Learn about the bass voice

What is a bass?

The bass is the lowest male voice type, and a bass sings the lowest notes.

As with every extreme, it's really hard to find true basses and it's almost impossible in the younger ages where bodies are still developing.

In a choir, basses are the foundation sound. In the opera they have a great range of roles to choose from. Basses are used as the villains and other dark characters, as comic-relief roles, the dramatic princes, the noble fathers of heroines, elderly priests and more.

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