The information is great, but it would be nice if the audio on the video was better. I've got it full volume and the echo makes it really hard to hear.
Gee wizz I couldn't reach the high notes in Alto but I can go much lower than the low notes. Now I know why my choir teacher in school threw me with the guys for some songs.
I was told a long time ago I was a mezzo soprano but I always swore I am not my range is not that high and what’s even weirder is I feel I can go even lower then a alto clear the whole alto vocal range but then go up partially into mezzo soprano but not all the way 😅
Damn... is ok being 12 and an alto!? All the girls my age I know are most likely sopranos... I swear I'm not begging for attention, that's my comfortable range!
Everyone has been struggling to clasify me, I've sung really low before, but now I can sing a lot of the soprano parts too. So now I'm between mezzo and soprano and I can sing comfortably both of these ranges. How long does it take to really clasify a voice and find its natural range?
Don't worry too much about what your voice type is. If you can sing mezzo and Soprano then that is great. Classification isn't really important. Sing and be happy.
Well, it actually turned out that I'm a soprano, but my voice sounds more rich in the lower register, that's why everyone has been mistaking it for a mezzo.
Wimsie i dont know mine as well, way back in high school i was in group of males bass and tenor, always asked to be put in the melody (or like the blending group) but was told that I cant becauae of my range.. up until I still dont know my voice range is.. i just tell my self that I might have bass as my range.. hahaha!
Me too! I can go very low (and sing some Cher songs, my favs) and really high (I played Penny Pingleton from Hairspray and it was nice, tho I was using falsetto in the highest part of Without Love).
Angel Santos Your range is the notes you can sing WELL and COMFORTABLY. Likely your range is one and a bit octaves, since, evidently you are not a trained singer, because you’re asking what your you would classify your range as.
as a teenager i sang alto. then when i was 18, i was told that i was actually soprano. i've been singing it ever since and throughout the years, people said that i am soprano. i can sing the higher notes, but it is uncomfortable. i really think i am really alto who can get to higher notes, if that makes sense.
Same!! I'm an alto (even by my teachers definition) but I always get told to sing soprano parts since I can sing high notes. But it feels scary even though I'm not necessarily strain my voice
I'm a mezzo soprano but I want to work on my vocals in the upper registers. I still sound so mousy even if the tone is clear and the pitch fairly accurate. Wish my voice sounded richer up there.
An alto is not a voce classification!!! Is a choral part. Female voice types are: Soprano, Mezzo-Soprano and CONTRALTOS. Contraltos are very very rare, they have very cavernous, robust and booming lower register, an androgynous and powerful sounding middle voice, and an overly bright and usually underdeveloped airy head voice. Most people who claim to be "altos" or "contraltos" are usually just mezzos with wider lower ranges, or simply untrained sopranos who haven't developed their higher register.
Music Fan i was just about to type all this. I am a "dramatic" contralto. Range of f#2 to c5. I can hit the 5th but Im uncomfortable doing it. Although I love how suddenly every single female commenter on youtube is a contralto with a barry white range now. It took me years to hit f#2.
Adding that I am often mistaken for a man on the phone. Look up contralto blues on here. Its a comedy sketch about being a contralto. Its pretty funny.
Albert Schmalbert Exactly!! I know she does this videos with the best intentions, but I honestly feel the do most harm than good, because they lead people to think and consider themselves, usually, they are voice type that they're not....and mostly, you can't classify a voice, merely based on range, because from what I've seen in the comments, most people are have highly underdeveloped techniques, so there's no way of truly knowing your vocal fach if your technique sucks anyways lol...For instance, I always thought I was a baritone, and turns out I actually was a Leggero Tenor, but my technique was so bad that I was straining on E4's....under those circumstances It could have lead me to believe I was a bass, which couldn't be further from the truth lol
Albert Schmalbert lol I've seen it, it's hilarious... well anyways, congratulations!! You have a very rare and special gift!! Hope you can upload a video or a little snippet of you singing, I'm a sucker for real Contraltos lol
Just thing to say, if you don't practice singing, you can't know with this exercice which type of voice you are because, you don't know singing. Singing is by a physical point of view, a story of breath, posture and musculature. If you don't know how to breath, how to stand, never you will know the extent of your voice. I practice lyrical and modern singing since many years, and at start, I couldn't go further than the highs of an alto. Today, now that I know how to use my vocal cords by liberation (when one knows how to sing, we feel like a full opening of the body, as if our voice resonated all around us, well beyond our skins) and that I have a good posture (it's extremly important, it's the first thing you learn), I turned out to be a soprano. But brief, only a very good teacher (and I insist on the very good because many are not and that is the base) can tell you what is your tessitura. But the evaluation of your voice can take several weeks or months for these new singer :) !
Yes ! I had the same problem before I began to take singing lessons. When they say you can have a good idea of your tessitura with your "comfortable" range, it's not wrong. BUT when you are a beginner, you don't even know what comfortable really means. I was sure to be a mezzo-soprano when I began to sing, because I didn't knew the proper singing techniques (and I'm still learning). So what I considered as my "comfortable" range were my low notes. But now that I took lessons, even though I don't have a lot experience, the difference is huge. And I can feel that it's way more comfortable for me to sing high (I'm a soprano).
can you tell me what note you could hit before and after training? I feel like I might be a mezzo without training, but I can do falsettos up to c7 so i dont know. my highest belt without straining is like only in the 4th octave though
@@mariondumont7634 That’s interesting because I’ve always thought I was a mezzo since I tend to speak lower (because I think it makes me look more credible) than it naturally comes to me and because I do a better job in my like, mid-low register but at the same time I do tend to gravitate towards singing everything higher than it actually is and don’t breathe properly 🥲
Hopefully, people understand that range is not a defining factor for voice type. Like she said, it really depends on where your Break/passagio is and the color and timbre of your voice. Those tend to be the most important things and range is normally the last thing looked at. for one reason there are numerous Mezzo Sopranos which are able to sing in the Soprano range and sopranos who have a dark and warm lower register. Always ask a voice teacher (preferably a classical teacher) to help you figure out your voice type. and remember the voice matures as well. at 21 I was a high tenor now at 25 my voice is filling out and the bottom is so much thicker.
eternalsilverlight This comment is more helpful than the video for me. Sorry, guys.... I can comfortably sing in nearly 3 octaves so knowing only my range is not enough.
