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  • Is this from any particular musical or showcase or anything? I love it :) x

  • Altos: we're so important but you never hear us.....

  • So true!!!

  • I'm soprano, and my singing teacher and ex-choir-leader always wanted to put me into alto... or 3rd or 4th voice at all....I hate it....it's not that I can't sing it, it's just no fun^^

  • I hate doing this, but I have a video of my channel of myself singing this song a long time ago, and I'm singing it again in a competition soon and I would appreciate it SO much if you guys would maybe consider checking it out and giving me any advice for the competition? Thanks for the awesome lyric video :)

  • STORY OF MY LIFE

  • This totally went straight to my faves :D

  • I'm alto and 1st tenor -_- and a girl

  • i agree with u my darling amme @egirl998 :D

  • oh... my.... gosh. what is this from and where has this song been since i started singing?!?!?!?!?!?!

  • Love this! I'm an alto and my 10 yr old daughter has an absolutely beautiful voice! Lately, she's been feeling down with all the alto parts. I've been trying to explain to her what a gift she's been given to be able sing harmony the way she does. So hard for a little girl to understand! Someone mentioned this song...so glad they did! Love it! Maybe she'll feel a little better now! ...or at least have understanding!

  • I love being an alto, it's a challenge :)

  • I would believe this was written for sopranos if anyone ever sang the high C properly.

  • Amor de mi alma is a song by Randal Stroope. I've performed it twice, and I'd just like to say...THE ALTOS HAVE THE MELODY!

    Booyahh.

    But. I would like to sing melody more often. Or at least more than two notes in one song..

  • @JescaLovey I LOVE THAT SONG! just sang it in a concert last week. all of us altos were cheering like crazy

  • i love EMILY SKINNER!!!

  • A very clever number brilliantly performed. Bravi to all involved!

  • I'm crying now cause the Canticle Singers had their latest production and one of them sang this song beautifully and I was in paradise for about two minutes and now I'm probably never gonna hear her sing that song again :( I'm really heartbroken. And life just goes on like nothing happened. Yea sure, other ppl can sing the same song but it just isn't the same:( Charity Lee you are AWESOME!!!!

  • Its okay other altos, youll get your time to shine at the sprano notes, but we totally make the song way better(:

  • I might not sing, but I do act and this translates very well into the other side as well. I'm a good actor, I can pull off the lead/supporting roles, but I'm always getting shoved into the little side characters who's only job is to run in, say "I have a message for Romeo!" then leave, or if I'm lucky deliver some exposition in 1 scene then are never seen or heard from again.

    It's bloody infuriating!

  • #storyofmylife :(

  • Sigh.... Totally true.

  • lol This song is so true. I also play the viola, and it's like the alto of the strnged instrument world. I NEVERget the melody.

  • Even as a child I did musicals, and I was given the main guy part. TWICE... If you have the voice for it girls, DON'T BE ASHAMED cuz none of them dang sopranos can do it. (Jk alot of my friends are soprano). Anyways I can actually do both... Idk what that's called lmao if I was a hemaphrodite my range is like tenor to soprano, but everyone never thinks I can go that high. Just prove em wrong guys. BUT does anyone realize this song is for altos but can only be sung by sopranos....

  • I think any piece without interesting lower parts, half the time, isn't half as worth singing. I'm a soprano (my voice range really doesn't go low), but half the time I'd like to be an alto for the harmonies; I think the ones where altos stay on the same note is just a waste of a section. x

  • story of my life.

  • the Song is by Marcy Heisler and Zina Goldrich not Alex Martinez. Although she's a good singer, or is that Sherri Mac?

  • The most irritating thing is when you're an Alto I and the Alto II's get the melody.... while you still get the most boring part in the music....

  • I was an alto, but this year I got up to a sop. 2! But i still don't get solos

    

  • -sigh- Being alto is a tough job that no one appreciates

  • Altos are Sopranos that sound like tenors.

