As Geoff has said in his How To Sing Low videos, the low notes are good to have in your tool box but the quality of singing in general is what is important. And you can tell he works hard on both. Geoff is known for some very interesting chords in his arrangements. What a great reaction and I must comment on your own voice which is very pleasing. And that's his wife Kathy who works wtih him on the videos, that he is always looking at and smiling.

@bass2yang

Жыл бұрын

Thank you!

One of my favorite Geoff songs is his cover of Shenandoah. It is so pretty, definitely one to check out

@bass2yang

Жыл бұрын

Will do - thanks!

Geoff mentioned that it was difficult to keep that light, breathy tone throughout this piece, especially in his lower register. It's naturally quieter down there anyway so it was a fine line to walk. I really enjoyed this one. It was such a sweet love song and I felt relaxed and happy after hearing it. I also really enjoyed your break down of this. It's always fun for me to learn something in these videos. Makes it a more interesting experience. Thanks for this!

@bass2yang

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching!

4:59 From the natural "cut" of your voice, I didn't expect to enjoy such a breathy tone from you 😲 You have a top tier voice and you should totally do more covers like that 👍🏼

@bass2yang

Жыл бұрын

Thank you! I appreciate the comment 🙏 🔥

I’d like to hear more covers from you as well, Thou. I like the way you sound when you sing. Or talk. I’m enjoying these reactions-glad you’re doing more! I think Geoff was saving his really low notes for the new Voiceplay song, which is a-frickin-mazing.

@bass2yang

Жыл бұрын

Will do! Working on something at the moment as well. Thanks! Bb1s are already low and saving even lower notes is well... 🔥 haha nice.

Geoff is part of a group call voiceplay Please react to their new cover song it s Metallica Nothing else matters 🙏🙏🙏 it s just 🤯🤯🤯

@bass2yang

Жыл бұрын

I'll see what I can do - thanks!

First time I see "reactonist" who can repeat every note after Geoff..👏👏👍🙂. I've heard you singing Chesnokov Salvationnis created op.25 No 5.. It is crazy amazing how good it is.👏👏🙂. You did great job. Bravo !🙂👏❤️

@bass2yang

Жыл бұрын

You are too kind - thank you! When I hear it, I feel it in my voice as well. Bass powers. Haha. Thanks again!

@maciekprochniak9539

Жыл бұрын

@@bass2yang 👏👍🙂

I'm always surprised how easily you can hear the chords moving. Your analyses are always super insightful!

@bass2yang

Жыл бұрын

Thank you! I try not to stay too long on the chords because I will eventually get absorbed into trying to hear all the notes - I just pace myself away from such activities at the moment so I don't lose track haha. Thanks again!l, brother (brööther) 🔥

Awesome reaction video. I personally asked for some Geoff content and you delivered. Thanks!

@bass2yang

Жыл бұрын

You are welcome!

Yeah, I have been so impressed by Geoff's more breathy approach he's done a few times lately, I have been working on my own approach to it. Normally, I do a bit of glottal compression to raise the volume of my notes below C2... but have been just breathing through them lately and liking the result for certain songs and styles.

@bass2yang

Жыл бұрын

Very cool - the compression does help - as you have said, the result is very pleasing to the style and arrangements... and the listeners enjoy that warmth of sound 👍

Seated at the piano, he looked at least twice into the camera - I always appreciate that. I love this genre, although this piece is older than me, which means way old. I enjoy Geoff's arrangements. He always pays homage to the original, but it is never cookie cutter. He once said that if he can't add something to the piece, he walks away from it. I know you've heard more of his work, and possibly Voiceplay's, than you have reactions. If you have not seen Geoff's House of the Rising Sun, I highly recommend it. He is just showing off in that one. And if you haven't watched Voiceplay's Dragonborn Comes, it is outstanding. Subscribed in anticipation of more Geoff and Voiceplay!

@bass2yang

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for your input - I appreciate it! Will do! I may have to do a circle of reactions for the basses on Saturdays... we'll see how the formatting goes. I may have missed those times in which he does look unto the camera but that is also nice to see. Great camera work as well. 👍 Thanks!

You inspired me to star singing bass along with Geoff. Class video

@bass2yang

Жыл бұрын

Thank you! 🔥

Love all of Geoffs' covers. Who doesn't love 3 to 4 Geoffs singing all the harmonies? I do think all my favorites are his holiday covers. Ghost Riders In The Sky's his newest Halloween and newest Christmas, I'm Dreaming Of A White Christmas. Definitely more Geoff Castellucci / VoicePlay. He's looking and smiling at his wife Kathy while he's singing this song.

