Vocal N Music

I didn’t know there is such thing as vocal range. I know nothing about singing except singing really loud in karaoke. I never had vocal lessons growing up. I only perform part of a song in school. I have always been a dancer. I been told by few friends I can sing after few karaoke session but now I am curious what is my singing range?

When I first started exploring my voice, I wasn’t entirely sure what my vocal range was. I just knew I loved singing along to artists like Beyoncé and Kelly Clarkson, especially their acoustic performances—the kind that send shivers down your spine, not because of high notes, but because of feeling.

Over time, through different vocal apps and training, I’ve come to understand my voice better. So in this blog, I’m sharing my personal vocal range journey, why there might be differences, and how you can find yours too.

My Vocal Range from Different Apps

Here are the results I got from various vocal apps:

• Singing Carrots (2024): A#3 – B4 (1.1 octaves)
• Vocalizer App (June 2024): C2 – B4
• Singing Carrots (Nov 2022): Bb2 – A4

They’re all different—and that’s totally normal. Here’s why.

So What Is My Actual Vocal Range?

After tracking how my voice feels in real practice (not just digital testing), my most consistent, expressive range is:

🎵 A3 to B4, stretching to C5 on good days

This places me between alto and mezzo-soprano, with a strong midrange tone ideal for expressive styles like:

• Acoustic pop
• Soulful R&B
• Emotional covers and ballads

Why Are Vocal Range App Results So Different?

Here’s why the numbers shift depending on the app:

1. Mic Sensitivity
   Some apps pick up background noise as notes (especially lower ones like C2).
2. Warm-up Levels
   A cold voice = smaller range. A warmed-up voice = more flexible range.
3. Technique Variability
   Chest, head, or mix voice can influence what the app hears.
4. Pitch Accuracy
   Sliding or breathy tones might confuse the app and register incorrectly.

So use apps as a starting point—not a final verdict.

How You Can Find Your Vocal Range

If you’re ready to explore your own range, here’s how to start:

1. Try a Piano App or Keyboard

Start on middle C and go up/down one note at a time. Record where you still sound clear and comfortable.

2. Use Online Tools

Apps like Singing Carrots or Vocalizer can help—but use your own ear too.

3. Record Yourself

Sing a few songs. Notice where your voice shines and where it struggles.

4. Work With a Vocal Coach

A trained coach can help you find your true tessitura (where your voice naturally sits best). A vocal coach can even be online. Technology has make it easier for us to find vocal coach. I even bought online course for singing, it has so much convenience and benefit.

Finding your vocal range isn’t about being perfect or hitting the highest note. It’s about discovering where you feel alive when you sing.

For me, the A3 to B4 range feels like home. That’s where my emotion lives—and it’s why I love artists like Beyoncé and Kelly Clarkson who use that same space to move people deeply.

Your range is valid. Your voice matters. Find where it feels good—and sing from there. Let me know in the comment if you ever curious about your vocal range!

Yes, it is true—anyone can sing. But like many things in life, singing well comes down to practice, mindset, and knowing your unique voice. Have you ever caught yourself humming along to a tune and wondered, “Can I actually sing?” Maybe someone once told you you couldn’t, or maybe you just assumed singing was a gift reserved for the lucky few.

But here’s the truth: singing is a natural human ability, not just a talent for the chosen. Whether you dream of performing on stage, singing in a choir, or simply belting out your favorite songs in the car with confidence—yes, you can sing. And it all starts with understanding that your voice is an instrument you already own.

Why anyone can sing:

Biologically speaking, most people are born with the vocal anatomy to produce musical sound—vocal cords, lungs, ears for pitch, and a brain that can process rhythm.

Singing is a skill, not a magic talent. Just like learning to write, dance, or play an instrument, singing improves with training and consistent effort.

Your voice is an instrument, and it can be tuned, strengthened, and refined over time.

