Qestion about eddies range

moster78

enharmonic wrote:

At most, I heard him use 2.5. Perhaps he had a wider range than he recorded or performed with.

Maybe I misread or remembered it. Maybe it was Tim Buckley who had the greater range.

who's_pearljam?

Captain Beefheart!
Ok, most people never heard of him. I played guitar on a couple of tours for him in the 70's and he had about a 4 octave range.
You'd never think so, because his voice is so gravelly and deep, but he could do it warming up backstage with no microphone and no falsetto. It wasn't "pretty like a bird chirping" 4 octaves, but it was there!

Singing into a mike in rock is an advantage because you don't have to belt out as loud and hard as an opera singer, so you can control your voice better.

I'm a baritone, I guess, and I think I have a range of only about a half an octave unless I jump in a snowbank naked! THEN I can get a higher range but then there won't be any baritone till I'm warm again!

You know who has great range, too? Joni Mitchell, and Bjork. Both can really belt out low and high notes.

harrisonmerwin

jeff buckley has a nice head voice, and then his falsetto. but i don't think you should count it as a complete range because he's missing alot in between there. None the less, great musician

leethal

Jeff Buckley is a perfect example of why i wanted talk about this. He has an incredible range but like someone already said he uses a falsetto; an incredible one at that. I'm not sure what the highest note he can hit is without falsetto.

I still find it amazing though how high eddie can go without false. Also i notice that during certain songs (like of the girl) he sounds higher then what you would expect for such notes. (I'm not sure how to explain that one but hopefully you know what i mean)

It sounds like some of you guys might be able to sing. Good Stuff! I know I can hit a high G, anything higher and i need a falsetto which just sounds bad. I can't sing any pearl jam songs well i just don't the right voice (let alone the range). Most black keys songs i like singing though, and other more bluesy stuff.

Byrnzie

harrisonmerwin wrote:

jeff buckley has a nice head voice, and then his falsetto. but i don't think you should count it as a complete range because he's missing alot in between there. None the less, great musician

If you think Jeff Buckley has a nice voice then listen to his dads stuff.

Byrnzie

moster78 wrote:

Maybe I misread or remembered it. Maybe it was Tim Buckley who had the greater range.

Missed this post.

Answer: Yep!

Dirty Mosquito

enharmonic wrote:

I couldn't say it's good or bad because I don't know if you're going about it the right way. I can do it too, but not the right way, so that doesn't make it good because ultimately it leads to the kind of voices they both have today vs. what they had.

Yeah good point. I try really hard to sing from my gut and not my throat. I know when I am singing right when I can sing for hours without loosing my voice, but sometimes if I sing a song like Blood and don't do it correctly, my voice will be gone shortly after.

House53

vocal exercises will really help you expand your range. They help you learn proper technique, breath control, and dynamics. They also give your voice a workout and over time strengthen your voice and expand your range.

Singing in a band really helps you get all you can out of your voice... singing different songs and different styles your voice develops. It also helps you learn proper pitch and tonality.

JP2026766

Dirty Mosquito wrote:

The PJ song I struggle with most is Do The Evolution. I don't know why either, because it's not the highest or lowest tone song, I think it's just the key it's in. Some of the notes are hard for me to hit, but if I practice it alot or listen to it enough, it gets easier.

DTE is pretty tough to sing. I've sung in choirs nd stuff, I'm a baritone too. Eddie hits that low D in Dead Man, I can go to about a low E, and hit that A on In Hiding. Eddie has a surprisingly good range, considering smoking, drinking, etc. Evolution is definately hard on the chorus when he hits it really high. Long story short: Eddie's got rediculous range.

Dirty Mosquito

ThrowUrArmsAroundMe wrote:

DTE is pretty tough to sing. I've sung in choirs nd stuff, I'm a baritone too. Eddie hits that low D in Dead Man, I can go to about a low E, and hit that A on In Hiding. Eddie has a surprisingly good range, considering smoking, drinking, etc. Evolution is definately hard on the chorus when he hits it really high. Long story short: Eddie's got rediculous range.

Yes I must agree, I would have to say the best range in rock that I can think of is Chris Cornell.

digster

i'm curious...i've always had difficulty finding a good solid warm-up for voice. I never learned the proper technique of doing so, nor did I ever learn how to tell if I was doing it right. It's great to hear that you can expand your range by practice and warming up correctly, so what do people here use? Is there a standard warm-up that everyone seems to follow, and moreover, how do you know if you're doing it correctly? thanks.

capybaralet

Eddie goes higher than the A in "In Hidding"

"Dissident"

towards the end, the part which he now tends to speak, for good reasons:

"Escape is never the safest place" the beginning of the word safe is a high D. I'm not sure if that's in his head voice or not, but it is certainly not falsetto. I think he has more in falsetto, also, I know OCeans is an example of this, and there's a couple other good examples, I think.....

tara

Dirty Mosquito wrote:

I am not a great singer, but I have a lot of potential.. I swear if I just quite smoking and practiced more...id be so much better.

dude, you've got to not care as much, you've got to find your own style, so many fantastic rock singers had the smallest range (and don't ask me for an example right now...), it was just that they had their own style. ed's got a beautiful voice, he hits most of the notes, and it's got this fantastic resonance and passion (etc etc, we all know this), but then think of someone like cobain (sorry that i'm being obvious, but i was listening to bleach today...), didn't have a 'good voice', don't ask him for a scale or somethign, but he had this passion and anger, and just screamed every note, and that made him a good singer, just find your own style...