You can do it! The typical contralto range goes to F5. Work on your high register or falsetto. It is safe to mix and belt up to D5. Never EVER belt above that, trust me l injured my voice like that imitating higher placed singers! That's when it home, I truly have a low voice
i'm 14 and i'm a contralto THAT'S WHY I STRUGGLED SO MUCH i always hated not being able to reach higher notes but now i can use my voice better and i like it more
Dear Samuel, being a Contralto myself thank you for putting out the most accurate video for this rare, misunderstood and ridiculously under represented voice type. The chest voice of the contralto voice actually begins at D3. I speak and sing this note easily. I can coordinate it into fabulous low runs. They are clear, extremely dark, and resonant. In comparison the tenor chest voice begins at C3, the low Mezzo E3. Honestly there is an overlap. And you can hear that in a true Contralto voice, part Tenor, part (Mezzo) Soprano. This unique voice stands out from other women because it works in a similar fashion to a man's voice. A voice that is dominated by heavy chest mechanism. up to the fourth octave. They have an unusually long, extended chest register, sounding very rich and deep for far longer than other females voice types. Their voices are prodigiously powerful, rich, thick, cavernous, chesty in the fourth octave... on par with men. I highly recommend listening to a Toni Braxton vocal range video and pay attention to her fourth octave belts, A4 and above to about D5. Phenomenal. In the fourth issue they are true money notes on any Contralto. you are correct that Contraltos are not high belters. I do not have a long mixed register like higher voiced women do. Women must be their mix in order to belt. my true middle register is only a handful of notes located in the fourth octave. Around F5 or so my voice is already in pure high register. Past A5 things start to feel uncomfortably high. My true head voice resembles male falsetto. It sounds disparately bright, piercing, pure, crystalline, like strikes of lightning compared to my heavy, dark chest register. A rather Androgynous trait. To hear this please check out singer Lyves who really exploits this in her voice. As for myself, l have experimented with my low belts (fourth octave) and they are shockingly androgynous. The dark smoky character and the weight carries into my mixed register. if l limit my voice to a certain range l really do sound Tenor like. I can successfully belt a G4 in pure chest and sound convincingly male. I know I'm not the only one. The G4 note on a contralto is very pronounced: unusually thick, strong and dark compared to other females, androgynous even. Only the Contralto can safely delay using head voice this high. High tenor songs are where my voice really shines. I sing many of the same keys men do. Note that the standard passagio for the Contralto is F4, similar to the Tenor voice. Unlike the male voice though where it starts to get weak and falsetto-y, our voices gain strength, remaining thick and strong for a couple notes more (our true mixed register) before engaging our high registers. you can hear this phenomenon a lot when contraltos duet with males. I was struck by it when Cher sings l Got You Babe with Sonny or when Toni B duets with Babyface. I agree that most contraltos don't sound exactly like men. On the whole they sound like women, abeit witha heavier, darker, rich, smoky tone. Even if they don't sound particularly androgynous. In their mixed register they often are. tenor like from the weight, strength and colour (like sunsets, honey, Amber, chocolate, blue ink, dark plum). It's really fascinating. What l love about the Contralto voice that their overall dark, heavy timbre is wonderfully mournful, MELANCHOLIC, haunting, lugubrious, forlorn. Since they sing mostly in chest tones, their voices are deeply moving and conversational. Everything they literally carries so much more gravity and weight. Very compelling to listen to! That's how they make their singing careers, singing ballads and torchy songs about heartache and pain. (You know who they are). Anita Baker is possibly a coloratura Contralto whose light voice easily moves into the upper regions, almost as high as Soprano while maintaining the classic, dark, smoky Contralto timbre. Another example might be Sade, her voice is ever warm, rich, smoky (hazy) and feminine, but it is not oppressively heavy, dark or powerful. it seems rather small. Most contraltos are lyrics. Cher, Toni Braxton, Lauryn Hill, Grace Jones, Timi Yuro, Liza Minnelli, Judy Garland, Alison Moyet, Amy Winehouse, Diana Krall, Carly Simon, Mavis Staples, Sarah Vaughan. And many more. I honestly do not they think are as rare as people make them out to be. They are talked about like they're unicorns or something. Yes they are rare but not that rare. I really feel that male bass voices are far more rare than the Contralto voice.
Rhys Middleton What credentials have you got, Mr. Middleton? Let's settle this once and for all. Dileesa isn't the authority on anything. Toni Braxton and Anita Baker have said publicly they are contraltos. They make a PROFESSIONAL living singing. You don't think they don't know what their true voice types are?
Rhys Middleton Let me settle this once and for all. I am a real contralto. I know l don't sound like other women and l have to look to other contraltos and male singers for clues in order to operate my unique instrument. Keep in mind, the differences between each female voice type is rather small. Trained contemporary female singers can sing a very similar range and there's lots of overlap in each category so it be be very tricky to identify a woman's true voice voice type. The best way to do that is identifying the singer's PASSAGIO. For example a clue that a singer is a Soprano is that her tone brightens very quickly. A Soprano singing her typical lowest note of G3 and above only has five chest notes. A true contralto, typical lowest chest note D3 and above has nearly double that. Her tone remains grounded, rich and dark for a very, very long time, their incredibly high passagio being F4, G4, even Ab4 (Dramatic Contralto, ie Tracy Chapman). For last time, NOT ALL CONTRALTOS SOUND ALIKE. THERE ARE MANY SUB CATEGORIES. THEY DO NOT NECESSARILY SOUND ANDROGYNOUS. IT IS INTELLECTUALLY LAZY TO THINK THAT. It's easy to take mental shortcuts, right? Toni and Anita sing PROFESSIONALLY for a LIVING. They have publicly stated they are indeed contraltos. You don't think they know what their voice types are??? Between the two of these ladies they have won *15* Grammy Awards. How many have you got? I'd love to know. GET A GRIP, PLEASE! BTW Toni Braxton is an incredibly talented, skilled singer, many times better than Sade. She doesn't have to sound chesty and dark all the time. She can mix earlier to sound Mezzo-soprano like (lighter, brighter) or she can go chest dominant sound (oppressive, heavy, dark). Also, Toni Braxton does indeed sound androgynous. More so than Sade. Look up singer FAMOUS, a tenor, imitating her! A typical Contralto basically sounds like a low voices female, often with a weight to it on par with the Tenor voice. The vocal colours are similar too. Some are so dark, almost baritonal. They have unique dark, smoky timbre that carries into their mixed register. Women's voices darken and mature over time. I have heard girly, youthful Contraltos (my old self), mezzo Soprano's, and Sopranos. Not all Sopranos are girly. Jesse Ware is one, but doesn't sound girly at all! doesn't make her a Contralto though
Rhys Middleton Everybody has a unique singing style. Don't think just Ana Carolina doesn't, doesn't mean she can't. Ever thought of that? In the mixed register, singers have option. I told you already. They can: go chest dominant, balanced, or pure high register. In other words it is possible to sing a note 3 different ways! SINGING IS PERFORMANCE ART. No contralto (or singer for that matter) sings alike nor sounds alike. ua-cam.com/video/obzz4a3tO4U/v-deo.html
Rhys Middleton How do you explain Toni's fourth octave belts than? Have you ever truly opened your ears and listened? It is not physically possible for Mezzo Soprano's or Sopranos to even sing like that, period! Cavernous, powerful, heavy, rich, chesty, dark
I am a contra alto. I am 14. I am in middle school girls choir. My chest voice range is C3-G4. Choir is a bit of a struggle for me, and I sing pretty much everything in my head voice. But it's okay, because when I sing on my own, I can sing songs sung by men really loudly and love how low my voice is. :)
All voices are equally beautiful, challenging, and versatile. Because the topic is about contraltos I have to mention my favorite singers: Sade, Lauryn Hill, Tina Turner, Annie Lennox, Amy Whinehouse, Cher, Penny Ford... I love that androgynous sound to their voices. I heard Sade speaking and I was like, wow, what a nice low female voice.
Give Cher a little more credit at the end there - she used pitch correction for effect on 'Believe' and has been singing with nothing but a mic since the 60s. And she really does have a beautiful contralto voice.
I love listening to Karen Carpenter because I can enjoy singing along in my natural register. I also love her beautiful, rich, warm tone. She does not over sing but has that relaxed, effortless quality. Otherwise I tend to sing along with tenors.
Karen Carpenter is a flat out legend. Every Christmas my mom & I listen to her & her brothers’ holiday album & we both shed a tear or too that she left this world too soon.
@@Colt-eq1vm 16-year-olds' voices are not yet stabilized. It's too early to marry yourself to a vocal range. She's a teenager who has not been trained, so her range is limited. She will have a wider range as she continues to practice and mature.
