Neil Patrick Harris (6,152 views)

[1999]

Neil Patrick Harris (June 15, 1973)

Vocal range: D2 - C6

Significant high notes:

C6 ("Keep Chasing Your Schemes" Extended Version)
G♯5 ("Dream On (Glee Cast Version)")
G5 ("Dream On (Glee Cast Version)")
F♯5 ("Damn I Wish I Was Your Lover" Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay)
F5 ("Barney Stinson, That Guy's Awesome", "Mom and Dad Song" How I Met Your Mother, Season 9; Epsiode 10)
E5 ("Wig in a Box")
D5 ("Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap" How I Met Your Mother, Season 1; Epsiode 17, "Love Shack" live on Carpool Karaoke)
C♯5 ("Damn I Wish I Was Your Lover" Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay, "Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap" How I Met Your Mother, Season 1; Epsiode 17)
C5 ("Barney Stinson, That Guy's Awesome", Happy Birthday Private, "The Longest Time" How I Met Your Mother, Season 8; Epsiode 20, "Love Shack" live on Carpool Karaoke)
B4 ("Christmas Medley", "Hey Beautiful (Barney Version)", "Stand By Me" How I Met Your Mother, Season 6; Epsiode 2)
B♭4 ("Barney Stinson, That Guy's Awesome", "It's the Count Song" A Series of Unfortunate Events, Season 1; Episode 1, "The Longest Time" How I Met Your Mother, Season 8; Epsiode 20, "Nothin' Suits Me Like a Suit")
A4 ("Angy Inch", "Barney Stinson, That Guy's Awesome", "Damn I Wish I Was Your Lover" Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay, "Exquisite Corpse", "Hey Beautiful (Barney Version)", "The House of Freeks" A Series of Unfortunate Events, Season 2; Episode 9, "I Don't Care Much", I Love the See A Series of Unfortunate Events, Season 1; Episode 5, "Not While I'm Around" Sweeney Todd live performance, "Nothin' Suits Me Like a Suit", "The Origin of Love", "Stand By Me" How I Met Your Mother, Season 6; Epsiode 2, "Tear Me Down")
G♯4 ("Angy Inch", "Christmas Medley", "Dream On (Glee Cast Version)", "I'm the Music Meister", "The Longest Time" How I Met Your Mother, Season 8; Epsiode 20, "Not While I'm Around" Sweeney Todd live performance, "Piano Man" Glee, Season 1; Episode 19, "Sugar Daddy", "Tonight" 63rd Annual Tony Awards)
G4 ("The Ballad of Booth", "The Ballad of Czolgosz", "The Ballad of Guiteau", "Bigger" Tony Awards 2013, "Dream On (Glee Cast Version)", "Drive Us Bats", "Exquisite Corpse", "Keep Chasing Your Schemes" Extended Version, Happy Birthday Private Waxer, "I'm the Music Meister", "It Just Wasn't Meant to Happen", "If Only", "Love Shack" live on Carpool Karaoke, "Midnight Radio", "Nothin' Suits Me Like a Suit", "Tear Me Down", "When a Man Loves a Women" How I Met Your Mother, Season 7; Epsiode 4, "Wig in a Box")
F♯4 ("Angy Inch", "The Ballad of Guiteau", "Barney Stinson, That Guy's Awesome", Carlie, I am Your Cat and I Love You, "Christmas Medley", "It Just Wasn't Meant to Happen", "Love Shack" live on Carpool Karaoke, "My Eyes", "The Origin of Love", "Piano Man" Glee, Season 1; Episode 19, "Puzzles Theme Song", "So They Say", "Sugar Daddy", "Wig in a Box")

Significant low notes:

