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Post by Yojojo on Jul 10, 2024 1:23:49 GMT
Vocal type debates.
A regular source of exasperation within the TRP sphere (especially for the big dogs and head honchos), due to the nature of civil communication getting thrown out the window in favour of a "nuh uh" "yuh huh" mudslinging free-for-all that ends up going nowhere and clogs up the thread. This issue leaves some to omit the vocal type of singers out of their threads entirely to avoid a heated discussion. But what if there was a way to make it... fun?
I introduce to you, the vocal compass. Like a political compass, but for vocal types that takes into consideration tessitura and timbre where you can plot singers. I say this with a lot of bias as the creator of this, but my God is it addictive. We've started one in the TRP Discord and it's got people abuzz and it definitely seems a lot more fun than the alternative.
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Post by Yojojo on Jul 11, 2024 23:59:24 GMT
Okay so just to make it easier for people, I have decided to break down what the chart means. Firstly, I'll clear up with the axes mean. Tessitura depends on natural placement and singing range, so JD Sumner is at the bottom of tessitura, whereas Johnny Cook is at the top, but timbre can be a real confusing beast. Something that might turn heads when you look at the chart is that the big three of the acapella basses (Avi, Tim and Geoff) are all put near the middle of the board in timbre. This is because we look at the mid range of the voices, how light the voice sounds when they're not pushed to their extremes. The truth is that no matter how much these two can lower their larynx, their 3rd octave is rather neutral in tone. A voice such as Tay Zonday, while higher in tessitura than all these three, has far more dark and heavy a 3rd octave timbre than all of them. Now, for each the quadrants. Blue: High tessitura/bright timbre. Tenors. Voices like Stevie Wonder and Rivers Cuomo fall in the middle of blue, voices like Elton John and Matt Bellamy are low down in blue and voices like Bruno Mars and Steve Perry are high up there. Green: Low tessitura/deep timbre. Baritones (and basses). Frank Sinatra and John Legend in the centre, Rag 'n' Bone Man and Julian Casablancas are way up there, and of course you have Barry White and Johnny Cash down low. Red: High tessitura/bright timbre. Tenors who sound like baritones, with a heavy tone like David Byrne or Rance Allen. Some singers in this area are husky, like Michael Bolton and Seal. Purple: Low tessitura/deep timbre. Baritones who sounds like tenors (or basses who sound like baritones), with a soft tone like Prince and Chris Martin. Some singers in this area are nasal, like Bo Burnham and John Linnell. The centre: The average of most singers. People with rather inbetweeny voices, basically the closer you get to the black box in the middle, the harder it is to tell what the fuck they really are. People like Michael Buble, Harry Styles and Jack Black (Jack Black in particular was hella divisive lmao).
Hopefully this should provide a lot of insight, cheers dudes |
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Post by Yojojo on Jul 19, 2024 22:47:17 GMT
But what if there was a way to make it... fun? This thread is just barrels of fun, I can see that. *tumbleweeds roll through*
All joking aside, don't let the barren wasteland that is this thread distract you from the absolute chokehold this has had over the TRP Discord for the last week or so. I'll see you when we eventually get round to plotting every single TRPer we can.
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