If you are an aspiring singer, there are essential things about singing that you need to know. This article intends to discuss one of the basic things and that is, vocal range. There is much debate about what vocal range is. Read and learn for yourself about it and begin your road to fulfilling your dreams.
Your voice is considered to be the most complex musical instrument. Knowing how it works equips you on how to use it better. Your voice is the sound produced when your vocal chords or vocal folds vibrate against each other as you breath out air through them. These vocal chords or vocal folds are found in your throat.
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.
Varying vocal pitches are grouped and categorized into three basic vocal ranges. These are arranged in the order of highest pitch to lowest pitch. They are:
1. Soprano
2. Mezzo-Soprano
3. Alto
4. Tenor
5. Baritone
6. Bass
Soprano, Mezzo-Soprano, and Alto are normally female vocal ranges. I say normally because there are rare cases where males can sing in these ranges.
In the same way, the remaining three categories of vocal ranges are for males but some females can sing in these low pitched ranges.
You need to know your range so that you can learn to sing within it. Singing within your range helps you avoid straining which can damage your vocal chords.
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.
Your voice is considered to be the most complex musical instrument. Knowing how it works equips you on how to use it better. Your voice is the sound produced when your vocal chords or vocal folds vibrate against each other as you breath out air through them. These vocal chords or vocal folds are found in your throat.
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.
Varying vocal pitches are grouped and categorized into three basic vocal ranges. These are arranged in the order of highest pitch to lowest pitch. They are:
1. Soprano
2. Mezzo-Soprano
3. Alto
4. Tenor
5. Baritone
6. Bass
Soprano, Mezzo-Soprano, and Alto are normally female vocal ranges. I say normally because there are rare cases where males can sing in these ranges.
In the same way, the remaining three categories of vocal ranges are for males but some females can sing in these low pitched ranges.
You need to know your range so that you can learn to sing within it. Singing within your range helps you avoid straining which can damage your vocal chords.
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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