The reason why is because its natural for most sopranos and it adds drama to the song so a lot of people add em to their songs for the sopranos cause its impressive & it adds a mature sound to the song & role
Hey! I love your channel! If you need a video idea could you maybe do a "Who sang Hit Me with a Hot Note from Play On! the best" and include Tami Tappan?
They take as much skill, technique, and practice to support correctly and make it sound good as high notes do Sincerely, a mezzo soprano who can only hit an E3 on a really good day
it seriously is. i wish people got as much credit for singing low notes as they do for singing high notes, because it takes just as much work to learn to consistently support low notes as it does for high ones.
@@elizabethh8579 Actually, once you start hitting below C3, You're actually entering a mans lower range. I'm a baritone, and though I can consistently hit town to G, Maybe F# with consistent technique (I used to hit lower, but vocal damage has made my lower range potentially permanently shot) my lower range starts at C.
I never knew that stuff above G3 was considered a low note for female singers. I guess I'm just used to being able to hit a C3 consistently as an AFAB singer who hasn't done any HRT
Well, to be honest. If your low range is developed - it won’t really be a low note (and it shouldn’t). But a lot of female singers neglect that part of the range unfortunately.
Me too. Honestly this video kinda makes me giggle because, as a female tenor, these notes are literally nothing to me. It’s just so normalized for women to only work on their high range that notes like these are considered impressed for most of us, when it really shouldn’t be.
WAIT, if these notes are considered low for a female, what does this mean for me? Because I believe the lowest note I’ve been able to hit is a B flat 2 👀
@@MisterGolightly I guess she has low notes in all of her songs since she's a contralto but the one that always stands out to me is the last note in Nothing Changes!
@@MisterGolightly she sang a song called Charming and there are a lot of low notes in her version. Also I think her lowest is in Wait for Me from Hadestown
I’ve always really liked Sierra’s lower range, wish we got to hear it more often (another Christine with epic low notes is Kelly Mathieson, I recommend checking her out!)
1:37 That was Kristin! Glinda does the lower harmony in this song because she always does the high part and this song is supposed to show how they changed each other.
Nice! I remember Leah singing 'I would rather die' very low and often it is sung up an octave. Cool to see lower notes for a change - I'm D2 - D4 so usually nothing in my vocal range makes your compilations!
I don't want to be rude, I really don't but it's spelled Lea, and yeah this video was so cool! 1. Because i am easily impressed 2. I'm a (abt I haven't taken the test)mezzo-soprano/soprano(Yay I'm BASIC😅) so low notes are like WOW
Vivian Reed sings a projected D3 and E3 in Marie Christine with Audra McDonald. Stephanie Lawrence sings some pretty low notes in Marilyn: The Legend I think. Pat Suzuki (Flower Drum Song) sings some notes down to Bb2 pretty often in her albums. Tbh, a lot of those classic theatre female singers sing super low notes in their albums. Lillias White sustained a C3 in her new album too.
I’m a young singer so this is definitely a sign for me to work on my low notes as much as my high notes. I can hit some of the lower notes here so I’m going to keep doing that so I don’t lose it.
@@MisterGolightly I got a full video on her on my channel if you’re interested. She originated Maria in the Sound of Music, along with the lead in South Pacific and a few other musicals (Peter Pan is another big one). She did Hello Dolly too. She sang a lot with Ethel Merman and Big Crosby and was originally trained as a lyric soprano but at some point she switched to more of a belter.
I realise I probably have a massive range as I can sing all these notes as a soprano, maybe not in context and probably not in a vocally healthy way but the notes are coming out 😂
As a coloratura soprano, I am so so impressed by this 🥹 I love lower voices, so much warmth and colour ❤ I'm currently in a community theatre and every woman is an alto except for myself and I get so many chills listening to them all sing.
Love your videos! You seemed to make some errors with the note naming on this one. Here are the ones I catched: 0:46 Christy Altomare sings an G#3, not A3 1:111:14 and 1:20 Rachelle Ann Go sings an G#3, not A3 2:07 Pretty sure Danielle Steers reaches down to F#3 and not G3 there 5:10 Patti LuPone sings an E3, not Eb3 5:31 Nitpicking but I think Cynthia doesn't quite reach down to D3, lowest note I can hear is Eb3
Not sure if this counts, since it's technically TV, but Megan Hilty and Kat McPhee singing the Eb3 on "Norma Jeane" in the extended version of "Let Me Be Your Star"??? Ironically, during the concert performance, the key was raised 2 half steps, so they could reach the low note more easily, and once the song started with Kat's "Fade in on a girl", it went down three half steps (so one half step down from the original recorded key).
this compilation makes me feel SEEN and VALID. like, i can sing high notes all i want, but what did i train myself to do? i trained myself to sing an octave below middle C. my natural speaking range is in the 3rd octave, oooop. i may also be sold on Bat out of Hell finally. only took me like 4 years.