Common Myths

“I was told I’m tone deaf.” True tone deafness is rare (only about 4% of people have it). Most people just haven’t trained their ear yet.

“I wasn’t born with it.” Natural ability can help, but many great singers started off average and got better through vocal lessons, breathing work, and performance experience.

“I sound bad when I sing.” Everyone starts somewhere. No one sounds like a star the first time they sing out loud. The key is to start where you are, not where you think you should be.

How to Start Singing if You’re a Beginner

Listen to yourself without judgment. Record your voice and notice what works and what doesn’t.

Start with simple songs. Folk songs, hymns, or classic ballads are great because they’re easy to follow and help build confidence.

Practice regularly. A few minutes a day can create big change over time.

Work with a coach or use online tools. Feedback helps you grow faster.

The Deeper Truth:

Singing isn’t just about sounding good. It’s about expression. About telling a story. It’s a deeply human tradition that goes back to ancient times—used in ceremony, celebration, grief, worship, and joy. If you feel something when you sing, you’re already doing it right.

There is no doubt everyone loves music. It doesn’t matter if it’s a different language or genre. Music has a way to move people deeply because it expresses one’s emotions and it might bring back memories of sadness, joy or even a sense of peace. Singing has many more positive benefits than you think.

We all can agree that singing makes us feel good or feel some kind of emotion whether it’s happy or sad. Do we actually know what happens to our body when we sing? Research has shown music has a more positive effect on your overall health without working too hard on it unlike physical exercises. Let’s find the reason why singing is good for you and the benefits of singing.

Here are 3 main benefits if you sing everyday

Mental Health

Singing strengthens our immune system. Singing releases oxytocin levels which aiding bonds and decreases cortisol. Cortisol is the hormone that causes stress. Singing releases other hormones called endorphins too. 

Singing releases endorphins, we feel happy and light. Endorphins are synthesized in the hypothalamus and released from the anterior pituitary. It’s a pain reliever that is well known for producing pleasant feelings. Singing has also been found to help with depression. When endorphin is released, which is a pain reliever, it improves depression.

Physical Health

Next physical benefit from singing is posture! Yes , you will be surprised how having good posture has anything to do with singing. While singing, we enhance lungs functions. It increases lung capacity and engages the muscles around the ribcage. Your tone will correct on its own if you have good posture.

Social 

Have you been to a gathering or social meet when there is music playing and few people start singing? This lights up the environment in that group. Singing improves the empathic relationship between people. Collective singing groups like choir have a positive identity in terms of physical and psychological. 

The next time you want to sing, just do it! I love to sing because this is the way I express myself. If you ever have a hard time expressing. yourself try singing any song or something to that subject. Trust me, it feel a sense of relief that will come over you.

Yes! I highly recommend warming up your voice before singing because your throat is made up of organs that are supported by muscles, and ligaments. Properly warming up can create a lot more space to expand your vocal range and it prevents you from straining. In this post, we are going to use this post as a baseline guide on what type of warm-up you can use and how long should your warm-up be. Do I warm up my voice before singing? is not the question you should begin asking yourself. 

In what ways can you warm up? 

OR

How long should your warm-up be? is what you should be asking yourself.  

Different types of exercises for your warm-up

Yawning 

This exercise is not really you doing a full yawn. At the start of a yawn position, your tongue placement should be behind your lower teeth, jaw relax. Do this with Ah Vowel and behind with “Ahhhhhhh……” Do it with ascending and descending.  Ascending and descending in singing is basically singing incrementally higher or lower using DO RE MI FA LA

Humming

Place the tip of your tongue behind the bottom of your front bottom teeth and keep the front of your mouth close. “hmmm.. ” ascending and descending. This is the easiest and my favorite warm-up. This is easiest because of how natural it is for your mouth, and jaw placement. Just make sure you include the “h” not only sounds “mmmm”

Lip Trills 

This was one of the challenges for me when I first started to learn different warm-ups because somehow I lack air support in my abdomen. So to make things easier I found all coaches recommend placing 2 fingers on the side of your jaw. Here is how you do it: 

Tongue Trill 

Some may find it hard for this warm-up but not me. If you are one of the few that struggle with tongue trill. Start with the alphabet “R”. Be best to do without any trill or ascending or descending. Just pronounce the alphabet “R” with your tongue curling up or touching behind the upper teeth. 

