I have a really weird voice: I have a deep ish speaking voice and than my singing voice is around a middle c to a high f. Any beauty and the beast song is fairly easy for me. I use vocal fry whenever I'm either breaking down or trying to be Finnick in the hunger games
I've been told that my speaking voice is a bit low (people mistake me and my 16 year old son on the phone sometimes) but I am most comfortable singing soprano. I can sing alto and mezzo, which I have been known to do quite often because there are A LOT of sopranos and sometime the competition gets fierce.
i'm a low alto so in a formal chorus i sing alto 2!! but last year we did In The Heights and i was ensemble but i was cast as a vocal tenor!! it was actually so fun i had the most versatile singing role in the show as i always would sing the highest male part written even if that line was written for a lead just because i was the only girl who could go low enough and no boys could go high enough, definitely an interesting situation but i loved it!!
meredith grace that's so cool!! I've had a lot of female friends who have sang tenor lines (I occasionally end up doing them up the octave) and I think it's such an amazing education to learn multiple parts in a score 💕
I'm an alto 2 and tenor too!! I love being able to sing pretty low but my old choir teacher always forced me to sing higher than i was comfortable with :/
Les Walking Dr. Musical Lover meee🖐🏻🖐🏻🖐🏻 We were talking about this a little lower down (i think, idk, i'm on mobile) in the comments) personally, I don't think there's a ton of vocal diversity in what's being written
lol, It's always really awkward when I have to tell people my voice type, and they always respond with "what's that?" Then the next thing is always "It's OK, you'll grow out of it." or, "Let me tell you why you're wrong."
My range is weird, cause i can't really do Alto cause it's too low for me and i can't do Soprano either cause it's too high. I've always said that i'm a Mezzo (because that's what's between Alto and Soprano) but i feel like i don't have a strong enough belt! I mean, i can kind of belt but i feel like it doesn't have enough strength. Any tips for strengthening your belt?
Rita Azevedo hey!! I feel like I am/was in a very similar situation and strengthening your belt takes work but it is definitely possible. make sure your breath is in your stomach and not your throat if that makes sense. you can practice this by putting a heavy book on your stomach and trying to lift it with your breaths. also make sure you warm up really well! hope this helps :)
I have the best vocal coach ever!! She was Ellen in Miss Saigon on Broadway and was the only person to play Fantine, Eponine AND Cosette in the traveling company of Les Mis!! Her name is Lisa Capps and there's some videos on UA-cam :)
soprano tips: -dont feel bad when you dont get cast in contemporary musicals, it's out of your control and you probably have a beautiful singing voice -dress up femininely for auditions -laughing in head voice is good for your voice and feels so much better, more comfortable and more natural
I'm naturally a low alto, but I decided that I wanted to play girls that aren't middle age woman, so I tried to expand my voice! And it worked! I would practice every day for about 10-15 minutes, and now I can sing really high songs! It's possible to expand your range! Fellow altos, don't feel discouraged! (Or you could do what I tend to do a lot and play guys because there are only 3 guys in your drama troupe and 2 don't do musicals and the other has the vocal range of Christine from POTP.) There're nothing wrong with gender-bending!
I left theatre almost 5 years ago, but I can't stop binging your videos. Your advice is incredibly helpful and your personality is so lovely. You make everything entertaining and your bubbliness is infectious. Thank you for making these videos!
I'm a soprano but I have a LOT of vocal range. I can sing very low and pretty high too. But I'm mostly in the high group. But I rlly want to be the villain in musicals. Like I want to be Lafou in Beauty and the Beast in my school production but idk how to let my instructor know I want to sing that part. We also all sing the same audition song so we can't audition for specific parts we want. Any help??
+fandom_fangrurl I think I mentioned this in another comment of yours, but sing the assigned audition song the way Lefou would!! Do some hardcore character analysis, and perform it as such 😊💕 Additionally, you could be super transparent and email your teacher something along the lines "I would really like to be considered for Lefou--what are you looking for? What can I do to give my best audition?" It's a super lowkey way to let your director know that you're interested
Katherine Steele thank you so much for all the feedback you have given me. It's rlly hard to find that in UA-cam channels so your now one of my favorites. I will definitely try all of this out. Again, thanks soooo much!
I love you so much! I'm from England and I am going to study musical theatre at college, and then I want to go on to do theatre professionally but my mum isn't supportive at all so I've found it really hard to talk about. You are so inspirational and beautiful. Thankyou! ❤
Aya!! You are too sweet, thank YOU! I'm sorry that your mom doesn't see the amazing aspects of pursuing a career in the arts, but I'm glad that you have a safe #TheatreThursdayFam to grow in! I BELIEVE IN YOU!!! 🎉💕🎭
Great video, I really wanna be Christine in Phantom of the Opera (London) or Eponine in Les Mis. OR BOTH. I'm only twelve and I have seen Phantom 4 TIMES! Your videos really inspire me and make me happy. I am auditoning for Annie in less than a month so this really helped me! I was wondering what your vocal range is? I am a Mezzo :)
That's awesome, and break a leg!! ! 🎉💕🎭 In case you haven't checked it out yet, here's a playlist of Musical Theatre audition advice: ua-cam.com/play/PLQT9aHBtN_y8GZBgldiqRMFM6tjrCL9XQ.html (And I'm a Soprano, haha!)
