Do you have a low voice? How to find your true vocal range for low voiced women!

[@voicehacks]

Just dropped a new podcast episode where I take this on a MAJOR deep dive: kzbin.info/www/bejne/oYvFZHesbtt5qdk If you’re watching this like “but but but fach and my classical teacher said but but” then you need to listen to the full episode

[@myaisheree]

Thx for ur video I thought I was a contralto but I struggled at D3 and barely reached C#3

[@brianweeks87]

Went out into an open field to practice descending scales. Pretty soon I had several cows gathering around looking hopeful....

[@marlymarl47]

🤣🤣🤣

[@neebeeshaabookwayg6027]

😉🙃🙂🥰

[@unitunitglue5143]

Hunting in packs

[@honkymonkey9568]

lol. I sing into a pillow at home; so, no distressed livestock.

[@MusicInMotion_67]

Lol 😂🤣😂

[@ninaj84]

I always thought I was weird that I had such a low singing voice as a woman but I've come to embrace it. I LOOOOVE singing men's songs and really having super smooth control with songs that fit my voice. And people seem to love it and it stands out amongst all the high-pitch singing!

[@jamielynn7674]

I love singing male songs. I have to come up to sing most of them though. I thought I was the only female who couldn't sing female songs.

[@AnnemarieMay]

The female low contralto voice is the rarest female voice and I love it. High Coloratura sopranos are also rare but can be developed, out of lyric soprano or other not too thick soprano voices because it requires great agility but it's hard to do fast agile stuff with a richer, thicker voice, even as a soprano. The most common voice and the one mostly heard in modern music is the Mezzo Soprano. It sounds great doing jazz styles, as well as others. Contralto can sound great doing hard rock. I once heard a Contalto friend belt out Take Me To The April Sun I Cuba, by Melbourne Aussie rock group Dragon. She was pretty drunk at this Karaoke Club bar place they made me sing House Of The Rising Sun in, after I lost my last $ gambling and somehow needed to get some $ to pay for a taxi home at 3am in a rough Melbourne 'hood. She agreed to sing TAKE ME TO THE APRIL SUN IN CUBA, to raise my taxi fare home, if I'd go with her to another where there was a man she was keen on and was hoping to 'casually run into', by 'sheer chance'. When we sang, it brought the house down, caused such a ruckus the management order us to leave because patrons had stopped playing the slots (pokies) there. We never made it yo the other club to try to meet this hot man she was keen on. Her singing just blew me away as nd so we were sitting in this park at 4am singing, having real fun, until a cop car appeared, so we thought we had better stop the racket and just lie low, go home, instead. It was a big night...

[@omniscientone8951]

Love this! I'm almost as low but not quite. Which male songs do you particularly like to sing?

[@susancham6025]

Speech Pathologist here . . . thank you soooooooooooo much for explaining that we have vocal FOLDS, and for pronouncing LARYNX correctly !!! You are an intelligent, articulate, well-educated individual, all to rare in persons calling themselves "vocal coaches" You are a breath of fresh air!!!

[@voicehacks]

Thank you so much! That means a lot to me and I am considering pursuing a masters in speech-pathology depending on the cost haha so much of it overlaps with what I do

[@barbf.3866]

​@@voicehacks go for it. I'm both a trained contralto and a speech language pathologist! Having a good understanding of how the voice works properly helps enormously when I was also studying voice.

[@kaylasmusic]

@@voicehacks OMG I am a musican. I sing and getting a BA in music and then plan to go for audiolgy!!!

[@kristenkillen]

I use to be embarrassed to let anyone know how low I could sing... Now that I'm 28 and finally done being embarrassed over what makes me different, I'm so proud of my low voice. I can hit a C2 and using vocal fry, even lower!

[@divestedkonservativekarame4269]

Yeah me too I don't get why people act like it's shameful to sing the second octave so many female singers sing the second octave

[@kristenkillen]

@@divestedkonservativekarame4269 people like to give us shit because our voices aren't the conventially soft and pretty voice. I like to think our voices are soft in a different way. Instead of high and light like a breeze, it's low and warm like a cool rain hitting a hot tin roof in the summer.

[@randomhumanoidblob4506]

It seems I was very lucky - I went to an all-girls' school and despite it being a relatively small choir, our CM had BIG expectations. She liked to put out Faure's Requiem and the "altos" sang the baritone line on the bass clef. She had no problem filling the top parts of the choir but absolutely loved it when she found those of us who could grumble along until bats started falling out the rafters. I thought that's what "altos" were then realised that standard alto parts are pretty much the top of my tessitura and I'm not an alto at all. But I love my low voice because who wants to be the same as everyone else? We're bloody great, and if anyone disagrees we'll sing at them until the resonance causes masonry to fall on them 😈

[@kristenkillen]

@@randomhumanoidblob4506 that is lucky. I was always too shy for chorus even though I yearned to join. I was too afraid my classmates would find another way to make life a living hell for me. But, we live and we learn and we meet amazing people in the world who share our quirks and make us feel brave.

[@randomhumanoidblob4506]

Oh god, Kristen, I'm so sorry - childhood bullying stays with you forever, it's incredibly damaging. Oddly enough, I got away with a lot cos a) I usually have a snappy answer and b) I'd use my ludicrously low voice to make people laugh - I do a slamming impression of male opera singers 😁 But without snark and humour, I would have been minced at school and it was bad enough - we had no choice, we were tested for choir in the first music lesson; if it were up to me I'd never have stuck my head above the parapet either. I really am so sorry because I know how it can just devastate your esteem and confidence. It did take me awhile to learn to embrace it tho. The sopranos and middles got to do all the fun twiddly bits whereas I just grumbled along at D2 and occasionally it got very exciting and I got to move a whole entire note for half a second then back to mumbling along the bass clef. But we're SPECIAL, even if we only enjoy singing in the shower, we're doing it as the elite 2%!

[@AnonYmous-oe6zj]

A lot of people insist on the "androgynous sound" (which is so hard to define) to categorize someone as contralto but the fact that I sing along to Johnny Cash in the original key should be enough lmao

[@divestedkonservativekarame4269]

She sounds very feminine when she sings too

[@Peaceful_Days]

Really? I think you sing an octave higher than him.

[@AnonYmous-oe6zj]

@@Peaceful_Days I don't, idk what to tell you

[@Peaceful_Days]

@@AnonYmous-oe6zj Doesn't really matter if it sounds good.

[@AnonYmous-oe6zj]

@@Peaceful_Days that part is a matter of personal taste to be fair, not everyone likes the way miley cyrus sounds for instance

[@ourblazingworld]

Thank you for making me feel better about being a contralto. I stopped singing in church choirs decades ago because I got tired of choir directors not knowing what to do with me and seating me with the men who would throw me off.

