Can you sing Thunder by Imagine Dragons?

Thunder is built on one gear change: the researched range runs E3 to G4, a 15 semitone span in C major, with verses that sit low and nearly spoken at a patient 83 bpm. The deciding moment is the first chorus lift, where Imagine Dragons flip the hook up into a high, processed timbre on the record. Live human voices should treat that as an invitation to a clean, light head voice or falsetto flip rather than a chest climb; the technique being tested is the smoothness of that flip and the ability to land back into the low verse without a bump.

Tenors fit the entire song, with 2 semitones of headroom up top and the bottom resting 4 above their floor; the page's key math offers a 1 semitone drop to B major if the hook wants a touch more ease. Baritones face just 2 semitones over the ceiling, and the key math suggests a 5 semitone drop to G major that puts the whole song in their pocket. Altos sit 1 under the floor at the bottom, and the key math offers them a 4 semitone lift to E major.

Practice cue: slide on one vowel from your verse register to the hook note and back, ten times, no consonants. When the slide has no gear grind, add the words.

Written from this song's researched range on file, E3 to G4 (15 semitones), original key C major. July 2026.