  • @YumTumTugger808 Well...I'm a Tenor and I can sing this song lol XD Altos have an impecable range, though, most of them are mezzo-sopranos with a heavy-sounding voice...well, at least from my experience. :)

  • Im learning this song for a variaty commedy show! :)

  • Why is hating on sopranos imma soprano plz don't hate me

  • @YumTumTugger808 true me, they can. My friend sung this for school and she was a Alto. I was amazed

  • this couldnt be any more true. Can anyone say Audition song?~

  • Can altos even sing THIS song? ._.

  • @YumTumTugger808 Yes, they can. :) I mean... at least I can haha I'm an alto myself

  • @YumTumTugger808 The song's meant for a soprano (hence the high C). They want her singing alto because she can read music, but she's really a soprano.

  • @LordCutlerBeckett no it's not. its meant for an alto

  • @DPaulThib93 Not what I heard. I heard it's more of a "soprano thrown into an alto's world" type of piece and her justification for wanting to sing soprano is that she can (not badly, but beautifully, and in tune; however, her sight reading is so good they want her singing alto), but if there's an alto who can sing a high C and high A, then there'd be no reason why they couldn't sing it.

  • THIS. It's so hard when almost every lead is a frigging Soprano :/

  • New favorite song? I think so!

  • lmfao soooo truee this is officially my audition song :b

  • I always wanted a go at a solo..... Its always the same person over and over again, this girl got 6 solos EVERY year

  • I'm not a singer, but I play the viola (which is in alto clef) and this song is an absolutely perfect example of what we have to go through >_< haha, it's so funny

  • @PinKpAndAs1 I'm both an alto voice, and a viola player. DOUBLE PAIN.

  • @Felttheneedtocomment Try playing the bassoon. I get excited when I get to play an accompaniment that has any importance. Like I practically jizzed in my pants when I found out my orchestra was playing the Habanera from Carmen because the bassoon gets to play quietly with the strings for the "dum, da-dum dumdum, da-dum dumdum" part.

  • So using this an an audition piece!

  • Amen!

  • What show is this from?

    

  • Oh pleease!!!

  • Can this be my theme song please sdhfgsjdfksdf

  • SO TRUE!

  • speaks the truth :) Alto's are awesome.

  • when I was in choir they gave all the solos to the sopranos -.-

  • i'm meant to be an alto...however i really should be a bass, i mean I SOUND LIKE A FREAKIN MAN!!!!

  • I'm a Mezzo, but I ALWAYS sing alto. -.-

    Just give me the dang Soprano part, dangit! I can do the solo, just not the too-high notes. But I'm starting to think I'm always Alto because we don't have any actual altos except for two XD

  • @BroadwaysDreamer

    I know! That's my pain. Silly Sopranos.

  • Where did you get this song? I have been looking for this song by this artist and i can't find it on any downloader. please help!

  • @heatherrenee57 You can get it on Itunes. Just type in "Alto's Lament" and some artist named Macy and Zina or somthing like that should pop up.

  • @BroadwaysDreamer because they wrote and performed the song originally.

  • can i just point out that sopranos are mainly used 4 our high notes? im a soprano and as much as i love my high notes, i do want 2 sing low every once in a while. and altos u guys r lucky, i find it hard 2 find a solo song that really shows off my high range. u guys theres tons of songs 4 u.

  • @abcdancer551 I think what you want is the SOPRANO'S LAMENT, they cover all that stuff. Besides, altos really do think this way. YOU try singing a well-known song WITHOUT A FREAKING TUNE! It's all the same note or a different tune from the one you know. Now, don't get me wrong, I think that you have a valid point, soprano song that show your full range are hard to come by, but we would rather that than " ooooo, ooooo, SOLA SOL-OO-OO! (that was, in case you didn't get it, Sola Solew for an alto)

  • @abcdancer551 Sweetie I don't know where you sing but I think your being robbed. Sopranos are used for everything. Songs that feature altos or even have good alto harmonies are usually written by altos trying to remedy the lack of good alto songs.

