Argent Adept's Vocal Range

While I'm sure he sings like a magical, angelic mix of Barry White, Freddy Mercury, and Aretha Franklin, has Drake's natural vocal range ever been identified or confirmed? I'm going to be playing him with a dulcet, rolling baritone tonight, but I’d like to get it as accurate as possible in the ensuing issues of the starter kit’s issues.

If we go with a Doylist perspective, considering they got Christopher's bro to do his voice in the video game, I would fire up the Live at Gen Con Letters Page podcast episode and go from there.

(And honestly from a Watsonian perspective, Rick Astley notwithstanding, I'd still expect someone who looks like Anthony to have a higher-ranged voice.)

The Vocalize power in the video game has a little snippet of him singing, but my ear isn't good enough to tell you how it actually sounds. Differentiating between things like alto/tenor/baritone is beyond me.

Well, according to the video game, he can at least sing a transposed version of Avril Lavigne's What The Hell.

Don't believe me? Listen to Vocalise once or twice, then click the link.

 

Anthony Badell is definitely a tenor, and if "Vocalize" is the most comfortable pitch for AA, that sounds right for him, too.  I'm a baritone and those notes are not in my comfort range.

And AA himself strikes me as someone who'd be more of a classical or folk singer than soul singer, per se. (Being good with a set of pipes invokes more of an Irish tenor vibe in my mind, at least.)

Don't forget the metal yell! :D

Thats an alternate reality though,  things are more METAL in the X-tremeverse. 

Nuts. I don't think I can hit tenor on my best of days. 

I can sympathize Bard, I always tried singing along to my favorite tenors, Bruce Dickinson, Freddy Mercury, Serj Tankian, Bon Scott(that last one might not count as a "tenor.") Then when my friend convinced me to join chior with her in high school I figured I was a sure in, i mean, i was skinner than an anorexic palm tree, then I find out my confortable range is closer to Contrabass.  So now i have a ready excuse for how bad i sound. Still wind up getting talked into singing Darkness' thing called love at karaoke on occasion. I keep telling Jose Quervo I don't have the range for that song, but he never listens.

I sympathize from a ladyperson perspective; I'm a mezzo-soprano that can go about 3/4 of the way up or down but most modern lady singers sing solidly in either soprano or contralto range, so I'm always running into where I can sing about 90% of a song and the rest is either a bit too high or too low. :P (One reason why I'm fond of folk music and 40s-60s music; that tends to fall more solidly into my vocal range.)

But don't forget that in the end it's your RP, dude; you can make everybody sound however you want. :D Always do whatever you can with whatever you have to work with, and it's all good from there.

Don't feel bad.  Nobody has the range for that song.

I’m a percussionist so my vocal range is best summed up as “Shut your mouth and keep time” :)

I'm constantly told I have both a face and voice for radio, so here's to hoping I at least do Heartbreaker justice...

I’m a percussionist, but I can actually sing pretty well.

As you can guess, that means I’m not that great of a percussionist  :stuck_out_tongue:  (I’m not bad tho… right? I think I’m right.)

I have the utmost respect for percussionists. I can keep time enough for singing purposes by following the flow of whatever lyrics I'm singing, but not in any sort of unaided sense outside of that.

Listen to the whole Flowbots, No handlebars song and the most impressive feat listed in the whole song is keeping rythm with no metronome. I am only slightly whiter than the average Eucalyptis and it shows in my Rythm. I'm a pretty desent storyteller, but if I have to sing we'd better pray to someone that there's a good percussionist around ^.^

I was reminded recently that I should have said that if we ever want to still run with a baritone headcanon for Argent, I vote for being inspired by Stan Rogers over Barry White.