Anyone know what his range is? His falsetto is incredible. I think his highest note ever would have to be the acoustic Thieves In The Temple... woah!!!

MrSquiggle said:

that is high.

how's about the note he hits on Gotta Broken Heart Again on the Tokyo ONA DVD ?

that shit is high.

TheFrog said:

Ahhh yes, and how maceo takes that note over in his solo !!
Moooi !!

MrSquiggle said:

His range is actually cut in the middle - so he cannot hit the higher notes of his midrange with his non-falsetto voice. That's why he "skips over his larynx" - as so to speak - whenever he needs to sing melodies that would stretch to that area.

The acoustic demo version of "Thieves In The Temple" probably does contain the highest notes he has ever sang. Or morelike, yelped.

How about the opening of Adore or the beginning scream in Gett Off? Those are pretty high.

The live version of "The Go-Gos"/ Also Zach Zarathustra" - highest note EVER. (I know I spelled that wrong).

In the song "Temptation", the word "touch" gets really high at one point. When I think of high notes he has hit, that one seems 2 come 2 my mind first.

Novabreaker said:

His actual range would not be that great if you don't count his falsetto, classically, falsetto notes do not count as part of a singers range, which is why it was called falsetto. Anyway, the notes at the very end of Little Red Corvette are the highest falsetto notes I've ever heard him sing.

Highest note, GOD

MIGUELGOMEZ said:

yep.

that's his highest.

i think his lowest would probably be in "Solo".

mrdespues said:

Maybe he should have spelled it "So Low"?

In God He's just Screaming. I don't count his screaming. To me the highest he's ever sung was on
"To The Nines" and the very end. He sings extremely high on that one.

The lowest I've heard was the beginning of Erotic city, althought that was electronically altered.

I haven't heard The acoustic version of Theives in the Temple.
it must be preety high though

jamaulredmond said:

i don't agree. musically, on the stave, it's a note, with a very high pitch.

it's his highest note on record.

mozfonky said:

Yeah, but we're not talking "classically," we're talking Prince, and we're talking falsetto. Just like the "regular" range, some people can sing higher falsetto than others - and it's a skill few men are confident enough to rock.

I'm just pointing out that traditionally, those notes are not counted. The dog whistle notes that Mariah Carey sings don't count either. Being as our music is based on a lot of the classical tradition, it's worth mentioning that. And yeah I know classical guys can't do rock and vice-versa. My point is if you find his range, do you count the falsetto? Would a knowledgable person count it? I don't know, not that it matters.

the live version of gotta broken heart on the alladin dvd

mozfonky said:

we don't live in classical times. in modern 20th century "classical" music, whatever notes that can be performed and written on the stave count as real notes.

i am a classically and jazz-trained musician and singer, so i suppose i have enough knowledge to comment, hopefully. the falsetto argument doesn't hold. they're still real notes of music, whether they're part of prince's non-"boy-voice" (as many singers call it) or not. the highest note i've ever heard prince hit is in "god".

GOD is the Highest Note

When Doves Cry & Electric Intercourse are the Longest Notes

Highest: The end of "Most Beautiful Girl In The World", the "touch" part of Temptation, the beginning of "Around The World In A Day"...


Lowest: Near the end of "Most Beautiful Girl In The World", when he sings "my psychodelic shouts" in "Damn U", "Lovesexy"...

mrdespues said:

It's not an arguement. I'm just trying to put a little context on the question, you can't just ask a question like that and not have any criteria whatsoever for the answer. I've been classically trained and it's mostly garbage to me, that does not take away the fact that the chords, notes, terminology are all based in european music. Do you count mariah carey's dog whistle? I don't know, it doesn't really matter but when you pull corny gimmicks like that and say you've got an eight octave range, well that's just hype. Great singers have over three octaves and that's more than good enough, you don't have to make yourself sound inhuman with this garbage. Just my opinion. And yes, falsetto, the very term indicates the classical heritage it came from false-tto. There is a reason it's still called that.

ThePurplePeopleEater said:

Emancipation88 said:

Lighten up

MrSquiggle said:

what about the end of "endorphin machine"? the scream at the end i thought was possibly his highest (and cleanest) note ever!!

anyone?

--gm--

MrSquiggle said:

i've always thought that recording was accidentally sped up and thus pitched.

I'd still go with The "Thieves In The Temple" acoustic demo for the highest notes sang. I'd check out the Tokyo video footage too, but can't be arsed to pick up the CDs from the shelf at the given moment.

Byron said:

yeah. i'm a bass singer and i'm pretty sure that the "when you" after the line you quote in Damn U is the lowest i can think of.

MrDespues is also right to cite Solo, but i believe that the Damn U note is lower. Anyone care (i.e. can be arsed) to check?

Do men get credit for those octive ranges?
Well what Im saying is are his, I guess "man octives"
comparable to lets say Mariahs "woman octives"?

Does this make sense to anyone?

I think the end of Most Beautiful Girl is the highest I can think of.

Though Gotta Broken Heart on the ONA Vegas is amazing because it's live.

Daddy Pop is pretty low (and high for that matter)