Brent Smith

Voice type: Low tenor
Vocal range: (G♯1-)E2-D5

Significant high notes (Full):

• D5 ("45")
  
• C♯5 ("So Happy", "With a Little Help from My Friends" live)
  
• C5 ("Devour", "Second Chance", "What a Shame", "Burning Bright", "Bully", "Fly from the Inside" live '04, "With a Little Help from My Friends" live)
  
• B4 ("Silent Goodbye", "Bully", "Cry for Help", "Consider", "Don't Question My Heart, "Not Strong Enough", "Sound of Madness", "You're the Reason", "Burning Bright", "Space of Fear", "Screwdriver", "Shed Some Light", "Sad", "45" live '04)
  
• B♭4 ("Her Name Is Alice", "Hillbilly Rock", "Second Chance", "Seasons")
  
• A4 ("The Crow & The Butterfly", "Simple Man", "If You Only Knew")

Significant low notes:

• E2 ("Don't Question My Heart")
  
• F2 ("What a Shame")
  
• G♯2 ("Don't Question My Heart", "Silent Goodbye")
  
• A2 ("Silent Goodbye", "What a Shame", "The Crow & the Butterfly")
  
• B♭2 ("Her Name Is Alice", "Simple Man" live '06)
  
• B2 ("Cry for Help", "45", "You're the Reason", "Don't Question My Heart", "Sad")

Fantastic voice, I'm hoping to find some lows by him too. Smith's timbre is sometimes pretty baritonish but his natural voice is placed closer to a low tenor.

Sherick, have you found any lows by him yet?

Who is this guy?

Also C5s in "Simple man", about time someone made a topic about this guy. Great voice, his upper register is really weighty, but I guess he could be a low tenor, his lows are not really baritonish or anything.

ThePirateKing wrote:Who is this guy?

The vocalist from Shinedown, really powerful voice.

Goblonaut wrote:Also C5s in "Simple man", about time someone made a topic about this guy. Great voice, his upper register is really weighty, but I guess he could be a low tenor, his lows are not really baritonish or anything.

Nice to see you digging him, man. His weightiness really confused me but I see your point. I'll check out some of his stuff and try to find something significant because his timbre is really dark and weighty (he has potential for good lows too).

Good ol' times when Finnish radio station Radio Rock played "Devour" almost non-stop.

Timitzii wrote:

Good ol' times when Finnish radio station Radio Rock played "Devour" almost non-stop.

I believe I was in the army back then, though they kept playing metallicas latest album too allll the time ...

I'll try to find you some notes from him!

I actually love these songs because they were played so HELLISHLY much. They bring so many memories of summer.

Thanks, man!


TPK, check this out to hear Smith's voice at its best:

If I correctly remember, he has a pretty low talking voice. Maybe a dramatic tenor like me?

Goblonaut wrote:If I correctly remember, he has a pretty low talking voice. Maybe a dramatic tenor like me?

Yup, really dark timbre.

Let's try to find some notes related to songs at first. I really dislike interview notes (apart from few expectional cases).

Solid B2s here, is that just some kind of instrument sliding down at 3:08?

0:17 That is Brent, aye? If so, there are some solid G#2s and B4s by him.

Apologies for the long clip (I accidentally forgot to remove the song from the ending) but does this note slide down to G#2 or E2? I'm having trouble catching up the point, even with looping. All of the other notes in the song slide down to G#2 but I'm hearing this as E2, what do you guys think? Danerage, Maxim, Ray, anyone?

http://www.zshare.net/audio/9078811241dd9ba5/

Timitzii wrote:I'm pretty sure that Maxim hears him as low tenor too.

Huh

Dr. Laroque wrote:

Timitzii wrote:I'm pretty sure that Maxim hears him as low tenor too.

Huh

I showcased "The Crow & the Butterfly" to you one or two years ago and you said "you could believe him as low tenor". Check out these two and give your comment about his voice type:






Also, what do you think about that possible slide-down to E2?

Timitzii wrote:

Dr. Laroque wrote:

Timitzii wrote:I'm pretty sure that Maxim hears him as low tenor too.

Huh

I showcased "The Crow & the Butterfly" to you one or two years ago and you said "you could believe him as low tenor".

Two years ago? You didn't even have your channel yet two years ago.

Timitzii wrote:Also, what do you think about that possible slide-down to E2?

I'll check it later.