Saucey Reacts | Mitch Grassi - Vocal Range | I Was Not Ready 

Listen. When ptx says it's Christmas, it's Christmas. Ptx Christmas music is year round.

Listening to Mitch's pitches. He has a bigger vocal range than I realized. It's not a b, it's a symbol for flat notes. And # is the symbol for sharp notes. When someone can initiate a marker on a dry erase board.😱 Worth all 30+ minutes.

The song “with no words” performed by the “group with no instruments” was ‘Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy’ from the Tchaikovsky ballet ‘The Nutcracker Suite’ and it won them their second Grammy! (not a hymn)

A4 is a note. So to give you an idea , looking at a piano the middle Ivory note C is C4. The scale from that point is C D E F G A B THEN ON TO C5. If you go down scale C B A G F E D then C3. The black keys make the # (# means sharp) and b. (b means flat) The note can sound different in head and chest even though it's the same because of resonance etc. Mix is when it's not all in the chest but hasn't all gone up into the head. Just a very quick brief overview. LOL Hope it helps a little Great reaction love my Mitchy 😎 A whistle is when the vocal chords are closed except a small opening slit. (Think blowing grass between your thumbs and I know you know what I mean) Mad control for a woman hugely difficult for a male. 😎

Mitch being a sharpie is my very favorite at the very end of that video. Thanks for doing this!! Great reaction as usual.

They are notes, you were correct with that. The # is ‘sharp’ and the italic b is ‘flat’ so - for example - B sharp or B flat. The numbers are which octave the note is from. Him copying the marker pen never fails to make me laugh! The range and control of the whistle notes just before that is just incredible

It may be a bit early for this.. but the Pentatonix version of 12 days of christmas shows off his range really well! So does their version of take on me. Also that video you asked "what is that" is Pop goes broadway by Superfruit Ft Shoshana Bean ... Shoshana and Mitch hit this high note together and im OBSESSED with it haha.. definately worth a watch! and the song around the 19 minute mark is called La La Latch!

Shoshana Bean is a Broadway singer. She visits Superfruit , POP. GOES BROADWAY. where Mitch has blonde wig on again should be your next reaction 😄😄😄😄. A1-b7 is Six different Octaves. 1-7 Which is crazy.

Yup, you need your crayons again. And you can listen to PTX Christmas music all year long. I'm a pentaholic and I am addicted to PTX music. I encourage listening to PTX Christmas music all year long.

I need your love is a great video but even better is there coming back in S4 of the Sing Off to perform it as the prior champs. Mitch immitating a sharpie on posterboard is like my favorite thing ever.

"La La Latch" is the name of the song/official music video you asked about at around 19:48 minutes. It's a mashup and a huge fan favorite! I hope it's still on RU-vid! You should definitely react to it! I used a lot of exclamation marks because "La La Latch" is that good!

3:32 C3 = Mitch Grassi / Evan Duffy with "Find You" (Zedd Cover), shows Mitch's beautiful lower register 😍, completely underrated piece IMHO

They are notes. And the one was pop goes broadway with Shoshana Bean, it is great! The crooked # and b you are seeing with the letters mean sharp or flat, like B flat or A sharp. When you see chest and head voice, it doesn't mean how high they are, it means where they are singing/pulling it from. I hope my crappy way of explaining it makes some sense. That one song was LaLa Latch. That Chrsitmas song is Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy

if you've watched some vocal teachers react to him, a lot of them will hit a piano key or two after he does something crazy to figure out what note he is hitting.

“This is going to be a very long 9 minutes and 50 seconds.” Looks at length of video. 31:59. Guessing it didn’t go well and there was a need to take many pauses and and breaks for ranting at Mitch, slappy and the person who recommended this. Me- eagerly pushes play to watch it all unfold. Let’s do this. Btw I need your love is also the song that they sang live when they returned to the sing off durning season 4 as the previous winners. Their live version sounds even better than the recorded.

Think of the range as the set of 8 keys (a thru g) on the piano. The set at the far left of the piano is A0-G0. The next set is A1-G1 and so on to the far right of the keyboard. So his range indicates all notes from A1 to B7 on the piano. Hope that helps a little :) Great reaction!

