Can you sing “Shallow” by Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper? Key and vocal range
“Shallow” by Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper is in G major, and the commonly cited lead-vocal range is G3–D5 — 19 semitones — which, on span and top note, rates medium for an untrained voice.
This song asks for G3–D5. Take the free range test and this page will tell you whether it sits inside your voice — and by how much when it does not.
What the voice is asked to do
A duet in which both singers share the same verse melody at the same octave, before the famous wordless climb hands the top of the song to a wide-open belted D5. That one moment is the whole test: everything before it is folk-simple, and then the bridge asks for the biggest, freest sound a voice can make, cold.
Figures are the cited key and lead-vocal range (Musicnotes original-key duet arrangement, G3–D5 in G major; Gaga adds an E5 head-voice run beyond the written top), not lab measurements. No lyrics or melody are reproduced here — this page is about what the song demands of a voice.
The voice behind it
- Lady Gaga's catalog range — reported G2–C6 · Individual review pending
A song's written range and a singer's reported catalog range are different facts — the catalog page explains what is and is not verified.