Where Is My Passaggio?

The primo passaggio takes place in between the chest and middle registers, while the secondo passaggio lies between the middle and head registers. For most sopranos, the primo passaggio is located around Eb4 (below middle C), and the secondo lies usually between C#5 (one octave above middle C) and F#5.

How do I find my primo passaggio?

To locate your primo (lower) passaggio, where the voice switches from the chest register into the zona di passaggio (in men) or middle register (in women), sing an eight-note ascending scale beginning in comfortable lower range, below the average location for the first passaggio.

How do you identify passaggio?

To find your primo passaggio, you simply need to know where your voice breaks. If you sing an ascending scale in your chest voice, two things may happen if you do not know how to access your passaggio correctly: Your voice will break into a falsetto (breathy) tone.

Alexander Ross

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