I did a lot of the mimicry advice and after mimicking you and clover for about 4 hours total (I started doing voice training about 4 days ago) I managed to pass 3 total times to specific individuals (one being a cis girl) in Valorant! I'm extremely confident now with this, much love and appreciation to you, the community, and Clover too! They were like the last pushing help I needed to nail this starting point!
@@adamguerrero5293to Mimic is to do to do is to be to be is to exist to exist is to be real. Reality is everything and nothing so your point holds weight.
Z, you are so, beyond amazing. I spent 4 years in transition, and after those years of work i would say i plateaued firmly at about 65% of the voice i wanted. I didnt understand fullness even with a grasp of resonance and pitch. The resources that were available in 2015 to 2020 were so limited and sparse outside of paid professional voice lessons. I discovered you in the first couple months of my joyous and freeing re emergence from a dark and scary detransition. And in barely 3 weeks, i jumped straight up past my plateau and have found my 85% comfort....with no plateau in sight. Id swear that im shining. Thank you beyond words for sharing with us. So much love 💚 Cami
I'm dealing with a bad time in my life right now socially, and the dysphoria on top of it is crushing when I'm not working on my presentation. The past week I've been watching your videos has given me a real sense of purpose, and a focus to relieving the dysphoria through finally working against my boy's voice. For this, thank you so much, I don't think I'd be as mentally stable right now without concentrating on the exercises you provide in your videos. They make a small difference bit by bit but most importantly I don't sound like a boy when I'm playing with my voice, and that's all I need to keep my hope going.
it sounds like you need to cleanse yourself of all the bullshit of contemporary society and take a deep dive into nature. Unplug every device, avoid the internet from here on out. Disconnect from all mainstream forms of media.
Although I find the exercises etc from all of your videos quite difficult and have not seen much positive results in the past few months, I am so incredibly grateful for this resource, the amount of research into the science behind voice you have done really shows. No one explains or backs up their advice anywhere near as in-depth and accessable as you. Thank you so much for taking the time to help us, even though I am struggling at the moment, for the first time I truly believe that my true voice will come to the fore with hard work and dedication. Thank you so much.
I'm going to make a video soon about how to implement things and make use of vocal explorations / exercises in an applied way. I think will help you specifically based on what you're describing. I'm so glad to be able to help in any way.
I know this comment will be kinda cliche, but just keep practicing and you'll get there. I still literally can't differentiate between pitch and resonance but I just kept grinding at my voice (with lots of water and breaks of course) for a few months, tweaking things here and there, trying to sound incrementally better, and I'm at the point where some people, even in discord servers specifically meant for trans voice feedback, say my voice sounds good. I suck at voice and mimicing sounds and everything but I still made progress. Just give it a few months and make sure to record yourself so you can look back on the progress you have made!
Lisa Carson I take home on pills I won't be a woman I want breasts like a woman I want a vagina like a woman I want long hair like a woman I want to talk like a woman I want to wear dresses like a woman I went well pantyhose like a woman I want real high heels like a woman
Wow, this is the video I needed! I feel like this adds a new dimension to exercises from other videos even. A big struggle for me currently is consistently achieving the sounds I want right at the onset of vocalization, and I feel like it throws me off completely because I psyche myself out before I’ve even started speaking. I notice I have more difficulty keeping the same sound with certain single words/sounds than others and I think the different onsets required for different sounds is something I haven’t really considered yet until this video! “Build-an-onset workshop” 🧸🥰 love thinking of it this way
That section on pressurizing too much is exactly what I've been doing. In ninety seconds you explained what I have been failing for months to put into words! "Puh"ing and getting quieter as I go up immediately felt better, tysm!
Voice training has leveled up my journey. Not just feminine, but ive always had fun making sounds, and now you're (YT coaches) adding dimension direction and purpose to old fun time sakes I don't know what all these detailed words mean but ive been following and mimicking your playlists and im starting to hear improvements
That little microtonal scale at 22:21 sounds SO similar to 1:54 in King Gizzard's "If Not Now, Then When?"! Specific and random musical associations aside, thank you for this video, I managed to take my voice to a new place after watching. Very helpful as always!
