The Vocal Range of Jon Bon Jovi: (G♯1-)D2-G5(-G♯6)

Jon Bon Jovi is the vocalist from rock band Bon Jovi. His raspy, powerful singing is known all over the world, and his earlier singing keeps getting praise and acclaim.

Jon's voice has stood as low tenor for his whole career. He uses really chesty and powerful high note technique and also owns quite strong low register for a low tenor. During 80's and 90's his voice was at the top of it's game but during the beginning of 00's it started to wear out.

1. 0:00 - First clip is a great showcase of Jon's low register with strong G♯2s from "Save a Prayer".
2. 0:16 - Solid G♯2s in "Justice in the Barrel".
3. 0:38 - Lows bottoming around G♯2 in "Homebound Train".
4. 0:44 - Live cover of the classic "House of the Rising Sun", the passage bottoms at G♯2.
5. 1:09 - Lows bottoming around G2s in "Gotta Have a Reason".
6. 1:48 - Solid G2s in "Ordinary People".
7. 2:10 - Solid spoken lows bottoming at G2 in low passage of "Tokyo Road".
8. 2:23 - Spoken F♯2s from "Livin' on a Prayer".
9. 2:28 - "Lay Your Hands on Me" with great G2s.
10. 2:49 - Solid G2s and F2s from "Keep the Faith".
11. 3:08 - Strong G2s and F2s and great E2s, the song is "Queen of New Orleans".
12. 4:06 - Strong E2s from the b-side version of "Love Is War".
13. 4:19 - Jon's lowest full voice note, D2, and then sliding down to fry G♯1 in the demo version of "Love Is War".
14. 4:32 - Time for the high notes! The first clip is really powerful high C (C5) from "If I Was Your Mother", the backing vocals also top at C5!
15. 4:47 - Quick and easy C5 in "Born to Be My Baby".
16. 4:51 - Powerful C5s from the vocal track of "Livin' on a Prayer".
17. 5:11 - Chesty C5 from "Bed of Roses".
18. 5:19 - "Let It Rock" with many C5s.
19. 5:35 - Powerful C5 in the b-side called "Let's Make It Baby"
20. 5:40 - "Damned" with belted C5s.
21. 6:02 - Lots of C5s from "Hey God".
22. 6:36 - Belted C5 in Bon Jovi's magnifient epic "Dry County". (Bon Jovi's best song)
23. 6:44 - Nice C5 from "Keep the Faith".
24. 6:52 - "These Days" with melody sung around C5s.
25. 7:18 - Chesty C5s in "Little Bit of Soul".
26. 7:32 - Really powerful C♯5 and more C5s in the live cover of The Beatles' "With a Little Help from My Friends".
27. 7:57 - Another live cover version of "With a Little Help from My Friends" with powerful sustained C♯5 and more C♯5s.
28. 8:29 - Really chesty and powerful C♯5 in "In These Arms".
29. 8:48 - "Always" with great C♯5.
30. 9:01 - Clean and powerful head voice-C♯5s in "Never Say Die".
31. 9:19 - "Powerful and chesty C♯5 from "Bang a Drum".
32. 9:29 - Trills up to C♯5 in "I Believe".
33. 9:37 - Highs up to chesty C♯5 in "Without Love".
34. 9:43 - Powerful, chesty B4s with trills up to D5s in "Save a Prayer". (Fantastic song!)
35. 10:03 - Clean D5 from the chorus of "Keep the Faith".
36. 10:12 - "Roulette" with trills up to D5s in the song's chorus.
37. 10:34 - Clean and powerful D5s in the demo version of "Always", the key is higher than in the studio version which makes the demo version quite a challenge to sing.
38. 11:24 - Quick trill up to D5 in "King of the Mountain".
39. 11:30 - "I'll Be There for You" with powerful D5 (these notes sound like falsetto).
40. 11:38 - Live version of "I'll Be There for You" with a cluster of powerful D5s (falsetto).
41. 12:11 - Demo version of "Livin' on a Prayer" with sustained powerful E♭5s, pretty sure it is Jovi.
42. 12:29 - The vocal track of "Livin' on a Prayer" with lots of incredible E♭5s.
43. 13:01 - Sustained E♭5 in "She Don't Know Me", notice much thinner tone compared to his later years.
44. 13:15 - Screamed D5 with a trill up to E♭5 from "Tokyo Road".
45. 13:30 - Powerful E5s from "Living in Sin" (these sound like falsetto).
46. 14:00 - "In and Out of Love" with impressive sustaining E5.
47. 14:03 - "Piece of My Heart" cover with Jon topping at clean E5: It's their first record, and it seems that Jon had lots of pitch problems back then. Richie Sambora wasn't there yet so that explains the mediocre backing vocals.
48. 14:13 - "She Don't Know Me" with trills up to F5 during the fadeout. (Sorry for the missing picture!)
49. 14:20 - Trills up to F5s and G5s (Jon's highest full voice note) in the b-side "Let's Make It Baby".
50. 14:35 - Trills up to E♭5s and a powerful F♯5 in "Breakout".
51. 14:44 - Finally falsetto: Impressive F5 from the cover of "Twist and Shout" made famous by The Beatles.
52. 14:47 - Slide up to G6 in falsetto, the song is "Let's Make It Baby".
53. 14:52 - More falsetto notes from "Let's Make It Baby", this time D6.
54. 14:54 - "Let's Make It Baby" with G6s and Jon's highest note G♯6!

Thanks to StageHolder and Thetarantinomaniac for your help!

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[martiustang1]

aww, come on, men (jovi haters). don't compare jovi with michael sweet from stryper. they're from completely different genre. one for slow rock (pop rock) while another one is for heavy metal. Why dont you compare michael sweet with mark slaughter? For me Jon bon jovi is not heavy metal singer, he's just rock singer.

[GoodGuitarSolos]

@martiustang1 I agree there, but remember that heavy metal is a genre of rock music.

[darkesdraganoid12345]

where can i buy save a prayer or downlod it

[GoodGuitarSolos]

@darkesdraganoid12345 Search for the video of the song and paste the link of the video to this site:

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If it doesn't work, try to find an alternative site that does the same thing.

[OliverHCameron]

I don't get these octaves in the title. Vocal range for a tenor is supposed to be C3-C5. Firstly, how is it possible to sing 5 octaves? Secondly, in "I'll be there for you" JB screams a D5 and I think that's the highest he does. And that G#1? I'd say that in hangover some deep ass bass can sing C2.

[GoodGuitarSolos]

@OliverHCameron What is there not to understand? The G#1 is vocal fry.

C3-C5 is the CLASSICAL comfortable range for tenor, there are thousands of tenors who have gone both higher and lower in full voice.

"I'll Be There for You" has D5, yes. Many screams after that one are higher pitched (and in full voice), read the info of the video to understand.

[axltyler]

Wow. 5 octave range. Wow.

[thedruyd13]

jon bon jovi and his bad bon jovi are the beste song and band ever!!!

[sk8ordie628]

14:23 wow good job jon bon jovi hahaha

[comiat]

Wow, amazing!

[martiustang1]

@hermygagala I agree. 3 octaves range is still impressive.

[martiustang1]

@GoodGuitarSolos yeap it is. jon is great and still kicking till now, the reason is he creates great music without showing off too much extremely high notes all times (jon is singing, not screaming or wailing). look at steelheart, slaughter or even stryper, they WAS great but now........i can say that they're just a legend. No offense.

[megakjacob]

bonjovi is my favorites singer cross my hearts promise!!!!!!!!!

somedays im like bon jovi voice im 14 years old pilipino !!!

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