Tyler Joseph (20,569 views)

[salmonman77]

Tyler Robert Joseph

Vocal Range: A2 - A5


Tyler Joseph is a singer from Columbus, Ohio, best known as the singer in the band Twenty One Pilots. He was homeschooled as a child, and played basketball in high school. He was offered a basketball scholarship at Otterbein University, but rejected it to pursue a career in singing. He formed the band Twenty One Pilots in 2009 with his high school friends Nick Thomas and Chris Salih.

They enjoyed mild regional success, before Chris and Nick left the band, leaving drummer Josh Dun in their place. The band then skyrocketed in popularity, first with their album Vessel, then with their Grammy-winning album Blurryface. After Blurryface, the duo began releasing albums farther apart, starting with the band's 2018 album Trench. Since Joseph married Jenna Black in 2015, he has centered his life more around her, his two daughters, and infant son, while his bandmate has picked up additional hobbies such as kickboxing, long-distance running, and spending time with his own wife. The duo has kept the three-year album trend to this present day. In between album releases they enjoy a quiet life with their own families as well as each others’. 

Tyler has many different singing styles to match his wide variety of song genres, from singing softly in his lower register in a lullaby kind of fashion, to screaming powerfully in his more emotional songs. His falsetto, while sounding weak and strained at the beginning of his career(see Addict With a Pen), has improved significantly, and is usually seen in the form of strong backing vocals in his later songs.  

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{QUESTIONABLE NOTES}These are notes that are considered questionable because there is no effort to either hit that specific note or to maintain it. Notes that may be pitch shifted are also included here. 

E♭6 ("Lane Boy" live in Manchester, 5/12/15)
B5 ("Ride", "Shout" live in Minneapolis, MN, 12/23/12)