I’m 37 and just starting to play guitar and have spent a week trying to figure out my vocal type and this is the BEST explanation I have seen! Definitely a lyric contralto and explains sooo much
I've received vocal lessons for 8 years and had to quit right before my Bachelor's degree exams in Indian Classical music. I mostl didn't like singing because i thought that my voice range sucks. My voice quality was not deemed ideal for classical music and I was told to stick to semi- classical and new age Bollywood singing. And my voice doesn't even fit most of the Bollywood music because most of the female have very high pitch voice so I was mostly killing my vocal chords to sing. Until recently when I discovered that I'm probably a contralto with vocal range of E2 to G5, most comfortable in the C3 range. I sound decent while singing jazz and songs with more style than technique. This voice classification was never really taught to me cuz our Indian Classical music is based only on melody and not on harmony. There are no altos, tenors, superanos etc. That means that there is only one singer in a performance. No lead singer, main singer and backups etc, no harmonies. This is extremely beneficial when the singer wants to showcase his/ her vocal range and advanced singing technique and any impromptu variations they bring to the table to make the performance stand out. All my life I thought I just sucked, but now I know I'm probably a contralto. So I'll look for music that would suit my voice range. :) Thankyou.
amazing. know that you have a wonderful, rare voice. take pride in it. I wish l could hear you sing. Did you know the most famous and beloved Middle Eastern female singer is a Contralto? She was known as the "Star of the East" in Egypt. Umm Kulthum. I have a low voice myself, and l only discovered that singing high imitating other women is just straining. Like you l damaged my voice and came to the conclusion l am contralto. I was never satisfied with my voice, that l had no talent/ability but once l embraced that identity l improved in a couple of months than l had in a couple of years. One singer I'm obsessed with is Leo Kalyan, he is classically trained in the Indian tradition. With your stated range (baritonal) I suspect you can replicate everything he does. Please listen to "Fucked Up"... It's extraordinary. ua-cam.com/video/6jG8E79X-Yw/v-deo.html
happend the same to me! i did 2 years of bel canto but I had luck with a very good coach who told me I am contralto. I always hated my voice cos all the sopranos are famous musicians, but then I discovered metal and I found myself! I love to sing male parts
I honestly still don’t know my range but I do agree about how most Bollywood songs are so high pitched like it really bursts my eardrums lmao I can sing what my lessons teach me but my voice has more weight to it still
Banane Wane You naturally feel you want to switch to head voice right, falsetto? I feel the same. I can mix to get those big, belty high notes, it's not something l necessarily like doing too much. Up to D5 is safe. Don't go any higher. That's how l injured my voice any figured out l am a Contralto
Oh no! It just means the higher registers aren’t for you. Just like the lower registers aren’t for sopranos. Unless they’re Beyonce or Christina Aguilera & then all bets are off becuz those voices are practically superhuman.
I've been dealing with self esteemed issues for years. At the age of 8 I learned I had an unusually low voice for a girl. When I was older I somehow stumbled upon "voice types" and doing further research I learned that I am a dramatic contralto. I've had love-hate relationships with musical theatres and Disney. All the pretty protagonists are sopranos and all the contraltos are mothers, maids, hags and villains (or overly sexual). As someone commonly called "naive" and a "puppy dog" (sometimes complimentary sometimes telling me to grow up a bit more) I find it really hard to find songs that I can "click" to. I often find myself either singing along with guys or alternating the notes in songs to actually sound good. As of late I've found that I can sing a lower version of "Part of Your World" from Little Mermaid and Cassandra's song from Rapunzel's Tangled Adventures since I've started trying to practice my range (though there's some difficulties as I have a hearing impairment that makes it difficult for me to hear particular notes).
Your ability to alternate notes in songs implies you have a good ear to tailor existing melodies and harmonies to your tessitura. I would suggest continuing to tailor songs to your tessitura and refining your ear to help you harmonize any song you desire to sing with ease. I did this often as a youth for fun and to experiment with different possibilities of a song. Jogging or any form of cardio helped me expand my range. I used to jog and sing songs to assist with breath control and stamina. Best of luck to you!
@@urArchitect thanks! I have been practicing and, of all things, I can really get into Sonic the Hedgehog songs and I've been owning the low notes (lowest I got was a deep D3 but I haven't been able to replicate it). I kinda got Almost There but my voice cracked on the long note. I'm practicing more and more though and now I'll try the jogging/cardio while singing technique too :)
Karen Carperter, Fiona Apple, Patsy Klien, Lana delRey,Gladys Knight, Diana Krall, Tina Turner, Shakira, Tony Braxton, Tracy Chapman.... I am one so I remember my inspirations. Check out Diana Ankudinova. MIND BLOWING example !
Feeling better today :) It’s interesting to note that classically female voices have a “full” chest register that is longer as you go down in voice type - and thus it becomes slightly higher in tapering off due to power. However, the middle register shrinks significantly for a contralto: around A4 to D5, which is the top area of the range you mentioned. It’s common that a contralto who has developed all registers will have a soprano-like middle register into head voice and a booming chest register, because unlike the mezzo the head & chest are not coordinated in tandem and unlike the soprano itself, the voice as a whole is thicker but the head voice is not stronger than the chest voice.
I'm almost 100% sure Grace Vanderwaal is contralto after she did go through puberty. To be honest I can't work her voice out I not musician but if you listen to songs like "Today and Tomorrow Jimmy Kimmel Live" you probobly get to the same conclusion.
I always get irritated talking about this topic with people, probably because I'm a contralto and people don't know much about the voice type. Like, one, vocal range does not equal vocal type, so saying your range is F3-G5 means pretty much nothing alone. And two, that males can be contraltos and females tenors. I know it's a little ridiculous to get so mad but I can't help it lol.
I used to just think that I had a limited/bad range before I took voice lessons. I always would struggle to hit alto notes in choir. I remember in middle school my teacher assigned colors of the wind to the alto section and we had to sing individually in front of everyone. Everyone belted their way through it while I basically stayed in falsetto for most of it still failing to hit most of the high notes. Then got told I wasn't trying hard enough bc of that. But then when there was really low notes I was the main one able to hit those, so I guess it balanced out.
@ashley The arrogance of a teacher telling a student “you’re not trying hard enough” when they can’t see what’s going through the students mind/expect all students to adhere to the same teaching techniques
I'm a contralto. I sing effortlessly starting from a c3 to a D5. My entire range is A2-G5. And indeed a B4 is me belting, but I can belt up to a D5. I only sound heavy within the 3d octave. Starting from the 4th octave I sound feminine. For people that would like to compare, I have some videos of me singing and the progression within 1 year.
Thank you so much for this video. This is why my whole life I thought I couldn't sing and I got bullied at home. I didn't fit the "normal" voice type. When I was 5 years old my mother told me off for sounding "down" or "moody" but I was a very grateful and happy child, I just had a smoky voice, even while I was little, and a peaceful outlook. So I was forced to push my voice up to be accepted at home. That is when I lost track of my inner ear and my natural sound and my whole life has been torture trying to sing, not only because most songs we hear are not in my natural range, but also my voice was really suppressed and confused. 🥲 Having your authentic sound is an important part of knowing who you are and what your self-expression is. When I was 7, I was sent to a (not very nice) voice coach because my voice almost completely broke. And I never got my voice back until now. I am 37 now and I am now uncovering my natural voice, which I am realizing is definitely a contralto voice. Parents, please NEVER EVER judge your child and just accept and love them the way they come. You can do a lot of damage if you do not want to learn to understand your child for their unique selves and their pure intentions. What I've found is that my deeper voice really fits my personality. I am calm and non-judgmental. When I relax, my voice has a bluesy character. This is what makes me great at helping others to relax too and be who they really are, no matter what their natural self is like. Authenticity matters! And acceptance is mega important in that!!!
💯. I don’t know why he’s emphasizing how rare contraltos are. Granted, there’s less of us than sopranos but we’re not 🦄. It’s not a super low %. I moved around a lot growing up, singing in school & church choirs & there were plenty of us wherever I lived in U.S. There are also plenty of famous singers who sing in that range. Like you said, R&B’s the perfect example. Ok I’m done now 😂.
I’m a contralto and clearly remember asking my mom when I was a kid, why I had a boy’s voice. I much prefer listening to deeper female voices and created a Spotify playlist, “Sopranos Make My Ass Twitch.” My all-time fave is Meshell Ndegeocello.
you say contraltos dont sound like men but some can😭😭 my lowest note is F2 and my lowest without sounding like I'm trying hard to sing low is A2. it sounds really masculine and manly when I go that deep, but when I go first half of third octave it sounds androgynous not male or female. ppl always say contralto doesnt sound male but what if you're a biological female and it does? I'm only 22 and I'm a smoker to be fair but even when I was 7 my G3s were super deep😭😭 hope it's okay for women to sound like men cuz I surely do
Most of the people on the list are/were contraltos. However, Karen Carpenter and Lana Del Rey were actually mezzo-sopranos commonly misidentified as contraltos due to richness in the lower register. Timbre supports the theory. When I was three years old, my father told me that Karen Carpenter was “an alto”, but later on when I researched what an alto was, I got four different ideas. The first idea that passed through my mind was that alto is between contralto and mezzo-soprano. The second idea was that alto was short for contralto. The third idea was that alto can be a choral part that encompasses contralto and mezzo-soprano voice types. The fourth idea based on what I read about the alto voice was that it was “one rung higher than a tenor” and “the equivalent of a male countertenor”. Which three of the four ideas are misconceptions?
