Eddie's Vocal Range

swans05swans05 Posts: 108
edited May 2012 in Musicians and Gearheads
Great, well set up videos...there's a bunch on the on various vocalists:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oLh7-qy ... plpp_video

Eddie Vedder's deep baritone voice is one of the biggest trademarks of the legendary rock group Pearl Jam. Vedder has showcased his unique vocal talents for many yers during his career.

Vedder has really wide range thanks to his really strong lower singing and great higher singing. Vedder usually gets pretty gritty and strained around 5th octave but he has some impressive moments where he actually hits really clean and easy notes.

1. 0:00 - Strong G2 from "Longs Nights".
2. 0:05 - Few G2s from "Just Breathe".
3. 0:11 - Great G2s from "Elderly Woman Behind the Counter in a Small Town".
4. 0:27 - Short G2 from "Love Boat Captain".
5. 0:32 - Good G2s from "Speed of Sound".
6. 0:43 - Lots of really strong F♯2s and one brief F2 from "Bu$hleaguer".
7. 0:56 - "Man of the Hour" with short E2.
8. 1:01 - Good E2 from "All Those Yesterdays".
9. 1:08 - Strong E2s from "Broken Heart".
10. 1:19 - Spoken passage from "I'm Open", Vedder bottoms around E♭2.
11. 1:51 - Weird low passages from "Dirty Drank" with lows bottoming around D2.
12. 2:27 - Somewhat quiet D2 from "Dead Man Walking".
13. 2:34 - Quick D2 from "Crazy Mary".
14. 2:39 - Low speaking from "Black, Red, Yellow" bottoming around C♯2.
15. 2:53 - Quick C♯2 from the ending of "All Night".
16. 2:57 - Really deep C♯2 from "Breakerfall".
17. 3:03 - Solid C2s from the backing vocals of "Arc", fantastic singing.
18. 3:28 - Solid C2 and whispered non-modal A1 from "I'm Still Here", Vedder has some really low speaking parts in this track.
19. 3:33 - Quick full B1 from "Dream a Little Dream", this track features some really good lower singing!
20. 3:40 - Another quick B1 and one fry A1 from "Dream a Little Dream".
21. 3:54 - Fry F♯1 from "I'm Still Here", this is the lowest note Vedder has showcased.
22. 4:00 - Vedder gliding up to quick A4 while sustaining the fantastic note for long time, the song is "Arc".
23. 4:21 - Quick but good A4 from "Yellow Ledbetter".
24. 4:31 - Fantastic A4s from "In Hiding".
25. 4:51 - Really good clean A4s from "Present Tense".
26. 5:15 - Gruff but emotional A4s from the live performance of "Black".
27. 5:36 - Intense A4s from "Jeremy".
28. 6:11 - Lots of great B♭4s from "Habit".
29. 6:32 - Powerful B♭4s from "Wash".
30. 6:53 - Fantastic B♭4s from the live version of "Arc".
31. 7:26 - Really powerful B♭4s from "Blood".
32. 7:48 - Amazing B4s from "Breakerfall".
33. 8:03 - Another fantastic B4, this time from "Brother".
33. 8:11 - Two powerful high Cs (C5s) and one non-modal E5 from the cover of The Beatles' "I've Got a Feeling".
34. 8:33 - Another sustained C5, this time from "I've Got a Feeling (Rough Mix)".
35. 8:41 - One C5 and few C♯5s from "Rival".
36. 8:56 - Powerful C♯5 and D5 from "Do the Evolution".
37. 9:09 - Full D5 layered in the vocal tracks of "Deep" (the other note glides up to non-modal G5).
38. 9:18 - Surprisingly clean D5 from "Dissident", impressive.
39. 9:25 - Vedder almost always skips the D5 from "Dissident" while singing live: in this live performance he goes up to it though and it sounds really good.
40. 9:34 - Gritty but really powerful D5s from the tribute cover of "Love Reign O'er Me" originally by The Who.
41. 10:01 - Slide up to E♭5 (and brief E5) from "I've Got a Feeling".
42. 10:09 - Slide up to Vedder's highest full voice note, E5, from "I've Got a Feeling (Rough Mix)".
43. 10:19 - Great falsetto notes topping at F5, the song is called "The Wolf".
44. 10:43 - Howled falsetto G♯5 from the intro of "Do the Evolution".
45. 10:52 - Vedder's highest note ever, falsetto G♯6, from the cover of "Daddy Could Swear, I Declare" made famous by Gladys Knight & The Pips.
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Comments

  • uninnocent-uninnocent- Posts: 5,959
    That's actually quite interesting to see.
  • Wow! Interesting is right! I am so happy that a fellow Canadian LOVES Eddie's voice as much as me.
  • rockpantsrockpants Posts: 838
    Thanks for posting! Awesome stuff. 8-)
  • rollingsrollings Posts: 7,124
    That IS an awesome video. Hope you don't mind if I post that video also on the porch...
  • swans05swans05 Posts: 108
    it's not mine so go right ahead
  • AlbertaGirl70_AlbertaGirl70_ Posts: 1,738
    Just listened to Black on the Edmonton 2011 boot,and he holds a note for longer than I can hold my breath :lol:(which he does alot when singing that song) but it got me thinking if anyone has any suggestions for other awesome examples from other songs?
    I will walk w/my hands bound
    I will walk w/my face blood
    I will walk w/my shadow flag

    Memories back when she was smooth and strong
    and waiting for the world to come along...

    Eddie solo Vegas Oct 31,Nov 1 2012
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