Amen! The thickness (lightness) of your voice is what really counts. That’s called tessitura. Apart from that, You can also sing those three ranges changing the collocation of your voice to reach those different notes. For example, I use my chest register for the first octave of the “alto range”, then I switch to mixed voice for most of the “mezzo range” and finally i use my head voice for the highest part of the “soprano range”. So sorry but merely knowing your vocal range without even noticing where you resonate your voice when singing won’t be helpful at all. Pd: even if I love hitting those E3 with my chest voice, I’m a classically trained soprano and my C4 can’t be heard at all when singing in head voice 😭
I believe I'm a mezzo, that's where i'm the most comfortable singing. I sing in the alto range, but it feels like I have to think about it for my voice to stay there.
you can find this information in about one second by googling voice types :-/ you're on the internet you know..? But you can't just tell by trying to sing these notes, you need to take some lessons with a good teacher to find out what range is comfortable when you are singing with correct technique.
orlando098 I’m frustrated because Google says I have to be a contralto because I’m a woman but practically every example of a contralto given songs way higher than me. Give me a dude’s Tenor part any day.
There's no such thing as "alto" in voice type. Alto is a choral line in choir (the main melody). If you are talking about the lowest female voice type, that is "contralto".
lunarlena Donnie is actually correct. Alto is just a choir term for the lower half of the woman vocal types (mezzos and contraltos), while contralto is an actual vocal type a the lowest women’s vocal type.
So if my range is the alto range in this video, does that make me a contralto? Or do contraltos typically have a different range than the one presented in this video?
She'd have pretty much the same range as a male Tenor, but with a completely different timbre- (so hence, she could also be viewed as a "female Tenor." I know a lot of Contraltos who actually call themselves "female Tenors", and they sing in the Tenor section of the choir that I'm in.
Mezzo soprano - more comfortable in Mezzo range, but in choir situations can sing soprano and or "tenor" parts. Comfort though is probably the Mezzo range :)
I've always been a soprano and soprano 1 in choir, so I just thought I was a mezzo with a nice upper range. I never really delved into my lower range until about six months ago when I had to rehearse a few songs by men, and we noticed I was able to sing several of the songs sung by tenors without changing the key. So far, I've been able to sing down to a C3 and up to an E6, which has been really cool :) don't let your voice classification limit you ladies, but focus on your range instead😊💗
Gracia Chacon same people always told me that I was an alto but I realized im actually a mezzo that can sing from A2-B5-Bb7 and I have embraced my higher register and I love singing soprano parts now when I used to be insecure and take the alto parts to be safe.
My comfortable range is from alto to mezzo soo that means I'm an alto-mezzo, right? As a girl, I've always had a deeper voice than my classmates and it gets quite hard sometimes because I kinda sound like a guy.
range isn’t the most important factor while determining vocal fach. First and foremost, the vocal fach system was initially formulated to be applied only to classically trained singers, thus the reason why so many classical singers and teachers may even call the fact of assigning a vocal fach to a pop or non-classical singer BLASPHEMY. Specially in women, in which they mostly use the “middle voice” or a combination of head and chest registers very early on in their ranges (anywhere from D4-E4) compared to a non-classical female singer who would most likely be singing most of time in a chest dominant mix. When people make videos like this one in which people who have undergone little to no formal voice training (whether it is classical or not) they usually led to the average person to believe if that you can hit a certain range of notes, you’re automatically classified and put into a box. That is not the truth. For the most part, human voices usually stretch well beyond 2.5 octaves, and usually vocal ranges overlap between different vocal types. Other factors such as the passagio regions, tessitura, output and color play into the voice classification. And that is assuming that the singer in question has at the very least undergone to a minimal degree of vocal training and has an understanding of correct breathing techniques, support and placement. The average person watching this video most likely has never had any formal vocal training, and thus you can’t be sure of what voice type you are, unless you actually invest the time and effort to train your instrument and correctly use it. Although by then you’ll see that the least of your worries will be which vocal type are you 😉
Bet you have a beautiful voice! Don't ever be ashamed of the gift God has given you. I am a Contralto and I love my voice type. I can sing ALL of the tenor types of some of our greatest male singers, and of course I can sing like Anita Baker, Gladys Knight, Tony Braxton, Adele, Whitney Houston, Dionne Warwick, Aretha Franklin,etc. (tho most of them are soprano's or mezzo-sopranos , i have the tange to easily sing some of their songs).
I can hit every note comfortably except C6 Edit: to anyone who can help, what is my most _probable or likely_ choral part/voice type? *My comfortable range is B2-B5.* PS.I know the type/part is also dependent on the timbre, fullness, warmth and colour of your voice while singing certain notes.
I'm somewhere between Alto and Mezzosoprano but I'm not good enough at singing to know exactly now. Maybe after a few months. But I sing really comfortable songs from Selena and Taylor. With your help(as I practice your exercises seriously and almost daily for about 3 weeks) I even slay some of them. Well "slay" is a big word, but I just want to emphasise that I improved A LOT. I could barely sang an octave before now I can sing two. Thanks!
is it normal when you hit high notes but using falcetto? or not? I need vocal training 😢 I have a good voice but I dont know how to manage it. i really want to become a singer , a performer but I am confused about my voice. what should I do?
