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How many octaves can the average person sing? How many for professional singers? The notes aren't computerised, she was singing them before digital recording was the standard format. She uses whistle register, which is a female equivalent of male falsetto (and only occurs rarely naturally).

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How many octaves can the average person sing? How many for professional singers? It is perfectly natural for some singers without training to have the flexibility in their vocal folds & laryngal strength to be able to sing 3 octaves.

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How many octaves can the average person sing? How many for professional singers? Whitney Houston has 3 octaves, not 5. A lot of confusion arises from when people hear someone switch up a register, they often think that the singer has gone up an extra octave, which in fact they often haven't.

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Sometimes when I sing, I get a headache or I can't hit a note I usually hit. Is this normal? A male student of mine had the same problem for a while when singing in his top register (or rather, after he STOPPED singing in top) - he seemed to think that it was the resonance in his head irritating his sinuses, and while this may have played a part on it, I also noticed that while he sang in top register the veins in his throat would expand, suggesting that tension in his shoulders &...

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How can I become a Christian singer? What are you asking? Are you talking traditional choral music or modern christian "pop"?

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Is it true that drinking alcohol will hurt your singing voice over time? Have you heard Joe Cocker? LOL

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I'm a bass and I'm striving for the e1. Should I continue to strain my jaw muscles in order to sing the e1? Really you shouldn't be straining ANYTHING in order to acheive a note - I'm presuming that the E1 you are talking about is at the floor of your voice, in which case it should sit perfectly in the bass range (average bass range is D1-D3 - {or D2-D4, depending on the numerical system}). Sounds like you're not a bass! Most bassbaritones can get down there, even some baritones.

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How many octaves can the average person sing? How many for professional singers? Cleo Laine is reknowned for having a 4-octave-plus range & on hearing her recordings I would agree. I am a professional singer/voice tutor & have 3 octaves of modal voice and then falsetto reaches about a 5th above the alto mechanism, although I don't count falsetto as part of the sum of my range as they're not "true" notes, although the rocky alto mechanism uses...

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