Hey there...

I am not a professional singer at all, but I can sing (mostly backup vocals) along with playing guitar. My "good" singing voice is a deep baritone sort of like Johnny Cash. I can't sing rock 'n roll, metal, or anything like that.

Here is my normal singing range, according to the strings on a guitar.
Lowest clear note: low E (sixth string).
Highest clear note: F, maybe F#, (first string, 1st fret/2nd fret), then my voice cracks and/or I strain and start to turn shades of purple and almost pop a blood vessel!

----where a man's voice cracks is known as the "break point"----

Falsetto range: F# up to maybe a high D (first string, 10th fret). But then I hate the falsetto male voice, and have no desire to sing in that type of tone.


So with all this said, where is your singing voice? Can you sing like Steve Perry of Journey, or can you sing like Johnny Cash?

I`ve got a pretty wide range of over 3 octaves I guess.I started singing the high parts to songs when I was young and kept up doing it to adulthood so I never lost it.In the last band I played in the drummer sang the lead for Roy Orbison's Pretty Woman and I'd take the high harmony to that with no effort and I took the lead vocals in Crying but it took a bit of strain to do it without my voice cracking to say the least but it still never failed me.

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oh, How I wish I could sing but otherwise I sing in any key
but totally flat and tuneless.
Keith

You can't tune a guitar to my voice...

My vocal range is 1970 to 1980. After that I stopped.

Good one Brother Dave.

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When I was a kid I was trained to sing Alto in the choir, and that side of my voice kinda stuck with me. I also developed into a countertenor soloist, with the ability to sing Falsetto, althought, I had a tuff time making transition between the two. I never really liked singing Falsetto, I thought it kinda Girly. Now I sing kinda like a Bullfrog with a grasshopper stuck in his throat. Playing guitar and singing seemed to come naturally probably because they both started about the same time around age 10 or 11.
----Danny,

Thank you GS!

Well, when I TRY to sing I can usually go from G3 to G5 (not counting falsetto).

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I traded my car in for a microphone.

The older I get, the better I was it seems.

I'm somewhere between Dylan, Clapton, Haggard and Jagger - vocal range wise.

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Don't leave home without it!

I don't think I got as far as 1980.

My (2 octave) range starts 2 E's blow middle C and extends to the F immediately above middle C. In all honesty I have not checked my range in 15 years or more so I don't know that I could reach that F any longer. Falsetto can take me a little higher, of course but I've never checked how high it goes.

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Just think of how awesome a guitar player you could have been by now if you had only spent the last 10 years practicing instead of obsessing over pickups and roasted maple necks.

My singing voice makes Mick Jagger sound like Luciano Pavarotti. You couldn't tune a creaking gate to my voice.

I'm not saying my voice is bad, but when I stop singing the audience shower the stage with bunches of flowers and weep with gratitude. Whilst pulling their fingers out their ears.



Singing and playing the guitar? You gotta be kidding.

Cheers - C

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'Do not sing...top out at C above middle C....

LOL... Here you go Ceri. This is straight off You Tube. I just made this video about a half hour ago, sitting on my couch with my '95 Fender Strat.

http://youtu.be/DytEAhFBHFc

The only difference in this video is, I decided to shave off my mustache after 30 years! Good God do I look weird!