What's your vocal range?

Yay!

Congratulations, Saeglopur! It really does feel excellent when one is able to expand one's vocal range.

I actually surprised myself by hitting the top B-flat (4) on Monday. I can get the bottom B-flat (2) most days, the A requires it to be either an early morning or a sore throat, so it's kinda cheating I guess

But still, yay 2 octaves!

Nice! How was your range before?

My lower end seems to fluctuate between G2 and B2 on a normal day. Sometimes as low as F2 if I'm congested.

I can sometimes hit the really high notes if I do them in my Gary LeVox voice. Otherwise, I really can't get much higher than an octave above Middle C.

edited 18th Sep '11 11:52:55 AM by Twentington

After I warm up, I can comfortably sing from D3 to C5. Anything higher and it sounds pinched and not as loud as the rest of the range. I guess that makes me an alto.

I'm really working hard to extend it (most of the problem is probably the fear that someone will hear me; I can go pretty high when completely relaxed, but I don't know how high). I absolutely can't sing along with a lot of pop songs with female vocals, and when I can, it sounds like a falsetto (but still on pitch, surprisingly). I can sing along with most male singers, though.

Edit: Lowest note I can hit is now C2, after attempting to expand my range.

Edit: No, make that E2. I'm still learning how scientific pitch notation works.

edited 18th Oct '11 7:49:30 PM by NomadicLurker

I meant G2-B2 as my bottom range. I'm not used to scientific notation.

With enough work and practice, I've finally managed to get my high notes to be convincing! Still haven't gotten the hang of that D#5 yet, but I can comfortably sing up to D5 (admittedly still a bit strained on that particular note) as long as I put enough power into it. I also seem to have extended my bottom to E2, putting me excitingly close to having a three octave vocal range! Although my lowest notes are still kinda weak (I start to lose a certain strength when dipping below G2, but the notes are still comfortable as long as I'm putting my chest into it properly).

I've also gauged my non-modal (that is, outside full voice) range now, which gives me up to C6 in falsetto and... I'm not sure about fry, but I can do death growls (specifically non-diaphragmatic gutturals, which aren't very good for the vocal chords but I only use them as an occasional way to go even lower than diaphragmatic growls/screams) that by my estimate hang around the A1/G1 mark. Harsh vocals don't so much extend one's range as add some extra timbral qualities and out-of-context low notes to the vocal repertoire, but it's still cool what you can coax out of a set of human vocal chords.

edited 30th Sep '11 2:12:42 PM by AsTheAnointed

I've never really though to measure my tessitura, because I don't really have a very good voice. If I start on F3 and sing an ascending scale, I can manage about two octaves. As I say, I don't think my voice is all that good, and since I've heard that the voice you hear when you speak is somewhat different from how you actually sound, I'm honestly not sure if I'm even in tune.

To illustrate, I can manage most of the notes in this song, but I can't get this one (from the same album) at all.

I don't know how I'd say it in terms of notes, but I'll use the following examples: I can hit the first bass note in "Stand by Me" and I can hit the high note in "Take on Me".

E♭2-E4 full voice, G♯4 belting, to a pretty lulzy G5 in falsetto. All things considered, a pretty standard bass.

A3 to G5 on a good day and most comfortably C3 to G4. I usually sing tenor but I've had to sing baritone and alto, depending on what we're low on in choir.

I'm currently trying to expand my range to at least G2, but I'd like to be able to sing bass.

Probably about B to Bb.

From Tone deaf to make you wanna stab your ears to stop the pain even if there's a good chance you'll die because the sound is enough to make all living beings pray for death.

I can sing (without sounding like a man doing falsetto) from C3 to D5. I think that puts me squarely in the alto range. Although, I checked a few articles on range and it would appear the range for tenor is C3 to A4, so does this mean I can sing tenor? Does the fact that some ranges overlap mean anything?

I'm definitely in the process of trying to expand my range (higher, so I don't sound so boyish). But I think that above range is in chest voice. I don't know if head voice is counted in the vocal range thing.

G2 to C6. Certified contralto! I mean, I can go high too but my low range is better.

You can sing tenor, but I think if a girl sings a male range the proper term is contralto. Ranges overlap because it's difficult to draw a solid line to separate, say, a bass from a baritone or a baritone from a tenor. Head voice is counted for choir at my school, but I don't have a lot of experience.

I hit an Ab3 yesterday, so I guess I'm making progress on the whole "extend my range" thing.

edited 11th Nov '11 5:17:48 PM by czhang

I have little knowledge of ranges note and octave wise. I'd say my best bet is I'm a dramatic bass-baritone. I have an underdeveloped metal falsetto as well. I try Painkiller, but I can only squeak it out some of the time, and I sing it too clean.

G3-G5. I can just pull off "Neath The Southern Moon", Adah's solo from Naughty Marietta, where you have to go down to a low G on "I cannot- dare not know!" I can sing a low F too but it's not always reachable :(. I can sing "Song of the Brass Key" from "The Desert Song". I've always wanted to sing "Someone Else's Story" from Chess though. Funny thing is, my most recent singing teacher told me I was a soprano. Oh yeah, I can pull off Billy Joel too.

edited 28th Sep '12 4:52:11 AM by MorwenEdhelwen

On a good day, roughly from B1 up to about G5. Happiest between E2 and middle C.

I used to have about a four-octave range, but singing with mononucleiosis in ninth grade ruined my falsetto range, hence cutting down around an octave from the top. Now I can cover just under three, though warmed up I can go a bit lower and a bit higher and stretch it to, say, three and a third-ish. Maybe more if I retrained myself.

I really need to shape up on my singing, technically speaking, more for a sense of personal satisfaction than any issue of sound.

edited 13th Jul '12 9:42:40 PM by JHM

From the F below middle c to the A above the staff on treble clef.

From A0 (bottom note on piano), to Ab5 (one ledger line above treble clef). Top note can be done either full voice, or more often in falsetto.

Bass-baritone, with a falsetto range that can go ridiculously high if I want it to.

From "mildly irritating" to "horrid."