Steven Tyler
Tenor · Hard Rock · Rock · Blues · USA · prominent since 1973
What is Steven Tyler’s vocal range?
Steven Tyler's vocal range is commonly cited as F2 to C6 — about 3.6 octaves, or 43 semitones, and is usually classified as tenor. Full voice is cited up to around E5; everything above that comes from falsetto or head voice.
Raspy high tenor built on screams and blues bends; top notes arrive as distorted cries, not clean tone. That cited span is wider than 89% of the 357 voices in this library.
- Signature song
- Dream On
Reading the numbers
- The ceiling clears the conventional tenor top of C5 by 12 semitones.
- The span runs 11 semitones past the median voice in this library (32 semitones).
- 7 other voices here carry the identical cited range — at the resolution these figures are quoted in, those voices are indistinguishable on the chart.
- Roughly 19% of the span sits above the cited full-voice ceiling of E5.
- Ranked by bottom note, it is the 44th lowest of the 357 voices here; by top note, the 51st highest.
Commonly cited figures, not lab measurements — extreme notes are one-off recorded moments, not the singer’s everyday range.
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Also bottoming out on F2
66 other voices here are cited to the same floor.
Also topping out on C6
55 other voices here reach the same ceiling.