Hello! Just back and can't wait to tell you that I GOT A CALLBACK! Basically there's an 80% chance that I will get any role, and I may get Annie. I couldn't have done it without you and your tips! Thank you xxxxxx
I love you Katherine! This video is so helpful. There are so many theatre people out in the world that think that they can't sing a part just because of stereotypes that the OBC sets, and you break those stereotypes in this video, so thanks Katherine! You are truly an inspiration! I love you! Theatre Thursday Fam for life! 😋😊
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heyo! i need some help, pLEasE my dood. so, i'm a girl who's a tenor/contralto. a young girl. I'm only 12, but I've been acting since I was 5 (not anything serious, just a bunch of small parts in musicals and improv and acting classes for small kiddos, i didn't start getting serious about it until about 2 years ago.) I LOVE ACTING, actually, I prefer doing some Poe or Shakespeare than any musical. althOUGH I LOVE MUSICALS I'M OBSESSED-- I just have a very small range, and I can easily sound like a young boy (aka I could sing 90% of the parts in Newsies) I always have to sing REALLLLYYY low in order to harmonize with my alto friends, who can't sing high enough so I can sing at my comfortable notes and still harmonize.. If that makes any sense ;0 My first serious role was Ariel in The Tempest from Shakespeare, and I've been doing basically the same casting types ever since. Either the main characters best friend who's crazy, a psychopath, or a strange character that could be any gender. So when doing musicals, my director is so mixed up because there's no.. characters? in popular musicals that we do, or at least characters that I can play, being so young (Also I consider myself.. kind of mature looking/acting for my age? I'm pretty tall and still growing, and I've played a 15 year old before, so..) It's REALLY hard to find parts I can sing, and also very boring waiting for them to do a show that either has a male role I can play or a show that has a female character who has my vocal range.. And I nEeD HELP. i'm SO sorry this was so very long, but if anyone can help please hit me up with a reply! Thanks! ;) (P.S, my exact vocal range is C#3 to a E4)
haha update you guys: im 15 now (the first comment was from 2 years ago) and I started training and taking vocal lessons which really helped opening up and spreading my range. I can now very comfortably sing alto 2&1 songs and i’ve figured out that my casting type is either character roles/funny sidekick roles, or any role that requires more acting that singing. some roles i’ve played since this comment: Titania in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Benny Southstreet on Guys and Dolls JR, Ti Moune im Once on this Island, Pumbaa in The Lion King JR, Olaf in Frozen JR, and I’m currently playing Elf in Shrek! hope this helped anyone! I would highly recommend either joining a JTF team where you have to train and sing a lot and/or taking voice lessons. 🖤
I've tried to figure out my vocal range and I got alto. I can match sopranos but I can't belt high notes. If I have to belt high notes I go into headvoice because if I try to do high belts my voice will crack. How do you get better at belting high notes. I can sing lower notes easier and belt those easier. The lowest note I can sing is F3 and my highest is E5. Idk if that's good or not. Plz help thx
woah thats the exact same range I have. I'd say E5 is a pretty high note to be able to hit, but still not really high enough for most leads in musicals. The sopranos and mezzos have enough love, and im seriously convinced that whoever writes musicals doesn't know that altos exist :(
megan meagher Gosh, lucky. My lowest note is a D3 (C3 if it’s a good day) and I can’t belt anything higher than a C5 without my voice cracking. It drives me insane. My sorprano voice goes up to a solid F#6, but most of it is a not very powerful head voice... I just wanna belt high notes aaaa
Relatively new subscriber here !!! I love your hair like this ! It’s so pretty . Your videos are always helpful and accurate . I finally took the plunge yesterday and decided I wanted to take voice lessons because I stopped singing seriously after high school . I actually took a class offered by Adam Pascal on Zoom. Y’all, I HIGHLY recommend signing up for a one on one . It was so incredibly helpful and inspiring !! Also what an opportunity too!
I have to be honest here: I really don't know what's (been) going on in the theatre world, but I love your videos so much that I can't stop watching 😍 Keep up the good work, so we have something to look forward to every Thursday! ☺️ #TheatreThursdayFamAllTheWay ❤️
I'm lucky to be in two different singing places- church choir, where traditional 4-part harmony is utilized so I sing soprano, and then in musical theatre, I'm the youngest belter at my community theatre group. Basically I'm working to keep diversifying my range, so I can belt high but also sing those beautiful, more classical roles.
Super important stuff! I had to go through speech therapy because my speaking voice was so unhealthy. I'm a mezzo and my singing voice was crazy healthy but I was talking in vocal fry all the time and was losing my voice because of it!! So happy that I went though speech therapy! I would highly recommend it to anyone going through the same issue! Also steaming is amazing for your voice!
This is so crazy. I am a nat contralto and sing very low, but all of my dream roles are mezzos. About a month ago I started singing only songs that were mezzo or higher (I should have kept singing low too, because I now can't sing lower songs well anymore) and I can now say I'm proud of my performance of first time in forever (I'm auditioning for Anna in a month) and can belt up to the second "into the unknown" (I know more frozen references but it's the best description). Its pretty crazy and 100% proves her point.
This gives me hope! Cause I'm a mix of a tenor and low alto (I don't know if that makes me a contralto, just saying what my teacher told me, I don't know if that's changed or not cause my voice has gotten better since he told me that😂) and all my dream roles are mezzos too. I still wanna be able to sing low, but I wanna be able to sing higher too. I've been practicing and bit by bit and have been improving
The moment you named Aaron Tveit and Jeremy Jordan and immediately said they were your biggest weaknesses among others, I knew you were the perfect UA-camr for me 😂 of course I'm not only suscribing because of that (or am I?), but I can relate so much lol
My vocal range is pretty flexible. But I’d say the place I’m most comfortable in would be in between mezzo and soprano. Maybe it would be called mezzoprano.
I am one of those extremely lucky people who can sing any part. I always put my full range in notes on my resume and then put my vocal part in parentheses next to it. But I do change my vocal part depending on the role I'm auditioning for. It's also very important to know your company. the company I'm working with now has literally one tenor who comes back to audition for them. So if I were to audition there again I would most likely write tenor on my resume because that's my best chance at getting cast.
I once auditioned for a pantomime where the audition song for the girls was Defying Gravity (because that song was featured in the show). I conside myself a low-alto at best so I was terrified! Luckily, for the audition we were able to sing it in any key we wanted so I sang it a lot of semi-tones down which was a bit embarrassing but it was a safe move. In the end though, I ended up getting the part that required me to actually sing Defying Gravity in the show - in the original key!! I was so scared but actually surprised myself in the end and was able to do an alright job, despite my insistence that I wasn't able to sing above low alto-range. Just goes to show that your voice can sometimes do a lot more than you think! (Love your videos, have subscribed!)
I'm starting voice lessons this year. The voice teacher I'm going to is also my music teacher. I'm so excited and nervous. I was sick for awhile so musical theatre really helped me. I don't have any experience nor do I know my voice type. But, I've wanted to do theatre forever. Thank you for all the advice! It's helping me so much!❤️❤️❤️
I feel as though my range doesn't fit my type!!!!! I am tall and quite heavily built, I fit the sassy friend, sporty or 'girl who doesn't need a man' type. I feel as though I should be an alto or mezzo, but I am definitely a high soprano with a range of F3-C6. What do I do?!!
