Vocal range chart, with room for your own range.
The six voice types on one pitch axis, from a low bass E2 to a soprano C6. Every chart of this kind is a picture. This one has a microphone underneath it, so you can put your own range beside the six instead of holding a phone up to the screen and guessing.
Reference ranges only. Run the test below and your own range is drawn on the same axis, directly above them.
| Voice type | Range | In hertz | Width |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bass | E2 to E4 | 82.4 to 329.6 Hz | 2 octaves |
| Baritone | A2 to A4 | 110.0 to 440.0 Hz | 2 octaves |
| Tenor | C3 to C5 | 130.8 to 523.3 Hz | 2 octaves |
| Alto | F3 to F5 | 174.6 to 698.5 Hz | 2 octaves |
| Mezzo-soprano | A3 to A5 | 220.0 to 880.0 Hz | 2 octaves |
| Soprano | C4 to C6 | 261.6 to 1046.5 Hz | 2 octaves |
Two sweeps, about a minute each. Your browser will ask for the microphone. The audio is analysed in the page and never sent anywhere.
Step 1 of 2, your lowest note
Your result
One end of your range went past what this page can measure. Below 65 Hz, roughly a C2, the detector stops giving a number it can stand behind, so your real low note is at or below the one shown. It says so rather than printing a guess.
What the microphone actually heard
Low sweep. The dashed line is the note that was kept.
High sweep. The reading is drawn raw, before any octave correction, so you can see what the detector saw.
Open the trainer, level 1 free
Or keep it. This range test and all six levels of the trainer are two files that run with the internet switched off, 9.99 on the store. One price, once, nothing to unlock afterwards. Everything on this page stays free to use here, what you pay for is keeping it.
Why the bars overlap so much
The first thing people notice about this chart is that the six ranges are not six separate boxes. Neighbouring types share most of their span, and even a bass and a tenor share an octave. That is not sloppiness in the classification, it is the point of it.
These spans describe the notes a composer will write for a part, so that a choir assembled from ordinary people can sing it. They were never meant to partition singers into six bins. If your measured range covers parts of three of them, you have not failed the test, you have got the normal result.
Range is not tessitura, and the chart only shows range
Your range is every note you can produce. Your tessitura is the part of it where you can stay for a long time without paying for it. The chart above shows the first, and almost every decision about what you should sing depends on the second.
This is why two people with an identical bar on this chart can belong to different voice types, and why reaching an impressive extreme proves much less than it feels like it should. A note you can hit once is on your chart. A note you can sing a phrase on is in your voice.
Where these numbers come from, and how firm they are
The six spans are the ones that turn up unchanged from one textbook to the next, each a full two octaves. They are conventions rather than measurements, and other sources will place a boundary a tone or two either way. Nothing on this page depends on the exact edge, because the overlap is wide enough that a tone makes no difference to the reading.
The pitch measurement is a different matter, and there the number is meant to be exact. The detector is the same one behind the live monitor and the trainer. It used to read every note sharp, by 2.6 cents at a concert A and by nearly 30 at the bottom of a bass range, and that failure is written up with the before and after measurements in my pitch detector read every note sharp. Its honest floor is 65.41 hertz, and when a sweep goes below it the page says so rather than printing a number it cannot defend.
A page for each type
If you are checking yourself against one type in particular, each has its own page with the same test and what separates it from the type it gets confused with. Bass, Baritone, Tenor, Alto, Mezzo-soprano, Soprano. The general range test measures you first and names the closest of the six afterwards.