannot sing in it with volume. watching them mashed up against the microphone making grudge girl noises in a low tone isn't true range. so i agree
Płot twist:Georgia's F8 is actually autotuned
Unfortunate
Mariah Carey's high note is C11
Straight up bullshit lol
I have never heard of these vocalists. Is there a list that people recognize?
A lot of these are not famous. I just included the singers I could find who had a 5 octave range. If I only included famous vocalists, the list would be smaller.
If you haven’t heard Dimash, look him up! Incredible!
Sorry but my lowest note is C-1 and my highest note is G10…
مره خطأ بالنسبة لديماش ، الان عنده اكثر في اغنيته The story of one sky من G0 الى ءD8 ف الفيديو حقك جدا خطأ، وفي فنانن هنا بدون غناء حاسبلهم النوت من كيفك هو؟!
D1 Lo más bajo de Di
I mean, for a lot of the multi trackers listed here, I believe they are manipulating pitch with melodyne.
I don’t think they are. I’ve heard a lot of them hit the notes live with a cell phone camera and no vocal effects. There are vocal effects and slight tuning being used, but nothing that changes a note by a full semitone or more. It’s mostly changing things by a few cents to make it more in tune.
@@BassManMatteo Of course, it is difficult to tell for sure for any audio released after 2000 or so. I just finished the video -- one guy towards the middle is even using Melodyne to analyze the recording he did. It is possible these are all real, but tough to be certain. On at least one of the clips you can hear the crappy auto tune used as his voice slurs down, because they had the program locked into a scale (which, yes, could have just been for intonation)
FWIW, Melodyne can convincingly shift pitch considerably, more than one octave, and if using the formant feature correctly you can "tune" the result to sound very natural. You don't have to reduce the vibrato or pitch inaccuracies when you do this either, so it sounds exactly as sung, just shifted. But just because it's possible doesn't mean it was used, like you say.
That's vocal fry, not even consider a note.
Mariah’s is wrong. She has 6 octaves from F2-F#8😊
And if you’re only counting musical then the highest would be Bb7 or C8(if you’re counting exclamations)
Geoff hit a Bb5 in voiceplay’s cover of peaches from the Mario movie. Also I think you should’ve included Tim storms. (G#-7 G#5, 12 octaves)
Haha voiceplay’s cover of peaches wasn’t out when this video was released.
@@BassManMatteo I know just a tip for any future videos
Axl Rose from guns n roses?
Sorry if I missed anyone.
@@BassManMatteo Axl rose has a wider range than Mariah Carey lol
@@Sc00T668yeah he has 6 octaves I think
david kahn hit a c8 lol
The high notes hit in the one livestream aren’t countable.
@@BassManMatteo ahh
*stay tuned* 😉
Piet arion notes are so beautiful
noo this is too low 5:21
Dimash have F1 In the new version of stranger
I'm sorry but Dimash does fry notes and makes growling sounds which isn't vocal range. His lowest chest note I've heard him hit is a G2 in that very same song.
@@drewconleymusic he has an E2 in his chest voice
@@drewconleymusic He had plenty of F2s and a chest fry C2 (F#1 fry i think)
@@drewconleymusic half of these one recorded lows are growls or just a sound. This list should be people that can consistently hit certain notes, not a one off and cant do again. Sliding down a scale to fry out isn't where you can push out those notes. Dimash, geoff, Tim and some others are consistent and can do it most of the time. A lot of these others cant repeat what is considered there lowest or highest
@@jukeboxknocks If that's your definition of what vocal range is, Dimash has a range of about F2 to D8. A very impressive range, but not this apparent holy grail of 7 octaves. Many people hail him as some sort of singing god and have told me and fought tooth and nail, thrown insults and belittlement at me to try convince me he's the greatest singer of all time when he really isn't. He sings in the vocal style of showing off which is what kind of ruins him as a singer for me.
geoff castelucci is goated though
Dimash has hit a G#0???
D1 aceptable
Whistle notes don't count in vocal range.