You can react to PTX Christmas songs all year long, us Pentaholics don't mind at all!😉😁

And the one with F5 is See Through. One of those, where Mitch's vocals shine the brightest. There is no video for that one (only audio), but you should definitely listen to that

Mitch’s range is A1 to B7. Subtract 1 from 7 and you get 6. So Mitch has an insane 6 Octave range.

No need to wait until Christmas. If you do, you will only scratch the surface. The have 6 (or is it 7?) Christmas albums.

Ok so you checked out this one now it’s time for Scott’s Riffs and Runs. You’ll be blown away with that as well. Keep these coming. 😊

Mitch is more than just another high note lol

(I'm not a vocal coach, so I'm sharing my simplified understanding of this) Mitch is actually much more sophisticated in how he chooses to produce the notes he sings - it's not a case of singing chest as high as you can and then switching into head voice. You have to make sure that the vocal phrasing is smooth, that the notes sound right in the flow of the song, and that you are managing your "instrument" in a way that is healthy and won't damage it. Mitch is a master at register hopping, just one of many ways he combines inborn talent with study, hard work, and skill. All of the group members do this :-) Mitch is particularly good at mixed-mask, which is bringing chest qualities up into lighter head voice notes, by deliberately managing where the voice is resonating. "Defying Gravity" is a really good example of him doing this.

La La Latch…one of my very favorite PTX mashups…that’s what that song is called. You will love it!

Hello Saucey Dad! Well done to Keisha for requesting this. Well done to you, good memory "that song" was indeed the Aha official video - you reacted to Aha Live from Singapore Vista - but it is VERY different from the studio version as Mitch goes into the stratosphere in the live performance. Lots of comments below explaining the keys, octaves, notes, sharps and flats. YES....Daft Punk is definitely one of the mostly highly respected A Capella pieces - it won PTX their Grammy #1 - and first time Grammy given to an A Capella group. There is a great video of them doing Daft Punk live, standing around in what looks like somebody's living room, no microphone, filmed on a cell phone - they just nailed it! OMG - thanks for pointing out Scott's face in Evolution of Music, I never noticed that before - LOL. The Christmas song is Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy - Grammy #2. BTW - hope you will react to PTX on the episode of Bones - Mitch sings Chandelier and they are dancing AND acting. The vocal skill and talent of Mitch Grassi knows no bounds.Can't wait for you to do ALL their Christmas songs.

PTX is Christmas all year round!! Don't wait. You were thinking of Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairies . But O Come All Ye Faithful is so fun!! Pentaholics want Christmas now!!

Wow! 6 octaves!!!!! Amazing! One Octave is A B C D E F G Next octave up is 2 and includes anotherA B C D E F G Another octave higher would be 3 and includes another A B C D E F G So each octave consists of those 8 notes. So Mitch can sing SIX OCTAVES - that's 48 notes from lowest to highest! Eb4 is the note E flat in the 4th octave.

This was so fun! I am so envious of artists that can hit whistle notes. Mitch and Kirstie are so good at whistle notes(although Mitch has said he doesn't do it properly) I beg to differ 😁. There's one thing to be able to randomly hit a very high pitched whistle note, but there's another thing when you're able to control the note that's coming out, kind of like Mariah Carey status. Tori Kelly hit a whistle note at the end of the superfruit mashup video, and I remember your reaction to that 😂. Love watching these unicorns in there natural habitat. Thanks for the reaction 🙏🏾❤️

I've been watching your entire library of Pentatonix videos and just now subscribed (I literally NEVER subscribe to these because I don't want tons of notifications). It's been interesting to watch your own evolution as you started on your journey to a capella music. Everyone here has well described the vocal notes, but I thought maybe you might want to have something to compare what is "normal" to the range Mitch has (A1-B7). Each level goes C1, D1, E1, F1, G1, A1, B1 then it goes to the next level (C2, D2, etc.). It goes down the scale in the same way with the C1 going down to B0, A0, etc. with the sharps and flats as half-notes between the whole notes. The average man might have a 1-1/2 to a 2-octave range (an octave is the 8 whole notes from one C to the next B) while a woman might have a range of 2 to 3 octaves.

