User talk:Skotoseme

Buckley's Vocal range (yeah i know...sorry for bringing it up again!)
I'm going to just add to the controversy but i want to tell a musician's point of view. The lowest note i have Buckley hitting on record is a G2 on "Phantasmagoria in Two" from the Tim Buckley tribute and why are people saying Buckley hits an Eb6 on "Gunshot Glitter"? Isn't it an Eb5? Maybe people are confused over guitar being notated an octave higher on sheet music, or that he jumps in to falsetto? Not sure about your musical knowledge but an Eb5 is either 11 fret on the high e4 string or two Eb's above the middle C3. Which gives him just short of a 3 three octave range. Not bad, comparable to Roy Orbison and Tim Buckley and better than Pavarotti. Just there happens to be a bit of an exaggeration contest over this, plus various hacks thinking G2-A6 is 4 octaves and confusion between standard american and european notation (european is counted one number lower). Sorry for the essay. Tell me what you think. Sillyfolkboy (talk) 20:43, 2 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Hi there! Long time no see. I think my interpretation is different from that of the scientific pitch notation as that is the american standard which I'm not familiar with using. If so, then it is Eb6. And indeed comparison to classical singers is silly because of the difference between needs of a "rock singer" and "classical singing". I do concur that the Glitter note is out of synch with the rest of his recorded range and shouldn't be included as a range is meant as a successive span of notes that are competently executed. We just don't have any proof of it.
 * Given the constant bickering and problems involved with listing and citing a singer's range I've avoided it completely. Yma Sumac had similar arguments over this. My main concern is that the info tells very little about his singing to the average reader. I think the samples I added do a better job of describing Buckley's voice than words ever could. Sillyfolkboy (talk) 23:34, 17 August 2008 (UTC)