  • Forget "medley" and "melody" (although it *is* melody, since altos rarely get it, and that's what the song complains about). The word that was missed in these lyrics was "teeny". The word "tiny" was used in its place here.

  • The one line is "It would be Nirvana, from Heaven such manna"...

  • @kalakady8 maybe not...that makes more sense than what you have, although another page with the lyrics says the same thing. Hmmm-it even sounds like "from Heaven such manna" which in context makes far more sense than "from having such manor"...but whatever it is, it is.

  • I HAVE THIS VERSIOOOOOOOOON!!!!!!!!!!! (Who sing it?)

  • I wish I could sing this for my upcoming musical auditions!

  • what play is this from?

  • is this trying to exaplin that alto's arent exactly noticed?

  • Alto's are the necessary part in a show without us there are no harmonies -3

  • 165 people sing alto

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  • who sings this?

  • I'm getting switched from 1st soprano to Alto next year. This song explains exactly how i feel!

  • Story of my life too. Except most songs even written FOR Altos are way too high for me, too. I sing my best when I'm singing like a man. No one wants to hear that, though. T_T

  • Psh, I love being an alto! the funky weird parts are the best!

  • Hahaha! I want to do this song for my MT solo next year!

  • I've been looking for a song like this for a LONG TIME!! altos rule!!!!

  • Altos are Sopranos that can read music.

  • @goldengreaser

    lol.

  • @goldengreaser Epic win. I fully agree.

  • @goldengreaser my case <8D

  • @goldengreaser ...Sopranos that can read music are a rare thing, but we do exist, thank you very much ahahaha :P

  • Gotta love how the altos are always the best section in the choir and yet were always the most under appreciated <3 :P :D

  • This is the story of our lives!! We have

    BB - an alto

    Gigi - an alto

    Alejandrew - a man.

    lol

  • it's Mana, not maner, I think.

  • I'm an alto in choir, and this song is in a word, PERFECT.

  • Just wanted to say that at 0:52, it should say "At the Nederlander, Shubert, or Rialto", because the name of the theatre in question is the Nederlander Theatre (currently running Million Dollar Quartet) - not the Nederland.

    But otherwise, thanks for putting this up, it sounds great! :)

  • who's the singer here?

  • oh pleaz us sopranos make the world go round

  • @TheCheerleader900 But you'd sound so shallow without us dear. ;)

  • @TheCheerleader900 yet without us no one would want to listen to your screeching.

  • I cant find the karaoke version! I need help!!! I need to know where to find it for free! Let me know at facebook, I'm under Kendra Petersen I live in Big Bear Lake Ca. HELP ME PLEASE message me a link <3 Please and thankyou <3

  • lol our altos are so shit, this cracked me up, so true

  • Love this song I'm a soprano and I am doing this for a concert

  • so true. so true. xD

  • It's funny because it's true.

    I am an alto too, and god dammit we are never ever getting any solo's. It's always the stupid Sopranos.

  • @MoonPhantom i here ya there alto most of my life gotten 3 solos out of the 400 ive tried out for always being beat out by sopranos!

  • @GreekMythsExist

    Well, there are songs only prober alto's can give justice Sopranos will always suck at. more dirty funny songs. Lucy from Jekyll and hyde, "Sally Bowls" Cabaret, I mean honestly, a Soprano would just choke trying to sing "Cabaret" because it needs so much umpf and goes so low, a soprano would just make it sound weird and frilly. So cha! go out and show those sopranos what they will never ever be able to do! sing some dirty cabaret Jazz with and edge and push them of the stage

  • @MoonPhantom True dat, we always get the harmonies, we never get a solo cause apparently there are "too many" of us

  • @MoonPhantom ALTO POWER!!

  • @MoonPhantom IKR!!! I hate it soo much I feel I don't ever get to show my true potential as a performer because my teacher always picks Sopranos

  • @clownaphobia12

    You want to know what I did?...