[@voicehacks]

I’m super glad to hear it helped! That’s why I do this 🖤🖤

[@JazzyJ96771]

Thanks for this! All of the other singing videos on here just give you alto, soprano or mezzo-soprano, I'm none of those. I can sing songs originally sung by men, with ease, without having to alter the pitch, but a lot of songs sung by women are strenuous for me. We need more singing videos for women with low-pitched voices. I've had a deeper voice than most women since I was in my early teens, I'm 24 now and I sound about 45 😂

[@divestedkonservativekarame4269]

Yeah I grew up thinking male songs were easy to sing but female songs were hard to sing lol. My mom would say the men weren't singing because it was easy for her to reach. I didn't know it was due to having a lower voice. Compared to my grandma aunt and cousin I have a high pitch voice/bright sounding Ng voice so I never thought it was that

[@ukulele-covergirl]

I was there(45) before my teens. lol If I could only be 45 again! lol 🌺

[@ashleighsalinas8526]

Same, I have been singing to Godsmack and Metallica since my teens and it's not at all hard other than high notes. My speaking voice is low but not super androgynous like my chest and mixed register. I used to hate it but at 31 I don't give a shit lol plus most people seem to think it's cool

[@Vi_Vi_1]

Sometimes I'm singing along to a guy's song and I STILL have a lower voice than him 😆 it's so nice to know your voice type

[@sommerjordan2503]

@@Vi_Vi_1 me too especially with some of the higher tenors..... In fact, I can sing with most baritones comfortably

[@sandrashermanjazz]

Your speaking voice is about one octave higher than mine (I'm a female). Interestingly enough your singing voice is about my range. I get down to the same notes and sound a bit more natural probably, bc that's also where my speaking voice sits. It's interestin you were disappointed to find out you weren't a soprano. I always liked my low voice. You should be proud, bc you're unique and don't sound like a rubber duck that got squeezed too much.

[@joshuamclean4588]

Yes you’re comfortable speaking at the bottom of your range so speaking voice and actual range can be different. Most/many tenors for example will speak around an a2, though they sing much higher. Some others will tend to speak a little higher in their range, even if they have the same low notes. I’m just using that as an example because I’m familiar with male voices being male… idk as much about females so I’m here learning

[@canisemogan9981]

Finally i can ensure myself that I'm truly mezzo soprano 😄 i have bright tone so i sometimes thought if i was a mezzo or soprano with poor technique 🥲

[@gonnfishy2987]

😄

[@blg.6016]

This is the best explanation of the contralto and mezzo ranges I’ve ever heard - thank you!

[@AnnemarieMay]

For years, I believed I was a medium voice with a 2 octave range. Lyric Mezzo. I hated singing high soprano notes and, though I love low female voice, I thought I could never have such power. But I loved fantasisng about having the voices I never had, in secret, of course, because I thought I sound dreadful. Then I discovered I had 2 additional octaves. One lower one, one extreme higher one. When I first heard these extra octaves it almost scared me. The higher one was easier than the extreme low one, which takes a lot of strength. And now, recently, I discovered I could do some frilly extreme coloratura notes, even whistle tones. Not brilliantly but I can manage some of them. It is so exciting to feel so vocally liberated. It's worth trying to gently push the limits and experiment with different sounds.

[@GFmama]

I have 2 different voices/ranges too. Most of my life I've sung as a soprano. It was easier for me to sing above C5. But I also had a set of notes below A3 that sounded like a different person. And a set of weak notes from C4 to G4 which made sing pop very hard. Been working for years to connect the 3 ranges.

[@mamymimma]

I love deep low voices both in women and men ♥️ I find them so sexy, but also sometimes relaxing, and always very pleasurable to listen to 🤗 I'm happy I belong to that 2% ladies group

[@Nikki3b0oxX]

Really ? I get so insecure about my voice . It’s dropped . Gotten a bit more hoarse too

[@Nikki3b0oxX]

More raspy I mean

[@Truthfully_heather]

I use to hate it! I'd try to sing high and get crackly.. I thought I just couldn't sing, then a vocal coach informed me, I just sing the lowest, a contralto. I felt singled out. I can get very low.. I struggle going high, I'm very limited, barely getting to a c.. I am very raspy too

[@ngozimelissa2474]

@@Truthfully_heather the struggle is real

[@shaniecebrazwell1321]

@@Truthfully_heather that’s why I’m mastering my head voice 😉 because our voices are so low, our head voice is far more powerful than someone that sings higher in the chest voice

[@LeraMuzyka]

Thank you so much for this! It's very hard to find materials on such vocal range! I struggles with sining for years at school until they put me sining with boys and it just turned out that I have a contralto and our teacher tried to teach us sing high (which I wan not able to do phisically). I had a bad time finding a vocal coach who would understand how this voice works because some of them just couldn't believe that low notes are easy for me and said "No, you can't sing that low!" And it always hard to choose songs because teachers often didn't let me sing songs that are sang by men. Or I couldn't convince my teachers to change the key because they chose the key where the lowest notes were my highest! So thank you again for this! I hope that you would make something about heavy metal style of sining with this vocal range some day.

[@Nikki3b0oxX]

It’s crazy because I feel way more comfortable singing songs by men . And eventually I thought something was wrong with me lol . I feel comforted knowing I’m not the only one

[@bwingbwinggwiyomi]

@@Nikki3b0oxX nothing is wrong with you. It's just the society that we live in where some people out there like to make us feel like we're wrong. It's just about what we've been exposed to, you know, we're as valid as anyone else, otherwise why else would we be born :) we're here to change things up and break the mold, we're not cookie cutters.

[@Es24688]

Yup, my range is way more comfortable with song sung by men! I’ve also played boys in plays more than once when they had too many girls and not enough boys lol

[@madisonm.4535]

Oh my god! It's not just me. I can sing some high as well though but it was much harder and more work. Eventually, I stopped singing songs where people were using lower ranges as often because my parents kept commenting about my low voice. I sometimes sang an octave lower for female vocals that I couldn't sing as easily. They made me feel weird about it so I listened to and sang along to higher male voices and strained and practiced until I kind of forgot how to work in my more natural, lower register. I regret that I stopped using my natural lower range. I like being able to have a higher range but I miss the depth and strength of my voice before. That's why I'm here.

[@hammy-on-a-bike]

I was convinced for years that I just couldn't sing and me trying and missing the notes that seemed really high was me just being shit. Recently discovered I seem to sit more in the contralto range and generally sing mens songs or the male part. Just wish I'd found out earlier when I was in college

[@SarahK-rw4fz]

I'm glad to see that other women with such a low voices exist, as I wondered if I should classify myself as a female baritone/tenor or contralto. Often even tenor songs are too high. My range is from G2/A2 up to A4 in full chest belting (can't access mixed voice yet) and up to B5/C6 in belted head voice.

[@voicehacks]

To me that is textbook contralto

[@ladyevil64]

This is amazing! I didn't know that the lower ranges for women were labeled differently than the men's, and just called myself a bass/baritone. I've cracked my twins up on occasion with how low I've sung some things while we were driving around. My speaking voice is low as well, and it's ridiculous how many guys are bothered by it. Glad to know that I'm a contralto, though. I've always been pretty comfortable with it, because I could sing along to KISS, Queensryche, etc. with no real issue. Trying to hit Ann Wilson's notes has always been a bit of a letdown. I do need to look into learning how to change the key of a song, now that I'm more serious about playing guitar. Thank you! 🤘💖

[@brianweeks87]

Drop the song a full octave and sing it low! That's what I do for bass parts; sing the contra octave. I would be delighted to hear a lady speak and sing in the great octave! We would make an awesome duet! My range is B0 up to about G3. I'll sing the oktavist range and you sing bass-baritone. Imagine what that would sound like...