Yeah, majority of women will speak in the third octave, even if you're a high ass soprano naturally. I remember reading a study that said the average speaking pitch for a soprano is like a G3/A3, which makes me wonder how some people struggle on those notes loll. Also, you may develop an even deeper low range (far deeper in fact) with practice. Keep practicing that range!
Thank you for this. I can hit most of these comfortably just singing freely, but prior to now I had no frame of reference for where low notes "begin" if that makes sense
Such a weird feeling. I'm a second Alto, but I wasn't singing along with it, and yet hearing the notes they were hitting, my throat acted like I was singing it lol. Does that make sense?
I wish low notes were incorporated more in musical theater. These are pretty comfy (until Pearl's D3, thats already way too alto for my mezzo range 😅) I LOVE IT tho
And here I was thinking I just couldn't sing that good, because I'm not very good at singing high notes. That video really made me interested in singing again.
Not a silly question, you're educating yourself 😉 To answer that, yes. The usual scale is C>D>E>F G>A>B>C the number next to the note indicates the octave you're in. 1>2>3 etc
What do you think is the high range for men is? Not including freaky falsetto or bad sounding hellish high belts. I mean very strong belting or mixing range.
I don't understand the question. There's some roles and songs that at most go up to C5/C#5 . Anything above that really depends on the singer so idk. I would say that D5/Eb5 is the highest where it stills maintains some chestiness . After that they resonate more in the head which can get whiny for some
@@MisterGolightly let's say if a man sing my man in barbra's key lowered. What should be the final note be to have that chesty and strong belt same as Barbra?
@@MadameCorgi that's like a pretty rare thing. I mean some women do belt in 6th octave, but it's very rare. So considering a professional singer that belts on a normal range, what would it be?
What's the thing about G's? There's so many of them
Girls?
@@MultiGabri8 No I think they mean G3, G2, G5 & G4
The reason why is because its natural for most sopranos and it adds drama to the song so a lot of people add em to their songs for the sopranos cause its impressive & it adds a mature sound to the song & role
a lot of them weren’t g’s. lots of f sharps in there with the g’s
Hey! I love your channel! If you need a video idea could you maybe do a "Who sang Hit Me with a Hot Note from Play On! the best" and include Tami Tappan?
I've said it before, and I'll say it again,
👏low👏notes👏should👏be👏more👏appreciated👏
Sincerely,
an alto
Another alto completely agreeing! (I wish there had been a Marian Anderson in here).
They take as much skill, technique, and practice to support correctly and make it sound good as high notes do
Sincerely,
a mezzo soprano who can only hit an E3 on a really good day
I agree as one as well. I’d consider a low note to be around D3, C3, or even lower tbh
Louder for the people in the back, sisters!
Love,
a contralto
A wannabe tenor also agrees with you
It's nice to see some low range representation ☺️
Agreed I think low notes are so much better and impactful
it seriously is. i wish people got as much credit for singing low notes as they do for singing high notes, because it takes just as much work to learn to consistently support low notes as it does for high ones.
@@Wubbazt idk anything about singing, but I find low notes way more impressive than high notes
i didn’t even realize how low my range actually was but i could hit all of these😳😂👌🏼 high notes are the ones i have trouble with…xdd
Me too lol
Same, but I’m a dude who can only sing up to G5
I'm the exact opposite. my voice gets very weird on low notes
Same in choir its split up as girls and then boys and me
I'm a 5'3 white girl, and I can sing Into the Unknown (Over the Garden Wall's opening ) without baiting an eye, so yeah, my voice is pretty damn low.
people overall NEVER give low notes from women enough appreciation just because it's not a whistle note but low notes are SO IMPRESSIVE MY GOD
their low notes are basically the notes I normally sing in-
right?! these are not that low - this is just normal alto range
@@elizabethh8579 yeah but i think its low for soprano (?) or just considered low since it’s usually Alto/Tenor/Bari/Bass notes
@@enviouslee I’m a soprano and these aren’t even low/tough
@@elizabethh8579 Actually, once you start hitting below C3, You're actually entering a mans lower range.
