How to Know My Voice Type? Guide To Finding Your Thesiture
Your type of voice doesn't mean the most acute note you get but where your voice sings comfortable and with what color. That's how you can figure it with a keyboard or with a bug.
To know your type of voice, it's not enough to look for the most acute or serious note you get. That's what defines if you're soprano, mezansoprano, contrapre, tenor, baritone or low. titipuraThat's, the area where your voice sings comfortable for a while, with its color and place where registration changes appear.
Can you get a good idea at home: hot up, measure with a keyboard or with our [Voice Type Test]](/herramientas/tipo-de-voz) The notes that you have been singing with ease, share them with the table at the bottom and listen to the color of your voice. Confirmation arrives with time, singing repertoire with someone who hears you.
To sum up
- Your type of voice is defined by tightness, that's to say, the comfortable area, with color and registration changes, and not the extreme note.
- The six main types are soprano, mezosoprane and contrapta in feminine voices and tenor, baritone and low in male voices.
- To measure your range, first heat up, sing without forcing and repeat the test at different times before drawing conclusions.
- Many voices fall into intermediate types, such as Mezoprane or Baritone, and that doesn't restrict what you can sing.
- The word as an adult is not classified as a child: it changes with adolescence and continues to mature several years later.
What defines your type of voice (and what doesn't)
There are four concepts that are often confused. To have them clear saves you hurried conclusions:
| Concepto | What's that? | What's she say? |
|---|---|---|
| Extension or range | All the notes you can produce, from the most serious to the most acute, even if some get weak. | How far your voice goes today and grows with training. |
| Tesitura | The area where you have been singing comfortable and with good sound and without tiring throughout a song. | That's the most important lead to grading your voice. |
| Ginger or color | The quality of sound: more bright and light, or more dark and dense. | It helps to distinguish between neighbouring types, as soprano and minzo. |
| Passage zones | The notes where the voice tends to change his or her registration or to get broken. | Their location varies with their voice and it's a track that teachers use. |
What No. defines your type of voice: the most acute note you have once achieved by shouting, the singer that you best love or the chorus string of the school where they put you because they were missing second voices.
The 6 voice types and their reference ranges
These are the reference ranges that are used in the teaching of singing and in choral music. They are approximates: many voices sing some notes above or below, and the same person can have traits of two types.
| Voice type | Reference range | Common color |
|---|---|---|
| Soprano | Do4 to La5 | Bright and light and at home at the acute area. |
| Mezzosoprano | La3 to F5 | Warm and round, strong in the midarea. |
| Contralto | F3 to Re5 | Dark and profound, serious with a lot of body. |
| Tenor | Lo3 to La4 | Brilliant and keeps his full voice full and sharp where other male voices have been changing. |
| Baritone | La2 to F4 | Intermediate and warm, very common among male voices. |
| Bass | M.2 to M4 | Dark and profound and serious sound firm. |
Eye with note numbering
In this guide, the central do of the piano is Do4, the most widely used number in tuning and applications. Some Spanish methods call that same note Do3. Before comparing your notes with any table, check what system you use.
Within each type there are subtypes, as light, lyrical or dramatic soprane, that depend on the weight and agility of the voice. That distinction is characteristic of lyrical singing and defines a teacher with time. In popular singing matter more the range and color than the label. Also there is a contrator, a male voice that sings in the area of the contrast or mince using above all his head voice.
How to measure your range with a keyboard step by step
You only have to have a piano, a keyboard or a piano application on your cell phone and paper to score.
- Warm up first. Five minutes of soft lips and sirens vibration and with cold voices you will underestimate your range. If you have no routine, use our [vocal warming exercises]](/blog/ejercicios-de-calentamiento-vocal).
- Find your speech note. Say "mmm, yes," as if you're sitting in a conversation, and get that note on the keyboard. It's usually at the bottom of your tit and it's a good starting point.
- He goes down for semitones. From there, she sings "a" or "u" at every key down at moderate volume. He scores the last note that goes clear and, as a whisper or carrasphis becomes, you have passed the useful limit.