Significant High Notes:
A5 ("Lovely", "Nico and the Niners” live)
G♯5 ("Redecorate", "Shout" live in Minneapolis, MN, 12/23/12)
G5 ("Addict With A Pen", "Backslide", “Snap Back”, "Slowtown", Tyler Joseph singing in his underwear)
F♯5 ("Holding On To You", "Mulberry Street", "Not Today", "Ode to Sleep" RAB version , "Oldies Station")
F5 ("Backslide", "Fall Away" live at The Eagles Ballroom, "Glowing Eyes", "Hey Jude", "Hole in the Ground", "The Judge", "Saturday", “Snap Back”)
E5 ("Addict With A Pen", "Legend", "Level of Concern", "My Blood" soundcheck, "Ode To Sleep" RAB version, "Ruby", "Save" TOP version, "Slowtown")
E♭5 ("Glowing Eyes", "My Blood", “Saturday”, "Smithereens", Tyler Joseph singing in his underwear, "Vignette")
D5 ("Choker", "The Craving" Single Version, "Fairly Local", "Fall Away", "Forest", "HeavyDirtySoul" live at Fox Theater, "The Judge", "Jumpsuit", "Level of Concern", "Mulberry Street", "Never Take It", "Ode to Sleep", "Realize That It's Gone", "Shy Away", "Tear In My Heart", "Tonight", "Truce", "Two")
C♯5 ("Chlorine", "Fairly Local", "Fake You Out", "Forest" demo, "Goner", "Jumpsuit", "Kitchen Sink", "Midwest Indigo", "My Heart Will Go On" live, "One More Time" live in Columbus, OH, 10/19/12, "Ride" live, "Routines in the Night", "Save" TOP version, "Semi-Automatic", "Taxi Cab", "Trapdoor", "Trees", "Twenty-Nine", "Vignette", "We Don't Believe What's On TV")
C5 ("Anathema", "Be Concerned", "Blasphemy", "Build Me Up Buttercup", "Car Radio", "The Craving", "Fall Away", "Forest" demo, "Friend, Please", "HeavyDirtySoul", "Holding On To You", "Hometown", "House of Gold", "Implicit Demand For Proof", "I Want To Know", "Jar of Hearts", "Leave The City", "Legend", "March To The Sea", "Migraine", "My Blood" live BBC 1 The Lounge, "The Producer", "Ruby", "The Run And Go", "Screen", "Shout" live in Minneapolis, MN, 12/23/12, "Shy Away", "Sickly Sweet Holidays", "Snap Back", "Stressed Out" live at Lollapalooza Brasil, 2016, "Tear In My Heart" live on X102.9 Acoustic Xperience, "Track 7")
B4 ("Addict With A Pen", "Bandito", "Can't Help Falling In Love", "Clear", "The Craving", "Good Day", "Hear Me Now", "Holding On To You", "Isle of Flightless Birds", "I Want It That Way" YouTube video, "Jump Around" live at Lollapalooza Chile, 2016, "Jumpsuit", "Kitchen Sink", "Level of Concern", "Lovely", "Morph", "My Blood", "Never Take It", "Not Today", "Ode To Sleep", "The Pantaloon", "Polarize", "The Producer", "Redecorate", "Routines in the Night", "Semi-Automatic", "Slowtown", "Taxi Cab", "Tear In My Heart" live on X102.9 Acoustic Xperience, "Two", "Vignette")
B♭4 ("Air Catcher", "Backslide", "Be Concerned", "Before You Start Your Day", "Blasphemy", "A Car, A Torch, A Death", "Chlorine", "Dollhouse", "Friend, Please", "Glowing Eyes", "Guns For Hands", "Hey Jude", "Hole in the Ground", "House of Gold", "I Need Something", "Jar of Hearts", "Just Like Yesterday", "Ride", "The Run And Go", "Smithereens"(studio/live), "Taco Bell Saga", "Trees", "Twenty-Nine", "Vignette", "We Found Love" live at Bigelow Bash, "Yo Quiero Taco Bell")
A4 ("Addict With A Pen", "Anathema", “At the Risk of Feeling Dumb”, "Bandito", "Car Radio" live at UG Studios, "A Car, A Torch, A Death", "Clear", "Coconut Sharks In The Water", "Doubt", "Drops of Jupiter" YouTube video, "Drown", "Fairly Local", "Fall Away", "Forest", "Formidable", "Going Down", "Goner", "Good Day", "Hometown", "The Hype", "I'm Yours" YouTube video, "Iris" live, "Johnny Boy", "The Judge", "Jump Around" live at Lollapalooza Chile, "Leave The City", "Level of Concern", "Levitate", "Legend", "Lovely", "Message Man", "Midwest Indigo", "Migraine", "Navigating", "Never Change", "Next Semester", "Nico and the Niners" live, "No One" live, "Not Today", "Ode To Sleep", “Paladin Strait”, "The Pantaloon", "Prove Me Wrong", "Realize That It's Gone", "Ruby", "The Run And Go", "Save", "Screen", "Semi-Automatic", "Shout" live in Minneapolis, MN, 12/23/12, "Shy Away", "Sickly Sweet Holidays", "Slowtown", "The Star-Spangled Banner", "Stressed Out", "Taken By Sleep", "Taxi Cab", "Tear In My Heart", "Trapdoor", "Twist And Shout" live in Pittsburgh, PA, 6/1/16, "We Don't Believe What's On TV", "Wonderwall" live at Global Gathering Korea 2012, "Yo Quiero Taco Bell")

Significant Low Notes:
F3 ("A Car, A Torch, A Death", "Chlorine", "Doubt", "Forest", "Friend, Please", "Get Lucky / Safe And Sound" live at Radio 3FM, "Glowing Eyes", "Guns For Hands", "HeavyDirtySoul" live on TOPxMM, "Hole in the Ground", "House of Gold", "I'm Yours" Christine Live, "I Want To Know", "Mad World", “Overcompensate”, "Prove Me Wrong", "Ride", “Snap Back”, "Vignette")
E3 ("9 Crimes" live BBC 1 the Lounge, "Anathema", "Bandito", "Clear", "The Craving" Single Version,"Fairly Local", "Goner", "Heathens", "Hometown", "The Hype", "I Want To Know", "Johnny Boy", "The Judge", "Lane Boy", "Legend", "Levitate", "Lovely", "Love Yourself" live in Pittsburgh, PA, 6/1/16, "Message Man", "Mexico City Song", "Morph", "Next Semester", "Not Today", "Ode To Sleep" RAB Version, " The Outside", “Paladin Strait”, "The Pantaloon", "Polarize", "Save", "Screen", "Semi-Automatic", "Snap Back", "Slowtown", "Stressed Out", "Summertime Sadness", "Taco Bell Saga", "Tear In My Heart" live at Sydney Pop-Up, "Truce", "We Don't Believe What's On TV", "Where Did We Go" )
E♭3 ("Air Catcher", "Fake You Out", "Glowing Eyes", "Holding On To You", "Jar of Hearts", "Morph", "My Blood", "O Come, O Come, Emannuel", "Taco Bell Saga", "Trapdoor", "Twenty-Nine")
D3 ("9 Crimes" live BBC 1 the Lounge, "Addict With A Pen", "Backslide", "Cancer", "Car Radio", "Drown", "Fairly Local", "Fall Away", "Get Lucky / Safe And Sound" live at Radio 3FM, "Just Like Yesterday", "Lovely", "March To The Sea", "Neon Gravestones", "Never Change", "Next Semester", "Paladin Strait", "The Pantaloon", "The Star-Spangled Banner", "Taken By Sleep", "Tonight" )
C♯3 ("Cancer", "Guns For Hands", "The Outside", "Summertime Sadness" live at The LC Pavilion, 9/4/14, "Taxi Cab")
C3 ("9 Crimes" live BBC 1 the Lounge, "Build Me Up Buttercup", "Falling Too", "Get Lucky / Safe And Sound" live at Radio 3FM, "I Want To Know", "Tonight", "Where Did We Go", "Whisper")
B2 ("Bandito", "Neon Gravestones", "Ode to Sleep" RAB version, "Realize That It's Gone", "San Francisco" FAQ with Twenty One Pilots)
B♭2 ("Jar of Hearts")
A2 (“Next Semester”)