I'm come from a very musical family (everyone played at least one type of instrument and we would sing pretty much every day). I've always had a relatively deep voice and preferred singing harmony ever since I was in grade school. My parents had a very eclectic collection of vinyl records that included popular music as well as opera and soundtracks to musicals. We listened to these records all the time and would sing along. I always gravitated toward singing the males parts because those songs were closer to my vocal range than the songs sung by women. My dad had a relatively high vocal range so we would entertain friends and neighbors by singing together and switching up the genders (eg,: "Ten Minutes Ago" from Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella, replete with hammy vibrato and belting) and everyone got a kick out of it. I never heard of the term contralto until just today. Thanks for this informative video!
a F3 for me it's like nothing for me, & B4 for me sounds like it's a D5 for mezzos, & is it just me or a lot of contraltos has a kind of "raspy/breathy" head voice? Cause i do, and it gives the impression of a "crack/breaky" voice, i'm so envy for those mezzo & soprano whose its head voice it's clean as water. And even though i'm the lighest cotralto i still have those qualities i've said. My vocal range : Lowest note: G#2 (which it's my limit and fry) Actual audible low note: B2 Highest belt: B4 Mix: C5-G5 Whistle:E6 *believe me for me a E6 it's a whistle and I get mad because for Ariana it's a high head voice note & for me it's whistle but it's cool* Where my range shines the most or where i like to sing also to preserve my voice C3-B4. I can do more but my i don't use my whole range bc I'm not obliged to sing uncomfy & dying, in my cause as a light contralto non androginous voice i could easily pretend i'm a mezzo but from my own choice i want to showcase the best of me & not sing high pretending i'm comfy, i don't use 1% of my range because i can reserve it for other moments & make people "wow i didn't know you could do this & that", trust me this is the best way to grow as an a vocalist, use some of your "secret powers" so you'll leave people shook. As a coloratura contralto, still i feel down because my tone it's not commercially sucessful on radio, but i'm learning to accept & love my voice i hope it will change...it's hard but i will
Thanks for the great, detailed informative video. Have you listened to Diana Ankudinova? At 14 she has a true Contralto. She is amazing! Try her version of Wicked Game or even Rechenka. You will be amazed !
I have quite severe reflux issues that are barely controlled with prescription medication, I too feel my voice is ruined. Little and often seems the only way.
Sam! Trueeee! I thought I was a weirdo, but we got thdm sexy low tones, and no one does ceelo green better than contraltos. We kick arse at tenor songs and making them emotional!
I have an accent fetish but I can't place yours exactly...it must be the far north somewhere between Yorkshire, Scotland snd Northern Ireland. I think I'm in love.
Annie Lennox is actually a Coloratura Contralto and a good example of a Dramatic Contralto is the Australian singer Lisa Gerrard, who is the singer for Dead Can Dance.
I always got made fun of, always teased by the other girls. Always felt insecure about not having a bird like voice. Ty for sharing all your knowledge ♥️
Hi! I don’t know for sure if I’m a mezzo soprano or a contralto ;;. My low note is E3/F3 and my voice doesn’t really feel a switch in the 4th octave.... (this is me judging it how I sing naturally bc I used to try to make myself sound more girly -my voice is feminine but it’s very smoky and really warm) I think I used to sing in head voice and try to pull it down as far as possible, because when I sing that “feminine way” my voice starts struggling lower than D4 and can’t “belt” unless I want to hurt my throat. When I sing the way I speak, however, my voice goes down to F3 with ease and belts from B4-C5/D5 (I think I’ve been able to mix it for E5/F5)
Edit: not gonna lie I might be more of a dramatic mezzo soprano maybe? Like with that “heady” sorta sound (idk if I can call it head voice) my voice only goes higher than F#5 naturally when it’s within speech (usually baby talking bc everyone’s voice does that). When singing though my voice starts switching after D5 but then begins struggling after Eb5?? I always hear people talking about middle voice but I don’t even know what that’s supposed to feel like :/ No matter how I sing anything above E5 hurts if I try to sustain it, and even D5 can be iffy!?
Annie Lennox is a great example of a coloratura contralto. She has been my personal hero for learning how to use my own voice. For all you ladies that aren’t sure about your vocal type, I highly recommend that you seek vocal lessons from a local university. That’s how I found out that I’m a contralto.
I think it's interesting that you said there are no well-known contraltos today, when we have Beyoncé, Lorde and Miley Cyrus who definitely fit in to this category. Beyoncé is a case on her own, she can also sing super high, but if you listen to for example Hold Up, it's superduper low. Lorde - basically anyone of her songs. Miley Cyrus - Midnight Sky, I bet most altos couldn't but most contraltos could sing the chorus. Both Lorde and Miley have in common the deep, smoky voice and when they belt it sounds incredibly powerful.
Beyonce is a Mezzo. I don't think her low notes sound very good. Her voice breaks up and becomes very pitchy. When she sings live she only does low notes in rifts and it sounds like she is straining.
This is great I always thought where do I fit in even when I was younger and I would answer the phone someone would say young man is your mom home mom home so thank you for posting this video
Yeah, my range is about G3-A4 and when I joined choir in college, I originally sung the alto part but the higher half of their notes were pretty uncomfy for me and I felt very unconfident because of it. However, the next semester, due to a big lack of tenors and my lower range, my prof asked if I'd switch to tenor so I did and it was the best thing that couple happened. There a few notes on the lower end that I have trouble hitting (especially when a composer has the basses and tenors sing in unison) but for the most part I can sing everything, it's so nice 😩🙏 but yeah, I'd say my range is a big chunk of those tenor notes and like the lower half of the alto notes (without going into my falsetto anyways), so I think I'm a contralto? Not super sure tho
Hey Sam, very interesting video. You say a lot of correct but also some incorrect things in this video which I would like to point out: - The lower the voice the lower the average belting range. So you are right, belting in the higher 4th and lower 5th octave is indeed quite a high belt in a contralto voice and most of them probanly cannot belt much higher than C#5/D5/Eb5. - Most comfortably singing range is probably indeed in the 4th and higher 3rd octave (probably F3-F4). However, a real contralto usually has much lower usable notes than F3 on the bottom. - Voice-typing comes from classical music so one must understand that the classification applies to un-amplified singing that is intentionally very headvoice heavy from the middle of the 4th octave upwards. That is why F3 is usually marked as the lowest usable (unamplified!) bottom note and the F5 (some contralto pieces go up to Ab5 or even Bb5) refers to a headvoice note not a belted note: hence, it is higher than your estimated D5 - Some contralto voices sound pretty androgenous and can have nearly or just as much impact on the bottom and middle than a male voice, but doesn't have to be. Only given is that contralto voices are usually very "heavy"/impactful compared to higher female voices
There is a contralto in the tenor section in my choir. She can handle the lower tenor parts. However, tenors also have to go high. She struggles with the high tenor parts. It’s not easy for her as a lower female voice type.
I've only just started utilizing my lower register (F3) I've sang in my higher register almost my whole life. Around G#4 & A5 at my highest with warm up.
I struggle to tell if I'm an alto or contralto. I'm not a student vocalist, but from what I've been able to tell, my extended range is from D2-F5 with the ends being a bit weak and my most comfortable range being E3-B4.
My total range is about B2-E5. This includes head voice and scraping the barrel chest. I shine most in high-mid 3rd to 4th octave. I have as bright of a tone as shakira. My voice teacher is convinced I'm a closeted soprano.
I paused this video and did a quick vocal range test before continuing and was comfortable between F3-F5, so when you said that’s the traditional range I was like “Welp, guess that answers that.” 😂
honestly im almost certain im a contralto at this point. i have a lot of controllable vibrato, and im most comfortable around E3- A5 but A5 is just on the cusp of my head voice. i also do have that very dark tone. my full range is D3 sharp - D6 but i think i can make it bigger honestly since i already have in a couple days of practice (i did take a lot of choir but it didnt help me much cause my teacher couldnt figure out how to classify me till she ended up sticking me with the tenors) also im 20 so this isnt a "your voice will get higher or change" kinda situation i think" i belt EASILY around the notes you specifically said were easiest for contraltos
So...I was always told I was a first alto (which is basically the lower range for mezzo-soprano, where in a 4 part choral piece the 2nd sopranos would take a more samey note as what they were singing before, the 1st altos would be taking on a slightly lower note than they would have otherwise if it were a 3 part version of the same arrangement. They would likely just sing the same thing as the 4 parter soprano 2) but I always felt that I fell very short in the higher notes and excelled where the notes went deeper. So in my second year of choir in high school I was bumped up a choir level, and there was a lack of altos (though it wasn't really treated as a countralto and more of a "most of you are actually alto 1s but we need you to stretch your voices uncomfortably low, thanks") and though I didn't have a good grasp of reading music and still don't, I was able to rely on our teacher's notes and the girl next to me who had a true smokey countalto voice to mimic the notes as they were meant to be and often the two of us carried the most powerful voices in our parts. Often because we were singing more powerfully though not louder, we covered up the stained voices of the others who were put there simply because a black girls voice tends to have a rich sound even though the notes didn't actually suit them. And no one really considered me alto material because my voice is far brighter sounding than would be the perceived norm. And now I come to find that, due to the comfort level of my range (I can go lower into a low tenor but it sounds more like a very quiet rumble and higher into what most women are "supposed" to be able to sing though it sounds like I'm a dying alley cat) that I am a lyrical countralto comparative to the most commonly thought of voice for an alto dramtic coutralto which the girl who sang next to me possessed bless her beautifully rare soul. So...yeah...finding out that there are multiple classifications of a countralto really made me feel less insecure about the way my voice sounds being wrong for my range...yay!
Fantastic video, thank you so much ❤. I was always ashamed of my very low female voice. I guess I'm a dramatic contralto then. Maybe it's time to accept it and go for it, cause this is who I am.
I’ve thought I’m a contralto for 2-3 years now since I meet the same notes, but I still sound somewhat feminine when I sing and not completely androgynous, would that just make me a really low voiced alto then?
In classical voice classifications (bass, baritone, tenor, contralto, mezzo, soprano) there is no such thing as an alto, that term comes from choral singing (bass, tenor, alto and soprano) which is only based on rough range and not texture, belting, etc. There are sub categories within contralto that differentiate tone and many other things. If you were a contralto you would probably be a lyrical or maybe a coloratura. But you could be a mezzo-soprano with a slightly lower range, it depends. What’s your range and where are you most comfortable?
