Hey all of you vocal maestros! I have a question for y'all. What is note is the highest one that Tom Petty hits in Freefallin in the beginning of the chorus? You know, "Now I'm FREE". I'd really appreciate if someone could tell me.

Anyone? The reason I want to know is because I was never able to hit that note before. I've been doing the RYV exercises for four weeks now (doing the 7 week starter program). I decided to pop in my Tom Petty cd this morning and hit it effortlessly. It was easy! I was so freakin pumped that I put in a bunch of other cds that had notes that were a little too high for me and hit them too! :)

Hi Ben,

If I am not mistaken, its an A4. I play guitar and I can find the note on the fifth fret of high E string.

Cheers,

Derick

Oh thanks man! I appreciate it. The highest note I was able to hit before was G4 in a strained falsetto. Coolio! :)Thanks again Derick.

Good on you mate!

I also just started training my voice when I bought RYV2 about a month ago. I have a low singing voice so I just falsetto it when the notes get higher. Within a month i was able to hit G#4 in full voice. I am aware that the progress is very fast at first and it will plateau later on, but still I was able to hit a higher note that I thought not possible for me.

My reference song by the way is David Cook's Always Be My Baby, particularly the end of the bridge ("Baby believe me......TIME"). If I remember it correctly, its G#4 with a slide to A4 in the middle. I just hit it with full voice unlike David's transcending (???) tone.

All the best to your training! Post some videos when you get a chance.

Hey buddy! Well, I'm not just starting to train my voice. I've been training it for about two years now. My low end is solid and I sing a lot there. I already know how to sing well. It's just a matter of strengthening my voice and extending my range now. I was just finding that I was limited in the amount of material I could sing along with on cds. I read RYV II two years ago and didn't understand a lot of it. Now that I've read and studied, it makes perfect sense. I decided to give RYV and Vocal Power another go. My voice is a light/lyric baritone type so I can naturally sing fairly easily from G2-G4, but I had it hit anything about middle C in falsetto before. It's nice to have options now. I actually hit an A4 for the first time in full voice last week. That was nice! Good luck with your training.

David Cook? You mean the guy that won American Idol a few years ago? I'm not familiar with that song, but I'll look it up. I like his voice. Keep up the good work. I was able to sing Chasing Cars by Snow Patrol today in the car really easily. This is kind of neat. I don't know if I feel comfortable to post videos yet.

Thank you for the encouragement.

I just listened to that song. He really did a great version of it! Good choice man.