FINNEAS (10,619 views)

[ama]

Finneas O’Connel
Vocal Range: E2 – F5
Summary: Finneas (stylised in all upercase, as FINNEAS) is a singer, songwriter, producer who first started his career as an actor in the series Glee. He wrote and produced songs with and for his sister, the singer Billie Eilish, and is even harmonising on some of the tracks they made, but he has established himself in modern pop music with his own songs. He has a significant sound and a distinctive voice, going from rich and sultry lows to piercing high notes. Finneas has released several songs between 2016 and 2019, before putting out an EP, Blood Harmony, and his voice kept getting better and better. If his high notes could sometimes sound scratchy in the beginning, he improved his technique and the highest notes are now well-executed, and sound warm and pleasant. While he was working on the beautiful falsetto that he now possesses, he never stopped delivering gorgeous low notes with a spectacular ease. The track Angel is to this day his most impressive song vocally, as it has some crazy high notes, including raspy and thrilling belts, as well as breathtaking low notes.

Significant High Notes:
F5 ("Angel", "Die Alone")
E5 ("College", "Die Alone", "I’m in Love Without You", "Life Moves On")
E♭5 ("New Girl", "Shelter")
D5 ("Angel", "Heaven", "Lost My Mind", "Partners in Crime")
C♯5 ("Another Year", "Heaven", "Where the Poison Is")
C5 ("I’m in Love Without You", "Let’s Fall in Love for the Night")
B4 ("American Cliché", "Break My Heart Again", "Can't Wait To Be Dead", "College", "I Lost a Friend", "Life Moves On", "New Girl", "Partners in Crime")
B♭4 ("Lost My Mind", "Shelter")
A4 ("Another Year", "College", "Heaven", "Landmine", "Let’s Fall in Love for the Night", "What They’ll Say About Us", "Where the Poison Is")
G♯4 ("I Don't Miss You at All", "Life Moves On", "Where the Poison Is")
G4 ("American Cliché", "Angel", "Die Alone", "Let’s Fall in Love for the Night", "Till Forever Falls Apart")
F♯4 ("American Cliché", "Can't Wait To Be Dead", "College", "Hollywood Forever", "I Lost a Friend", "Luck Pusher", "Shelter")

Significant Low Notes:
E3 ("American Cliché", "Break My Heart Again", "Claudia", "Hollywood Forever", "hostage", "i love you", "Let’s Fall in Love for the Night", "Life Moves On", "New Girl", "Till Forever Falls Apart")
E♭3 ("Another Year", "I Lost a Friend", "New Girl", "Shelter", "Where the Poison Is")
D3 ("Angel", "Break My Heart Again", "Claudia", "come out and play", "Let’s Fall in Love for the Night", "Lost My Mind", "Luck Pusher", "Partners in Crime", "Till Forever Falls Apart", "What They’ll Say About Us")
C♯3 ("Another Year", "Can't Wait To Be Dead", "I Don't Miss You at All", "Life Moves On")
C3 ("Angel", "Die Alone", "hostage", "i love you", "Landmine")
B2 ("American Cliché", "Another Year", "Can't Wait To Be Dead", "Claudia", "I Don't Miss You at All", "Heaven", "Hollywood Forever", "Luck Pusher", "I Lost a Friend", "Partners in Crime", "Till Forever Falls Apart", "Where the Poison Is")
B♭2 ("Lost My Mind", "What They’ll Say About Us")
A2 ("Claudia", "Hollywood Forever", "hostage", "Let’s Fall in Love for the Night")
G♯2 ("Can't Wait To Be Dead", "everything i wanted", "New Girl")
G2 ("Die Alone", "I Lost a Friend", "Lost My Mind", "i love you", "Luck Pusher")
F♯2 ("Heaven", "I Don't Miss You at All")
E2 ("everything i wanted")
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• Underlines mark notes that are obscured in the song mix.
• Blue marks head voice notes or high falsetto.
• Bold marks impressive notes or passages.

SPOILER: Click to show

{Vocal Range Timeline}
Blood Harmony (EP) (2019) : F♯2 - F5

[Alex61]

There's quite a lot of overinclusion here, most songs don't need any more than maybe five inclusions (provided that's a mix of low notes and high notes), a lot of the songs you've listed here have seven or eight significant notes, or if they have less they're all low or high.

[ama]

Well yeah, I tend to include a lot of notes sometimes, I might change that in the future when he'll have more stuff out. But I don't include seven or eight significant notes for no reason. To show you how complicated it was to make decisions, I could've included more notes, some of his songs have so much substance, but I knew that seven was already a lot. I usually stop at 5 but if I find more significant notes that should be notewatched, I include them in the thread. And what am I supposed to do if a song only has significant high or low notes? I can only include these notes, I'm not going to add imaginary notes just so that each song has high and low notes.

[Alex61]

The thing is if you tend to include this many notes this frequently then your threads probably aren't up to the same standard as everyone else's. Unless it's a Mariah Carey's "Emotions" kind of song, five is usually the most you need to include per song.

And when I mentioned songs having only significant highs or lows, that's okay obviously, but you don't need to have too many of those highs or lows. You've included five significant high notes for "College", four of which are falsetto and three of which are backing falsetto notes. You could quite easily trim this down to three (highest non-falsetto note, highest lead falsetto note and highest harmony falsetto note), because including any more just unnecessarily inflates the thread.

It doesn't matter if the thread is small, it's better it be accurate and concise than unnecessarily inflated and repetitive :thumb:

[billieeilishstann]

Finneas has a e2 in a backing vocal of billie's song "everything I wanted"

[thatsnotcool33]

Aug 15, 2020 17:59:22 GMT billieeilishstann said:

Finneas has a e2 in a backing vocal of billie's song "everything I wanted"

Time stamp?

[billieeilishstann]

Go on the channel "little sun" and go to their 'everything I wanted' vocal showcase

[thatsnotcool33]

I'm not sure how I feel about the E2, but I'd include the other background harmonies (assuming they're the right notes)

[ama]

I hear the E2 so I’ll add it to the thread.

[Smitty.]

pretty strong F2 here youtu.be/bDtakWjzoqQ?t=107