Marwan Ayman (5,460 views)

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Marwan Ayman (January 17, 2004 – present)
Member of: The Bass Gang (2021-present)
Voice Type: Low Tenor
Vocal Range: B0-E6


Significant High Notes:

E6 ("Five Nights At Freddy's")
A5 ("Believer")
G♯5 ("Five Nights At Freddy's")
G5 ("Grace Kelly")
F♯5 ("Five Nights At Freddy's", "Get Down - Avi Kaplan | Bass Singer Acapella Cover")
F5  ("Hide and Seek | Acapella Cover ft. @laurenpaley")
E5 ("Get Down - Avi Kaplan | Bass Singer Acapella Cover")
E♭5 ("Gangster's Paradise")
C♯5 ("Get Down - Avi Kaplan | Bass Singer Acapella Cover", "The Lion Sleeps Tonight", "Snowman")
C5 ("Carol of the Bells")
B4 ("CENTURIES | Bass Singers Acapella Cover ft. @jonathanymusic", "Spooky Scary Skeletons")
B♭4 ("Grim Grinning Ghosts | Bass Singer Acapella Cover", "Hide and Seek | Acapella Cover ft. @laurenpaley", "The Old Ship of Zion")
A4 ( "Hide and Seek | Acapella Cover ft. @laurenpaley", "Jingle Bell Rock in 8 Different Styles")
G♯4 (“Arabian Nights”, "Believer", "Get Down - Avi Kaplan | Bass Singer Acapella Cover", "Grim Grinning Ghosts | Bass Singer Acapella Cover", "Hide and Seek | Acapella Cover ft. @laurenpaley")
G4 ("قلبي و مفتاحه | Acapella Cover", "CENTURIES | Bass Singers Acapella Cover ft. @jonathanymusic", "Copycat", "Melody of Despair")
F♯4 ("Get Down - Avi Kaplan | Bass Singer Acapella Cover", "My Boy")
F4 ("Melody of Despair")
E4 ("CENTURIES | Bass Singers Acapella Cover ft. @jonathanymusic", "Jingle Bell Rock in 8 Different Styles")


Significant Low Notes:

