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Question:I thought I was a light tenor but , Ive recently been told that I ghave a high Baratone voice , what are the keys and scales I should be singing in ?


Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: I thought I was a light tenor but , Ive recently been told that I ghave a high Baratone voice , what are the keys and scales I should be singing in ?

The question isn't one of keys and scales but of note ranges. For a choral baritone, your range should be E above middle C down to low A (one octave and one fourth below middle C). For a baritone soloist, your upper range should extend to G above middle C and your lower range should extend to low G. Your most comfortable singing range (your tessitura) should be in the range of middle C down to C below middle C.

Um, everybody sings in all keys and all scales.

Now, sometimes singers who have a limited range will want a particular song transposed for them--I remember an acting student who had almost no range who wanted to sing "Raunchy" (gosh, what show was that from?) for an audition and I tested her range, looked at the music, and told her to ask the pianist to transpose to F. But that's a song-by-song decision--a person who can easily sing "Today" will need "People" to be transposed down, and vice versa--and a professional singer with excellent range will not need transposition of anything.