@@heyheyheyheyhey269 for those high notes if you aren’t a trained singer it doesn’t matter what voice type you are, you can’t just sing the upper 6th octave
alto is not a voice type just a vocal part in choir usually made up of mezzo soprano and or contraltos, sure some sopranos sing in that part too. And I think you meant whistle register not whisper.
For all of y'all who don't really know about music but know what an alto and soprano is, the reason she's an alto is while she can sing higher her voice sounds richer and better in lower notes❤
@@Everdeen_edits I know but she can hit the lower notes, liking alto, soprano notes, because the mix between an alto and a soprano is a mezzo thank you very much❤️
Mariah is an alto (she and her Julliard trained mom both said so) but she can hit insanely high notes. Alto just means she can't sustain singing like that continuously the way an actual soprano can, the same way a soprano can't sing a whole song in alto range.
If you think vocal types are more about your range than your tessitura, mass and resonance, then maybe you shouldn't have skipped literally every single one of your music and singing lessons. Sincerely, someone who, according to your logic, is a baritone, tenor, countertenor, alto, mezzo and soprano all at once
@@antoinette4995 Exactly! I’m a soprano 1 and I can hit alto-mid baritone notes but can’t sing them as in sustaining them. Hitting them like in the video or warmups I can do. Anything else, count me out. I’ll stick with my high notes 😂
@@annetadayon6797and that's on that 😁, I don't know why it's so surprising to people. Look how many men can sing falsetto, etc. like come on. Deep voices can often get high, just not the other way around
Altos can sing soprano parts, especially with exercise and training. The voice type is really only determine by where the voice is most comfortable and has the most clarity.
This! Can I sing some tenor repertoire? Yes. Can I sing some soprano repertoire? Yes, as long as the highest note is C6 or lower cause I can't reach above C6 anymore. I used to, but once I hit adolescence, that high soprano range got squeaky and straining and over the next decade, it fully disappeared. Now, even A5 is a bit straining, and I can't sustain it for long. But does my voice naturally want to be in the soprano or tenor registers? Absolutely not. Soprano, I start to strain. Tenor, I lose projecting power.
Thay day, she found out she wasn't an alto. The clarity, ease and lightness of those high notes suggest that she could have a lot of success singing as a soprano. It sounds like she could have a lot of agility in those notes as well, meaning she should be able to sing coloratura repertoire.
@@LauraDiaz-et2kz lol nope listen to the coloring of her tome and the ease of her singing that high that's a soprano. She's not even a lower soprano at that let alone a mezzo.
As someone who has a wide vocal range (D3-D6) and is an alto, just because you CAN sing that high doesn't automatically make you a soprano. Just because you CAN sing coloratura doesn't make you a soprano. It's all about finding what is the strong-EST part of your voice, and for me (and presumably for her) that is the alto range. She has beautiful tone and agility in the soprano range, but I can hear how the upper notes are strained. I expect you won't find that same strain as she goes to the low notes. No offense intended, I'm just a little bit sick of people shoehorning me in as a soprano just because I can sing high, when my voice gains so much resonance and strength in the alto or even high tenor ranges.
As a coloratura soprano I agree with you, it's also about finding your passaggio and being able to sing with high accuracy and agility those notes over and over again in multiple arias (Bell song, Queen of the Night, Doll Song etc.) when regarding operatic voices. She does have a beautiful tone though.
Now I'm not gonna say it's impossible for an alto to sing that high. It's certainly unlikely though, especially with that level of control and purity. Plenty of singers initially believe they are of a lower voice type because lower notes came more naturally to them, but that isn't always a good indicator. I was in the same boat, I thought I was a bass for a long time. As my highs have developed though, it's become clear that I'm simply a lower lying baritone.
@@ER1CwC So true. Especially if the range they start off with is wide. That was the case for me. My range as a little girl was from C3, so well into the tenor range, even some baritone and bass arias were in my range(think Largo al Factotum and Non piu andrai, both Figaro arias, one from The Barber of Seville and the other from The Marriage of Figaro, with lowest notes of D3 and C3 respectively), up to F#6, way up in the highest soprano register(like Queen of the Night high). 3.5 octaves without any vocal training. Once I reached adolescence, lost that low D and low C and the soprano notes started to get more squeaky and straining. By the time I was 20, I could no longer leap up past C6, I had to step up. Now, even that is impossible, the absolute highest I can reach is C6 and I can't sustain notes above G5 for long at all before I lose the pitch and it just turns into breath sound. I'm most definitely an alto these days. Although, my tenor/baritone range is actually starting to come back now, slowly, I can hit those low D's again(albeit with barely any projection)
@@caterscarrots3407 I think your case was more of a puberty issue actually. The break between head voice and chest voice becomes much more pronounced once one reaches that age. This is more obvious for men, but it is also the case for women. I am guessing that your middle range also feels unstable sometimes, perhaps more so on some vowels than others. I would guess that with some training, you could develop both registers and stitch them together, and that your range would both stabilize and expand with time.