Try these above and make sure to record your warm-up to know where you are now. Practice this all the time. To add in, have a great posture while doing it.

How long should my warm-up be?

For beginners would be best to do a 15-20minute warm-up. This is all possible to do because of how everything is. There is no need to do more than anything else. 

You can always mix different warm up and longer warm up but as long as you stick to a routine that you are comfortable with and do not skip warm then it’s great. 

Learning how to sing should be fun but if you are reading this, you are already thinking of improving your singing so add in a little discipline. Being consistent is just about doing it over and over again. Use your voice memo to know if you have actually improved from day 1. I love kicking in new habits with the 21-day. 

There are many reasons why you think learning how to sing is not achievable but it is not as hard as you are made to believe. There are simple ways to track the progress of your own voice if you are looking for improvement. You must be wondering how can I record my voice without having any vocal production or a massive recording machine.

I am about to show you how you can record your voice without paying for extra dollars. If you are reading this, it is from a device either a laptop, phone, or desktop. Technology has advanced by leaps and bounds, we are lucky to be able to do so much with the tip of our fingers.

Your Phone

If you are using an iPhone, there is a built-in app that is called “voice memos”. There is an option to not only record your voice, but it also allows you to name each recording. It has an option for creating a file folder. This is perfect for you to organize your voice recordings.

Android Phone users option is much more than iphone. As android system allows more choices for voice recordings app, it has own built in voice recorder as well. Go to search on top of the screen and key in recorder and this app is user friendly.

Laptop / Desktop

MacBook both laptop and desktop has built in like the Iphone, voice memo. Other than voice memo, it has other options available for free:

• Audacity
• GarageBand
• Quicktime Player
• Voice Recorder
• Easy Audio Recorder Lite

Some of these app needs to be download through your app store.

Windows has its own built-in app voice recorder called Voice Recorder. If your windows doesn’t have this option then you will have to download it manually.

Online / Web Browser

It’s a great time to learn anything, so much tools available online for voice recording. I am always searching for different option this way I always have back up if my personal phone or laptop is not with me.

Online-voice-recorder dot com is online tool for voice recorder, not only that it can edit your recording and download, save it to mp3. You can even convert those recording to PDF.

With all these available tools for you to help to improve your singing voice, you can bet it’s easier to learn how to sing than ever before. All these tools has options like editing, rename, file folders that can you can start exploring and organising.

Have fun with these! so which tool would you use first to record your voice? Let me know in the comment 🙂

And Is it true anyone can learn to sing?
Yes! Yes! Yes!

Anyone with a healthy speaking voice can sing. You might have sing in the shower, in your car, and sing along with co-worker when a famous song comes out. I know you probably have wondered if you can ever sound good while singing. So how can you learn how to sing beautifully?

Fortunately for you, I have found some ways great ways how you can to learn how to sing without going to music school.

Now, Why do you want to learn how to sing?

I love to sing! Like alot. Everywhere there is music either I’m actively singing or humming even if I don’t know the words to the song. But I wonder if there is a way to learn to sing without going to the choir or even music school. I have been to karaoke alot and can sing okay? I can sing loud but not properly. Thanks to the pandemic shutdown I finally got time to hone this hobby into actual practice. I want to sound freaking great when I sing, so this is my why! 😉

Maybe you just want to sing in your church

OR

Maybe you want to sing to someone special that you have been eyeing on 

OR 

Maybe you want to sound great in a karaoke session 

OR

Maybe you want to a new skill to your guitar or piano skills

Singing brings the best euphoria or makes you feel the emotion that is real or it brings you to memory lane of the best times of your life. Singing connects people together just like food. Learning how to sing is a gift? Like any other skill, like riding a bike, driving, or cooking it all comes down to learning and practice.

