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What's a beginners range?

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woogie

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Like JonJon said, it varies widely - both beginning and improvement.

I've had male students who started with an octave range, G2 to G3. As soon as they get proper placement of the voice, it expands up to a full octave (almost always half an octave). Then, it's a matter of training good coordination, much like the fine motor skill training when learning to write; and also training strength of certain muscle groups. I've had students who gave up and didn't want to do the work to expand further because they were happy with an F4 in pitch and tone, and others who were determined to expand up to the G5 and beyond with a solid and effortless belt. Every single student progresses at a different rate. Every single one has a different level of determination and how much they practice both correctly and concerning specific things. 

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There are a few typical "breaking points" that determine the range of a beginner. The lowest notes start usually between E2 and B2 depending on your voice type. From there it is usually about 1 octave range until the first break between G3 and C4.

This break is usually only there because of lacking intensity/development in the voice and can be removed pretty fast usually by raising intensity and work a little on support. When this has happened most singers are able to go up to the A4 range by just increasing intensity.

It will usually sound bad, shouted, splatty etc. though, because around D#4/E4 there is a resonance transition for most guys that has to be handled by vowel modification to not "splat" the vowels and ending in uncontrolled shouting.

Once this has beend handled the singer will usually have 2 octaves of full voice that are well-connected and sound good. This is also the tessitura, the range where the voice sounds best and works most efficient for the singer. 

From there on you have all the tools to stretch the voice further into the M2 range at the top and into the M0 range at the bottom.

The step up to shouting an A4 is usually quite fast, the step of developing the middle range around D#4/E4 can take quite some while, but it is very individual. If and how well your voice extends outside of tessitura is also individual.

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