High Notes in Rock Music: Power

Here is another compilation. This time the most important thing is the power of notes showcased here!

1. (Really dark) Low tenor Layne Staley has the honor to start the compilation with his wonderful, chesty B4 and G#4s from "Don't Follow".
2. High baritone Glenn Danzig got owned by a big guy but these B4s from "Mother" would surely knock out anyone.
3. Baritone Chad Kroeger may be the frontman of the worst band in the world, but there is no denying of his vocal chops; Powerful B4s from "Burn It to the Ground".
4. Tenor Steve Walsh lets loose B4s in "Carry on Wayward Son".
5. Low tenor Michael Bolton (really baritonish voice) screwed up the lyrics of "The Star Spangled Banner" but the blistering B4 he hits is the elite of elite.
6. High baritone/low tenor Dave Padden doing an insane B4-scream in "Warbird". (It sounds like he uses distortion pedal to make it sound inhumanly raw...)
7. Lowest tenor ever', Paul McCartney, lets out his powerful warcry (C5) in "Live and Let Die".
8. If low tenor Jon Bon Jovi was your mother(!?), he would teach you how to hit high notes as powerful as his; excellent C5s in "If I Was Your Mother".'
9. Low tenor Meat Loaf does powerful C5s in "Bat Out of Hell".
10. Great C5s from "It's Not Unusual" sung by high baritone Tom Jones.
11. High baritone James Christian's amazing C#5 from "Demons Down".
12. Great D5 from "Don't Talk to Strangers" by low tenor Ronnie James Dio.
13. Low tenor Freddie Mercury gliding up to powerful D5 in "Let's Turn It On".
14. Low tenor Rob Halford gliding up to amazing D5 in head voice, the song is "Rapid Fire".
15. Low tenor Mick Hucknall glides up to good D5s in "Something Got Me Started".
16. Tenor Chester Bennington sustaining really powerful D5 in "Given Up".
17. Tenor Paul Stanley does earthshattering D5 in "Master & Slave".
18. Tenor Leo Jiménez goes up to powerful E♭5 in "Dios".
19. Baritone Whitfield Crane goes up to great sustained E♭5 in "Madman".
20. Baritone Chris Cornell is on a mission to hit blistering high notes like this E5 from the live version of "Mission".
21. Baritone Mike Patton shows that he can scream too: slide up to incredible sustained E5 in "9 x 9".
22. Low tenor Bruce Dickinson's famous E5 from "Where Eagles Dare".
23. Emotional and impressive E5 and sustained D5 by low tenor Tobias Sammet from "The Spirit Will Remain".
24. Low tenor Michael Kiske glides up to many E5s, and does impressive note-singing in one breath, the song is "Keeper of the Seven Keys".
25. High baritone Jimmy Gnecco gliding up to impressive high notes topping at E5 in "Fallen Souls".
26. High baritone Kirka does a kinky cover of Steppenwolf's "Born to Be Wild" but with amazing singing; lots of trills up to E5s, and powerful B4s.
27. Impressive wailing up to F5 in "L'Via L'Viaquez" by high tenor Cedric Bixler-Zavala.
28. Tenor Adam Lambert glides up to godly F5 in the cover of "Feeling Good".
29. Low baritone Axl Rose going up to powerful, chesty F#5 in "Rocker".
30. Low tenor Joel O'Keeffe sustaining an impressive F#5 from "Blonde, Bad and Beautiful".
31. Powerful falsetto F#5s from dirty "Darling Nikki" done by high baritone Prince.
32. Tenor Daniel Heiman hits high notes to end all the other high notes topping at G5, the song is "Highlander (The One)".
33. Tenor Robert Plant going up to chesty G5 in full voice, the song is "Since I've Been Loving You".
34. Really impressive and powerful G#5 from "Stand in Line" hit by the godly high baritone Graham Bonnet.
35. Extremely powerful falsetto A5 from "Hail and Kill", the vocalist is baritone Eric Adams.
36. Low baritone Phil Anselmo sustains amazing (almost full voice-like!) falsetto notes topping at A5, the song is "Cemetery Gates".
37. Low tenor Chuck Schuldiner sustaining extremely powerful notes (the first one tops at A5!) in the cover of Judas Priest's "Painkiller".
38. Tenor James LaBrie going up to full A5(!) in the cover of Iron Maiden's "The Number of the Beast".
39. High baritone Ian Gillan screaming in amazing falsetto in the live version of "Strange Kind of Woman", he tops at B♭5.
40. What an awesome way to finish the compilation! High baritone Roger Daltrey does his legendary E5(C6?)-scream in "Won't Get Fooled Again".

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[AeroCooper1]

Needs more Plant/Cornell.

[GoodGuitarSolos]

@AeroCooper1 Check out Cornell's vocal range video!

[Cuishi10]

Does anyone remeber the name of that viral video of some dude hitting one power note. It looked like the video was shot in the 80's with very poor video quality. It looked like a local news station try out or something. He was dressed kinda like Motely Crue, Axl Rose style get-up.And I swear it looked as if he stuffed(but what rocker didn't back then). The video was hella funny, cause his power note started low into a high falsetto yell. Can anyone help me? I've been driving myself crazy looking

[GoodGuitarSolos]

@Cuishi10 Are you talking about this one?

/watch?v=bH5gmbugmxM

[Sunajeshsja]

Question, though I'm not sure if anyone can answer it: If you can hit nearly all the notes of a certain singer, and your singing voice sounds nearly identical to theirs, does that mean you're both in the same range? Chester is a tenor, and I can hit nearly all of his notes (until the A2 he pulls in "Leave Out All the Rest"), but according to my upper range (F6), I'm dramatic mezzo soprano. Problem is that so is Amy Lee (Evanescence), and I can't sing her songs in her range worth crap. Help plz?

[GoodGuitarSolos]

@Sunajeshsja Range doesn't tell much about one's voice type. You could very well be an alto, but even so your range doesn't tell what your voice type is. You could try recording few clips, I could try to help you.

[CuriosityRoads]

Bonnet's, Labrie's and Heiman's are my favs.

The guy at 7:20 looks like the "Garbage day!" psycho.

[GoodGuitarSolos]

@JoeSidhu Wow, you actually bothered to comment?

Almost all of the Cornell-fans have heard those notes already, I chose another note which is more unfamiliar. And shitty example? Fuck me, idiot.

If you want to hear those notes you mentioned, check out Cornell's vocal range video and stop weeping.

[mattconsul]

I'd love to see a video about Corey Taylor and Chester's vocal range

[TheVelvetBride]

could you please do such kind of video for Steelheart's vocalist Mili :D I'm so curious :S

[Cuishi10]

@GoodGuitarSolos  Thanx again...

[Cuishi10]

@Cuishi10 OH WAIT! I just realized youtube won't let u post the full address, can u go to my youtube page and leave it in my comments? or send me a personal message even, either is light =) Thank You...

[Cuishi10]

@GoodGuitarSolos Oh! GGS, I didn't get the full address, can u send it to me again. HEY! what about Freddie Mercury and David Bowie singing under pressure, or am I hitting way left field with that one?

[Sunajeshsja]

@GoodGuitarSolos Oh, you have no idea how much I'd love to do that, but I have no way of doing it, nor the money to buy the equipment. Also, I had the feeling that would be the answer. I say tenor, a friend says barytone martin, someone else says dramatic mezzo, but then I listen to these clips of baritones and tenors hitting these notes, and I have a deeper singing voice than some of the baritones! Conversely, some of the high tenors have deeper voices than mine. LOL, it's confusing.