- He's up for half-lives. He goes back to his starting note and goes up. He scores where you feel that his voice changes or his color breaks, and his last note goes clear without squeezing his neck or climbing his chin.
- Find the comfortable area. Sing a simple melody, as "Happy Birthday," starting with different notes. The area where you can repeat it several times without tiring up is your tightness.
- Repeat another day. The voice changes as time and sleep and how much you have been talking. Two or three measurements on different days give a much more true image.
Men can get far up in mischief. Those notes count for the total range, but to classify their voices, look at how far your full voice goes, and that looks like your talking voice.
How to use the voice type test with the microphone
If you have no keyboard, [voice type test]](/herramientas/tipo-de-voz) use your phone or computer's mike to detect your singing notes and give you an orientation. To get the result to be reliable:
- He's looking for a quiet room with no television and no background music.
- He sings clear and sustained vocals and his mike misdetects sound with high airy or high light noise.
- Put the microphone at one or two palms of your mouth and don't cover with your hand.
- Don't chase the extreme note: stop when you start tightening.
- Test after heating and repeat another day.
Take that as a starting point, and not as a verdict. No test hears the color of your voice as a trained ear does.
Why color and comfort weigh more than extreme note
Two people can have the same range and be different voices. What's different about them is where each voice lives: a mezosoprane can reach soprane notes but get tired if an entire song goes by there while the soprano sings comfortable in that area.
| Pista | Suggest a more acute guy | Suggest a more serious guy |
|---|---|---|
| That's where you get tired | The serious feel weak and have a hard time projecting them. | To spend a lot of time in the acute area will run out of you. |
| Where his voice changes | The break appears relatively high. | The breakage appears lower in your range. |
| Color | Brilliant, light and pounding. | Dark, dense, with body. |
| Comfortable songs | The original tones of sharp voices suit you. | You usually lower the tone of sharp-voice songs. |
A common mistake is to be classified by the repertoire that one wants to sing. If you love a tenor but your voice is baritone, you don't have to change your voice: just [carry the song]](/blog/como-transportar-una-cancion) and if you care about a broken record, it's normal with every voice, and we explain it in a voice of his chest, a voice of his head and a mischief..
Children's voices and word change
The children are not classified as adults. Before puberty, girls and boys have similar, light and sharp voices. They are placed in first or second voices as required by the group and that location can change from year to year without talking about their adult voice.
The change with adolescence comes about. The low voice in men, often about an octave, and for a while there are loins and instability. The change in women is more subtle but also exists. At that stage, it doesn't make sense to put a label to his voice: they continue to be singing softly in the comfortable area as we explain in [children's singing].](/blog/canto-para-ninos-como-cuidar-su-voz).
The voice keeps mattering after adolescence and with the age of age it also changes. That's why you should check your tightness from time to time, you start at age 3 or 60. I'm singingThe teacher hears your voice in different exercises and songs and guides you about your type of voice as the technique sits. No need to have an answer before we start.
Frequently asked questions
Can you change my voice with singing classes?
Your type of voice doesn't change by its own decision but it can be clarified. With technique, first-tipped notes become comfortable, and sometimes a voice that looks baritone turns out to be tenor, or an apparent soprano sits as a minzo. That's why many teachers prefer to wait before they put a label on it.
Can a woman have a bad voice?
Yes. The contras and many Mezosopranes have serious with a lot of body, and in popular music there are great serious voices of women. Having serious voices isn't a defect: it's a color that many songs have been using very well.
What's my kind of voice if I just play popular music?
The useful thing to do with popular music isn't to be classified. It's how useful to know your range and the tone that every song looks good to you and so many singers simply know what tones they're singing comfortable at. Still, knowing if your voice's sharp, medium or serious helps you choose a repertoire.
At how old are the type of voice defined?
A counselling can be given from the end of adolescence but the voice continues to mature in the first few years of adult age. A type of adult voice isn't referred to in children: it's sung in a comfortable area and with an appropriate repertoire for their age.