Finding Singing Pitch Range—Lower Limit

The Pitch Range exercise allows you to determine your client’s pitch range. It has two components—the upper and lower limits.

In the lower limit portion of the exercise, clients will exhale with an audible sigh to get them to start at their optimal pitch. They will then count down the note scale, from four to one. (The client may add lower notes if they choose.)

Speech Visualization will attempt to find the lowest note and use it to determine the lower limit of the client’s pitch range. Alternately, you may select the portion of the sound containing the spoken number “one”, or the lowest tone. Speech Visualization will use your selection to calculate the lower limit of the client’s pitch range. You may choose to include or exclude vocal fry. The lower limit is displayed next to the Record button. If you are satisfied with Speech Visualization’s determination, you can click Next at this point to continue.

If you are not satisfied, you can select a portion of sound for Speech Visualization to use to calculate the lower limit. You should select the last note (or the “one”), and try to limit your selection to the part where the green pitch lines are straight and level. (If the pitch lines are never straight and level, select the whole note.) Glottal fry can be included or excluded at this point. Speech Visualization will update the lower limit to reflect your selection. When you are satisfied, click Next to continue.

You must complete Dx2: Finding Pitch Range before you can do Dx3: Pitch Range in Context.

If automatic saving is not enabled, the speech sample can be saved by clicking on the Save Recording... button. All of the samples for this exercise are saved in the same folder and given a name that starts with the word, followed by the date, and time. You can play the sample by clicking on the Load Recording... button and selecting it from the list.