@bass2yang

Жыл бұрын

Awesome! Thanks for sharing! I think I heard that his wife does a lot for his videos as well which is awesome!

@janetdw

Жыл бұрын

@@bass2yang Kathy is usually his only crew unless steady cam is required or special lighting.

LOVE the reaction. I always learn a lot more to appreciate about each piece. I become a better listener. PS, as we often say about Geoff - you could read the phone book and sound great! :-)

I always love your analysis when I hear them. The Geoff song I would love you to analyse is The Rains Of Castemere. For me it's the bassiest of Geoffs covers that rumbles my soul.

@bass2yang

Жыл бұрын

Thank you! I'll have to check it out. Thanks!

I really enjoyed your unique perspective on the video! I like how you picked up right away on how Geoff was singing this in a bit of a different style than his usual, with that low, breathy tone. Subscribed :)

@bass2yang

Жыл бұрын

You are welcome and thanks for watching!

Thank you I always learn something new

@bass2yang

Жыл бұрын

You are welcome!

Edit: just realised you corrected yourself later on 😅17:20 I believe that one is a C2, awesome reaction man, and you have some incredibly solid Bb1s! Great work.

@bass2yang

Жыл бұрын

Haha yup! Gotta love the spur of the moment - anything goes. Thank you!

Thank you for your analysis!

@bass2yang

Жыл бұрын

You are welcome!

I really appreciate how you break down the individual chords, it’s very helpful for someone who has an extremely rudimentary knowledge of music theory (at best). Side note: I’d love to hear your own arrangements in this style of singing. Those Bb1s you were singing were very rich and would sound great in a ballad!

@bass2yang

Жыл бұрын

Thank you! Working on some music currently but might consider a few shorts for other styles as well!

@codytutor567

Жыл бұрын

@@bass2yang glad to hear that, and excited for whatever you come up with!

I really enjoyed your knowledge and experience with the bass voice and being a student of chords because of the Fake Books my Dad brought home for me and my piano, it was enlightening. In concert band I was lucky enough to play the contrabass clarinet as well as the regular bass clarinet. One of the tuba players, gave me a few lessons on the string bass so bass instruments and voices are near and dear to my heart. Subscribed. I love the way his eyes followed Kathy. I'd love to see what you think of VoicePlay's newest from Metallica (not a band I had heard) "Nothing Else Matters". I was very pleasantly surprised and I think they laid it all out there. I always thought that Metallica's music would just be screaming, metal, hard rock - not a style that I wanted to fill my head with, but I was stunned by this piece. I think I've listened to it 28 times in 2 days. I am going to check it out by Metallica and compare the two.

@bass2yang

Жыл бұрын

Nothing Else Matters was one of the first songs my brother learned how to play many years ago (I think I was in middle school) and I remember there were some chords that I heard and just had to figure out what they were. Haha. I played clarinet (Bb Bass, Bb Soprano. And Eb Soprano) in middle school through my first year of college and switched to voice and education. 🔥 thanks for sharing!

@bjspeck4337

Жыл бұрын

@@bass2yang Haven't heard the Eb Soprano. You have a lovely voice. I also enjoyed the visuals of the chord. Nice piece of software. I have the NCH Suite because a friend gave me a lap harp she had found in a thrift store and it needed tuning pretty badly. Unfortunately it will not hold it's tuning, by the time you pluck it, it's a wild guess what your going to get. But it is small enough to fit in a 23 ft camper. My Yamaha Clavinova baby grand is living in her living room now. If I can get my house finished, I'll get it back. I also want to pick up a 36 to 40 string lever harp.

@bass2yang

Жыл бұрын

Thanks! Nice - I don't think I've seen a lever harp upclose. The Eb Soprank Clarinet is basically the piccolo of the clarinets. Tiny, high-pitched, and annoying when squeaked haha.

Is that heroes of might and magic in the background?

@bass2yang

Жыл бұрын

It's the overworld map from Chrono Trigger (1000 AD). Thanks!

Wow, thank you for an amazing breakdown & reaction to Geoff. Would you please do a reaction/analysis of Voice Plays version of Halo ? It is the theme song from the Halo video game . There are no words to the song it was an instrumental piece of music. Geoff & Layne are pure musical geniuses when it comes to their arrangements. I don't believe you ever have done a reaction to a song with no lyrics, it could be the start of something new for you.