No, this it only about notes you can do with chest/head voice, falsettos doesnt count to supported range, so if you´re not able to hit the high notes with chest/head voice then you are not a soprano or mezzo
if you want i can help you because im learning by myself or sometimes i watch some videos and im trying to do these things...maybe if you send me a recorning of your singing on my email that would be great and i would give you some advices :)
You can’t change your vocal classification. It’s decided on the color of your voice, which is unique. What you CAN change is your range since you can work towards a higher or lower range by training. Si no, a contralto can’t be a soprano no matter how hard she tries to (and viceversa).
This is great. I used to have singing lessons but let them drop. Your vocal exercises are fantastic and I'm already feeling the benefits. I will enjoy exploring all your other videos. I want to try and expand my mezzo soprano voice and hopefully enable me to sing different styles of music. I got stuck in learning musical songs and I was pretty dreadful singing modern songs.
When you were playing the notes, I was able to sing all parts, and go a little lower than alto, and a little higher than soprano. I guess I'm comfortable in the Mezzo range, but could sing anything.
All 3 were comfortable for me. I usually sing songs in the Mezzo Soprano range, though there are also a lot I sing in the Alto range, as well as the Soprano range. So I'm gonna guess I'm a Mezzo Soprano lol.
i realized that i was an alto pretty recently because i'm taking a musical theatre class. I've always considered myself to be a soprano but when i auditioned i realized that i was comfortable with the lower notes and most of the other girls sang like an octave higher than i did.
Yes try warming up first (we have plenty of warm ups available here) and then see, even if you can not hit those top notes now, it doesn't mean that you wont be able to hit them with a few months of training. :)
Thank you!! This helped confirm mine and my singing teacher's recent suspicions - I'm actually a mezzo. I had been singing soprano repertoire throughout undergrad (deceptively bright timbre, plus my range covers all three of these which is why I got away with it for so long) and it pretty much worked less the older I got. Mezzo repertoire seems to get better technical results - because although I have the capabilities to sing an F3 and a C6, I'm happiest and have the best sound in the A3-A5 range, so definitely mezzo.
So for alto, I could easily sing the first breath, but for the second one my voice got a bit strained at the end. What does this mean? Am I an untrained alto? Or not one at all? I don't think I could go lower easily either.
To me I tend to like mezzos. They have much power when they sing in their ranges. Like Adele and Idina Menzel. The sopranos can hit high notes no problem but too much high notes (depending on the song) makes it a bit overshooting some portions of the song at least to me. Also, when they try low notes it sounds so artificial.
My problem is that I don't have any place that I can sing the high notes without people hearing me, so I don't feel comfortable therefore not being able to determine my capability, but I think I may be a mezzo-soprano because I can sing Adele's songs comfortably
When I was in high school, my choir instructor placed me as mezzo but we used the terms first alto and second alto. I can go high up to a certain note so my music mentor at church (he was also the leader of the worship team) always tried to push/encourage me to reach the higher notes and sing higher ranged songs.
I can speak comfortably in the C3 range but can go as low as B2 in vocal fry. I can also do a heady mix to C#6 and belt comfortably to G#5. My falsetto range is from F5-E6. My whistle is from F6-F7. And yes, I'm passed puberty. What's my vocal classification? 😩
I’m a male and I hit all of those notes. When I took the male test I hit the tenor and baritone notes and I missed only 3 of the base notes. I can hit higher than that C6 at the end so what am I?
ThatGreenDayFreak I would probably agree but the fact that my breaking point is an A#/B4 as opposed to a C4 it makes me lean more towards the tenor range. But you could be right, i don’t even know
great video! i sang as a "high soprano" in choir when I was a kid in school but i don't think that is my comfort after watching some videos. I can go incredibly high but I love to sing at the top of the mezzo range and lower soprano. I guess like you said it just depends on a few different factors. :)
I went into a recording studio to record songs on a cd years ago. The guy there said I should try Opera? For some reason it offended me. Because i always though my voice was low.
It's the range that is most comfortable and natural for you to sing in. It also depends on the tone of your voice a little. There's no saying for sure unless a professional hears you. Although I believe most women are mezzos.
I used to be a soprano, even had a voice coach tell me so when I opted for a mezzo soprano song. Now I can't even hit the highest mezzo soprano note in this tutorial. Guess I can always fall back on my alto range, but I'm afraid that range does nothing for my joy of singing :-/
This entire time I thought I was an alto.. I’m actually a mezzo? But I can also sing tenor. Thank you for this video. I didn’t realize the range in my voice!
This is the third and shortest video on this subject I've seen in a row now, and the one easiest to follow! Like BAM, alto was the most comfortable to sing, but then I haven't trained so mezzo might work eventually? Thank you!
I've been trying to figure out my vocal type for years. I think I'm either mezzo or soprano but my range is extremely large and I am very very loud. Like ear drum shattering loud. D3-G6 is my comfort zone but I can go lower and a lot higher. The higher I sing the louder I get.
