QUOTE (musicbox @ Mar 12 2005, 11:20 AM)

i dont have singin lessons but thats how much i can sing

Sorry, how much?

Iv e just been trying to see what my range is and at its most its 2 octaves
(C an octave below middle c to the one an octave above it) not very big is it?

Bigger than mine.... Blimey I don't often say that, lol.

Don't feel bad! It always depends on what mood you're in and on when you test your range! Try singing low notes in the morning, or when you have a cold! I can reach the C below middle C, sometimes the Bb then. On other days I can only get down to E! Also, make sure that you're properly warmed up before you see how many octaves you have! You might surprise yourselves...

QUOTE (Oddball @ Mar 13 2005, 05:05 PM)

Bigger than mine.... Blimey I don't often say that, lol.

*AHEM*


saxophonist- dont worry i can only just reach 2 octaves on a very good day

Don't blame me for being dirty!! I swear it's cadets...

I can only sing on the Middle C octave and the octave lower, although I have tried an octave higher.

e below middle c to f way above the top ledeger line treble stave though its kinda ear percing but very fun!

I got tested on ym range the other day, and I can sing from the D below middle C to the F# with the three ledger lines, which makes it 3 octaves and a major third!

To car expert: Didn't you say somewher you were 13? Then your voice must still be breaking, right?

4 and 5 octaves is insane............i thought i had a pretty good range( F below middle C and C 2 octaves above middle C!) I can only just about get that though...........i recently performed in GOdspell with my church i had to sing a top A on my own and a C with some1 else it was tough!

QUOTE (stacetheace8 @ May 24 2005, 08:15 PM)

4 and 5 octaves is insane............ i recently performed in GOdspell with my church i had to sing a top A on my own and a C with some1 else it was tough!

Yes, well, it's not a competition! You range is really good!

And go you for daring to sing those high notes on your own!!!

QUOTE (july @ May 21 2005, 12:12 PM)

To car expert: Didn't you say somewher you were 13? Then your voice must still be breaking, right?

Maybe breaking the glassware...

QUOTE (grand choeur @ May 25 2005, 08:21 PM)

QUOTE (july @ May 21 2005, 12:12 PM) To car expert: Didn't you say somewher you were 13? Then your voice must still be breaking, right? Maybe breaking the glassware...

My voice is starting to break, which will make it harder for me to sing when it comes to the aural.

Here are the two forums where I mentioned my age:

http://forums.abrsm.org/index.php?act=ST&f...=1&t=2079&st=40
http://forums.abrsm.org/index.php?act=ST&f...=7&t=6354&st=40

QUOTE (Car Expert @ May 25 2005, 07:29 PM)

Here are the two forums where I mentioned my age: http://forums.abrsm.org/index.php?act=ST&f...=1&t=2079&st=40 http://forums.abrsm.org/index.php?act=ST&f...=7&t=6354&st=40

Ah yes, I thought I'd read that somewhere!

Having braces also makes it slightly harder for the aural singing!

I used to have braces and I HATED having to try to sing with them because I couldn't pronounce anything properly!

I used to have braces (before I started playing the flute, thankfully) and my s and f sounded terrible - I sounded like a snake!

Those are the disadvantages about having braces. But you will feel that you should have had them in the first place for other reasons!

Hiya
I can sing Bb an octive below middle C on a good day and2 octives above middle c on a good day.

Though, do find it hard to sing around middle C due to my breaking point. lol

Luv Claire

I can sing from the C below middle C to the Eb above the staff. I guess that's a bit more than 3 octaves. I'm not doing exams in voice, but I like to sing!

That is actually really low for a soprano. The lowest note I can reach is an E below middle C and maybe a C above middle C when I'm not warmed up and I'm an alto.

THIS IS MY FIRST VISIT TO VIVA VOICE.

I have sung in choirs as a child to teen years BUT I have NEVER been tested on my EXACT RANGE, not even at church. So I don't know!

What confuses me more is, we often sing in parts and sometimes I'm given alto parts and sometimes higher than alto. Never occured to me to ask why - just did as I was told. Further, I got solo parts at primary, etc, but not since my late teens. My voice must have gone bad or something.

I know my voice has changed considerably over the years but does the range change?

Now, I'm begining to wonder - B]am I alto or mezzo[/B]??? Boy, am I confused. Can anyone tell me why the different parts?

I shd like to take singing lessons when the kids are older and resources in terms of time and money are freer.

Sorry, too many questions...

I can sing Four at the max....that is from the very very low C below the bass clef to the C above the treble clef... Wonder how can other people sing 5 or 6 octaves?? Or even more than that ?? Gosh someone who has range of a piano?? Lol...

Tess- maybe you are just versatile. Worth your weight in gold to your choir if that's the case !

You may be asked to sing different parts depending sometimes on numbers - on balance of the parts. If all the altos are present but several sopranos are away, and you are able to switch, it's very handy. If your range is not too limited, it's quite ok to be able to do either. I can switch from soprano to alto if needed, although I'm most comfortable on second soprano (mezzo).

Which do you find suits you better? Which part do you prefer singing? Whereabouts is your voice most comfortable? What are your lowest and highest notes (fairly easy, not pushing it).
If you can give a few clues I may be able to offer some idea - but remember voices are more individual than their categories, and you may just have a good range and be able to sing a variety of different voice parts.

Got to go - lessons soon, back later.

M

Tess,

Your description of your singing so reminds me of me three or more years ago.

I'd always been aware I had a reasonable range (without actually measuring it), and had sung in choirs with whichever voice had the worst gaps (from second Tenor upwards!).

