If I were to be cast in Into the Woods I can garuntee the director would place me as Red Riding Hood even though I can, without any trouble, play the Baker's Wife.

Although... I was cast as Pilate in a production of Jesus Christ Super Star that never quite got off the ground.

Silence is my native tongue.

I have a pretty high singing voice but I haven't trained it in a long time I think I'm something like a lyric soprano, perhaps (only judging from the tone of my voice, though)... I know the basics of singing but I haven't been trained specifically in opera so I dunno. Back when I was part of a chorus I was a first soprano.

Contralto now, though I used to be able to sing Mezzo-Soprano parts. I lack training, now, and my musical ear is worse than it used to be.

But I still love singing.

I can't sing. I always thought I was tone deaf, but given I can't stand the sound of my own voice and I can tune a violin by ear, apparently I could if I tried and had proper training. I have noticed I can sing a lot closer to in-tune in languages not English, although if I make a concentrated effort to mimic the singer's own voice I can actually hit a lot of notes close to what they should be. Basically, I'm lazy and so generally speaking I suck. I'm not sure what my voice is, but given I can't hit high notes at all I would assume I'm at the lower end of the scale for a woman. I do know that when I act or give speeches, I purposely pitch my voice quite low to have it carry further, so I suspect I find doing that quite natural.

I used a piano to find the lowest and highest notes I can sing.  They correspond exactly with the bass range as defined by Wikipedia, so I guess that makes me a bass!    And hence consigned never to sing the melody.    I guess if I had to subcategorize myself I'd be a basso cantante -- or, more appropriately given my unreliable voice, a basso noncantante.

Cerise wrote:

And when I saw this thread, I assumed that the goal was to have people record themselves singing.  That would have been neat.

That's what I thought, too! (Although it would be terrifying for me -- and anyone listening to me. About the only songs I sing reliably on-key tend to be horrors like one of Chiriko from Fushigi Yuugi's image songs, or the terrible English dub of the theme song to Rurouni Kenshin. I can do a fair impersonation of Ariel from The Little Mermaid, actually...but only when no one is listening. As was proved by my one attempt at using a karaoke bar in Japan. )

Cerise wrote:

And when I saw this thread, I assumed that the goal was to have people record themselves singing.  That would have been neat.

I think I like my voice too much because I do that all the time. I'll post when I get home tomorrow.

I got to record them earlier than I expected! Still wish I was home though ...

Something "classical" (meaning classical sounding):
"Think of Me" - Andrew Lloyd Webber.
And something contemporary:
"Love Affair" (Regina Spektor)

No accompaniment though. This was fun! Recordings suck because it's my stupid built-in laptop mic. I prefer those detachable ones.

EDIT: Fixed links. They work.

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As far as singing goes? I'm an alto, but I can fairly easily sing most soprano parts too. Back in the day when I sang regularly my voice went well into the tenor range as well. XD But I only joined choir because you had to if you wanted to be in show choir, and I was in the backup band.

Why thank you! I just love singing. It's a passion.

Still, contraltos are so rare, that there are not a lot of parts made for them in operas and musicals. Which is a shame. I think others should post their samples too. I wanna hear!

Asfalolh wrote:

I have a sample of myself singing a lullaby and killing people's tonal ear by the end...

If that's the one you sent me, I must inform everyone that she's lying. Nobody died.

As for me, I was never diagnosed with a singing voice type. My music teacher put me in the 'alto section', but that was only because I couldn't hit those highest tones (though my voice isn't even close to deep). My brother would categorize my voice as noise, evil bugger. And myself... I just call it 'unused potential' and no one complains. ;)