Thank you for doing this video♥️ I'm a Mezzo and I was feeling so down about it lately cause I thought it was a bad range for musical roles, now that you mentioned Sutton Foster, Pippa and Renée from Hamilton I feel like this -musical theater songs- might work out for my voice♥️ so thank you very very much♥️♥️♥️
I've gone through a lot of change with my vocal type lmao. I started out thinking i was a soprano, then thinking i was a mezzo because me singing higher notes was a train wreck, and then i decided I was an alto altogether. That stuck for a few years until I was cast in The Magic Flute and put on top soprano in the chorus and I learned how to sing soprano haha. That was a year ago and my voice has definitely grown into my soprano range and I can definitely say I'm a soprano cause i can't sing that low anymore tbh. I absolutely love being a soprano and I'm going put for Johanna in Sweeney Todd this fall!!
Is theare such thing as a mezzo-alto-soprano-tenor 😂😂 I need help Most of the time i sing low Most of the time I sing high Most of the time I sing uhm okay
Baritenor. Where has that word been all my life? That is my range! My choir director never knows where to place me, sometimes even letting me be Tenor 1. I have like a 4 octave range, so I don't really have a vocal part name. Like Baritone and Tenor both feel natural for me. Anyway. I've been bingeing your videos, and am learning so much!
Im a bass/baritone(im on the higher end of bass currently). Im basically just sorta built to play the weirdos in theatre - Sweeney, Gomez, Turpin, etc. I weirdly love that. Thanks for curing my voice insecurities lol
Man I never knew that there was a difference between a mezzo soprano and second soprano. I always just assumed they were the same thing. Partially because when I was in a musical last summer, they placed the mezzo sopranos in as second sopranos. But the way you described it makes me think I'm a second soprano and not a mezzo because I stink at belting. Never consider myself a belter. This was very enjoyable! Thanks!!
I don't know why, but it made me really happy when you said basses and baritones are for your Sweeneys and Turpins (might be because I'm a bass-baritone who's obsessed with Sweeney Todd, but that's not important) :>
The first voice coach ever went to I saw for a while. Something always felt off and then I realized she was keying songs up even though I wanted to work on lower songs and constantly gave her songs written for guys. I know it is important to increase range but she keyed up the songs without telling me, and because I was inexperience I couldn't tell just from looking at the sheet music. Most people I know have said that I now sing better without her instruction. I would like to see a different coach but I live in an area where there aren't very many at all.
I had too much fun changing my vocal range when I was a teenager. I started off as soprano and then I did a production of Scrooge which totally changed my definition of soprano and over the 9 months of rehearsal my range expanded upwards. Then I got a cold (RIP high notes) and then out of sheer boredom during choir practice I decided to join the altos. At last check I was a second soprano but it's been a long time since I've properly sang.
Yes!! God bless voice teachers, both speech and singing. I didn't know I had a bad singing habit until I started taking privates with an amazing teacher! So worth it. Say, if you had an audition (*cough*it's for Spring Awakening*cough*) and your throat was sore from sickness, would you go with a steamer or some tea, or something else?
Wynnie M 🙌🏽🙌🏽 Honestly good voice teachers are life savers. I'd recommend talking only when necessarily, lot's of sleep, tea (if it helps and you like it), lots of Vitamin C (I'd highly recommend Emergen-C, it's a powder supplement/extra boost-you can get it at costco), and keeping your neck/body warm!
My voice is still settling in (I'm 17), but I'm at the point where my voice can't possibly get any deeper and any further change will just be the gradual loss of the "kiddish" quality. My natural speaking voice lies within the upper 2 and lower 3 octaves, and I'm naturally a bass-baritone. However, I've trained myself to be one of those "I can sing anything" people you talked about. Like, I played Caiaphas in Jesus Christ Superstar last year, today I could play Judas. My biggest weakness as a singer right now is that I'm still pretty hit-or-miss with my high soft palette range (think "Heaven's Light" from Hunchback). However, I'm confident that I can become more comfortable with it through further training.
Main voice types and subtypes Soprano: Lyric Coloratura Dramatic Coloratura Souberette Light lyric Full lyric Spinto Dramatic Mezzo-soprano: Coloratura Lyric Dramatic Contralto: Coloratura Lyric Dramatic Countertenor Tenor: Leggro Lyric Spinto Dramatic Baritone: Barytone-martin Lyric Kavalierbariton Verdi Dramatic Bass-baritone Bass: Lyric Dramatic (Yes I did this by memory) Contralto is the same thing as alto. Alto is the term used to describe contralto in choral music or Broadway stuff. These different subtypes types don't usually apply to broadway, unless it's candide or she loves me, with Coloratura soprano roles. I hope this helps a little bit
It has been 5 months and this video annoys me just... a lot. I love her videos but her vocal descriptions are not the best. I love her but like please look up what a fach is and the system
When fully warm ** I’ve got C3-F6 and the bottom stuff is USELESS for me as most of the stuff I do is high high soprano stuff but lowering my range has helped my belt IMENSELY
I relate to your soprano problems! It’s hard for me to project below an A3, and my top note is probably around an F6. I could very likely go higher, but I don’t really have a reason to.
I'm a baritone but I can sing tenor and I tend to have to in most roles I get cast in just because more parts that fit my "type" are tenors. Some parts are too high though and I end up having to use my falsetto, which adds a good octave and a half to my vocal range. Actually when we have group numbers with harmonies I'm usually put on the high tenor part just because I'm the only one who can hit the notes. I have to use my falsetto but it works!
I'm a Baritone, and I feel really constricted by my voice type. I'm 15, and pretty much all of the roles I can find whose ranges fit with mine are old men or villains. So, I really feel like there aren't many roles available to me because I'm not a Tenor, and it gets me down when I feel like I'd really love to play a certain lead role, usually the only thing holding me back is that my voice is just a little too low
I'm a sophomore in high school and I can sort of belt but I don't really know where I'm at because I can't sing much louder than a mezzo-forte without straining my voice (I'm trying to work on using my diaphragm more but I can't figure it out!!!) it's also really hard to keep my voice nice because I'm in cheerleading, too.
