You Know You Are An Alto When....

[AnneLine]

T'was the source of nightmares for a LONG time!

 

And now I am going to go to sleep!  REALLY!  (with your prayers, of course...)

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T'was the source of nightmares for a LONG time!

 

And now I am going to go to sleep!  REALLY!  (with your prayers, of course...)

 

 

Prayers  :pray: :pray:

[FutureCarmeliteClaire]

I'm like an alto/alto 2, and it's a pain. :P

[AnneLine]

let me guess... lower than low versions of ".......^.......~.........."

 

Kinda like a tuba.

 

 

:console:

 

 

If it helps any, I was able to go back to being a soprano... lower than I was as a teen, but back in soprano range....

[cartermia]

Yup. Though I have noticed a benefit to being an alto, is when you start learning chant it is really easy because you are used to having multiple words on the same note.

For all-state, a competition for octets (2 basses, 2 tenors, 2 altos, and 2 sopranos), this year we are doing Diffusa est gratia.  I am called I know how to chant because everyone else is having to learn. Even our music teacher is not the best chanter. Good thing I listen/ed to EWTN as a little kid and still now today.

 

my part: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QU6TRy0FqiI

[TheresaThoma]

Recently I got switched over to singing the alto descant part on the mass parts, very weird! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYNEV4q-Wqg)

[ChristinaTherese]

I've sung A2, A1, and S1. Oh, and a few tenor lines. (In hymns as a kid, I loved those tenor lines, so I would always sing them when they had counter melodies.) My voice fits best in S1, but I really enjoy harmony, so I've missed singing alto sometimes. Especially when the soprano line is boringly easy.... But in high school my church choir needed me there to keep the section on track, so I had to stay there even when I was bored. Besides, I was really proud of being the only S1. All of the high A's were mine and nobody else's, so I basically filled the church with my voice floating above the rest of the choir and Beverly probably depended on me for when she cut us off on at least one piece. (After all, everyone else could afford to snatch a breath. But the whole congregation would have known if I did. They already did know the time or two I forgot to go up at first and had to slip up late.) But then in the other choir I was in during my senior year of high school I was one of the few A2's, which I was proud of and enjoyed as well. Like AL said, it really did require extra thought. Even though I'm a musician and used to reading music and harmony lines, I tried to sing soprano at first. But I got used to it. Honestly, the parts of my voice that I like most are the very top and the bottom, because the bottom is nice and rich like my viola and the top just soars and floats as easily as anything. But I had to accept this last year that I really belong as a soprano.... My voice just doesn't fit as well in the alto range. But I have a nice long neck, so I have a pretty wide range, and I can try anyway.