Post by kotipelto on Feb 11, 2020 15:43:56 GMT
Hi everyone. I'd joined the old board not too long before it shut down and finally am rejoining here although I must admit all the effect of all the old posts being gone made me kind of forget it for a while. But, I'm glad I'd discovered the place 'cause it just might be a community that could be interested in this. It's actually cool 'cause in the books I have to talk more generally, here I don't have to edit the technique terms.
So, I'm a baritone, who feels like most popular male singers (within pop and rock at least) are tenors or else have higher belting ranges than most other baritones. I'd seen questions about this online from like-minded people + small karaoke guides but I searched around and felt like nobody had written more lengthy guides, not for popular contemporary music. In this internet day and age where everything had been written about, I felt like that was something. That's pretty much the summary. So far I've got two books covering the rock genre with 130 songs each. With plans to do other genres, definitely specific decades as well as more rock.
I guess I'd basically say I researched mostly the singles catalogues (+ albums in roughly descending order of popularity/acclaim if need be) of popular bands mostly to see what songs most any OK untrained baritone could tackle at karaoke or with a cover band etc. with ease while being able to stick totally to the original artist/band's vocal arrangement, inspired by a few years back trying to sing a Bryan Adams track at karaoke and feeling like I needed to drop an octave
. I didn't note-check the songs during research, but I'd guess in the lower 4th octave would be something like the cutoff, with exceptions.
I'm a little nervous because a lot of specialists at these topics are at places like this, but I guess all male singers could get something out of these. Maybe even tenors looking for songs that are more 'restful' for their ranges too. At the very least I'd hope that my passion for the topic + music in general comes though in my writing. Here are the two Amazon links (so far) if anyone wants to preview. Thank you guys.
www.amazon.com/dp/B07YVJVYVY
www.amazon.com/dp/B084MLFH88
So, I'm a baritone, who feels like most popular male singers (within pop and rock at least) are tenors or else have higher belting ranges than most other baritones. I'd seen questions about this online from like-minded people + small karaoke guides but I searched around and felt like nobody had written more lengthy guides, not for popular contemporary music. In this internet day and age where everything had been written about, I felt like that was something. That's pretty much the summary. So far I've got two books covering the rock genre with 130 songs each. With plans to do other genres, definitely specific decades as well as more rock.
I guess I'd basically say I researched mostly the singles catalogues (+ albums in roughly descending order of popularity/acclaim if need be) of popular bands mostly to see what songs most any OK untrained baritone could tackle at karaoke or with a cover band etc. with ease while being able to stick totally to the original artist/band's vocal arrangement, inspired by a few years back trying to sing a Bryan Adams track at karaoke and feeling like I needed to drop an octave
. I didn't note-check the songs during research, but I'd guess in the lower 4th octave would be something like the cutoff, with exceptions.I'm a little nervous because a lot of specialists at these topics are at places like this, but I guess all male singers could get something out of these. Maybe even tenors looking for songs that are more 'restful' for their ranges too. At the very least I'd hope that my passion for the topic + music in general comes though in my writing. Here are the two Amazon links (so far) if anyone wants to preview. Thank you guys.
www.amazon.com/dp/B07YVJVYVY
www.amazon.com/dp/B084MLFH88
