Whitney Houston: Upper Belts Collection (Studio: F5-G#5)

[@onedollarbleach6891]

The underrated queen of upperbelts

[@mynameissurya19]

So true. People always talk crap about her upper-belts. The amount of resonance she produces on G4-G5 is just excellence.

[@tylerhackner9731]

The vibrato and stamina is what does it for me. Whitney is Queen 👑

[@jobuck879]

One Dollar Bleach There’s a few foolish people that say she strained if she belted above E5.

[@lordvoldemort5725]

I agree. Whitney had amazing ease in those upper belts.

[@onedollarbleach6891]

Lord Voldemort And u said I be following you, stop following me stalker 😂😂😂

[@issakelly8071]

Those F5 seemed so easy for her. They're the golden note in her upper range.

[@bestvocalsbyvocalists849]

Her golden note in her upper belt is F#5

[@Curtainstag_e]

@@bestvocalsbyvocalists849 no her golden note in her upper belting was clearly the F5. She could do it so easily and it was a money note for her. The F#5 were great but not that much, she was tense sometimes in her prime on that note...

[@snippy2514]

@@Curtainstag_e F#5 was her money note in the 80s she did it like nothing

[@Curtainstag_e]

@@snippy2514 the same with F5 and even more

[@Cmc995]

I’d say C5 and E5 are her golden notes. I love her even higher belts but seemed to be near her ‘top’ in belting

[@fzpe856]

Her chest voice was miraculous. A developed chest voice. Very rare for a pop singer.Her head voice was divine,too.She had a two octave connected head voice. Operatic like head voice. And with no gaps or breaks,she was singing effortlessly through the registers! As a belter,she was fucking incredible. Legato phrasing,rhythmic phrasing ( flawless tempo rubato ) ,melismatic phrasing,dynamic phrasing etc all on point.

[@ranmasaotome2876]

can u help me, according to u, please rank this singer as I mentioned : Whitney, Mariah, Celine, Barbra, Aretha, Judy, Patti, Shirley, Etta James, Ella Fitzgerald, Beyonce, Ariana, Lady Gaga... Please help me Bcause I don't have any knowledge of vocal pedagogy :)

[@ladysasha90]

@@ranmasaotome2876 you need to remove those last three even though Beyonce is vocally superior than those other two

[@odumosuolusegun2781]

@@ladysasha90 haha..love your comment. the nerve

[@maxpotential-4074]

That belt at 1:38 was INSANE! So effortless and beautiful.

[@kyleyourstruly]

Ugh she was singing tf out of those G5’s the power and weight! I wish we were able to hear some A5s and maybe a Bb5 from both her and Mariah, at the time they were sopranos Ik they could’ve hit them. May the lord rest her soul. Great job!

[@evil8569]

Believe it or not, mariah said that in her prime (when she dished out belted f5s and f#5 like ebt cards during a recession) she was comfortable singing in her middle range. Whitney seems very at ease with belting up high, i just think that both mariah and whitney played it safe and didnt go higher

[@Slaychelle]

@@evil8569 I agree, I think especially with Whitney's first few albums, she was very restrained in her ad-libbing, so unless the melody or harmonies called for high belts, she wasn't just going to insert them for the sake of like many singers today. Most of her upper belts are from 1990 onwards when her voice had started darkening. Likewise, though Mariah displayed more upper belting from the start, she seemed to show out more on later albums like Charmbracelet whilst Whitney's Preacher's Wife soundtrack had probably the most F5 belts of all of her albums even though her voice was losing that soprano height and tessitura.

[@evil8569]

@@Slaychelle yeah, god i miss soprano whitney, soprano whitney even if she didnt belt her vocie had a natural color, a human color with slight imperfections that were actually positives to her voice because she didnt sound like she had been coached to death but had a natural gift with ease

[@Jay2k2323]

@@evil8569 she never really that distinctive soprano “pop” sound to me. I think she was more of a lower soprano according to her range. And where she was comfortable singing at which is her middle register

[@mat_o8975]

@@Jay2k2323 Her tessitura is actually higher than most sopranos. The thing is she decides to use difficult cordinations, such as full head voice or M1 chest voice -even on upper belts-. That's why she sounds metallic hitting those G5's. Also, she has showcased an A5 belt on 1986 San Francisco concert. She has mixed up to C#6 in wanna be starting something. Her full head voice goes up to eb6(and she did it in 1999 out of prime in heart break hotel london). She has showcased whistle up to Bb6-which is countable an mantains her tone-. It's from a rehearsal in 1990/91.