Oh Lordy - if you want to react to Christmas songs, you better start soon or you will run out of time! I love Mitch's voice - there is something just magical to me about it. To see just how much range he has and to have seen the different notes (I'm not musical) just increases my appreciation for his talent. I love his sound and his 'bounce' and I especially love his smile.

👽+🦄+ 💜= Mitch The alien unicorn we all love

chest, head, mix and falsetto can be distinguished by the tonal quality: chest is warm, 'easy'-sounding; head is a brighter tone; mix is that tipping point between chest and head, when it could be delivered in full head but the tonal quality desired is more forceful. I liked how you described being able to 'feel' it in your throat.

Don’t worry about the confusion - music is it’s own kind of complicated math. Music is made up of octaves - each octave contains 7 notes CDEFGAB (the white notes on a piano) as well as the various sharps # and flats b between those noted (the black keys). The octave to the far left on a keyboard is octave 0 and the notes in that octave are designated as C0, D0 and so on until you reach B0 and then octave 1 starts with C1, D1, etc. hope this helps a little ♥️

The F5 song you asked what song is this is called “See Through”. It’s an original. Like others said, the easiest way to think about it is note placement on a piano. So notes c, d, e, f, g, a, b are an octave. The first (lowest) octave on a piano is 1. The next is 2. So D2 is the D note in the second octave. The higher the number, the farther toward high end of the piano the note is. So D4 is two octaves higher D2. The # is a sharp symbol. A half step higher (so it would be D, D#, E) going up the scale. The smaller “b” is a flat symbol (so going down the scale it would be E, Db, D). All that being said, Mitch has a 6 octave range (42 notes, plus the sharps and flats). It’s ridiculous.

Find you is one of my favorite Mitch solo performances, definitely worth a watch. That was Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy, also Grammy #2

I'm back here after 2 yrs and I will never ever get sick of Mitch doing the marker. He doesn't even look up, build up to it or strain himself. He is a total QUEEN !

That is the hallmark of a good education, Saucey, it leaves you with just as many ( or more ) questions as it answers. The difference is the questions are more intelligently asked, about different things now. Before it was " is that a octave, a key...what?" Now it's " I don't understand the way the individual notes are written down." Education has happened, you understand that there is a difference between octaves, keys, and notes. Now you ask specific questions about each thing so you get a better understanding of them, individually. So, you asked what the difference between keys and octaves was. I don't know much, and I may be entirely wrong in MY understanding of it, but I'll give it the old college try. It's been mentioned in comments below this one that notes are set up in groups of 8. They start at A and run through G. Each set of notes on a keyboard is noted by a number, 0-7. So, a A0 is the lowest, very first key, on a keyboard and a G7 is the very last key on a keyboard. A key is a set of 24 notes within a given group of keys. Taking A0 as an example you have the A0 itself, you have Ab0, and A#0. ( The "pure" A0, the flat A0 and the sharp A0.) Repeat that for all 8 notes within that given group of notes and you have a key. OCTAVES, though, are what you get when you move from A0 to A1. That is a jump from one set, one group, of notes to another, either higher or lower. In order to know how many octaves a person can cover, like Geoff who has a 5 octave range, you only look at places where they can reach the notes in the entire key. So, Mitch, starting at A1 and moving completely through G6, has a 5 octave range. And, yes, he can reach B7...but, that's only the second note in that octave. I don't know that that's 100% accurate, but that's MY understanding of it all. And, if I'm wrong, someone PLEASE correct me so I'll have a better understanding of it, too. You mentioned, Saucey, that you enjoy checking out vocal coach reactions. I have one I would like you to take a look at, if you ever have the chance. She's only done two reactions to acapella, so far as I know, and it's been one PTX song and one Home Free. However, her breakdown of things she's hearing is SUPER interesting. Great video, as always. Can't wait for the next one!

I loved this reaction!! Glad Saucey picked up new things about your chest, your head and your mix :)

I love watching your reactions because they remind me so much of my PTX journey lol. I know nothing about music and music theory, but I know it sounds good and cool and impressive. I also remember watching a PTXperience video (which could lead you down a whole other rabbit trail but it is basically them hanging out on tour) and hearing "See Through" as a background song and saying the same thing, "wait what song is that?" It is an original BTW... They have SO MANY songs. There is almost always more to discover. Hace fun and thanks for bringing us a long on your journey.

