To address the alto soprano question, there are different levels of sopranos and alto. There are lyric sopranos, dramatic sopranos, mezzo-sopranos, and contraltos. All have to do with range and timbre. Lyric and Dramatic sopranos are the highest (range Middle C-High D --above treble clef). The difference in those voices is that Lyric is a lighter quality, flippy voice. Dramatic is the heavier quality, less flexible voice. Mezzo-Sopranos are in the middle (low A - high A). The tone quality is nice and full, more on the dramatic side. And Contralto is the low voice (low F - high F/G). Go by those ranges and you'll figure out where you lie!
As far as expanding your range, it's easy as long as you at minimum warm up your voice every day. Use scales to get your voice where you want it. Start with warm-ups in your comfortable vocal range and then creep them up by half step. If your voice is straining, stop!
To get your voice less nasal you need to make sure you are deep breathing and raising your soft pallet. To make certain you are taking deep enough breaths, "plie" (as in the ballet term) or "squat" about half-way down. Breath in for four counts, you should feel your entire lung fill up with air (belly and back expanding). To find your soft pallet, look in a mirror inside your mouth. If you feel the hard part right behind your upper front teeth, that is the hard pallet. The soft pallet is the soft part located right behind the hard pallet. Take a few breaths in and you will see it go up and down. Also if you yawn you will see it raise. The trick to controlling it is when you sing, your throat and mouth should be in the position of the begining of a yawn.
The last advice I can give you is to get a really good voice teacher. Working one-on-one with a specialized voice instructor is always helpful! If money is a problem call a local college music department and a voice student will be more than willing to work with you for a nominal fee.
Good luck and don't strain those chords! They are the only pair you get!
2007-03-21 03:00:31
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answered by Sarah S 3
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alright, judging by the fact that you think you can't go high like vanessa you're an alto, but vanessa doesn't go that high, so you may even be an alto 2.
The way to know if your singing right is if you feel the voice coming from your stomach and having no strain or preasure on your throat/neck area. It all starts with breathing take a deep breath in letting your shoulders relax, when you take a breath in your shoulders should NOT go up, but your belly should go out naturally then hiss it out and your stomach should go in and the sound should be natural. If there is any pushing, strain, or any type of pain you're not singing right.
And if you're singing a note and you pinch your nose and the sound changes, then youre singing through your nose, so instead try to focus the sound lower, and further back. Open the mouth wider and think of yawning out the sound.
Also, DO NOT, i repeat DO NOT try to sing like Vanessa Hudgens. Vanessa Hudgens have had years of voice training, and to sing with that high of a belt you have to otherwise be trained or have the voice. Do not even think about attempting to sing the high notes out like Vanessa or Christina A. or Mariah Carey until you get voice lessons under your belt and you learn more about your voice.
Trying to singing like them with no training, and/or no experience singing in choirs, or solos could/will really damage your vocal chords. For instance, my range has stretched enormously from being with my voice teacher, I know can belt it out like Vanessa Hudgens, but higher or even like Sutton Foster. It takes years of training to be able to do most of the things you see stars attempt/do on their cd's, so don't bother trying if it seems amazing-- cuz' if it's jawdropping to you, you probably can't do it yet...
But get training and soon enough you'll be the new Vanessa!
Best of luck!!!!
2007-03-20 18:21:57
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answered by iwasfedexdin1988 2
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I only study a piece of writing on intense college Musical online. Vanessa Anne Hudgen's does sing the area as Gabriella Montez and is infact no longer lyps singing. on a similar time as on the different hand Zac Efron who play's Troy Bolton did lyps sing, the certainly person singing for Troy Bolton became/is Andrew Seeley.
2016-10-01 06:19:59
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answered by ? 4
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shes very nasal, number one. number two, falsetto, which is what your trying to do, will either sound good or it won't. Singing is, I'm sorry to say, not a learned skill. Lessons, and techniques will only enhance what you already have. Nothing will give you someone else's voice.
2007-03-21 12:26:17
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answered by Anonymous
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Get a voice teacher. Although it doesn't sound like you're good enough for anything but choral singing. Can you read music?
2007-03-21 07:33:01
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answered by Anonymous
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Sounds like an interested question
2016-07-28 09:57:12
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answered by Anonymous
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