What Is My Vocal Type?

Who are you out of all these-a bass, baritone, tenor, alto, mezzo soprano or soprano?

Most of the vocalists start their singing by determining their vocal type. It is important to discover what voice classification you fall into.  

Why is classification of voice tones essential?

This classification is vital to determine what your listeners can expect from your god gifted anatomy. Simply say, you can identify your voice type through it. Even, you can presume the scope of improvement and range development, which leads to efficiently expressive singing.

Let’s say, you cannot pitch high enough that your song requires. Being a bass, you can identify your category. It will help you to transpose the range so that it can fit your voice.

Sometimes, you turn blindfolded to it, which in turn predispose the vocal cords to wear and tear and inefficient singing. Such kind of misalignments is often observed in contemporary singers. They attempt to take the stage while opting for such tone that sits outside of their actual classification.      

Being unchangeable, your anatomy disallows to go beyond your natural range.  But, you have an alternative. You can change the song. It helps you to develop a technique to efficiently navigate full potential of your natural range. You can then set its lower and upper limit. 

Voice Type:

Gender	Range	Classification
Female	High Notes	Soprano
Male	High Notes	Tenor
Female	Low Notes	Alto
Male	Low Notes	Bass

The aforementioned segregation spotlights types on the basis of the range of males and females. By range, we mean those who feel comfortable in pitching notes. If you are a female and comfortably pitch high notes, you are a soprano. Similarly, the male who can pitch high is a tenor. 

On the flip side, the female are alto and male are called bass if their vocals have no difficulty in pitching low notes.

Sometimes, the human voice does not fit in the aforesaid four categories. When you approach for the classification from the classical singing prospective, there are three more classes. These are given below:

• Mezzo-Suprano- She is the one whose voice sits in between Soprano and Alto.
• Counter -Tenor – It is the highest male classification.
• Baritone- He falls in between tenor and bass.

How do you identify your vocal type?

Your school choir director or a trained vocal coach can classify you easily if you are younger than 16 or 17 years of age.  

  

Adult aspirants can follow these tips to find the type of their anatomy:

1. Start with warm ups without bothering about your tessatura.
2. Write the song first.
3. Then, transpose the key of your piano up or down until it fits your voice.
4. Record your track.
5. If you have MIDI sequencers and playback software/range test app, you can adjust the pitch of that audio recording without transposing the playback speed.

Bass

Baritone

Tenor

Alto

Mezzo Soprano

Soprano

Moreover, you can ascend and descend it with the sound of piano keys step by step. Begin with the notes that do not require much of your efforts to pitch them right. Try to get about as low as you can. Continue with it until you find the one that your vocal muscles can clearly pick up.  

Follow the same tweaks to pitch higher notes. This is how you would determine whether or not that range sits well in your particular voice.

However, a trained singing professional can assist you in a better way on how to improve your technique so that you can increase your range.