This is the best and most detailed explanation about the different onsets. Your explanations are always accompanied or followed by appropriate examples and this really helps me to improve my singing, because in the songs I love there are so many vocal onsets and I have to learn especially the balanced ones. Thank you so much for this very interesting and useful video!❤
Now this is a seriously SPLENDID haircut Oo Yes, I love how it's a very thorough and detailed video on the subject I wanted to dive more into, especially in terms of practicing different types of onsets and not just focusing solely on one specific type - that's very helpful for us! But... the haircut makes it for me. It's just awesome, I dunno '
Thank you for making this video, this is an incredibly good explanation and demonstration of these concepts, most of the other videos i've found seem to expect some base level understanding, which you've now provided us with :) I'm very new to this, and hadn't realized what i was doing wrong, the pressure was the biggest thing i was messing up, and i strangely enough, i found that by holding my body in a more composed "feminine" posture, i was able to get a more comfortable and natural regulation of the pressure than trying to do it manually while in the more slouched "masculine" posture, if that makes any sense.
Wow this was cool. I was in chorus and chior when I was a kid. We were taught to sing in unison to a very large crowd so we were trained blocked abrupt. They never even told us that these were things. I did the P thing and it was like oh wow that's neat lol And yes even with my background it is hard to get the balance.
I think we use closed offsets and too much pressure because when we raise our larynx, we do not think of it as lifting our larynx. Instead, we try to push up on our larynx. The analogy I can think of is instead of having the larynx float like a balloon, we keep seeing it our throats as a blocked pipe and keep pushing it with as much force as possible. That's how I am rationing it, makes sense as to why I feel like my voice is too breathy without any body to it, like a speaker with all the treble without any of the mids.
Found this channel thanks to Facebook, I listen to a lot of music and try to match the voice on my own (no idea how good I sound because my headset is on every time 😳
Quick question tho. Would you say that when you run into issues as long as you know what youre trying to sound like it will eventually iron itself out? I've noticed that ill have like this yodel quality when I try some of these exercises I would like to assume since I'm mimicking you, with enough practice it will fix itself as long as I'm aware of it
When I am working on my voice I am thinking about sound quality not mechanical positioning of my anatomy. This is so important and I have to stress it. That said, primarily no -- everyone has an active speaking posture and resting posture. Our active speaking posture is what we primarily shift into during speech (this is true of all voices). Although over many years my passive resting posture has shifted less so for vocal reasons and more so for cosmetic reasons. Lightly pinning the tongue body to the velar area slims the neck / jawline more.
Hi Z, your videos are helping me so much with voice. Apologies if you have answered this before, but it's a real struggle for me currently - but, how can I get over shutting myself down from using my voice in front of people I know? I am happy with how I am training, but feel like I can't push through the embarrassment/ self-consciousness that arises for me when it comes to using my voice with others. I'd love your advice, if you have any. Thanks so much. -Rhea.
I'm new to singing practice and I'm 53. I don't really sound great but I have always liked to sing to myself - it's fun. This video has given me some targets so thank you. But I have some problems getting smooth onsets. Problem one: I can feel my tone snap in. Literally it is like a permanent blocked onset. I breath into it and it still snaps in once I get enough air flow. A smooth onset only happens during specific tones or by accident. So I am trying to copy what happens during the tones that do smoothly come in. Man that is a lot of work and it rarely works. What can I do here? Problem two: attempting to hold prolonged tones without fluctuating in and out of pitch. My throat feels weak. Is there a specific exercise I can do to manage it or strengthen my throat? Problem three: That damned old person vibrato. I have always used vibrato. It was learned when I was younger. Now it is in every sustained tone. Does this relate back to strength in my throat? And if it does what can I do to keep that tone flat? Thanks. Liked subscribed and shared.