    Instead of trying to be a pretty singer I have made myself into the funny person. So I got to play parts as "Lefou" out of beauty and the beast. "Pirelli" in Sweeney Todd and Mr Smee in Peter pan.

    Guy parts I know, but they are always lacking guys while having a ton of girls, and if you are talented and funny enough, speaking your case to what-ever teacher, there's no reason you can't have some parts, those parts are the most fun I ever had.

  • ANd is this song FOR or AGAINST Alto's?? ANd what's the topic of this song?

    Thanks for answering

  • Heyyy, I need the instrumental-version of Alto's Lament!!!!

    Do you have this one? It's very important!

    Carooo

  • Great video. My daughter sang this at her choir concert the other night. Really funny. She did an awesome job!!!

  • WTF :O wrong music video xD ill keep looking

  • STORY OF MY LIFE.

  • It's melody everywhere apart from 2:02, where it's medley.

  • Darn, this would have been a perfect audition piece IF IT WAS ACTUALLY FOR ALTO. Regardless, this made me laugh quite a bit, thanks so much for sharing!

  • Also, it's most definitely MEDLEY. As katterbug said, a medley is multiple songs put together into one, while melody is the regular tune of a song. In the case of this song, medley is the only word that would make sense, because it's some of her "finer roles" put together, one after another. It's definitely not the melody, and that's what she's complaining about.

    Don't argue it if you don't know what you're talking about.

    Just saying.

  • The irony is that you have to be a soprano to sing the song. :-p

  • Probably one of my favorite versions of one of my favorite songs. <3 Emily Skinner. Thank you.

  • I think I may need to make this my new audition song. It kinda makes my day 8D

  • <3 Fantastic.

    I feel your pain.

  • This was really neat thank you for making it. There was one line you might want to change, "It would be Nervana from having such manor" I believe should be "It would be Nirvana, from heaven such manna" it's a reference to the food God gave the Israelites in the dessert. Thank you again!

  • I actually pride myself with singing so low, because I can sing as low as half the guys I know. I think it's cool to be the drums to the guitar or the glue to the glitter... you get my point. Yes it does get annoying that I never get any solo's but I think it's awesome when the alto section belts out a note and the director turns and smiles! Yeah, I get that I'll never be an ingenue in a show, but who cares, I'll have have the time of my life being the bloody mary to your nellie forbush!!!!! =)

  • its medley not melody!

  • oh well

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  • @petlover70 Alex is getting all the credits here. How about crediting the singer and orchestra?

  • @katterbug4494 No. Its melody.

  • @MissLilSummer it definitely says medley. melody doesn't make sense. a medley is a whole bunch of songs together. its medley.

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  • @katterbug4494

    no. it's melody. medley wouldn't make sense.

  • @oklahomagal09 a melody is a tune of a song. a medley is a combination of songs. so its medley. a medley. a compilation. of some of my finer roles. its not the tune of some of my finer roles.

  • @katterbug4494 i apologize for the confusion. i thought you were referring to an earlier part of the song. you are right. that part is supposed to be medley

  • @katterbug4494, its melody.

  • @katterbug4494, its melody.

  • @katterbug4494 its melody

  • @katterbug4494 i think it's melody actually. 

  • @katterbug4494 no its not it melody?? as in the main tune... medley is a few songs running into each other??

  • @MsGraciev I think they meant at 2:03 when the singer sings all the songs in alto. In other words, medley. In the video they spelled it melody instead of medley.

  • @katterbug4494 Actually it's melody.  In the song she is referring to singing the MELODY of the song as opposed to the HARMONY. A medley is a collection of many different songs in one piece.

  • @katterbug4494 it's melody.

  • @katterbug4494 no it's not. melody is the main part of the song. medley is a bunch of songs into one. like a mashup.

  • @katterbug4494 actually it is melody haha

  • @katterbug4494

    Well katterbug. They say education is the process of finding out more and more about less and less. The journey is a long one, so on your bike. Did she sing a medley? Yes. Did she sing A melody? Yes. Was it THE melody? No it was not.

