TENOR TIME!

[broadwayboy430]

Posted: 11/25/06 at 4:35pm

Super Sopranos had their fun
Maniac Mezzos aren't quite done
But now the male high notes would like to shine
So now it's kick ass tenor time.

Tenor love! Lame I know, but give me credit.

My range:Ab1-Ab3(full voiced) A3-G4 (falsetto) A4-Eb (whistle notes)
Dream role: Roul in The Phantom of the Opera, or any Puccini show.

Tenors holla back.

[spiderdj82]

Posted: 11/25/06 at 5:24pm

I don't know what my range is "offically," but I can hit high Baritone notes and Operatic Soprano notes (in falsetto of course). I can hit a high E in chest voice.

[Difran]

Posted: 11/25/06 at 6:24pm

i agree with the man above
i dont know my range but i have to hit a high f# in my choir peice
pretty high
and in an audition for evita i once got an a flat out

dream role-mark in rent, or marius in les mis

[spiderdj82]

Posted: 11/25/06 at 6:49pm

Oh, we're doing dream roles, too?

Mine is Judas or Jesus in JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR (perfect for my range)

[BroadwayBound062]

Posted: 11/26/06 at 12:41am

I'm a G1-B3(Chest) C4-C5 (Falseto) Im not sure about the rest. I love being a tenor. Dream role hmmm Radames (Aida) Tony (West Side Story) and Phantom

[actormcfamous]

Posted: 11/26/06 at 3:53am

Wait, I'm confused... are we talking the E and F# above middle C? Because hate to say it, but if those're your high notes, you're not really a tenor. That's more bass/baritone range.

[Difran]

Posted: 11/26/06 at 9:07am

well i no for sure that im not talking about the e and f above middle c
those notes really arent that hard at all
actually they arent
i no at least for me...im talking about the higher e and f

[StarStruckGB]

Posted: 11/27/06 at 12:45am

Not that you all care, But from a female point of view,
I don't see what some people's problems are. In my experience Tenors besides having superb voices also seem to be much more interesting, expressive & talented people on the whole.

More power to you all!

[gumbo2]

Posted: 11/27/06 at 1:32am

Haha, amen startstruck!

Not sure if I quite count as a tenor, but I can belt a high A relatively comfortably and I don't know how high my falsetto goes but I love singing along to Jersey Boys!

Dream roles - Tobias in Sweeney Todd, Mark in Rent, Bobby in Crazy For You.

[Theaterdude872]

Posted: 11/27/06 at 1:47am

"I don't see what some people's problems are. In my experience Tenors besides having superb voices also seem to be much more interesting, expressive & talented people on the whole."

I really dont understand, are you impying that basses and baritones are big retarded oafs?

This seems like a really stupid generalization to me. Voice range, although it can be expanded greatly though training, is generally something you're born with. Someone is more interesting, expressive, and talented just because of the voice type they were born with?

[StarStruckGB]

Posted: 11/27/06 at 6:06pm

Theaterdude that is nowhere near to what I was implying at all.

I was just saying,
usually basses ARE the ones you see getting the very manly roles. Because there are a lot of perfectly wonderful basses out there. I was just thinking tenors usually get a bad wrap, but in the productions at my school they get a lot more parts.

I love basses too alright? Is that what you want me to say in a tenor board? I adore tenors, I was professing my apreciation for them in a board made for tenors by a tenor.
I was not trying to make any kind of stupid generaliztion, I was referring to my own personal experience of which I do not have a very great deal of.
So calm down, I'm sure you are a lovely bass performer.

=)

[TickTickAdam]

Posted: 11/28/06 at 12:20pm

My range is from A1 to E5 Chest. I think. I don't bother measuring my head voice range. Actually I don't bother measuring my range ever but my piano is two feet away.

[whatyouown223]

Posted: 11/28/06 at 6:06pm

Unfortunately (for those of us who have a harder time hitting the high notes) more shows are written with tenor leads now. Just look at a lot of the musicals on Broadway right now. How many of the leads are baritones?

[Look_Out_Broadway]

Posted: 11/28/06 at 7:11pm

i have a low bass d and...if i'm warmed up... i could be a second soprano... don't really know what note is the highest i have..... i can hit the high f on the tenor staff once in a while w/out falsetto....my voice is changing still after all!!!

my dream role........wow that's hard.....

would be anything in cats.....

i know i'm awful!!!! , but it would be a blast and that's why i would love to do it....ya

[Fenchurch]

Posted: 12/1/06 at 4:59pm

a legit tenor needs to sing a high c or at least a B above the staff, and when i say c i mean c two octaves above middle c

anyone who can only sing only to an e or F or even an F3 or G) at the top of the staff is a baritone with a nice extension.

the fach although also refers to timbre.

