You say that like it’s supposed to be easy. That’s THE scream. It’s 25 seconds, dude. The lung capacity, breath and voice control required are unreal. Also Maynard was in the army, he’s always been in great shape.
I saw Tool live at Lollapalooza in 1997...it was mindblowing and unforgettable! The crowd was INSANE and those in the "lawn" seats ended up ripping up all of the sod on the lawn area and huge strips of dirt and grass were flung wildly about by the spectators. Other groups actually managed to start small bonfires and hundreds were moshing in violent ecstatic abandon around them.
Seen him 6 times total. 5 with Tool and 1 with Puscifer. He is on another level. The other Tool band mates are all on their own level also. A fucking great machine.
I feel blessed to have grown up with Maynard and his bands. I got to witness him in his prime sing multiple times at Red Rocks amphitheater. Which is where some of Tools album Salival and A Perfect Circles album Stone and Echo were recorded. Hands down my favorite vocalist!
I don't listen to much Tool or any of Maynard's other bands these days, but I'll never forget how powerful and incredible his vocals were when I saw Tool live in '98.
You've got to belt the note but also relax the throat, raise your soft palate and hold the air so you don't crack and keep the voice supported. RIchard Patrick. Layne Staley and few others do/did it well.
Doesn't anyone else love the "Jesus won't you fucking whistle?" Part? I feel like it's perfect. The way I think of it is like with flavors, it sounds sweet but also bitter. His voice is naturally beautiful and flexible, it feels like that flexibility makes the phrase sound unique, and the pain and rage that he puts into it along with and represented by the pauses makes it just perfect.
If you look at more of the stuff from his side projects and live recordings you’ll see that he has an even bigger vocal range than this video shows. I think his lowest and highest are G1 and G5 and that’s a 4 octave range, which for a male singer is almost unheard of unless you’re talking about the best of the best.
The G1's pretty shit and the G5 is a mispitched F#5. I made the old range video and it haunts me to this very day. I wish I could take it down but I forgot my password. :(
He's frying out starting as high as B2, and using subharmonic techniques and layering in studio recordings to get anything lower than F#2, which is fascinating to me. I love the sound of it, and I actually hadn't taken the time to really listen to what he was doing with his lows before this. But that's why he's got such an impressively extensive low range, he's using subharmonics for it. If you get good enough at those techniques you can get extremely low pitches fairly reliably with them, and they come across pretty loud through a mic because of how they work. I'm a bass, and I can get pitches down to something lower than G#0 that way (I can't remember exactly how many notes lower than that, and it varies a bit depending on a few factors). It gets so low, there's a point where this stuff kinda starts to lose musical relevance. But if you included all of my subharmonic registers in my range, I'd technically have a 5 octave range (
All of that to say; People can have incredible pitch ranges available to them, and how "legitimate" the extents of a vocalist's range are usually comes down to the diversity of their personal battery of practiced vocal techniques, what their body allows them to actually make use of in a live setting over loud instruments on stage, and how well they can disguise those less common techniques as more conventional singing. That's why classical and opera singers have such limited ranges by comparison. They aren't actually more limited, they just can only safely project their most naturally resonant pitch range with enough volume, and with tonality acceptable to the genre of music they work within. They specialize and strengthen that more limited range, which also limits their available party tricks, because some of those tricks require muscle coordinations that can't really be reliably done while maintaining the muscle required for optimal projection of the pitches in that "opera range". And that's true of contemporary vocal styles as well. Punk is a great example, and so is any rock and/or power metal stuff that requires a lot of strong upper register use. There are reasons for why some genres of vocalist seem to have very narrow ranges and others have huge ranges, and it usually has more to do with acceptable or useful tonality within the genre than it does with the skill of the vocalist.
An absolute Leonardo, Pacso or whomever u think is/were actually true artists of any time period...hes in that category, as a mater of fact, he is his only category and their is nobody can touch him, not the greatest vocalist but a TRUE artists (beyond the music) that can expand his vocal ability and truly shows you what his range is on every album. And not only is he the lead singer of TOOL, but he's also in 2 others bands...not to mention the wine, his art work and the things he's doing for cannabis. I believe we are so blessed to be alive during his life to enjoy a TRUE artist at work during his life...we are told about how great of an artist Leo, Pacso and many more WERE, but we actually get to enjoy the greatest ever to live or at the least one of the greatest. Sorry for such a long reply, I'm truly a MJK fan and I do believe he is the greatest at whatever he put his hands on.
@@jameymcdaniel5654 No sorry needed!! You are absolutely correct!! Love your passion and I feel most true MJK fans have the same passion!! My top 3 bands in order. TOOL, APC, Puscifer!!
Its cool how wide his range is, I'm a Tenor and I can hit all the high notes, but it is impossible for me to hit the low ones. I wish my voice was as wide as his, but you have what you have, you can't change it, you can just improve upon it.
Great compilation! the guy made his mark didn't he? :) most coarse: Ticks and Leeches (but there are many other rivals) most tender: Feathers from A Perfect Circle (but there are many other rivals too, LOL)
I'd say that his most gritty song would yes, either be Ticks & Leeches, but also The Grudge. The smoothest would either be 3 Libras or Down and By the River.
That song is so hard to sing but it contains a good example of E4, F#4, G4, A4 and B4. Basically JMK freaking the e-minor scale, around the male passaggio.
I understand the letters in the right-hand corner are supposed to represent notes, but I'm not sure what the numbers mean. I am aware that 5 usually means a 5th chord, but the notation used here doesn't look familiar. Does anybody know what this means?
I just got out of a match with 4 pyros, none of whom fucking spychecked, and the single weeb spy was going on chainstabs right in front of their faces. Shit had me like 0:15
