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The_Blue-Eyed_Bard
2017-12-20 20:14 UTC
#1
While I'm sure he sings like a magical, angelic mix of Barry White, Freddy Mercury, and Aretha Franklin, has Drake's natural vocal range ever been identified or confirmed? I'm going to be playing him with a dulcet, rolling baritone tonight, but I’d like to get it as accurate as possible in the ensuing issues of the starter kit’s issues.
JE
Jeysie
2017-12-20 21:13 UTC
#2
If we go with a Doylist perspective, considering they got Christopher's bro to do his voice in the video game, I would fire up the Live at Gen Con Letters Page podcast episode and go from there.
(And honestly from a Watsonian perspective, Rick Astley notwithstanding, I'd still expect someone who looks like Anthony to have a higher-ranged voice.)
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The_Burning_Stickman
2017-12-20 21:13 UTC
#3
The Vocalize power in the video game has a little snippet of him singing, but my ear isn't good enough to tell you how it actually sounds. Differentiating between things like alto/tenor/baritone is beyond me.
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Lord_Flash_Fire
2017-12-20 21:18 UTC
#4
Well, according to the video game, he can at least sing a transposed version of Avril Lavigne's What The Hell.
Don't believe me? Listen to Vocalise once or twice, then click the link.
MI
MindWanderer
2017-12-20 21:21 UTC
#5
Anthony Badell is definitely a tenor, and if "Vocalize" is the most comfortable pitch for AA, that sounds right for him, too. I'm a baritone and those notes are not in my comfort range.
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Jeysie
2017-12-20 22:26 UTC
#6
And AA himself strikes me as someone who'd be more of a classical or folk singer than soul singer, per se. (Being good with a set of pipes invokes more of an Irish tenor vibe in my mind, at least.)
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TakeWalker
2017-12-20 23:16 UTC
#7
Don't forget the metal yell! :D
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Nilus
2017-12-22 03:19 UTC
#8
Thats an alternate reality though, things are more METAL in the X-tremeverse.
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The_Blue-Eyed_Bard
2017-12-22 04:58 UTC
#9
Nuts. I don't think I can hit tenor on my best of days.
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Ehkrickor
2017-12-26 14:29 UTC
#10
I can sympathize Bard, I always tried singing along to my favorite tenors, Bruce Dickinson, Freddy Mercury, Serj Tankian, Bon Scott(that last one might not count as a "tenor.") Then when my friend convinced me to join chior with her in high school I figured I was a sure in, i mean, i was skinner than an anorexic palm tree, then I find out my confortable range is closer to Contrabass. So now i have a ready excuse for how bad i sound. Still wind up getting talked into singing Darkness' thing called love at karaoke on occasion. I keep telling Jose Quervo I don't have the range for that song, but he never listens.
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Jeysie
2017-12-26 15:37 UTC
#11
I sympathize from a ladyperson perspective; I'm a mezzo-soprano that can go about 3/4 of the way up or down but most modern lady singers sing solidly in either soprano or contralto range, so I'm always running into where I can sing about 90% of a song and the rest is either a bit too high or too low. :P (One reason why I'm fond of folk music and 40s-60s music; that tends to fall more solidly into my vocal range.)
But don't forget that in the end it's your RP, dude; you can make everybody sound however you want. :D Always do whatever you can with whatever you have to work with, and it's all good from there.
BL
Blackfang108
2017-12-27 19:41 UTC
#12
Don't feel bad. Nobody has the range for that song.
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Nilus
2017-12-27 20:26 UTC
#13
I’m a percussionist so my vocal range is best summed up as “Shut your mouth and keep time” :)
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The_Blue-Eyed_Bard
2017-12-27 21:06 UTC
#14
I'm constantly told I have both a face and voice for radio, so here's to hoping I at least do Heartbreaker justice...
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Lord_Flash_Fire
2017-12-27 21:36 UTC
#15
I’m a percussionist, but I can actually sing pretty well.
As you can guess, that means I’m not that great of a percussionist
(I’m not bad tho… right? I think I’m right.)
JE
Jeysie
2017-12-27 21:41 UTC
#16
I have the utmost respect for percussionists. I can keep time enough for singing purposes by following the flow of whatever lyrics I'm singing, but not in any sort of unaided sense outside of that.
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Ehkrickor
2017-12-29 19:15 UTC
#17
Listen to the whole Flowbots, No handlebars song and the most impressive feat listed in the whole song is keeping rythm with no metronome. I am only slightly whiter than the average Eucalyptis and it shows in my Rythm. I'm a pretty desent storyteller, but if I have to sing we'd better pray to someone that there's a good percussionist around ^.^
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Jeysie
2018-02-16 16:12 UTC
#18
I was reminded recently that I should have said that if we ever want to still run with a baritone headcanon for Argent, I vote for being inspired by Stan Rogers over Barry White.