Blue marks head voice/falsetto notes
Green marks notes with a significant amount of distortion
Underlines mark background notes
Italics mark non-melodic or spoken notes
Bold marks especially significant notes

SPOILER: Click to show

{Album Ranges}Solo
No Phun Intended: B2 - F5

Twenty One Pilots
Twenty One Pilots: C♯3 - G5
Regional At Best: B2 - A5
Vessel: C♯3 - F♯5
Blurryface: D3 - F♯5
Trench: B2 - E5
Scaled and Icy: C♯3-G♯5
Clancy: A2 - G5

Thank you to Smitty. for notewatching Saturday

[malifalitic0]

He goes up to B5 here
youtu.be/cuPWBMgXfXs?t=79

[malifalitic0]

And I think that Eb6 in Lane Boy counts.

[mikale]

That random noise in that video definitely should not count.

[rebaru]

it's also not a B5

[malifalitic0]

Mar 10, 2020 21:47:21 GMT mikale said:

That random noise in that video definitely should not count.

why not?his vocal folds created those frequencies.It doesn't matter if he meant those exact notes or not.

[malifalitic0]

Mar 10, 2020 22:04:44 GMT rebaru said:

it's also not a B5

I'm pretty sure that the top note was B5.If not,what do you think it is?

[rebaru]

A5

[mikale]

Mar 12, 2020 17:59:33 GMT malifalitic0 said:

Mar 10, 2020 21:47:21 GMT mikale said:

That random noise in that video definitely should not count.

why not?his vocal folds created those frequencies.It doesn't matter if he meant those exact notes or not.

Well, the sole fact that the sound came out of his mouth doesn't make it worth counting.  Especially if they aren't intentional and aren't at all sung. It was just an off the cuff trill as far as I can tell.

[Alex61]

This is probably going to sound super hypercritical, but you've got a few cases of alphabetising inconsistencies ("9 Crimes" should be listed first, not last) and capitalisation inconsistencies (sometimes you've capitalised "of", other times you haven't). Capitalising every word makes things look a bit uglier than not, so "Jar of Hearts" and "Hole in the Ground" should be listed as I've done there.

Also personally, I wouldn't bold the "Goner" C♯5.

[malifalitic0]

Mar 12, 2020 23:27:41 GMT rebaru said:

A5

I checked with a tuner several times and it says that he touched B5.I still may be wrong tho

[malifalitic0]

Mar 13, 2020 0:56:45 GMT mikale said:

Mar 12, 2020 17:59:33 GMT malifalitic0 said:

why not?his vocal folds created those frequencies.It doesn't matter if he meant those exact notes or not.

Well, the sole fact that the sound came out of his mouth doesn't make it worth counting.  Especially if they aren't intentional and aren't at all sung. It was just an off the cuff trill as far as I can tell.

but if he can hit b5 with a trill, doesn't it mean he can sing a b5 even if it's brief?I'm new at this vocal stuff so I'd like to correct the things that I know wrong.

[salmonman77]

Mar 13, 2020 14:09:04 GMT Alex61 said:

This is probably going to sound super hypercritical, but you've got a few cases of alphabetising inconsistencies ("9 Crimes" should be listed first, not last) and capitalisation inconsistencies (sometimes you've capitalised "of", other times you haven't). Capitalising every word makes things look a bit uglier than not, so "Jar of Hearts" and "Hole in the Ground" should be listed as I've done there.