I'm a baritone, and though I can consistently hit town to G, Maybe F# with consistent technique (I used to hit lower, but vocal damage has made my lower range potentially permanently shot) my lower range starts at C.
SAME
That note at the end of Not That Girl is an absolute nightmare and is so underrated for how hard it is to sing.
Right?? After belting F's every day. F for Elphie's
I hate that note lol I can never hit it
Not That Girl was the first song I got in a music lesson and the Teacher dropped it further.
I never knew that stuff above G3 was considered a low note for female singers. I guess I'm just used to being able to hit a C3 consistently as an AFAB singer who hasn't done any HRT
Well, to be honest. If your low range is developed - it won’t really be a low note (and it shouldn’t). But a lot of female singers neglect that part of the range unfortunately.
me toooooo! i taught myself to do it!
Me too. Honestly this video kinda makes me giggle because, as a female tenor, these notes are literally nothing to me. It’s just so normalized for women to only work on their high range that notes like these are considered impressed for most of us, when it really shouldn’t be.
@Niko Dem Assigned female at birth = AFAB
@Niko Dem HRT means hormone replacement therapy
WAIT, if these notes are considered low for a female, what does this mean for me? Because I believe the lowest note I’ve been able to hit is a B flat 2 👀
That's cool. Don't forget your high notes too
yea that's like really low. second octave is insane for women
@@oliverdelica2289 thanks 😅 And yeah, my higher range is average I guess, but yeah 😭
Same. I’m 14 and the lowest I’ve hit was a G#2
same omg we love the A2-C6 range
Jewelle Blackman has some amazing low notes in Hadestown!
Can you name a few? Thanks
@@MisterGolightly I guess she has low notes in all of her songs since she's a contralto but the one that always stands out to me is the last note in Nothing Changes!
Blackman is unbelievable
@@MisterGolightly she sang a song called Charming and there are a lot of low notes in her version.
Also I think her lowest is in Wait for Me from Hadestown
@@justess797 thanks! I'll heart it so I can check later :)
I’ve always really liked Sierra’s lower range, wish we got to hear it more often (another Christine with epic low notes is Kelly Mathieson, I recommend checking her out!)
Annaleigh Ashford had this super low note in sunday in the park with george and it was so crisp clear and amazing
ua-cam.com/video/T6AuKn9PCV8/v-deo.html&ab_channel=cassiopeia this one? 01:22
Dang, I missed it! it's an F3
@@MisterGolightly i think it's actually an E3, though I may be wrong?
@@jessica23claire you stand correct, Jess
Danielle Steers has the perfect tone for low notes let's be honest
This was awesome. I didn't realize how interested I was in low female vocal production until just now.
i was gonna say alto gang but the first person featured was sierra boggess so... i'll keep quiet.
Idk if im an alto or soprano cuz like i can sing rlly low and rlly high but i cant sing anything in between??? Like my voice just craps out???
To be fair plenty of mezzos and sopranos can hit the low notes, it’s not just an alto thing.
I’m either a high mezzo or low soprano and can hit a C3.
Lea's low note at 2:58 was so satisfying!!!! Thanks as always for a great video!
As a female in musical theater that is a tenor to low baritone i love this 💙
And we all know the lowest note in musical theatre is Amber’s “I don’t know about you booooooooys” in Hadestown
lea salonga is so talented i saw her live once and like. woah man
at 1:40 its actually kristen chenowith singing the G#3!
You're right!
1:37 That was Kristin! Glinda does the lower harmony in this song because she always does the high part and this song is supposed to show how they changed each other.
The chest development of some of the sopranos here makes my heart happy lol
Nice! I remember Leah singing 'I would rather die' very low and often it is sung up an octave.
Cool to see lower notes for a change - I'm D2 - D4 so usually nothing in my vocal range makes your compilations!
I don't want to be rude, I really don't but it's spelled Lea, and yeah this video was so cool! 1. Because i am easily impressed 2. I'm a (abt I haven't taken the test)mezzo-soprano/soprano(Yay I'm BASIC😅) so low notes are like WOW
YES THANK YOU
I'm impressed by high notes because I can't hit them but us altos need APPRECIATION
I love the clarity in Lea Salonga’s vibrato
The way I screamed when Willemjin appeared, God, I'm so wipped. PS: So glad you're back!
Danielle Steer is now on my radar she sung the hell out of those low notes
As an alto, I feel seen. 😊
This actually helped me figure out my vocal range! The lowest I can go is E3.