P.s I am not a vocal coach! so don’t shoot the messenger. I have been learning and wanted to share with you if you are scared to learn how to sing or think you are too old to try. Heck! I am turning 34 in 2 weeks, I’m proud that I even have the courage to go on this journey. ????

I found 5 easy ways to learn how to sing for beginners. Trust me, it’s fun! If you are not having fun, you are missing the point of singing.

How to learn to sing at home for free: YouTube

I love to find everything on Google or YouTube first before I try other avenues. While the pandemic wasn’t great fun with everything shutting down, it allows for exploration. I discover how to sing from Youtube as I was not aware of vocal coaches post the basic singing lesson on their channels. All these vocal coaches break down from warm-up, riff and run techniques, mistakes to avoid, and how to take care of your voice, posture, and breathing as well.

Here are some vocal coaches that I enjoy learning from

Cheryl Porter

Tara Simon

Healthy Vocal Technique by Victoria

Ramsey Voice Studio

Eric Arceneaux

Proper Posture

Singing is athletic. Your throat and neck is the only part of your body that you are using for singing. Your whole body is an instrument when you sing. I’m a big believer in maintaining good posture most of the time. It’s the start with respecting your own body and it makes you look confident anyway, so why not practice good habits right?

Before you start warming up for singing, get in the right position. Your legs stand hip-width apart position, toes point out a little, and shoulders keep it down, [not shrugging], it makes you look relaxed.  Pull your shoulder back gently. This allows for an open throat as well since an open throat means you are relaxed.

Learning to sing with proper posture is important as you want to build good habits. It’s alot harder to unlearn the bad habit and create a new habit again. As you get more experience with your vocal ability, you can always start to move your body as you please. 

Warm up & Learn Your Basic

I was a personal trainer and can’t emphasize warm-up and learning basics for beginners. Heck, I don’t like doing it but no one wants to be more prone to getting injuries. Learn more about your throat anatomy.  This same goes for warming your throat before singing. Without warm-ups, you can strain it easily.

Here are a few warm-ups you can choose from

1. Lip Drills
2. Hum
3. Tongue DrillsPractice in ascending order and descending order.  There are plenty more warm-ups you can do, I will write a post on more warm-ups in another blog post.

Practice Daily

Like any skills that you have now, it all comes from consistency. Maybe you don’t even deliberately practice walking since you first started to walk but you do it every day and use your legs to walk every day. This is the same for learning to sing, you have to practice if you want to at least have decent skills. Remember why you want to learn how to sing in the first place.

Nothing great or even close to good is ever created if there is no consistency.

I know this firsthand from being a personal trainer. If only people who want to lose weight and get in shape to be consistent and stick to a routine longer then can walk around with more confidence in their new physique.

Listen to a different genres of music

I love to listen to ANY song that is why I appreciate all kinds of music even in a language I don’t understand. Someday if I want an easy day when practicing a song, I will sing lullabies or children’s nursery rhymes. This gives me so many ideas on different melodies, tempos, and vocal placement.

What you are used to may not be suitable for your voice range. We love a sing-along session in karaoke with friends but it doesn’t mean it’s something you should practice when you are actually learning to sing.

I recently more open to singing country songs, it’s easier on my voice. Singing should be comfortable and fun instead of straining and feeling exhausted

These 5 ways you can basically start your journey of learning how to sing on your own without breaking your bank account for a vocal coach and also going to music school. Since I prefer to use whatever tool I have, for now, I will eventually invest in vocal coaching. I want to hear about your experience if you ever learn how to sing and what is your thoughts on these 5 ways that I recommend.