Whitney Houston - Supported Vocal Range (At her best)
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- Опубликовано: 22 июн 2017
- CLARIFICATION: this is not her CONSISTENT supported range, it's just the whole range she has ever supported (consistently + lucky moments).
As you guys can notice, Whitney's lower register wasn't stellar, even if she could carry support down to F3, she used to lower her larynx even as high as Bb3, maybe most because of a stylistic choice, consistently she was more having G3 than lower.
On the mixed side, she was really consistent up to F5, with really good moments up to G5, but sadly, the rest of the time on F#5 and onwards she used to push her voice, being shouty and strained.
Her head voice was amazing, I have nothing to say about it.
Enjoy the video! Don't forget to let your comments :P
She was a goddess, honestly! Fantastic control over her instrument
She belted out an ocean of F#5’s and many G5’s, G#5’s; more than most of the queens that are often praised for their so called resonant high belts. 😂
not you shading the dubbing queen
i love mariah and whitney.
Oh my.... Whitney has one of the most beautiful head voices I've ever heard
Her head voice was so beautiful, I wish she went higher. Great video!
Love listening to/watching her live performances :) some of your notations are about a half-step above of what Whitney actually sang live, but Jesus - she was so talented.
While I vehemently disagree with your Barbra analysis, I do like this Whitney video. I'd say Whitney wasn't very consistent in her upper register, but that's perhaps because she was stylistically chesty quite a bit. I remember seeing one performance of her recently where she mixed two or three F5s and E5s with so much ease, which is really impressive for a vocalist with this type of chesty approach. Plus she's so adorable. I just love her. lol
KoreanMusicSubs The performance was probably Hold Up The Line, she was phrasing up to F#5 fairly effortlessly.
SuperPianogirl123 hold up the light*
She dropped resonance around the middle-high register of F4 to C#5, D5 as well. Her passaggio was around C5/D5 (typical for a mezzo-soprano) and would lead to why her voice blossomed on those notes. Mezzo-Sopranos usually blossom on C5/D5.
deadwalke she dropped resonance on a D5 JENNFMFMDMDMFN? Bye
Is that a problem for you to understand? Take it up with the masters of the voice like Manuel de Garcia who understood the voice in and out, or Richard Miller who understood female and male voices like no one else in the 20th and e1st century. They will BOTH tell you based off of voce ingolota and voix mixte that Whitney Houston was a mezzo-soprano. And if she would've been FORMALLY trained, would've been a nice lyric mezzo-soprano.
That comment of yours proves what is really at the heart of the majority of her so called fans: venom.
Where does 6.10 come from????
I agree with this for the most part, although her upper belts in her earlier years were achieved in a more healthy way. Her support was amazing
Human voices are not fully matured prior to our 30s, which explains why numerous vocalists' vocal placements go through natural modification. Whitney has not only aged, but also struggled with addiction, which would explain the strain/discomfort in her upper (especially belting) range.
Mic Ku well aware, I've studied her voice for years.
Oh, I wasn't trying to be pretentious or rude. I am pretty sure the comment was directed at someone else, but I just clicked on a different thread 😂 My apologies
Mic Ku it's perfectly fine darling
But are you a credited vocal pedagogue?
I've got several things to note here. First of all, and actually quite serious, it's not called "upper register", it's called "head voice" or "head register" if you wanna keep the register in it. And also, Whitney didn't mix. It was all full chest or full head, nothing in between. Secondly, you got several notes wrong here. The first "of aaaaaall" from Greatest Love of All is actually a C#5, because when she sang it with a band, it was done half a tone lower. The other one you selected is a D5, yes, because she was singing it with the studio backing track. Basically it's the same mistake made with two more songs: I Will Always Love You, the clip from the 25th Arista Anniversary, the "youuuu"; and One Moment In Time, which was done also half a tone lower with the live band. I think it's possible you made that mistake with some other notes as well, but those were the ones I noticed.
No, she mixed. It's impossible to carry chest voice higher than the primo passaggio. She just had a chesty mix.
TheMaleAvenger she xis, but i think hes saying that this man calls mid belts and upper belts all mixed belts, whoch is wrong... also head voice is not upper belts, he's alright
It's not possible for any female in the world to go full chest on anything higher than an F4. It's just science. Anything higher than that is mixed. It can be in the chestier side, and it can also be in the headier side or in between. (balanced)
Ch -Voce But he named mid register mixed voice... B4 dont have to be mixed for example... neither D5 or whatever...
Andy H. D. C. Huh, i said every note higher than an F4 for any female is mixed. that's science, you can't change science. I think you confuse a chesty mix with full chest ( full chest is your talking voice and your low notes) . So there's is a big difference. No female can belt a full chest B4 or even A4, it can be chesty but never full chest.Therefore any belt is mixed. ( but not any mixed note is belted)
maybe this is a stupid question.. but.. How do I recognize that the note is supported? (sorry for bad English)
please go check MrSkinnyJeanz3 video about "Support" :)
Petr Hudeček Don't apologize for your English it's great!!
Christia Parrish Thank you :)
I want you to make a Lara Fabian supported range
That's tough, I tried to found good low notes for her, but her style demands whispering.
