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[ama]

Tahliah Debrett Barnett
Vocal Range: E3 – F6

Significant High Notes:
F6 ("Preface" live in Warszawa, 2014)
E♭6 ("How’s That" live in New York City, 2015)
D6 ("Pendulum" live at Pitchfork Music Festival, 2016)
C6 ("How’s That" live at Made In America Festival, 2016, "Mothercreep", "Papi Pacify")
B5 ("daybed", "Figure 8", "Pendulum", "Sum Bout U", "Video Girl")
B♭5 ("How’s That", "Numbers", "Papi Pacify" live at Coachella, 2015)
A5 ("Closer", "daybed", "Don’t Judge Me", "Pendulum", "Preface", "thousand eyes")
G♯5 ("I’m Your Doll")
G5 ("daybed", "Don’t Judge Me", "Figure 8", "Give Up", "home with you", "mirrored heart", "Stay With Me" BBC Radio 1 Live Lounge, "Sum Bout U", "thousand eyes", "Two Weeks", "Video Girl")
F♯5 ("cellophane", "Glass & Patron", "Lights On", "Pendulum")
F5 ("fallen alien", "holy terrain", "How’s That", "I’m Your Doll", "mirrored heart", "Numbers")
E5 ("cellophane", "daybed", "Don’t Judge Me", "Elastic Heart" BBC Radio 1 Live Lounge, "Figure 8", "Fukk Sleep", "Closer", "Good to Love", "home with you", "Hours", "Judge Me (Interlude)", "Papi Pacify", "Two Weeks", "Video Girl")
E♭5 ("fallen alien", "holy terrain", "Kicks", "Preface", "sad day", "Water Me", "Weak Spot")
D5 ("Ache", "Closer", "fallen alien", "Figure 8", "Fukk Sleep", "Give Up", "Glass & Patron", "Good to Love", "holy terrain", "home with you", "Hours", "Judge Me", "Lights On", "mirrored heart", "Mothercreep", "Papi Pacify", "Pendulum", "Video Girl")
C♯5 ("Glass & Patron", "I’m Your Doll", "mary magdalene", "Preface")
C5 ("Ache", "Good to Love", "Hide", "Kicks", "Closer", "Mothercreep", "thousand eyes", "Two Weeks", "Ultraviolet", "Weak Spot")
B4 ("fallen alien", "Give Up", "In Time", "mary magdalene")

Significant Low Notes:
B3 ("Give Up", "Preface")
B♭3 ("Breathe", "Glass & Patron", "holy terrain", "How’s That", "I’m Your Doll", "Kicks", "sad day", "thousand eyes")
A3 ("Ache", "cellophane", "Closer", "Fukk Sleep", "Give Up", "home with you", "Hours", "In Time")
G♯3 ("Glass & Patron", "Water Me")
G3 ("cellophane", "Good to Love", "Hide", "In Time", "mirrored heart", "Summertime" live at Maida Vale)
F♯3 ("Pendulum")
F3 ("Hide", "Kicks", "sad day")
E3 ("Figure 8", "home with you")
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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}
EP1 (EP) (2012) : E3 – E♭5
EP2 (EP) (2013) : G♯3 – C6
LP1 (2014) : F3 – B5
M3LL155X (EP) (2015) : E3 – C6
MAGDALENE (2019) : E3 – B5

[Rodney Blazershorts]

I'm not hearing anything below G3 in the "Hide" harmonies.

[ama]

Uh, I don’t know what happened when I notewatched this song but there’s clearly no E♭3. I must’ve added it by accident some time ago when I started to notewatch her song and forgot to remove it. What I linked as an E♭3 is actually a F3 on the word "way". After I remove this note, everything else should be correct.

[fallenalien]

She seems to be hitting some 6th octave notes in this song, if I'm not mistaken. (starts at around 1:38)

Checked out some of her unreleased, older tracks and it seems like her vocal approach was a little different back then. Her head voice did not seem to be as dominant in her upper range as it is these days.

[fallenalien]

Her new song has some interesting low notes.

[ama]

Love how she darkens her voice on that song! Her vocal style on this one is interesting.

Also, just wanted to say I’m sorry for being behind in my notewatching, my master’s degree takes so much of my time, but hopefully I’ll get back to notewatching within the next few weeks.