Vocal Range Test: Find Your Range & Songs That Fit
Sing your lowest and highest notes. Get your range, your closest voice type and karaoke songs that fit, in about a minute.
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Find your range in about a minute
- 1Sing "ah" and slide down to the lowest note you can hold comfortably.
- 2Slide up to the highest note you can hold without straining.
- 3Get your range, your closest voice type and karaoke songs that fit it.
You'll need a mic (your phone's or laptop's is fine) and a quiet-ish room.
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Your lowest note
Getting the mic ready…
You're singing
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Lowest so far
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Enter your notes
Know your lowest and highest notes, or found them on a piano? Pick them here. Tap play to hear each one.
Middle C is C4. Notes go C, D, E, F, G, A, B, and the number goes up at each C.
Your vocal range
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- Span
- Frequencies
Closest voice type
Karaoke songs that fit your voice
Songs whose melody sits inside your range, most comfortable first.
No songs match those filters as-is. Try loosening them, or check the songs below that fit with a key change.
Fits if you lower or raise it
Ask the host to change the key, or try it at home with the key changer.
Nothing here with those filters.
Will this song fit?
Search a song and see if it sits in your range, needs a key change, or is a stretch.
Checking against your range:
First we need your range. Take the test above, or type in your notes if you know them.
Songs we've written up with a sourced vocal range.
No match in our song lists yet. Try another title or artist.
How to find your vocal range without the tool
No mic, or just curious how it works? You can find your range with nothing but your voice and a piano. A free keyboard app on your phone works fine. It takes about five minutes.
1. Warm up first
Cold voices lie. Spend two or three minutes humming, doing lip trills (that motorboat "brrr" sound) and gentle sirens before you measure anything. Your range right after waking up is not your range after a warm-up, and you want the one you'd actually bring to karaoke night.
2. Slide down, then up
Sing an easy "ah" in the middle of your voice and slowly slide down, like a sigh. Stop at the lowest note you can hold for a couple of seconds with a clear tone. That's your bottom. Take a breath, start in the middle again and slide up until the note gets thin, squeezed or cracks. Back off to the last note that still felt easy. That's your top.
3. Match the notes on a piano
Hold your low note and tap piano keys until one sounds the same. Middle C, the white key just left of the two black keys nearest the middle of the keyboard, is C4. Each C going down is one number lower (C3, C2) and each C going up is one higher (C5). Count from the nearest C to name your note, then do the same for your high note. Pop the two notes into "Enter your notes" above and you'll get the same result screen, songs and all.
What your vocal range numbers mean
Your result reads something like G3 – C5. The letter is the note and the number is the octave, so G3 is the G below middle C and C5 is the C above it. This is scientific pitch notation, the same system the song ranges in our karaoke lists use, so you can compare them directly.
The span is the distance between your lowest and highest notes in semitones, one piano key to the next. Twelve semitones make an octave. The Hz figure is the frequency of each note: A4 is 440 Hz, and every octave up doubles it.
Chest voice vs. falsetto: test the comfortable one
Most people can squeak out higher notes in falsetto or head voice, the light, airy sound you'd use to imitate a cartoon character, and growl a few notes lower than they could ever sing a verse in. Don't count those. Test your comfortable chest voice: the full, speaking-voice sound you'd actually use to carry a melody. That's the range a karaoke song needs, and it's the one the song matches are built for. If you want to know your falsetto ceiling too, run the test a second time just for fun.
Vocal range chart: the six voice types
Your result shows your closest voice type: the one whose standard range overlaps yours the most. It's a starting point, not a diagnosis. Voice teachers also listen to the color and weight of a voice and where it changes gears, which no range test can hear. These are the typical ranges we compare against:
| Voice type | Typical range | Notes |
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| Soprano | C4 – C6 | Highest female voice type. |
| Mezzo-soprano | A3 – A5 | The middle-range female voice type. |
| Alto | F3 – F5 | Lowest female voice type (contralto). True contraltos are rare; mezzos often sing these roles. |
| Tenor | C3 – C5 | Highest male voice type in the modal (chest) register. |
| Baritone | A2 – A4 | The most common male voice type. |
| Bass | E2 – E4 | Lowest male voice type. |
Ranges from Wikipedia's Voice type article. See every type on one keyboard in the vocal range chart.
Finding karaoke songs that fit your voice
A song fits when its melody, from its lowest note to its highest, sits inside your range. We give it one semitone of wiggle room at each end, because a quick brush with your edge note is fine; living there for a whole chorus isn't. The song ranges come from published sheet music, and we only list songs whose range we've been able to source.
Songs that are close but sit too high or too low go in the "fits if you lower or raise it" list with the number of semitones to move. A song's span matters more than its key: if a melody covers more notes than your range does, no key change will save it, so the "Will this song fit?" box tells you when a song is just too wide. Lots of karaoke setups have a key control, so ask the host before your turn, or try it at home in the song key changer.
Want more ideas? Browse the best karaoke songs, or the easy karaoke songs if you're warming up to the mic. Then find karaoke tonight near you and put that range to work.