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Can I Train My Voice To Sing Lower Range A2-c6

What is my voice type and How many octave range I sing? etc.?

Definitely a soprano vocal range, by both definitions, and it covers just under 2 and half octaves. The C6 note is legendary for being the note that only soprano singers can reach, though not all sopranos can get there and some mezzo-soprano singers can reach just as high if they train their voices hard.

Here's the list of voice types. Your vocal range is normally defined as being what pitch you can reach with your chest, middle and head register (so not including vocal fry and whistling). These boundaries are actually only approximate.

The six main vocal ranges are:
Soprano (high female: ~ C4 to C6)
Mezzo-Soprano (average female: ~ G3 to G5)
Contralto (low female: ~ E3 to E5)
Tenor (high adult male: ~ B3 to B5)
Baritone (average adult male: ~ F2 to F4)
Bass (low adult male: ~ D2 to D4)

In opera, these ranges are subdivided even further to help classify singers for each roles. For example, sopranos can be divided into lyrical, coloratura, dramatic, soubrette and spinto sopranos. This is based on factors such as their precise vocal range, their tessiture ("comfort range"), location of their different registers, singing power and others. There are a few other rare categories too: a counter-tenor is a male singer with a higher vocal range than a tenor (thus overlapping with contraltos) and a female singer with a vocal range between that of a soprano and mezzo-soprano is sometimes classed as a zwischenfrau.

For the purposes of choral music, there are only four:
Soprano: Same as above
Alto: Mezzo-soprano and contralto
Tenor: Tenor and some baritone singers. Occasionally, female contralto singers will sing the male tenor parts, as tenor choir singers are often hard to come by.
Bass: Bass and some baritone singers

Any singer has to strain their voice somewhat to reach the highest notes in their range. This becomes easier only with practice. Soprano and tenor singers usually (but not always) find it easier to reach the highest notes in their range because they have a stronger head voice.

How is it possible for a soprano to sing that low?

I am 24 years old and I have been having classical training since I was 14. I am classified as a lyric coloratura soprano so I never expected to have great low notes but I can sing quite low. I am asking this question because people tell me that I am a mezzo even though my low notes aren't even good and I don't even have the timbre or the tessitura of a mezzo and I find it frustrating.

My highest note is F#6 and my lowest note that is audible and useful is F3. However, I can sing an E3 even though it's difficult and sometimes an Eb3. These two notes aren't powerful at all, they are uncomfortable and not useful. I can barely touch a D3 but it's completely useless and not even in tune, I don't count it as a real note, it's just a low pitched sound.

I have had people telling me that I can't be a real soprano if I can sing that low but there is really no doubt about my voice type, my tessitura is from B4 to B5 and I sound good in soprano roles. I can't have been misclassified for 10 years, I would have noticed. There are many real sopranos who can't sing any higher than C6 but they are still sopranos, range doesn't mean almost anything. My teacher is sure I am a soprano and she knows better than them. I wouldn't have been a successful Olympia if I wasn't a soprano.

Anything lower than F3 cannot be heard and I have chances of missing it. I know sopranos who can sing E3 or lower but non of them is in classical music. Examples are Kristin Chenoweth (E3) and even though I hate to say it because I don't like classical crossovers at all, Sarah Brightman sings down to Eb3. Metal singers who are classified as sopranos can sing D3, like Floor Jansen, and she can also sing up to D6. Lara Fabian and Celine Dion also go down to D3. Maybe operatic sopranos can hit notes lower than F3 but they aren't useful or audible, the singers I mentioned above use microphones.

Why some people tell me I am a mezzo for some notes that I can barely hit and don't even count as parts of my range because they are completely useless? Sorry for the stupid question but I want to discuss it with someone because it's annoying when people who don't know much about singing think that vocal range is everything, it's not all about range!

By the way, if you are a soprano what's is your lowest note and does it sound good?

Is head voice considered to be part of your vocal range or not?

Yes, your head voice is part of your range. Yes, it contributes to your overal vocal quality. Your range is all of the notes you are able to sing, good, bad, or indifferent, so the range would include notes in both head and chest voice.

If you are getting any vocal training at all, your teacher will work on combining your head and chest voice so that they work together in producing notes that are smooth throughout your range with tones that sound like they come from the same person with no breaks (called the "even voice"). Your head voice and chest voice should not be separated, because the muscles that produce the head and chest tones must be coordinated in order to produce the proper tone for each pitch. Both muscles are at work even in the highest pitches and the lowest pitches.

What is my vocal range?

Baritone

The falsetto range is not used in calculating your voice type; only your chest voice. As such, your vocal range from A2 to A4 indicate that you are a baritone. The vocal range from A2 to A4 spans two octaves which is an average range for trained singers, provided that you can sing all of the notes at any time and that the lowest and highest notes (A2 and A4) are not hit-or-miss notes.

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