

Again, basic music knowledge and understanding of vocal registers will be helpful for this. Still, they will choose songs in an ideal tessitura for their tone of voice types or natural range.ĭetermining a song's tessitura can be a bit trickier than finding the overall vocal range as you need to examine the song closer. Likewise, untrained singers or even intermediate voice types who may have a limited range would still sing in a certain tessitura. Mariah Carey would sing in her whistle register, but only for a moment in the song in these upper extremes, the rest of the time, she would be singing in a more common range for her distinctive voice quality.ĭeep voices or bass range voices, such as Johnny Cash, would still use the same principle when choosing songs or writing songs for their voice profile. But they would still choose songs where most of their notes would be in a certain tessitura. Pop singers Mariah Carey and Whitney Houston had ease in singing and large vocal ranges at the peaks of their careers. Here is another example of female voice tessitura And if sung with poor technique for a long time, there is possible vocal damage down the road. Still, if these notes are consistently sung outside of the tessitura of their voice, the singer is likely to encounter problems such as recognizable register break and vocal fatigue. Isolated notes that are sung infrequently in a song outside of the comfortable range of the singer are less likely to cause a problem. Therefore, if this note is sung too heavy or with too much of the lower voice or chest register in it, the singer will quickly fatigue while singing these music phrases. In fact, Bb4 can be prone to pulling up chest voice (using too much of the lower register coordination). Its constant repetition where the voice transitions make this song a tough slog if the singer has not yet learned to balance this area or bridge location. This Bb4 sits right in the middle of the vocal bridge or mix voice area and can be a trouble spot (where the voice is likely to crack). The chorus's vocal tessitura centers largely on Bb4 you will sing this note over twenty times on each chorus! If this note is not strong, the listener will definitely be made aware.
