How do you characterize the range of your voice?

Question

Like saying if you're a baritone, tenor, alto, etc?? Also, I've seen those notes that are like...a letter with a number next to them...what does that mean?? Please don't think I'm stupid or something, because I've never had professional music lessons or assesments or something like that.

Answer 1

Well guys are normally bass, baritones, or tenors, and women are normally sopranos and altos. The names have two referances, one is about how high or low you can sing in a comfortable way- girls that can sing low, but feel more easy singing high would still be called sopranos, for example. The next thing it refers to is what part you sing in a choir- basses sing the bottem line of music, sopranos sing the top line. Sometimes you see a B1 or A2 or something like that, B1 means Bass 1- which in a choir that has eight different vocal lines, the B1 singers would sing the second to the lowest line, the A2 singers would sing the 3rd from the highest line. -this second function is more about orginizing who sings what notes

From highest to lowest the order goes
Sopranos
Altos
Tenor
Bass

S1
S2
A1
A2
T1
T2
B1
B2

Hope this helps

Answer 2

If you don't read music or play piano at all, take someone who does with you to a piano with this chart: http://www.library.yale.edu/cataloging/music/vocalrg.htm

Have them play middle C and sing down by half steps until you can't make any sound any more, and do the same thing going up (warm-up lightly before doing this so your voice is more flexible). Have the person helping you note where you stop, and consult the chart. There you go.

Answer 3

There are different ways of defining the range of your voice.
For example you can use the scientific pitch notation to describe the lowest and higest possible note that you can sing.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_pitch_notation
Thus the range of a soprano voice, for example, could be between A3 and C6 (in the english notation system, other countries have other names for the same notes! This can be confusing)

Answer 4

Go find a piano, and start singing downwards from middle C until you crack. Then do this again going upwards from middle C.

If you find you're better at singing low notes you're probably an alto or bass. If you find you're better at singing high notes, you're probably a soprano or tenor

Answer 5

simply put it as wherever your voice shines at most...wherever your most comfortable at, thats your natural voice...such as im a soprano I can sing alto but if I sing alto tooo long it begins to hurt because its not in my natural voice...You'll just know

Answer 6

My voice is a flat soprano.