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Vocal Range

G2 ~ Bb5 (3 Octaves, one note and 1 semitone)

Supported Range

Eb3/E3 ~ Eb4/E4

Vocalisation Type

Tenor

Strengths/Achievements

• The most relaxed singing technique out of all tenors in BTS
• Pitch is relatively proficient when not doing vocal runs
• Tends to favor falsetto over mixed voice, minimizing vocal strain
• Shallow back up is nowadays to an extent in his singing
• His lower range maintains sufficient connectedness down to Eb3
• His middle voice maintains a relaxed approach up to Eb4/E4
• Falsetto tin exist relaxed at times
• Transitions into falsetto are relatively well done

Points for Improvement

• Tends to favor style over technique, completely limiting the development of his vocalisation
• Tends to sing with a lot of breathiness in tone, not allowing his vocal cords to be continued completely
• Lower range is often very soft and whispered, defective developing
• Mixed vocalism is very underdeveloped, often has to falsetto when unable to mix properly
• His larynx raises early on afterward his get-go passaggio, effectually F4
• Tends to place his voice in his nose and sound very whiny
• Unable to support with consistency, animate is about completely neglected
• Falsetto can sometimes be flat due to likewise much airiness
• Song runs are often messy and pitchy
• Unable to use a head voice with support

Registers

• Lower register: Most of his lower range is underdeveloped every bit he doesn't generally tend to sing too low or too high. His chest voice maintains projection below Eb3, just back up is only present down to Eb3. Below that, his voice lacks clarity in tone and becomes quieter.

• Mixed register: His mixed voice is mostly on the head-dominant side, as he sings with a soft arroyo most of the time. Very early on in range he starts to sing with a tight pharynx and a high larynx, even equally depression as F4.

• Upper register: In a style, his most developed register. His falsetto is where he seems most comfy, as he tends to switch to falsetto very early on in his range. Nonetheless, this register still lacks proper support and development overall.

Agility

Jungkook shows that nigh of his influences come up from singing R&B music and that'south where he seems to be most comfy in terms of genre. As such, he takes a liking to adding his own musical ideas to songs and they're usually in the grade of vocal runs. He has the tendency to add together them in many occasions, as he seems to have confidence in this surface area of his voice. However, due to his young historic period and to an extent lack of patience, there is a lack of clarity and evolution of his agility. When it comes to the flexibility of his voice, Jungkook actually possesses the correct muscle memory and rhythmic bounce to clearly sing through different notes in elementary trills, as long equally they're short and simple, equally heard in "I Need a Girl." Unfortunately, he tends to add overly complicated runs to many of his vocal performances, which lack precision and accurateness overall. His vocal runs often sound rushed, as he's unable to sing the notes as apace every bit he needs to. Thus instead of taking the time to exercise vocal runs slowly first and and then speeding them upwards to the correct speed, his runs frequently audio like they're mostly improvised and thus not carefully thought-through. The result is commonly sloppy runs that lack a articulate idea of key middle, as he adds besides many notes that don't necessarily fit in terms of pitch. This can be heard in many occasions, such as in "Sofa", "Paper Hearts", "뻔한 멜로디", "Young man", "눈, 코, 입", "Love is not Over", "Yous're My", "Miss Right" and "If You."

Overall analysis

Jungkook debuted in 2013 as the main vocaliser of Bangtan Boys, more than normally known by international fans equally BTS. He is ane of the four members of the principal vocal line, three tenors and 1 baritone. The grouping debuted as mostly a hip-hop based group where near of the focus of their music is on rapping as opposed to singing. As such, a lot of their songs are mostly rapped verses with hook choruses sung past the iv members of the vocal line. Jungkook's vocalisation stands out with a very smooth and mellow timbre. His vocalisation is lite and bright, as well as very soft in quality which is often enhanced past many of his stylistic choices. Although not often singing very loftier, his voice lies in a by and large college range and he would most probable exist classified as a light lyric tenor.