So I've got a pretty wide range from G#3 to F#6. I've sung all of the other female parts (choir kids, where you at?) My director told me that I had an alto speaking voice (plz explain bc I have no clue what that means but I think it means that I would make a good Veronica Sawyer- 😈) and one of my friends told me that I had a strong Alto voice but I consider myself a Mezzo due to the fact that I can go on between Alto & Soprano. Not gonna lie, it's pretty frickin' sweet dude 😎
I’m a mezzo/soprano but I’m 14 so my casting type consists of heavily dancing and “Mrs ____,” I wanna get into more damsel roles... I’m ok with being a belty character, but I personally think my head voice and higher register in general is more pleasing to hear That being said, I just got a callback for Belle in Beauty and the Beast! Maybe my wish will come true:)
I'm a soprano and although I've had a lot of voice-related confidence problems, I like the way voice sounds about an octave or two above middle C most :) However, I have never practiced belting because when I go low, I have a tendency to sing through my throat (but my other notes are relaxed!) and my mixed voice isn't strong but is a little better than weak
Can you possibly do a video on how to handle rejection? I recently auditioned to become a member of a company, but I unfortunatley didn't get a place in the company. Would really love tips on how to overcome it and handle it for the next time. Thanks
I must have a really large range because I Can comfortably sing Alto, Mezzo, and Soprano. Sometimes, I can do tenor (depends on how low) so I might need to start using the notes of my range to explain instead of always picking Mezzo.
Me and my best friend have over a 5 octave range together, she's a female tenor (E2-E6 but she doesn't go past E5 in fear of destroying her voice) and I'm a soprano 1 (F3-F7) and it's great because we can do a ton of musical theatre duets without awkwardly asking someone we don't know lmao
Honestly, if you want to check your range, it’s easy to just get on a piano and match the pitch from the lowest note you can sing to the highest. Also, if you’re about to go sing, be careful in yelling, screaming, things like that in the days before.
To expand your range, it’s just a lot of practice and singing. I was able to expand mine from an F above middle C to about an A in my normal voice. It just comes with practice and experience. Also, make sure to pick an audition song in your range, obviously. If it’s even a bit uncomfortable, you might want to pick something else.
I wish their were more parts being wrote for alto's that aren't middle aged women
Life with Cami TRUE
Well, I mean, you’ve got people like Adelaide, Kate Monster, Zoe Murphy, Ursula, rizzo, Annie from Annie get your gun, etc.
I wish they wrote characters written for true basses in general
Life with Cami me too! I’d also love to see some more adult sopranos, ( I’m a soprano and often get type-cast as ingenue.)
While I do agree, you can drop an octave so it still sounds good, it's just lower and a bit easier for your voice.
when you are a girl but your best match in hamilton is George Washington or Peggy
Felix Catta AnD PEggY
yesss Peggy for President
same though
I get sad when i hear gwash bc i love his character but as a saprono-mezzo-tenor my throaght hurts just hearing history has its eyes on you
MORE LIKE ANNNDDDD PEGGY
do you think you would ever do a head voice vs chest voice vs mixed vs belting kind of video?
Totlly--do you mean like explaining it?
Katherine Steele yes! just kind of going into the differences and similarities and giving examples of songs
all about your singing voice part two!
Okay, I gotcha! And haha!!! 🎉
Katherine Steele YESSSS PLZZZ
katherine: jeremy jordan
me: *spazzes out because i heard my husbands name*
me: *spazzes out because I'm apparently very okay with polygamy regarding JJ and ATveit*
katrina wirtz sawqqqqaqaqqqmmmmee💟😂😂😂😂
Just hearing his name brings tears of joy to my eyes.
same
ThatInsaneLuna wait wtf are you serious??? I WORSHIP him
I have a really weird voice: I have a deep ish speaking voice and than my singing voice is around a middle c to a high f. Any beauty and the beast song is fairly easy for me.
I use vocal fry whenever I'm either breaking down or trying to be Finnick in the hunger games
Kier Simpson same here except the other way around cause I’m a girl who sings tenor
Kier Simpson same
im normally a alto when i sing but sometimes i can be tenor but thats only when im sick and i decide to sing
I've been told that my speaking voice is a bit low (people mistake me and my 16 year old son on the phone sometimes) but I am most comfortable singing soprano. I can sing alto and mezzo, which I have been known to do quite often because there are A LOT of sopranos and sometime the competition gets fierce.
Same I feel your pain
i'm a low alto so in a formal chorus i sing alto 2!! but last year we did In The Heights and i was ensemble but i was cast as a vocal tenor!! it was actually so fun i had the most versatile singing role in the show as i always would sing the highest male part written even if that line was written for a lead just because i was the only girl who could go low enough and no boys could go high enough, definitely an interesting situation but i loved it!!
meredith grace that's so cool!! I've had a lot of female friends who have sang tenor lines (I occasionally end up doing them up the octave) and I think it's such an amazing education to learn multiple parts in a score 💕
meredith grace I hate my low alto voice so much and I’m scared no one will ever cast me because of it
me too
I'm an alto 2 and tenor too!! I love being able to sing pretty low but my old choir teacher always forced me to sing higher than i was comfortable with :/
Is anyone else sad that the only time theatrical contraltos are recognized is when we're talking about opera villains from the 19th century?
Les Walking Dr. Musical Lover meee🖐🏻🖐🏻🖐🏻 We were talking about this a little lower down (i think, idk, i'm on mobile) in the comments) personally, I don't think there's a ton of vocal diversity in what's being written
lol, It's always really awkward when I have to tell people my voice type, and they always respond with "what's that?" Then the next thing is always "It's OK, you'll grow out of it." or, "Let me tell you why you're wrong."
omg that's so ignorant :/ I hate when people try to make something about you invalid
Les Walking Dr. Musical Lover - WITCHES, BITCHES, and BRITCHES!! Gotta love the stereotypes of women with lower vocal ranges. 😂👍🏼
Same. I’m a contralto and... let’s just say it’s a hard world out there :/
My range is weird, cause i can't really do Alto cause it's too low for me and i can't do Soprano either cause it's too high. I've always said that i'm a Mezzo (because that's what's between Alto and Soprano) but i feel like i don't have a strong enough belt! I mean, i can kind of belt but i feel like it doesn't have enough strength. Any tips for strengthening your belt?
Rita Azevedo hey!! I feel like I am/was in a very similar situation and strengthening your belt takes work but it is definitely possible. make sure your breath is in your stomach and not your throat if that makes sense. you can practice this by putting a heavy book on your stomach and trying to lift it with your breaths. also make sure you warm up really well! hope this helps :)
Rita Azevedo SAME
Same with me
A mezzo doesn’t necessarily need to belt…
I'm on a Theatre Thursday binge and I'm loving it!
