Anthony Howden <antnee1027@y...> wrote:
> The reason I ask is I am a bass-baritone. My range so far goes from
a bass C to a Tenor F#, on top of that my head voice/falsetto
(whatever it is) goes to an Ab above the scale sometimes A/B natural.
So is there anyway I can get my lower-end to match my upper end
without any change in quality. Sounds like you are saying no?!!!
The tone at the bottom and top will be different, but that is so for
everyone and for every analog musical instrument. As long as you can
make it sound like it's part of the same voice, you're OK. A gradual,
seamless spectrum between the top and bottom notes really helps
the "illusion" that they sound the same. The lower you start your
mix, the higher you can sing, usually, because you can go higher with
a lighter overall production.
I think all I was saying was that it is *harder* for a bass to pull
it off, because the timbral signatures of the upper and lower
registers are so different, it requires a lot more finesse.
A bass will also have less dynamic control in the middle. This is
because you can only sing so softly at the top of your chest range,
and only so loudly at the bottom of your upper register, and there's
usually only a short overlap between the two. For a tenor, there is
often over an octave of useable overlap. For a bass, you've got maybe
a few notes in the middle over which you have few choices dynamically.
Hope that clarifies...
I still think it is possible, and many men do it very well. Randall
Wong has a smooth range from bass F# to soprano C which he used in
the opera "Harvey Milk." I think it can be worth the trade-off: loss
of some dynamic control for the larger pitch range. It depends on
what you want to do with your voice.
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