What Vocal Range You Sing On Broadway?

[Unknown User]

Posted: 6/22/05 at 3:46pm

My vocal range I sing on Broadway is tenor.

[Aigoo]

Posted: 6/22/05 at 3:48pm

I dunno. Umm... Low E to High Soprano's G :)

So...Mezzo-Soprano/Soprano, I guess. But I'm not quite in the stratosphere.

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 6/22/05 at 3:49pm

I'm not actually on Broadway (yet). But if we're just talking showtunes in general, soprano/mezzo legit (two E's above treble C) and belt.

[Aigoo]

Posted: 6/22/05 at 3:51pm

Rath, clear me up on the octaves. Is the E that you're talking about Christine's high E? Or an octave above?

Is treble C the first ledger off the staff?

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 6/22/05 at 3:52pm

Treble C is the one about middle C. I sing the E above the first C off the staff.

[Love4Cheno]

Posted: 6/22/05 at 3:53pm

I'm a tenor, and until recently thought I was a Tenor 1. I hit high C's for auditions when they ask me.

My new voice teacher is an MD/Voice Specialist, and he did a medical assesment of my voice. He told me I was a Lyric Tenor, but a low one. Then he said that this has nothing to do with how high I'll be able to go, or how low. That's just biologically what DNA I was given.

Interesting stuff.

[Broadway_freak]

Posted: 6/22/05 at 4:54pm

High C's for a guy?? Ahh, isn't that painful?

[Aigoo]

Posted: 6/22/05 at 4:55pm

Man. I am sooooooo lost.


I learned that the first C above middle C is known as "High" C.

Then I learned the one that was two octaves above middle C was "High" C....and now you're telling me there's a treble C?





Gawrsh.

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 6/22/05 at 4:57pm

The first C above middle C is Treble C. The octave above that is High C.

[Love4Cheno]

Posted: 6/22/05 at 4:59pm

No the High C isn't painful. It's a part of my range. Granted, I have to be well-aligned and breathing way down deep to prevent strain.

[Aigoo]

Posted: 6/22/05 at 5:03pm

Ohhhhhhhh.....


So would it be like...treble D, High F, Treble F, etc?

Updated On: 6/22/05 at 05:03 PM

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 6/22/05 at 5:05pm

yes

[LittleFish8386]

Posted: 6/22/05 at 5:10pm

Oooh, I am learning something new!

Soprano here, high C. I don't really know how low I can go, but I'm thinking not that low...

[Bwaybaby109]

Posted: 6/22/05 at 5:50pm

Broadwayfreak I love your avatar!! "Not the Mama!" lol I haven't seen that show since I was a single digit! Anyways mine is a G#3 to G5 and I am a mezzo/belter. I can sing legit as well as I can belt.

[hyperchet]

Posted: 6/22/05 at 6:34pm

I'm not sure what note range I have, but I'm inbetween baritone and tenor, mostly tenor...a low tenor! Haha! I can sing two octaves in regular singing and if falsetto counts, then four octaves!

[arishmoof]

Posted: 6/22/05 at 6:52pm

im a mezzo- a belter. but ive been known to screech a high A and when my voice is really clear i can do a pretty good tenor.

[VonTussleGirl]

Posted: 6/22/05 at 7:39pm

Alto to 2nd soprano. I don't particularly like singing alto parts, but I can and will if assigned to. But I basically stay within the mezzo-to-second soprano area.

[Sumofallthings]

Posted: 6/22/05 at 7:43pm

I'm a bass/baritone. You tenors are all bastards.

[BroadwayBettini2]

Posted: 6/22/05 at 7:50pm

haha, this is such a funny question for me to answer, in paticualr because I'm one of those people that does a number of diffrent things so it's very hard to catgorize me.
(I'm not good with musical notes)
I can sing Tenor to first soprano...I think I go to the High F or G *above high C* ( or higer, I think I go even higer than that) to some where low low low F or G, below Treble C or something like that all I know is that I span alot of octaves.
I 'm a belter and ligit mezzo as well as an Operatic (lyric Soprano) singer. So I do those things both. But when Asked I say Mezzo belter/First Soprano

Updated On: 6/22/05 at 07:50 PM

[RuprechtJr.]

Posted: 6/22/05 at 8:03pm

I am a tenor, but I have a very convincing falsetto. I was acctually cast as Mary Sunshine in our schools producton of Chicago. My dad wasn't to happy, but he got over it once he realized it was just a show.

-Ryan

[DivaQueen332]

Posted: 6/22/05 at 8:18pm

Definitely a High Soprano...i love belting, though :)

[hyperchet]

Posted: 6/22/05 at 9:00pm

I love my voice.

[hyperchet]

Posted: 6/22/05 at 9:01pm

(and yes, you can quote me on this)

[RentBoy86]

Posted: 6/22/05 at 9:32pm

I know i can hit a High B, i'm a tenor/baritone. Everyone calls me a baritone but I have tenor notes. I guess its cause I can go pretty low as well. I wish I had that C, maybe with some more work. I use to think a high G was high for a guy, but not anymore. What would you say is a good range to be a leading Broadway man? Like Hunter Foster or Patrick Wilson or people like that. (those are just my favs)

[singingwendy]

Posted: 6/22/05 at 9:40pm

Actually, a lot of voice determination is based on the quality of the sound, the timbre, rather than the notes you can sing. I mean, I can sing lower pitches, but they still have soprano quality to them, where as a true alto has a much richer quality to those notes.

That said, I am a true soprano, who doesn't find much that's comfortable to sing in much of the newer musicals...lol