Interesting. It would be helpful if you gave more examples of females singing all the notes you mentioned...especially for someone who knows nothing about any notes. Otherwise good video thanks!
a real contralto should be able to go much, much lower than F3. that's actually closer to the lowest note for many sopranos (and not even a particularly low one. plenty of dramatic sopranos have extensions down to D3, though this probably isn't super common). probably 80% of women can hit that note, so it doesn't make sense for the lowest female voice to bottom out there. imo, a trained contralto should have at least a C2 (some have all the way down to A2) and have huge resonance as low as E3. the high end is also too limited. at the very least, they should have an F5, with as high as Bb5 not being uncommon (just don't expect them to hang out up there!). if you replaced "range" with "tessitura", we would probably be closer to agreement, as that's more or less where most of them probably hang out. a tendency in videos and articles about voice type is to take the range of a male singer and bring it up an octave or so to get the equivalent female range. by and large, this is a flawed approach, as women typically have significantly bigger ranges than men. a well-trained female voice should have, at minimum, 2.5 octaves of well produced, performable notes, with many achieving 3. meanwhile, many male singers have just over 2 octaves, and a range of 2.5 octaves for a man is exemplary. you're definitely right about one thing though, contraltos are very, very rare. half of people who get trained as "contraltos" these days are actually....lower sopranos. most people are some type of tenor or soprano. true baritones and mezzos have fairly low voices compared to the general population, and basses and contraltos are on the extreme (like, 5% of people tops). PS: I'm happy to provide examples if you like.
Now that I know thats not the case I can comfortably upload music on my channel soon. I always use to thought I was a alto but this app help me define my voice
also what is it when you can flip between timbres? id assume coloratura because I can switch between timbres and notes easily but my head voice starts around E Or F4...I suppose I can use my chest voice on E and F4 but even in best condition it sounds like (and is) my highest belting ability .... my head voice goes up to E6 but starts in the late fourth octave .. I can sing to the 6th octave well but upper 2nd and lower third is my best range ...am I contralto?
also what is the difference between coloratura contralto and sfogato soprano? I can sing comfortably deep in the second octave but my high 5th and low 6th octave notes are good too..am I a coloratura contralto or sfogato soprano ?
I heard some contraltos singing guy songs in karaoke bars. I also think Tracy Chatman is a contralto. I also heard a contralto in Jazz. I think Dianna Krawl is one.
I find my vocals to be very interesting , I was classified as a soprano singer , because of my high and whistle notes , and my natural vocal tone and register sounds very warm and soulful. But at the same time I can sound very bright and sweet soprano. I think I have a very wide vocal range , alot of the notes I hit makes me so surpise when I hit them , like I would never thought i could sing so low or high.
If I drag my chest voice high enough, I can do a shout using my speaking voice up to F#4 often G4. And as low as F2. What voice am I? My head voice can go high if I practice it. Maybe above F5. But not up to the 6th Octave. But definitely above a G5 is very uncomfortable. What voice type am I? Someone once said I can do an alto but I’m so confused because I feel some parts of my voice are unexplored. I can’t “mix my voice” properly...! Sometimes in order to drag my chest high - I need to make the tone softer in volume to practice it. It tends to sound weak.
I am 15. My lowest note ever is D#2, lowest comfortable is D3, highest chest is G4 (further head voice begins), highest comfortable is A5, highest ever is G6. First time I was assuming that I am a mezzo, but then I realized that mezzos usually have saturated and powerful highs, and my highs are just like dying goat, though I am trained. Sooo, I think that I am contralto... But I am still not sure, because I have never met a vocal coach 🤷
okay so that works for me...but i also do whistle notes. which cut out on G#6. so does B2 or C3-G#6 work for a contralto? and if i am contralto does that mean im coloratura contralto. and i wanna sing pop music. im so confused.🤦♀
Pls tell me why I can sing (I have covers of), the songs of Annie Lennox, Brenda Russel, Dalida & Lara (and their French & Italian songs), Rihanna, Beyonce, Donna Summer, Diana Ross, Barbra, Maria Callas, Edith Piaf and Shreya Goshal and her Hindi song, Sunn Raha Hai Na Tu. I also posted a cover of The Fifth Element song (not the aria part but the diva dance). I don't know my voice range. I just love to sing any song and I would normally study and practice and see how I could shift my voice to high notes. I have no formal lesson but since I was young I love to emulate voices but was too shy to join a competition. Should I still get a voice lesson to know my voice range. Would love to hear fr you. Thank you very much.
I am constantly told, mostly by my sister, that even if I do have a deep voice for 16 y/o girl im mezzo soprano cause it's not "deep enough for contralto" but I'm the most comfortable singing songs originally sung by tenor voices
Pitch in men voice and women overlap pitch is not always voice characteristics of male and female it's Also timbre . Women can have deep voice and sound like a women and men can have high voice and still sound like a man. And there are some people who timbre is androgynous when they naturally sound in the middle
Can I suggest you take a look at a lovely Russian teenager called Diana Ankudinova, singing 'Human' and 'Wicked Game'. EVERY vocal coach and opera singers that have reacted to her performances praise her very highly. She is a contralto but I'd love you to hear her as she is amazingly unique and has 'something extra' that leaves reactors speechless. I'm certain you could explain how a 14 year old girl can reach such deep notes, she also yodels, sings in several different languages, plays piano, tap dances and is absolutely beautiful. I assume you are a vocal coach and are very knowledgable in that area. I've subbed in the hope you will take a look at Diana and give your opinion. Please consider this and thank you.
I have actually been asked to look at her before. Her voice was mesmerising. Its was exceptionally heavy. She used a very very full configuration and was very comfortable in her lower range. But she also had a nice time in a higher key slightly. But she sounded exceptional with her voice so full and so heavy.
@@sambradley8297 Thank you for that Samuel. I'm so glad you've seen her. It's like when your favourite song comes on the radio in your car, you open all the windows and max the volume to share with the world. I'm only a moderator in her fan club and I want to share her with the world. Thanks again xx
I am having trouble knowing if I am a contralto or alto cause I can go as low as G2, as high as g5 il falsetto. Real confortable singing carpenter but can sing Tony Braxton on a good day :-). What do you think? Thanks
I’m a contralto and I fall into the tenor range and can get some baritones x my tessitura is G3 and my lowest note is. D#3 I can sing male songs easily but when it comes to female songs feel very limited
contralto culture is belting 'take me to church' and the chorus sounding REALLY high when it's literally just E4-G4
Either pull chest or gentle mix... the first is most authentic :)
Contralto culture is finding it easier to sing Ab3 than Ab5
Well, that makes classifying my voice much easier.
I feel attacked.
This is the best comment I seen in weeekkssss
This is really interesting, I always thought I just had a very bad vocal range because I struggled to hit C5.
Same
@Ella É Linda you got range range
Same!
You can do it! The typical contralto range goes to F5. Work on your high register or falsetto. It is safe to mix and belt up to D5. Never EVER belt above that, trust me l injured my voice like that imitating higher placed singers! That's when it home, I truly have a low voice
Same!
i'm 14 and i'm a contralto THAT'S WHY I STRUGGLED SO MUCH i always hated not being able to reach higher notes but now i can use my voice better and i like it more
Same I used to really want to hit the high notes in Ariana's be my baby and now I realized my high notes are B4s lol
I think you're not Contralto you're 14 like me so our voice doesn't developed yet, So we will Find out voice type when we turn 17.
@@arnelflorvillarico2016 damn so I could develope an even deeper voice?
@@artsstar6931 as we grow older our voice will get deeper especially for boys .
Idk if this is accurate but a woman's voice won't fully mature till age 18 or early 20s. And for a man, his voice won't be fully mature till he's 30
Dear Samuel, being a Contralto myself thank you for putting out the most accurate video for this rare, misunderstood and ridiculously under represented voice type.
The chest voice of the contralto voice actually begins at D3. I speak and sing this note easily. I can coordinate it into fabulous low runs. They are clear, extremely dark, and resonant. In comparison the tenor chest voice begins at C3, the low Mezzo E3. Honestly there is an overlap. And you can hear that in a true Contralto voice, part Tenor, part (Mezzo) Soprano.
This unique voice stands out from other women because it works in a similar fashion to a man's voice. A voice that is dominated by heavy chest mechanism. up to the fourth octave. They have an unusually long, extended chest register, sounding very rich and deep for far longer than other females voice types. Their voices are prodigiously powerful, rich, thick, cavernous, chesty in the fourth octave... on par with men. I highly recommend listening to a Toni Braxton vocal range video and pay attention to her fourth octave belts, A4 and above to about D5. Phenomenal. In the fourth issue they are true money notes on any Contralto. you are correct that Contraltos are not high belters. I do not have a long mixed register like higher voiced women do. Women must be their mix in order to belt. my true middle register is only a handful of notes located in the fourth octave. Around F5 or so my voice is already in pure high register. Past A5 things start to feel uncomfortably high. My true head voice resembles male falsetto. It sounds disparately bright, piercing, pure, crystalline, like strikes of lightning compared to my heavy, dark chest register. A rather Androgynous trait. To hear this please check out singer Lyves who really exploits this in her voice.
As for myself, l have experimented with my low belts (fourth octave) and they are shockingly androgynous. The dark smoky character and the weight carries into my mixed register. if l limit my voice to a certain range l really do sound Tenor like. I can successfully belt a G4 in pure chest and sound convincingly male. I know I'm not the only one. The G4 note on a contralto is very pronounced: unusually thick, strong and dark compared to other females, androgynous even. Only the Contralto can safely delay using head voice this high.
