hi all! amateur sopranist here :)

Hi everyone, I'm Jireh from Singapore and I'm 18 this year.
Yes i know I'm pretty young compared to all of you, and I'm very interested to learn from all the experiences the senior members of this forums would have =D

I've been singing soprano ever since my choir conductor told me 2 years ago to sing in falsetto because i was the only guy in my school choir. started out in the alto section and then changed to soprano 1 after discovering my higher falsetto extension. i fell in love with falsetto singing quickly.

now I'm in the tenor section of my current school choir (i've graduated from the previous school) and my falsetto has deproved abit due to the excessive use of chest voice. My real voice is a bass by the way and i sing the high notes of tenor with my fasletto which is stronger than most ppl. (it's okay in choral but not in operatic singing)

My vocal range is approximately D2 to C6 from chest to head, with C2 counted in during a good day. can go much higher with the whistle register but i can't really control it so i don't count it in my vocal range.

I'm still very lousy compared to most of the pro singers out there, and i'm mostly self trained. I hope i can improve as time passes by. Sopranists ftw!

I currently do not have much videos or recordings of myself singing, so all i can offer is a recent video of a choral recording done by me =) (it was a bad voice day when i recorded it btw, so the quality may not be that nice)
YouTube - Orpheus, with his lute

Thanks,
Jireh

Hi and welcome . There are actually a few around our age here and some have posted voice examples. It's very difficult to hear your voice in that recording because of the bad file quality. I can hear it but not the whole colour. What I can hear sounds interesting though. So which singers have you been listening to? .

Scholl, Jaroussky, david daniels, ian howell and many more. Mostly surfing around in youtube and looking for countertenor stuff.

haha i'm what way is it interesting? yeah i agree the quality is pretty bad. would record some clips of me singing soon. I have recordings, but mostly of me singing with my friends on the guitar, and mostly using chest voice.

I realised the new sopranist member, Leandro, has some sort of formal musical education and training. I've mostly been self teaching myself and has no formal musical background whatsoever except grade 3 of piano =/

Hello Jireh! Nice to meet you! Welcome to this site and good luck in your vocal lessons!

thanks for you warm welcome!
i don't have singing lessons unfortunately, and only minimal vocal training from my choir conductor, who teaches us in groups and trains my chest voice, not head. I've been practicing myself all the long in the countertenor/sopranist technique

So, that's a pity... Nevertheless, we are waiting for your recordings!

haha i've just uploaded a recording on the member's voices forum. you may go and check it out, I would like some constructive comments please