Question: my comfortable range starts from below where you started and ends before you reached the higher notes for the alto. I sang in school choir for eleven years with a director who was a nightmare. He taught us NOTHING and forced all girls to sing first or second soprano. I wrecked my voice trying to get higher than I could go. Now: twenty plus years later... I really want to attempt to sing again, but I'm realizing that I was likely NEVER anywhere in the soprano range and my comfort area... appears to be below what women are supposed to sing. So what am I??
range isn’t the most important factor while determining vocal fach. First and foremost, the vocal fach system was initially formulated to be applied only to classically trained singers, thus the reason why so many classical singers and teachers may even call the fact of assigning a vocal fach to a pop or non-classical singer BLASPHEMY. Specially in women, in which they mostly use the “middle voice” or a combination of head and chest registers very early on in their ranges (anywhere from D4-E4) compared to a non-classical female singer who would most likely be singing most of time in a chest dominant mix. When people make videos like this one in which people who have undergone little to no formal voice training (whether it is classical or not) they usually led to the average person to believe if that you can hit a certain range of notes, you’re automatically classified and put into a box. That is not the truth. For the most part, human voices usually stretch well beyond 2.5 octaves, and usually vocal ranges overlap between different vocal types. Other factors such as the passagio regions, tessitura, output and color play into the voice classification. And that is assuming that the singer in question has at the very least undergone to a minimal degree of vocal training and has an understanding of correct breathing techniques, support and placement. The average person watching this video most likely has never had any formal vocal training, and thus you can’t be sure of what voice type you are, unless you actually invest the time and effort to train your instrument and correctly use it. Although by then you’ll see that the least of your worries will be which vocal type are you 😉
when your voice is too low for high notes but too high for low notes XD
Don’t click on the flag same
Haha! That’s called speaking voice 😂
@@hadezmage I think you might want to check on that
me lmao
Ok but I can sing like rlly high and really low but I can’t transition it fml!!!
Thank you :) I think I am an alto most comfortably, but I can reach mezzo and sopprano (just).
Great :)
I cant jesus i need lesons,i cant finish those higher notes on the alto scale
I can sing all of them, badly.
The information is great, but it would be nice if the audio on the video was better. I've got it full volume and the echo makes it really hard to hear.
Gee wizz I couldn't reach the high notes in Alto but I can go much lower than the low notes. Now I know why my choir teacher in school threw me with the guys for some songs.
I was told a long time ago I was a mezzo soprano but I always swore I am not my range is not that high and what’s even weirder is I feel I can go even lower then a alto clear the whole alto vocal range but then go up partially into mezzo soprano but not all the way 😅
what if they’re all comfortable😂
I'm definitely a mezzo soprano
When i do the ahh noise no matter how high or low my throat constricts and closes up.
Do we have to sing all of these notes with our chest/belt voice or can we sing in other registers too???
I'm an alto
My voice range is between a3 to b6. What would they be?
Damn... is ok being 12 and an alto!? All the girls my age I know are most likely sopranos... I swear I'm not begging for attention, that's my comfortable range!
What about female Tenors? which is what I am
Everyone has been struggling to clasify me, I've sung really low before, but now I can sing a lot of the soprano parts too. So now I'm between mezzo and soprano and I can sing comfortably both of these ranges. How long does it take to really clasify a voice and find its natural range?
Don't worry too much about what your voice type is. If you can sing mezzo and Soprano then that is great. Classification isn't really important. Sing and be happy.
Well, it actually turned out that I'm a soprano, but my voice sounds more rich in the lower register, that's why everyone has been mistaking it for a mezzo.
I did none of them, rip my singing career lol
+Wimse 😆
Can kill what was never there m 😂😂😂
It could turn out that you are a contralto!! It is a super rare voice type in female.
Wimsie i dont know mine as well, way back in high school i was in group of males bass and tenor, always asked to be put in the melody (or like the blending group) but was told that I cant becauae of my range.. up until I still dont know my voice range is.. i just tell my self that I might have bass as my range.. hahaha!
Me neither lol
Me: *attempts to do both soprano levels*
Also me: *screams instead of actually trying*
The NorthStar I think I’m a soprano
When u can sing ALTO & MEZZO -SOPRANO and you dont really know what is more comfortable:
; - ;
Same bruh Same I feel ya
Same, but since my speaking voice is A3, I think I'm a mezzo
Your username and pfp-
Stay😍😍
Yup
I'm in between Alto and Mezzo Soprano, I tend to sing lower - middle than most people. Thank you for this :)
Lois Stevens Same
Likewise, if I use me Falsetto range- (I'm a guy, by the way!) In Falsetto, I'm somewhere between an Alto and a Mezzo as well.
loissketch same. If I'm not an alto I'm a lower mezzo
Me toooooooo
Me too! I can go very low (and sing some Cher songs, my favs) and really high (I played Penny Pingleton from Hairspray and it was nice, tho I was using falsetto in the highest part of Without Love).
If anyone is wondering, here are the ranges they did:
Alto - F3 to F5
Mezzo-Soprano - A3 to A5
Soprano - C4 to C6
What's E3 to A5
alto.
@@char5992 what's C3-B5? (my comfortable range)
DeadlyDeadlyBeees what if u have a 3 octave range
Angel Santos Your range is the notes you can sing WELL and COMFORTABLY. Likely your range is one and a bit octaves, since, evidently you are not a trained singer, because you’re asking what your you would classify your range as.
as a teenager i sang alto. then when i was 18, i was told that i was actually soprano. i've been singing it ever since and throughout the years, people said that i am soprano. i can sing the higher notes, but it is uncomfortable. i really think i am really alto who can get to higher notes, if that makes sense.
same!
same, confused.
Same!! I'm an alto (even by my teachers definition) but I always get told to sing soprano parts since I can sing high notes. But it feels scary even though I'm not necessarily strain my voice
Same lol
Yep you're an alto
definitely an alto lol.
Even those high notes were quite high for me.. :( am I a guy or something?
Exactly, I just have a low voice.
Are y'all able to do those high pitch screams? Cause I can't, I used to be able to when I was back in elementary school!
I think my voice is even lower than the Alto Voice
Maybe you don't know how to change your chest voice, I thought I was an alto, now I don't know.