[@ozone325]

@@brianweeks87 i have waaay to many doubts on the b0

[@LilithNeverAgain]

My total range is D3 -A5, I can reach D3 with no problem but I have to warm a lot to reach above F5 or it sounds literally If I was shouthing. I might be a mezzo but a low mezzo, standard songs for mezzo are too high for me, I can reach short notes , but can't sustain them. And when I think of singers categorized as mezzo (Amy Lee, Simmone Simmons...) my voice sounds definitely darker, but not darker than a contralto's. Thanks for the video!

[@PPMOCRG]

Thank you. I found this useful as one of those who tends to sing the male parts in duets.

[@karisuzanne4382]

A2 to A5 here! And I have learned to embrace my range.

[@dibbymau]

What did you end up classifying yourself as? That’s about where I sit too. Kind of in between mezzo and soprano. I have a rather low speaking voice, lower than the vocal coach here

[@subwoofer8865]

This was interesting to watch. I'm a male with a bass range voice so it's limiting (also my bands bassist go figure), and my mom is a contra alto. She is definitely testament that females with low voices can have fantastic range and volume with some training.

[@Vi_Vi_1]

I always think of you bass guys, because as a contralto I can just drop down to men's songs to get a very comfortable range for me, but I figure you guys really do just have to change the key for most songs

[@aniuzumaki]

I'm just 14, yet my voice is much deeper than yours, ma'am. I don't know my vocal tone , I always get bullied for it, though , and het compared to others girl , I didn't know how to handle it when I was 11 , but now I feel much confident

[@TacetPotentia]

After experiencing Covid 4 times now, my upper range has decreased enormously, but I also gained some more lower range. I was wondering what I am now, as I can't call me a soprano any more. Now I know I'm a formidable Contralto with a A2-C6 range. Thank you very much for this video and your explanations!

[@annacbrown1986]

Same experience. I used to be a solid mezzo and now I'm an Alto 🤷🏼‍♀️

[@danielito750]

Im a male Contralto, when I speak, I sound very similar to your voice. People always confuse me with a woman on the phone or when I sing in the 4th and 5th Octave. I can sound masculine in the 3rd and some notes i have in the 2nd octave. I love being a Contralto. It's like I get the best of both worlds!

[@is0l4ti0n]

I've been made fun of a lot for having a deep, gravelly speaking voice. In the past few years I became curious about my range since I like to sing, and I am now proud to be one of the few women who can sing quite low. B2-C6ish. Contralto profundo. I cannot sing Melanie Martinez songs at all, for example. It's painful to attempt higher notes. I used to hate having a higher voice as a young teen and listened to a lot of male vocals as well as Courtney Love etc, but once I became an adult, I dropped *well* into alto thankfully. I like my voice but it took time to.

[@janvie]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/imK2ZnWdj9Ksn7s My favorite female contralto artist! Just linking this because her music is so serene. Also Sade is a super good signer, she sings alto and contralto, lovely.

[@jenniferjenkins9155]

Thank you for calling it liberating! Once I realized that I am a contralto I could stop beating myself up for not hitting high notes from my chest 😆 whew, I can just let me voice shine in the range it really suites and be truly happy with that!

[@FatherMurry]

Same!! I also unlocked false chords. 🤘🏼😭 I feel so cool. 🫣

[@wickedwitt04]

I had a vocal chord damage followed by stress event that severely lowered my lows and speaking voice. After years of not even being able to talk "normally" I have worked through it. Crazy part is that I didn't lose my high end whatsoever, it just takes more effort than it did before. What I did lose, was my ability to control my voice well and am no longer really able to hit tones by ear. I could probably do it with continued training but I'd love to at least sit down with a voice coach and see if I am now a mythical 5 octave unicorn!

[@rhov-anion]

I'm curious on your labeling. As I was taught (granted, this was 20 years ago) a contralto's chest voice starts at D-3, middle register should begin around F-4, and only "extremes" go below D3. Obviously, your voice is that extreme, and it's beautiful. I'm envious, haha! I'm just worried that telling a person who can only sing down to C#3 (like me) "you're a mezzo" is perhaps going to cause problems. That happened to me, and I really struggled in my first voice class until a piano accompanist told me to sing the tenor part and explained that the teacher had mislabeled two students, me and a baritone.

[@Forgetmenot-ne8ed]

Yeah that's not true what she said at all... I'm an operatic contralto and have been classicaly trained as one by 3 different voice teachers and my voice is actually very much deeper and more heavy sounding than hers in color (I'm A lyric with Colourtra ability) and thats on the ligher side of the Contralto voice types..singing the same notes even in the "mezzo range "there also mezzos who can sing in the 2s even sopranos ...but as a contralto I honestly wouldn't consider her a contralto.. because the color of her voice is too light in my opinion and contraltos have a very distinct sound throughout their range.no they dont have to sound manly but i guess thats not my place seeing as she's been trained as one but also her lowes in the 2s imo kinda sound pushed a bit. It's just all the Contraltos i know of have a very distinct tone.. she sounds honestly , like a mature mezzo who who can hit lower notes the farthest I can go is a D2 but where I basically end in my comfort Range is at the B2 with out haveing to put Technique behind it ,its all about the color and tessuria of the voice. That makes the voice type, not the range Yes each voice type has their comfort Range but mine ends at the B2 naturally and ive been classified as a contralto by three separate teachers who would refuse call me a Mezzo because of the color of my voice thats what all my voice teachers have told me... so I'm kinda confused where this labeling is coming from yes its a rare voice but just because someone also can hit those lower notes dosnt make them contralto or vise versa.its all about color etc. I agree that this labeling can throw people off and or make them second guess because i see more people calling them sekfs a contralto in this comment sections just because they can sing down to a F2 but it's not about the notes sung Essentially. I know a few famous contraltos who's limit is around D3 to C3 notes but is no where near the mezzo texture, like cher and sade granted yes they probably can hit lower but its just their own comfort is around there. I think it's kind of misleading to state if you can sing in the bass range your automatically a contralto because there would be a lot of sopranos out there who are trained that could now be called contraltos because they are able to hit those notes. I was told by all 3 voice teachers it's about where you Comfortably have Resonance and like I said above the color /tessuria not notes as a whole. I know baritones who can't go as far as a D2 like me and are still baritones like my current teacher..

[@rhov-anion]

@@Forgetmenot-ne8ed This makes a lot of sense, that tessitura should be most important. Just because you can physically hit a low note doesn't make you a contralto, and same for high notes and so many of my friends who insist they're a soprano, when they are clearly straining. Thank you for replying.