Can you make one for Christina Aguilera? No shade lol, I'm just curious.
of courseee
Mariah please
Only other vocalist who could match Mariah
kpoptastic not true at all. There are plenty of other vocalists who have much better ability and vocal technique than both Whitney and Mariah combined.
Jamie Bon name one. Only non-operatic vocalist id give it to would be streisand
kpoptastic kpoptastic then that just means you haven't really listened to other singers because vocalists like Lisa Fischer, Natalie Weiss, Vanessa Amorosi, Monica Naranjo, Sohyang, even Beyoncé all have vocal techniques that Rival Whitney's and a few of them even surpass Whitney in certain areas as well.
KevOnIt Natalie Weiss is Eb3-B5-D6
KevOnIt & David Phelps' lower register 🙃
I don't even think he supports D3 or Eb3
So her consistent supported range during her peak was G3 - F5 - C6 ?
bitch i dont need introduction yes but her total supported range would be F3-G5-C#6 at most
I know that
bitch i dont need introduction ok 😌
This is rubbish!! her supported range was up until G5, until 92. Your video supports her voice from 94 onwards! I am sorry but this is just wrong. Whitney supported tons of G5 consistently up until 92!. The inconsistency started in 93! Her prime voice was supported until G5!
This proof and your description prove she was really a Mezzo-Soprano. Thanks for helping me finally prove that
deadwalke Aretha is a mezzo, Beyonce is a mezzo, jasmine sullivan is a mezzo, brandy is a mezzo. They all have beautiful voices but Whitney isn't a mezzo.
You keep deluding yourself ma'am. Beyonce is on par with the vocal range with Whitney Houston (so based off of just that one example,) Whitney was a mezzo-soprano.
Kelliona Taylor Aretha is a falcon Soprano not a mezzo
She was a spinto soprano up until 1993 or 92 in not sure after that she was a mezzo
You sound silly giving operatic terminology to Pop singers who never had formal training in Classical music. I'm so sick and tired of seeing literally every comment of "she's a spinto soprano..." Her voice and her overall timbre says otherwise....
Head voice is not upper belts... Mid belts and upper belts are not always mixed... correct that
Mid belts and upper belts are in fact always mixed. Anything higher than an F4 for any female is mixed. If chesty ? We'll call that a belt. And it's correct to call the head voice/falsetto register, the upper register, because it's a part of the voice that can go much higher than your modal/mixed voice.
Actually, men can belt in their head voice quite easily, however it is often mistaken for falsetto. Esepcially when it comes to popular music
Do some boys🌝
KevOnIt Jeffrey Lewis?
KevOnIt he's just a lyric tenor...he has Bb5 lol
KevOnIt & also I've seen a supported G4 from Scott,but I'm not sure of his consistency;he definitely has F#4 though.
Is Whitney excellent vocalist ?
Of course she is.
You just put random notes for her head voice
Kaleb Crowell no they are right.
wtff is "supported range"?? Supporting a note is just supporting it by breath, THATS IT.
amr alshura we call this supported range bc this is the range where you support perfectly with no additional "help" from strain or tension. Above and below these extremities she strains and therefore the support can not come through perfectly; it's hindered by the strain. We could call it "connected range" but a sound can be connected without breath support and that's no good. In this video there aren't any disconnected notes, so therefore all this is supported perfectly, and most of it is resonant as well. It's kinda hard to explain
I actually have to suck it up and admit you perfectly explained this! Thanks!
A sound cannot be connected without breath support. The reason it's connected is because it sits on the breath.
amr alshura you're welcome! You might wanna ask somebody smarter than me though. Mrskinnyjeanz3, Edgar, Daydream, or kpopvocalanalysis are who I consider credible for this.
Lambily Loft Yes, the sound can be connected without breath support (exercising the siren would prove that), it is just pointless to go for notes that maintain no tonality and are poorly controlled.
Here y'all go making very stupid videos again. None of you are vocal pedagogues. Let it go.
So, what's the problem about it? Right, most of us aren't but we surely are vocal pedagogy enthusiasts, and this is a place to discuss and learn more about it.
Chimier C Hey, I miss your presence here on YT. You, BZBlaner, primohomme, WestVoice, stefano (last known name was edgeofevolution if I'm not mistaken) are rarely here nowadays. Instead, these amateurs are everywhere LOL
Funny how you name Primohomme who actually has a degree in music and understands music theory. I believe even he would make the claim that Whitney was a Mezzo-Soprano.
deadwalke Well, I've read the discussion between him and LohengrinTH in some videos regarding Whitney's vocal fach. primohomme believes that she was a spinto soprano from the 80's until early 90's who later turned into a mezzo-soprano in her remaining years. LohengrinTH asserts that Whitney has always been a mezzo. Interesting discussion if you ask me :)
She was always a mezzo-soprano and it's weird hearing Primo saying she's a spinto when in fact she can not be due to her not being operatically trained. And even if she was operatically trained, she STILL wouldn't be trained as a soprano: Her chest voice and chest notes are way bigger than her head resonance (the part of her voice that drops prematurely when she begins straining on D5 and Eb5).