This is a phenomenally talented woman. She has a lower range and generally sings an alto but VERY successfully hits these notes. You can unquestionably hear her hitting a whistle. Move over Mariah.
she's soprano alto is not a voice type just a part in choir music. Alto usually consist of mezzos and contraltos, although some sopranos will sing in that sections. Her ease in singing those higher notes as well as brightness of her timbre is of a soprano. A mezzo would not have the same ease or coloring of the timbre singing that high up.
I'm a low tenor and I can sing some baritone notes (Eb2) and some female notes (C6 in head). the difference is that my tessitura and timbre is definitely more near to a low/bari tenor than a light tenor or a real baritone. so yes it's possible that she is a contralto
@@eeslagrakee1514 THANK U FOR THIS BUT I'M A COUNTERTENOR AND I SING SOPRANO ALTO TENOR AND BARITONE..BUT I'M PLACED IN THE ALTO SECTION AT THE MANY CHOIRS THAT I SING IN..AND THERE'S ALOT OF ALTO'S WHO CHOOSE TO STAY IN THE ALTO BUT THEY CAN LIVE IN SOPRANO AS WELL THEY JUST CHOOSE NOT TO JUST LIKE THERE ARE SOPRANOS WHO CHOOSE TO SING ALTO..SO YEAH BUT THANKS AGAIN FOR YOUR COMMENT👈😉
there’s a viola and there’s a violin, a viola can in fact, play as high as a violin (being the violin is the soprano version) i just want to make it clear that what i meant isn’t that “if you’re an alto you can’t sing as high” or if “you’re a soprano you can’t sing tenor” that isn’t true. i actually said the opposite, being an alto is not based on range, it’s based on your comfortability and where you are strongest
Ngl I would type her as a mezzo instead of an alto. Based on her lightness in this video and the way she hits notes in her other videos, I don’t think her voice is dark enough to be an alto and I also think she’s more comfortable hitting notes slightly higher than alto range. Besides, sops are notably more common than altos. I can generally tell a natural alto when I hear one as an alto myself and she doesn’t strike me as one. Regardless her range and control are amazing lol
Just because you’re voiced as an alto for choir doesn’t mean you’re physically an alto. Women’s voices in choir are mostly interchangeable. You are not an alto, you just have the richness that makes a director want to put you there, or the ability to sing strong harmonies, or both. You are physically a soprano.
You probably a mezzo-soprano no alto are really able to hit that high. And your voice sound really mix which means that you most likely are very good at alto voice as well soprano range kept up the good work you sound amazing.
Check out her channel, shes very obviously a soprano. She has some decent low notes, so i'm sure she could sing alto choir parts, but definitely a soprano
Alto is a choral part, not a voice type. Anyone can sing an alto part if they are comfortable in that range. She could be either a mezzo or a soprano, but the color and timbre of her voice sounds more soprano to me
We have alto singers who are sopraninos that is they can sing up to c#6 and thet still maintaintheir range as an alto i myself am a contralto and a sopranino
Sounds like the F6 is about where her voice wants to transition to whistle. Very nice mixing of the registers though. Hard to tell but did she make it all the way up while technically still in a very high falsetto? I don’t think she technically fully transitioned to whistle. REGARDLESS, very impressive. Very pleasing tone, nice vibrato speed, and fairly agile from what I can see as she landed on each of those notes in the arpeggio pretty precisely. ❤
The secret here is: flageolet. Anyone can do it, even males. So of course an Alto can sing with flageolet register up to soprano high notes. I'm an alto myself and I can go Eb5 with flageolet. But my head voice no, my head voice goes only up to F5
It’s fun to go this high ! Singing really high is just that an incredible High ! To maintain going high it’s important to practice. It’s hard to believe she’s an actual Alto but whatever she’s very good.
@@zeinaloves_thesturniolos Caption means nothing. She is objectively not a contralto. These classifications come from opera and are based off one's vocal biology. With a trained ear you will be able to tell.
As an alto, belting is my only problem. But hitting whistle notes or things in my head voice is a lot easier and I can sing a lot higher in those ranges (once I hit the ending note to the phantom of the opera) it’s just BELTING WILL BE THE DEATH OF ME
So I’m an alto, and I most definitely can’t sing this high sooo… honestly at this point idek if I’m an alto, I have a pretty low voice for a female, so I could honestly be a contralto. I don’t feel super comfortable in the high notes of an alto. ANYWAYS, pretty sure you’re a soprano. The clarity of those notes is just.. RAAAA
Probably should correct this because you aren’t a contralto you are a mezzo. Real contraltos are extremely rare. They r the rarest singing type in the world, so rare that most mezzo force themselves to sing contralto ranges. The range isn’t rare the tone is they sound like men they come around once in one million singers. I’m singing with one right now and I’ve never heard a voice quite like it, she sounds beautiful her tone is gorgeous but like a man even her speaking voice is low but this is more female 😊😂