[@Forgetmenot-ne8ed]

@@rhov-anion yeah it just is quite fustraiting When something misleading like this is said Because as someone who tried to be a soprano in chorus when I was in high school but ended up being in tenor eventually due to the fact that I couldn't even do alto let alone alto 2 because my voice was deemed too heavy sounding . I think it can be very hard for people who have experienced a couple crappy teachers because even after high school days I had a couple crappy teachers who teachers who weren't able to train me properly because of my voice type being a contralto and would either give me Reprotour in the wrong keys or tell me I can't sing too high or too low etc. Makeing my voice feel smaller than it actually is Where is my current teacher has Been able to make my voice shine and I actually have color now and I never knew that .I would have never known if I had a good treacher! But I've with that said I could never imagine somebody trying to give me just mezzo soprano repertoire with the fact that notes are a factor, and have the color florish properly in my voice . I am unsure if her teacher gave her This information or not what this is how a lot of people get missed classified I know a lot of people who have been misclassified as a contralto because they can hit lower notes But that doesn't mean anything.

[@Forgetmenot-ne8ed]

@@rhov-anion I know of a spinto soprano who unfortunately was misclassfied as a contralto and once she got a better teacher who could revalueate it her voice is fantastic and probably the in the best shape it's been in in years.

[@Forgetmenot-ne8ed]

@@rhov-anion If you would ever like a recommendation of a rock style contralto Id check out the ukrianian band The Hard Kiss she's one and she has that texture and weight I'm talking about she dosnt sound like a guy either ! But shes an amazing example of a lighter contralto And also their music is fantastic! Especially in Ukrianian! 😀

[@OhK586]

I go down to A2 and up to F5 but I’m not sure how to gauge the “color” of my voice. I have a slightly lower speaking voice than normal, but not exceptionally low. However, I prefer singing lower - it’s so much easier for me. I’m not certain if that makes me a contralto or not, but it’s nice to know I have a good vocal range. This guide was definitely helpful.

[@haikuoflife]

I noticed my voice changed significantly after 15. I was always in the soprano range and made to sing in the "high soprano" range for a specific Hallelujah arrangement, but now, my comfortable range is low (similar to Chris Cornell's range). My lowest note that I can comfortably hit is A2. Thanks for sharing this, it's good to understand the ranges.

[@RainyIzDazed]

God, this video has helped me feel so much better about my low voice. I’m currently in my first year of doing chorus at my high school since the 4th grade in elementary school, and despite knowing I have a low voice for a long time, being singled out as “the female tenor” in my class is just kinda embarrassing for me. I’m constantly self conscious about it, since I feel like I stand out and I’m afraid people are gonna think I’m not “tenor” enough for my group, yet not “alto” enough to sing with any of the girls. Lately I’ve gotten a bit more comfortable about my voice and I’ve been feeling a lot less of the imposter syndrome sorts of feelings after finding an upperclassmen tenor with almost the same vocal range as mine. Despite him being a boy, finding someone who has an almost identical range to mine has been helpful, and since he had more experience with singing in general, mirroring his strategies to help get those higher notes out has helped me tremendously in exploring the higher side of my range. Low note is A2, maybe G2 on a good day, and the other day I managed to sing an A4 pretty confidently alongside that upperclassmen tenor for the school musical 😊 I hope to continue getting more comfortable with my range, and maybe one day I’ll finally feel fully confident in this voice

[@TerpsichoreanSelenophile]

Thank you! I never knew I was (apparently) a contralto. I sang in the church choir for Christmas and sometimes ended up switching to the tenor parts. I have trouble hitting some of the notes in the alto part on the Hallelujah Chorus. Now I know why!

[@yeracontra]

I always thought I was an alto cos I have such a low husky speaking voice but turns out I'm a mezzo :O thanks for the helpful explanation! Explains why so many male songs are too low for me but then too high when sung an octave higher haha

[@herewegokids7]

I'm mezzo I guess and I have to flip between octaves a lot

[@rumbim]

I'm now finding out I'm a mezzo😳I am much more comfortable in my lows atm.

[@leahdavid6893]

You have a very beautiful voice and good information :) however, I don’t think all official contralto singers can or have to reach these low notes to be classified as contralto. And I don’t think contraltos are as rare as most people tend to think. Maybe it’s rare in mainstream and classical singing but not if you take all those who think they can’t sing because most songs are either too high or too low for them. There are so many more factors to be classified in a vocal fach than only vocal range. (Maybe you already mentioned that and I didn’t pay enough attention)

[@JulieMelillo]

exactly! I've read the easiest way to tell is if you can use chest voice on the low notes, not tongue tension (using the back of the tongue to color the weak low notes is what mezzos and sopranos do, who think they are contraltos). Contraltos can get chest resonance on the low notes...But I agree, contralto only goes down to F3, and she is talking about going into lower bass territory...

[@TheBaumcm]

I would agree with this. When you consider that this is a fact and most people who get into opera would be those who could sing with the supported ranges, mezzos and sopranos, it may be more a case of not being heard, similar to the field of engineering being dominated by males because fewer women had previously been interested AND encouraged.

[@JulieMelillo]

@@shabrethajennings7291 ya I agree. I think a lot of mezzos "fake it" by making the back of their tongue vibrate for low notes (like the tongue depressor sound you make at the doctor), versus making the low sound in the chest...I've realized some of the people I thought were contraltos were actually mezzos doing that w/ the back of their tongue! Real contraltos don't sound very low even when making low notes because it's in their range, like Judy Garland doesn't even sound low! (real contralto). :)

[@bwingbwinggwiyomi]

@@JulieMelillo I'm pretty sure I'm an alto/contralto female voice, but how do I know if I'm singing with back of my tongue/chest voice as you say?

[@JulieMelillo]

@@bwingbwinggwiyomi Put your hand on your chest and see if it vibrates on the low notes in the contralto range. If you are mezzo it will vibrate for the low mezzo notes but lower than that it won't. Think of the tongue depressor at the doctor when you say "ahh" that's the sound mezzos use to fake contralto low notes. see how the chest doesn't vibrate and it only vibrates in the mouth? That's what you are looking for. Also look for which low notes sound fuller and more resonate without trying. But really, most contralto songs are sung by mezzos anyway! So it doesn't matter too much. But I do think mezzos sound better in their own range where they shine! If you are a contralto, the mezzo high notes would be too high for you and could hurt your voice.

[@voicehacks]

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[@Vidyut_Gore]

I didn't know about all this. Someone told me I was a contralto and asked me to hit a note. Then lower. Then lower. Then they stopped and I continued for a while. lol. Guess that explained it to me very clearly. So now I came looking for what it means. None of the notes in this video were too low for me. Very comfortable.

[@randomhumanoidblob4506]

It's great when they fall off the end of the piano and you just keep going until eventually the rafters start to creak :-D

[@Vidyut_Gore]

@@randomhumanoidblob4506 lol. I love my voice (it lets me sing!) but in India, low voices on women be like eyebrows in the sky...

[@Introvertsan]

@@Vidyut_Gore there are a lot of low singing voice women in India?