At 20:00 it is " La La Latch". 21:51 is "See Through". "Daft Punk" did get a Grammy! at 24:49 "Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy." Tchaikovsky wrote this. This is one of many parts of the piece. It is a ballet that is performed a lot at Christmas. Another Grammy for that one. You survived without Slappy. I'm so proud of you!

The sharpie impressions are my favorite lol

The marker copycat kills me. 🤣

I just have to say, as a music teacher, there are some great explainations of notes and their relationships to one another here! Just goes to show, music geeks are as enamored with PTX as the rest of the world🙂 The explaination for the same note sounding different to you in different places may be that good vocalists can "color" their tone. There are a lot of different tecniques to do that, but it can make the way a note sounds wildly different to the way it sounds in another song. It's on purpose. It gives a vocal artist a bigger pallete to work with.

Love that you reacted to this

Yes. Slappy is a product of Aha 😁

I have a request for you that may not be the season for TT but.... I really think you will be blown away. I would love for you to watch Carol of The Bell (the new live version). I just discovered it and it was so AMAZING!

A little clarification for you: C is where the octaves start. As others have said, C4 is the note in the center of the piano keyboard. It's a white key just below the total black Keys. (It might help to go to an online keyboard.) The white note next to it is D4. Those are like do (a deer) and re (a drop of golden sun) in the song. That difference is called a whole tone. The black key in between is a half tone away from either-or C or D. it has two names. C sharp (C#) and D flat (Db [but with that funny shape]). If you're going up by half tones, it's C, C#, D, D#, E... If you're going down, it's E, Eb, D, Db, C. So D# and Eb are the same note. There's a rtveason that you call it one or the other but that has to do with scales and musical keys so we'll skip it 'til later. The lowest note on the piano is A0, and a bit above that is B0 then C1. That's down in the Avi, Tim, Geoff, and Matt range. An octave higher is C2. The highest note on the piano is C8, so that C7 whistle note is up in the "plinky" notes on a piano. So you were really close to getting it except for the funky symbols.

The piece of music with no words is "The Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy" taken from a ballet called "The Nutcracker Suite" by Tchaikovsky. It's a children's favourite at Christmas

You are correct. You figured out the difference between chest and head, as far as where it's coming from. As for the same note sounding different in different clips, it's difficult to tell because depending on the tone and sound (vowel, consonant, etc.) being produced can make the actual note sound different even though it's not. There are many comments explaining the letters and numbers that represent Mitch's range. I will combine all of those comments and say: Letter = Note on the scale Number = Where on the music staff (which octave) # = Sharp note (Ab, A, A#) b = Flat note (Each note on the scale has a half step down - flat, and a half step up - sharp) On a music staff, when reading sheet music, the bottom line is an E4 and the top line is an F5. If I could attach an image it would help more, but even if you've never played an instrument or read sheet music, I'm sure you know what a music staff looks like (it's the lines that the music notes are written on). This gives you a better idea of how large of a range Mitch has if you can visualize that his lowest note is actually 11 steps below the staff (switching to bass clef from treble), and his highest head voice note is one line above the staff. His highest whistle note is 8 lines above the staff. A1 - A2 is an octave. Like Do, Re, Mi, Fa, So, La, Si, Do represents an octave (from C4 - C5). So, Mitch's range includes the notes A1, B1, C2 (octaves change on the C), D2, E2, F2, G2, A2, B2, C3, D3, E3, F3, G3, A3, B3, C4, D4, E4, F4, G4, A4, B4, C5, D5, E5, F5, G5, A5, B5, C6, D6, E6, F6, G6, A6, B6, C7, D7, E7, F7, G7, A7, and B7 (with all of the sharps and flats in-between). I don't think I explained all of that as simply as I set out to, but I hope it helps at least a little. lol

Think of notes like a piano. I'm not sure exactly how much you know about music but each set of keys starts on A and ends on G. And each set of notes has a number starting with 1 and moving up to 7. The "b" and # stand for the sharps and flats which on a piano are the black keys. Does feel bad about not knowing about all this, I only learned because of my kids constantly talking about it 😂

Others have made great descriptions of the notes and how it goes . And you are learning very much and very good only from thinking, it's great! A German from Germany

I think this video is just the epitome of the phrase “I know less AND more and I don’t know what to do with myself”

I laughed through the whole reaction. Thanks

Yes, that was Todrick Hall in the flash mob in the public rest room. He went to the same high school they did (a few years earlier). They were friends back in the day but have had a falling out over personal issues that aren't our business.

