So I play with a guy from work who's a pretty good singer, but he's way into his fifties and probably a baritone so he has limits.
We play every single song we learn in D standard. So even if it was written in E obviously when we play it it's a full step down and it really helps him and he normally sounds good.
We've played stuff by Free, CCR lots of 70's stuff and some great bands. And like I said we play it all a full step down.
Recently I've been getting a bit of Maiden into our rehearsals, because they're my favourite band obviously, but it's only been Blaze era material because Dickinson era stuff isn't particularly realistic for our singers abilities.
This means we can still play stuff with Maiden style chord sequences and melodies but just not the "classics" I guess.
We've done Maidens version of Doctor Doctor, Lord of the Flies and Virus so far. All tuned to D standard and our singer sounded really good. Interestingly this also means we did Lord of the flies in the same key as Maiden did it in 2003.
Anyway I want to do Educated Fool next but when playing it in D, it seems too low to me for a singer? Am I going crazy or is this because Blaze is already a low baritone and it might be really hard to sing it tuned even lower down? Maybe we should do that one in Eb?
I guess I have only been thinking of stuff being too high for our singer, but this is the first time I've thought it might be too low.
We play every single song we learn in D standard. So even if it was written in E obviously when we play it it's a full step down and it really helps him and he normally sounds good.
We've played stuff by Free, CCR lots of 70's stuff and some great bands. And like I said we play it all a full step down.
Recently I've been getting a bit of Maiden into our rehearsals, because they're my favourite band obviously, but it's only been Blaze era material because Dickinson era stuff isn't particularly realistic for our singers abilities.
This means we can still play stuff with Maiden style chord sequences and melodies but just not the "classics" I guess.
We've done Maidens version of Doctor Doctor, Lord of the Flies and Virus so far. All tuned to D standard and our singer sounded really good. Interestingly this also means we did Lord of the flies in the same key as Maiden did it in 2003.
Anyway I want to do Educated Fool next but when playing it in D, it seems too low to me for a singer? Am I going crazy or is this because Blaze is already a low baritone and it might be really hard to sing it tuned even lower down? Maybe we should do that one in Eb?
I guess I have only been thinking of stuff being too high for our singer, but this is the first time I've thought it might be too low.