High tenor songs are where my voice really shines. I sing many of the same keys men do. Note that the standard passagio for the Contralto is F4, similar to the Tenor voice. Unlike the male voice though where it starts to get weak and falsetto-y, our voices gain strength, remaining thick and strong for a couple notes more (our true mixed register) before engaging our high registers. you can hear this phenomenon a lot when contraltos duet with males. I was struck by it when Cher sings l Got You Babe with Sonny or when Toni B duets with Babyface.
I agree that most contraltos don't sound exactly like men. On the whole they sound like women, abeit witha heavier, darker, rich, smoky tone. Even if they don't sound particularly androgynous. In their mixed register they often are. tenor like from the weight, strength and colour (like sunsets, honey, Amber, chocolate, blue ink, dark plum). It's really fascinating.
What l love about the Contralto voice that their overall dark, heavy timbre is wonderfully mournful, MELANCHOLIC, haunting, lugubrious, forlorn. Since they sing mostly in chest tones, their voices are deeply moving and conversational. Everything they literally carries so much more gravity and weight. Very compelling to listen to! That's how they make their singing careers, singing ballads and torchy songs about heartache and pain. (You know who they are).
Anita Baker is possibly a coloratura Contralto whose light voice easily moves into the upper regions, almost as high as Soprano while maintaining the classic, dark, smoky Contralto timbre. Another example might be Sade, her voice is ever warm, rich, smoky (hazy) and feminine, but it is not oppressively heavy, dark or powerful. it seems rather small.
Most contraltos are lyrics. Cher, Toni Braxton, Lauryn Hill, Grace Jones, Timi Yuro, Liza Minnelli, Judy Garland, Alison Moyet, Amy Winehouse, Diana Krall, Carly Simon, Mavis Staples, Sarah Vaughan. And many more. I honestly do not they think are as rare as people make them out to be. They are talked about like they're unicorns or something. Yes they are rare but not that rare. I really feel that male bass voices are far more rare than the Contralto voice.
Rhys Middleton What credentials have you got, Mr. Middleton? Let's settle this once and for all. Dileesa isn't the authority on anything.
Toni Braxton and Anita Baker have said publicly they are contraltos. They make a PROFESSIONAL living singing. You don't think they don't know what their true voice types are?
Rhys Middleton Let me settle this once and for all. I am a real contralto. I know l don't sound like other women and l have to look to other contraltos and male singers for clues in order to operate my unique instrument.
Keep in mind, the differences between each female voice type is rather small. Trained contemporary female singers can sing a very similar range and there's lots of overlap in each category so it be be very tricky to identify a woman's true voice voice type. The best way to do that is identifying the singer's PASSAGIO. For example a clue that a singer is a Soprano is that her tone brightens very quickly. A Soprano singing her typical lowest note of G3 and above only has five chest notes. A true contralto, typical lowest chest note D3 and above has nearly double that. Her tone remains grounded, rich and dark for a very, very long time, their incredibly high passagio being F4, G4, even Ab4 (Dramatic Contralto, ie Tracy Chapman).
For last time, NOT ALL CONTRALTOS SOUND ALIKE. THERE ARE MANY SUB CATEGORIES. THEY DO NOT NECESSARILY SOUND ANDROGYNOUS. IT IS INTELLECTUALLY LAZY TO THINK THAT. It's easy to take mental shortcuts, right?
Toni and Anita sing PROFESSIONALLY for a LIVING. They have publicly stated they are indeed contraltos. You don't think they know what their voice types are??? Between the two of these ladies they have won *15* Grammy Awards. How many have you got? I'd love to know. GET A GRIP, PLEASE!
BTW
Toni Braxton is an incredibly talented, skilled singer, many times better than Sade. She doesn't have to sound chesty and dark all the time. She can mix earlier to sound Mezzo-soprano like (lighter, brighter) or she can go chest dominant sound (oppressive, heavy, dark). Also, Toni Braxton does indeed sound androgynous. More so than Sade. Look up singer FAMOUS, a tenor, imitating her! A typical Contralto basically sounds like a low voices female, often with a weight to it on par with the Tenor voice. The vocal colours are similar too. Some are so dark, almost baritonal. They have unique dark, smoky timbre that carries into their mixed register.
Women's voices darken and mature over time. I have heard girly, youthful Contraltos (my old self), mezzo Soprano's, and Sopranos. Not all Sopranos are girly. Jesse Ware is one, but doesn't sound girly at all! doesn't make her a Contralto though
Rhys Middleton You can go ahead and wallow in ignorance. Gosh, l really need to write that book about this misunderstood and under represented voice.
Rhys Middleton Everybody has a unique singing style. Don't think just Ana Carolina doesn't, doesn't mean she can't. Ever thought of that? In the mixed register, singers have option. I told you already. They can: go chest dominant, balanced, or pure high register. In other words it is possible to sing a note 3 different ways! SINGING IS PERFORMANCE ART. No contralto (or singer for that matter) sings alike nor sounds alike.
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Rhys Middleton How do you explain Toni's fourth octave belts than? Have you ever truly opened your ears and listened? It is not physically possible for Mezzo Soprano's or Sopranos to even sing like that, period! Cavernous, powerful, heavy, rich, chesty, dark
I am a contra alto.
I am 14.
I am in middle school girls choir.
My chest voice range is C3-G4.
Choir is a bit of a struggle for me, and I sing pretty much everything in my head voice.
But it's okay, because when I sing on my own, I can sing songs sung by men really loudly and love how low my voice is. :)
@asengamer-terryandprimo3105you are 10, what do you think
All voices are equally beautiful, challenging, and versatile. Because the topic is about contraltos I have to mention my favorite singers: Sade, Lauryn Hill, Tina Turner, Annie Lennox, Amy Whinehouse, Cher, Penny Ford... I love that androgynous sound to their voices. I heard Sade speaking and I was like, wow, what a nice low female voice.
I`m contrealto but the app shows me pretty high pitch around 280 Hz in a pretty female with NO androgenic pitch
I would agree the great range of artists who sound truly female sexy, just being high doesn`t mean to have naturally female voice
Tina
Any
Sade
Lauryn hill
And even Cher are actually mezzos. Cher is a low mezzo and lauryn is a low mezzo but the rest of them are standard mezzos
Give Cher a little more credit at the end there - she used pitch correction for effect on 'Believe' and has been singing with nothing but a mic since the 60s. And she really does have a beautiful contralto voice.
But CH3Rillyn is a m@n! I saw a video of one of her live performances with Sonny and you can see her wiener dangling underneath "her" pants.
Imho, her vocal effects on believe were a nod to like, house music.
I love listening to Karen Carpenter because I can enjoy singing along in my natural register. I also love her beautiful, rich, warm tone. She does not over sing but has that relaxed, effortless quality. Otherwise I tend to sing along with tenors.
Omg, I listened Carpenter too and realized that her songs are perfect for my voice and range too... Thank you!!!!
Karen Carpenter is a flat out legend. Every Christmas my mom & I listen to her & her brothers’ holiday album & we both shed a tear or too that she left this world too soon.
16 yr old female, prolly got a contralto voice based on what I can tune with.
you're just 16 years old, your voice will keep maturing over the years. It's too soon to indicate your voice type.
What can you do, my effeminate fellow?
Arctic Falcon I’m not sure about that 👀
@@Colt-eq1vm 16-year-olds' voices are not yet stabilized. It's too early to marry yourself to a vocal range. She's a teenager who has not been trained, so her range is limited. She will have a wider range as she continues to practice and mature.
Arctic Falcon yeah maybe 👍🏼
I’m 37 and just starting to play guitar and have spent a week trying to figure out my vocal type and this is the BEST explanation I have seen! Definitely a lyric contralto and explains sooo much
I've received vocal lessons for 8 years and had to quit right before my Bachelor's degree exams in Indian Classical music. I mostl didn't like singing because i thought that my voice range sucks. My voice quality was not deemed ideal for classical music and I was told to stick to semi- classical and new age Bollywood singing. And my voice doesn't even fit most of the Bollywood music because most of the female have very high pitch voice so I was mostly killing my vocal chords to sing. Until recently when I discovered that I'm probably a contralto with vocal range of E2 to G5, most comfortable in the C3 range. I sound decent while singing jazz and songs with more style than technique. This voice classification was never really taught to me cuz our Indian Classical music is based only on melody and not on harmony. There are no altos, tenors, superanos etc. That means that there is only one singer in a performance. No lead singer, main singer and backups etc, no harmonies. This is extremely beneficial when the singer wants to showcase his/ her vocal range and advanced singing technique and any impromptu variations they bring to the table to make the performance stand out. All my life I thought I just sucked, but now I know I'm probably a contralto. So I'll look for music that would suit my voice range. :) Thankyou.
@Alice it's cuz people have only learnt Indian classical music and have no idea about western classical music or Western music in general.
amazing. know that you have a wonderful, rare voice. take pride in it. I wish l could hear you sing. Did you know the most famous and beloved Middle Eastern female singer is a Contralto? She was known as the "Star of the East" in Egypt. Umm Kulthum.
I have a low voice myself, and l only discovered that singing high imitating other women is just straining. Like you l damaged my voice and came to the conclusion l am contralto. I was never satisfied with my voice, that l had no talent/ability but once l embraced that identity l improved in a couple of months than l had in a couple of years.
