Billie Joe Armstrong hitting high notes

Billie Joe Armstrong frontman of Green Day singing his highest notes ever heard, its very hard to categorize his voice type cause he seems to have a lowish voice but with a great agility in the middle upper range, Id call him something like a high baritone or a low tenor I think his tessitura lies right in between of those types, so for all the rock vocal ranges fanatics I hope this will help.


A repeated F4 in the folk part of 21st century breakdown followed with a screamed high C5
A F#4 in homecoming
Another F#4 while singing with the crowd at the beginning of Static Age
A repeated G4 at the last chorus of Static Age
An Eb3 followed with a G#4 while singing with the crowd in 21st century breakdown
A screamed G#4, a F4 and again 2 G#4 while singing with the crowd during a break in Hitchin a ride
2 more G#4 with the crowd before the song Geek stink breath
Plenty of G#4 in the Going to Pasalaqua chorus
A long G#4 In the King for a day/Shout medley
A screamed NYC A4 during the 21st century breakdown intro
A full and clean A4 at the end of Static Age (Live in Vancouver) while singing with the crowd
A full and clean A4 in the cover of were the champions
A Flattish A4 yet in the cover of were the champions
A screamed A4 in American Eulogy
A screamed Halleluja B4 in Static Age
And at last a G#4 and B4 while covering highway to hell using his screaming voice

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• billie joe armstrong
• vocal range
• green day
• vocal type
• high notes

[Teddyrockstheworld1]

I think Billie Joe has a very chesty timbre, with some difficallty reaching head voice. I've heard him on the "Dookie" album. He has no head voice in the intire album. He is defenetly a Baritone without using head voice or mixed register. I would compare him to me, because as I am a Baritone (Bass 1 in the Ponaganset High School Chorus) I have very limited vocal range. The best I can do without the powerful falssetos is Whistle voice.

[chojinkid]

@Teddyrockstheworld1 we said he's not a baritone and explained why, he's close to the baritone voice but he's still a tenor, he used to sing in baritone range till the Warning album, but if you hear him in the last 2 albums he pretty exploits a tenor range with tenor quality which would be hard to achieve even for the best baritone, (Billie doesn't seem to use so much of vocal technique). Anyway dookie album is a tricky one, he really sounds like a light baritone there.

[chojinkid]

let's thank goodguitarsolos and his thugs for the good amount of bullshits they brought here, at least we don't get bored, from now on comments well be moderated

[GoodGuitarSolos]

@chojinkid Not true: there are many baritones who can hit really high notes, it just requires practice. Guys like Chris Cornell have soared up to 5th octave thousands of times and are DEFINITELY baritones, just trained ones.

Armstrong sounds like (untrained) low tenor to me. His high notes are pretty strained and baritonish but his timbre in general is pretty boyish and he struggles to get down to 2nd octave in general.

[GoodGuitarSolos]

@chojinkid Armstrong uses mixed voice for almost all of these high notes, to be honest. Pure chest voice would maybe be one of those really strained (and slimy-sounding) screams that sound like they are destroying his throat. Those clean G#4s and A4s were definitely just clean mixed voice.

By the way, Armstrong gets quick full C#5 in the live cover of "Rock and Roll".

[BJGreenDay95]

BILLIE IS THE BEST. NICE VIDEO :D

[BJGreenDay95]

I LOVE THAT VIDEO. BILLIE'S THE BEST

[chojinkid]

@GoodGuitarSolos saying that daltrey is a baritone is equivalent to say that white is a soprano, do the math, you're a tool

[chojinkid]

@GoodGuitarSolos go get a woman I said, and if you can't cause you're too ugly there are hookers on streets, you might even find a hooker singer who can fix your distorted ideas of voice types.

[GoodGuitarSolos]

@chojinkid How can you know that I don't have a woman already? I'm frustrated because jackasses like you who only post one video in Youtube (which has inaccurate information in general) pretend to know everything. Cornell and Daltrey are baritones, the end.

Coverdale has actually a bit higher voice than Cornell, you tool. Both of them are baritones and that is the point. Axl Rose is a low baritone so it isn't a surprise that he has lower voice than Cornell. Both of them are baritones though.

[chojinkid]

@GoodGuitarSolos and do you wanna compare daltrey and cornell with true baritones like johnny cash, mark knopler, eddie vedder, david coverdale and axl rose? the latest are way far deeper and you can hear form their speaking that they have a low voice, sting is a tenor of a different color and different singing techniques than daltrey and cornell, but vocally are all tenors, just different style, man go get a woman cause you seem very sexually frustrated

[GoodGuitarSolos]

@chojinkid Man, you really don't know how to arguement. And yes, he has deep and low voice naturally, he just can go high.

"I know the who very well" - It seems like you don't. And what the fucking hell does singing high have to do with voice type? This alone proves that you don't have any point to your arguements, you just won't give up even though you are wrong. Once again, compare those two voices to REALLY low tenor that is Michael Bolton. Bolton has much raspier but still higher voice.