Female 4 octave range? — Page 3

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.

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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

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.)

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

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

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)

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!

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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.

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

F4 to A5 is my belt range. yay sopranoness!

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

btw, middle C = c4?

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.

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

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

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