[@Viralityoflife]

Wow, I love the deeper voice. I believe I’m a baritone with a comfortable singing range (most resonant) of Eb2 to F5. I have gotten C2 on the low end and Ab5 on the high end and it’s getting easier. I can belt a C5 as well. It’s crazy to see how high and low your range can go. I wish there were more contraltos!

[@ChaiElemental]

I'm one of those "altos" who grew up singing 4th in SSAA but is actually a mezzo, not a contralto, because my voice taps out at around B2. Interesting! My highest is F6, so sounds like that's probably about my max. Aww. Maybe if I ever got to take private lessons I could unlock my whistle register.

[@voicehacks]

Yes! This is definitely a more mezzo range for sure but it is a little wider than average! If you’re already up to an F6 that miiight be maxing out the whistle range of even a wider range mezzo. It’s pretty great that you’re up that far!! C6-F6 would likely have whistle tone qualities and I think even if you don’t expand beyond that (you already have a wider than usual range) you can make a lot of headway just learning to use and control those few notes for whistle tones. You can get them to have a lot of dexterity right in that spot. That’s great to have suck vocal flexibility! Mezzos can be a really flexible voice type!

[@bronwilson2390]

That's my vocal range! But when my voice is warm / I'm relaxed I can get lower

[@divestedkonservativekarame4269]

@@voicehacks how do you get a whistle register when you're a contralto? Or a voice type that doesn't reach above g5?

[@voicehacks]

@@divestedkonservativekarame4269 I hate to say it but you typically don't. So this is where the physiology of why the voice is low in a female larynx vs why a voice is low in a male larynx starts to play a role. So in Contralto female vocalists the vocal folds don't grow very long like they do in men so the hyoid bone doesn't lengthen much etc and that means the shape of the cords causing the voice to be low is very wide, fat cords. These type of cords are really really difficult to get to whistle phonate. Even harmonically. In order to whistle sing (which usually begins at C6 and up) you have to have folds which will allow you to phonate notes that high and typically a contralto's cords are too wide. I have made it to a C6 once in a blue moon but can't do any whistle phonating really at all. Mezzos will at least have a couple of whistle tones they can access like C6, D6 and possibly E6. But you will see people like an extremely wide range baritone or a tenor male vocalist (the baritone would be a lower voice than a contralto) achieve whistle harmonics (the might not literally sing a c6) where their cords are thin enough to create some high whistle harmonics because male vocal folds are typically longer, not super wide. They have a dramatic length difference that makes the strings/cords sing lower pitches but without being prohibitively wide like a contralto. The exception would be a true Bass vocalist for example, who would be a male voice type where the cords are long and wide and this significantly limits the ability to do whistle phonations. I don't really want to discourage anyone from trying anything but these are the realities of the physics of sound vs anatomy we are looking at. It's more so you guys don't think there's something wrong with you if you're a contralto who never gets any whistle tones out, that's just the limitation of the shape of those particular vocal cords. It's all physics of sound so width and length of the cords will determine the limits of some of our sounds at the end of the day.

[@divestedkonservativekarame4269]

@@voicehacks if I'm starting out at g5 how many more notes do people usually get with extending them?

[@EveInTheMachine]

Oh my gosh, thank you! I kept taking these online vocal tests for women and my results never made any sense! I've had just a little of past vocal training. I never had any hope of singing because my voice is just too low for most female singing styles. Your demonstration is *exactly* what I needed. Not only could I easily follow you down the scale, when you showed the full scale of the contralto vs mezzo soprano it answered *everything.* I do have a brighter tone when I go up the scale and F#5 is my absolute limit! This is perfection! :)

[@voicehacks]

YAY!!!

[@maybeliv]

as a middle school girl with a range of a2 to a5, i'm an alto in my large group choir, a soprano in my small group choir, and a soprano in my show choir. no idea how they got that idea

[@Laynasmuse]

Thank you, my singing teacher as a little girl always told me I was a contralto. (Reva Unsicker) She always had to change the song to fit my voice. I always got teased by the other girls. Really loved this video.

[@TheChanellebelle]

I sang along and I have the exact same range as you! Your last note is my last note! Thank you for explaining and helping me finally confirm my range!

[@CleoS-vx5pd]

I came here to say the same thing! This is the only video I’ve seen that’s helpful, clear, & gave examples to confirm my vocal range is the same as both of you. *high fives team contralto*

[@m13415]

Hi! This is the first video of yours that I have watched and I instantly subscribed about a minute in. I love vocal pedagogy stuff so this was a joy to watch. It made me so sad when you said that you were disappointed with being a contralto. I absolutely love contralto voices. They are so dark and rich and rare and I cannot get enough. This was so fun to watch. I'm kind of the opposite of you. I sing completely in falsetto and as such my vocal fach is a soubrette; although, I dabble in light lyric coloratura rep. I've been taking lessons again for the past year or so after being away from lessons for seven years due to life stuff. For me, what was difficult to accept about my voice was how light it is. Because I study opera, I've always wanted a much fuller voice. I also like musical theater and folk music, so I've always wished that I could belt, rather than simply mix. Something that my current teacher always told me to help me accept my voice is that it is okay to sound like me. I'm sure you know this, but I just want to say that it is okay to sound like you. I look forward to exploring more of your content and I can't wait to hear more of your voice. It's absolutely stunning. Thank you

[@brigittehazelmyer605]

My comfort range is A2-F4 and I'm so glad that when I was younger my mom had a friend who sang very low Bass, I also knew a woman that sang tenor. I always looked up to Cher, and Karen Carpenter, because I could match notes, timber, and such...

[@maya5325]

As a 15 year old who does theatre and choir their whole life when I was younger like 8 I found it quite embarrassing that I couldn’t go high but I could go lower I thought for ages that it was just because I cant sing yet I kept getting asked to do things which confused me more- when I was 13 I then decided to research and realise that it was just because of my vocal ranges and that it was just that I can’t go high and was an mezzo … I then went through puberty and it became lower an became an Contralto

[@liesdamnlies3372]

This was a fun watch. I’m no singer, but my vocal range landed somewhere around tenor (barely) and countertenor (my low-end actually ends a bit earlier than yours, even). A source of many jokes and hardship back when I still did music seriously. It’s also very obvious in my speaking voice. I think what I mean to say is, thanks. The intro about just being comfortable with your range was nice for me. I’ve gotten comfortable with this fact over time but still.

[@randomhumanoidblob4506]

Fab. I'm under five foot but have a low range that makes pigeons fall out the rafters. Now I know what happened - my vocal chords grew and my legs didn't!

[@MsjEsUsFrEaK73]

Wow! I had never heard of Contralto until today. I have always called myself a tenor. I used to hate it because all of my friends were sopranos, but I could never hit the notes. But now I love my low voice 💖

[@Es24688]

I’ve always called myself a tenor too

[@julipajalang3704]

Me too😊

[@PeachyPaigeMusic]

Thank you! I’ve been on KZbin all week trying to figure this out and no other video explained it this clearly.

[@kamakazikriss]

Hello and thank you my contralto friend!This was so much fun! As a high schooler in choir I was classified as Alto 2. As an adult I've heard the word contralto but never knew what it was. Listening to your test, I am DEFINITELY in your contralto range . So thank you, now I know why tenor is a comfortable spot for me.

