a place to find ranges of songs (610 views)

[bunja1979]

so although i can figure it out on a keyboard very quickly or use an app it would be very good to have a place to see vocal ranges of songs , so singers could quite quickly find songs to
suit them
and it would be interesting ,now i have seen a place online called singing carrots which offers this but they have soooo many errors i’ve literally found about 20 that are wrong , so many songs are wrong just go on there and take a look a few i can think of the top of my head are “ john legends all of me which they say the highest note is A#4 when it’s an ab4 and , richard marx where ever you go
they list the highest note as g3 when of course it’s g4 , i think there just taking these from various sheet musics which are wrong , is there somewhere on this site , where we could start adding groups of songs for : baritone ranges tenor ranges etc etc , just a thought cheers

[BAZanine]

As far as this forum and its threads are concerned, you can pretty easily find the ranges of a lot of songs by searching for a song on any thread via CTRL+F or something similar and finding the lowest and highest notes hit. Of course you may not find the range if there aren't any significant high or low notes, but it's a start.

Voice typing is a kind of contested issue here because the way we historically have done it isn't really one-to-one with a classical system. That is to say, we tend to assign voice types based on timbre, not range. Some users consider the process sort of arbitrary and as such don't include voice types anymore. I bring this up mainly because a "baritone range" or a "tenor range" in pop terms could mean a lot of things. If you're looking for something in, say, the F2 - F4 area, I'd try that CTRL-F trick out on the threads of singers with those notes in their range.

I can definitely attest that Singing Carrots is tremendously unreliable. I'm not sure how they get their data; it's possible the pitches they put in there come from instruments, the octave is simply mislabeled, what have you. Although I do recall there being an A♯4 in "All of Me", just sung in falsetto.

[bunja1979]

it’s a rubbish website anyway it’s not accurate on a lot of songs i’m not an expert i just play what i hear on the keyboard and figure it out like that , but some
are terribly wrong , no way “ right here waiting” by richard marx the highest note in that is no way a g3 lol , so yeah that site it terrible but i’ll check out the search like you said mate thank you , i was a decent singer a while back but i have to re train again as i havent botherd for a few years , so wanted to easily find ranges of songs so i can start with some low ones and work my way up again over a while , so yeah i’ll try that thank you .