Mai Yamane (山根 麻以) (1,810 views)

[Brenda]

Mai Yamane (山根 麻以)
Vocal Range: B♭2 – B♭5

Significant High Notes:

B♭5 ("Ave Maria")
G♯5 (“I'm Still Alone”)
G5 ("Ave Maria")
F♯5 (“City Drive”)
F5 (“All Your Love")
E5 (“Get Away", “Gotta Knock a Little Harder”, In the Monochrome Rain, “Lady Luck”, “Love is Energy”, “Maybe Tomorrow”, “Melody”, “Pretender”, “The Real Folk Blues”, “Sorry”, “Summer Storm (Love and Hate)”, “Want It All Back”, "What's a Matter Baby")
E♭5 (“Baby It’s You”, “In Flames”)
D5 (“21 (Live to be Wild)”, "After In the Dark", “All Your Love”, "The Book of Days", “City Drive”, “Get Away”, “Heart for Sale“, “Lady Luck”, “Live for Life”, “Mushroom Hunting” Live, “A Sign”, “Somebody to Love”, “Shabby Boy”)
C♯5 (“Baby I’ll Go”, “Blue”, “Bridge of Dreams”, “Don’t Worry Baby”, “Foolin’ Myself”, “Howdy Lady”, "Invisible Love", "Pearly Gate", "A Piece of Glass", “The Real Folk Blues”, “Tempting Coup d'État”, “Turn on Street”, "What's a Matter Baby")
C5 (“Black Climax”, "Blaze", "Carnival", “(Every Time That You) Walk in the Room”, “Goodbye Twilight”, “Gotta Knock a Little Harder”, “Heart for Sale“, “I'm Just a Woman”, “I'm Still Alone”, ”In Love”, "Insanity", “Lookin’ for My Life”, “Maybe Tomorrow”, “Midnight Woman”, “Mushroom Hunting” Live, “My Beloved J.B. (Feeling Fair)”, “My Saturday Man”, "Ordinary Song", “Pretender”, "Showtime at Dawn", “Silky Rain Morning”, “Sorry”, "Tears of Indigo", “Unbearably Sad”, "Vision of Flames", “Want It All Back”)
B4 (“21 (Live to be Wild)”, "After In the Dark", “Baby I’ll Go”, “Baby It’s You”, "Blaze" Opening Version, “Bridge of Dreams”, “City Drive”, “Don’t Bother None”, “Emi”, “Foolin’ Myself”, “Gimme an Answer”, “In Flames”, “In the Monochrome Rain”, “Judy My Love”, "Lamentation", “Le Vent”, “Live for Life”, “Love Me or Leave Me”, “My Old Flame”, "Pearly Gate", "A Piece of Glass", "Resham Firiri", "Saturday Night and Sunday Morning", “See You Space Cowboy”, “A Sign”, “Summer Storm (Love and Hate)”, “Twilight“, “Tell Me Your Love”, “Tempting Coup d'État”, “(You And Me Still Keep On) Fall In Love”)
B♭4 (“Aurora”, "The Book of Days", “Don’t Worry Baby”, “(Every Time That You) Walk in the Room”, “Get Away”, “Gotta Knock a Little Harder”, “I'm Just a Woman”, “In Mirage”, "Insanity", "Invisible Love", “Melody”, “Midnight”, “Midnight Woman”, “Misty Woman”, “Please Don't Turn the Lights Off”, “Turn on Street”, “Want It All Back”, “Wake Up My Angel”, "Why?")
A4 ("Carnival", “Don’t Bother None”, “Emi”, “Gimme an Answer”, “Heart for Sale“, “In Love”, “Judy My Love”, “Lady Luck”, “Light, Wind and Waves”, "Little Child", "My Dear Life", “My Saturday Man”, "No One's Home", "Ordinary Song", “Out of the Night”, “Pretender”, “Pushing the Sky”, “Rain”, “Rather Be Blind”, “The Real Folk Blues”, “Somebody to Love”, “Sugar Daddy”, “Twilight“, “Tears Disappearing in the Sand”, "Tears of Indigo", “Tell Me Your Love”, “Tempting Coup d'État”, “Shabby Boy”, "Vision of Flames")

Significant Low Notes:

A3 ("After In the Dark", "Carnival", "If You", “I'm Still Alone”, “In Flames”, “In the Monochrome Rain”, "Lamentation", “Live for Life”, “Love Me Tender”, “Melody”, “My Old Flame”, “Rain”, “Rather Be Blind”, “The Real Folk Blues”, "Resham Firiri", “Twilight“, “Tears Disappearing in the Sand”, “Shabby Boy”, “Unbearably Sad”, "Vision of Flames", "What's a Matter Baby")
G♯3 (“All Your Love”, “Baby I’ll Go”, "Blaze", “Blue”, "The Book of Days", “Foolin’ Myself”, “Hide-and-Seek”, “Howdy Lady”, “I Don’t Want to Talk About It”, "Invisible Love", "Little Child", “Midnight Telephone”, "Pearly Gate", "Tears of Indigo", “Tell Me Your Love”, “Tempting Coup d'État”)
G3 (“21 (Live to be Wild)”, “Black Climax”, “Don’t Bother None”, “Emi”, “Get Away“, “Gotta Knock a Little Harder”, “Heart Beat”, “Heart for Sale“, “I'm Just a Woman”, “In Mirage”, "Insanity", “Joy”, “Judy My Love”, “Lady Luck”, “Lookin’ for My Life”, “Maybe Tomorrow”, “Melody”, “Midnight Woman”, “Misty Woman”, "No One's Home", "Ordinary Song", “Out of the Night”, “Please Don't Turn the Lights Off”, “Pretender”, “See You Space Cowboy”, "Showtime at Dawn", “A Sign”, “Silky Rain Morning”, “Sorry”, “Want It All Back”, “Wave”, “(You And Me Still Keep On) Fall In Love”)
F♯3 (“Howdy Lady”, “Rather Be Blind”, “The Real Folk Blues”, "Saturday Night and Sunday Morning", "Showtime at Dawn", Turn on Street”)
F3 ("After In the Dark", "Ave Maria", "Blaze", “Don’t Bother None”, “I'm Still Alone”, "Insanity", “In the Monochrome Rain”, “Lady Luck”, “Midnight”, “Midnight Woman”, "Ordinary Song", “Out of the Night”, “Rain”, "ScatCat", "Showtime at Dawn", “Wake Up My Angel”, “Want It All Back”, "Why?")
E3 (“21 (Live to be Wild)”, “Baby I’ll Go”, “Bridge of Dreams”, “Emi”, “I Don’t Want to Talk About It”, "If You", “Light, Wind and Waves”, "Little Child", “Maybe Tomorrow”, "My Dear Life", “My Saturday Man”, "No One's Home", "A Piece of Glass", “Pretender”, “Pushing the Sky”, “See You Space Cowboy”, “Twilight“, “Tell Me Your Love”, “Tempting Coup d'État”, “Trade Wind”, “Wave”)
E♭3 (“Blue”, “Gotta Knock a Little Harder”, "Why?")
D3 ("Cat Attack Part 1", “Sorry”)
C♯3 ("Invisible Love", “Live For Life”, "Tears of Indigo")
C3 ("If You", "ScatCat")
B♭2 ("ScatCat")
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• Blue denotes falsetto and whistle passages.
• Boldface denotes outstanding passages (relative to the singer).
• Italics denote non-melodic and spoken passages.
• Underlines denote obscured and background passages.

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{Questionable Notes}
C6 ("Ave Maria" [2a])
F♯5 (“Turn on Street” [2a])
E♭5 (“Turn on Street” [2a])
D5 (“Be My Baby” [1])
C♯5 (“Sugar Daddy” [3a])
F♯3 (“Silky Rain Morning” [1c])
E3 (“Gimme an Answer” [2d])
D3 (“Get Away” [2b], “Le Vent” [2d], “Pushing the Sky” [2b], “See You Space Cowboy” [2b])
C♯3 ("Don't Bother None" [3b])
C3 ("The Book of Days" [2b])
B♭2 ("Insanity" [1a][3b])
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[1] Questionable quality
a. Fryish/weak notes.
b. Cracked notes.
c. Under or over shots.
d. Growls or growly notes.

[2] Questionable representativeness
a. Exclamations/yelps, woos or squeaks.
b. Anacrusis or low dips in general.
c. Slides to unspecific and/or unaimed notes.
d. Spoken.

[3] Questionable legitimacy.
a. Uncertain identity.
b. Uncertain pitch.
c. Pitch-shifted.

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{Notewatching Credits & Other Info}
BrendaMarzipan
Solo:

Tasogare (1980): E3 – F♯5
Sorry (1981): D3 – G♯5
Will (1982): F♯3 – E♭5
The Day Before Yesterday (1984):
月光浴 (1984): E3 – D5
Flying Elephants (1985) E3 – E5
Embassy (1986) E3 – E5
Woman Tone (1988) C♯3 – F5
1958 (1989): E3 – E5 [1]

New Archaic Smile:

Futsuu no Uta (1997): F3 – B♭5

OSTs:

Cowboy Bepop: E♭3 – E5
Mirage of Blaze: C♯3 – C♯5
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[1] Album partially unavailable.
[2] Album entirely unavailable.

Notewatching of other performances not listed above done by BrendaMarzipan.

[Macca]

That A5 Sounds Like G#5 Plus It Wouldn't Fit the Scale of The Song

[Brenda]

it's an A5

[Platypus]

im getting G#5 for that too

[Brenda]

Hm... Yeah

I really wasn't being able to get the G♯5, only when I slowed the clip down I managed to. Thanks chimmy and Perry the Platypus.

[Macca]

That C#5 In Get Away Gets Up To D5 and the E5 In Pretender Has Cracks Up To A6

[Macca]

I Think the E3 In Tempting Coup d'État And The C#5 In Blue Sounds Like a C5 Going Up to An Eb5

[Brenda]

Mar 10, 2022 0:48:02 GMT Macca said:

I Think the E3 In Tempting Coup d'État And The C#5 In Blue Sounds Like a C5 Going Up to An Eb5

Sorry, what about the E3? That didn't make sense.

I can see where you're coming from with the "Blue" bold, I do agree that she was probably going for an E♭5, the question however IMO is if she actually hits that note, I heard it as it landing on a C♯5, I'd be curious to hear other people's opinions. Normally, either way, I think the C5 is the bold note in the passage, however I really didn't wanna include a C5 and a C♯5 from the same passage back to back. If other people come to agree that it's a E♭5, however, I would gladly bold the C5 and include the E♭5.

[Macca]

Oops my bad what I was meant to say about the E3 is that I think it briefly goes down to Eb3