Vivian Reed sings a projected D3 and E3 in Marie Christine with Audra McDonald. Stephanie Lawrence sings some pretty low notes in Marilyn: The Legend I think. Pat Suzuki (Flower Drum Song) sings some notes down to Bb2 pretty often in her albums. Tbh, a lot of those classic theatre female singers sing super low notes in their albums. Lillias White sustained a C3 in her new album too.
Omg it’s at here ua-cam.com/video/l7yfcnslMSc/v-deo.html right?
YES some Amber Gray! Her voice does good things to me.
i did not realize just how low my voice naturally is until now-
Judy Garland with Somewhere Over The Rainbow at 1:42. She has been and will always be my favorite.
Goosebumps everywhere oh my gosh
Lea Salonga just keeps on showing up! Amazing woman :D
Now that's what I wanted! I hope you put out a men's version as well... I'll be hoping for a fair bit of Norm Lewis and Brian Stokes Mitchell in it!
The Confrontation low note!👏
NORM!!!! He's awesome 👏
Love Norm!
I can’t believe Sierra was the first one I love this video so much!!!
I’m a young singer so this is definitely a sign for me to work on my low notes as much as my high notes. I can hit some of the lower notes here so I’m going to keep doing that so I don’t lose it.
The classic Broadway soprano (belter too) Mary Martin has some insane low notes.
Can you put some links so I can check later?
@@MisterGolightly I got a full video on her on my channel if you’re interested. She originated Maria in the Sound of Music, along with the lead in South Pacific and a few other musicals (Peter Pan is another big one). She did Hello Dolly too. She sang a lot with Ethel Merman and Big Crosby and was originally trained as a lyric soprano but at some point she switched to more of a belter.
Andrew Lloyd Webber really said A3-E6 ladies, thank you very much.
LOL!
I realise I probably have a massive range as I can sing all these notes as a soprano, maybe not in context and probably not in a vocally healthy way but the notes are coming out 😂
He’s returned!! Yay!
Ahhh I love the low notes for the female singers, it saves my vocal chords when I try to sing along TT
Altos have entered the chat
As a coloratura soprano, I am so so impressed by this 🥹 I love lower voices, so much warmth and colour ❤ I'm currently in a community theatre and every woman is an alto except for myself and I get so many chills listening to them all sing.
I’ve missed your channel so much!!!!
I love low notes. I can sing a lot of the notes in this video but I can’t wait to train my voice to sing lower
As an alto I really appreciate this positive representation
WOW! Thank you for introducing me to Danielle Steers
Love your videos! You seemed to make some errors with the note naming on this one. Here are the ones I catched:
0:46 Christy Altomare sings an G#3, not A3
1:11 1:14 and 1:20 Rachelle Ann Go sings an G#3, not A3
2:07 Pretty sure Danielle Steers reaches down to F#3 and not G3 there
5:10 Patti LuPone sings an E3, not Eb3
5:31 Nitpicking but I think Cynthia doesn't quite reach down to D3, lowest note I can hear is Eb3
I love Cynthia Erivo’s low range
I'm pretty sure Danielle Steers once hit an A2 on an insta story riffing down...and she held it!
Seeing so much of She Used To Be Mine makes me so happy because that’s one of the few theater songs by women that I can sing all the way through!🙃
I’m so happy you’re back!
Bru they do be singing my highest notes
Lauren Bacall, Rosalind Russell, Carol Channing and Bea Arthur
Queens Of The Altos❤️❤️
yasssss low notes
yay! You’re posting again!
Not sure if this counts, since it's technically TV, but Megan Hilty and Kat McPhee singing the Eb3 on "Norma Jeane" in the extended version of "Let Me Be Your Star"??? Ironically, during the concert performance, the key was raised 2 half steps, so they could reach the low note more easily, and once the song started with Kat's "Fade in on a girl", it went down three half steps (so one half step down from the original recorded key).
Beyonce’s low-notes in her song Otherside are juicy too, btw ~ not theatre but nourishing nonetheless lolol
ah! I've missed your posts so much!
Mary Martin in Do Re Mi from the OBC hits a C3. I used to have a range that went from Bb2 to around Ab6. Now it’s around Bb2 to Bb5.
Good to see you back, Mister Golightly!!!
Coming from the high notes video, it's impressive how many singers are on both!
5:46 Now, that's a solid D3
i can proudly say that i can reach all of them
*proud alto noises*
The fact that Bat Out Of Hell is in this gives me life
God I hated that show. Saw it in the London and once was enough.
