In this installment of Karaoke Tips, I’m going to go over song selection.

It doesn’t matter if you’re a beginner or have been doing this for years. Not every song is suited for every type of voice. You would never hear Barry White (God rest his soul) trying to sing a Celine Dion tune. In fact, it would laughable if he even tried. And nobody laughs at Barry White.

You need to look at, not only your gender, but your vocal range. Sure, some songs are obviously written for a woman to sing, like the song “Woman.” So if you’re a guy, unless you’re going for laugh, and a big one, you probably don’t want to sing that one…even if it IS an easy song to sing. And trust me…it is.

But let’s get back to vocal range. Here are the average vocal ranges for the most common vocal types.

-Soprano – C4 to A5

-Tenor – B2 to G4

-Alto – F3 to D5

-Baritone – G2 to E4

I’ve left out bass since there aren’t really a lot of Karaoke tunes for a bass unless you ARE singing Barry White.

What you want to do is see if you can hit ALL the notes within the range for your vocal type. If so, then you can probably hit all the notes for your chosen song provided that song was made for that vocal type.

So, the question is, how do you find out what vocal range a song was made for? Unfortunately, few songs, unless it’s church music, will state what range they are for on the sheet music. So the only thing you can do is make a note of the lowest and highest notes in a song by going through the music and see what range they fall in. If they fall in YOUR range, there is a good chance that you’ll be able to sing it.

The next thing you want to look at is the setting. What kind of crowd is it going to be? If you’re getting together with a lot of young kids, most likely, you’re not going to find a lot of love ballads from the 50s. So getting up there and singing “Smoke Gets In Your Eyes” by the Platters might not be the best choice, even if you sing the hell out of the song. If it doesn’t fit with the evening, it won’t go over…no matter how well done it is.

Conversely, if you’re getting together with an older crowd and a lot of the people are going to be singing standards from the 50s and even before, getting up there and singing “Schools Out” by Alice Cooper is probably going to send people to the exits. You need to know who your audience is and who the other people are who are going to be singing with you.

Another thing you want to take into consideration is if you’re going to be singing alone or with a group. If with a group, something like “We Are The World” or “That’s What Friends Are For” will be quite appropriate whereas if you’re singing alone, well, you can see why those songs would NOT be good choices. Figure this out in advance. If your friends are going with you, do they want to sing with you? Ask them. If so, pick a song that is appropriate for a group so that they’re not left out.

To YOUR Karaoke Success,

Manuel Boissiere

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