[@PieNaple1]

The only note you sang that I couldn't touch was G2, (and the F2, of course), gosh the G2 sounds so cool! I knew it was uncommon for females to be able to sing that low, but I didn't know how uncommon 🙂 I want to keep persuing that G2, I'd love to be able to call my self a contralto! At the D2 it feels like I'm trying to open my throat out to let an ostrich egg out 😂

[@amandajones8841]

I'm trans trying to retrain to contralto, and this video made me feel a LOT better about my range going to G2 still.

[@voicehacks]

Yay!!

[@katiegrundle9900]

@@voicehacks me too, i have a A1 - A5 range, but struggle in the low and high rance, but can still hit it. but like to sing in that basement range like karen carpenter

[@allimatics3D]

YO.... I'm so jealous right now when you started to sing a G2 and F2, my lowest is a C3 on GOOD days 💔 But I'm only 17 so hopefully MAYBE my voice will get lower so I can hit those notes. Well, at least I'm the second female tenor in my school choir now so that's one step closer for me

[@IamTessaMarie]

I sang out of my range and strained/pushed my voice to fit a mold I was never supposed to be. I didn’t learn how to use my natural contralto voice until I got out on a ventilator, lost my voice, got muscle tension dysphonia, had a tracheotomy, and had to learn how to breathe, speak, and sing again. I lost complete mobility to my upper range. My vocal chords were actually paralyzed for a short time. The blessing after all the suffering is I found my true voice. I was forced to speak in my natural tone. My lowest note is D2. Currently can’t get past A4 😁 Even before all the vocal trauma I was hurting my voice. No clue. It’s amazing how our voice is our authenticity. Speak your truth, connect with yourself. ❤ I used to hate it when my natural low voice came out. I wanted to be somebody else. 🤷🏻‍♀️ Thanks for this!

[@Harlem55]

An important thing to remember: you should be able to hold your lowest and highest notes with a good, solid tone both with and without vibrato. On the high end, the highest note should not sound thin and airy and the lowest notes should not be muddy and wobbly like the extreme low end of the piano. The attack should also be clean such there is no "wah" quality (think jazz trumpets) or gradual air pressure sliding into the note, which is a tell-tale sign of bad breath support. Breath support is more challanging at the ends of the range for single-reed woodwinds and similar (voice, saxophones, clarinets, etc.) (Noting that the vocal cords influence the air column the same way a single reeed mouthpiece does with a clarinet or saxophone) Than it is in the middle of the instrument range.

[@ellaisfearless8618]

I'm a contralto but, when I was growing up (15/16/17 that now I'm almost 20) and my teacher/also me was sure I would be a contralto, other people would tell me i don't sound androginous enough to be a "an actual contralto". But at the same time I felt more comfy singing male repertory, I would literally die to sing mezzo-sopranos songs. Time went by, sometimes I sing in a mezzo range (only when I'm inspired) (not all the time/usually when I warm up my voice extremely well) due to the practice. But at the same time, my lowered range expanded so damn much that my lowest note nowdays is a F2 like yours, and where my voice breaks is exactly where a Tenor or a contralto like me would break (B4, my voice needs to change the adjust to not break). My vocal tessitura is 100% contralto, but at the same time I hear people telling me sometimes that I don't sound androginous enough, but I think there are plenty of Lyric Contraltos isn't it? It's also rare a contralto that sounds "non-androginous" but yet naturally sing lows and suffer singing mezzo songs but sounds womanly? I was basically describing me, Altough I'm really sure, I just wanted to share my story! I enjoyed so much this video

[@Jade_the_spade333]

Back in choir, I had a teacher who would try to force me to sing notes that were so high for me, it would strain (and even hurt) my voice. I was sidecasted in class because of this and believed I couldn't sing. A few years later, my old boss caught me singing Amy Winehouse's "Rehab" in the back of the restaurant. Turns out she used to be a vocal coach, and she told me right then and there I was a contralto and had a very gifted singing voice. After some training, I've come to accept, and even love, my low and sultry singing voice. I love doing duets with my soprano fiancee, the differences in our vocal ranges compliment each other nicely!

[@EastmanEditing]

Yes! I have hated my voice after "failing" in choir when I was younger, but just recently started not giving a f*ck lol. I tried an Amy Winehouse song at a friend's karaoke party and couldn't believe how good my voice sounded! (I mean, I'm nowhere near her level, but I wasn't embarrassed and didn't hate my voice, and my friends were all super shocked and impressed!) I've found a lot of other female contralto songs that I can sing, and have started accepting that I can also sing tenor songs and even some baritone. (I can sing some sinatra which is crazy to me...never would've thought, but I had kept my voice so tense in the past out of fear that I thought my singing range was literally only a single octave. Now it's 2.3 octaves, but hoping to expand of course with more training!)

[@Mynervas]

I always thought I was a contralto, because I can barely reach an E5. But then I can't go any lower than the Mezzo low point you indicated. So I guess I'm a Mezzo who simply doesn't have any voice training! Glad to hear I should be able to expand upwards with proper training, rather than me thinking I simply have a very narrow range.

[@voicehacks]

Yes! E5 is about an octave lower than where you would physically max out at as a mezzo. I would work on the 3rd octave which will take some singing in “head” voice or mixed voice or classical singing but typically I see the physical max (it still might take years of training and practice) for a mezzo at about E6 (if middle c is c4)

[@Mynervas]

@@voicehacks thank you! I’ll persevere!

[@DresdenDoll79]

When I was an untrained child I was a natural soprano. Now as an adult I'm a Mezzo Contralto. As a kid I wished so hard that I could sing the lower notes, so while I kinda miss being able to hit the full soprano range, I am very happy with my current range. I always looked at expending your range as a similar process of how old jazz musicians used to "season" microphones to get certain sounds by coating them in cigar smoke so the particulates in the smoke would settle on the mic and affect how it registers the sound and all that. (This could be wildly inaccurate to how vocal range is really expanded, but that's how my brain understood it. yay autism.)

[@ocreedmore6116]

do you know what the passagio range is for mezzo-contraalto? I think this is what I am but some people are insisted Im a mezzo-soprano while others insist Im contraalto. I can go down to A2 but I sound androgenous maybe even male in my lower range and mostly female in my upper range. and i dont seem to have that rich sound someone like cher has.

[@RebelleSing]

yesteray I was told by my drummer to practice so I can reach High notes. Before listening to your video this morning I was on my way to abandon signing suddenly thinking I was never going to be able to make it since I had a hard time signing the son of a preacher man (the second part where it begins a little higher the first sentence only and the ending). So I decided to analyse my voice to realize I was a contralto and hearing you say its a myth to try to change that made me feel soooo good !! Thank you xx

[@barcahrehusova6630]

Yes! 😁❣️ A2! ❣️❣️❣️ I’m so happy! I really feel like I’m a contralto ❣️

[@npc11037]

I was pretty sure I was an alto because my voice is pretty low compared to my peers and I can't sing most women songs, but my lowest note is D3, so I guess I'm a mezzo? Thanks for the video, i can't reach high notes yet but I'll practice and see how it'll go!!