One singer I'm obsessed with is Leo Kalyan, he is classically trained in the Indian tradition. With your stated range (baritonal) I suspect you can replicate everything he does. Please listen to "Fucked Up"... It's extraordinary. ua-cam.com/video/6jG8E79X-Yw/v-deo.html
@@arxsyn thankyou :) I'm slowly learning to take pride in my voice and sing at my scales. And I will definitely check Umm kulthum and Leo out :D
happend the same to me! i did 2 years of bel canto but I had luck with a very good coach who told me I am contralto. I always hated my voice cos all the sopranos are famous musicians, but then I discovered metal and I found myself! I love to sing male parts
I honestly still don’t know my range but I do agree about how most Bollywood songs are so high pitched like it really bursts my eardrums lmao I can sing what my lessons teach me but my voice has more weight to it still
My comfortable range doesn’t even touch the 5th octave
Edit: B4 is the highest note in my comfy range. F3 is the lowest.
Banane Wane You naturally feel you want to switch to head voice right, falsetto? I feel the same. I can mix to get those big, belty high notes, it's not something l necessarily like doing too much. Up to D5 is safe. Don't go any higher. That's how l injured my voice any figured out l am a Contralto
My comfy range ends at G4-
Same !
From D2 to D#5. Lower note to highest
U are mezzo dramatic
I always thought having a contralto voice means I can't sing.
Oh no! It just means the higher registers aren’t for you. Just like the lower registers aren’t for sopranos. Unless they’re Beyonce or Christina Aguilera & then all bets are off becuz those voices are practically superhuman.
Helpful video, thanks. I'm a middle-aged woman who has just discovered that I fall into this voice range category. It's liberating!!
I am impressed by this young boy knowledge .
I've been dealing with self esteemed issues for years. At the age of 8 I learned I had an unusually low voice for a girl. When I was older I somehow stumbled upon "voice types" and doing further research I learned that I am a dramatic contralto. I've had love-hate relationships with musical theatres and Disney. All the pretty protagonists are sopranos and all the contraltos are mothers, maids, hags and villains (or overly sexual). As someone commonly called "naive" and a "puppy dog" (sometimes complimentary sometimes telling me to grow up a bit more) I find it really hard to find songs that I can "click" to. I often find myself either singing along with guys or alternating the notes in songs to actually sound good.
As of late I've found that I can sing a lower version of "Part of Your World" from Little Mermaid and Cassandra's song from Rapunzel's Tangled Adventures since I've started trying to practice my range (though there's some difficulties as I have a hearing impairment that makes it difficult for me to hear particular notes).
On the plus side I've actually been able to sync with Linkin' Park
Your ability to alternate notes in songs implies you have a good ear to tailor existing melodies and harmonies to your tessitura. I would suggest continuing to tailor songs to your tessitura and refining your ear to help you harmonize any song you desire to sing with ease. I did this often as a youth for fun and to experiment with different possibilities of a song. Jogging or any form of cardio helped me expand my range. I used to jog and sing songs to assist with breath control and stamina. Best of luck to you!
You can also listen to "alto" singers, they may not be as accurate, but they could work for you.
@@urArchitect thanks! I have been practicing and, of all things, I can really get into Sonic the Hedgehog songs and I've been owning the low notes (lowest I got was a deep D3 but I haven't been able to replicate it). I kinda got Almost There but my voice cracked on the long note. I'm practicing more and more though and now I'll try the jogging/cardio while singing technique too :)
Karen Carperter, Fiona Apple, Patsy Klien, Lana delRey,Gladys Knight, Diana Krall, Tina Turner, Shakira, Tony Braxton, Tracy Chapman.... I am one so I remember my inspirations. Check out Diana Ankudinova. MIND BLOWING example !
my lowest note: f3
but I can reach up to e3 sometimes
my highest note is: d5.
You're may be mezzo soprano.
Feeling better today :) It’s interesting to note that classically female voices have a “full” chest register that is longer as you go down in voice type - and thus it becomes slightly higher in tapering off due to power. However, the middle register shrinks significantly for a contralto: around A4 to D5, which is the top area of the range you mentioned. It’s common that a contralto who has developed all registers will have a soprano-like middle register into head voice and a booming chest register, because unlike the mezzo the head & chest are not coordinated in tandem and unlike the soprano itself, the voice as a whole is thicker but the head voice is not stronger than the chest voice.
I'm almost 100% sure Grace Vanderwaal is contralto after she did go through puberty. To be honest I can't work her voice out I not musician but if you listen to songs like "Today and Tomorrow Jimmy Kimmel Live" you probobly get to the same conclusion.
I always get irritated talking about this topic with people, probably because I'm a contralto and people don't know much about the voice type. Like, one, vocal range does not equal vocal type, so saying your range is F3-G5 means pretty much nothing alone. And two, that males can be contraltos and females tenors. I know it's a little ridiculous to get so mad but I can't help it lol.
The men with androgynous or female voices are called tenor Altino or countertenors .
I used to just think that I had a limited/bad range before I took voice lessons. I always would struggle to hit alto notes in choir. I remember in middle school my teacher assigned colors of the wind to the alto section and we had to sing individually in front of everyone. Everyone belted their way through it while I basically stayed in falsetto for most of it still failing to hit most of the high notes. Then got told I wasn't trying hard enough bc of that. But then when there was really low notes I was the main one able to hit those, so I guess it balanced out.
@ashley
The arrogance of a teacher telling a student “you’re not trying hard enough” when they can’t see what’s going through the students mind/expect all students to adhere to the same teaching techniques
i thought i was just had a really bad range ;0
I'm a contralto. I sing effortlessly starting from a c3 to a D5. My entire range is A2-G5. And indeed a B4 is me belting, but I can belt up to a D5. I only sound heavy within the 3d octave. Starting from the 4th octave I sound feminine. For people that would like to compare, I have some videos of me singing and the progression within 1 year.
Thank you so much for this video. This is why my whole life I thought I couldn't sing and I got bullied at home. I didn't fit the "normal" voice type. When I was 5 years old my mother told me off for sounding "down" or "moody" but I was a very grateful and happy child, I just had a smoky voice, even while I was little, and a peaceful outlook. So I was forced to push my voice up to be accepted at home. That is when I lost track of my inner ear and my natural sound and my whole life has been torture trying to sing, not only because most songs we hear are not in my natural range, but also my voice was really suppressed and confused. 🥲 Having your authentic sound is an important part of knowing who you are and what your self-expression is. When I was 7, I was sent to a (not very nice) voice coach because my voice almost completely broke. And I never got my voice back until now. I am 37 now and I am now uncovering my natural voice, which I am realizing is definitely a contralto voice. Parents, please NEVER EVER judge your child and just accept and love them the way they come. You can do a lot of damage if you do not want to learn to understand your child for their unique selves and their pure intentions. What I've found is that my deeper voice really fits my personality. I am calm and non-judgmental. When I relax, my voice has a bluesy character. This is what makes me great at helping others to relax too and be who they really are, no matter what their natural self is like. Authenticity matters! And acceptance is mega important in that!!!
Also find Contralto singers in R&B.
💯. I don’t know why he’s emphasizing how rare contraltos are. Granted, there’s less of us than sopranos but we’re not 🦄. It’s not a super low %. I moved around a lot growing up, singing in school & church choirs & there were plenty of us wherever I lived in U.S. There are also plenty of famous singers who sing in that range. Like you said, R&B’s the perfect example. Ok I’m done now 😂.
I’m a contralto and clearly remember asking my mom when I was a kid, why I had a boy’s voice. I much prefer listening to deeper female voices and created a Spotify playlist, “Sopranos Make My Ass Twitch.” My all-time fave is Meshell Ndegeocello.
you say contraltos dont sound like men but some can😭😭 my lowest note is F2 and my lowest without sounding like I'm trying hard to sing low is A2. it sounds really masculine and manly when I go that deep, but when I go first half of third octave it sounds androgynous not male or female. ppl always say contralto doesnt sound male but what if you're a biological female and it does? I'm only 22 and I'm a smoker to be fair but even when I was 7 my G3s were super deep😭😭 hope it's okay for women to sound like men cuz I surely do
Most of the people on the list are/were contraltos. However, Karen Carpenter and Lana Del Rey were actually mezzo-sopranos commonly misidentified as contraltos due to richness in the lower register. Timbre supports the theory. When I was three years old, my father told me that Karen Carpenter was “an alto”, but later on when I researched what an alto was, I got four different ideas. The first idea that passed through my mind was that alto is between contralto and mezzo-soprano. The second idea was that alto was short for contralto. The third idea was that alto can be a choral part that encompasses contralto and mezzo-soprano voice types. The fourth idea based on what I read about the alto voice was that it was “one rung higher than a tenor” and “the equivalent of a male countertenor”. Which three of the four ideas are misconceptions?
I'm come from a very musical family (everyone played at least one type of instrument and we would sing pretty much every day). I've always had a relatively deep voice and preferred singing harmony ever since I was in grade school. My parents had a very eclectic collection of vinyl records that included popular music as well as opera and soundtracks to musicals. We listened to these records all the time and would sing along. I always gravitated toward singing the males parts because those songs were closer to my vocal range than the songs sung by women. My dad had a relatively high vocal range so we would entertain friends and neighbors by singing together and switching up the genders (eg,: "Ten Minutes Ago" from Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella, replete with hammy vibrato and belting) and everyone got a kick out of it. I never heard of the term contralto until just today. Thanks for this informative video!
a F3 for me it's like nothing for me, & B4 for me sounds like it's a D5 for mezzos, & is it just me or a lot of contraltos has a kind of "raspy/breathy" head voice? Cause i do, and it gives the impression of a "crack/breaky" voice, i'm so envy for those mezzo & soprano whose its head voice it's clean as water. And even though i'm the lighest cotralto i still have those qualities i've said.