[@kaseyb.4440]

The Voice!!!! There will never be another!!! She was and is the standard and no one comes close!!!

[@arbylaudato9497]

yes darling ilove wetney huston the voice the one d onlay qeen wetney hyston rip my qeen love you somacth wetney i miss yuo

[@lovingmemories8902]

Baaaaby Whitney was chewing those F 5’s up and spitting them out like they were gum she was tired of lol. Didn’t really hear the effort in her voice until she rose above those notes. Forever my queen! ♥️❤️♥️💋

[@princestory26]

THE CLARITY AND TONE

[@maxpotential-4074]

Can we just talk about how she is so consistent with adding VIBRATO to her upper belts? I don't think you guys realize how HARD it is to add vibrato to anything above F#5. The only other singer I can think of that can add vibrato to her G5 belts is Aretha Franklin (and maybe Patti LaBelle).

[@diorrboyyyy]

Whitneys vibrato is better then theirs

[@maxpotential-4074]

@@diorrboyyyy True! Her vibrato was a deadly weapon

[@Slaychelle]

1:37 In You’re My Man, Whitney also hits an F5 on “there’d be NO love at ALL”. I didn’t put a note for it 😩

[@geylordlunalo9450]

I think it was an F#5 and boy was it POWERFUL!!!!

[@derrickbelmar]

Whitney Houston Has amazing upper register it is strong just like the rest register.

[@dior-zb2ym]

Her voice is truly timeless. Even when her voice was damaged her tone was still amazing. Now that’s THE VOICE. Love you always Whitney.

[@BlackMusicArchive]

Clicked Instantly (:

[@nicolelim320]

The voice OF All yesssss 😍😍😍 so perfect power soft high everything

[@Prettiboimico]

Sis I watched this 3 times! You did this! Amazing as always. I loved her phrasing !!! And her vibrato just sends chills through my body, I really miss her ❤️!! I love the visual concept too babe very stunning and nostalgic!

[@Slaychelle]

MICO Thanks hun 🙏🏽 ❤️❤️

[@dafuture93]

Great video!!! This further proves why IYBT is my fav era and what I believe to be her peak! Loved her F5’s and F#5’s post Bodyguard...just showed that she still had it and if she was able to truly rehabilitate her voice it would’ve been a wrap! Anywho love this ❤️

[@Slaychelle]

Akeem Wheat Yes. The Preacher’s Wife was like a second prime. Even though nodules had been reported in 1994, it seems the most deterioration happened sometime between 1996-2002.

[@onedollarbleach6891]

Slaychelle myly is my second prime for Whitney. She actually had technically proficient upperbelting moments like her F5 in its not right but it’s okay

[@nevensalah2424]

@@Slaychelle what is the name of this song 32 second please tell me thanks

[@Slaychelle]

Missed an F5 in Love is a Contact Sport and also her I'm Every Woman "I've got it, got it..." F-F#5s 🙈

[@tasosGRvocals]

DA VOICEEE

[@neworleans504fresh]

😍 Yaassss! So glad to FINALLY know what note she growled on the word 'higher' in Hold Up The Light. Man I LOVE this woman. Another amazing video, as usual! Rest easy Nippy ❤

[@fzpe856]

Glorious!

[@taytaybeynippy486]

This video snatched my hair then slit the skin of my body and plucked my organs with each belt and left me an empty hallow skeleton. She was never less then Mariah in this area especially the F5s AMAZING. You need to do a live version and btw didn't she belt an A5 before??

[@Slaychelle]

TayTay BeyNippy She’s got a live A5 belt with incredible placement singing So Emotional the line “...love CAN (head voice:) do...”. I haven’t heard any studio A5s from her though. There could be on unreleased songs. Who knows how much there are. I think the G#5 in It Isn’t It Wasn’t... was supposed to be an A5 🤔

[@onedollarbleach6891]

Riggghttttt! Slaying *resonant* G#5’s 😱

[@onedollarbleach6891]

Slaychelle you rlly think that G#5 was supposed to be an A5?

