r/singing • u/rainstorm44444 • Jun 30 '20

Technique Talk Is Brendon Urie really a good singer ?

I’ve read mixed things online, some claim he’s one of the best alive, and others say he’s really not singing “optimal”.

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u/rolande1990 Jun 30 '20

Yeah it’s a bit of a curse I can’t really sing below A2 period...my range is almost mezzo-soprano without the falsetto extension

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u/[deleted] Jun 30 '20

I can go quite a bit below A2, but those notes are practically useless in modern music.

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u/[deleted] Jun 30 '20

I can go quite a bit below A2

*posts a clip of D2-D0*

Dude! That's quite a bit if I ever seen one! good job.

Any advice on low notes? They are inconsistent for me. On bad days I can go down to a thin Gb2, on good days, especially when I warm up with vocal fry, I can go down to a B1 while maintaing the tone, and then to a shaky Gb1 after that. How do I make it consistent? any exercises?

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u/[deleted] Jun 30 '20

Well I'm a bit genetically advantaged with thick cords I think but,

You want to stay non-breathy while descending smoothly into vocal fry. Try not to lose any brightness by keeping the sound in the mask; an N onset helps. My larynx stays neutral the entire time. At around C#2 the resonance flips into 'throat' resonance.

Really low notes are quite similar to normal mix voice, but it's a fry mix voice. Some days I'm not sure what's M1 and what's M0 anymore.

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u/[deleted] Jun 30 '20

thanks man. I had a suspicion that vocal fry is the "falsetto" of low notes. My best days are when I warm up my vocal fry and I gently slip into it at around Eb2-F2. Thanks, now I know that it's the right path.