My vocal range :
Lowest note: G#2 (which it's my limit and fry)
Actual audible low note: B2
Highest belt: B4
Mix: C5-G5
Whistle:E6 *believe me for me a E6 it's a whistle and I get mad because for Ariana it's a high head voice note & for me it's whistle but it's cool*
Where my range shines the most or where i like to sing also to preserve my voice C3-B4. I can do more but my i don't use my whole range bc I'm not obliged to sing uncomfy & dying, in my cause as a light contralto non androginous voice i could easily pretend i'm a mezzo but from my own choice i want to showcase the best of me & not sing high pretending i'm comfy, i don't use 1% of my range because i can reserve it for other moments & make people "wow i didn't know you could do this & that", trust me this is the best way to grow as an a vocalist, use some of your "secret powers" so you'll leave people shook.
As a coloratura contralto, still i feel down because my tone it's not commercially sucessful on radio, but i'm learning to accept & love my voice i hope it will change...it's hard but i will
Thanks for the great, detailed informative video. Have you listened to Diana Ankudinova? At 14 she has a true Contralto. She is amazing! Try her version of Wicked Game or even Rechenka. You will be amazed !
I've always been an alto. :) I'm proud of it, but as I age and keep getting severe illnesses in the throat, its wrecking my voice. :(
I have quite severe reflux issues that are barely controlled with prescription medication, I too feel my voice is ruined. Little and often seems the only way.
Sam! Trueeee!
I thought I was a weirdo, but we got thdm sexy low tones, and no one does ceelo green better than contraltos.
We kick arse at tenor songs and making them emotional!
With all due respect you remind me of the smart fast talking chicken from Chicken run
I have an accent fetish but I can't place yours exactly...it must be the far north somewhere between Yorkshire, Scotland snd Northern Ireland. I think I'm in love.
Annie Lennox is actually a Coloratura Contralto and a good example of a Dramatic Contralto is the Australian singer Lisa Gerrard, who is the singer for Dead Can Dance.
Wasnt amy winehouse a contralto?
I can hit a C3 comfortably and my highest note's a C5 without crying.
Contralto.
I always got made fun of, always teased by the other girls. Always felt insecure about not having a bird like voice. Ty for sharing all your knowledge ♥️
Oh, that sucks. It’s like bullying a tenor. I have a high tenor voice. Where you called a guy.
My range is an F#2 - A6. I’ve been a contralto my whole life....and received quite a bit of backlash for my voice type.
You sure you a Contralto or a mezzo soprano
I felt dissed throughout the whole video lol. 😂
Hi! I don’t know for sure if I’m a mezzo soprano or a contralto ;;. My low note is E3/F3 and my voice doesn’t really feel a switch in the 4th octave.... (this is me judging it how I sing naturally bc I used to try to make myself sound more girly -my voice is feminine but it’s very smoky and really warm) I think I used to sing in head voice and try to pull it down as far as possible, because when I sing that “feminine way” my voice starts struggling lower than D4 and can’t “belt” unless I want to hurt my throat. When I sing the way I speak, however, my voice goes down to F3 with ease and belts from B4-C5/D5 (I think I’ve been able to mix it for E5/F5)
Edit: not gonna lie I might be more of a dramatic mezzo soprano maybe? Like with that “heady” sorta sound (idk if I can call it head voice) my voice only goes higher than F#5 naturally when it’s within speech (usually baby talking bc everyone’s voice does that). When singing though my voice starts switching after D5 but then begins struggling after Eb5?? I always hear people talking about middle voice but I don’t even know what that’s supposed to feel like :/
No matter how I sing anything above E5 hurts if I try to sustain it, and even D5 can be iffy!?
I still can't figure out if I'm alto or mezzo-soprano but your videos have helped me appreciate my voice even though it is limited
You can either be a alto or a dramatic mezzo soprano it's not range perse it's voice type
Who else sings the male and female part of musicals ? Haha I do that with rent a lot. Especially Mimi and Roger. They’re both extremely in my range.
I'm F3(not super strong, but there) to D6... I'm a high mezzo soprano
When I was in church choir, my comfortable range was singing with the tenors with the boys. So I’m pretty sure on the ContraAlto.
Ruth Pointer of The Pointer Sisters and Gladys Bentley are fabulous contraltos
Annie Lennox is a great example of a coloratura contralto. She has been my personal hero for learning how to use my own voice.
For all you ladies that aren’t sure about your vocal type, I highly recommend that you seek vocal lessons from a local university. That’s how I found out that I’m a contralto.
Some real Contraltos are Diana Ankudinova, Amber Bain from Japanese House, Cher, Mercedes Sosa, etc
Diana ankudinova might be an assoluta. Sometimes, her low notes could be low larynx if she try to really hit those with androgynous tone.
I think it's interesting that you said there are no well-known contraltos today, when we have Beyoncé, Lorde and Miley Cyrus who definitely fit in to this category. Beyoncé is a case on her own, she can also sing super high, but if you listen to for example Hold Up, it's superduper low. Lorde - basically anyone of her songs. Miley Cyrus - Midnight Sky, I bet most altos couldn't but most contraltos could sing the chorus. Both Lorde and Miley have in common the deep, smoky voice and when they belt it sounds incredibly powerful.
Beyonce is a Mezzo. I don't think her low notes sound very good. Her voice breaks up and becomes very pitchy. When she sings live she only does low notes in rifts and it sounds like she is straining.
This is great I always thought where do I fit in even when I was younger and I would answer the phone someone would say young man is your mom home mom home so thank you for posting this video
C3-E5 here
Yeah, my range is about G3-A4 and when I joined choir in college, I originally sung the alto part but the higher half of their notes were pretty uncomfy for me and I felt very unconfident because of it. However, the next semester, due to a big lack of tenors and my lower range, my prof asked if I'd switch to tenor so I did and it was the best thing that couple happened. There a few notes on the lower end that I have trouble hitting (especially when a composer has the basses and tenors sing in unison) but for the most part I can sing everything, it's so nice 😩🙏 but yeah, I'd say my range is a big chunk of those tenor notes and like the lower half of the alto notes (without going into my falsetto anyways), so I think I'm a contralto? Not super sure tho
I want to thank you for emphasizing our rarity. People forget about Contraltos...#Sade #LalahHathaway #Brandy #NinaSimone
Hey Sam, very interesting video. You say a lot of correct but also some incorrect things in this video which I would like to point out:
- The lower the voice the lower the average belting range. So you are right, belting in the higher 4th and lower 5th octave is indeed quite a high belt in a contralto voice and most of them probanly cannot belt much higher than C#5/D5/Eb5.
- Most comfortably singing range is probably indeed in the 4th and higher 3rd octave (probably F3-F4). However, a real contralto usually has much lower usable notes than F3 on the bottom.
- Voice-typing comes from classical music so one must understand that the classification applies to un-amplified singing that is intentionally very headvoice heavy from the middle of the 4th octave upwards. That is why F3 is usually marked as the lowest usable (unamplified!) bottom note and the F5 (some contralto pieces go up to Ab5 or even Bb5) refers to a headvoice note not a belted note: hence, it is higher than your estimated D5
- Some contralto voices sound pretty androgenous and can have nearly or just as much impact on the bottom and middle than a male voice, but doesn't have to be. Only given is that contralto voices are usually very "heavy"/impactful compared to higher female voices
I gave Celin Dion's All By Myself a go! Of course didn't finish it ...:D but low tunes fit perfectly for a low deep smokey voic.
There is a contralto in the tenor section in my choir. She can handle the lower tenor parts. However, tenors also have to go high. She struggles with the high tenor parts. It’s not easy for her as a lower female voice type.
I'm a contralto. My chest vocal range is A2-A4. Sometimes in the morning I can talk on the G2.
Man I can barely hit B flat 4 and I have no problem keeping up with Malcolm Mackenzie
Thank you!
I've only just started utilizing my lower register (F3) I've sang in my higher register almost my whole life. Around G#4 & A5 at my highest with warm up.
Contraltos can actually go way down to notes like A2, G2 or F2. A mezzo can also go down to a D3 or C3
for instance the most comprehensible explanation
I struggle to tell if I'm an alto or contralto. I'm not a student vocalist, but from what I've been able to tell, my extended range is from D2-F5 with the ends being a bit weak and my most comfortable range being E3-B4.
An Alto is a short form of the word contralto. Or it's a choir part. So yeah. They're more or less the same thing if it's the first one.
D3-F5
My total range is about B2-E5. This includes head voice and scraping the barrel chest. I shine most in high-mid 3rd to 4th octave. I have as bright of a tone as shakira. My voice teacher is convinced I'm a closeted soprano.
