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My voice is breaking, I want to be tenor in singing. Is there anyway to support this happening?
So can I get my voice to be tenor. I can still hit those notes. As my voice is breaking I can't hit the ones I could ht when I was treble. I don't mind about that, but can I support my voice to be tenor? Thanks for your help. (I already know that the acidity in pineapple juice is good for the throat)
Hey I am 14 and in the school choir as tenor at the moment so I can sing it. I was singing treble then moved to alto last year as it was compulsory. Now I am tenor and can still hit those notes. I am doing exercises to keep my voice strong now. It can be difficult though as I have asthma.
Hey I am 14 and in the school choir as tenor at the moment so I can sing it. I was singing treble then moved to alto last year as it was compulsory. Now I am tenor and can still hit those notes. I am doing exercises to keep my voice strong now. It can be difficult though as I have asthma.
I am a naturally high singer but I know my voice is breaking. My friends and family have told me a million times it is deeper
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- lynndramsopLv 61 decade agoFavorite Answer
I'd err on the side of caution and say: you need to wait. Nature has got her own designs, and you need to grow a bit before yu can tell what your adult voice is going to be like. We are all genetically pre-programmed for our voices, like for eye color, bone size, length of fingers and toes, etc.
These are things that we have to accept.
What you can do to make the waiting game easier ( and you may need to wait up to 2 years before your adult voice settles in!) is to learn about proper breathing for singing. Most people call it diaphragmatic breathing, so you can look this up ( please try something more than just the wikis) for some real answers. There is a lot of good hard factual information around for people seriously interested in singing. If there are people around whose opinion you value who also sing, ask them if they can recommend you a singing teacher to help learn this oh-so-important factor.
Statistics tell us that the normal ( as in most commonly found) male voice is the baritone. If you poll the male members in your family ( those that are adults) you might find this to be the case. If you come up with more basses or more tenors, this could give a clue as to what
you might eventually turn out to be. But there is still n hard-and-fast indicator that can guarantee the outcome, and training plays a good role in this.
I know that waiting is difficult, but to be honest, if you try and rush things or push things, you are going to do yourself immeasurable damage vocally, and wind up with nothing left. Be smart, ok?
Source(s): opera singer and teacher - 1 decade ago
Dude, how old are you? You are probably going through your voice change if you are under twenty. You may not have your voice settled yet, so tenor/baritone/bass means nothing at that point.
However, cracking comes from weak vocal muscles. When you were a kid, it was easy to sing because your cords were small and easy to move so the muscles did not have to be strong. Then you grew and developed, and your cords got thick and big - harder to move, need more vocal strength in the muscles. You can stop the cracking by strengthening your cords. Sing a LOT of scales and do it on pure "ee" vowels and your cords will become stronger. This is how Pavarotti got his voice strength. If you are not a tenor though, you will not be able to sing high. Resist the urge to go to falsetto - you wil not get muscle strength by singing without your true cords and using falsetto to go higher. Falsetto is the opposite of what you need to do.
As for your voice type, were you an alto or a soprano as a boy? MOST OF THE TIME boy altos become tenors (rarest voice for men) and boy sopranos become baritones/basses(very common male voices). This is not 100% true, but it is a good approximation.
BTW, I am a tenor, and I was a boy alto. I had lots of cracking problems during and even after my voice change until I learned to sing "ee" vowel and now I am a professional opera tenor and can sing to high D in full voice.
- TekkaLv 41 decade ago
Only certain men can be tenors as they have the rare mechanism that flips into a higher register around B natural. Baritones and Bass vocal types don't have the fliping mechanism and never will, those guys can never ever be tenors.
Something you need to be aware of is that most chior directors don't really know jack about the human voice. They think that just because you can hit certain notes you are a certain voice or can sing it. It doesn't work that way. They are very prone to causing people to destroy their voices with horrible techniques or making people sing outside of their vocal types range. You have to sing for "your" instrument. Don't try and sing in a range different than your own. You need to figure out if you are a tenor or baritone. If your voice doesn't have that fliping mechanism you will never ever be a tenor.
- MissLimLamLv 61 decade ago
Seriously wait, you are very young and you have plenty of time to work on technique without ruining your voice now.
Just make sure you are warming up properly before you sing and that you dont strain your voice, so then you wont be damaging it. (P.S if you damage it, it will be harder to reach high notes.)
As for remaining a tenor, I doubt that you will, and honestly if you are not naturally a "high" singer, I wouldnt try to force out those high notes.
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- LagixelLv 61 decade ago
Do you have a vocal coach? If not, get one. They'll help you. It'll probably be easier to maintain a voice type rather than change one.