Bass · E2–E4
Songs a bass can sing in the original key.
24 of the 430 songs in the catalogue sit entirely between E2 and E4 — the bass band — in the key they were recorded in.
Of the 430, 406 climb above E4. The widest song that fits is Party In the U.S.A. by Miley Cyrus, 21 semitones from F2 to D4.
Every song that fits E2–E4
The best-known songs come first, and the easier ones first inside that. Rows whose chart position nobody matched sit at the end.
| Song | Artist | Year | Range | Original key | Difficulty | Genre |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Take Me Home, Country Roads | John Denver | 1971 | D3–E4 | A major | 1 | Folk |
| Can't Help Falling In Love | Elvis Presley | 1961 | A2–C#4 | D Major | 1 | Pop |
| Dance Monkey | Tones and I | — | E3–C#4 | F# Minor | 1 | — |
| How Far I'll Go | Moana | — | B2–D4 | E Major | 1 | — |
| Last Friday Night | Katy Perry | — | D3–E4 | G Major | 1 | — |
| Love Story | Taylor Swift | — | A2–B3 | D Major | 1 | — |
| Party In the U.S.A. | Miley Cyrus | — | F2–D4 | F Major | 2 | — |
| Shotgun | George Ezra | — | F2–D4 | F Major | 2 | — |
| Flashing Lights | Kanye West featuring Dwele | 2007 | C3–E4 | F♯ minor | 1 | Hip-hop |
| Maps | Yeah Yeah Yeahs | 2003 | G3–D4 | G major | 1 | Soul/R&B |
| Marry You | Bruno Mars | 2011 | C3–D4 | — | 1 | Soul/R&B |
| Have a Nice Day | Bon Jovi | 2005 | B2–C#4 | E major | 1 | Rock |
| Lighters | Bad Meets Evil featuring Bruno Mars | 2011 | C3–C4 | C major | 1 | Hip-hop |
| Maybe It's Time | Bradley Cooper | 2018 | B2–B3 | G major | 1 | Country |
| Mystery of Love | Sufjan Stevens | 2017 | D3–E4 | G major | 1 | — |
| Rocketeer | Far East Movement featuring Ryan Tedder of OneRepublic | 2010 | D3–D4 | A minor | 1 | Hip-hop |
| Shivers | the Boys Next Door | 1979 | D3–E4 | — | 1 | Punk |
| This Town | Niall Horan | 2016 | D3–E4 | A major | 1 | Pop |
| You Are So Beautiful | Billy Preston | 1974 | A#2–D#4 | A♭ major | 2 | Soul/R&B |
| Back In the U.S.S.R. | The Beatles | 1968 | C#3–E4 | A Major | 1 | Rock |
| In the Ghetto | Elvis Presley | 1969 | A#2–C4 | Bb Major | 1 | Pop |
| When I Fall In Love | Nat King Cole | 1956 | G#2–C4 | Db Major | 1 | Standard/Jazz |
| Always on My Mind | Elvis Presley | 1972 | G2–E4 | G Major | 2 | Country |
| Highway To Hell | AC/DC | 1979 | G2–E4 | A Major | 2 | Rock |
Where the band comes from
Lowest male voice. Wikipedia's operatic classification gives G2-C4; the Bass article gives the practical E2-E4 span used here.
Its tessitura — where the voice sits rather than where it reaches — is G2 to C4.
The row cites 2 sources and is marked high confidence.
- Bass (voice type) en.wikipedia.org
- Vocal range en.wikipedia.org
What this list is
The catalogue holds 430 songs with a sourced lowest and highest note, which is not every song ever recorded. Nothing on this page has been moved to another key.
A voice type is a convention for classifying a trained voice by timbre and where it sits, not a test result on its own.
No song here is marked safe or risky. Those labels are read off notes held for two seconds, and this page has not heard you sing.