Soul/R&B · Tenor · C3–C5
Soul/R&B songs a tenor can sing in the original key.
25 of the 77 Soul/R&B songs in the catalogue fit a tenor as written — every note between C3 and C5.
The widest of them is Best of My Love by the Emotions, 21 semitones from C3 to A4; the narrowest is Maps by Yeah Yeah Yeahs, at 7 semitones.
Of the 77, 9 go below C3 and 45 climb above C5; 2 do both.
Every Soul/R&B song that fits C3–C5
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Valerie | Amy Winehouse | 2007 | G3–A#4 | Eb Major | 1 | Soul/R&B |
| Back To Black | Amy Winehouse | 2007 | G3–G4 | D Minor | 1 | Soul/R&B |
| The Dock of the Bay | Otis Redding | 1968 | D3–G4 | G Major | 2 | Soul/R&B |
| I Believe I Can Fly | R. Kelly | 1996 | E3–G#4 | C major | 1 | Soul/R&B |
| Maps | Yeah Yeah Yeahs | 2003 | G3–D4 | G major | 1 | Soul/R&B |
| Marry You | Bruno Mars | 2011 | C3–D4 | — | 1 | Soul/R&B |
| Straight Up | Paula Abdul | 1988 | A3–C5 | D minor | 1 | Soul/R&B |
| Faith | George Michael | 1987 | F#3–G#4 | B major | 1 | Soul/R&B |
| I Don't Want To | Toni Braxton | 1997 | F3–G4 | B major | 1 | Soul/R&B |
| Your Love Is King | Sade | 1984 | A3–F#4 | A major | 1 | Soul/R&B |
| A Place In the Sun | Stevie Wonder | 1966 | D3–A4 | C major | 2 | Soul/R&B |
| Best of My Love | the Emotions | 1977 | C3–A4 | C major | 2 | Soul/R&B |
| California King Bed | Rihanna | 2011 | E3–C5 | G major | 2 | Soul/R&B |
| I Was Made to Love Her | Stevie Wonder | 1967 | C3–F4 | — | 2 | Soul/R&B |
| Needed Me | Rihanna | 2016 | F3–C5 | G minor | 2 | Soul/R&B |
| Suit & Tie | Justin Timberlake featuring Jay-Z | 2013 | E3–B4 | D major | 2 | Soul/R&B |
| Wild Thoughts | DJ Khaled featuring Rihanna and Bryson Tiller | 2017 | C3–G4 | C minor | 2 | Soul/R&B |
| Father Figure | George Michael | 1987 | D3–G4 | B flat major | 2 | Soul/R&B |
| Filthy | Justin Timberlake | 2018 | D3–G4 | G major | 2 | Soul/R&B |
| Nice & Slow | Usher | 1998 | D#3–G#4 | — | 2 | Soul/R&B |
| Turnin Me On | Keri Hilson featuring Lil Wayne | 2008 | G3–C5 | — | 2 | Soul/R&B |
| Happy | Pharrell Williams | 2013 | F3–C5 | F minor | 3 | Soul/R&B |
| There Goes My Baby | Usher | 2010 | E3–C5 | — | 3 | Soul/R&B |
| Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood | Nina Simone | 1964 | F#3–G4 | B Minor | 1 | Soul/R&B |
| Happier Than Ever | Billie Eilish | 2021 | E3–C5 | C Major | 2 | Soul/R&B |
What this list is
The catalogue holds 430 songs with a sourced lowest and highest note, and 77 of those are Soul/R&B. A song is on this page only if both of its notes already sit inside C3–C5 — nothing 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.