The lower role of his chest voice is oftentimes neglected and non truly showcased through BTS' music. As their songs are focused mostly on hooks for the vocalists, the range they're written in is ordinarily narrow in order to keep the listener hooked in. Thus Jungkook is unable to explore a broad part of his range when singing BTS' music. Most of the time he stays within a relatively comfortable range and doesn't sing beneath D3. This has caused him to frequently lose projection of his phonation when he does need to sing anywhere below an Eb3. Every bit low every bit E3 and Eb3, he often sounds comfortable every bit his song cords are able to come up together and his vox projects without much trouble, as heard in "Sofa", "Love is not Over" and "샤방샤방." Still, as soon as he sings below Eb3, his song cords lack the strength to remain together and his breast voice starts to become breathier and quieter. This can exist heard with the B2'southward in "Paper Hearts", "Fools" and G2'south in "나그대에게 모두 드리리."

Due to his stylistic choices, Jungkook often employs a very unique arroyo to his singing. He never tries to paint himself every bit a powerhouse vocalist and uses the natural smoothness of his vocalism to his advantage. Instead of mixing and belting high, he frequently sings softly and with a lot of breathiness in tone throughout most of his range. Not just that, merely in gild to maintain the smoothness and softness in his singing way, he oftentimes chooses to sing with his falsetto equally opposed to mixing and thus has yet to create the correct musculus retention and development of his mixed voice. For the well-nigh part, his mixed vocalization is quite lite in tone and lacks power. His mixing technique relies on a more head-dominant approach and a lot less on his chest voice, which helps him maintain a smooth soft tone overall. Stylistically, it fits exactly the way he intends it to.

All the same due to him being unable to develop his mixed voice properly and by using too much breathiness in his singing, his larynx tends to exist raised much earlier than a more than developed tenor would. He really ofttimes mixes quite depression and is not known for being a very loftier belter. Nearly of the fourth dimension his mix only goes up to F#4 in their repertoire, merely occasionally singing up G4 and G#4. When he sings up to Eb4 and E4, he sounds more often than not relaxed and is able to maintain some support, even if information technology may be shallow and lack depth. However anywhere in a higher place E4, his larynx raises and his throat starts to become tight, which results in a mostly whiny tone production. His voice is unable to escape the tension, causing him to audio thin and closed in a higher place E4. This tin be heard when contrasting the C#four's in "양화대교", D4'south in "모릎", "Fools", Eb4'southward in "Encounter Through", "뻔한 멜로디" and E4'south in "心中的日月", with the F4'southward in "Coffee", "Butterfly", "Miss Right", F#4'due south in "샤방샤방", "Let Me Know", "Beloved is Non Over" "Tomorrow", "Lost Stars", G4's in "Run into Yous Again", "눈, 코, 입", K#4'due south in "I Need U", "잡아줘" and Bb4'southward in "Bang Bang Bang", "If Y'all" and "Perfect Man."

His falsetto register is, relatively speaking, his most developed register. He seems to be the most comfy in this register and is able to transition into it much earlier in range than well-nigh tenors would. While many tenors would rather mix up to A4 at least while singing, Jungkook will opt to use falsetto even equally low as F#4 while phrasing songs, as heard in "Too Much", "모릎." Most of the time, Jungkook choses to use a falsetto over his head vocalism, by maintaining his vocal cords somewhat separated and allowing air to come through, creating a blatant sound that more often than not works stylistically. He is able to utilize a head voice every bit well and has done so a handful of times. Yet due to his inability to grasp jiff support properly, even when singing in his head voice, he is unable to maintain a neutral larynx and properly supported tone product. The lack of support in his upper register usually causes him to lose control of his voice and make him audio somewhat pitchy and/or apartment. His caput phonation is thus quite pushed and loud, defective in control of volume, as heard with the F5'southward in "Dope", the M#five in "Oh Happy Day!", as well as in "Meet Y'all Once more" and "Lost Stars." The highest he'due south ever pushed his falsetto was the Bb5 in the high note boxing amongst the BTS members.

