Your Vocal Range

[Guyute]

Originally Posted by Bm7b5

But can you sing ?

Depends on the song

I'm no opera star, but I get by well enough. No one ever compliments me on my guitar playing, though

[danny]

Originally Posted by DaveWilsonUK

... I head an article on the BBC 5 radio news channel that a Brazilian lady had grabbed the world record by singing 8 octaves!

That's out of the range of human hearing so they had to use electronic equipment to verify it.

Here's a link about it ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_Brown

Ok now that's INSANE!

I mean, holy fiddlesticks... 8 octaves? Out of human hearing range??

Wow.

[Stixx]

What's an octave. I don't need no stinkin octave. And Octave by definition is 8 notes. That I can do as long as
all 8 of them are in the key of D. LOL

[danny]

Oh and ps. I have a solid 3 octaves and a few more half steps. Vocal break exactly between E and F after middle C. Done a few tests with it, and I can have a solid 3 1/2 octaves provided that:

- I have a proper vocal warm up
- I've had enough sleep
- It's not early morning
- I get enough water throughout the day or day before
- I'm not on a full stomach
- Haven't eaten any dairy for a good 4-5 hours.

I can "sing" anytime, but to sing well and maintain proper pitch, I guess I'm a little high maintenance.

**If you guys and gals haven't tried singing under the conditions that are generally accepted in the vocal teaching world to be correct, the I'd recommend it; you might surprise yourself!

[TBman]

I put in my Zero, but I'm tempted to try to sing some Johnny Cash songs. If I record the guitar loud enough, no one would hear how bad I sing on the other track. Hmmmm.

[GeographyRocks]

Originally Posted by danny

- I have a proper vocal warm up
- I've had enough sleep
- It's not early morning
- I get enough water throughout the day or day before
- I'm not on a full stomach
- Haven't eaten any dairy for a good 4-5 hours.

Thing is, I used to do all that stuff... but far more important, imo, is practising often. It's been about a year since I was doing that.

[SongwriterFan]

Originally Posted by danny

Ok now that's INSANE!

I mean, holy fiddlesticks... 8 octaves? Out of human hearing range??

Wow.

Sorry, but one can't SING a note that humans can't hear. Not by MY definition, anyway.

And I seriously doubt she can truly SING anywhere beyond about 4 or 5 octaves, tops.

[GeographyRocks]

Okay, well she can make noises in an 8 octave range.

[danny]

Originally Posted by SongwriterFan

Sorry, but one can't SING a note that humans can't hear. Not by MY definition, anyway.

And I seriously doubt she can truly SING anywhere beyond about 4 or 5 octaves, tops.

Ok Songwriter, you're right, but that's not the amazing part anyway...

The amazing part is that she can create frequencies with her vocal chords that YOU can't hear.

[Rejoice Music]

I can sing 4 C's on a piano (an octave below middle C, to the 2 C's above it), but I guess in between those C's, it constitutes 3 octaves. Anyway, in teaching voice for many years, I have found that almost everyone has a much broader range than they think they do. Once they learn the correction positions and placements, they are then able to access pretty much their full range, which is usually almost equal to, and sometimes surpassing, mine.

As for worship music used in congregational singing, I think it is a bummer when a tenor chooses the song keys. Since most men are baritone, and most women are mezzo, that leaves most people singing either too low or too high for their untrained comfort level. Even I find myself sliding into a harmony to avoid the uncomfortably too high or too low melody.

Why are so many worship leaders tenors? And why don't more females lead worship? Never mind.....these are subjects for another thread, the latter probably better taken on in The Dock.

[cominghome419]

4 octaves and another whole step. Started out singing second bass, and then learned I was a lyric tenor too. Dont ask me how it happened. Speech level singing is great too.

[picker@7]

<<<Once they learn the correction positions and placements, they are then able to access pretty much their full range, >>

What does this mean and what are postions and placements

Vocally challanged

[SongwriterFan]

Originally Posted by danny

The amazing part is that she can create frequencies with her vocal chords that YOU can't hear.

You and I probably can, too. How would we ever know?

[SongwriterFan]

[quote=Rejoice Music;1040376 Since most men are baritone[/QUOTE]

And to think I used to feel special.

Oh, well . . . most guys have never heard the term baritone, anyway.

[bobc]

Originally Posted by bagelsgirl

Bobc, Sage97 and Guyute - you guys are making me laugh. You say you don't know? Do you think I just knew my exact range off the top of my head? It seemed like a fun question and an interesting thing to know, so I whipped out the guitar, matched some pitches and checked it out before I answered!

Ok... I picked my guitar up and was able to hit the low E with no problem, and the high E with just a little bit of trouble. So i guess i'm a 2.

Now... I have heared someone refer to the term "falseto".

Is that the point where your voice changes on the high end?

If so... I can hit the high E without going into falseto.

Also... I have trouble with certain notes in my range.

Is that normal?