I'm a sexy alto. Who else is a sexy alto? ☺
Gingivitic Cinema I'm sexy alto too :D
Gingivitic Cinema im an ugly alto
Ceren Yıldız noooo you're not! Every girl is pretty.
Gingivitic Cinema i think i'm just not a good singer i didn't sound good in any 💀but i felt the most comfortable in alto
I'm a Contralto, I go from a D3 - G5 :) very thick, full voice and harsh but still feminine:)
I'm a mezzo soprano but I want to work on my vocals in the upper registers. I still sound so mousy even if the tone is clear and the pitch fairly accurate. Wish my voice sounded richer up there.
Work on the twang exercises. Look at the 7 day program - specifically the range builder and Vocal strength days. :)
Same here!
God same
Cherylin Loney ooo
same
An alto is not a voce classification!!! Is a choral part. Female voice types are: Soprano, Mezzo-Soprano and CONTRALTOS. Contraltos are very very rare, they have very cavernous, robust and booming lower register, an androgynous and powerful sounding middle voice, and an overly bright and usually underdeveloped airy head voice. Most people who claim to be "altos" or "contraltos" are usually just mezzos with wider lower ranges, or simply untrained sopranos who haven't developed their higher register.
Music Fan i was just about to type all this.
I am a "dramatic" contralto. Range of f#2 to c5. I can hit the 5th but Im uncomfortable doing it.
Although I love how suddenly every single female commenter on youtube is a contralto with a barry white range now.
It took me years to hit f#2.
Adding that I am often mistaken for a man on the phone. Look up contralto blues on here. Its a comedy sketch about being a contralto. Its pretty funny.
Music Fan I sang the contralto range comfortably but I am sure I'm not an alto. A mezzo perhaps but I've never been trained.
Albert Schmalbert Exactly!! I know she does this videos with the best intentions, but I honestly feel the do most harm than good, because they lead people to think and consider themselves, usually, they are voice type that they're not....and mostly, you can't classify a voice, merely based on range, because from what I've seen in the comments, most people are have highly underdeveloped techniques, so there's no way of truly knowing your vocal fach if your technique sucks anyways lol...For instance, I always thought I was a baritone, and turns out I actually was a Leggero Tenor, but my technique was so bad that I was straining on E4's....under those circumstances It could have lead me to believe I was a bass, which couldn't be further from the truth lol
Albert Schmalbert lol I've seen it, it's hilarious... well anyways, congratulations!! You have a very rare and special gift!! Hope you can upload a video or a little snippet of you singing, I'm a sucker for real Contraltos lol
Just thing to say, if you don't practice singing, you can't know with this exercice which type of voice you are because, you don't know singing.
Singing is by a physical point of view, a story of breath, posture and musculature. If you don't know how to breath, how to stand, never you will know the extent of your voice.
I practice lyrical and modern singing since many years, and at start, I couldn't go further than the highs of an alto. Today, now that I know how to use my vocal cords by liberation (when one knows how to sing, we feel like a full opening of the body, as if our voice resonated all around us, well beyond our skins) and that I have a good posture (it's extremly important, it's the first thing you learn), I turned out to be a soprano.
But brief, only a very good teacher (and I insist on the very good because many are not and that is the base) can tell you what is your tessitura. But the evaluation of your voice can take several weeks or months for these new singer :) !
Sally Thia That’s very true. Your vocal chords are an instrument and I feel like a lot of people’s vocal ranges can be expanded with work.
Yes ! I had the same problem before I began to take singing lessons. When they say you can have a good idea of your tessitura with your "comfortable" range, it's not wrong. BUT when you are a beginner, you don't even know what comfortable really means. I was sure to be a mezzo-soprano when I began to sing, because I didn't knew the proper singing techniques (and I'm still learning). So what I considered as my "comfortable" range were my low notes. But now that I took lessons, even though I don't have a lot experience, the difference is huge. And I can feel that it's way more comfortable for me to sing high (I'm a soprano).
can you tell me what note you could hit before and after training? I feel like I might be a mezzo without training, but I can do falsettos up to c7 so i dont know. my highest belt without straining is like only in the 4th octave though
@@mariondumont7634 That’s interesting because I’ve always thought I was a mezzo since I tend to speak lower (because I think it makes me look more credible) than it naturally comes to me and because I do a better job in my like, mid-low register but at the same time I do tend to gravitate towards singing everything higher than it actually is and don’t breathe properly 🥲
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Hopefully, people understand that range is not a defining factor for voice type. Like she said, it really depends on where your Break/passagio is and the color and timbre of your voice. Those tend to be the most important things and range is normally the last thing looked at. for one reason there are numerous Mezzo Sopranos which are able to sing in the Soprano range and sopranos who have a dark and warm lower register. Always ask a voice teacher (preferably a classical teacher) to help you figure out your voice type. and remember the voice matures as well. at 21 I was a high tenor now at 25 my voice is filling out and the bottom is so much thicker.
Well said
eternalsilverlight This comment is more helpful than the video for me. Sorry, guys.... I can comfortably sing in nearly 3 octaves so knowing only my range is not enough.
Amen! The thickness (lightness) of your voice is what really counts. That’s called tessitura.
Apart from that, You can also sing those three ranges changing the collocation of your voice to reach those different notes. For example, I use my chest register for the first octave of the “alto range”, then I switch to mixed voice for most of the “mezzo range” and finally i use my head voice for the highest part of the “soprano range”. So sorry but merely knowing your vocal range without even noticing where you resonate your voice when singing won’t be helpful at all.
Pd: even if I love hitting those E3 with my chest voice, I’m a classically trained soprano and my C4 can’t be heard at all when singing in head voice 😭
Color & timbre.... Refers to if a voice is bright or warm am I correct? I am still learning...