[@Slaychelle]

One Dollar Bleach Yh an A5 would sound more musical than the G#5 which sounded unusually tense

[@onedollarbleach6891]

Slaychelle I can’t hear any tenseness, it seems like the sound was just oozing out. Also where did she hit an A5 in so emotional? I only kno her A5 from how will I know and you wanna be startin something

[@ladysasha90]

But Whitney could never support above E5 🙄..all lies. I always loved when she growled out her F5s 😍

[@ladysasha90]

KevOnIt no she didn’t. She didn’t start to show strain on her F5s and above until her drug use became much more prevalent hence the difference between the F5’s between her debut and the Bodyguard era. And once more again you’re missing the point were I said she COULD NEVER support above E5 which isn’t true. So you tried boo.

[@onedollarbleach6891]

KevOnIt wat? How do you only kno 2 resonant F#5’s are u even a fan? If you were you would kno of the legendary greatest love tour and it’s legendary upperbelts in every concert, her ICONIC F#5’s In who do you love live 1991 Tokyo dome, and she has more F#5’s here and there like the one F#5 she hits in do you hear what I hear on the jay leno show in 1990, and her F#5 part in all of the performances of hold up the night etc. supported/resonant F#5’s rlly aren’t that rare for her at all...do better

[@Slaychelle]

KevOnIt You need to check out her 1986-7 live tour performances. She sustains multiple G5s with ringjng vibrato on I Am Changing. In the same concert she belts a live A5 in How Will I Know. She had more ease in this area than most.

[@onedollarbleach6891]

KevOnIt yes Whitney is chesty but it’s stylistic. She was raised in the church so that gritty chesty sound was implemented. Yes sometimes the chestiness got in the way but for the most part she could support and resonate. The Who do you love F#5 was perfectly open, resonate and powerful. You can tell because the sound doesn’t cut off or her tonal quality doesn’t suddenly Change. Her sound gets amplified. Whether your chesty or heady you can still support you just have to have technique behind it. I don’t know why you brought up joy to world, that was out of her vocal prime so it’s obvious it wasn’t supported. The damage caught up with her, and the F#5’s sounded like they were getting cut off by a high larynx. Moral of the story just go listen to sum Whitney concert videos, they have all the supported F#5’s and upperbelts in general

[@onedollarbleach6891]

KevOnIt oof, sounds like you need sum brushing up on Whitney but I’m glad I could show you my point. And yes ik Sohyang but let’s be honest, I’m talking about that authentic black gospel. Idk what kinda gospel Sohyang does but i don’t think Whitney and her are from the same background...also just because if someone is using a certain vocal aspect all the time doesn’t mean it’s not a stylistic choice. I mean Christina has been using the same horrible technique forever and i think it’s safe to say that that’s a (unhealthy) stylistic choice. Now I don’t condone sacrificing technique for a style, but Whitney’s worked for her. The same notes you hear her being very chesty on she can hit them Straight and clean but even still she can maintain a healthy technique using the chesty belt. Btw joy to the world was after her prime in 1996

[@MeMeSingzz]

LOVE THIS !! 💜 You must have put some real work in this !! It is greatly done and actually right not false .. I appreciate you for this .. I love Whitney and always will .. She is missed dearly 😭 💜

[@bestwhitney]

0:27 Devine tone 0:30 0:59 1:36 2:14 2:18 2:23 2:27 2:51 2:55 3:23 3:28 3:56 4:32 5:01 5:44 5:59 6:04 6:22 6:41 6:54 7:08 7:24 7:35 7:56 8:03 8:06 8:33 9:19

[@simonwebster368]

Slaychelle, well done on putting this video together. The visual layout is beautiful; really classy and sophisticated. The content is also excellently constructed and presented.

[@pedrojorge532]

Wonderful video. I think she has some F5's in the song "Thinking about you".

[@onedollarbleach6891]

Dang how many F5’s did she hit in higher love?!?

[@Slaychelle]

She was going AWF lol

[@onedollarbleach6891]

Slaychelle 😂😂

[@pedrojorge532]

LIke 14? She hits 9 G5's(Love will save the day).

[@onedollarbleach6891]

Pedro jorge wow almost 14 F5’s! The love will save the day climax is so legendary. All the G5’s are so rounded and phrased so cleanly and she’s not even incorporating hv that much.

[@pedrojorge532]

It worked for her.:) I like her G5's in "So emotional". I think she has 10 F#5's in "Still my man".

[@Slaychelle]

Not sure why, but I forgot to add Whitney's F5-F#5s is I'm Every Woman :(

[@jonathangrant5176]

You probably got caught up in the slayage and forgot

[@RooRooWBU]

The way you did this video was so nice !! A really nice production it made me emotional 😭💔

[@yvenhess-thema7293]

Love it. And the intro is huge

[@2young2old]

Make sure you do a live version of this

1:22 - the audio of LWSTD acapella was lowered a semitone below, so these are F sharps; 1:53 - not sure if that was CeCe lol; 4:59 - that was an E 9:41 - was a flat G lol. The second one was very in tune, though; 9:58 - that was an F sharp. She does sing a G after the next modulation, though.