D3 ("قلبي و مفتاحه | Acapella Cover", "The Old Ship of Zion")
C♯3 ("The Bass Gang - Emperor's New Clothes | (Bass Singers Acapella Cover)", "Get Down - Avi Kaplan | Bass Singer Acapella Cover")
C3 ("قلبي و مفتاحه | Acapella Cover", "The Old Ship of Zion")
B2 ("CENTURIES | Bass Singers Acapella Cover ft. @jonathanymusic", "Get Down - Avi Kaplan | Bass Singer Acapella Cover", "MAD WORLD | Bass Singers Cover ft. Elliott Robinson")
B♭2 ('The Old Ship of Zion")
A2 ("CENTURIES | Bass Singers Acapella Cover ft. @jonathanymusic")
G♯2 ("قلبي و مفتاحه | Acapella Cover", "Get Down - Avi Kaplan | Bass Singer Acapella Cover")
G2 ("قلبي و مفتاحه | Acapella Cover", "CENTURIES | Bass Singers Acapella Cover ft. @jonathanymusic", "MAD WORLD | Bass Singers Cover ft. Elliott Robinson")
F♯2 ("Get Down - Avi Kaplan | Bass Singer Acapella Cover", "Give Me One Reason", "Grim Grinning Ghosts | Bass Singer Acapella Cover")
F2 ("قلبي و مفتاحه | Acapella Cover", "Give Me One Reason")
E2 ("CENTURIES | Bass Singers Acapella Cover ft. @jonathanymusic", "Copycat", "Get Down - Avi Kaplan | Bass Singer Acapella Cover", "Give Me One Reason", "If I Had A Heart")
E♭2 ("قلبي و مفتاحه | Acapella Cover", "BONES | Bass Singers Cover", "Grim Grinning Ghosts | Bass Singer Acapella Cover", "I'm Lookin' Up", "The Old Ship of Zion")
D2 ("All I Want For Christmas Is You", "The Bass Gang - Emperor's New Clothes | (Bass Singers Acapella Cover)", "CENTURIES | Bass Singers Acapella Cover ft. @jonathanymusic", "Cry", "Grim Grinning Ghosts | Bass Singer Acapella Cover", "MAD WORLD | Bass Singers Cover ft. Elliott Robinson", "Therefore I Am")
C♯2 ("The Bass Gang - Emperor's New Clothes | (Bass Singers Acapella Cover)", "Believer", "Get Down - Avi Kaplan | Bass Singer Acapella Cover", "Grim Grinning Ghosts | Bass Singer Acapella Cover", "Hooked on a Feeling | Acapella Cover ft. Tim Foust", "Stay | Acapella Cover")
C2 ("قلبي و مفتاحه | Acapella Cover", "Carol of the Bells", "CENTURIES | Bass Singers Acapella Cover ft. @jonathanymusic", "Copycat", "Gangster's Paradise", "Grim Grinning Ghosts | Bass Singer Acapella Cover", "The Lion Sleeps Tonight | Acapella Cover by Casper Fox", "MAD WORLD | Bass Singers Cover ft. Elliott Robinson", "My Jolly Sailor Bold | Sea Shanty Cover", "Stay | Acapella Cover")
B1 ("قلبي و مفتاحه | Acapella Cover", "All I Want For Christmas Is You", "My Boy", "Spooky Scary Skeletons")
B♭1 ("قلبي و مفتاحه | Acapella Cover", "The Bass Gang - Emperor's New Clothes | (Bass Singers Acapella Cover)", "Hooked on a Feeling | Acapella Cover ft. Tim Foust", "My Jolly Sailor Bold | Sea Shanty Cover", "Nour El Ain", "Snowman", "Stay | Acapella Cover")
A1 ("Blue Christmas | Bass Singers Cover", "CENTURIES | Bass Singers Acapella Cover ft. @jonathanymusic", "Copycat", "Down Like That", "Jingle Bell Rock in 8 Different Styles")
G♯1 ("The Bass Gang - Emperor's New Clothes | (Bass Singers Acapella Cover)", "Believer", "BONES | Bass Singers Cover", "Down Like That", "Five Nights At Freddy's", "HEAT WAVES | Bass Singers Acapella Cover ft. Eric Hollaway", "Get Down - Avi Kaplan | Bass Singer Acapella Cover", "Hooked on a Feeling | Acapella Cover ft. Tim Foust", "Stay | Acapella Cover")
G1 ("CENTURIES | Bass Singers Acapella Cover ft. @jonathanymusic", "I'm Lookin' Up", "The Lion Sleeps Tonight | Acapella Cover by Casper Fox")
F♯1 ("Blue Christmas | Bass Singers Cover", "Grim Grinning Ghosts | Bass Singer Acapella Cover", "The Lion Sleeps Tonight | Acapella Cover by Casper Fox", "Spooky Scary Skeletons", "Tonight You Belong to Me")
F1 ("BONES | Bass Singers Cover", "The Lion Sleeps Tonight", "Melody of Despair", "What if .. Deck The Halls was a DUBSTEP TRACK?! | (Acapella Cover)")
E1 ("CENTURIES | Bass Singers Acapella Cover ft. @jonathanymusic", "Five Nights At Freddy's", "Get Down - Avi Kaplan | Bass Singer Acapella Cover")
E♭1 ("The Bass Gang - Emperor's New Clothes | (Bass Singers Acapella Cover)")
D1 ("Jingle Bell Rock in 8 Different Styles")
C♯1 ("Five Nights At Freddy's", "Hide and Seek | Acapella Cover ft. @laurenpaley", "Moment Of Silence | Acapella Cover ft. Casper Fox")
C1 ("Jingle Bell Rock in 8 Different Styles")
B0 ("All I Want For Christmas Is You", "The Bass Gang - Emperor's New Clothes | (Bass Singers Acapella Cover)")

*Blue denotes falsetto/whistle notes.
*Boldface denotes particularly notable examples of this singer's vocal capabilities.
*Grey denotes subharmonic low note technique passages.
*Purple denotes mixed notes.
*Underlines denote harmonies and obscured notes.

[Macca]

This guy sounds like a tenor who's a bass wannabe like Casper Fox I think his lows should start at E3 and highs at G4
Note: Don't use fanart of the guy because we usually use actual pictures of them like this (This is a screenshot I made):

[jfb30]

Oh wow! Also I realized when creating this thread, he is the youngest out of the four Bass Gang members. You sure is his voice type is really tenor? His vocal weight is very light.

