Middle range help for a soprano. Classical voice question? ?!
Question: Middle range help for a soprano!. Classical voice question!? !?
I'm posting this under "classical" because people here seem to know what they're talking about more than the people in the so called "singing" section do!.
My question is this!. I'm a soprano that has no trouble hitting high notes, (up to high F), Or low notes, (I can sing a couple "alto arias!.)
But my in between notes sound weak and awful, and this hinders me from singing some lovely arias!.
So I can sing high and low arias and I sound nice, but I can't seem to even out my middle range and blend it into my top and bottom!.
I'm only sixteen, by the way!. That my have something to do with it!.
Does anyone have any suggestions for evening my middle tone, or know what might be causing this problem!. I've been extremely careful not to overuse my voice or sing anything too hard, and my low and top are really loud and strong!.
If anyone knows what the problem is and how to fix it I'd appreciate it!.
Thanks!.Www@Enter-QA@Com
My question is this!. I'm a soprano that has no trouble hitting high notes, (up to high F), Or low notes, (I can sing a couple "alto arias!.)
But my in between notes sound weak and awful, and this hinders me from singing some lovely arias!.
So I can sing high and low arias and I sound nice, but I can't seem to even out my middle range and blend it into my top and bottom!.
I'm only sixteen, by the way!. That my have something to do with it!.
Does anyone have any suggestions for evening my middle tone, or know what might be causing this problem!. I've been extremely careful not to overuse my voice or sing anything too hard, and my low and top are really loud and strong!.
If anyone knows what the problem is and how to fix it I'd appreciate it!.
Thanks!.Www@Enter-QA@Com
Answers:
As Muse Viktor's Mommy pointed out, the best way for you to address the problem is in person!. When you work with somebody one on one, they can adjust any teaching to specifically fit your needs!.
That being said, don't feel too bothered by this issue!. It is very common in the female voice, particularly around your age too!. You voice is coming into it's own, but the middle range always comes a little bit later!. That's one if the reasons that it is very common for female singers to start out as lyric sopranos and eventually change to dramatic sopranos!. It mainly has to do with power over the entire soprano range!. So although there is nothing you can do to just make it magically work, there are plenty of things you can do to help!.
What I would recommend is to specifically target that range with your vocalises, before you sing any actual music!. Spend a lot of time just working on that area, specifically targeting those notes from as many angles and with as many vowels as possible!. This is very important, because music presents us with an unlimited amount of scenarios in which we might see those notes!. Have you ever felt very good about your voice after warmups, but then, while singing music, it doesn't feel as good!? That is because of what I'm talking about, not being prepared for everything that you might have to do while singing!. So don't just do legato warmups, do stacatto warmups too!. Don't just sing scales, work on jumps too!. Work on singing at all volumes with all vowels!.
And don't just stop doing exercises once you are warm!. That's one of the biggest mistakes singers make!. They assume that they are done with exercises once they feel warm!. Do pianists stop working on scales once they are warm!? Do wind instrumentalists stop doing tonal and fingering exercises once they are warm!? There are just some things that you can achieve through exercises that can't be achieved just through singing music!. That's not to say that working on music isn't important, it is!. But you may want to dedicate more time to those exercises!. And if you target your specific issues with your exercises, remembering to attack them from all angles, then you should see a marked improvement!.
And by the way, good call posting this on the Classical forum!. There are plenty of knowledgeable people that hang around this forum but tend not to answer in any of the other musical areas!.
EDIT: Wow!. It's usually the student trying to persuade the teacher to let him/her sing popular music, not the other way around! That's a shame!. You should definitely check out a local church or something, or maybe see if there is a nearby college with a music program!. Most of those teachers give lessons on the side!. Lessons can really help to make a huge difference!.Www@Enter-QA@Com
That being said, don't feel too bothered by this issue!. It is very common in the female voice, particularly around your age too!. You voice is coming into it's own, but the middle range always comes a little bit later!. That's one if the reasons that it is very common for female singers to start out as lyric sopranos and eventually change to dramatic sopranos!. It mainly has to do with power over the entire soprano range!. So although there is nothing you can do to just make it magically work, there are plenty of things you can do to help!.
What I would recommend is to specifically target that range with your vocalises, before you sing any actual music!. Spend a lot of time just working on that area, specifically targeting those notes from as many angles and with as many vowels as possible!. This is very important, because music presents us with an unlimited amount of scenarios in which we might see those notes!. Have you ever felt very good about your voice after warmups, but then, while singing music, it doesn't feel as good!? That is because of what I'm talking about, not being prepared for everything that you might have to do while singing!. So don't just do legato warmups, do stacatto warmups too!. Don't just sing scales, work on jumps too!. Work on singing at all volumes with all vowels!.
And don't just stop doing exercises once you are warm!. That's one of the biggest mistakes singers make!. They assume that they are done with exercises once they feel warm!. Do pianists stop working on scales once they are warm!? Do wind instrumentalists stop doing tonal and fingering exercises once they are warm!? There are just some things that you can achieve through exercises that can't be achieved just through singing music!. That's not to say that working on music isn't important, it is!. But you may want to dedicate more time to those exercises!. And if you target your specific issues with your exercises, remembering to attack them from all angles, then you should see a marked improvement!.
And by the way, good call posting this on the Classical forum!. There are plenty of knowledgeable people that hang around this forum but tend not to answer in any of the other musical areas!.
EDIT: Wow!. It's usually the student trying to persuade the teacher to let him/her sing popular music, not the other way around! That's a shame!. You should definitely check out a local church or something, or maybe see if there is a nearby college with a music program!. Most of those teachers give lessons on the side!. Lessons can really help to make a huge difference!.Www@Enter-QA@Com
I'm assuming you're having this trouble from about A4 (A above middle C) to about E5 (give or take a note)!. This is very common!. That area is the passaggio area for most sopranos, which is the part of the voice between chest and head voice!. A singer usually feels weak and crappy in this area!. It's not low enough to put more chest voice into it, and it's not high enough for head voice to help out fully!. Ideally, each section of a singer's range will have the same tone and evenness throughout, but this can often take time to learn, which is normal!.
Since you came here to ask this, does this mean you're not studying under a voice teacher!? If that's the case, you really should find a teacher!. You need someone to help you with this in person; we on the internet can only help so much!.
Edit: That's truly unfortunate!. Have you tried looking through any churches in your area!? Many music directors for churches (as well as some schools) either know people who are trained voice teachers or are voice teachers themselves!. Even if you have a college/university with a music department realtively close by, you could try them!.
In the meantime, you could email/message one particular Y!A user who definitely knows her singing stuff and how to explain it in several ways!. Her name on here is Ms!. Chick!. She's the top contributor in the Singing section!. Here's the link to her profile!.
http://answers!.yahoo!.com/my/profile!?show!.!.!.Www@Enter-QA@Com
Since you came here to ask this, does this mean you're not studying under a voice teacher!? If that's the case, you really should find a teacher!. You need someone to help you with this in person; we on the internet can only help so much!.
Edit: That's truly unfortunate!. Have you tried looking through any churches in your area!? Many music directors for churches (as well as some schools) either know people who are trained voice teachers or are voice teachers themselves!. Even if you have a college/university with a music department realtively close by, you could try them!.
In the meantime, you could email/message one particular Y!A user who definitely knows her singing stuff and how to explain it in several ways!. Her name on here is Ms!. Chick!. She's the top contributor in the Singing section!. Here's the link to her profile!.
http://answers!.yahoo!.com/my/profile!?show!.!.!.Www@Enter-QA@Com