I have the best vocal coach ever!! She was Ellen in Miss Saigon on Broadway and was the only person to play Fantine, Eponine AND Cosette in the traveling company of Les Mis!! Her name is Lisa Capps and there's some videos on UA-cam :)
Cool!
Madeline Daunt how did you get her to be your vocal coach?
soprano tips:
-dont feel bad when you dont get cast in contemporary musicals, it's out of your control and you probably have a beautiful singing voice
-dress up femininely for auditions
-laughing in head voice is good for your voice and feels so much better, more comfortable and more natural
I'm naturally a low alto, but I decided that I wanted to play girls that aren't middle age woman, so I tried to expand my voice! And it worked! I would practice every day for about 10-15 minutes, and now I can sing really high songs! It's possible to expand your range! Fellow altos, don't feel discouraged! (Or you could do what I tend to do a lot and play guys because there are only 3 guys in your drama troupe and 2 don't do musicals and the other has the vocal range of Christine from POTP.) There're nothing wrong with gender-bending!
I'm a mixey, beltie, sassy person! Whoop whoop!
YAS!!!! 💗😂💗
Tenors kill me TBH like I'm in love with all of them and idk why but when JJ belts it makes me want to cry 😂😂😂
Tenors are LITERALLY my biggest weakness 💗😂💗
(JJ's belt is like pure butter)
As a bass/baritone, I personally find tenors to be obnoxious. But that's just me.
I left theatre almost 5 years ago, but I can't stop binging your videos. Your advice is incredibly helpful and your personality is so lovely. You make everything entertaining and your bubbliness is infectious. Thank you for making these videos!
Don't scream!
Cheerleading may have been a mistake....
Kathryn Vincent So that’s why my voice is destroyed LMAO
Right though? But I don't want to quit anytime soon so that's fun *cries*
AHHHHHHHHHH
I'm a soprano but I have a LOT of vocal range. I can sing very low and pretty high too. But I'm mostly in the high group. But I rlly want to be the villain in musicals. Like I want to be Lafou in Beauty and the Beast in my school production but idk how to let my instructor know I want to sing that part. We also all sing the same audition song so we can't audition for specific parts we want. Any help??
+fandom_fangrurl I think I mentioned this in another comment of yours, but sing the assigned audition song the way Lefou would!! Do some hardcore character analysis, and perform it as such 😊💕
Additionally, you could be super transparent and email your teacher something along the lines "I would really like to be considered for Lefou--what are you looking for? What can I do to give my best audition?" It's a super lowkey way to let your director know that you're interested
+fandom_fangrurl but, it can sometimes come off a little much/unprofessional, so it wouldn't be my first course of action.
Katherine Steele thank you so much for all the feedback you have given me. It's rlly hard to find that in UA-cam channels so your now one of my favorites. I will definitely try all of this out. Again, thanks soooo much!
I love you so much! I'm from England and I am going to study musical theatre at college, and then I want to go on to do theatre professionally but my mum isn't supportive at all so I've found it really hard to talk about. You are so inspirational and beautiful. Thankyou! ❤
Aya!! You are too sweet, thank YOU! I'm sorry that your mom doesn't see the amazing aspects of pursuing a career in the arts, but I'm glad that you have a safe #TheatreThursdayFam to grow in! I BELIEVE IN YOU!!! 🎉💕🎭
my friend is a mezzo and she keeps getting swapped between soprano and alto because my school only has soprano alto and tenor😂
That’s me-
I’m a mezzo and can confirm that Eliza and Angelica are very comfortable for me as a mezzo
Yaas Kathrine back at it with the best eyebrows on the internet
How does she not have 1,000,000 subscribers?
+Gionce omg you are so sweet, thank you!! ❤ #TheatreThursdayFam 🎉💕🎭
Great video, I really wanna be Christine in Phantom of the Opera (London) or Eponine in Les Mis. OR BOTH. I'm only twelve and I have seen Phantom 4 TIMES! Your videos really inspire me and make me happy. I am auditoning for Annie in less than a month so this really helped me! I was wondering what your vocal range is? I am a Mezzo :)
That's awesome, and break a leg!! ! 🎉💕🎭 In case you haven't checked it out yet, here's a playlist of Musical Theatre audition advice: ua-cam.com/play/PLQT9aHBtN_y8GZBgldiqRMFM6tjrCL9XQ.html
(And I'm a Soprano, haha!)
Thank you so much!! Hope you're musical career is amazing xx
you too!!
Hello! Just back and can't wait to tell you that I GOT A CALLBACK! Basically there's an 80% chance that I will get any role, and I may get Annie. I couldn't have done it without you and your tips! Thank you xxxxxx
Oh my goodness, that's wonderful! Xx Break a leg!! 💕
I love you Katherine! This video is so helpful. There are so many theatre people out in the world that think that they can't sing a part just because of stereotypes that the OBC sets, and you break those stereotypes in this video, so thanks Katherine! You are truly an inspiration! I love you! Theatre Thursday Fam for life! 😋😊
LOVE LOVE LOVE!! 💖💕💗 #TheatreThursdayFam
mezzo/alto club 🥴✌🏼 and fun fact my favorite musical is a very potter musical which i’m sure you wanted to know
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heyo! i need some help, pLEasE my dood.
so, i'm a girl who's a tenor/contralto.
a young girl.
I'm only 12, but I've been acting since I was 5 (not anything serious, just a bunch of small parts in musicals and improv and acting classes for small kiddos, i didn't start getting serious about it until about 2 years ago.)
I LOVE ACTING, actually, I prefer doing some Poe or Shakespeare than any musical. althOUGH I LOVE MUSICALS I'M OBSESSED--
I just have a very small range, and I can easily sound like a young boy (aka I could sing 90% of the parts in Newsies)
I always have to sing REALLLLYYY low in order to harmonize with my alto friends, who can't sing high enough so I can sing at my comfortable notes and still harmonize.. If that makes any sense ;0
My first serious role was Ariel in The Tempest from Shakespeare, and I've been doing basically the same casting types ever since. Either the main characters best friend who's crazy, a psychopath, or a strange character that could be any gender.
So when doing musicals, my director is so mixed up because there's no.. characters? in popular musicals that we do, or at least characters that I can play, being so young (Also I consider myself.. kind of mature looking/acting for my age? I'm pretty tall and still growing, and I've played a 15 year old before, so..)
