Chester Bennington
Tenor · Alternative · Metal · Rock · USA · prominent since 2000
What is Chester Bennington’s vocal range?
Chester Bennington's vocal range is commonly cited as G2 to A5 — about 3.2 octaves, or 38 semitones, and is usually classified as tenor. Full voice is cited up to around E5; everything above that comes from falsetto or head voice.
Clean tenor with a rasp layer and screamed extension; abrupt switch between sung and torn tone. That cited span is wider than 73% of the 357 voices in this library.
- Signature song
- In the End
- High A5 heard in
- Given Up
Reading the numbers
- The ceiling clears the conventional tenor top of C5 by 9 semitones.
- 5 other voices here carry the identical cited range — at the resolution these figures are quoted in, those voices are indistinguishable on the chart.
- Roughly 13% of the span sits above the cited full-voice ceiling of E5.
- Ranked by bottom note, it is the 111th lowest of the 357 voices here; by top note, the 160th highest.
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 Chester Bennington’s.
Also bottoming out on G2
46 other voices here are cited to the same floor.
Also topping out on A5
28 other voices here reach the same ceiling.