Me, at the end of both alto and soprano: *wheezing/coughing*
Maybe you have asthma? Do you have the same issue when you exercise? Ask your doctor if you would benefit from a bronchodilator inhaler.
I believe I'm a mezzo, that's where i'm the most comfortable singing. I sing in the alto range, but it feels like I have to think about it for my voice to stay there.
Same
Lol. I hate being an alto because it’s taken away a lot of my soprano power I once had
I literally struggled for ages trying to find out what type I was! Thanks! x
No problem Nadia :)
you can find this information in about one second by googling voice types :-/ you're on the internet you know..? But you can't just tell by trying to sing these notes, you need to take some lessons with a good teacher to find out what range is comfortable when you are singing with correct technique.
orlando098 I’m frustrated because Google says I have to be a contralto because I’m a woman but practically every example of a contralto given songs way higher than me. Give me a dude’s Tenor part any day.
There's no such thing as "alto" in voice type. Alto is a choral line in choir (the main melody). If you are talking about the lowest female voice type, that is "contralto".
Donnie the knife nut Bunny it can be shortened to alto though... it’s just easier than saying contralto
Isn't contralto a bit lower than the alto range that she posited? Just curious.
lunarlena Donnie is actually correct. Alto is just a choir term for the lower half of the woman vocal types (mezzos and contraltos), while contralto is an actual vocal type a the lowest women’s vocal type.
A teacher told me Alto is term for males, Contralto female.
So if my range is the alto range in this video, does that make me a contralto? Or do contraltos typically have a different range than the one presented in this video?
I'm a girl and my voice is deep
Hi
Samee
*when ur voice is lower than everyone else in ur class*
Me too
I always thought I'm a soprano but apparently I'm a mezzo soprano...
thank you Anna!💜
+G3ven 👍
G3ven What's the difference?
Lol 123 it shows how range is like... like the verity of notes you can sing
She'd have pretty much the same range as a male Tenor, but with a completely different timbre- (so hence, she could also be viewed as a "female Tenor." I know a lot of Contraltos who actually call themselves "female Tenors", and they sing in the Tenor section of the choir that I'm in.
G3ven isn't that count if u use head voice???
Any other ladies’ voices deeper than alto and strained to finish those alto scales?Just me over here with my “man voice”? Okay 😭😂
I strained not to go into falsetto by the end of alto. Man my voice is deep.
Yah I can't do the higher part of the alto range . I can go lower though. I can usually do the higher range of the highest make range
I can sing the alto and mezzo.
Same.
So can i
We are just mezzo Sopranos with a wide range according to the internet
Same
Umm...contralto anyone? XD
Me
👍🏻
LyraFerret contralto is almost the same as alto..though this classification is usually used in opera while alto is in choir..
I think i am,im like 13 tho so
I think I am. The alto range was a little high for me.
Mezzo soprano - more comfortable in Mezzo range, but in choir situations can sing soprano and or "tenor" parts. Comfort though is probably the Mezzo range :)
I've always been a soprano and soprano 1 in choir, so I just thought I was a mezzo with a nice upper range. I never really delved into my lower range until about six months ago when I had to rehearse a few songs by men, and we noticed I was able to sing several of the songs sung by tenors without changing the key. So far, I've been able to sing down to a C3 and up to an E6, which has been really cool :) don't let your voice classification limit you ladies, but focus on your range instead😊💗
+Gracia Chacon Agreed!
Gracia Chacon same people always told me that I was an alto but I realized im actually a mezzo that can sing from A2-B5-Bb7 and I have embraced my higher register and I love singing soprano parts now when I used to be insecure and take the alto parts to be safe.
@@taya989 You have the same range I do and in fact, I'm also a mezzo 😁
My comfortable range is from alto to mezzo soo that means I'm an alto-mezzo, right?
As a girl, I've always had a deeper voice than my classmates and it gets quite hard sometimes because I kinda sound like a guy.
range isn’t the most important factor while determining vocal fach. First and foremost, the vocal fach system was initially formulated to be applied only to classically trained singers, thus the reason why so many classical singers and teachers may even call the fact of assigning a vocal fach to a pop or non-classical singer BLASPHEMY. Specially in women, in which they mostly use the “middle voice” or a combination of head and chest registers very early on in their ranges (anywhere from D4-E4) compared to a non-classical female singer who would most likely be singing most of time in a chest dominant mix.
When people make videos like this one in which people who have undergone little to no formal voice training (whether it is classical or not) they usually led to the average person to believe if that you can hit a certain range of notes, you’re automatically classified and put into a box. That is not the truth. For the most part, human voices usually stretch well beyond 2.5 octaves, and usually vocal ranges overlap between different vocal types.
Other factors such as the passagio regions, tessitura, output and color play into the voice classification. And that is assuming that the singer in question has at the very least undergone to a minimal degree of vocal training and has an understanding of correct breathing techniques, support and placement.
The average person watching this video most likely has never had any formal vocal training, and thus you can’t be sure of what voice type you are, unless you actually invest the time and effort to train your instrument and correctly use it. Although by then you’ll see that the least of your worries will be which vocal type are you 😉
Bet you have a beautiful voice! Don't ever be ashamed of the gift God has given you.
I am a Contralto and I love my voice type. I can sing ALL of the tenor types of some of our greatest male singers, and of course I can sing like Anita Baker, Gladys Knight, Tony Braxton, Adele, Whitney Houston, Dionne Warwick, Aretha Franklin,etc. (tho most of them are soprano's or mezzo-sopranos , i have the tange to easily sing some of their songs).
Awesome! Keep it up!
