Can you sing Cedarwood Road by U2?

Cedarwood Road is U2 walking back down the street Bono grew up on, and the vocal carries that muscle-memory anger: a researched D3 to G4 range driven through crunching guitars, verses that prowl the low-middle and choruses that lean hard on the top of the span. Seventeen semitones, sung with fists half-clenched.

The deciding moment is the chorus lean, where the melody sustains around G4 against the riff and the tone needs rock-forward bite without tipping into shout: Bono's mature register lives right there, gritty but pitched, urgent but supported. The 66 difficulty score reflects that sustained intensity more than any reach. The technique is rock mix with edge, a bright, slightly snarled placement that carries over distortion while the breath does the actual work. Tenors fit the stored range outright. Baritones face two ceiling semitones, close enough to take with attitude, or two down settles it. Altos sit three semitones shy of the stored floor, easily managed. The song rewards whoever can sound dangerous without ever actually straining.

Practice cue: sing the chorus at half volume with full snarl in the face and eyes. If it still sounds angry quiet, the edge is coming from the right place.

Written from this song's researched range on file, D3 to G4 (17 semitones). July 2026.