voice register poll for men and women

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that is pretty high, not air between a high G and a high C IMHO. a long time ago, pop music was lower-pitched as evidenced by the crooners [such as bing crosby] who sold all those gazillions of 78s back in the day. i have to ask you something, TD- how do you keep your voice from cracking on the high notes? is there a note that if you exceed it, your voice will crack?

If you're going WAY back you had the nonrocknroll crooners like Bing Crosby, and Sinatra. Trained baritone voices.

Wasnt until the Nineties that female singers had a large presence on the charts. So even during the rocknroll era music was written for the male range.

it's about time for real men's voices to make a comeback- just imagine how hard rock would sound with a stentorian basso voice as the lead [quasi-operatic]

I'm all for it. Honestly, with the success of Nightwish and their various imitators for the last decade and a half, I'm surprised it hasn't already been done (as far as I know).

Where am I?

My guess would be in the baritone range somewhere.
https://voca.ro/4zjU5eRUlP1
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Baritone. Deejay quality. Chicks would like that.

sounds like you have a bit of a west-coast american accent in that vocaroo, excellent job light baritone.

What's the verdict on mine?

very similar to the late B9, a cultured bass-baritone with a touch of fry.

"Cultured", even? That's high praise. Thank you.

you have the right voice to do audio books.

That's...something I might actually consider at some point. Cool.

I just sing louder, with more force. I can usually get that G in that way, until I've been singing for a while and fatigue starts to set in. Then I have to increase the volume further to drive it through, but these days I can't keep doing that for hours like I used to be able to, or my voice will pack up. Luckily it usually only takes a few minutes of rest before it's recovered, so I can still record songs verse by verse, but for live performances I have to be careful about my choice of material and the running order. It's rather like physical exercise with advancing age - use it or lose it, don't overdo it, warm up gradually, and take sensible rest breaks.

The psychology of popular vocal ranges is interesting. Presumably the Crosby low notes were signalling masculinity. High, muscular singing had become one of the hallmarks of up-beat pop music by the time I was a teenager, with bands such as the Beatles and songs such as Twist And Shout. They were clearly pushing the envelope to get that high. Perhaps, as with their fringed hairstyles, they were showing off things that older people can't do so well. Youth culture was on the rise. It took me decades to begin to appreciate the aesthetic qualities of lower-range vocals, which I used to regard as wishy-washy and outmoded. I've also never been very good at singing lower notes. I couldn't get enough pitching accuracy or projection without that back-pressure. Since then I've improved in the low range, at least when recording. It's still difficult with live performing because it's just not loud enough, and it's very sensitive to nervousness which shows up as audible pitching errors and tremors. For some reason I can belt out higher notes accurately and confidently regardless of nerves.

That's pretty cool

I (subconsciously?) imagined you to be a cartoon till I heard that.

More ppl should do that and ...post it in their signature

I heard a singing/vocal coach say that
Instead of someone aspiring to another voice and trying to squeeze their voice into that

He takes joy in his job
Because. He can tell the difference ..
So he teaches them to explore their own range and practice with their own voice

And he also said that he sees the students' whole character change and improve over the course of this 'journey' and it becomes 'profound' (unsure how )

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Thank you kindly



I'm pleading the fifth on that one.