Bruce Dickinson
Tenor · Metal · Hard Rock · UK · prominent since 1979
What is Bruce Dickinson’s vocal range?
Bruce Dickinson's vocal range is commonly cited as E2 to C6 — about 3.7 octaves, or 44 semitones, and is usually classified as tenor. Full voice is cited up to around G5; everything above that comes from falsetto or head voice.
Air-raid-siren tenor: forward placement, wide vibrato, holds high belts without thinning out. That cited span is wider than 92% of the 357 voices in this library.
- Signature song
- The Number of the Beast
- High C6 heard in
- The Number of the Beast
Reading the numbers
- E2 is a deep floor for a tenor — lower than all but 6 of the 127 tenors here.
- The ceiling clears the conventional tenor top of C5 by 12 semitones.
- The span runs 12 semitones past the median voice in this library (32 semitones).
- 2 other voices here carry the identical cited range — at the resolution these figures are quoted in, those voices are indistinguishable on the chart.
- Roughly 11% of the span sits above the cited full-voice ceiling of G5.
Commonly cited figures, not lab measurements — extreme notes are one-off recorded moments, not the singer’s everyday range.
Take the free 2-minute range test — your mic finds your lowest and highest notes, then this page shows exactly how your voice lines up with Bruce Dickinson’s.
Also bottoming out on E2
28 other voices here are cited to the same floor.
Also topping out on C6
55 other voices here reach the same ceiling.