Bass Singers and Low Notes #1

Here's my first bass notes video! The highest note to be found in any of my bass videos will be the E2 (other than those notes included in slides down to notes E2 or lower), or the second E up from the bottom of the standard piano. Thanks to all who allowed me to use their video clips (credits will be in each clip to the person who allowed me to use the clip). Just to let everyone know, there is NO VOCAL FRY IN THIS VIDEO except for some in the very last clip (might be some fry in the one before it as well). Friendly comments and questions are welcome (all unfriendly or degrading comments towards these singers or anybody commenting on the video will be deleted). Enjoy this video (and those to come in the future)! :)

1. Adam Lopez does a demonstration of his vocal range. He starts off with a D#2 and proceeds to go 6 octaves higher after that.
2. Josh Turner sings a few D2's in his song, Everything is fine.
3. Basso Profundo Giorgio Tadeo sings and sustains a very nice D2 with no close microphone!
4. Richard Sterban sings a C#2 in the song Jesus is coming soon. This is from their latest 2009 DVD release.
5. Tim Riley slides down to a sustained C2 at the end of Moving up to Gloryland.
6. TV celebrity (who I've heard had some opera training back in the day) Mike Rowe sings a C2 at the end of the Dirty Jobs theme song (I know if you watch the video it looks like Dave Barsky sings the low part at the end, but I read that Mike Rowe recorded all the voice parts himself, so it's really him singing the C2).
7. Now we leave the Great Octave and go into the Contra Octave, starting with a B1 by Josh Turner. The song is Firecracker.
8. Here's Richard Sterban with a very nice slide from A#2-A#1 from the song Where the soul never dies.
9. Aaron McCune, who recently left Gold City and will be missed, is heard here singing an A#1 at the end of Midnight Cry.
10. Here's Aaron again with a few quick but good A1's from the song Get up, Get Ready.
11. Joe Brown, former Bass singer from the Capstone Quartet, sings a few boomy A1's in the song I know what lies ahead.
12. Richard Sterban gets another low one during a very short low passage from I ain't never. He starts at an E2 and ends on an A1.
13. Larry Hooper, the well-known bass from the Lawrence Welk Show, sings an A1-B1-C#2-D2 at the end of Minnie the Mermaid. Very nice!
14. Tim Riley from Gold City hits a few A1's in another performance of Get up, Get Ready.
15. Here's Paul David Kennamer with a very boomy and powerful sustained G#1 at the end of It's almost over.
16. Josh Turner hits his lowest recorded note (so far) while singing King of the Road live with who I believe is Country legend Randy Travis. A very nice G1 at the beginning of the clip from Josh Turner is heard.
17. Aaron McCune sustains a G1 at the end of one of my favorite Gold City songs, For the sake of my heart, here heard being sung live.
18. This is a recent one. As a Gold City veteran, Tim Riley was called in to take Aaron's place after he left until they can find another bass. Always good to hear Tim Riley singing bass with them. Here, he sustains a powerful F#1 at the end of Under Control. New Tenor Chris Cooper is also heard here.
19. You don't think I would dedicate this video to JD Sumner and not have him in it, right? Here's JD with the Masters V in 1991, singing Just a little talk with Jesus. He slides down about 2 octaves at the end, bottoming out at an F1.
20. Here's JD again, this time with the Blackwood Brothers WAY back in the day. This is during the low part of Hide me rock of ages. JD gets all the way down to a sustained E1 here.
21. Paul David Kennamer hits a nice E1 and sustains it in the song Old Ship of Zion. Very nice E1!
22. JD is heard here singing a different version of Just a little talk with Jesus. He bottoms out at an E1 (might touch on D#1 at one point) and finishes the song off by quickly sliding down to a C2.
23. One more from JD. This time, he's with the Masters V from the same 1991 show as the first clip of him in this video. The song is I'm gonna keep on singing, at the end of which JD slides down to a D#1! Very nice!
24. Time for the last note of the Contra Octave! Mike Holcomb from the Inspirations Quartet sings his famous passage live in 1996 during the song Hide me rock of ages. The lowest note is a C1. It seems to be in fry, though. Mike finishes off the song with a nice long sustained C2.
25. One last clip. Here's World Record Holder Tim Storms with the Rescue Quartet, singing an F0(!!!) before quickly sliding up to a B0. Notice the throaty sound and the reduced amount of tone during the F0 and B0...seems to be some vocal fry here.

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• Bass
• Singers
• Low
• Notes
• Tim
• Riley
• Richard
• Sterban
• JD
• Sumner
• Paul
• David
• Kennamer
• Joe
• Brown
• Storms
• Aaron
• McCune
• Mike
• Rowe
• Adam
• Lopez
• Basso
• Profundo
• Josh
• Turner

[BenBistro004]

Could you (uploader) possibly tell me the song that Paul David Kennamer sings, and also if there's a way to get some of his material. Thnaks :)

[GamingDrummer89]

@BenBistro004 The names of the songs are in the info of this video. As for the songs themselves, you can hear samples of all of them on valor's website (google "Valor Music" and then when you get to the site, click the "music" link. I can't seem to post direct links in youtube comments, sorry about this!). I don't know if he's still with Valor, though, or if Valor even is together anymore. Try google searching his name and you might find some recent info about him. Hope this helps.

[Agorante]

Taddeo sings without a microphone in a large hall. He sings solo. In groups natural singing can go a little lower than that but not much. The problem is that unlike the top where the voice just suddenly stops (you can either sing a High C or you can't) the low voice trails off into inaudibility as it goes lower. Lots of people can make a sound below Low C but you can't hear them standing right next to them. The mic fixes that up. Especially a cardioid mic.

[GamingDrummer89]

@Agorante I know what you mean. However, one prominent bass singer that doesn't use vocal fry or any other tricks is Tim Riley of Gold City. I actually talked to him after a concert and he showed me a climb down from G2 to G1. I could still hear the tone loud and clear down to about Bb1 or A1. And he didn't have a microphone while he did that. I'm sure if there were no people talking in the room he could have gone down to F1 without a mic and I could have heard the tone clearly.

[bottomfeeder73]

Tim Storms part is just a joke.

[GamingDrummer89]

@bottomfeeder73 Yeah, pretty much anything lower than about Eb1 is vocal fry (aka fake) for Tim Storms. JD Sumner could sing Eb1's way better than Tim Storms. I used to think Tim Storms was awesome until I found out how to tell vocal fry apart from real bass singing. Now he's just kinda good in my book. I'd rather hear a nice full voice G1 than that F0 any day. Lol, I pretty much put Tim Storms in here just to have a note below the piano.

[BenBistro004]

@GamingDrummer89 Thanks for your help :)

[Agorante]

@GamingDrummer89 I don't object to vocal fry or anything else if it supports the music. Some singers can slip in and out of fry just as tenors can slip in and out of falsetto. It can be terrible if done poorly (think Tiny Tim or Slim Whitman). You might want to check out "Fra l'Ombre e Gl'orrori" maybe the lowest opera aria (also one of the highest). However most of the singers are in fact very light bass-baritones so as to manage the high notes.

[GamingDrummer89]

@BenBistro004 It's a B1.. A B1 is the second B on the low side of the piano (the second on up from the bottom), and that's what his note seems to be. When you say B2, do you mean the second B up from the bottom of the piano or the third one? It's definitely not the third B, which is a B2. You might be using a different notation, but either way Josh's note there is the second B on the piano. Try playing the note on the piano and then listen to Josh sing it and you'll hear it.

[BenBistro004]

You made an error. Josh Turner's "B1", is actually a B2.