Step 1
Find the lowest note in your overall range. Using a piano, start on middle C if you are a female; if you are male, start five notes lower on F. Write down the lowest singable note in your range.
Step 2
Sing in half steps starting on your lowest note. When you notice a change in the quality of your voice when you sing a specific note, write down that note. All vocalists have passagios—the change in your vocal register—in different places in their voices. Singers have several passagios.
Step 3
Ascend through the remaining portion of your range, taking note every time you feel a change in your register. A passagio should occur between the low and middle ranges, the middle and high ranges and the high and extreme ranges.
Tips
Middle C is the white key to the left of the pair of black keys in the middle of the piano. The F below middle C is the white key to the left of the triple set of black keys.
Passagio—the point at which the vocal register switches between high, medium and low—is generally a single pitch in which the quality of the voice changes.
Warnings
Start with a warm-up before attempting to sing any of these exercises.
References
Vocalist: Passagio—Introduction to vocal transition points [http://www.vocalist.org.uk/passaggio.html]
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