Journey songs sung by Steve Perry on early Journey albums in order to increase my vocal abilities.
First of all, I wanna say that I am not a Journey fan. I like 3 songs by Journey, and that's all, and regard most of their stuff as formulaic commercial pop schlock. But that's just my taste speaking.
But I recognize that Steve Perry had a lot natural talent and technical ability. Singing is a complex endeavor, and learning to control all the mechanisms in your chest, throat and head in order to actually really sing is not all that easy.
Timbre is the quality, or "color", of tone, and the quality of tone is a matter of opinion. Apparently, you don't like the timbre of Steve Perry's voice. Fair enough. Some people hate Pavarotti's timbre, or the timbres of Aretha Franklin, Adele, Sam Cooke, Bill Medley, Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra, Robert Plant, Pink, Freddie Mercury etc.
But Steve Perry was a very talented vocalist.
His vocal tonal range is very broad, and high for a male; I believe that it spans 4 octaves. This is extraordinary, and this is not a matter of opinion, a 4 octave span with tonal control is not a common vocal ability.
He slips from from full voice into falsetto and back to full voice very smoothly, and at times the timbre of his falsetto is difficult to distinguish from his full voice.
The power of his voice is also extraordinary, his breathing and lung capacity are to die for, and his control (when his voice was not fried from touring) was pretty awesome.
Try singing Don't Stop Believin' along with the recorded song, in the same key and octave that Steve Perry sings it, and you may get a new respect at least for his natural and technical ability. you may also get a sinus headache from trying to hit the high notes. And many of his songs are much more difficult vocal challenges than Don't Stop Believin'.
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I can't Chaaaaannnnnge. Talk about repetitive shit. BORING.
