Female 4 octave range?- Page 3

[marincrazy11]

Posted: 10/19/04 at 12:14am

yeah I'm pretty close to four octaves. Just gotta get those top and bottom notes very solid, and they're coming slowly but surely.

[B.B. Wolf]

Posted: 10/19/04 at 12:16am

To have a four octave range is possible for a woman. Six...nuh-uh.
I have three octaves...ahem...full-voice. I don't include falsetto as usable range because it's unprojectable. Sorry, I'm old school classical technique guy.

[aspiringguy715]

Posted: 10/19/04 at 12:17am

I usually only count chest voice when I state my range. If I include falsetto, I have 3 and a half...almost 4. I hardly ever use falsetto regularly, that's why I don't count it. I hate range classification really, if you're good and sing with an octave, you're good. Period.

My two cents

[B.B. Wolf]

Posted: 10/19/04 at 12:22am

Very true, aspiringguy. How many roles for leading men can you think of that require freakish ranges? I can't think of any. They all fall pretty categorically into the "Broadway leading man range".
Besides, I'd take good tone and pleasing listenability over freak high notes and low notes any day.

[son_of_a_gunn_25]

Posted: 10/19/04 at 1:52am

Two octaves here I think I could have two and a half but I tighten up in my throat and it's a habit I haven't had any luck breaking yet.) I can only get up the F above middle C on a good day and that still is really tight. I need to get back in voice lessons but it makes me depressed when people are always talking about 3 and 4 octave ranges. I have been in a formal choir since fifth grade and took voice lessons from my senior year of high school and my freshman year of college last year but decided not to take them this fall semester because I am so busy. I am still in choir but I go up to falsetto at times where I would not have to if I didn't tighten up. I love singing and I have a nice sound but I just don't have a great range which stops me from singing a lot of things. (No, I didn't include falsetto.)

Updated On: 10/19/04 at 01:52 AM

[feinstein9]

Posted: 10/19/04 at 3:59am

WOOOOOOOO FOR 0 OCTAVES AND 2 NOTES!
...and that's why i'm a writer and not a performer anymore.
see, you just have to have FINGERS to have a six-octave range on the piano. you have to WORK and be TALENTED to hit "rolling in his grave" and cathy's "i do" in the next ten minutes. i can hit em all in "movin too fast," but i have a pathetic range and lame tone. i sing through my nose. and that's why i'm not a performer anymore

[Plum]

Posted: 10/19/04 at 3:44pm

Yes, but playing piano gets problematic when you have midget hands and you're trying to play Beethoven.

Posted: 10/19/04 at 4:23pm

I think I'm along the same lines as aspiringguy. I had 3 octaves a couple of years ago, and now I think it's about 4. I have a crazy falsetto range that is soprano territory, so who knows. The girls in my singing group always got mad cuz I could go higher than them.

[broadwayfan24]

Posted: 10/19/04 at 6:36pm

I'm definatly a soprano but I can go either way. I'm low enough to be an alto also. I posted on the first page. I prefer Soprano b/c it's easier for me. Let's put it this way... I can reach Kristin Chenoweth's highest note in Wicked and I can hit Idina's last note in "Not that girl"(barely but I can still do it)

[feinstein9]

Posted: 10/19/04 at 6:43pm

LOL midget hands? i don't have midget hands, boy!

[Guido Contini]

Posted: 10/19/04 at 6:44pm

Hmm...I'm a counter-tenor with a 3 octave plus range. (comfortably anyway) I can hit most of Sarah's notes in POTO (except the insane ones) I can't sing low to save my Arse!

[Plum]

Posted: 10/19/04 at 6:55pm

No, I have midget hands. Which hurt a great deal when I try to stretch them over 9 keys.

[My Fair Lady]

Posted: 10/19/04 at 8:10pm

I have a 3 octave range, but I'm only 13, so I guess that's okay. I can hit notes a lot higher but they're very screechy. I'm usually a mezzo-soprano and I've had voice lessons for about a year. I go from the D an octave below middle C to the D or E 2 octaves above middle C.

[BroadwayBaby21]

Posted: 10/19/04 at 8:15pm

God, how do you people do four octaves?

My range is 3 octaves and one note! I can hit from the Ab below midC (no idea what the number thingy is) to a high Bb (basically 2 octs above mid C) Sometimes I can hit that super high C, but most of the time not. And i'm working now on getting lower notes, but I'm definetly a high soprano... i'm soo bad at low notes.

[My Fair Lady]

Posted: 10/19/04 at 8:25pm

Is that what you can hit or what you're good at. As explained before, a range is what you hit well.

Posted: 10/20/04 at 7:00pm

I'm just wondering, what's everyone belting range (if you have one)?

[judy_in_disguise]

Posted: 10/20/04 at 7:26pm

F4 to A5 is my belt range. yay sopranoness!

[My Fair Lady]

Posted: 10/20/04 at 7:33pm

I'm a horrible belter. I can only belt up to about a b, high C on a good day.

Posted: 10/20/04 at 10:32pm

i can belt to an F on a very good day and an E usually.

btw, middle C = c4?

[judy_in_disguise]

Posted: 10/20/04 at 10:42pm

yep!

[B.B. Wolf]

Posted: 10/20/04 at 11:07pm

I have to say that some people must not REALLY know how to gauge their ranges. Four octaves is simply freakish, as in, it happens in one in 10 million people. Remember, if you have high C(as in two bars above the top bar on the treble clef) to low C (as in two bars below the BASS clef) then you have a three octave range. In my life, I have met one other person who has this range. And I'm not bragging, it's given me more trouble than roles (my larynx moves about three inches top to bottom, it's absurd and hurts like hell). The point is: how can so many of you have this range?!? And how have you not encountered all the problems I have with it? Truth be told, now that my voice is "settling" my extreme low notes are becoming less strong and my low C is almost non-existent now. And ladies, those of you claiming to have these extreme ranges are problebly dealing with what's called a voix(sp?) mix in the high range. It's a bit of a vocal aberration and isn't technically part of the real voice.

[Plum]

Posted: 10/20/04 at 11:12pm

Thank you for injecting some common sense and actual technical knowledge into this discussion, B.B.

If we're counting notes I can grunt and squeal, I have a 3-octave range, too. And I'm not even trained.

[judy_in_disguise]

Posted: 10/20/04 at 11:21pm

Flowery and I have been trying to inject common sense since page 1.

[Plum]

Posted: 10/20/04 at 11:22pm

Me and my 7-octave range say NYAH, NYAH!

[B.B. Wolf]

Posted: 10/20/04 at 11:24pm

LOL Plum!!! High-larious!!! ]