AboutChuck Expertise I am a professional musician, I can play by ear, I arrange music write music, teach music in the public school system, and teach privately. My father was a school music teacher, and I have written three volumes for teaching beginning string players, taking them from scratch to high school level. I have performed in a local production of Music Man (musical) with celebrities John Davidson/Susan Watson and have my masters degree in education. I retired from the classroom in 2004 with 38 yrs. experience-now still substituting for music- and writing arr. for my cello trio(with two audio cd's and one dvd of a performance)http://cellosound.blogspot.com
I have directed church choirs and am principal cellist in our local community orchestra. I really love to arrange music for the groups I perform in and sing and have music in my life every day. A day without music, is a mistake, like having a day without sunshine.
Experience Employment history: I have been employed by our local school district since 1967 as a music teacher from grades 1-12 Organizations: I play cello principal chair in the local community orchestra, and sing in a chorus,and perfom in a barbershop quartet
Education: My early life in high school and college was summer workshops in choral conducting with founder of Westminster Choir College (N.J.) Dr. John F.Williamson (in Who`s Who in Music) and summer workshops with Robert Shaw in San Diego Grad. of Sacramento STate Univ.and masters from Univ. of La VErne, ca
Awards: awarded the Bank of America award in my high school senior year for music
Question HI.
I've got this problem of not knowing what piano notes fit a vocal.
Please, i will like you to teach me.
Thanks.
Answer Tayo:
Let me see if I UNDERSTAND your question. You want to know
which notes on the piano are the ones the voice sings? Are you
asking what notes are in the ''vocal range'' of men and women?
Children don't sing much lower than A below middle C
Adult women usually can sing to F(or lower) below middle C up
to an 1 1/2 octave range (trained women can sing much more)
Adult men usually sing from middle C down about 12 or so notes.
Trained voices that expand their range extend these notes upward
and downward much more. I have about a 4 octave range and some women
sing up to a 5 octave range. There are many cases of selected training
voices that have BOTH MEN AND WOMEN who can sing the same notes and
develop the SAME RANGE. Russian basses have expanded their ranges down
almost another full octave below many of the bass singers here in the
USA.
So the ''answer'' as to which notes can be sung by the human voice?
That is entirely up to the person involved. Some can do a whole lot
more and others barely can sing a country's national anthem. Children
usually start with a greater range of notes when very young, but if they
don't continue with their vocal work, they will decrease the amount of
notes they can perform.
I hope that is the information you were looking for. Your question is
worded so that I was wondering if I were understanding your question.