In my current main choir, I sing second Soprano because when I joined it, that is where the conductor said there was most need of extra voices - does that sound a bit familiar? (The conductor in question is the lady that advised me to go for lessons, and recommended my teacher....and she now acts as my accompanist, and we've become great friends.)

Anyway, having lessons showed me that there was a whole extra octave to my voice, mostly at the top (so I went from a nonetheless respectable 2 1/2 octaves to 3 1/2), and I am now definitely a Soprano - although three years ago I'd have said I was an alto or mezzo! I still fill the gaps in 2nd Sop, though, rather than swapping to top Sop - and I'm now the regular soloist too.

The other thing to bear in mind with measuring one's range is that it can vary from day to day, even when you're fully warmed up. So all one can definitely say is that when one was tested one sang from note X to note Y (in my case C below middle C to F an octave above the stave). My working range (i.e. the range that I know is always there and of reasonable quality) is three octaves and a semitone from D to Eb.

Hope this gives a bit of explanation of why there's not an exact answer.

Cheers

Katyjay

Tess,

Your description of your singing so reminds me of me three or more years ago.

I'd always been aware I had a reasonable range (without actually measuring it), and had sung in choirs with whichever voice had the worst gaps (from second Tenor upwards!).

In my current main choir, I sing second Soprano because when I joined it, that is where the conductor said there was most need of extra voices - does that sound a bit familiar? (The conductor in question is the lady that advised me to go for lessons, and recommended my teacher....and she now acts as my accompanist, and we've become great friends.)

Anyway, having lessons showed me that there was a whole extra octave to my voice, mostly at the top (so I went from a nonetheless respectable 2 1/2 octaves to 3 1/2), and I am now definitely a Soprano - although three years ago I'd have said I was an alto or mezzo! I still fill the gaps in 2nd Sop, though, rather than swapping to top Sop - and I'm now the regular soloist too.

The other thing to bear in mind with measuring one's range is that it can vary from day to day, even when you're fully warmed up. So all one can definitely say is that when one was tested one sang from note X to note Y (in my case C below middle C to F an octave above the stave). My working range (i.e. the range that I know is always there and of reasonable quality) is three octaves and a semitone from D to Eb.

Hope this gives a bit of explanation of why there's not an exact answer.

Cheers

Katyjay

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THANKS, KATYJAY. That is really helpful to know. I JUST can't wait till the kids are a bit older to take singing lessons! Right now, I have an autistic kid to care for all day more or less, so I have to wait...

Hey Tess, good to hear you are singing! Keep it up, but can understand that there's not much time now.

I know it's off topic, but I saw my autistic niece yesterday while they were all staying at mum's. We went to the beach and we had a really great time. My sister was so chuffed that she showed interest in the ball I bought her, and she loved the sea when she got used to it. She's got a few words now too, her favourites being 'No, don't' when she's annoyed - that's when she doesn't scream instead. She'll be four on Thursday. Such a shame I'll miss the party.

Has anyone ever heard of a lexus-soprano. Their almost as rare as female tenors. It's weird, it seems that not very many people have heard the term. I am a lexus-soprano, my highest note is an G or an A (depending on how I'm feeling on a certain day). I can't sing very low at all though. My lowest is a G below middle C.
Have you heard of it?

No.

I looked it up on google and couldn't even find any info on the web...

So did I.... confused!

You learn something new every day - I have worked with singers and choirs since I was in my teens, (that's longer than I've been teaching) and I've never heard of it either !

and Grove Online hasn't heard of it either.... Did the person who told you that name make it up themself?!

It's a mystery!

no, actually, i did not make it up myself my voice teacher mentioned it once and i went to see this advanced choir and there was this group of to the side singing the higher descant later i had a chance to talk to the director and we were just talking and i asked what the group to the side was and he told me they were "laxus-sopranos" i asked what they were and he said they were rare female singers that could sing up to around a high G7- guess its not a very common term- but its supposedly what I am
but no- i did not make it up

I don't think anyone was suggesting YOU made it up, but that maybe the person who told you had. It's really weird that google doesn't come up with anything - I've found some REALLY esoteric topics on google before

Agreed - I tried both spellings too !

Me too! I'm really curious now...

In terms of repertoire I have sung D below middle C in Der Tod und das Madchen by Schubert and the highest is top D in Let the Bright Seraphim among others.

Ican sing quite a lot lower than this though- almost an octave lower much to my son's amusement/amazement. I started out as a mezzo in my teens so maybe that would account for it.

Also I can sing up to top F lightly on the diaphragm but wouldn't risk it in concert.

My most feared note is A 2 octaves above middle C. Does anyone else have any note phobias?

Sara

I think that using the term laxus-soprano is a really good way to disdiguish the people who can sing those beautiful high notes from those rare people who can sing even higher. For some parts in musicals or operas, that's what you need. I like the term, just makes everything a bit more specific. So I going to use it and try to get other people to use it as much as poosible, make it a popular term.

I have one "note-phobia." Well, I'm not really scared of it I just don't like singing it. My worst note is the F right one top of the G-Clef Staff. I just don't sound good singing this note, which is funny, because people usually think of this note as, if you can't sing this well, you're not a soprano, which is also funny, because I can sing and octave above it, and then some. It seems like I can't really get up into my true headvoice on this note, whereas all the notes before it I don't need to be in head voice. However, if it is an aria where most of the song is above that note, and it is a low one just part of the melody, I am totally fine with it, because my voice is already in head voice. But if I'm singing a lower song and it's one of the higher ones, I have trouble. It's very confusing. But my voice is still maturing, as you know, I'm only 14.