It's REALLY hard to find parts I can sing, and also very boring waiting for them to do a show that either has a male role I can play or a show that has a female character who has my vocal range.. And I nEeD HELP.
i'm SO sorry this was so very long, but if anyone can help please hit me up with a reply!
Thanks! ;)
(P.S, my exact vocal range is C#3 to a E4)
I feel this sis I’m in the same boat, for me I’ve taken a liking to more belty alto songs or male characters because they’re easier for me to sing
I can sing some songs that are meant to be sung by guys without my voice cracking, and I’m really tall and young
wait i’m the same except i’m a trans guy so my voice is gonna stay like this until i’m 16
haha update you guys: im 15 now (the first comment was from 2 years ago) and I started training and taking vocal lessons which really helped opening up and spreading my range. I can now very comfortably sing alto 2&1 songs and i’ve figured out that my casting type is either character roles/funny sidekick roles, or any role that requires more acting that singing. some roles i’ve played since this comment: Titania in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Benny Southstreet on Guys and Dolls JR, Ti Moune im Once on this Island, Pumbaa in The Lion King JR, Olaf in Frozen JR, and I’m currently playing Elf in Shrek! hope this helped anyone! I would highly recommend either joining a JTF team where you have to train and sing a lot and/or taking voice lessons. 🖤
croixfish well done! i’m glad you improved! i’m probably gonna start voice lessons when quarantine is over so yeah
I've tried to figure out my vocal range and I got alto. I can match sopranos but I can't belt high notes. If I have to belt high notes I go into headvoice because if I try to do high belts my voice will crack. How do you get better at belting high notes. I can sing lower notes easier and belt those easier. The lowest note I can sing is F3 and my highest is E5. Idk if that's good or not. Plz help thx
woah thats the exact same range I have. I'd say E5 is a pretty high note to be able to hit, but still not really high enough for most leads in musicals. The sopranos and mezzos have enough love, and im seriously convinced that whoever writes musicals doesn't know that altos exist :(
megan meagher Gosh, lucky. My lowest note is a D3 (C3 if it’s a good day) and I can’t belt anything higher than a C5 without my voice cracking. It drives me insane. My sorprano voice goes up to a solid F#6, but most of it is a not very powerful head voice... I just wanna belt high notes aaaa
“Aaron Tveit and Jeremy Jordan and all the other various weaknesses in my life...” I felt that
Relatively new subscriber here !!! I love your hair like this ! It’s so pretty . Your videos are always helpful and accurate . I finally took the plunge yesterday and decided I wanted to take voice lessons because I stopped singing seriously after high school .
I actually took a class offered by Adam Pascal on Zoom. Y’all, I HIGHLY recommend signing up for a one on one . It was so incredibly helpful and inspiring !! Also what an opportunity too!
I've never been more interested in hearing someone talk about vocal ranges! And hey mezzo squad where u at
Haha, glad you liked it!!! 💗💗
( AND YAY MEZZOS !! Wish I could mix/belt as well as you guys! 😂)
I have to be honest here: I really don't know what's (been) going on in the theatre world, but I love your videos so much that I can't stop watching 😍 Keep up the good work, so we have something to look forward to every Thursday! ☺️ #TheatreThursdayFamAllTheWay ❤️
AAAH! love love love!! This seriously makes me so happy 🎉💕🎭
I'm lucky to be in two different singing places- church choir, where traditional 4-part harmony is utilized so I sing soprano, and then in musical theatre, I'm the youngest belter at my community theatre group. Basically I'm working to keep diversifying my range, so I can belt high but also sing those beautiful, more classical roles.
i wish more roles were being written for altos in modern musicals!!
Super important stuff! I had to go through speech therapy because my speaking voice was so unhealthy. I'm a mezzo and my singing voice was crazy healthy but I was talking in vocal fry all the time and was losing my voice because of it!! So happy that I went though speech therapy! I would highly recommend it to anyone going through the same issue! Also steaming is amazing for your voice!
YES YES YES!!!! x10000 YES!!!!!
This is so crazy. I am a nat contralto and sing very low, but all of my dream roles are mezzos. About a month ago I started singing only songs that were mezzo or higher (I should have kept singing low too, because I now can't sing lower songs well anymore) and I can now say I'm proud of my performance of first time in forever (I'm auditioning for Anna in a month) and can belt up to the second "into the unknown" (I know more frozen references but it's the best description). Its pretty crazy and 100% proves her point.
This gives me hope! Cause I'm a mix of a tenor and low alto (I don't know if that makes me a contralto, just saying what my teacher told me, I don't know if that's changed or not cause my voice has gotten better since he told me that😂) and all my dream roles are mezzos too. I still wanna be able to sing low, but I wanna be able to sing higher too. I've been practicing and bit by bit and have been improving
Katherine: Elle Woods
Me: 🙌
I’m 21, and I didn’t even know vocal fry was a thing until right now. Kath, you may have just saved my career, girl. 😂
Girl I’m straight bingeing your vids
The moment you named Aaron Tveit and Jeremy Jordan and immediately said they were your biggest weaknesses among others, I knew you were the perfect UA-camr for me 😂 of course I'm not only suscribing because of that (or am I?), but I can relate so much lol
My vocal range is pretty flexible. But I’d say the place I’m most comfortable in would be in between mezzo and soprano. Maybe it would be called mezzoprano.
her brows are intense
+Tia Reynolds yep!
I am one of those extremely lucky people who can sing any part. I always put my full range in notes on my resume and then put my vocal part in parentheses next to it. But I do change my vocal part depending on the role I'm auditioning for. It's also very important to know your company. the company I'm working with now has literally one tenor who comes back to audition for them. So if I were to audition there again I would most likely write tenor on my resume because that's my best chance at getting cast.
I'm a soprano 1 in my choir at school and I LOVE it! High notes excite me!
+Kieran Sears same!!!
Same
I once auditioned for a pantomime where the audition song for the girls was Defying Gravity (because that song was featured in the show). I conside myself a low-alto at best so I was terrified! Luckily, for the audition we were able to sing it in any key we wanted so I sang it a lot of semi-tones down which was a bit embarrassing but it was a safe move. In the end though, I ended up getting the part that required me to actually sing Defying Gravity in the show - in the original key!! I was so scared but actually surprised myself in the end and was able to do an alright job, despite my insistence that I wasn't able to sing above low alto-range. Just goes to show that your voice can sometimes do a lot more than you think! (Love your videos, have subscribed!)
