Should I choose singing tenor or alto?

At first I thought, "Hey, she's a girl, maybe she's a contralto". But this site makes it plain that your voice is too low even for that. http://www.music.vt.edu/musicdictionary/textc/Cont...

Of alto and tenor, tenor seems to be a better fit for you. I agree with the above that baritone may be even more what you're looking for. See here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vocal_range, and you'll see you're almost exactly the range they give for baritones.

The only really super low female singer I can think of is Diana Krall, so maybe look into some of the pieces she does? She does jazz, though, not classical. Thankfully, many baritone pieces are often sung an octave up for mezzos, so it would not be unheard of for a woman to do that piece, just odd for her to do it in the baritone octave.

Do you have a voice teacher? I would think with such an unusual female range a voice teacher would be helpful as far as what exercises to do and in picking repertoire. Might want to get a male baritone who teaches, though, as he'll be able to better relate to your voice.

Good luck with this!

Hey, I checked out some of your videos and I think you could be either a soprano 2 or an alto 1 these parts sing more in the middle. To expand you range you can use vocal exercises and maybe even join a choir. You have potential and with some training you could be even better. P.S tenor is a guys part along with bass and baritone Good luck with singing

Most composers won't write anything for a tenor lower than third line D in the bass clef (or D3). F4 is only the first space in the treble clef, and most times, bass parts are written up to it (or the E just below it). G2 is the bottom line of the bass clef (a whole perfect fifth lower than I can sing-I'm a tenor), and that's really close to the lower end of most baritones'/bass' range. Altos are expected to sing all the way up to G5 (an octave and a half step higher than you can sing). In fact, tenors are expected to be able to sing at least G4 or even Ab4 a lot of times. All of this is to say that if your range is really G2-F4, alto is almost always too high for you, and often times, tenor will be, too. You might stick with baritone.

Tenor is traditionally for male voices while alto is for females, so gender may enter into this - at least in formal vocal groups such as school or church choirs.

I know what you're talking about though. Back in college, the University Choir I was in had a shortage of males who could sing tenor, and so they purposely had me sing the tenor parts (I'm female). I found it more to my liking too.

If you've been doing alto parts for a long time, then I would suggest doing the tenor part as something new, or the other way around. It also depends on which notes are too high and/or too low for you. Go with whatever you are comfortable with.

if tenor is more comfortable, then i would go with that. but if the song requires an alto and you can sing it, i say go for it! but it all depends on you. in some cases the song may say tenor but is really too low. first i'd check out which songs you want to sing then decided. happy new year to you too!

If you are singing solo, you can get songs transposed, that is, moved from the key the piece is written, up or down to the range that is comfortable for you. There are some web sites where you can buy sheet music, that can do this for you. For example

www.middermusic.com/SheetMusicTransposition.htm

Tenor is for a male voice!Do you mean soprano;mezzo-soprano;contralto,etc?Alto is for choral singing,mostly.So,choose mezzo;I would think.

Go what you feel cofortable with, okay?