[@greenfieldirg]

Most useful video I've seen on this topic, I think I'm a lower and darker mezzo (I can usually produce between A#2-D6, and my most comfortable notes are D3-G4. If I have the definition right, I switch to head voice at about G#4).

[@tamrab2708]

Same! I was hoping I was a contralto but I’m more of a really low mezzo. It makes sense though because my speaking voice is higher and before puberty I was a soprano. I also had a lot of times losing my voice which I wonder if that plays a factor in my vocal range or not.

[@greenfieldirg]

@@tamrab2708 my speaking voice is pretty low, I speak near the bottom of my range (around D3-F3 usually)

[@ssam1820]

This has been the most informative ad fun lesson i have seen in years on the internet

[@voicehacks]

THANK YOUU!

[@byfrndsrry]

came to this video when i found that i could sing hoziers low notes in “like real people do” with relative ease! cool to find out my range

[@johndeeregreen4592]

I am one of those gifted fellows and I am sure there are some women out there like that, too. I have oddly thick AND oddly long vocal folds. This allows me to have a day-to-day range of B0-C#6. In the studio, this expands on the low end to Eb0 with subharmonics and G negative 1 using vocal fry.

[@MichelleLovesToFly]

Oh my gosh….this is the most liberating thing I’ve ever heard! I’ve been singing all my life, local theater and pageants (don’t judge…I’m from the south 😂) I was always more comfortable singing low but no one would ever work with me on it. They’d just make me sing higher. I’m totally a contralto and I thought I was broken. Now I’ve got to go listen to your band because I may have found someone I can sing with now!!! Yayy!!!

[@FierceMotorworks]

Great video! I followed along and used the Piano Infinity app on my phone to find my range. They even label the keys with C4, C5, etc.

[@aussieallstar66]

You are very good at explaining and demonstrating mezzo and contralto. Thanks from a deep voice in Sydney Australia.

[@ShannonMoody]

My voice had gotten significantly deeper ad ive gotten older. So I can hit all those notes you just did. Wow.

[@yulia_157]

Thank you for this video! It answered a lot of my questions. I am a beginner singer and my vocal range is E3-F5 which is rather low for a mezzo soprano. However, my vocal teachers say that I am not a contralto. Now I realize that I must be a mezzo but without my high notes being developed yet. Thank you again ❤

[@annieclinkenbeard5323]

i dont even care about high notes... I've been told contra altos usually STOP around E3 and I'm so upset that I found out I'm not a contralto. I LOVE singing low notes. I was hoping there was a way to train to go lower... I hit fry at D3. I get uncomfortable at arounddd B2. I can sing higher I just hate doing it. I can get fairly high in my vocal range I just don't prefer it at all.

[@A-Wa]

same! I cant go lower than D3 and Contralto's F2 would be impossible for me. Seems like Im a mezzo who needs to train higher notes that I cant hit right now... :(

[@stealthysubie]

You are awesome Mary. This makes me feel so much better about my voice :D

[@Staharaofwonders]

It's a relief finding this video I can do both scales you given examples of, but I can sing higher also. Prob best to get a lesson to see where I sit, n what I aspire to...cheers

[@cinnaxbunbun]

For me when I was younger I was only able to sing soprano 1 and 2 as I never knew how to sing with my chest. Once I figured that out I figured out that I can also sing alto but I can go super low as low as maybe tenor 1 maybe tenor 2? I can sing both male and female songs with ease. People who grew up with me when I was singing soprano in chorus are surprised I can sing alto and really low and people who knew me when I started singing alto were surprised I can sing soprano and go really high. The struggle I have though is my break in my voice between head and chest sits in an awkward spot so the transition sometimes sounds pressured, a little flat, and strained. I can sometimes naturally ignore that break and sometimes I can't.

[@jessicaolagunle]

I was always in the alto 2/tenor 1 range in choral groups, but I’m definitely just a mezzo lol.

[@gavinmalone8186]

I knew your voice was familiar. I have been a helion prime fan since the beginning.

[@Singwithyoursoul]

Spot on for me I'm a mezzo w@s told I was a alto my whole life

[@authorharleyreid4724]

Previously I was told that I was a contralto but I now understand that I am a mezzo soprano. My lowest note is C3 and my highest is E5 - which fits perfectly within the mezzo soprano belt range you mentioned (as well as the lowest notes). Thank you so much for this explanation, it is so helpful to realise that if I work hard, I can continue to improve my range as I still have another potential octave when I thought I was at my max.

[@voicehacks]

Yes!! This is great to hear! I have a mezzo student who is actually in the same shoes, she’s a mezzo belter who is natural at the belt register but has a really hard time with the 3 octave “head” registers. Try some operatic/classical style exercises to help you flip into the other type of singing for the higher notes kzbin.info/www/bejne/o2LPmGZonslpsKssi=TNCMEbN7cG1EHV1D

[@authorharleyreid4724]

@@voicehacks That's fantastic, I will do that. Thanks again

[@058Martine]

Omg I have your exact vocal range. Now I finally understand my weird voice.

[@AliciaPeach91]

My vocal range is G2 - G5. I have worked hard on my upper register because I always felt out of place. I have always sang alto for choirs but got frustrated and never understood why I kept falling in to tenor harmonies when sat next to them. I always thought it’s just because I was rubbish at harmonising but I had no trouble harmonising with a soprano for duets and similar things. Understanding that my range is not too dissimilar from a tenor and that it is absolutely normal and doesn’t make me weird/odd, makes me feel much better.

[@tashianti4830]

wow I learnt so much from this, my past chorus teachers or singing teachers have never actually explained to me what being in the lower range of voice of alto ment, thanks

[@JaybirdTM]

Your voice is really amazing! I’m a male vocalist, but your low notes actually extend lower than mine, and sound clearer as well 😅. I wanted to share a story about my friend, she came to me and asked me to help her figure out roughly where her voice lay. I used this video as a reference, and she nailed a low G2 and down to a rougher F2, I was so excited to find a true contralto! Thank you for the content, it helped me a lot, as my goal is to be a voice teacher.

[@voicehacks]

That’s fantastic!!

[@svcenturion70]

I always wondered why in choir I could sing all the tenor parts fine but had trouble with some alto parts. X'D This was really cool to listen to!