I can hit every note comfortably except C6
Edit: to anyone who can help, what is my most _probable or likely_ choral part/voice type? *My comfortable range is B2-B5.*
PS.I know the type/part is also dependent on the timbre, fullness, warmth and colour of your voice while singing certain notes.
I'm somewhere between Alto and Mezzosoprano but I'm not good enough at singing to know exactly now. Maybe after a few months. But I sing really comfortable songs from Selena and Taylor. With your help(as I practice your exercises seriously and almost daily for about 3 weeks) I even slay some of them. Well "slay" is a big word, but I just want to emphasise that I improved A LOT. I could barely sang an octave before now I can sing two. Thanks!
+Ela Black Amazing news! 😀
If you can sing Taylor and Selena's songs you're definitely somewhere between.... Because Selena is a Mezzo-Soprano (Alto).
I honestly thought I would be in the mezzo soprano range, but I actually found the alto notes much easier to hit, so I guess I'm an alto 🎶
is it normal when you hit high notes but using falcetto? or not? I need vocal training 😢 I have a good voice but I dont know how to manage it. i really want to become a singer , a performer but I am confused about my voice. what should I do?
No, this it only about notes you can do with chest/head voice, falsettos doesnt count to supported range, so if you´re not able to hit the high notes with chest/head voice then you are not a soprano or mezzo
if you want i can help you because im learning by myself or sometimes i watch some videos and im trying to do these things...maybe if you send me a recorning of your singing on my email that would be great and i would give you some advices :)
+Martin Maraj i want an advice. i have the same concern as her
wait whATTTT that means I can't even reach an alto range gOD HELP ME
Me too 😥
Lmao I used to be a soprano and I would sing very high notes but now I’m a alto my voice is low I can’t sing high notes💀💀😂😂😂
I'm a Soprano in a choir...
Wati Marwati Me too :3
Wati Marwati I’m a soprano in musicals 🤷🏽♀️
Definitely an alto, but I can sing all the notes pretty easily ❤️
I'm in between mezzo and soprano but I'm only 13 so I have time to develop ranges and hopefully go higher 😉 we out here trying to be ariana grande 😂
You can’t change your vocal classification. It’s decided on the color of your voice, which is unique. What you CAN change is your range since you can work towards a higher or lower range by training.
Si no, a contralto can’t be a soprano no matter how hard she tries to (and viceversa).
Just figured out I'm an Alto! I was debating whether I was a mezzo or an alto. I tried the soprano and I ended up screaming I hurt my own ears lol :)
This is great. I used to have singing lessons but let them drop. Your vocal exercises are fantastic and I'm already feeling the benefits. I will enjoy exploring all your other videos. I want to try and expand my mezzo soprano voice and hopefully enable me to sing different styles of music. I got stuck in learning musical songs and I was pretty dreadful singing modern songs.
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When you were playing the notes, I was able to sing all parts, and go a little lower than alto, and a little higher than soprano. I guess I'm comfortable in the Mezzo range, but could sing anything.
All 3 were comfortable for me. I usually sing songs in the Mezzo Soprano range, though there are also a lot I sing in the Alto range, as well as the Soprano range. So I'm gonna guess I'm a Mezzo Soprano lol.
i realized that i was an alto pretty recently because i'm taking a musical theatre class. I've always considered myself to be a soprano but when i auditioned i realized that i was comfortable with the lower notes and most of the other girls sang like an octave higher than i did.
I'm a mezzo soprano, but I can't take those higher notes exactly, but I just might need a bit more warm up. c:
Yes try warming up first (we have plenty of warm ups available here) and then see, even if you can not hit those top notes now, it doesn't mean that you wont be able to hit them with a few months of training. :)
I'm mostly an Alto, and I could barely do the first half of messo soprano (the part before she said I could breathe).
Thank you!! This helped confirm mine and my singing teacher's recent suspicions - I'm actually a mezzo. I had been singing soprano repertoire throughout undergrad (deceptively bright timbre, plus my range covers all three of these which is why I got away with it for so long) and it pretty much worked less the older I got. Mezzo repertoire seems to get better technical results - because although I have the capabilities to sing an F3 and a C6, I'm happiest and have the best sound in the A3-A5 range, so definitely mezzo.
So for alto, I could easily sing the first breath, but for the second one my voice got a bit strained at the end. What does this mean? Am I an untrained alto? Or not one at all? I don't think I could go lower easily either.
Ummmm.....I was comfortable with singing along all the notes....What's my vocal type can anyone tell me lol 😂😂
My highest note is C5 but I sound like a rat if I sing high lmao.
To me I tend to like mezzos. They have much power when they sing in their ranges. Like Adele and Idina Menzel.
The sopranos can hit high notes no problem but too much high notes (depending on the song) makes it a bit overshooting some portions of the song at least to me. Also, when they try low notes it sounds so artificial.
My problem is that I don't have any place that I can sing the high notes without people hearing me, so I don't feel comfortable therefore not being able to determine my capability, but I think I may be a mezzo-soprano because I can sing Adele's songs comfortably
When I was in high school, my choir instructor placed me as mezzo but we used the terms first alto and second alto. I can go high up to a certain note so my music mentor at church (he was also the leader of the worship team) always tried to push/encourage me to reach the higher notes and sing higher ranged songs.
I can speak comfortably in the C3 range but can go as low as B2 in vocal fry. I can also do a heady mix to C#6 and belt comfortably to G#5. My falsetto range is from F5-E6. My whistle is from F6-F7. And yes, I'm passed puberty. What's my vocal classification? 😩
I’m a male and I hit all of those notes. When I took the male test I hit the tenor and baritone notes and I missed only 3 of the base notes. I can hit higher than that C6 at the end so what am I?