I'm starting voice lessons this year. The voice teacher I'm going to is also my music teacher. I'm so excited and nervous. I was sick for awhile so musical theatre really helped me. I don't have any experience nor do I know my voice type. But, I've wanted to do theatre forever. Thank you for all the advice! It's helping me so much!❤️❤️❤️
I feel as though my range doesn't fit my type!!!!!
I am tall and quite heavily built, I fit the sassy friend, sporty or 'girl who doesn't need a man' type. I feel as though I should be an alto or mezzo, but I am definitely a high soprano with a range of F3-C6. What do I do?!!
Thank you for doing this video♥️ I'm a Mezzo and I was feeling so down about it lately cause I thought it was a bad range for musical roles, now that you mentioned Sutton Foster, Pippa and Renée from Hamilton I feel like this -musical theater songs- might work out for my voice♥️ so thank you very very much♥️♥️♥️
it's so cool watching old kat bc she looks so different but she acts exactly the same
“Don’t talk in vocal fry”...best thing I’ve heard in years. Because I talk. A lot.
I've gone through a lot of change with my vocal type lmao. I started out thinking i was a soprano, then thinking i was a mezzo because me singing higher notes was a train wreck, and then i decided I was an alto altogether. That stuck for a few years until I was cast in The Magic Flute and put on top soprano in the chorus and I learned how to sing soprano haha. That was a year ago and my voice has definitely grown into my soprano range and I can definitely say I'm a soprano cause i can't sing that low anymore tbh. I absolutely love being a soprano and I'm going put for Johanna in Sweeney Todd this fall!!
Have literally found your videos and they are the best most educational videos on musical theatre
Is theare such thing as a mezzo-alto-soprano-tenor 😂😂 I need help
Most of the time i sing low
Most of the time I sing high
Most of the time I sing uhm okay
Grace Magallona i think that a mezzo-alto is a thing but i don’t think there’s a soprano tenor
"Angelica and Eliza from Hamilton are both Mezzos."
...MY LIFE IS AMAZING WOO HOO! *runs around like a dork*
Wow so I’m somewhere between a tenor and an alto then 😂 everyone you listed for those voices are literally all my favorite roles, that’s exciting!
Baritenor. Where has that word been all my life? That is my range! My choir director never knows where to place me, sometimes even letting me be Tenor 1. I have like a 4 octave range, so I don't really have a vocal part name. Like Baritone and Tenor both feel natural for me. Anyway. I've been bingeing your videos, and am learning so much!
Im a bass/baritone(im on the higher end of bass currently). Im basically just sorta built to play the weirdos in theatre - Sweeney, Gomez, Turpin, etc. I weirdly love that. Thanks for curing my voice insecurities lol
Hi Katherine! I sing opera and musical theatre (baritone) And my vocal range is from G2 to G4. But sometimes can hit high A
Man I never knew that there was a difference between a mezzo soprano and second soprano. I always just assumed they were the same thing. Partially because when I was in a musical last summer, they placed the mezzo sopranos in as second sopranos. But the way you described it makes me think I'm a second soprano and not a mezzo because I stink at belting. Never consider myself a belter. This was very enjoyable! Thanks!!
okay so according to this i am a mezzo
THANK YOU I HAD NO IDEA WHAT I WAS AND IT WA LIKE STRESSING ME OUT
THANK YOU
Love my vocal coach, Ronald Land. One of favorite people EVER
I don't know why, but it made me really happy when you said basses and baritones are for your Sweeneys and Turpins (might be because I'm a bass-baritone who's obsessed with Sweeney Todd, but that's not important) :>
+Taylor Elliott 😂😂
I cannot figure out if I'm a mezzo or a soprano. Uhggggggggg
Where does your range feel most comfortable?
Same, but I'm only 10 :P
The first voice coach ever went to I saw for a while. Something always felt off and then I realized she was keying songs up even though I wanted to work on lower songs and constantly gave her songs written for guys. I know it is important to increase range but she keyed up the songs without telling me, and because I was inexperience I couldn't tell just from looking at the sheet music. Most people I know have said that I now sing better without her instruction. I would like to see a different coach but I live in an area where there aren't very many at all.
What should I do for a vocal teacher while in quarantine?
youtube it
Woo! As a mezzo, I can get my Heather C groove on for the school talent show! XD
Well I've nailed the good vocal coach part! She's coached people who have made it to my dream (Broadway) and I'm hoping that I'll be one of them.
I hope you know that about 1/2 of Scrooge the musical binge watches your videos in the dressing room- we are slightly obsessed...
Aaaah! I love that!!! Tell them I say HI and BREAK A LEG!!! 🎉💕🎭
Ooh, I'm a mezzo! Great time to be me. Other than the fact that my biggest dream role is in a currently closed show.
what show
“-and how your muscles are built”
Me: *looks down at my noodle arms*
im sorry F6??? go off, queen!!
as for me, i am a pretty solid mezzo/soprano belter, my vocal range is Gb3 - C#6 with an F#5 belt :)
I had too much fun changing my vocal range when I was a teenager. I started off as soprano and then I did a production of Scrooge which totally changed my definition of soprano and over the 9 months of rehearsal my range expanded upwards. Then I got a cold (RIP high notes) and then out of sheer boredom during choir practice I decided to join the altos. At last check I was a second soprano but it's been a long time since I've properly sang.
omg I love that--honestly, the more diverse of a musical education we get, the more we can do!!!
Yes!! God bless voice teachers, both speech and singing. I didn't know I had a bad singing habit until I started taking privates with an amazing teacher! So worth it. Say, if you had an audition (*cough*it's for Spring Awakening*cough*) and your throat was sore from sickness, would you go with a steamer or some tea, or something else?
Wynnie M 🙌🏽🙌🏽 Honestly good voice teachers are life savers. I'd recommend talking only when necessarily, lot's of sleep, tea (if it helps and you like it), lots of Vitamin C (I'd highly recommend Emergen-C, it's a powder supplement/extra boost-you can get it at costco), and keeping your neck/body warm!