D3 (Anniversary, "The Ballad of Booth", "The Ballad of Czolgosz", "The Ballad of Guiteau", "Bigger" Tony Awards 2013, "Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap" How I Met Your Mother, Season 1; Epsiode 17, "Drive Us Bats", "I Don't Care Much", "It Just Wasn't Meant to Happen", "If Only", "My Eyes", "My Freeze Ray", "The Origin of Love", "Stand By Me" How I Met Your Mother, Season 6; Epsiode 2, "That's Not How the Story Goes" A Series of Unfortunate Events, Season 1; Episode 8, "Wicked Little Town")
C♯3 ("The Ballad of Guiteau", Carlie, I am Your Cat and I Love You, "Christmas Medley", "I'm the Music Meister", "It Just Wasn't Meant to Happen", "Love Shack" live on Carpool Karaoke, "A Man's Gotta Do", "Slipping", "Tonight" 63rd Annual Tony Awards)
C3 ("The Ballad of Booth", "The Ballad of Guiteau", "Bigger" Tony Awards 2013, "Brand New Day", "Christmas Medley", "Everything You Ever", "I'm the Music Meister", "If Only", "Love Shack" live on Carpool Karaoke, "Midnight Radio", "My Freeze Ray", "Nothin' Suits Me Like a Suit", "Slipping")
B2 ("Hedwig's Lament", I Love the See A Series of Unfortunate Events, Season 1; Episode 5, "Keep Chasing Your Scheme", "The Longest Time" How I Met Your Mother, Season 8; Epsiode 20, "Sugar Daddy", "That's Not How the Story Goes" A Series of Unfortunate Events, Season 1; Episode 8, "Tonight" 63rd Annual Tony Awards)
B♭2 (Carlie, I am Your Cat and I Love You, "Death Trap", "The House of Freaks" A Series of Unfortunate Events, Season 2; Episode 9, "It's the Count Song" A Series of Unfortunate Events, Season 1; Episode 1, "Nothin' Suits Me Like a Suit", "Oh Fionna", Pulling Down Her Pants How I Met Your Mother, Season 4; Epsiode 11, "Slipping", "Tonight" 63rd Annual Tony Awards)
A2 (Carlie, I am Your Cat and I Love You, "The House of Freaks" A Series of Unfortunate Events, Season 2; Episode 9, I Love the See A Series of Unfortunate Events, Season 1; Episode 5, "Midnight Radio", "The Origin of Love")
G♯2 (I Love the See A Series of Unfortunate Events, Season 1; Episode 5, "Keep Chasing Your Schemes" A Series of Unfortunate Events, Season 2; Episode 3, "Look Away" A Series of Unfortunate Events Theme Song, "Oh Fionna")
G2 ("My Freeze Ray")
F♯2 (I Wish I Could See Her Naked How I Met Your Mother, Season 4; Epsiode 11, "Look Away" A Series of Unfortunate Events Theme Song)
F2 ("Brand New Day", "Oh Fionna")
E2 ("Confrontation" live on Inside the Actors Studio)
D2 ("The House of Freaks" A Series of Unfortunate Events, Season 2; Episode 9)

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*Underlines marks notes sung in backing vocals/overdubs.
*Italics marks non-melodic notes.
*Blue marks soft falsetto notes.
*Boldface marks noteworthy passages or performances.

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{Questionable Notes}
C♯3 ("Angy Inch")
A2 ("Wig in a Box")
F♯2 ("Sugar Daddy")

- "The Longest Time" live on How I Met Your Mother might contain lower notes.

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[1] marks yelps and short trills in high range or anacrusis and short dips in low range.
[2] marks notes of questionable identity that cannot be confirmed to be the singer in question.
[3] marks non-melodic notes that don't have a significant enough pitch to warrant inclusion.
[4] marks notes that possess uncertain pitch or have been pitch-shifted.
[5] marks notes that do not fit the previous criteria but are not of a substantial enough quality to warrant counting towards the singer's range.

SPOILER: Click to show

{Album Ranges}
Broadway Cast Recordings:

(2004) - Assassins: C3 - G4
(2009) - Batman: The Brave and the Bold – Mayhem of the Music Meister: B♭2 - C3 - G♯4
(2008) - Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog: F2 - F♯4
(2014) - Hedwig and the Angry Inch: A2 - A5 - E5

[onemorelight17]

www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIMvYHvslnI

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jdqzvz2-2OU

[onemorelight17]

youtu.be/EhXsJjVdj1E

[Henny Macc]

Mar 21, 2021 2:11:29 GMT onemorelight17 said:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIMvYHvslnI

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jdqzvz2-2OU

Might be useful to include some timestamps and commentary rather than just links, but yeah these are the main things that I came here to post.   He does a CRAZY amount of rangewanking as the character of Count Olaf - mostly he does a really good job of showing his low range, as there are second octave notes in almost every song he sings, but that sustained C6 at 2:30 in "Keep Chasing Your Schemes" is gloriously silly.   Also the only time I've actually heard him sing higher than G♯5. 

He gets a lot of notes in the mid second octave in his other singing bits in that show (there are actually a few versions of the intro tune in certain episodes that get down to E2), but that sustained D2 at 3:13 in "House of Freaks" caught me totally off guard! Definitely sounds like the bottom of his singing range, but I'm pretty impressed that he actually went all out for that one.

Mar 21, 2021 2:22:54 GMT onemorelight17 said:

youtu.be/EhXsJjVdj1E

And then yeah, there's this F2 at 0:43 that we found a good while ago, but there's also another version where he gets down to a really strong E2 in it:


Pretty cool climb up to F5 in this song from How I Met Your Mother:


I don't have the link for it, but there's also a clip of him singing the "bang bang bangity bang" song in How I Met Your Mother season 6 episode 18, "A Change of Heart", where he gets down to E2. In general, I would say you're going to have to commit to watching pretty much all of A Series of Unfortunate Events and How I Met Your Mother for this show, cause he does quite a bit of singing in both of them, and ends up spanning a surprising amount of range in the process as you can see. Then on top of all that, there's of course all the Broadway musicals he's done and various other types of random singing cameos, so buckle in - this is gonna be a big thread!

