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Michael Jackson's Vocal Fach

Something completely different brought to re-think about high frequency vocals...
...and reminded me I was curious about comparing Mariah Carey's Emotions which reportedly has the high vocal note in popular music, G7 with MJ/Gibbs' All In Your Name . ...as I had the impression they might come close. And as I think I mentioned, I find All In Your Name more impressive considering that they are actually singing words...

I thought some tool to measure notes would be easy to find, but the first ones I tried just didn't work. I ended up trying with two Android application, on two phones.
In Emotions it measured a C7, maybe a F7 at a brief moment (but haven't gone through the all songs as it was unpractical).
In All In You Name it measured up to things around D5, F5 and sometimes somthing-6 (that last time MJ says "follow me" I think).

I'm not sure at all if my test is accurate, and they're not precisely the same from on try to another, I would be interested if someone else know how to make it right. But yet I found potentially interesting that they're high than MJ's reported higher notes...
 
Maxym said:
Something completely different brought to re-think about high frequency vocals...
...and reminded me I was curious about comparing Mariah Carey's Emotions which reportedly has the high vocal note in popular music, G7 with MJ/Gibbs' All In Your Name . ...as I had the impression they might come close. And as I think I mentioned, I find All In Your Name more impressive considering that they are actually singing words...

I thought some tool to measure notes would be easy to find, but the first ones I tried just didn't work. I ended up trying with two Android application, on two phones.
In Emotions it measured a C7, maybe a F7 at a brief moment (but haven't gone through the all songs as it was unpractical).
In All In You Name it measured up to things around D5, F5 and sometimes somthing-6 (that last time MJ says "follow me" I think).

I'm not sure at all if my test is accurate, and they're not precisely the same from on try to another, I would be interested if someone else know how to make it right. But yet I found potentially interesting that they're high than MJ's reported higher notes...
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In terms of actual full (chest/mixed) voice range, the highest I've heard from adult MJ is F5 (in "Enjoy Yourself). The lowest full voice note from him I've heard is F#2 (in the vocal warmup). There was also a really bad vocal fry F2 in the vocal warmup. All of the "hee-hee" "aaow" and "ooh" is falsetto, not really his full voice range.

So that's 3 octaves in full voice, which is quite impressive.
 
I don't know much about this, I just know Seth Rigs said he had a 4 octave range. I think this is the only true answer as someone who was a vocal coach to Michael for years would know best. A lot of information on the internet is based on songs released by MJ and not on what he could actually do / sing.

I also found this article interesting from 2017
daily.redbullmusicacademy.com

Vocal Coach Seth Riggs on Working with Michael Jackson, Ray Charles and More

The prolific teacher behind the esteemed method known as “speech level singing” shares his story.
daily.redbullmusicacademy.com daily.redbullmusicacademy.com
 
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