Many of Jungkook'due south issues lie solely with his lack of understanding of proper breath support and many of his stylistic choices. As addressed by Dr. Iris Stevenson, Jungkook tends to utilize his throat muscles a lot more than necessary and doesn't truly allow his diaphragm to aggrandize enough to assistance him support his singing. If he'd have the time to properly breathe and be more conscious of his diaphragm, he'd exist able to maintain a lot more back up throughout his voice and thus allowing him more than freedom when singing higher. His stylistic choices often have him choose airiness, nasality and softness over powerful singing. This may work for him for the fourth dimension being, but information technology also limits him to existence able to sing in one specific genre only. Breathiness in singing is perfectly fine if it can be turned on and off at volition, withal for him it's become such a habit that he has withal to develop many areas of his voice. His mixed voice, caput voice and chest voice all lack proper evolution and frequently audio every bit though they tin merely be sung in one specific volume output. He tends to sing quietly and smoothly only, which works stylistically but not in every genre. Although Dr. Stevenson addressed his breathing issues, ane session alone won't ready a bad habit he'due south created for years.

Although it may be true that Jungkook's overall voice is not fully adult in terms of technique, this does non take away from the natural qualities he possesses equally a vocalist. With BTS' music, the focus is not on powerful belting and extremely well developed vocalists. Instead their focus is a lot more on smooth and soft singing within a relatively narrow range, which Jungkook delivers very effectively. He may non be the virtually technical vocalizer out there, but the manner he sings works perfectly for the type of music he currently sings. When comparison him to the other ii tenors of BTS, Jin and Jimin, Jungkook is the nearly relaxed out of the three. Jimin's singing tends to be very tight due to issues similar to Jungkook's, just also a lot of natural language tension. On the other manus, Jin sings with a lot of pharynx tension fifty-fifty with a relatively low range for a tenor.

Thus it is actually quite clear why Jungkook would be their main vocalist. He is the tenor with the most command of his phonation and who'due south most relaxed when singing and even though V may be able to grasp jiff back up slightly better than Jungkook, BTS' music is not written for a baritone vocalism. Their music generally stays within the F3 ~ G4 range, which is a relatively comfortable range for a tenor only actually quite challenging for a baritone to constantly be singing in. Thus it makes sense that Jungkook is their master singer, every bit he's the one who's most comfortable within the range their music is written in. For the future of his career as a vocalist, Jungkook would need to undergo training for basic singing technique in order to improve his singing. However that would be necessary if he were to take a different road musically and change his singing genre and manner drastically. Equally information technology is right now, his singing style may be limited merely it is sufficient for his chosen repertoire as he stays generally within a comfortable range and doesn't often abuse his vocalization by singing exterior of his supported range.

Musicianship

Jungkook's main idea of musicianship usually derives from his idea of the R&B genre, where he tries to add his ain musical ideas to songs in the form of song runs. As previously addressed, his vocal cords lack the full muscle memory and control to execute his musical ideas as accurately every bit he intends them to, which unremarkably results in a sloppy pitchy delivery overall, such every bit the runs in "If You." However when it comes to other aspects of his style, he has a good sense of knowing when to soften his vocalisation and when to blend his voice with others. Since he usually sings with a softer and mellower tone, he allows his voice to blend more easily with others in harmonies, as heard in "Some" likewise as in "You're My."

Characterization (Blazon of Vocalist)

S vocalists: Stylistic Vocalists

C Vocalists: Commercial Vocalists

Song Range Video(southward)

Video by: Riki Kudo

Best Vocal Performance(due south)

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Analyzed by Ahmin (Kitsunemale)

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Source: https://kpopvocalanalysis.net/2016/08/04/bts-vocal-analysis-jungkook/

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