Secrets to Singing: Know Your Range
Are you one of those aspiring to have a professional singing career? If you are, know that dreams can certainly turn to reality. But before you reach the peaks of your dreams, you got to climb from the basics first. I intend to help you in that process. One of the basic principles you have to know about is vocal range. Learn about the things discussed in this article and find out your vocal range.
The voice is produced when the vocal folds or vocal chords in your throat vibrate and flap against each other as air flows through them from your lungs or your diaphragm. The human voice is very distinct and very complex that it is considered to be the most intricate musical instrument.
Voices vary in pitch due to varying sizes of vocal folds from person to person. Men have thicker vocal folds while women smaller ones. Thick vocal chords produce a lower pitched voice while small vocal chords produce a higher pitched voice. These varying pitches when grouped and categorized together are called vocal ranges.
Vocal ranges have six (6) basic categories. I have listed them and arranged them from highest pitch to lowest. They are:
1. Soprano
2. Mezzo-Soprano
3. Alto
4. Tenor
5. Baritone
6. Bass
The first three vocal ranges (Soprano, Mezzo-Soprano, and Alto) are usually female vocal ranges. I say “usually” because there are a number of men who can sing naturally in these ranges.
In the same way, there are rare cases of females who can sing in the low pitches of the last three vocal ranges that are normally meant for men.
It’s important to know your range in order to sing within it. Singing within your range avoids straining and makes you sing naturally and pleasantly.
Whatever range you are in, you can still learn to widen that and reach other ranges in the future. It takes good practice and training though. Like me, when I started singing, I could only sing within the bass range. After some time, I upgraded to a baritone. Now I can sing tenor and even rarely hit an alto pitch.
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