[brookesquatchy]

E3 seems like overinclusion to me, and i wouldn't start his highs that close to his belting limit. D3 ish and E4/F4 is more where i'd put his just off a guess but i do not consume his music hardly at all

also im not 100 that he's a tenor. im like 70-30 on low tenor and high baritone. he's audibly much closer to a tenor than he is a bass but his insistence on low singing makes it hard for me to get a great grasp on his tessitura and i dont know enough about his passaggios to say confidently where they sit.

i know nobody asked about what i think of the guy but like. i have had small exchanges with him and he seems nice generally but he kind of has an inflated ego in regards to his ability to sing bass (thanks in part to people he knows gassing him up). i will say for his placement he does a good job on those 1st octave notes but he's out here hearting comments telling him he would be a better bass for ptx than matt which seems like a very odd thing to perpetuate in his own comment section to me especially considering it isn't really true lol. also i find it funny in a cringe sort of way that he has his voice type on tomi p's discord server as "high bass" when at the lowest he's barely a high baritone

[Macca]

Jul 11, 2023 22:46:54 GMT brookesquatchy said:

E3 seems like overinclusion to me, and i wouldn't start his highs that close to his belting limit. D3 ish and E4/F4 is more where i'd put his just off a guess but i do not consume his music hardly at all

also im not 100 that he's a tenor. im like 70-30 on low tenor and high baritone. he's audibly much closer to a tenor than he is a bass but his insistence on low singing makes it hard for me to get a great grasp on his tessitura and i dont know enough about his passaggios to say confidently where they sit.

i know nobody asked about what i think of the guy but like. i have had small exchanges with him and he seems nice generally but he kind of has an inflated ego in regards to his ability to sing bass (thanks in part to people he knows gassing him up). i will say for his placement he does a good job on those 1st octave notes but he's out here hearting comments telling him he would be a better bass for ptx than matt which seems like a very odd thing to perpetuate in his own comment section to me especially considering it isn't really true lol. also i find it funny in a cringe sort of way that he has his voice type on tomi p's discord server as "high bass" when at the lowest he's barely a high baritone

I actually agree with brookesquatchy on the High and Low beginnings Lows at D3 and Highs at E4 and he sounds like a Low Tenor to me.

[jfb30]

Okay that helps; I just set Marwan's voice type as low tenor, but I still have his highs set at G4 and his lows set at E3.

[Macca]

Can you please have his lows at D3 and his highs at E4

[jfb30]

Got those done, thanks!

[Steingrim]

That's a pretty good fry singer, for a low tenor ! He's in command down into octave 1. Makes Paul McCartney's A1 from "the girl is mine" seem less fantastic. If he developed his actual tessitura he would have quite the range.

[brookesquatchy]

marwan's voice B1 and below is especially good and consistent for a tenor but tbh mccartney's still got a better C2 imo. in fact the tug of peace C2 may be better in general than any of marwan's low notes lol

[noone94]

m.youtube.com/watch?v=PWJt13DWSrI&pp=ygUWbWFyd2FuIGF5bWFuIGxvdyBub3Rlcw%3D%3D

He supposedly has an E0.

[jfb30]

I just checked that link, noone94. I already have it listed as a subharmonic C♯1.

[noone94]

Jul 30, 2023 15:40:49 GMT jfb30 said:

I just checked that link, noone94. I already have it listed as a subharmonic C♯1.

Damn too bad it wasn’t an E0.

[Henny Macc]

19 years old and he's already got bass notes like that?! The world hasn't seen the likes of this since Adoney...

[brookesquatchy]

youtu.be/XUdY5oHvKVg?si=Y3uJV9Y1f96-9vOT

C2 at 0:52, F1 at around 1:11 i think, and a mixed C♯5 at like 2:17.

kind of an irrelevant tangent but this song especially demonstrates his voice's natural density, or lack thereof, in my mind. tomi and the manav guy both seem to be baritones and audibly carry a lot more warmth and depth in the 2nd octave than marwan. its especially audible to me in this song because of all the bass line part switching. not important but interesting to me

[bringerofchaos]

Jul 14, 2023 14:11:32 GMT Steingrim said:

That's a pretty good fry singer, for a low tenor ! He's in command down into octave 1. Makes Paul McCartney's A1 from "the girl is mine" seem less fantastic. If he developed his actual tessitura he would have quite the range.

