How do you determine your singing range like this? ex. C4-C6?!
Question: I often see range displayed in this format. what does that mean? I thought it was like on a piano or something, like ex. C4 was the fourth C on the piano, but now I'm not sure.
what does this format mean, and how can I determine my range like this?
Answers: I often see range displayed in this format. what does that mean? I thought it was like on a piano or something, like ex. C4 was the fourth C on the piano, but now I'm not sure.
what does this format mean, and how can I determine my range like this?
Middle C on a piano is C4. It is in the middle of the full 88 key piano. It is also on the middle of the grand staff on sheet music.
There are 8 C's on a full sized piano. Middle C is the 4th. C4-C6 would be a two octave vocal range.
Play the keys on a piano when you sing one by one to determine how high or how low you can see. Count the number of octaves in your range. Twelve half steps (black and white keys) equal one octave.
For example, from one C key to the next C up or down would be one octave. Try C4 to C5. I'm sure you can sing it as most people can.
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Find on the piano the lowest note you can comfortably sing without strain, that would be audible in a solo - work your way up the scale by 5ths doing major scale arpeggios - ie
c,e,g,c,g,e,c;g,b,d,g,d,b,g - then up to C# and so on using a comfortable vowel sequence (ie la, la la ..._) when you reach a note that requires strain or otherwise loses its beauty - that's a working range - for the untrained voice it is normally between 7 and 9 notes - better voices can do 2 octaves, professionals can usually exercise three octaves or more, and sing comfortable in the range suitable for the voice quality. Range has little to do with the voice type. Bass, Alto, Contralto, Tenor, Counter-Tenor, Mezzo-Soprano, and Soprano have to do with quality of sound - and within each of those there are variations depending on "placement" and other skills involving flexibility - ie, the dramatic as opposed to the Lyric tenor or soprano,