@@meginmd LUCKY! I love that show so much, your so lucky to have seen it!
@@keke9795 am i in heaven?? a bat out of hell stan oml i love that show!!
@@annelewiis SAME!
this compilation makes me feel SEEN and VALID. like, i can sing high notes all i want, but what did i train myself to do? i trained myself to sing an octave below middle C. my natural speaking range is in the 3rd octave, oooop.
i may also be sold on Bat out of Hell finally. only took me like 4 years.
Yeah, majority of women will speak in the third octave, even if you're a high ass soprano naturally. I remember reading a study that said the average speaking pitch for a soprano is like a G3/A3, which makes me wonder how some people struggle on those notes loll. Also, you may develop an even deeper low range (far deeper in fact) with practice. Keep practicing that range!
i just realized how low my voice actually is omg
Thank you for this. I can hit most of these comfortably just singing freely, but prior to now I had no frame of reference for where low notes "begin" if that makes sense
I’ve been waiting for this for so long
Heather Headley is QUEEN ❤️😍💋
Ah this was good! Great video!
I’m a high mezzo-soprano, and these low notes are so impressive to me.
So what I learned from this is Danielle Steers
Such a weird feeling. I'm a second Alto, but I wasn't singing along with it, and yet hearing the notes they were hitting, my throat acted like I was singing it lol. Does that make sense?
I wish low notes were incorporated more in musical theater. These are pretty comfy (until Pearl's D3, thats already way too alto for my mezzo range 😅) I LOVE IT tho
I'm surprised you didn't include Stacy Francis's rendition of Let's Hear it for the Boy (Footloose)!
I see you've collected all the altos and fem tenors
another great range with low notes to add would be mj rodriguez!
It's weird to think how different the ranges for women and men are. A few of these I can sing in falsetto!
GOD deep voices from women are so pretty i SWEAR
I was waiting for Carol Channing to appear, but three other Dollys appeared instead :D
I’m surprised that you didn’t include Shoshana bean she have good low notes.
I was gonna include Sho! I forgot!!
@@MisterGolightly She have some really nice low notes in Never loved a man with Amber Riley.
I kept waiting for Shoshana! I’m convinced she can sing pretty much anything.
Yessss thanksss for adding barrett here 0:36
3:45
aaaaa barbra’s D3 is 😍
pearl bailey hitting those low notes so effortlessly makes me so jealous
She was amazing
Aaaa Danielle Steers I love her
My soprano ass: Ooh I should try that
yay your back
As a contralto, thank you.
Aw, no Bea Arthur clips? She had some really good low notes
I did my little research on her. Next time for sure!
And here I was thinking I just couldn't sing that good, because I'm not very good at singing high notes. That video really made me interested in singing again.
I thought it would be all Carol Channing!
this makes me appreciate i am mezzosoprano finally LOL definitely low notes need more appreciation
Post best male belts part 2 please
This is going to be a silly question, because I'm clueless lol, but is A3 lower than the B ones?
Yep. Scales tend to start from C -B, so it would go C1, D1 etc to G1, A1, B1 then it would move onto C2 and go into the next octave
Not a silly question, you're educating yourself 😉
To answer that, yes. The usual scale is C>D>E>F G>A>B>C the number next to the note indicates the octave you're in. 1>2>3 etc
Thank you so much! That makes sense now :)
what show are the danielle steers clips from?
Bat Out of Hell
@@MisterGolightly ty!! :)
Please, remember me when you get big.
Always!😂
@@MisterGolightly thank you. :)
they are already big
@@ndblanks well they still reply to comments... so I might as well do it now...
@@uraniumglass0 gotta try this next video
What do you think is the high range for men is? Not including freaky falsetto or bad sounding hellish high belts.
I mean very strong belting or mixing range.
I don't understand the question. There's some roles and songs that at most go up to C5/C#5 . Anything above that really depends on the singer so idk. I would say that D5/Eb5 is the highest where it stills maintains some chestiness . After that they resonate more in the head which can get whiny for some
@@MisterGolightly let's say if a man sing my man in barbra's key lowered. What should be the final note be to have that chesty and strong belt same as Barbra?
@@takemyhand1988 like whwn jj sang Céline in the original key
@@MadameCorgi that's like a pretty rare thing. I mean some women do belt in 6th octave, but it's very rare. So considering a professional singer that belts on a normal range, what would it be?