@bass2yang

Жыл бұрын

I believe that might actually be one of my live reaction videos in my channel - possibly my first one too so it was even more "spur of the moment" than these and I think a few things went wrong during the stream haha. Thanks!

I'm not especially interested in all these video-reactions but I'm really appreciating the kind of work you're doing here, explaining some music theory, harmony and always trying to say meaningful things (ofc you have to differentiate from many other channels doing the same thing and focusing more on perhaps sillyness, empathic reactions, extremely good looking girls or whatever else).

@edraith

Жыл бұрын

Would you say perhaps Geoff have more of a baritone voice with both an exceptional low range plus control over some technique to access counterlow notes for microphonic singing?

@bass2yang

Жыл бұрын

Thank you! For me, this is really just what I do when I listen to music - I see shapes, phrases, notes, look for intention, purpose, and find context and meaning. It's what my mind does immediately (even at the consequence of other things). Because of my schedule, the only thing I can prepare is "who" to listen to and "when" I can do it. Everything else is recorded and immediately uploaded that day - just like a normal class would operate. If there are some reactions that occur for me, they will most likely be music, art, or computer/tech based because that's where my mind starts. You know how people can relax and study when listening to music? I actually can't do that - and if I am forced to (such as an English class putting on study music for students to help them), I actually just end up evaluating the music instead. I really appreciate it - thank you!

@bass2yang

Жыл бұрын

I believe he has said that he was a baritone with an extended range and has also stated that he feels better in the baritone range. With the way he is singing those low notes, I would say he is a bass. I am sure he would do well in other genres as well. Thanks!

@edraith

Жыл бұрын

@@bass2yang "For me, this is really just what I do when I listen to music - I see shapes, phrases, notes, look for intention, purpose, and find context and meaning. It's what my mind does immediately" I noticed that. I'm classicaly trained as an opera singer but I'm a rather sluggish musician, I've studied enough to be able to self-assess my lack of preparation in various skills and to assess other people and I say while other musicians are here on YT trying to do what you do, they feel more "constructed" and less spontaneous from a musical evaluation standpoint (like they clearly had to study a lot before every video and most of their "first time reaction" are surely completely fake) and I mostly end out thinking ok, this was useful and entertaining but they clearly had to study a screenplay and perform in front of a camera like in the same way I'd need to study certain pieces in order to say a lot of meaningful things from a harmonic/musical perspective. On the other hand Thou lookest really naturally inclined to do your stuff (thine stuff, I guess). "You know how people can relax and study when listening to music? I actually can't do that - and if I am forced to (such as an English class putting on study music for students to help them), I actually just end up evaluating the music instead." Yeah, I thought so, it transpires

@bass2yang

Жыл бұрын

Thank you! I know I make mistakes as well, which is part of the vulnerability that we all need to embrace as musicians so we can all grow. There are so many things to grasp in music, which is why I chose to dive into the music using this format. Since we all have a visceral reaction to music and everyone is different, I try to look at the why and how while drawing from my own visceral reaction as input. I remember studying composers in graduate school, and I thought to myself, "Why are we not also studying our contemporaries in the same manner? What about other cultures, artists, and genres? How is it that only a few people are studying hip-hop, which is always topping every single platform and audience consumption in different media?" These are all questions that do not necessarily need to be addressed, however... just a simple conversation will do. Thank you for your feedback and conversation! I really do appreciate it. 👍

The lady in the video is Geoff's wife Kathy.

@bass2yang

Жыл бұрын

Thanks! I try not to make assumptions - appreciate the clarification!

@Aurora-cv5to

Жыл бұрын

@@bass2yang Kathy is the production manager both for his solo work, and for VoicePlay. When he needs that soft expression, Kathy is standing in his line of vision. It's also how he pulls off his comic "Disney Princess" look in the Disney medleys.

@bass2yang

Жыл бұрын

Awesome! Thanks for the info!

13:34 Isn't it G#3-B3-F4 chord?

@bass2yang

Жыл бұрын

Yes - I believe a D#4 is also in there, making it a half diminished 7th chord. Since we are in Eb Major, may be written as F Ab Cb Eb and function as a ii half-dimished 7th.

@rtsbass7829

Жыл бұрын

@@bass2yang Thanks for explanation!

Keep the good ideas going!! You need to look into S M Zeus!!

Castellucci is too thoroughly and overtly autotuned here for my (too classical) taste. But it's not opera, is it. Very interesting reaction!

@bass2yang

Жыл бұрын

Thank you!