Find Your Singing Voice Type | #DrDan 🎤

I’m going to show you how to test your vocal range and find your singing voice type by first identifying your lowest singable note, followed by your highest singable note, and we’ll then learn how to classify your voice as Bass, Baritone, Tenor, Alto, Mezzo or Soprano after we apply the all-important Prima Voce.

⏰ TIMECODES ⏰
0:00 Let's get started!
1:00 Adults Only
1:20 Testing Dr Dan's Vocal Range
3:24 WTF! – Finding Dr Dan's Prima Voce
7:00 Finding your voice type
7:42 VOCAL RANGE – Low Note
8:26 VOCAL RANGE – High Note
9:21 PRIMA VOCE – Low Note
10:12 PRIMA VOCE – High Note
10:57 Interpret Your Data
12:00 All Voices are Unique

📙 Book Reference 📙
Hoch, M. (2014). A dictionary for the modern singer. A dictionary for the modern singer. D. Daniels. Lanham, ML, Rowman and Littlefield.

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[ralfputz]

I was in a 13 boy choir when I was young and during one of the rehearsals the teacher heard that my voice had broken, so he pulled me out of the choir and that was the end of my singing. There was no coaching to work through my broken voice. Now at 63 and retired I have decided to try again as I have been told I have a good singing voice but I’d like to fine tune it. Not too old I hope?

[wellIdiditagain]

I'm a contralto I can go as low as B2 and as high as C5. Most comfortable in C2 to B3. Growing up was told I can't sign, because everyone was trying to put me in what they called second soprano. Found out I'm very good @ marching pitch with Stevie Nick's, Tracy Chapman, & Peggy Lee. Good video.

[ntandoryan]

Lowest note - G2
Highest note - G#5
Lowest primo voce - C3
Highest primo voce - G4

I suppose I'm a tenor!
Thank you for this!

[frenchantonio]

Want to thank you from the bottom of my heart for walking me through the process. I have searched through so many videos trying to find something that explains the vocal sweet spot as well as you do. So many of these YouTube videos emphasize "range" over "prima voce/tessitura", which made me in particular reach for all the notes I thought I had in performances. After watching my videos back I was always upset with how it didn't sound as good as I thought it did when performing in the moment. Now I know where to focus and how to develop around my prima voce. Thank you again.

[_MYSTIC_]

Your so right about individual voices. I trained as an Opera singer, then went on to do a degree in Jazz. When I was training my voice was categorised from although I have a whistle register up to A6. My Prima Voce is My voice type was categorised as Colouralto Contralto. Very rarely hear it much unless people are talking about singers like Annie Lennox, Cyndi Lauper, Tracey Chapmen or Toni Braxton.

[liky]

Two days ago I lost all my middle and high notes.. This is helping me get my voice back. Ty

[dbingamon]

Depends also on time of day. I can sing deeper in the morning.

[vikkiflawith]

I'm glad you mentioned tessitura, as many people mistake range as as the way to define voice type. I would also add that range can increase and even prima voce may change with good training. I thought I was an alto but after training with my maestro for some years, was surprised to find I was a light soprano!

[thomasj]

I could tell you were a tenor as soon as I heard you speak - it is often quite easy to do that.

[koivunen]

I'm still getting over a cold, but I'll come back once that's all cleared. I've been comfortably soprano, but that's when I only knew how to use the head voice. I've learned to somewhat incorporate my chest voice since. Still working on the mixing!

[robinjanz]

Great video! So helpful. I've always known I have a low voice for a woman, but this certainly confirms it! My full range is F#2 to C5 with a comfortable area of A2 to G4. I find I have to switch octaves a lot when singing along with the melody of hymns at church, so I usually opt for trying to sing harmony, which gets tricky when I can't figure it out on the fly. Our hymnal has no notes and hymns are sung acapella.

[jdubs]

First video ever that has actually been useful for finding my voice range and how to find it

[aquelay]

This video has been extremely helpful to me. Very well broken down. I will be referring back to this quite often. Thank you for your content!

[Chezmoy]

I found my true voice due to this exercise. I noticed that I can go as low as G2. However, when the exercise started at the A4 going downward, I noticed that the A4 was too high for my voice to the point that if I pushed a little more, my vocal breaks. Therefore my vocal highest point is A4. Now my primary voice range is dormant around A2 to A3. I just for the first time noticed that in that range my vocal is smooth and comfortable, there is a little bit of roughness the lower I go but still gentle, melancholic, and deep. For the first time, I understand where the true power of my voice lies and that's a quest I have been on for over 2 decades but I couldn't find the right training to help me find my voice. In combination with this exercise, I used a pitch visualizer that recorded live as I was signing and I also noticed that I need to work on my breathing so that my bridging can be smooth and impactful. And working on my breathing will also help me sustain a note longer without breaking. This was a very inciteful video. Thank you.

[kurisuisaway]

How cool! I'm a contralto. Makes sense, I've always enjoyed singing Toni Braxton and Tracy Chapman.

[crescentfresh]

I'm definitely a bass, but I'm finding from my lessons that I have way more control in my upper chest range and in my falsetto (my mixed voice is still pretty weak), and I'm actually having way more fun up there than down in the D#2 area. (I can hit a C2, sometimes even lower, but it's situational). I was obsessed with my low end and "bass cred" for so long before I quit smoking and realized how high I could go, lol.

[ansleyhendrix]

This is great! I’m a light lyric soprano

[ziziroberts]

I'm turning 70 and I think my range is now about the same as Dan's. I sang a C above high C on Harry Chapin's Verities and Balderdash album when I was 20. Keep singing. Keep smiling. ❤️✌️🎶

[haomorydev]

Lowest note - D2
Highest note - C#5 (6D with falsetto)
Lowest primo voce - G2
Highest primo voce - C4

I think i'm baritone. For high notes I need to use techniques...

[karensky]

Very interesting. My voice has definitely changed over the years. I discovered recently how to use my chest voice which gave me a nearly 3 octave range, which was surprising. I also discovered that with this range, I can sing either alto or mezzo. Maybe it's time to start singing again.