[@whitefantom]

You were disappointed to find out you weren't a soprano, while I'm disappointed that I'm a mezzo (barely) and not a contralto. 😅 I always see videos about how to train to hit higher notes and extend one's higher range (for both females and males), but I never see the opposite, which is what I want. I only have two octaves of currently-reachable range (F3 to F5), and while I'm sure I could extend the higher end of that with training, I couldn't care less about hitting anything higher than my sad little F5 - what I want is to eek out a few more steps from my low range (ideally down to the D3 that you marked for the mezzo low end). And if I had your low range - even if I could still only get to F5 as my highest note - I'd be ecstatic! 😁

[@voicehacks]

The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence! High voices always want lower more powerful sounds, low voices want high bright sounds, straight hair wants curly hair, curly hair wants straight hair hahaha it’s very relatable and I understand! Buuut you don’t actually have to sing D3 to make it sound like you’re singing low or have a low voice. The audience can hear tone but not what note r you’re singing on the piano. So just sing your lowest notes to where it sounds a d feels low for you and it will still sound low to the audience. This is exaaaactly what I am doing for highs. I move the key and when I sing what sounds high for me it doesn’t actually need to be that high on the piano because the audience perception is that it’s high because it’s high for me. I always thought this was a good example of a person singing lows as a soprano where it sounds low for them but isn’t actually low on the piano kzbin.info/www/bejne/aJali6SjgZ2Ynsk

[@brianweeks87]

A sudden loud D1 is a conversation-stopper!

[@BigBadWolff]

Your last note is my regular speaking voice , im a very low contralto and have a 5 octave vocal range 😮

[@MadMusician]

Love how you said most people are physically capable of only 3-3.5 octaves. It also makes sense for you to say performance range is no more than 1.5-2 octaves most of the time, but I feel kind of a slight outsider to these rules because my voice once warmed up well enough expands to 4 octaves max and can actually remain that wide of consistent performance range for like 10 minutes before it goes to 3.75 octaves (still that much for full AND performance range).

[@voicehacks]

That’s awesome! There are definitely exceptions like any physical body part it can be bigger than average and have more range than average. Almost 4 octaves is great! You can do a lot with that and have a lot of flexibility at hand

[@b-spradling]

I’m actually highly curious because I used to be a soprano/mezzo-soprano range. However, after contracting the C-19 in 2021, I lost at least .5- almost 1 full part of an octave (my highest portion of my range). I have found singing down in the lower parts of Mezzo and upper portions of contralto feels much more comfortable now.

[@Clara-xk3uv]

So I stumbled upon your video and I'm a bit confused, on the internet you tend to find that contralto is generally E3(or even F3)-F5, I definitely can't reach the 2s and have a very limited vocal range but consider myself a contralto bc my comfortable range is E3 - F4 and I've always had a lower singing vocie than the girls around me. I'm untrained though so idk if I'd be able to reach lower with training. Anyways, very impressed by and jealous of the girls able to reach the 2s, wow!!

[@Eniral441]

I was starting to wonder if I was a Mezzo because I could only get down to a C# 3. But I'd been singing a lot at the top of my current range. I think I don't always support my C5-D5 as I should and it's something I need to work on (I often can't hit the D5 at all). I have my voice a rest and drank a lot of throat coat and truly wanted up. Then tried the bass line of a song we're singing I hit Bb2 nice and strong and then I hit the F2 almost as strong. I was so excited. I don't get to sing it that way for the performance, but it was validation for me. For those with low voices, do you experience this when you spend alot of time on your high notes?

[@willowmalone9215]

I know nothing about music and this was the most interesting youtube video I've seen in I don't know how long

[@daniellew.292]

I was just randomly looking for some demonstrations of contralto voices and I feel lucky to have stumbled across your video. I have a pretty different voice from the majority of women. Basically I sound like a boy all my life, many people cannot tell my gender when they are on the phone with me for the first time. There was this one time I got a call from a lady and she said "you sound very young. can you get your parents to answer the phone?" when I was like 20ish. I've always had a passion for singing, tho growing up my parents couldn't afford any music classes for me, and my grandma kept telling me when I was little "you have an ugly voice just as your mother". I almost forgot about singing until in high school someone told me "your voice is deep, thick and special. Have you ever considered singing Bel Canto?". I appreciated her words and it helped with my insecurity, but I thought it was too late for me to learn music, besides it was never an option for working class family. I went on being insecure about my voice until I joint college radio station. There I got to listen to my own voice a lot and learnt how to control it. I received plenty of compliments about my voice, at some point I finally overcame my insecurity. There're still guys saying I don't have an "attractive feminine voice", but... fair enough. I still sing over the years but it's totally irrelavent from what I do now. Your video made me realize maybe I do have a different range, and I'm reconsidering taking singing seriously. I'll start by finding myself a music teacher and learn it the way I never had a chance to as a child. Thank you so so much.

[@UndergroundSquirrelPosse]

😂 I literally said that’s my last note at 11:50 and you said it at the same time!! 😂 Such a helpful video

[@robynrox]

Your G2 sounded like there was a subharmonic present, which would be G1 - awesome! I learnt about subharmonics from Geoff Castellucci. I can imagine you doing similar stuff! Loving it!

[@mxshrxxmbxy]

(I’m sorry if I sound like I’m yelling..) *I SWEAR GEOFF CASTELLUCCI COMMENTS ARE FOLLOWING ME EVERYWHERE AAAAAAAAAAHH*

[@erebus53]

Ah, brilliant. I was getting a little confused when I was reading as Tenor.. Contralto represent!

[@tz612712]

Learning to sing really helped my confidence and self esteem with having a super low voice (low enough to get sirred). I've been told that I'm lucky to have a low voice as an engineer and manager, which, sure, apparently that's a thing. But what really helps is being able to sing on Type O Negative covers. How many women can hit those corpus christies in Christian Woman? Or the intro to Nettie? Idk, it helps 🙂

[@barcahrehusova6630]

Wow! That’s amazing! 🥰 Thank you very much for this valuable video. It helped me very much. I grew up, thinking all my life, I was a soprano. I could reach high notes, though only after singing lessons. And in falsetto, I think. I never really liked singing so high. It was just not pleasing for my soul, you know. I got the idea about being a soprano, because I couldn’t sing low, when I was 12. 😂 I never trained my low notes. Haven’t sang them, even though my speaking voice is in the C3-C4 range. I don’t know why I got such an idea, about me, having to survive the fact, that I’m a soprano, and I’ll never be able to sing low. I never really tried it, since I was 12. I’m so happy, I can sing low 😍🥰. I’m actually really surprised of myself. When I tried it at first, I couldn’t even sing the D3. It was a low quality tone. But as I’ve tried it few times, I got today at a comfortable C3, and I was surprised, I even handeled B2, quite decently. Even got to A2, though only a little. I love this! 😍 Thank you! It was always my big dream to be an alto. I don’t know if I could be a contralto. I can sing with Ursula, from the little mermaid, though. It looks like I’m a mezzo. Though I would wish to be a contralto. Who knows, maybe it will get better with time, and practice. 😊 I would really love to be able to sing the low stuff. I’m happy, that I actually can 😍. But still, I aspire to be a contralto 😏.

[@bondjane007]

I forgot to mention a friend of mine named Kim Morrison. She did have a 5 actave vocal range... She was so amazing. She is still alive too. She is a singer song-writer.. So talented..

[@Tenwii]

Contalto! I often put in the tenor section!

[@ANCIENT.PATH.NATSARYM]

I have a lower vocal range. Like Phyllis hyman.....oleta adams.....toni braxton.... I have been trying to work on runs ...im NOT good at runs at all! Some people have it naturally...well. I can hold a note....i can sing...i just cant sang lol.