I think he does have a well-developed high range too. I personally think he’s a bit more of a baritone, due to his ease of access to the 2nd octave. But that’s just me ig.

If y’all are wondering about his comfortable range, he talks about it in this interview. www.youtube.com/live/58c9WLsJRMw?feature=share
He says he bottoms out at around C2-B1. (In regards to chest notes during the day) I also heard that he did from the Bass Discord.

[rootyrootz]

Purple for mixed voice is out of the ordinary here, but if that is how you want to show it I guess there is nothing wrong with it? Most use black for mix just so you know

[Goober]

[rootyrootz]

Bb4 at 3:07 is nice, but then I heard his G#4s at 3:35 through to the end and I'm like ooo now that's boldworthy

[bringerofchaos]

I know some of you might not agree with this, but Peter has confirmed that Marwan is a bass, it’s just hard to tell because of his light and bright tone, since he’s the youngest of the boys in TBG, but he has really good control on those lows, and I’m not sure a tenor would go around having daily B1s. We’ll have to see how his voice grows and develops as he gets older.

At his lowest, he’s prolly a high bass or baritone.

[rootyrootz]

Idk who Peter is but how can you listen to those other guys' voices and think Marwan here is a natural bass or baritone like them? He has clearly put in the work to have access to this lower range, but that doesn't change his natural placement which clearly seems higher

[Steingrim]

Some people's definition of "chest voice" is "what sounds chesty". Which doesn't necessarily say anything about the method used to produce the note, and therefore even less about voice type. To most people Marwan sounds like some kind of bass guy whose voice transforms into something tenor like in octave 4, and that is okay.

[bringerofchaos]

Sept 23, 2023 17:28:28 GMT rootyrootz said:

Idk who Peter is but how can you listen to those other guys' voices and think Marwan here is a natural bass or baritone like them? He has clearly put in the work to have access to this lower range, but that doesn't change his natural placement which clearly seems higher

Peter Barber, from The Bass Gang.

He talks about Marwan's voice here: 
youtu.be/Tu92fd97RLY?si=MUKVa181Q9iwO3Qv

I feel more inclined to believe Peter, since he's a professional and he's best friends with Marwan and he's worked with him for a while.
Just my 2 cents and you can disagree.

[brookesquatchy]

Peter also says that he (as a bass-baritone) has a higher voice than some dramatic baritones he knows. this notion defies logic. the issue with Peter's method of assessment as to how low someone's voice is is that it seems to be defined (at least in large part) by how low they're able to sing on a given day and still sound connected, as opposed to things like their timbre, passaggios and M1 thresholds. by their standards of "chest" voice i would have like B1/B♭1 daily and i'm really not close to being a bass. marwan's timbre is clearly tenorish (which to be 100% fair means he could still be a baritone with like just an MT-esk overbrightened approach. some ppl think scott hoying is a tenor bc of his overbrightening habit) and he clearly is not at or above his primo passaggio at A3 to my ears, meaning there's a fairly high likelihood he couldn't be a bass. at a glance it also seems E4 isn't at or above his secondo passaggio either, but im not familiar enough with his voice to be an authority on it as i said earlier in the thread. his M0 is super well practiced and sounds quite connected but i've never heard him sing even a C2 in M1, so his extension via that mechanism seems pretty much average among male voices.

i dont mind voice type discussion as much as some other people but like. idk i dont think its all that important especially relative to a singer like this guy who isnt even 20 and range wanks hard anyway

[Steingrim]

Peter Barber says in his video where he talks to Glenn Miller that his passaggi are at G#3 and C#4 which would make him a bass. The bass baritone designation probably stems from the fact that he sings G4s at the opera. Which is slightly high for him, but it may work as well as for some regular baritones.

Marwan's G#4 that was mentioned previously sounds like it's not that far beyond his secondo passaggio. My secondo passaggio is at F#4 and the feeling I get is that he's not that dissimilar. If there's one thing that I'm not, it's a bass. Marwan might have a powerful lower extension that defies his timbre and even his passaggi. That would, at most, make him similar to Elvis Presley.