What is the difference between a high pitch voice and a tenor timbre?

Any trained voice trainers out there that can explain to me how a leggiero tenor should use his voice?

• I've been learning about different voice types for a few years now, so I could find out what my range can be and train it to my greatest potential possible, but I have flaws. I finally found out what I am in opera terms and I have been doing my best to improve as much as possible (a leggiero tenor). My breaks conform it. E4 to an A4. But I have trouble singing high because I use too much weigh which makes it impossible for me to enable my higher voice. I've heard my range in full before, but it's rare for me to sing to my full potential because of the weight in my voice. The lowest and highest I've gone without falsetto and frys are. F2 to a A5, but I can hit c6's in not full voice. Basically I'm asking for a explanation on how I should properly use my voice because it's confusing.

• Answer:

  I am not a voice teacher, and I certainly hope for your sake at least a couple of voice teachers see your question and tell you to stop trying to train yourself before you injure your voice yourself! You obviously care a great deal about your voice and your singing, so please find the best teacher you can possibly get on your budget. Don't think you can't afford lessons without at least looking and asking around. Fees vary a lot, and you really can't afford not to find a qualified voice instructor that can help you develop the full potential of your voice. And about that voice. To use operatic terms for non-operatic singing is silly. Other than general voice designations like soprano, tenor, etc. they really don't apply. Even in opera, different designations may apply more to operatic roles than operatic voices. A singer may be better at one type of role than another, but often you'll find a coloratura soprano doing a lyric soprano role or vice versa. To quote one website on operatic fachs: "No two opera singers are alike. Each voice has its own timbre, its own range, its own good features, and its own limitations" http://www.helium.com/items/120760-an-explanation-of-the-german-fach-system-a-classification-of-opera-singers Don't label yourself before your voice is adequately trained under the careful supervision and guidance of a voice teacher! Why limit yourself at this point? Furthermore like many novice singers, you seem to be obsessed with obtaining high notes mistakenly believing that to sing really high indicates a singer's talent rather than a natural ability. Some singers can reach extremely high registers with no help at all, some with much training, and others not at all. Small children can without the slightest difficulty reach a C6 and beyond. Have you ever heard a toddler screech in the middle of a store when being denied a toy or sweet? Don't neglect the rest of your register! Actually learn to sing! A prime example is Adam Lopez who broke the world record for the highest note hit by a male. First clip is him setting the record, the second clip is him actually singing but straining or off pitch on notes in a regular tenor range. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kdp4NHWr7G8 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uabPjhy9J8g&feature=relmfu Your focus should be to sing with as beautiful a tone as you possibly can. If you actually do plan to sing opera, then proper vocal training--years of it--is not an option! I'm an amateur singer who did have a few years of formal training in college (I was an English major, not a voice student), but after several years of not singing any type of classical music at all, I found myself heading back into voice lessons so I could sing choral music and participate in amateur opera and musical theatre without blowing out my vocal cords. Care of your instrument--your voice--can be a lifelong process. It's nothing that can be done by slapping some label on yourself before you even know what you are capable of singing. Below are some helpful information for you on voice types, but this is to clarify any confusion. It is not a substitute for formal study. Meanwhile sing only what is comfortable for you to sing. Never force your voice!