Bruce Dickinson

Voice type: Low tenor
Total vocal range: (F1-)B1-F5-B5
Sung vocal range: E2-F5-B5
Best display of range: "Dance of Death" (E2-F5)

Significant high notes (Falsetto):

• B5 ("Run to the Hills", "Gangland", "Flight of Icarus")
  
• A5 ("Number of the Beast", "Take It Like a Man")
  
• G♯5 ("Flight of Icarus", "Wrathchild" live)
  
• G5 ("Rime of the Ancient Mariner", "Take Me to Your Leader", "Be Quick or Be Dead", "Aces High", "Where Eagles Dare" live)
  
• F♯5 ("Gangland")

Significant high notes (Full):

• F5 ("Dance Of Death", "Hallowed Be Thy Name" live, "Big Brother/Take It Like A Man" live, "Flight Of Icarus" live, "Bring Your Daughter...To The Slaughter" live, "Drifter" live)
  
• E5 ("Run To The Hills", "The Trooper", "Where Eagles Dare", "No Way Out...Continued", "Children Of The Damned", "The Duelists", "Gangland", "Cross-Eyed Mary", "The Legacy", "Iron Maiden" live)
  
• E♭5 ("Communication Breakdown", "The Mercenary" live, "Beast in the Light", "Invaders", "Hallowed Be Thy Name" live)
  
• D5 ("Total Eclipse", "Die With Your Boots On", "I Got The Fire", "Bring Your Daughter...To The Slaughter", "Where Eagles Dare", "To Tame A Land", "Twilight Zone", "Fear Is The Key", "Nodding Donkey Blues", "Hallowed Be Thy Name", "The Talisman", "Walking Out On You" live, "Brighter Than A Thousand Suns", "Aces High", "Montségur", "The Pilgrim", "I Will Not Accept the Truth")
  
• C♯5 ("The Thin Line Between Love And Hate", "Flight Of Icarus", "Believil", "Communion")
  
• C5 ("Déjà Vu", "The Assassin", "Different World", "Dream Of Mirrors", "Tailgunner", "Rainmaker", "No More Lies")

Significant low notes:

• B1 ("The Post-Alternative Seattle Fall Out")
  
• C♯2 ("From Here To Eternity")
  
• D2 ("The Post-Alternative Seattle Fall Out")
  
• E♭2: ("Sheriff of Huddersfield")
  
• E2 ("Sign Of The Cross" live, "Dance Of Death")
  
• F2 ("The Talisman", "Somewhere Over the Rainbow", "Fear Of The Dark" live)
  
• F♯2 ("No Way Out...Continued")
  
• G2 ("Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son", "Brave New World" live)
  
• G♯2 ("Afraid To Shoot Strangers")
  
• A2 ("Fear Of The Dark", "The Longest Day", "The Reincarnation Of Benjamin Breeg")

Best Vocal Performances
Studio:
1. Where Eagles Dare
2. Rime of the Ancient Mariner
3. Cross-Eyed Marry
4. Aces High
5. Children of the Damned
6. Hallowed Be Thy Name
7. The Talisman
8. Flight of Icarus
9. The Duellists
10. Communion

Live:
1. Where Eagles Dare (Hammersmith 83)
2. Children of the Damned (Hammersmith 82)
3. Hallowed Be Thy Name (Rock Am Ring 2005)
4. Flight of Icarus (Sao Paolo '97)
5. Brave New World (Death On The Road)

His F#5 in the live "Flight of Icarus" sound full. The last one especially, a slide down from a falsetto G5.

Ray wrote:His F#5 in the live "Flight of Icarus" sound full. The last one especially, a slide down from a falsetto G5.

Hm, can you link me to the performance that you're referring to? Cause the one that I saw was called an F♯5; but I only heard an F5 in it...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4TgUP3HNlw

Ray wrote:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4TgUP3HNlw

This is "Where Eagles Dare"; not "Flight Of Icarus"...

no u

Sadly his solo career doesn't feature ANY notes above D5, though the D5s are relatively plenty

Ray wrote:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4TgUP3HNlw

Alright, I can believe that last F♯5 as being full voice...the "Gangland" ones are surely falsetto, though.

Maxim wrote:

Ray wrote:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4TgUP3HNlw

Alright, I can believe that last F♯5 as being full voice...the "Gangland" ones are surely falsetto, though.

Yea, but he slides to a G5 in the last F#5, and I think you guys said that the vibrato reaches G#5?

Ps. To my suprise, that Dance of Death is pretty much the best display of range for Dicky, I would have wanted to say Legacy, but the lows aren't that low, D3 at the most. But the does have Dickinsons highest vocal melody as far as I know. The "left to all our golden sons" part, which is entirely sung at C5-E5 !

Goblonaut wrote:

Maxim wrote:

Ray wrote:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4TgUP3HNlw

Alright, I can believe that last F♯5 as being full voice...the "Gangland" ones are surely falsetto, though.

Yea, but he slides to a G5 in the last F#5, and I think you guys said that the vibrato reaches G#5?

Yeah, it's tricky; but I think there's that falsetto G5 with vibrato up to G♯5, then somewhere in the middle he switches to full voice for that last F♯5. Though I kinda have a hard time believing that myself as I type it...perhaps I should go back for another listen...

Goblonaut wrote:Ps. To my suprise, that Dance of Death is pretty much the best display of range for Dicky, I would have wanted to say Legacy, but the lows aren't that low, D3 at the most. But the does have Dickinsons highest vocal melody as far as I know. The "left to all our golden sons" part, which is entirely sung at C5-E5 !

Haven't done a thorough search for this; but yeah, I suspect that "Dance Of Death" is his greatest amount of range displayed in a single song...though I don't know how high "Believil" might get. "From Here To Eternity" only displays C♯2-A4 or something.

Now that you mention it, Dicky uses a total of 3 octaves, he goes from sustained B4s to short C#5s in the chorus. He might even go lower in the evil sounding laughs he does in the end, though I quickly checked at least a C#2 again. So believi displays most pure range for Dicky, though the E2s in Dance of Death are actually sung rather than spoken.

Dickinson has one of the best chest voices in rock music and in past ten years live he is better than ever. He is hitting most of the high notes up to D5/Eb5...

Didn't I say "From Here To Eternity" was a D2 at lowest, fry on the C#2?

Wanted Dead Or Alive wrote:Dickinson has one of the best chest voices in rock music and in past ten years live he is better than ever. He is hitting most of the high notes up to D5/Eb5...

He still does some E5:s to my knowledge, though very strained. Run to the hills, the legacy. But last he always skips the where eagles dare E5 :/. Also he did the 22 acacia avenue E5s full at some ocassions in 2003.

Ray wrote:Didn't I say "From Here To Eternity" was a D2 at lowest, fry on the C#2?

According to our chat logs, you said "C#2 in full voice, A1/B1 in fry"

Goblonaut wrote:

Wanted Dead Or Alive wrote:Dickinson has one of the best chest voices in rock music and in past ten years live he is better than ever. He is hitting most of the high notes up to D5/Eb5...

He still does some E5:s to my knowledge, though very strained. Run to the hills, the legacy. But last he always skips the where eagles dare E5 :/. Also he did the 22 acacia avenue E5s full at some ocassions in 2003.

Don't forget "Aces High"! I've heard him hit E5s in that recently too.