as a soprano, can confirm, there's always that one annoying person that thinks hitting the highest note is more important than harmonizing with the rest.
Trumpets in band are the same, high notes are all that matter. I got shamed for not being able to hit a note a full octave higher than anything I'd had to play in concert band, what's the point of going that high when it just wears me out?
Mind you, having sung 2nd soprano in "the Christmas portion" of Handel's "Messiah" (which is usually the most famous part anyway), I can tell you that Handel himself set a precedent for all the sopranos out there. Trust me, even us mezzos get some seriously show-off parts in that particular work, especially where the famous/infamous "Hallelujah Chorus" is concerned. He didn't make the alto parts nearly as interesting. He seemed to focus quite a bit on the sopranos and tenors (opening tenor recitative and aria, anyone?) with merely a gentleman's nod or two to the basses and baritones. 😜🤣
"CAN'T HEAR YOU, ALTOS!" "MORE ALTO!" "ALTOS, ARE YOU EVEN SINGING?!" * URGENT UPWARD HAND FLAPS * ...Alright, now that I have your attention I have a confession to make...I'm a mezzo-soprano. Bridging the gap since 19XX 👉😎👉
we had to move sopranos down to altos because they weren't loud enough now we have 7 altos and 2 sopranos (small choir) and it's about equal dynamics 😅
@@slugcat9467 As an alto AND a violist, I completely agree. The only thing worse would probably be being a cellist that is never allowed to play anything but “Canon in D”
Q: How many sopranos does it take to change a light bulb? A: Two. One to climb the ladder and change the bulb, and the other to kick the ladder out from under her and say "I _knew_ that was too high for you, dear!"
As a choir’s soprano, I had to make up for all the tone deafs and show off sopranos by arranging my voice to fit just right so that everything sorta blended together. I didn’t have the show off sopranos’ awaited spotlight and recognition but one day, I couldn’t attend our choir class for some reason, and someone told me afterwards that my voice was really missing that day and that the sopranos’ section felt incoherent without me. I felt really proud of myself for doing a good job at the choir. Ironically the show off sopranos never got any compliments, so it was kind of a humility lesson.
I used to have the same kind of thing happen to me for choir pieces at the music academy. I'm good at hearing the notes in my head, so the teacher would have me do the most 'basic' of the soprano notes so everybody else could orient themselves by me if they lost it (though we didn't really have show-offs, we were just kids). I mean... important job, sure, and I know I just never had the voice control of the girl that always got to be the head soprano. But everyone likes to get five minutes in the spotlight, right? I wish I had had one chance, just for a less important one.
This style video reminds me of that stop-motion move... I think it was "Flushed Away" with the snails (or whatever they were) singing at the most random times lol
Yes!!! Oh my god I love that movie I grew up with it. Some of my favorite actors are in it. The blobs definitely remind me of the slugs from flushed away first time I saw them!
Alto ist the voice, that helps everyone out. Conductor: We need second Sopranos. First Altos, you sing Soprano 2. Altos after the practice: Mmmh, I can sing those notes, but I now know, why I am an Alto. Conductor: We need some more first Tenors. Half of Alto 2, you sing Tenor 1 from bar 75 to 100.
Interesting. I've been second soprano, first, second alto, and tenor. I have an ear, thus can pick up parts. Usually we had a lack of second sopranos and tenors.
As a former contralto who used to have a C3-A5 voice, I'm familiar with the idea that some choir singers are there for our range and not our quality. 😂
Yeah, but the worst thing is, is when there are too many altos, and they start moving us up into 2nd soprano, and then the only person you can hear is that one kid who can sing high soprano to low alto, and hits all the notes, who just drowns literally everyone else in the choir out. 😞
Too many altos is almost a joke to me. Our sopranos outnumber our altos by a long shot. About 5-6 altos to 10+ sopranos, in my high school choir. About 8 baritones (we only do SAB, typically only even SB) Almost all of our altos could be a mezzo soprano, but we need what we can get. I’m sure a few of the sopranos could be altos but considering how they all sulk when told that they don’t get to all do the descant, I don’t think they could handle being an alto. They want the part that’s fun to sing and sounds nice, not the boring part that hangs out at the bottom. TLDR, our sopranos want to have their moment, 24/7, and all want to be the high note. There are too many of them for that nonsense.
@@alteregobruh We had so many altos it was crazy. Since the time the comment was made a few have left the choir or had to be moved around so it sounds more balanced (and so you can hear the sopranos). Our choir is comprised of soprano, mezzo-soprano, and altos, and despite a decent portion of our choir being Mezzo-soprano somehow we(the altos) still drown them out almost completely. In our choir, it's usually the people who are in the altos that tend to complain when they don't receive solos rather than the sopranos; which from what I've been told by others is unheard of in most choirs lmao
@@davidpersson7835 Lol. I sing bass, and you do get the ladies when you hit a nice low chord, but we do get the shaft on solos and parts in arrangements
@@zdoodle6664 I know, right? As a gay bass, I only get the amusement of making the baritones jealous tho. I don't think the cute tenors even hear me, they're too busy covering their passagio
@@davidpersson7835 I am a baritone and I am envious of the lows that basses can do they're so full and amazing, personally I think basses are one of the most beautiful voices out there
In highschool I was a soprano, alto, and would occasionally help the tenors sometimes I don’t want to boast or come off cocky but I was one of the strongest sopranos, I did musical theatre in middle school (did it through highschool too) before I did choir in highschool so I learned to project my voice and didn’t realize I was singing too loud until one of my classmates told me to sing quieter because I was so loud (some people told me that whenever the sopranos sang they could all clearly hear me over the other sopranos) then I got embarrassed and really self conscious I’m pretty sure a lot of other choir members didn’t like me either because in choir I was a rule follower, the director would get stressed out because the students would talk while other sections were learning their parts and it would disrupt class, I would tell them to shut up a lot Also the school that I went to since it was so new and so small, choir was a required class, so all the students had to do choir regardless, so half the choir didn’t even want to be there and just weren’t respectful at all, while I myself love choir, it was just so frustrating. That’s actually another reason why I was heard over other sopranos because they did the bare minimum and didn’t put in much effort because half of them didn’t want to be there.
im an alto, one of my best friends is soprano. we go to the same choir and theatre club. she gets every👏🏻damn👏🏻solo👏🏻 and is so upset whenever she doesn’t get one solo out of the 100 she’s auditioned for. i understand she likes singing and i love her with all my being, but she has to calm down. like, singing a high A isn’t gonna stop me from having a nervous breakdown, boo.
If there's anyone in a choir who's a show off, the director who has any spine or talent, will stop her in her tracks. Same with orchestra. If they don't, it's on them. As a soprano, I was forced to sing alto in high school because NOT ONE OF THEM could hold their part. Not one.
Unpopular opinion: Vocalists that use lots of “vocal tricks” (slurs, bends, borderline cadenzas every other measure) do so because they don’t know how to actually find the pitch they need and land on it.
0:08 Basses, WTF was that glottal stop between the chords?! “Well you said you wanted us to articulate it to give separation between the two notes/chords, but you never told us which articulation you had in mind 🤷🏼♂️ So I’m assuming marcato is out then...?”