ThatGreenDayFreak I would probably agree but the fact that my breaking point is an A#/B4 as opposed to a C4 it makes me lean more towards the tenor range. But you could be right, i don’t even know
A diva.
A liar
Music Fan haha nah I’m telling the truth
Xavier Wills lol anyways, range doesn’t determine which vocal type are you. Other factors come into play.
great video! i sang as a "high soprano" in choir when I was a kid in school but i don't think that is my comfort after watching some videos. I can go incredibly high but I love to sing at the top of the mezzo range and lower soprano. I guess like you said it just depends on a few different factors. :)
Can i ask? If i use head voice isn't that count? Cause i got mezzo
+이 상 한 아 이 미 Head voice is fine, falsetto isn't.
anyone a mezzo?
hope Here
Me
Me
me
Meh
My comfort zone is higher than the soprano
Am a mezzo soprano. Thank you Anna you are amazing!
I went into a recording studio to record songs on a cd years ago. The guy there said I should try Opera? For some reason it offended me. Because i always though my voice was low.
if u can sing all these ranges u have classified, then who are you??
It's the range that is most comfortable and natural for you to sing in. It also depends on the tone of your voice a little. There's no saying for sure unless a professional hears you. Although I believe most women are mezzos.
+Redempta Nyamanda Very lucky! But it's about what is most comfortable and sounds warmest.
Ok...thanks
:D
I'm a mezzo-soprano and I was surprised to discover I could sing high. While I can sing low, I'm not comfortable with it.
I can sing relatively comfortably in all of these ranges. I think I'm most comfortable in Mezzo or Alto, but I'm not totally sure.
Cannot say I'm Alto nor Mezzo. Alto low didn't feel comfortable to me, and mezzo I would probably sing usually, but can't get too high on those notes-
I used to be a soprano, even had a voice coach tell me so when I opted for a mezzo soprano song. Now I can't even hit the highest mezzo soprano note in this tutorial. Guess I can always fall back on my alto range, but I'm afraid that range does nothing for my joy of singing :-/
I’m confused…. The second part when she is not singing along, is too high for me in all 3 versions?
This entire time I thought I was an alto.. I’m actually a mezzo? But I can also sing tenor. Thank you for this video. I didn’t realize the range in my voice!
I can sing like mezzo and alto :”) WHAT DOES THAT MEAN
I can sing all three without problem...what is my Vocal classification?
The sound of your video could be improved, it sounds like you are talking in a huge empty room with a lot of echo
I can sing all the pitches that he played. The problem is I still don’t think I’m a soprano based on my usual tone. Can someone please help me?😣
well my voice stopped working at the end of soprano so definitely not that
I think I sound best in the soprano range, low always sounds so weird for me.
I’m a soprano but some people wonder if I’m mezzo too coz I can go low ish e or f3 but high full sound to a6
I got all 3 really I can sing soprano mezzo and alto comfortably what vocal type am I
Lol. I'm alto. Does that mean I can never sing high? =/
I think I’m alto and mezzo soprano tbh
*I"M AN ALTO REEEEE*
halp meh
What if....I’m lower than an alto
I can’t even sing...
The first half of alto is super easy but the rest of the half is hard
mezzo soprano or soprano i think...i could do all of them tho lol
This is the third and shortest video on this subject I've seen in a row now, and the one easiest to follow! Like BAM, alto was the most comfortable to sing, but then I haven't trained so mezzo might work eventually? Thank you!
2:32 - It's a shame, as labelling things allows a greater understanding of the world around you.
I've been trying to figure out my vocal type for years. I think I'm either mezzo or soprano but my range is extremely large and I am very very loud. Like ear drum shattering loud. D3-G6 is my comfort zone but I can go lower and a lot higher. The higher I sing the louder I get.
Bruh I can do all three comfortably.....
Question: my comfortable range starts from below where you started and ends before you reached the higher notes for the alto. I sang in school choir for eleven years with a director who was a nightmare. He taught us NOTHING and forced all girls to sing first or second soprano. I wrecked my voice trying to get higher than I could go. Now: twenty plus years later... I really want to attempt to sing again, but I'm realizing that I was likely NEVER anywhere in the soprano range and my comfort area... appears to be below what women are supposed to sing. So what am I??
range isn’t the most important factor while determining vocal fach. First and foremost, the vocal fach system was initially formulated to be applied only to classically trained singers, thus the reason why so many classical singers and teachers may even call the fact of assigning a vocal fach to a pop or non-classical singer BLASPHEMY. Specially in women, in which they mostly use the “middle voice” or a combination of head and chest registers very early on in their ranges (anywhere from D4-E4) compared to a non-classical female singer who would most likely be singing most of time in a chest dominant mix.
When people make videos like this one in which people who have undergone little to no formal voice training (whether it is classical or not) they usually led to the average person to believe if that you can hit a certain range of notes, you’re automatically classified and put into a box. That is not the truth. For the most part, human voices usually stretch well beyond 2.5 octaves, and usually vocal ranges overlap between different vocal types.
Other factors such as the passagio regions, tessitura, output and color play into the voice classification. And that is assuming that the singer in question has at the very least undergone to a minimal degree of vocal training and has an understanding of correct breathing techniques, support and placement.
The average person watching this video most likely has never had any formal vocal training, and thus you can’t be sure of what voice type you are, unless you actually invest the time and effort to train your instrument and correctly use it. Although by then you’ll see that the least of your worries will be which vocal type are you 😉
Thank you so much for the video! It really helps! I wonder if there is any way to improve vocal range. Though it might be hard
I do not know i do not have voice for sing
AND if i try it in my room MY NEIGHBOORS WILL COME AND KICK MY DOOR