What is Axl Rose's octave range??

[Axl_Rose]

The correct answer is 3-3.5

4-5 is probably the best a human being can achieve.

8 is impossible.

[SON OF A PREACHER]

have you heard the demo for 'dont damn me' ??
he goes pretty low at the end, like an opera singer.?

http://hem.bredband.net/htgth/dontdamnme.mp3

[Skeletor]

Yma Sumac, voice of the Xtabay, had and octave range of four and a half, and she's a legend.

[axls_locomotive]

8 octaves hahaha, you must be crazy...dont believe the exaggerated bullshit you read on the net...8 octaves is impossible...

[SADIS]

Anybody who knows a tiny bit about music theory, knows that it's impossible to have a 8 octave range!

I think Axl has a 3 octave range. Maybe 4, if he practices a lot. 8 is like a joke. No one can do that. Well at leats not a man, maybe Mariah Carey.

He does have very different ways of singing and a whole lot of different voices. Maybe people mistake that for octave's......

[SON OF A PREACHER]

Anybody who knows a tiny bit about music theory, knows that it's impossible to have a 8 octave range!

I think Axl has a 3 octave range. Maybe 4, if he practices a lot. 8 is like a joke. No one can do that. Well at leats not a man, maybe Mariah Carey.

He does have very different ways of singing and a whole lot of different voices. Maybe people mistake that for octave's......

Well If Mariah Carey Can, PRINCE most definitly can. ...Although I wouldn't exactly call Prince a man 

[KeVoRkIaN]

I think Mike Patton has been estimated at about a 5 octave range and Ofra Haza was about a 4.5 - there is no way Axl is close to them.  Mike Patton has arguably the most versitle voice in the world.

[dave-gnfnr2k]

Here is a good article that might explain a lot.

http://popdirt.com/print31997.html

[KeVoRkIaN]

Good article - I forget where I read that Patton was close to about 5 octave but that says everything right there

I also believe Yma Sumac had the best vocal range ever (5 Octave) if I am not mistaken

[POPmetal]

I think Axl has a 3 octave range. Maybe 4, if he practices a lot. 8 is like a joke. No one can do that. Well at leats not a man, maybe Mariah Carey.

Yeah, the 8 octave thing is ridiculous. I think that men in general have higher octaves though, because, in general, it is much easier for men to do high pitch sounds than for women to do low pitch.

I'm not good at counting notes, but does anyone know how many octaves Sebastian Bach, Freddy Mercury, and Rob Halford can do?

Mike Patton is amazing! I really wish FNM would reunite.

[dave-gnfnr2k]

Im not sure why people  have a hard time thinking axl has a high octave range.
Listen to its so easy then riyadh or move to the city. He is up there

[POPmetal]

Im not sure why people? have a hard time thinking axl has a high octave range.
Listen to its so easy then riyadh or move to the city. He is up there

People don't have a hard time thinking Axl has a high octave range, people have a hard time thinking Axl has an octave range that is humanly impossible.

[POPmetal]

Im not sure why people? have a hard time thinking axl has a high octave range.
Listen to its so easy then riyadh or move to the city. He is up there

Axl has a high octave range, just not one that is humanly impossible.

He also has a very low octave range. No one is saying he can go 8 up but from his lowest to his highest, what do? you think it is

I'm not good at counting notes, but I think what people have been saying about it being between 3 and 4 sounds about right. That's a pretty damn good range IMO! I wish I can do that.

[dave-gnfnr2k]

Its higher than that i belive, i think its more like 5 or 6

[Captain Obvious]

Guesstimating won't get us anywhere, especially by people who know nothing about music. I say this, someone who knows music theory, tell us the highest/lowest notes axl has sung on the studio albums. An above poster mentioned that the note on Rocket Queen is the highest one he hits...and the one on "Its so Easy" is the lowest, the difference being around 3 octaves. As it stands, that was the best post so far. Everyone can claim what they think it is, but please present some evidence.


By the way, I think Axl's vocal range is 14 octaves.

[Gunner80]

I just did some searching and four I believe, is the highest octave a person can reach.

[D]

8 octaves is impossible, if u know how to read music it would be unfathomable, u would have to be able to sing 8 different "E's"

now counting falsetto it is possible to have a many octave range, but regular voice its not

using regular voice i can hit 2 and a half octaves clean and powerful but a little shaky all the way to 3, with falsetto added in i can sing almost 5 octaves

so including falsetto it could be possible to hit 8 octaves but no way with regular powerful voice u could do that.

[ppbebe]

I bet 3 to 4.
Wider range than that is useless in singing. Actually 2 and half is more than enough for most of songs.

that it's impossible to have an 8 octave range!

Maybe we can find one in Guinness book or some medical book as a case of congenial anomaly or something. Who knows?

They say your register depends on the constitution of your vocal organs. An average adult can sing in a range of around1.5 octaves. Perhaps most of you can go from low E to middle G, easy. Several Notes outside it, which you can growl or hoarse, are your potential ones you may be able to hit after proper vocal exercises. Training won?t widen your range but strengthen your voice to enable you to sing in your full range.

Apparently Axl can sing in 8 or more different voice tones of an octave on the different scales. Marvelous.
IMO It makes far better singer than 8 octaves.

[Gunner80]

octave >noun  1 Music a series of eight notes occupying the interval between (and including) two notes, one having twice or half the pitch of the other.  2 Music the interval between two such notes, or the notes themselves sounding together.  3 a group or stanza of eight lines.
-ORIGIN originally referring to a period of eight days following and including a Church festival; from Latin octava dies 'eighth day'.

Come on people, do the MATH!!

[dave-gnfnr2k]

Back in his prime and now.
Is there any concrete proof of what is it/was. I have always heard it was 2.5, 3 ,4 but never a concrete answer. Does anyone know for sure.