Wynnie M also, this video was geared toward college auditions, but the tips still apply!! ua-cam.com/video/PlPVbEs5Epw/v-deo.html
My voice is still settling in (I'm 17), but I'm at the point where my voice can't possibly get any deeper and any further change will just be the gradual loss of the "kiddish" quality. My natural speaking voice lies within the upper 2 and lower 3 octaves, and I'm naturally a bass-baritone. However, I've trained myself to be one of those "I can sing anything" people you talked about. Like, I played Caiaphas in Jesus Christ Superstar last year, today I could play Judas. My biggest weakness as a singer right now is that I'm still pretty hit-or-miss with my high soft palette range (think "Heaven's Light" from Hunchback). However, I'm confident that I can become more comfortable with it through further training.
love how you drew out f6 in the air when you said it haha
Main voice types and subtypes
Soprano:
Lyric Coloratura
Dramatic Coloratura
Souberette
Light lyric
Full lyric
Spinto
Dramatic
Mezzo-soprano:
Coloratura
Lyric
Dramatic
Contralto:
Coloratura
Lyric
Dramatic
Countertenor
Tenor:
Leggro
Lyric
Spinto
Dramatic
Baritone:
Barytone-martin
Lyric
Kavalierbariton
Verdi
Dramatic
Bass-baritone
Bass:
Lyric
Dramatic
(Yes I did this by memory)
Contralto is the same thing as alto. Alto is the term used to describe contralto in choral music or Broadway stuff. These different subtypes types don't usually apply to broadway, unless it's candide or she loves me, with Coloratura soprano roles. I hope this helps a little bit
It has been 5 months and this video annoys me just... a lot. I love her videos but her vocal descriptions are not the best. I love her but like please look up what a fach is and the system
When fully warm ** I’ve got C3-F6 and the bottom stuff is USELESS for me as most of the stuff I do is high high soprano stuff but lowering my range has helped my belt IMENSELY
I relate to your soprano problems! It’s hard for me to project below an A3, and my top note is probably around an F6. I could very likely go higher, but I don’t really have a reason to.
My bottom note is an E3. It’s a REALLY ROUGH E3, but it’s there. I don’t sing down there very much, though.
I'm a baritone but I can sing tenor and I tend to have to in most roles I get cast in just because more parts that fit my "type" are tenors. Some parts are too high though and I end up having to use my falsetto, which adds a good octave and a half to my vocal range.
Actually when we have group numbers with harmonies I'm usually put on the high tenor part just because I'm the only one who can hit the notes. I have to use my falsetto but it works!
LOVE YOU KATH!!!
Elizabeth. LOVE YOU TOO! 💖
i’m a girl and i’m a tenor someone save me
Note to self: I must talk in my optimum pitch. Thanks Again Katherine!
When I was in high school, my voice teacher had me put up post-it notes around the house reminding me not to talk in vocal fry 😂😂
4:31 omg Jeremy Jordan omg he is amazing 🖤
I'm a Baritone, and I feel really constricted by my voice type. I'm 15, and pretty much all of the roles I can find whose ranges fit with mine are old men or villains. So, I really feel like there aren't many roles available to me because I'm not a Tenor, and it gets me down when I feel like I'd really love to play a certain lead role, usually the only thing holding me back is that my voice is just a little too low
I screamed when you mentioned Aaron and Jeremy
I'm a sophomore in high school and I can sort of belt but I don't really know where I'm at because I can't sing much louder than a mezzo-forte without straining my voice (I'm trying to work on using my diaphragm more but I can't figure it out!!!) it's also really hard to keep my voice nice because I'm in cheerleading, too.
I just found I'm a mezzo-soprano when I always though I was a soprano. My range is F3-G5!
What vocal type is Regina and Veronica? Those r my dream roles
I think Regina is a mezzo and Veronica is an alto but I could be wrong
So I've got a pretty wide range from G#3 to F#6. I've sung all of the other female parts (choir kids, where you at?) My director told me that I had an alto speaking voice (plz explain bc I have no clue what that means but I think it means that I would make a good Veronica Sawyer- 😈) and one of my friends told me that I had a strong Alto voice but I consider myself a Mezzo due to the fact that I can go on between Alto & Soprano. Not gonna lie, it's pretty frickin' sweet dude 😎
Hey Cath! Your videos are amazing!
I’m a mezzo/soprano but I’m 14 so my casting type consists of heavily dancing and “Mrs ____,” I wanna get into more damsel roles... I’m ok with being a belty character, but I personally think my head voice and higher register in general is more pleasing to hear
That being said, I just got a callback for Belle in Beauty and the Beast! Maybe my wish will come true:)
I'm a soprano and although I've had a lot of voice-related confidence problems, I like the way voice sounds about an octave or two above middle C most :) However, I have never practiced belting because when I go low, I have a tendency to sing through my throat (but my other notes are relaxed!) and my mixed voice isn't strong but is a little better than weak
oh-- and I watched farther into the video and our ranges are almost identical!!
Your makeup is always so GOOD wHaT
My vocal range is from the top of Mezzo to into Tenor
😅😅 Also, I figured out my range by watching warmup videos on UA-cam!!
Can you possibly do a video on how to handle rejection?
I recently auditioned to become a member of a company, but I unfortunatley didn't get a place in the company.
Would really love tips on how to overcome it and handle it for the next time.
Thanks
Definitely!!! Sorry to hear about it, but it'll all work out in the end ☺️☺️
Thanks! :)
I must have a really large range because I Can comfortably sing Alto, Mezzo, and Soprano. Sometimes, I can do tenor (depends on how low) so I might need to start using the notes of my range to explain instead of always picking Mezzo.
Me and my best friend have over a 5 octave range together, she's a female tenor (E2-E6 but she doesn't go past E5 in fear of destroying her voice) and I'm a soprano 1 (F3-F7) and it's great because we can do a ton of musical theatre duets without awkwardly asking someone we don't know lmao
V King omg friendship goals 💖💕💗
I can sing from a Tenor to a Mezzo :) I think that's pretty good.
Honestly, if you want to check your range, it’s easy to just get on a piano and match the pitch from the lowest note you can sing to the highest. Also, if you’re about to go sing, be careful in yelling, screaming, things like that in the days before.
To expand your range, it’s just a lot of practice and singing. I was able to expand mine from an F above middle C to about an A in my normal voice. It just comes with practice and experience. Also, make sure to pick an audition song in your range, obviously. If it’s even a bit uncomfortable, you might want to pick something else.
Omg this actually really helped me!!! I didn't even know a baritenor was a thing lol