[gumbo2]

Posted: 12/1/06 at 5:36pm

What's fach?

[Fenchurch]

Posted: 12/1/06 at 5:39pm

fach is a german word that refers to the voice type (soprano, alto, tenor bass0
but within those distinctions are more narrow distinctions like Lyric tenor or dramatic tenor, etc. They mostly apply to opera singers, but musical thater is getting more and more specific, so its a good term to know.

[gumbo2]

Posted: 12/1/06 at 5:44pm

Ah, thank you. Yeah, I often feel that I have definitely have a baritone range but a tenor timbre...it's frustrating.

[Fenchurch]

Posted: 12/1/06 at 6:07pm

that sounds perfrect for broadway, you rarely get notes above b-flat in musical theater rep anyway.

then you sound likea broadway tenor, especially if your lower register is as resonant as your top

[actormcfamous]

Posted: 12/2/06 at 3:09am

"a legit tenor needs to sing a high c or at least a B above the staff, and when i say c i mean c two octaves above middle c"

When you say this, are you meaning that the actual note being sung is two octaves above middle C or that it is WRITTEN as two octaves above middle C? There's a big difference - 99% of male music is written an octave above what it actually is sung as. For example, if I were singing a song and one of the notes is written as an E (on the bottom line of the treble clef) I would not sing that pitch, I'd sing the octave below.

Just wondering, because if you truly mean the C two octaves above middle C, that's soprano/counter tenor range.

[Mark_E]

Posted: 12/2/06 at 11:10am

This is so confusing. Anyone got a diagram with the numbers on the bass and treble clefs? I aint got a clue what you mean by F3 C5 etc.

[Yurpdod]

Posted: 12/8/06 at 5:03am

"This is so confusing. Anyone got a diagram with the numbers on the bass and treble clefs? I aint got a clue what you mean by F3 C5 etc."

Middle C is C4. If you just memorize that you're pretty much golden. So, C5 is the C ABOVE middle C. And C3 is the C BELOW middle C.

Dont worry about the whole "C above the staff" and all that crap. No one really uses that terminology that much anymore. If you really want to know, though: most male music theater music is written in treble clef, but it's not actually meant to be sang exactly where it's written. So if you have a male solo written in treble clef, the bottom C on the staff is supposed to be sang as the C BELOW middle C, which is C3.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Middle_C_in_four_clefs.png
Look at that picture. That very first C written in the treble clef is actually middle C, but if the specific piece of music is written for a male, it's going to mean the C BELOW middle C, which would be C3. Does this make sense?

So if you have a male solo where an actual Middle C is supposed to be SANG, it will be written as an octave ABOVE the middle C in the picture I just posted. It's a little confusing at first but it's really not that difficult.

Sorry about all the caps, by the way. I'm very expressive when I speak and that tends to translate into my typing, haha. I just like using EMPHASIS.




Anyway about this thread, I have a really weird voice because I SOUND like a tenor but I actually have a bass-baritone range. It's very bizarre. Even really really good singing teachers have mistaken me for a tenor because of the way I sound. My speaking voice is really nasally and resonant so people assume I'm a tenor. It usually freaks them out when I can hit a C#2 without glottal fry.

I've been working on extending the top of my range so I can actually get some good use out of my tenor sound but it's a long hard road. I can usually hit a G5 pretty easily but lately I've been able to hit A5. It scares me though because I dont know if I could actually hit these notes if I was singing them in a song. Singing an A5 during a warmup and an A5 during a song are two VERY different things.

I have tenor envy though. I dont really like singing low and I wish I could sing all crazy high. All of my favorite roles are tenor roles too. Damn you men and your high voices!
Updated On: 12/8/06 at 05:03 AM

[WOSQ]

Posted: 12/8/06 at 2:52pm

Basses, baritones and mezzos are the salts of the earth.

Tenors eat too much, are tempermental and are often perceived rightly or wrongly as rather dumb.

Sopranos are mean. The higher the voice goes, the meaner.

That is the way the voice parts are thought of. One can argue and argue and keep at it, but these generalizations are mostly true.

An old joke goes -
"How many sopranos does it take to change a light bulb?"
"All of them. One to change the bulb and the rest to kick the chair out from under her."

Posted: 12/8/06 at 8:03pm

Don't really know my range but I'm a tenor and I love it.

My dream role is Boq in Wicked or Mark in Rent.

[Fenchurch]

Posted: 12/8/06 at 8:36pm

This is where the Fach system comes in handy
Tenors and Baritones can be either lyric or dramatic.

Dramatic tenors and baritones often favour the lower register and have a darker tone

Lyric tenors and baritones favour the higher stuff and the baritones usually have an extension to G or A.