[@badd.lil.ting88]

A spinto in her prime. All of these notes attacked head on. Magical! Even when the drug use got crazy, she still maintained her range. She should have gotten it together back in 2004, her voice wouldn’t have diminished like it did and would have came back. By 2009, it was too late.

[@Slaychelle]

Christopher Alexander She had her moments in 2009 but imagine if she had been rehabilitated from The Preacher’s Wife era (which have some of her best vocal performances).

[@bestvocalsbyvocalists849]

She's a clear Lyric Soprano,how is she a Spinto when she is a very high soprano?

[@Prettiboimico]

Yassss

[@pedrojorge532]

Why live her "Neeeeever" is an F#5 and on her record an F5?

[@Slaychelle]

Pedro jorge She sang the song a semitone higher than the original on early live performances - I assume because it was better for her.

[@pedrojorge532]

She did the same with "Saving all my love for you". She could do so many things with her voice,but she did not show it on her debut album. The first tour reveals her truly great agility(Especially in head voice - She executed some truly swift vocal runs in connected head voice) and her massive volume control.

[@Slaychelle]

This video was inspired by Qanh Music’s amazing Mariah Carey Studio Upper Belts Collection video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/nH3FYn1-i8eoaqs

[@humbled92_Mister]

Yassss for the credit :)

[@whfan007]

On higher love some notes sound higher than F5

[@Slaychelle]

She was a little sharp on some of those Fs

[@whfan007]

Slaychelle to me they were F#5 like 2:29 on the word “love” and also the last one at 2:48... oh well good video anyway...

[@Jay2k2323]

Those f5’s seem to be her money note. Which is typical for a mezzo and you can hear the tension when she sings f5 to g#5. Her vocal coach around this time said she was a mezzo soprano. His name is Gary Catona

[@bestvocalsbyvocalists849]

Lol he is wrong,he is a very high soprano,her passagio is way too high for mezzo,she has naturally bright voice and she darkened her voice..She's a Lyric(1982-1992)..1993-1996 dramatic,sometimes lirico-spinto then became mezzo

[@snippy2514]

that vocal coach she worked with was when her voice was too damaged somewhere around 2000 hence why he called her a mezzo lmao

[@calebj8134]

whitney a mezzo? A mezzo wouldnt be able to carry chest all the way up to a G5/G#5 as frequently and as cleanly as she did. Just a regular soprano

[@bestvocalsbyvocalists849]

@@calebj8134 Whitney is a high soprano.A lyric soprano with a very high voice

[@Jay2k2323]

@@bestvocalsbyvocalists849 her vocal coach said mezzo...

[@meltaway520]

Who has a stronger chest/belting/mixed F5/F#5/G5/#G5?! Whitney?Mariah? Celine?

[@nunyabiz3668]

Chest dominant placement: Whitney>Mariah (equal to Whitney on rare occasion)>Celine Head dominant placement: Celine>Mariah>Whitney

[@danielg7257]

yes

[@KropeczkaPZI]

❤❤❤Whitney Elizabeth Houston równie dobrze mogła być modelka, kamera ja kochała, wręcz uwielbiała. Albo się ma to coś albo nie, ona to miała. Zyskała jednak uznanie jako wokalistka. Dzięki głosowi nie do podrobienia jej twórczość zapisała się na zawsze w popkulturowym obliczu muzyki. Pozostawiła po sobie szereg muzycznych wzorców ❤❤❤❤

[@marih_2017]

A lot of songs towards the end i never heard before

[@whfan007]

In the “It isn’t it wasn’t it ain’t ever gonna be” song, When she sings “but that ain’t WHAT he said to me” She goes super high on the word “what” I think it’s a BB5 or a B5. I never see it mentioned anywhere.

[@Slaychelle]

The vocal break slowed down sounds like a very brief F6 (head voice)

[@whfan007]

Slaychelle it reminds me more of the A5s she used to do on Wanna Be Startin Something from her first tour on the words “breakdown” and “razor”, only a little higher.

