Understanding Our Thread Format

[Danerage]

(Keep in mind this is a relatively new format, so many threads have not been updated to reflect this.)

We separate 'sung' vocal range from 'total' vocal range, because there have been arguments as to whether or not we should counts notes that aren't hit in a musical context. Interview notes and spoken passages fall into the category of notes not hit in a musical context, and as such are placed in the 'total range' section and omitted from the 'sung range' one. If some aspect of a songspoken passage indicates the singer is purposely going as low as he is, it does actually count as sung range. If a singer's sung range and total range are identical, the section will read 'vocal range' without the prefix of sung or total.

Here's an image to show what I mean:



Here sung range and total range are listed seperately. In the 'significant notes' listings, the non-sung notes are italicized to indicate that they are indeed not sung.



To read our range listings, you need to understand that we seperate full-voice from non-modal registers. For example,

Vocal Range: (A1-)E♭2-G♯5(-C6)

The section I've colored here as red indicates the singer's full-voice (modal) range. The section I've colored as blue indicates non-modal notes, which do not count toward full-voice but instead the singer's overall range.

Registers We Consider Full-voice:
Chest Voice
Mixed Voice
Head Voice (As long as it retains some connection to the chest register. Pure Head Voice is falsetto.)

Registers We Consider Non-modal:
Falsetto
Distortion (screaming, often referred to as merely 'non-modal')
Whistle
Vocal Fry