Your reaction when you know what’s coming is the best part!

I know very little when it comes to music, but I love PTX and I learn and love your reactions!!

THE SQUEAKY MARKERS! 🤣🤣🤣

You really make me laugh saucy with your reactions

There are many reactors react their Christmas songs through out the year 😂😂

You've got to think of the piano scale and goes cdefgab. From c to b is an octave. Mitch has a 6 octave range; or ptx themselves covers the whole piano lol. The black keys, if you hit them as you go up the scale, it's a sharp note and flat as you go down the scale. I think I got that right.

I love the marker screech!!!

I love that I'm not the only ignorant one, but at the same time so fracking fascinated. I want to learn more about this too.

you've got to do Scotts riffs and runs next!!

Dance of the sugar plum fairies is the one you're thinking of.

Oh my now I am super excited for Christmas!!!!! How about Christmas in July?!

'La La Latch' is still one of their most complicated and cool arrangements to this day. 'Dance of The Sugar Plum Fairy' is their 3rd Grammy win. 'See Through' is their original from their 2014 album. There's a great live version of See Through: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-GO-9xRlYKLc.html

Mitch is an Angel posing as a sweet nice guy.

There is actually a real video for AHA and it's awesome!!!

Since you like watching vocal coaches you should watch the fairy godmother react to pentatonix hallelujah video it gave me a whole new perspective on that song

One of the songs you asked about is Seethrough. There is a version of it (as part of a mash-up) from THAT Singapore gig!

If you want to watch a vocal coach who really knows her stuff, who is very engaging, and is able to explain complex musical terminology to those of us who know nothing about music, I have two channels to recommend: The Fairy Voice Mother (Lolli Wren) & The Charismatic Voice (Elizabeth Zharoff)

Songs you asked about during this. -Find You-Mitch Grassi - Pop Goes Broadway- superfruit feat Shoshana Bean -La la latch. (Mashup of La La La and Latch) Pentatonix -I need your love Pentatonix official video. Also performed live on return to sing off -See through-Pentatonix. No video but you did see part of this song when they mashed it up with Break Free live. When the Singapore audio was bad and you switched videos. - We are Ninjas- Pentatonix The one from their channel not MTV. The Christmas song you’ve seen and were asking about is called Dance of the Sugarplum Fairies.

Let me see if I can help you out a bit Saucey. There are 88 keys on a standard piano (52 white and 36 black). There are 7 octives plus 3 keys below the lowest octive. They are numbered starting from the lowest up. Each octive is 7 white and 5 black keys and use letters to identify each one (ABCDEFG). The small b and the # are used to signify flat (b) and sharp (#) notes. So, for instance, Eb5 means the E flat note within the 5th octive. I hope that helps. Love your reactions! 🥰💀🦄🎶

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The spot where you asked, "Is that Mitch?", he was singing this: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-n7NAcK2hu1Y.html One of my favorites in his low range. When you were questioning "was that chest?", on most male singers that would be either head voice (higher than chest), or falsetto. On a countertenor, when they have a much higher range, that's still done in his chest. Some of the songs you're looking for are the official videos for AHA (that's the one they did in Singapore. The next was their mashup of LaLa Latch and then See Through (there's a Singapore clip for that one too). Somewhere out there is a video of Scott watching and reacting to Mitch during their tours.

His A1-B7 are through different octaves he has 6 octaves

man learns about the existence of music notes in real time

Great reaction turned out your long 9mins turned into a 30mins video brilliant 🤣

At this moment in time, not having heard this?? My stomach is in knots 😮😮😮😮😮😮😢😢😢

The note A4 is the first “A” note above middle “C” (or “C4”) on a piano keyboard.