Also personally, I wouldn't bold the "Goner" C♯5.

Thanks for the catch, Alex! Also, I feel like bolding the Goner note is necessary because it's one of his better C#5's, he doesn't usually hold it out that long, that often, or that consistently. In other words, if someone were to ask for a boldable example of his screaming, I'd have to show them that one. Hope this helps! 

[salmonman77]

Mar 13, 2020 18:16:33 GMT malifalitic0 said:

Mar 13, 2020 0:56:45 GMT mikale said:

Well, the sole fact that the sound came out of his mouth doesn't make it worth counting.  Especially if they aren't intentional and aren't at all sung. It was just an off the cuff trill as far as I can tell.

but if he can hit b5 with a trill, doesn't it mean he can sing a b5 even if it's brief?I'm new at this vocal stuff so I'd like to correct the things that I know wrong.

Usually we like to only count stuff that seems intentional, or at least if he has other countable stuff in that area. My guess is he could probably control up to C6-C#6, but he hasn't shown any intention to do so, and I doubt he'll ever sing past B5. Although, it would be nice, keep your fingers crossed :)

[Alex61]

At the same time, though, the note you've bolded doesn't strike me as inherently boldworthy, just a kind of shouted note.

I wouldn't personally green it either.

[malifalitic0]

Apr 13, 2020 22:42:55 GMT salmonman77 said:

Mar 13, 2020 18:16:33 GMT malifalitic0 said:

but if he can hit b5 with a trill, doesn't it mean he can sing a b5 even if it's brief?I'm new at this vocal stuff so I'd like to correct the things that I know wrong.

Usually we like to only count stuff that seems intentional, or at least if he has other countable stuff in that area. My guess is he could probably control up to C6-C#6, but he hasn't shown any intention to do so, and I doubt he'll ever sing past B5. Although, it would be nice, keep your fingers crossed :)

I understand,thanks:) And even tho I hope he shows his full range to us,I don't think he will either.He's more into the sound and feelings the song recieve.

[malifalitic0]

Apr 13, 2020 22:42:55 GMT salmonman77 said:

Mar 13, 2020 18:16:33 GMT malifalitic0 said:

but if he can hit b5 with a trill, doesn't it mean he can sing a b5 even if it's brief?I'm new at this vocal stuff so I'd like to correct the things that I know wrong.

Usually we like to only count stuff that seems intentional, or at least if he has other countable stuff in that area. My guess is he could probably control up to C6-C#6, but he hasn't shown any intention to do so, and I doubt he'll ever sing past B5. Although, it would be nice, keep your fingers crossed :)

and have you checked tyler's cut my lip reconstructed?he shows F#5 there in the ending.

[Smitty.]

Apr 15, 2020 18:22:31 GMT Alex61 said:

At the same time, though, the note you've bolded doesn't strike me as inherently boldworthy, just a kind of shouted note.

I wouldn't personally green it either.

i second that as black
Edit: I dont see how the heavydirtysoul D5 is non melodic too

[1999]

Man, that BBC performance of My Blood is stunning.

[salmonman77]

Dec 6, 2020 21:49:11 GMT Smitty. said:

Apr 15, 2020 18:22:31 GMT Alex61 said:

At the same time, though, the note you've bolded doesn't strike me as inherently boldworthy, just a kind of shouted note.

I wouldn't personally green it either.

i second that as black
Edit: I dont see how the heavydirtysoul D5 is non melodic too

Late but he doesn’t aim for any note there, just kinda shouts at the top of his lungs. That new Shy Away one is perfectly intentional though. 

[emmy <3]

am i bugging or were those G2s in the octave unison at the beginning of choker?
unless they were pitch shifted in which case :/

[newdasher]

Just a heads up, in the D5 section the song Jumpsuit is misspelled as "Jumpusit".

[salmonman77]

May 1, 2021 2:51:46 GMT emmy <3 said:

am i bugging or were those G2s in the octave unison at the beginning of choker?
unless they were pitch shifted in which case :/

I thought they were pitch shifted at first, which is why I didn't include them. Although, I asked some people in the Discord and the consensus seems to be that they're not.

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TØP Went From Trench’s Strong 8 To A Light 9 To Scaled And Icy A 3

[salmonman77]

thank you mr. robot, very cool!