vocalrange

Queen · 1976

Can you sing Good Old-Fashioned Lover Boy?

Good Old-Fashioned Lover Boy by Queen runs from D3 to A#4 — 1 octave and 8 semitones.

In the original key it sits inside 1 of the 7 classical voice types: tenor.

The two notes were read from 1 source and the row is marked medium confidence. One source, read at its narrowest.

Where the song sits

D3 to A#4, on the C2–C6 scale the test measures.
Good Old-Fashioned Lover Boy, as the catalogue holds it.
Lowest noteHighest noteSpanOriginal keyYearGenreDifficultyKaraoke popularity
D3A#420 semitones · 1 octave and 8 semitonesNot recorded1976Rock2 of 53 of 5

Which voice types it fits in the original key

The bands are the classical voice types as the sourced Wikipedia articles state them. A voice type is settled by timbre and tessitura as well as span, so a band this song fits is not on its own your voice type.

Every band the song is measured against, in the key it was recorded in.
Voice typeBandFits as written?Smallest shift that fits
BassE2–E4NoDown 6 semitones
BaritoneG2–G4NoDown 3 semitones
TenorC3–C5YesOriginal key
CountertenorE3–E5NoUp 2 semitones
ContraltoF3–F5NoUp 3 semitones
Mezzo-sopranoA3–A5NoUp 7 semitones
SopranoC4–C6NoUp 10 semitones

Where these numbers come from

Every source the row was read from is listed below. The page prints note names, a key, a year and a genre, and nothing about the recording itself.

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