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If what you want is to improve your vocal range, I would recommend these exercises: Warm up. Always warm up for a while before starting the actual exercise, doing easy vocalise in the middle of your vocal range. Scales, Thirds and Fourths. All types of scales that go through your entire vocal range. Practice them as often as you can. This will gradually ...

In choral settings it is a little more relaxed about what ranges are needed and what words are used to describe the singers in them. Usually singers in choirs don't have such a need for a very soloistic or virtuosic approach to singers and thus have a slightly smaller range. In opera it is pretty much demanded that you have close to a two octave range or ...

This is a very interesting question! I would never expect an expert to try to guess someone's vocal range simply based on their ethnic heritage, but it's true that some trends do persist just like any other physical characteristic does along cultural-biological lines. For example, the term "Russian bass" has been used to refer to Eastern-European basses with ...

As a friend of mine once explained, "It's like paint. If you mix together several colors of paint to make a custom color of paint, you can't un-mix it and get the original separate colors of paint back." Vocal removal software, as mentioned in other answers here, is only of limited usefulness due to laws of physics that cannot be circumvented. All such ...

I think that the discussion of tessitura is often lost in discussing ranges. If a part is well written, it will be comfortable for a singer of a given voice type to sing. Beethoven's Ninth and the Missa solemnis are thrilling works for the audience, but are murder on the singers, because they have to work so long in ranges of their voice that are ...

Well, I can't say for certain how a choir would react to this without seeing the actual arrangement, but: Db6 for a soprano will not work at all. You can't expect choir sopranos to go above A5. There are very few women in the world who can sing Db6, and they are opera divas. No one could possibly use that in a choral setting. S2 only gets to sing three ...

The average singer who goes from practicing or exercising many times per week down to once a week or less will see a marked decrease in their range. Humans have a natural vocal range, or tessitura. The average is about an octave, though many can sing a span of an octave and a half or even a two-octave span (three-octave range) even "cold". Outside that ...

I basically asked this question on the Audio site: How can I cut out a particular instrument in the same pitch range as other instruments I don't want to cut? As you can see there, the answer is no. There's no good way for software to tell what is voice and what is not for any arbitrary voice and song combined into a single waveform. As you note it can be ...

As Thomas Bryla said in another answer, there's really no substitute for working with someone who can hear what you're doing and observe your posture while you're doing it. But here are some things I have learned from years of casual choral singing as a low female voice trying to do better (I usually sing tenor): Breath support makes a big difference. If ...

In short, no or at least not permanently. Singing is more about learning how to relax the vocal chords and use all of your air. Basically, once you have that technique down it won't ever be taken from you (in my opinion). I believe it's like riding a bike; if you haven't ridden a bike for a while, you might suck at first. However, with seemingly minimal ...

Overall vocal type (e.g. soprano vs contralto or tenor vs bass) seems to be what you were born with and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voice_type#Classifying_singers warns of the dangers of misclassification of vocal type, and by implication, attempting to sing at the extremes of one's natural range. Practice is certainly required to reach the expected range ...

Always warm up in the middle of your range and gradually approach the limits of your range with upward and downward moving repetition of motifs. e.g. C3 D3 E3 D3 C3--- | D3 E3 F3 E3 D3--- | E3 F3 G3 F3 E3--- | and so on... Even a single warm up with ascending and descending exercises will temporarily increase your range for a time. Exercises that cross ...

The following are average ranges for your typical amateur church choir music, based on my 20-odd years' experience in choral singing: Soprano: Bb3-E5, with optional notes up to B5 (and you very rarely see much above G5) Alto: G3-C5, primarily staying between C4 and B4 (songs requiring altos to sing higher than C5 generally do so for a specific effect, or ...

If you sing regularly (like in a choir, or getting lessons), you'll get a good idea from the warmup exercises you do there. So I gather that this is not your situation. Your range is probably wider than the range of a typical song that you'll sing, so what you really want to find is the most natural, comfortable part of your range. One way to do that is ...

While this is an interesting question that you have asked, to the best of my knowledge there are no such factors at all. It is entirely a matter of the genetically-predetermined physiology of the vocal tract in an adult. Some men are born to be tenors, some baritones, some basses (relatively few). Some women are born to be coloratura sopranos (very few), ...

