Alto, F3 to F5
If your voice sits low for a woman, a lot of songs written for female singers will feel pitched too high, and the usual advice to push up into them does not help. A low voice has a different advantage: a good share of the songs recorded by male singers sit inside an alto range at the same pitch the man sings them. Every song here fits the conventional alto span with room at the top, as recorded or with a key change of five semitones or fewer.
10 songs, 2 of them in the original key.
Low female voices tend to sound richest in the lower and middle part of the range, where a lot of songs written for higher voices only pass through. The songs that suit an alto best spend their time there and save the higher notes for a few moments. Several entries below were first recorded by men and are listed in the original key; nothing about them needs changing.
Original key, G major
G3 to D5 in this key
Check it against your rangeUp 3 semitones, to B major
F#3 to C#5 in this key
Check it against your rangeUp 3 semitones, to B major
F#3 to B4 in this key
Check it against your rangeUp 3 semitones, to E major
F#3 to C#5 in this key
Check it against your rangeOriginal key, B-flat major
G3 to D#5 in this key
Check it against your rangeUp 1 semitone, to F# minor
F#3 to B4 in this key
Check it against your rangeUp 2 semitones, to B minor
F#3 to A4 in this key
Check it against your rangeUp 2 semitones, to B major
F#3 to G#4 in this key
Check it against your rangeUp 5 semitones, to B minor
F#3 to D5 in this key
Check it against your rangeUp 5 semitones, to D major
F#3 to D5 in this key
Check it against your rangeThe trap is choosing a key by the top note alone. A song can reach a note you have and still sit so high for so long that it tires you before the bridge. When an entry here is marked as moved down, the matcher is keeping the melody in the part of your voice you can stay in for the whole song.
Try it here
Find the buzz in the front of your face, then climb.
How this list is made: every range is our estimate from the original studio recording, taken only from the entries in our song table we rate high confidence, not from a published score. A song is listed when its whole structural melody fits the textbook alto span of F3 to F5 with two semitones spare at the top and one at the bottom, as recorded or with a key change of 5 semitones or fewer, and when the melody does not spend its time within two semitones of that ceiling. Voice-type spans are teaching labels; your own voice may sit higher or lower, so check a song against your measured range before you take a key to a rehearsal.