For starters I would recommend digging through his old TRP2 thread, since we already have some research archived there that could save you the trouble of having to figure out what songs to go through.

[1999]

I've already watched A Series Of Unfortunates Events which I totally loved, that's when I discovered this amazing artist!
I'm currently season 5 episode 4 of HIMYM.

Thanks for all the stuff posted though, I'll go through everything as soon as I can. I do remember a version of Look Away going as low as E2 but couldn't find it. :-/

[onemorelight17]

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fe_uF2oS9xg 

www.youtube.com/watch?v=8L77E7c2OSI

www.youtube.com/watch?v=dv_SO5jOKWs

www.youtube.com/watch?v=12KP77DE9qY&t=565s

www.youtube.com/watch?v=12KP77DE9qY&t=125s

www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzlMCNXnDxQ

www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7hiUcXPm9o

www.youtube.com/watch?v=BI5j31Ee8PU&t=50s starts singing here

www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DJU5I1pK74

www.youtube.com/watch?v=31S0Gip3BSY

www.youtube.com/watch?v=bux0QPdxtIo&t=86s

www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKaQ8_vDTLg

www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5QjBrcjUJE

This is what i was able to find so far. There are very interesting notes.  :)

[Rodney Blazershorts]

Mar 21, 2021 3:52:42 GMT Henny Macc said:

Might be useful to include some timestamps and commentary rather than just links

[kaji]

Great job! One thing tho - Original Broadway Cast Recording isn’t a group haha. It’s just an indicator that the musical recording in particular is that of the originating (Broadway premiere) cast.

[1999]

Thanks a lot for pointing that out man! I was pretty confused to be fair lol, what should I put under associated acts ?

[kaji]

Mar 22, 2021 13:16:00 GMT 1999 said:

Thanks a lot for pointing that out man! I was pretty confused to be fair lol, what should I put under associated acts ?

Unless he was in some group etc. I don't think it's necessary. 

Also I personally wouldn't blue that Dream On high note tbh. Sounds mixy. 

[Gilad]

Why is the Bb2 in Nothin' Suits Me italicized? And you could bold the F4 at the end it's pr good

[1999]

Mar 22, 2021 19:38:04 GMT Gilad said:

Why is the Bb2 in Nothin' Suits Me italicized? And you could bold the F4 at the end it's pr good

Is kind of spoken isn't it?
I will though

I can't quite figure it out if that's him singing those low parts here, at some point the low voice's still singing but his mouth's shut lol
link

[Gilad]

Noticed that right after the D5 in Love Shack NPH does a slide down to Eb2

[1999]

Would you say is it solid enough?

[Henny Macc]

Mar 21, 2021 12:08:06 GMT 1999 said:

I've already watched A Series Of Unfortunates Events which I totally loved, that's when I discovered this amazing artist!
I'm currently season 5 episode 4 of HIMYM.

Thanks for all the stuff posted though, I'll go through everything as soon as I can. I do remember a version of Look Away going as low as E2 but couldn't find it.

Hm, well I seem to remember a few more singing bits that had good lows that aren't listed in this thread. Off the top of my head, I seem to remember him singing down to G♯2 in one bit of The Wide Window as Captain Sham, and then he does a bunch of low scatting in The Vile Village as Detective Dupin...I wanna say down to F♯2 or F2. And I definitely remember there being a few versions of "Look Away" that got down to E2 in the later episodes, though none of the YouTube uploads I saw of it featured that section. If you go back and search through the episode intros on Netflix you'll probably find it, but if you don't wanna bother I can probably dig for it.

The thread's looking much better now after adding the notes from the TRP2 version! Got a few general notes for it though:

• Make sure to give the episode tags for "Pulling Down Her Pants" and "I Wish I Could See Her Naked", since those aren't real compositions; they're just tidbits of songs sung in a How I Met Your Mother episode.
• For any notes like that, where it's just a brief sung bit from an episode of a show or something, I think it would help to hyperlink it if possible, since people won't always know specifically where to go in the episode to find that bit. However, I realize that that's a bit of an extracurricular effort, and I understand if you don't feel up to it for every instance of it.
• Personally, I don't think his thresholds need to be as far out as F4 and E3 - F4s are veeeery easy for him; the lowest notes I can think of that sound somewhat belty for him are the "My Eyes" F♯4s. As for lows, I would say E♭3/D3 would probably be appropriate - though he is a tenor, he has a pretty strong low range that he makes pretty regular use of, to the point that I don't think E3s sound particularly low for him. However, it's your thread, so I'll let that ultimately be your call; just wanted to give my two cents about it.
• Lastly (for now), you have "House of Freaks" written as "House of Freeks" twice 

[destroythelettuce]

Love this guy!