[@Slaychelle]

@@whfan007 Yes, except those live notes were mixed. If the pitch of the concert is correct then I've found 1 which peaks at C6

[@whfan007]

Slaychelle f6.. well it’s a note that I never see used in her range videos, it’s brief but very high... as for the c6 mixed which performance/concert is it? Thx

[@Slaychelle]

@@whfan007 Sorry for the slow response. It's Wanna Be Startin' Something (Live in New York 1986 at approx. 1:07)

[@slenderman3510]

Please do a video of her live performances

[@Slaychelle]

They will come 😁 compiling notes

[@slenderman3510]

i luvvvvv u. looking forward to watching your incredible video

[@neworleans504fresh]

Slaychelle yas! Btw, I think she has a G5 in this performance kzbin.info/www/bejne/hn2XgWyYe9asnas

[@pedrojorge532]

Same downward vocal run she executed in japan in 1991!

[@ogkush1916]

@@Slaychelle please include her audio performances and rare clips thers so many but I need a proper video that shows her true skills up ther.

[@MoisesBenvindo-bg1zh]

My favorite f5 is, that was effortless 1:37 ❤❤❤

[@MoisesBenvindo-bg1zh]

Oh and this one too 10:32

[@NguyenLam-cv5nt]

She is >>>>> Mariah Carey

[@diorrboyyyy]

well obviously

[@BlackMusicArchive]

What song is the "sounds like a party" G5s from?

[@Slaychelle]

IloveArethaFranklin Bebe Winans & Cece Winans “Celebrate New Life”. Whitney and Margaret Bell (Vanesss Bell Armstrong’s sister) are on the soprano. They’re also on The Blood from 1991 but I’m not 100% sure Whitney is on the soprano there.

[@BlackMusicArchive]

I'd assume Margaret every time I hear her in a group she is on the soprano.

[@Slaychelle]

IloveArethaFranklin Her and Whitney sound very similar on G5

[@jantralee5800]

7:16 6:25 7:09

[@lordvoldemort5725]

9:15 Song?

[@Slaychelle]

"Celebrate New Life" by Bebe & Cece Winans kzbin.info/www/bejne/opeVXoSljZp7jK8

[@carlosgalindo2714]

Indiscutivelmente a voz.........

[@dededejereme2284]

I find that she uses a lot of chest chest belt like celine dion? you do not find? sometimes she uses a lot of thoracic tension to do the F5 / G5 she looks like I find

[@marih_2017]

Im surprise you never got her Nobody Loves me like you do song

[@Slaychelle]

MARI H There are no F5+ belts in the studio recording. It’s included in the Whitney belting range video though on the first D5

[@jantralee5800]

F#5 6:22

[@DGodwithaplan2]

6:38

[@3orino]

What version of queen of the night was that? 😍

[@ogkush1916]

Its a remix not sure which one but its on you tube

[@carman1700]

Does anyone know the song playing at 4:37?

[@Slaychelle]

carman1700 Look Into Your Heart (1994) from a tribute compilation album

[@carman1700]

Thank you

[@bestwhitney]

4:38 whatevah he wanna do 4:41

[@Slaychelle]

That growl was everything

[@hayedehstan]

what is margaret belt 😐

[@justwatchingvideos4595]

It’s Margaret Bell, she’s a singer

[@bestwhitney]

4:28 4:38

[@sawanav6499]

I would still say mariah was the queen of upper belts

[@ogkush1916]

While Whitney remains the Queen of VOICE.

[@sawanav6499]

@@ogkush1916 mariah carey queen of #1's

[@ogkush1916]

@@sawanav6499 thats fine lol. Wé can do accolades all day Whitney has plenty most awarded female, 7 consecutive no1.s , and many first's in musical history. She is also the benchmark most influencial singer (Besides Aretha) and arguably the greatest live singer in entertainment history. Remember which artist career and sound was originally moulded after who's.. hench their initally "rivalry" Mariah has her number 1's many great award, feats and accompliments is immensenly talented and a Giant in her own right. But if you must compare she is a Giant that came 2nd and will also be 2nd to Whitney Houston. Vocally she has a Whistle register and more prominante lows then Whitney (in both primes). Whitney however was a better live singer, had better control more musical ability (which gets overlooked alot) and could do whatever she wanted vocally within the limits "She set herself".

[@sawanav6499]

Mariah has sold more records than Whitney

[@sawanav6499]

7 #1's vs 18 #1's lol

[@jantralee5800]

G5 8:47 G#5 10:29

[@jantralee5800]

9:56 10:41 7:16

[@bestwhitney]

5:00

[@bestwhitney]

5:23