Without a doubt, you should pay for a couple of lessons with a qualified voice teacher. They'll help you identify your range and point out that with proper training, you'll be able to expand your range both upward and downward. If you are a man, you should also learn how to take notice of the difference between your "head" voice, your "chest" voice, and ...

In consideration of your question, I came across extensive blogs on vocal pedagogy by Ian Howell, a professional countertenor and educator in Boston. Since I'm not familiar with his work, I cannot tell you whether his writings are authoritative or not, but he has written extensively on the physiology of the countertenor voice and what is being done with the ...

You can definitely enhance your range a little with tuition. However, professional singers, like the rest of us, sing with what nature gave them. That's why there are some men who have the most wonderful rich, pure voices very low down. Singing high is just not important compared to singing well without strain, and a teacher can help you do both. You can ...

One technique I know helps is to lift our head just a bit and try to relax as you go down. This will open up your airways to the maximum and also leave more room for your vocal cords to vibrate freely (the lower frequencies requires larger movements of the vocal cords). Just be care to not raise your head too much; If you raise your head too much, the vocal ...

If your looking for a quick fix, the only reliable one is to transpose the songs you want to sing. Even in areas with trained singers such as opera and broadway, the songs were written in keys comfortable for their first performers. Even today, some revivals of broadway shows may adjust particularly rangey songs up or down a small amount. As for anything in ...

I take a drink of water, or something to relax my vocal chords. After, a glass of water, I find the lowest note I can confortably hit, and starting from that note, I make a "wah" sound (W-AW) and on that 'aw' vowel, make your voice drift down lower (about a semitone). Be sure not to push, and make sure you drink plenty of water and give your voice time to ...

Please someone correct me if I am wrong, but I believe that countertenors or, "singing" countertenor is not actually a type of vocal technique, but rather a classification of vocal range. Much in the same way that one may be classified as a Soprano or Baritone, Countertenor is another voice classification. This term is also used sometimes interchangeably ...

A quick-and-dirty way is to split the stereo, reverse phase, and combine to mono. Things mixed center -- generally voices -- get phased out while the things that are mixed wide just get squished to mono. Not perfect, but it'll get you closer and it is easy to do with free tools like Audacity.

For longer-term development, there's vocal fry and false-cord vibration. But probably the best thing you can do short-term is lots of rest. If you can manage to take a 2-hour nap before singing, it should make the low tones easier to achieve because the muscles are relaxed. The "two hour" part is to try to get one full 90 minute sleep cycle. The deep-sleep ...

The answer to this is very simple: 1.) Go to a piano / keyboard / guitar 2.) Start at middle "C" (3rd fret A-string on guitar.) 3.) Move down 1 note / fret at a time until you can't comfortably sing with dynamics (you should be able to make sounds past this point.) 4.) Go back to middle "C" 5.) Move up 1 note / fret at a time until you can't ...

As Dylan Moe hinted in his answer, there's a big difference between the term "baritone" as it applies to a choral singer, and "baritone" as it applies to a solo singer. A choral baritone is often used as a synonym for a "bass I" (where "bass II" refers to the lower basses). A solo baritone part typically lies much higher (usually going up to at least an E to ...

The only clean way to do this, assuming you don't have access to the pre-mixed individual audio tracks, might be to completely recreate the music without the vocal tracks. Perhaps try to transcribe the music and instrumentation extremely accurately (including all the subtile timing and pitch variations), feed this transcription to a midi synthesizer that ...

I've been training for about 4 years. So I've developed my voice to give myself a solid range. I'm a 21yo male, if it matters. Like said above, you could just be a bass singer. An untrained bass would struggle with Eb4 as a trained bass' limit is generally around an E4-F4. Now you didn't state an age.... But I was 17 when I started singing and I found notes ...

It sounds like you are a bass. I'm a tenor. I can sing higher than you, but I bet you can sing way lower than me. Some men are born to sing bass, some to sing baritone, and some to sing tenor. It's determined by your physiology, and that you cannot change. Get some singing lessons from a professional voice teacher and learn what your natural range is, and ...

The ranges you can use depend on who is singing, of course. If you know the choir for whom you are writing your work, use their ranges to the best of your ability. In many cases, though, you are writing more for a particular type of choir: Writing for a typical church choir? Use conservative ranges, like the ones in @WheatWilliams' answer. (Note that ...