Voice Range Test

Find the notes your voice can reach, and the ones it enjoys.

This test takes about 3 minutes. The app plays a note, you sing it back, and you say how it felt. Step by step it finds your lowest and highest notes and, more usefully, your comfortable range: the notes a song should stay inside.

New to music? How note names work

Notes are named with letters C D E F G A B, plus "sharps" (C# = a half step above C) for the black piano keys. After B the letters start over, one octave higher. An octave is a doubling of frequency: A3 is 220 Hz, A4 is 440 Hz.

The number is the octave. C4 is "middle C" (261.6 Hz), the middle of a piano. Most adult men speak around 85-155 Hz (roughly E2-D#3), most women around 165-255 Hz (E3-B3).

A semitone (half step) is one piano key, black or white: a frequency ratio of about 1.059. 12 semitones make an octave. A typical pop melody spans 12-18 semitones.

Comfortable range (singers call it tessitura) matters more than extremes. A song in the wrong key for you is the most common reason a song feels "unsingable". Any song can be moved (transposed) to fit your range.