His Doojness ([info]doujoux) wrote,
@ 2008-04-30 18:16:00
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Singing range
So finally tonight i sat down and bothered to find out what sort of note span i can manage. You'd think i'd have already worked it out but no.

My comfortable singing range when assez-cold goes from fundamental 70Hz up to fundamental 340Hz in non-falsetto (that's D2 to F4) and from MIDI notes G#3 - C5 (fundamental 200Hz - 510Hz) in falsetto.

That's almost three octaves total and two octaves without the use of falsetto. Not too shabby. :)


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[info]madmanmarkau
2008-04-30 03:32 pm UTC (link)
Betcha I can get a bigger range... if I only knew what all those fancy words meant ^^;

Think almost-baritone right through to almost-queen-singing-"don't-have-to-be-beautiful" type range :P Pity I don't have very good pitch control. My notes always seem a little off.

Really should get out my frequency counter and actually see...

On a side note, I can whistle an exact 2600Hz tone... the famous tone Joe "Whistler" Engressia and John "Captain Crunch" Draper used to gain control of the telephone network.

So anyway, what is falsetto?

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[info]kinkyturtle
2008-05-01 09:15 am UTC (link)
Falsetto is that weird unnaturally high voice you sometimes hear male vocalists singing with, like in "She Drives Me Crazy" by Fine Young Cannibals, or anything by the Bee Gees, or the "in a day or twooooo" line from "Take On Me" by A-Ha. It's produced by doing something funny with the vocal chords, I'm not sure what, but that's why it sounds weird, and also why your voice "breaks" when going from normal to falsetto, like in yodeling.

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[info]madmanmarkau
2008-05-01 12:08 pm UTC (link)
Oh that. Aha, I know what you mean.

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