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Vocal range

Bruce Dickinson

Tenor · Metal · Hard Rock · UK · prominent since 1979

Cited range
E2C6
Octaves
3.7
Semitones
44
Full voice to
G5
Voice type
Tenor
E2C6C2C3C4C5
red dash = top of full voice

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.

You vs Bruce Dickinson

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.