TShara

The stuff that's easiest for me is more mezzo soprano. Admittedly I'm a bit weaker in the lower notes. As in, I can hit them but it sounds like I'm trying to fill shoes that are too big and finally reaches the point that I'm not singing a note anymore, just talking. Then in the really high stuff I'm fine until my voice just cracks and says "F- this shit." My current range is rather frustrating actually, because it works for neither Christine nor the Phantom in Phantom of the Opera. :-) The Phantom has this frustrating A2 at the beginning of Music of the Night, and Christine has her insane almost screaming high notes at the end of the title song. I use both live recordings and studio recordings, depending on what I can find and what I think sounds the best. There's also the tried and true method of "just banging out the melody line on the piano."

I've never had formal training, and only just started voice lessons. I think I could increase it if I were "singing correctly" ... but currently it's strong in about F3 to A5. Given the right conditions (the right scales, not being sick even the slightest bit, the weather being good, the elves smiling on me...) I can reach as low as about D3 and as high as about C6. I'm hoping to improve that as I have more training, especially with regard to getting into the "head voice." For the record, it's less that I care about my range and more that there are so many awesome songs to sing in their original key.

Never seen the double treble then. But in any case, thanks for the information. :-)

I'm familiar with some of this notation from piano music. The problem is that in these musical books, the common symbols aren't there. There's no 8va, and I'm not sure what you mean by a double treble clef. It's just the normal piano part and the voice above it. It's written exactly the same as the corresponding female parts, except with the male-character's name in the beginning of the part. Can that alone be used to assume that it's an octave lower? I am thinking it can because my ears can't be that off. Thanks for the response by the way.

I would go for Android... Since it's considered a little easier to do, with better documentation and such.

Much much better! The "After" is very beautiful. Side note, it does sound like you learned a little more about how to make a good recording as well though.

It did not sound like you were "trying" to sing well. And it sounded a little off tune to me, and a little like you were trying to hard to sound like a pop song. But it was not terrible either. Sounded like you could benefit from some training to learn to better control your diction and tone.

I recently ordered the music to three different musicals, and I'm interested in possibly adapting some of the beautiful tenor parts to my voice, even though I am female. The problem is I don't know how to read them. The parts themselves are written in treble clef, but they seem to be written an octave higher than I am hearing them in the recordings. Are my ears just really bad, or there a convention about male parts being sung an octave lower when transcribed this way?