  • i have the sheet music if anyone needs it..ill email it to u..no charge no nothing..just feel like being nice lol

  • @berlande101 would you mind sending it to me! That would be so kind of you!

  • @dhabsmd id need ur email lol...message me

  • @berlande101 I would love the sheet music to use for an audition, it would be greatly appreciated!

  • anyone know where i can find the karaoke??? reply please :)

  • So TRUE! The only semi-decent "alto" role I've found that's a main female that's not completely evil is Mimi Marquez from Rent, and really, she's more like an alto with an amazing head voice and an uncommonly high range.

  • hey this is a great song but i cant find your version of it, do you think you can send it to me please?

  • They should re-write this song for baritones. ~Sigh~ I just sing one note.

  • okay so honestly I couldn't focus on the words because the colour of the background kept changing. VERY distracting. kthx.

  • who sang this version? the only version i've heard was Natalie Weiss, and it wasn't her.

  • I can't find the background music for this......anyone have or know where i can get it?

  • I don't understand why altos don't like singing harmony. I'm an alto and I LOVE singing the harmony.

  • Keep shining girls! I sung alto for years and never got a chance to show my skill. I sung out a high e flat in rehersal one day and got moved to sapreno. Now I sing swing(: your day will come. Broadway here I come.

  • she sounds too happy

  • its hard to read but i love this song

  • i'm a second soprano and my choir never did any songs that included my group so i often had to lip sync when it got to the end of my range.... which happened a lot.... there was one song, that's right ONE SONG in my entire choir experiance that my group got to shine and that was "Rhythm of Life" from Sweet Charity.... but i guess we never had it as bad as the altos. Sorry Girls!

  • @p3fan09 rhythm of life is THE BEST choir song evar!

  • its even worse for a baritone... NO ONE writes for a baritone....

  • @GodImSoTalented I'm female and I had to sing Bass because my choir didn't have enough male voices. O.o

    [I feel the pain of the alto. I truly do. Buuut. Alto's actually get the harmony[some of the time] in You'll Be In My Heart. I forget which arrangement it is, but whatever. It was REALLY nice. ^_^]

  • who is is singing?

  • @19Nell82 Emily Skinner

  • this song is so funny! i'm always a soprano so i can't realte but i still luv it!

  • Who is singing? Guessing either Emily Skinner or Alice Ripley.

  • It's spelled Schubert.

    I'm just messing with you, this was really funny!

  • Whose singing this??

  • I love being an Alto! I don't know why all the girls who are soprano complain if they even get "demoted" to soprano 2! lol I love the richness of the low stuff and not trying to hate on sopranos I'm told I'm one myself lol but I think it's funny how many sopranos I know who have trouble just getting down to middle C. :)

  • @musicismylife17blue

    I know exactly how you feel. Altos rock! But it would be nice to have the spotlight every once in a while. And we also have to deal with soprano chicks who think the world revolves around them like TheCheerleader900 .(I KNOW YOU DON'T ALL FEEL THAT WAY).

  • "A MEDLEY of some of my final roles" But story of an Alto's damn life. Take it from a girl who has been Alto AND Tenor on occasion. Sing low and the melody doesn't exist for you.

  • HAHA i totally agree with this!!! I can sing as high or even higher then the soprano at my school which is every sad to say.

  • omg.....haha is it really song ? ? XD

  • Alto's unite!

    Does anyone know all of the names of the showtunes she sings?

  • She sings parts of "By the Light of the Silvery Moon" from By the Light of the Silvery Moon, "Can't Help Lovin' That Man of Mine" from Show Boat, "Oklahoma!" from Oklahoma, "The Sound of Music" from The Sound of Music, "Three Little Maids from School Are We" from The Mikado, "Memory" from Cats, "I Feel Pretty" from West Side Story, Sweeney Todd

  • HOLY CRAP! This is MY life all over!