I paused this video and did a quick vocal range test before continuing and was comfortable between F3-F5, so when you said that’s the traditional range I was like “Welp, guess that answers that.” 😂
honestly im almost certain im a contralto at this point. i have a lot of controllable vibrato, and im most comfortable around E3- A5 but A5 is just on the cusp of my head voice. i also do have that very dark tone. my full range is D3 sharp - D6 but i think i can make it bigger honestly since i already have in a couple days of practice (i did take a lot of choir but it didnt help me much cause my teacher couldnt figure out how to classify me till she ended up sticking me with the tenors) also im 20 so this isnt a "your voice will get higher or change" kinda situation i think"
i belt EASILY around the notes you specifically said were easiest for contraltos
So...I was always told I was a first alto (which is basically the lower range for mezzo-soprano, where in a 4 part choral piece the 2nd sopranos would take a more samey note as what they were singing before, the 1st altos would be taking on a slightly lower note than they would have otherwise if it were a 3 part version of the same arrangement. They would likely just sing the same thing as the 4 parter soprano 2) but I always felt that I fell very short in the higher notes and excelled where the notes went deeper. So in my second year of choir in high school I was bumped up a choir level, and there was a lack of altos (though it wasn't really treated as a countralto and more of a "most of you are actually alto 1s but we need you to stretch your voices uncomfortably low, thanks") and though I didn't have a good grasp of reading music and still don't, I was able to rely on our teacher's notes and the girl next to me who had a true smokey countalto voice to mimic the notes as they were meant to be and often the two of us carried the most powerful voices in our parts. Often because we were singing more powerfully though not louder, we covered up the stained voices of the others who were put there simply because a black girls voice tends to have a rich sound even though the notes didn't actually suit them. And no one really considered me alto material because my voice is far brighter sounding than would be the perceived norm. And now I come to find that, due to the comfort level of my range (I can go lower into a low tenor but it sounds more like a very quiet rumble and higher into what most women are "supposed" to be able to sing though it sounds like I'm a dying alley cat) that I am a lyrical countralto comparative to the most commonly thought of voice for an alto dramtic coutralto which the girl who sang next to me possessed bless her beautifully rare soul. So...yeah...finding out that there are multiple classifications of a countralto really made me feel less insecure about the way my voice sounds being wrong for my range...yay!
Fantastic video, thank you so much ❤. I was always ashamed of my very low female voice. I guess I'm a dramatic contralto then. Maybe it's time to accept it and go for it, cause this is who I am.
If you are a contralto or love contralto I have a facebook page called - Contralto United, so you can see loads of cool stuff
I’ve thought I’m a contralto for 2-3 years now since I meet the same notes, but I still sound somewhat feminine when I sing and not completely androgynous, would that just make me a really low voiced alto then?
In classical voice classifications (bass, baritone, tenor, contralto, mezzo, soprano) there is no such thing as an alto, that term comes from choral singing (bass, tenor, alto and soprano) which is only based on rough range and not texture, belting, etc. There are sub categories within contralto that differentiate tone and many other things. If you were a contralto you would probably be a lyrical or maybe a coloratura. But you could be a mezzo-soprano with a slightly lower range, it depends. What’s your range and where are you most comfortable?
Interesting. It would be helpful if you gave more examples of females singing all the notes you mentioned...especially for someone who knows nothing about any notes. Otherwise good video thanks!
a real contralto should be able to go much, much lower than F3. that's actually closer to the lowest note for many sopranos (and not even a particularly low one. plenty of dramatic sopranos have extensions down to D3, though this probably isn't super common). probably 80% of women can hit that note, so it doesn't make sense for the lowest female voice to bottom out there. imo, a trained contralto should have at least a C2 (some have all the way down to A2) and have huge resonance as low as E3. the high end is also too limited. at the very least, they should have an F5, with as high as Bb5 not being uncommon (just don't expect them to hang out up there!). if you replaced "range" with "tessitura", we would probably be closer to agreement, as that's more or less where most of them probably hang out.
a tendency in videos and articles about voice type is to take the range of a male singer and bring it up an octave or so to get the equivalent female range. by and large, this is a flawed approach, as women typically have significantly bigger ranges than men. a well-trained female voice should have, at minimum, 2.5 octaves of well produced, performable notes, with many achieving 3. meanwhile, many male singers have just over 2 octaves, and a range of 2.5 octaves for a man is exemplary.
you're definitely right about one thing though, contraltos are very, very rare. half of people who get trained as "contraltos" these days are actually....lower sopranos. most people are some type of tenor or soprano. true baritones and mezzos have fairly low voices compared to the general population, and basses and contraltos are on the extreme (like, 5% of people tops).
PS: I'm happy to provide examples if you like.
Now that I know thats not the case I can comfortably upload music on my channel soon. I always use to thought I was a alto but this app help me define my voice
Im a soprano as a man and my talking range is between like E4-E5 when im projecting to someone across the room singing range lowest note C4-D6
Bb4 is low for me
3:29 lmao you literally nailed my vocal range
Sarah Jane from The Communards springs instantly to mind
also what is it when you can flip between timbres? id assume coloratura because I can switch between timbres and notes easily but my head voice starts around E Or F4...I suppose I can use my chest voice on E and F4 but even in best condition it sounds like (and is) my highest belting ability .... my head voice goes up to E6 but starts in the late fourth octave .. I can sing to the 6th octave well but upper 2nd and lower third is my best range ...am I contralto?
also what is the difference between coloratura contralto and sfogato soprano? I can sing comfortably deep in the second octave but my high 5th and low 6th octave notes are good too..am I a coloratura contralto or sfogato soprano ?
I heard some contraltos singing guy songs in karaoke bars. I also think Tracy Chatman is a contralto. I also heard a contralto in Jazz. I think Dianna Krawl is one.
I find my vocals to be very interesting , I was classified as a soprano singer , because of my high and whistle notes , and my natural vocal tone and register sounds very warm and soulful. But at the same time I can sound very bright and sweet soprano. I think I have a very wide vocal range , alot of the notes I hit makes me so surpise when I hit them , like I would never thought i could sing so low or high.
I can sing from a2 to c5 and I have a husky voice. Always have even in high school
Hey Sam Bradley. What about Anita Baker?
I wouldn't describe my voice as heavy or masculine like Cher, but I'm quite comfortable singing Sound of Silence in its original key and octave.
Cher voice doesn't sound like a man I can tell she a woman
This explains a lot. I can't even sing along to a Tenor. But C3 is EASY.
If I drag my chest voice high enough, I can do a shout using my speaking voice up to F#4 often G4. And as low as F2. What voice am I? My head voice can go high if I practice it. Maybe above F5. But not up to the 6th Octave. But definitely above a G5 is very uncomfortable.
What voice type am I? Someone once said I can do an alto but I’m so confused because I feel some parts of my voice are unexplored. I can’t “mix my voice” properly...!
Sometimes in order to drag my chest high - I need to make the tone softer in volume to practice it. It tends to sound weak.
I am 15. My lowest note ever is D#2, lowest comfortable is D3, highest chest is G4 (further head voice begins), highest comfortable is A5, highest ever is G6. First time I was assuming that I am a mezzo, but then I realized that mezzos usually have saturated and powerful highs, and my highs are just like dying goat, though I am trained. Sooo, I think that I am contralto... But I am still not sure, because I have never met a vocal coach 🤷
"I am trained" "I have never met a coach"
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okay so that works for me...but i also do whistle notes. which cut out on G#6. so does B2 or C3-G#6 work for a contralto? and if i am contralto does that mean im coloratura contralto. and i wanna sing pop music. im so confused.🤦♀
o7 proud contralto
but i had musical training/exercise for like 5 years so i also learned how to fake a soprano, is there a word for that or
Pls tell me why I can sing (I have covers of), the songs of Annie Lennox, Brenda Russel, Dalida & Lara (and their French & Italian songs), Rihanna, Beyonce, Donna Summer, Diana Ross, Barbra, Maria Callas, Edith Piaf and Shreya Goshal and her Hindi song, Sunn Raha Hai Na Tu. I also posted a cover of The Fifth Element song (not the aria part but the diva dance). I don't know my voice range. I just love to sing any song and I would normally study and practice and see how I could shift my voice to high notes. I have no formal lesson but since I was young I love to emulate voices but was too shy to join a competition. Should I still get a voice lesson to know my voice range. Would love to hear fr you. Thank you very much.
The contralto have deep feminine sound or sometimes androgynous
I think Shiloh is a contralto. Her voice is so deep and androgynous.
I am constantly told, mostly by my sister, that even if I do have a deep voice for 16 y/o girl im mezzo soprano cause it's not "deep enough for contralto" but I'm the most comfortable singing songs originally sung by tenor voices
And I'm almost completely incapable of singing high notes-
Thanks for the explanations, but not enough examples.
Pitch in men voice and women overlap pitch is not always voice characteristics of male and female it's Also timbre . Women can have deep voice and sound like a women and men can have high voice and still sound like a man. And there are some people who timbre is androgynous when they naturally sound in the middle
What about shakira??
Can I suggest you take a look at a lovely Russian teenager called Diana Ankudinova, singing 'Human' and 'Wicked Game'. EVERY vocal coach and opera singers that have reacted to her performances praise her very highly. She is a contralto but I'd love you to hear her as she is amazingly unique and has 'something extra' that leaves reactors speechless. I'm certain you could explain how a 14 year old girl can reach such deep notes, she also yodels, sings in several different languages, plays piano, tap dances and is absolutely beautiful. I assume you are a vocal coach and are very knowledgable in that area. I've subbed in the hope you will take a look at Diana and give your opinion. Please consider this and thank you.
I have actually been asked to look at her before. Her voice was mesmerising. Its was exceptionally heavy. She used a very very full configuration and was very comfortable in her lower range. But she also had a nice time in a higher key slightly. But she sounded exceptional with her voice so full and so heavy.
@@sambradley8297 Thank you for that Samuel. I'm so glad you've seen her. It's like when your favourite song comes on the radio in your car, you open all the windows and max the volume to share with the world. I'm only a moderator in her fan club and I want to share her with the world. Thanks again xx
Question what is Martha wash voice type
I am having trouble knowing if I am a contralto or alto cause I can go as low as G2, as high as g5 il falsetto. Real confortable singing carpenter but can sing Tony Braxton on a good day :-). What do you think? Thanks
I’m a contralto and I fall into the tenor range and can get some baritones x my tessitura is G3 and my lowest note is. D#3 I can sing male songs easily but when it comes to female songs feel very limited
Classically trained contraltos can develop a head voice to about an A5