Teddy Swims Vocal Range: C3 to C#5, Voice Type & Songs
Across the 3 Teddy Swims songs with researched vocal ranges in the HumMatch catalog, the sung notes run from C3 to C#5, about 25 semitones (roughly 2.1 octaves). Individual songs cover smaller slices of that range. Hum for 30 seconds and HumMatch ranks every Teddy Swims song by how singable it is for your actual voice.
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Reported range vs. what we have researched
Teddy Swims is widely described as a baritone. Across the 3 Teddy Swims songs HumMatch has researched note by note, the sung range spans C3 to C#5, about 2.1 octaves. Across the 3 researched Teddy Swims songs on HumMatch, the sung notes run C3 to C#5.
Reported figures: Pollstar; music press. Researched figures: HumMatch note-by-note song research, sourced per song.
Singing Teddy Swims: the Vocal Profile
Every karaoke host has watched it happen. Somebody queues up Lose Control, cruises through the smoky first verse feeling great, then hits the chorus and discovers, in public, what Teddy Swims actually does for a living. The data explains the ambush. Across the 3 songs we have researched note by note, the sung notes run C3 to C#5, a 25 semitone spread, and the wider world files him as a baritone. Put those together and you get the whole story: a genuinely warm, low-set voice that refuses to stay in its lane, lifting thick soul tone up into territory most baritones only wave at. The verses feel accessible because they are. The choruses are where the bill arrives.
Guilty and Bad Dreams are the honest on-ramp. Guilty runs C3 to A#4 at a difficulty of 66, and Bad Dreams runs D#3 to C5 at 63. Note what is missing from his file: of the 8 rated songs we track, not a single one scores under 55. This is one of the smallest catalogs on the site and it still offers no freebies, because every song asks for the same expensive combination: chest-dominant warmth at the bottom, a seamless mix through the register break where most voices flip, and enough breath management to hold long, loud phrases without the tone going ragged. Notice too how those two researched songs divide the labor: Guilty digs to the lower floor at C3 while topping out at A#4, and Bad Dreams gives back a couple of semitones at the bottom to buy the full C5 at the top. Same singer, same year, two slightly different trades, and together they mark out the real playing field better than any single song could.
The estimates push even further. Lose Control is now researched at F#3 to C#5 from its published sheet music, rated 95, the highest difficulty in his file, and The Door is estimated at G#2 to D5, rated 90. Spans like that are why our fit table stays nearly bare: you cannot relocate a two-and-a-half-octave song into a two-octave band by shifting it, the shape simply does not fit through the door. Every singer who takes on this catalog is editing it somewhere, whether they admit it or not, usually by lightening the lowest notes or mixing the highest ones. One more honesty flag while we are here: a trio of estimates, Some Things I’ll Never Know, Bed on Fire and 911, currently park at D4 to B5, a shape floating well above the researched pair, and we treat those numbers as scouting reports until note-by-note research settles them. What the whole file agrees on is the direction of difficulty: up.
So here is the per-voice-type reality. Baritones share his home placement, which is a real advantage in the verses, but the researched tops of A#4 and C5 sit 5 to 7 semitones above the textbook baritone ceiling of F4, so either build a reliable mix up there or drop keys a fourth and keep the power honest. Tenors have the opposite problem: the tops are reachable, but researched floors at C3 and estimated floors at G#2 will come out breathy, so nudge keys up a couple of semitones and let the low notes be texture. Start with Guilty, the friendliest researched shape, graduate to Bad Dreams when your C5 exists on demand, and only then decide whether Lose Control is a serious project or a party trick.
About that party: Lose Control spent a very long stretch as one of the most attempted songs in any room, and it earned its reputation as a voice-wrecker honestly. The ending stacks sustained high phrases exactly when your stamina is lowest, which is the opposite of how a smart singer would sequence it. If you take it on, spot yourself the key drop, bank your breath in the bridge, and remember that the room rewards commitment over accuracy. Swims himself sells these songs on feel first, and by our numbers, feel is the only part of his catalog that comes free.
Written from the 3 songs with researched vocal ranges on file, spanning C3 to C#5. July 2026.
Derived from the 3 Teddy Swims songs with researched vocal ranges in the HumMatch catalog: the lowest and highest sung notes across those songs, in their original keys.
Voice and range notes
HumMatch uses song-level range and difficulty data instead of assuming every Teddy Swims song fits one voice type.
What voice type is Teddy Swims?
Teddy Swims songs often fit best when the melody sits near your comfortable range and the chorus does not force strain.
Hardest and easiest Teddy Swims songs to sing
Ranked by how high the top note climbs and how much range each song covers, using the ranges on file for Teddy Swims songs. Estimated ranges are marked; treat those rankings as provisional.
Every Teddy Swims song on HumMatch (8)
Grouped by how each vocal range was sourced: researched note by note first, then estimated ranges (marked), then songs whose range research is still in the queue. Every title links to that song's full fit page.
Researched note by note (3)
| Song | Range | Difficulty |
|---|---|---|
| Bad Dreams | D#3 to C5 | moderate |
| Guilty | C3 to A#4 | moderate |
| Lose Control | F#3 to C#5 | higher-risk |
Estimated ranges (5)
| Song | Range | Difficulty |
|---|---|---|
| Some Things I’ll Never Know | D4 to B5estimated | moderate |
| Bed on Fire | D4 to B5estimated | moderate |
| 911 | D4 to B5estimated | moderate |
| Knew Better | G#2 to E5estimated | higher-risk |
| The Door | G#2 to D5estimated | higher-risk |
Is C3 to C#5 your range too?
28,184 songs in the HumMatch catalog fit entirely inside a C3-C#5 range.
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Teddy Swims FAQ
Across the 3 Teddy Swims songs with researched vocal ranges in the HumMatch catalog, the sung notes run from C3 to C#5, about 25 semitones (roughly 2.1 octaves). Individual songs cover smaller slices of that range.
Teddy Swims is widely described as a baritone (Pollstar; music press). Across the 3 researched songs on HumMatch, the sung notes run C3 to C#5.
Teddy Swims songs often fit best when the melody sits near your comfortable range and the chorus does not force strain.
Ranked by top-note extremity and range span, Some Things I’ll Never Know is the most demanding Teddy Swims song on HumMatch: it is estimated to run D4 to B5.
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