# Midnight Sun by Zara Larsson Source: https://pitchhighway.com/songs/zara-larsson-midnight-sun Site: PitchHighway — learn to sing your favorite songs (https://pitchhighway.com) --- ## Measured data - Key: not established - Vocal phrasing tempo: ~75 BPM (median pace of the sung phrases, measured from real uploads — it can sit below the song's beat BPM on sustained passages) - Vocal range: G#3–C#5 (17 semitones) - Tessitura (middle 50% of sung time): D4–F#4 - Longest note: E4 held 3.1s - Difficulty: medium - Range fit: fits inside 51% of the 2097 vocal ranges measured on PitchHighway (whole-octave shift allowed) --- ## Midnight Sun: key, vocal range, and how hard it is to sing Zara Larsson’s Midnight Sun is a released pop vocal that singers look up when they want the song’s key, vocal range, and a realistic sense of difficulty. This page answers those questions from a measured vocal line, not from a guess at the chart. The sung range is G#3 to C#5 (17 semitones). Most of the line sits in D4–F#4. Phrasing tempo is about 75 BPM, difficulty is medium, note density is 0.3 notes per second, the longest measured hold is E4 for 3.1 seconds, and the track runs 194 seconds. Those figures tell you what the voice has to do, bar by bar, without treating the recording as a mystery. ## What makes it easy or hard to sing Medium difficulty here is not a wide-range stunt. Seventeen semitones from G#3 to C#5 is a working pop compass, not a two-octave scream. The floor is a G#3 that many mezzos can speak-sing; the ceiling is C#5, which is a solid mix or light head tone rather than a whistle. The work is where the line lives: D4–F#4 is the upper middle of many female speaking voices and the mix zone for a lot of tenors. Stay there for three minutes and the larynx wants to climb or the tone wants to thin. Phrasing at ~75 BPM is moderate, not a ballad crawl and not a sixteenth-note dump. Combined with 0.3 notes per second, phrases are relatively sparse. You get time to place vowels, but you also get time to leak air and lose the pitch center between attacks. The 3.1-second E4 is the longest measured note. E4 sits inside the tessitura, so the hold is a stamina and onset problem, not a high-note problem. If the onset is pressed, the last second of that hold will sharpen or go noisy. If the onset is breathy, the pitch will sag before 3.1 seconds. Duration is 194 seconds. That is short enough that you can run the full vocal in one practice block, and long enough that a tense mix on the D4–F#4 plateau will feel tired by the last chorus. Difficulty is medium because the range is usable, the density is low, and the peak is C#5, while the tessitura still asks for consistent mix and clean holds rather than spoken verses. Do not invent extra strain that is not in the data. There is no measured note above C#5 and no hold longer than 3.1 seconds. The hard parts are repeated residence in D4–F#4, a C#5 that must match the same vowel quality as the middle, and an E4 that must stay still for just over three seconds. ## Who it suits G#3–C#5 with a D4–F#4 center fits lyric mezzos and light sopranos who already mix through F#4 without flipping early. A soprano who lives above A4 may find the G#3 dull and the middle too speech-like unless she keeps a forward vowel. A high tenor can take the same line in mixed voice: G#3 is comfortable, D4–F#4 is his mix, and C#5 is a coordinated head-mix, not a belt. Baritones will feel the tessitura high; transposing down would move C#5 and the D4–F#4 band, which this page does not measure. If your comfortable belt stops at E4, treat C#5 as a mix target, not a chest target. If your head voice starts too early, the D4–F#4 sit will sound hooty against Larsson’s brighter pop tone. Match register to the measured center, not to the highest pitch alone. ## How to practice it Map three zones before you sing the full 194 seconds: G#3–C#4 as speech-to-light chest, D4–F#4 as mix with a stable tongue, and G#4–C#5 as mix or light head with the same vowel you used on F#4. Because density is only 0.3 notes per second, practice on a slow pulse even though phrasing tempo is ~75 BPM. Count the gaps. Breathe on the rests so the 3.1-second E4 is not stolen from an empty tank. Work the E4 hold in isolation: onset on a narrow vowel, 3.1 seconds, no swell that pins the larynx. Then put that hold back into the phrase at 75 BPM so the entrance and exit stay in time. For C#5, slide from F#4 on the same vowel until the top matches the middle in brightness. Run D4–F#4 patterns for a full minute to copy the tessitura load, then sing through the song once without stopping so the 194-second span is in your body. If a phrase still breaks, shorten it. Learn one gesture, then the next, at the measured range and tempo, until the medium difficulty is just coordination. Upload the song to PitchHighway and learn it phrase by phrase.