To: VOCALIST <vocalist>
Subject: RE: Questions...
Date sent: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 06:43:26 -0000
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7 octaves is near to impossible, I'd think... I mean, as a boy, I can hit C
- 2 octaves below middle C and C - 2 octaves above, and that's 4 octaves. I
guess a female singer with a really good high range might have another
octave on top - tops, but then I doubt she'd have the low notes, lol. In any
case, even if, theoretically, it can be 5 octaves, that's nowhere near 7 and
remember - every semitone counts, and 2 extra octaves is 12 semitones! HAH!

I have in the past three years developed my chest voice. I could only do G
(above middle C) before, but now I can go up to B, occasionally even to C,
and I consider that an achievement (and that's only, what, 4-5 semitones).
Again I say, I doubt anyone in the world can have a range of more than 4 and
a half octaves.

To another topic.

Now, what I would like to know is - what is this 3rd voice I have??? It
sounds like soprano but it's airy (and I'm a 19-year-old guy), and I DO have
a full dynamic range with this voice, so it doesn't fit to your falsetto
definition (but then where is my falsetto?), also there is a break somewhere
between D and E (octave above middle C), pretty much the same as the break
between my chest and head voices (I can now go through both without an
actual break). Then I can go up to G, and then I need to relax a lot (and
put my head down) to get the higher notes (which are much quieter and
thinner as well). Anyone?

I'm desperately looking for a tenor teacher in the central London area,
anyone?

Finally, how do I learn to make vibrato - the right kind? (I can think of at
least 5 different ways I can do vibrato (all completely different), but none
of them sounds like the professional one)

Yours musically,
Roni.

Bass-Tenor-Countertenor-Sopranist