Vocal range
Merle Haggard
Baritone · Country · USA · prominent since 1965
Cited range
F2 — E4
Octaves
1.9
Semitones
23
Voice type
Baritone
What is Merle Haggard’s vocal range?
Merle Haggard's vocal range is commonly cited as F2 to E4 — about 1.9 octaves, or 23 semitones, and is usually classified as baritone.
Relaxed baritone with jazz-tinged timing; bends up into notes and stays behind the beat. That cited span is wider than 6% of the 357 voices in this library.
- Signature song
- Okie from Muskogee
Reading the numbers
- The ceiling is modest for a baritone — no other baritone here stops lower.
- Only 1 of the 51 baritones here work a narrower cited span.
- The span is 9 semitones short of the library median (32 semitones) — a compact working range.
- 1 other voice here carries the identical cited range — at the resolution these figures are quoted in, those voices are indistinguishable on the chart.
- The range sits mostly under middle C — 19 semitones below it against 4 above.
Commonly cited figures, not lab measurements — extreme notes are one-off recorded moments, not the singer’s everyday range.
You vs Merle Haggard
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 Merle Haggard’s.
Same notes, other voices
Also bottoming out on F2
66 other voices here are cited to the same floor.
Also topping out on E4
5 other voices here reach the same ceiling.