Algebra II....I love it! LOL

There's a oollddddd school mitchy video out there of him singing "graveyard " you should check it out even if not on video. It's a somber mitchy. Haunting.

OMG yes please watch the official video of AHA! :) Its one of my favorite songs

Ok listened too . 5 seconds. Come on dude. I LOVE 💕❤️💗💕🤷‍♀️🇬🇧🙏👏. This song. 👍👍👍👍🥰🥰🥰

That song without words is dance of the sugarplum fairy 😊

The letter refers to a single note. The b & # refer to whether the note is a sharp or a flat (think of the black keys on a piano - those are the sharps and flats). The number refers to the octave that the note is found; the lowest note on a piano is an A0, and the highest note is a C7. Mitch is reported to have a six octave vocal range, from A1 to B7. Whether it is true or not is debatable, but it is impressive nonetheless. Also, the reason that some of the same note doesn't sound the same is because it is often dependent on either the key that the song is being sung in, or the accompaniment with it. For example, if there is just Mitch and Avi singing predominantly, you ear perceives the note Mitch is singing as higher because of the extreme low that is accompanying it. Whereas, if it is Mitch and Kirstin singing predominantly, your ear will perceive it lower because there isn't as much separation between the two notes they are singing. The way that they are able to determine what the note is, is to compare it to the same note on a piano or other tuning instrument.

So, I am no music expert , but I did take piano lessons many years ago. If you check out an 88-key piano or keyboard, the lowest octave is on the left and would be octave 1, then 2, and they get higher as they go. The notes are A-G and repeat in each octave. On a piano, the black keys are sharps # and flats (looks like little b). They are notes in between the letters and sound s little different. But this is the easist way I can think to make sense of the letters and numbers that represent the notes. Hope this makes a little sense. PTX cover of Take on Me (audio only) is a great exhibit of Mitch's extensive range in one song. You should check it out! Always enjoy your reactions!

You should def check out all the vocal ranges of the three acapella basses by that of course I meant Avi, Tim , Geoff or better yet a bass Battle where all three of them sing the same notes!

The one song at the beginning where you asked if that was Mitch is a solo project. Graveyard is the name of the song 🙂

A-G are the notes (think repeating sections on a piano keyboard), 1-7 are the octaves (how high or low = up or down the piano keyboard). # is sharp and ♭ is flat - so the black keys on the piano, sharp is one up from the base note (A-G) and flat is one down from the note (semitones) The notes may sound differently because of where the note is being sung (head/chest/mix) and the breath technique

I don't have a ton of knowledge on this and I am sure that someone else will be able to help more. However, C4 is middle C. If you are reading music it is the note above the bass staff and below the treble staff. C5 is an octave above that. # means the note is the sharp. C#5= the C sharp in the octave above middle C. The "b" is the flat. Eb5 = the E flat in the octave above middle C. Now back to video. Love your reactions!

A4, etc are NOTES!! Sheet music would tell you when you know how to read it. I'm a choir girl, trained since 13 yrs old. That's why I LOVE them Soooo much!!!

Lol the only thing I know about "keys" or "octaves", is from the "Sound of Music" as in..doe, ray, me, fa, sew, la,tea, doe..lol and the lyrics that go with it ..I call this the Mitch Pitch..so versatile!! Love your expressions..ya should've had slappy on for protection lol

A4 is the a below middle c on a piano for reference, also known as an a440 (440 hertz). A is the note and 4 is what octave it is in.

I don't hear many pick up on the whistle notes Mitch sings in the background of the song Can't Hold Us. It is after the high notes shown in this video. Epic!

There is always Christmas in July...😉 lol

LA LA LAtch. thats what that song was. awesome song

It is indeed the note. '#" and 'b' (Sharp and flat) refer to black notes on a piano.

whistle notes are really hard. and alot of singers can't actually do it. it's considered quite a talent to be able to perform a whistle note.

Each octave starts with C, so starting in the middle of the piano, it is C4 D4 E4 F4 G4 A4 B4 C5 D5 ... The sharp (#) is half a note up and flat (italic b) is half a note down, and both of those are the black keys on the piano.