Male power ballbads — Page 3

They may be hitting c's in Good Vibrations, but hell, listen to a recording of the Four Seasons with freaking Franki Valli, they hit super duper high notes. But I wouldnt want to hear them sing a solo ballad in that voice. I did Jesus CHrist Superstar for an entire summer, and singing 8 shows a week is much different than in a recording studio, believe me. And again, the dude from AC/DC could scream out" I dont know HOW to love him", but I certainly wouldnt want to hear him sing Love Changes Everything..lol .

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With the right training, anyone can do it. There are tons of guys, who never are asked to do it, who can sing up there. It's more common than a "freak voice". And not that hard to learn. It's the same thing as all these girls coming out of the woodwork beltinh the high Fs in Defying Gravity. They always could, now they have a song to belt that high with.

Coughing up blood is insane. There are healthy ways of singing that stuff.

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I knew what you meant by freak voice.

It depends on your voice and your teacher. I would say a couple years. It's basically a really chesty mix. Much like what women do. Whether you listen to Sam Harris or Edan Espinosa, neither is fully "belting." But they are exceptional mixes.

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"JC Superstar - you would sound like an IDIOT doing anything up there in falsetto."

Well, then I guess Ted Neely and Steve Balsamo TOTALLY sounded like idiots as Jesus singing in Gethsemane.

Anyway, I don't care what you say.....even with training to sing up there, the voice quality that would be the result of training to sing up there versus the quality that people want to hear in JCS is two different things. The edgy, raw, ROCK quality/sound that is most typically heard and expected in JCS is different that a trained/operatic voice that would be neccessary to sing that high. And even that would NOT be enough to sing that up there 8 times a week for a sustained period in FULL VOICE. That is just insane.

I am SURE that Judas' and Jesus' who do long runs of JCS find a way to compromise and suit things for their voices in order to maintain stamina and vocal longevity. That would NOT require belting out those notes every night like that.

You are right about mixing - the rock falsetto is similar to that. It is different from regular falsetto.

Julian - your Judas coughing up blood? That's rough.

Lastly, I would just say that the FEMALE voice and the MALE voice are totally different, and work totally different. The same rules don't really apply.

Cheers,

The Balladeer

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also, I've found that the male voice usually lies higher than a female's. I mean... when I'm singing along with some recordings that are deemed, high for women... I can sing them in my normal range? And only when the go WAY up there... do I start to have to falsettize? So they're very different.

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