Z, please help me with my larynx. Whenever I try to increase the resonance and hold it and say some words, it really hurts and I can't say anything properly. I can't make it relaxed and my voice soft. Is it normal in progress? IDK What shall I do?
It’s really the same thing! :) keeping the lips buzzing for a brass instrument involves balancing airflow vs valve tension! the bi-valve in this case is the lips instead of the vocal folds. balanced and efficient sound production is key! and that starts with the onset of sound. Great observation!
Worst possible onset is , Oh Gosh I still sound like man , what will this young cis gender with gorgeous curves and hair will think when I open my mouth, what will I sound when I'm in a line at a grocery store and the store manager says, mam can I help you here, will my voice fall back to man's voice .. so on .so forth.. why am I saying this , because that's me.. now that the cover is blown allover the place..
Hi there! Thank you so much for this and every single other video you have made on the topic of voice modification or anything else! I'm really happy to have been recommended your channel, since I am a transgirl and I'm really struggling a lot to feminize my dang low boy-voice. Although one problem I have is the practicing. I'm very confused and lost. Like, how often do I do which exercises and for how long? And do I always try to speak with my feminine voice or just when I'm alone? How long might it take to hear a difference? If you could help me with this, I'd be the third happiest girl you've ever gotten a UA-cam comment from! :D Much much love from Penny!
Keep in mind I'm not a professional, but I'd recommend using your femvoice as much as you can. If that's tough for you (because you strain), then try working on that. I personally use my femvoice while alone, but if you're comfortable with using it with others, then totally go for it.
@@stirpiano I appreciate your answer! Right now I wouldn't be very comfortable using it with others because I haven't even come out to my friends and such. Altough I might do that soon... I'm just a bit scared of the risk that it may bring. It sounds like you are also working on your femvoice, so I really hope that's going much better for you! A big hunk o' love from Penny! :)
I love how this is applicable to my horn playing too.
I did a lot of the mimicry advice and after mimicking you and clover for about 4 hours total (I started doing voice training about 4 days ago) I managed to pass 3 total times to specific individuals (one being a cis girl) in Valorant! I'm extremely confident now with this, much love and appreciation to you, the community, and Clover too! They were like the last pushing help I needed to nail this starting point!
mimicry is not reality
@@adamguerrero5293 Its great practice. Quit being such a buzzkill.
That's awesome! Keep up the good work :)
@@adamguerrero5293to Mimic is to do to do is to be to be is to exist to exist is to be real. Reality is everything and nothing so your point holds weight.
Optime! May your journey be splendid!
Z, you are so, beyond amazing. I spent 4 years in transition, and after those years of work i would say i plateaued firmly at about 65% of the voice i wanted. I didnt understand fullness even with a grasp of resonance and pitch.
The resources that were available in 2015 to 2020 were so limited and sparse outside of paid professional voice lessons. I discovered you in the first couple months of my joyous and freeing re emergence from a dark and scary detransition. And in barely 3 weeks, i jumped straight up past my plateau and have found my 85% comfort....with no plateau in sight.
Id swear that im shining. Thank you beyond words for sharing with us.
So much love 💚 Cami
This is amazing! I’m so grateful to be able to help. :)
Can you help me?
Literally an issue I've had my entire life x.x just knowing I can control this now is amazing~ tysm Z
I'm dealing with a bad time in my life right now socially, and the dysphoria on top of it is crushing when I'm not working on my presentation.
The past week I've been watching your videos has given me a real sense of purpose, and a focus to relieving the dysphoria through finally working against my boy's voice.
For this, thank you so much, I don't think I'd be as mentally stable right now without concentrating on the exercises you provide in your videos.
They make a small difference bit by bit but most importantly I don't sound like a boy when I'm playing with my voice, and that's all I need to keep my hope going.
it sounds like you need to cleanse yourself of all the bullshit of contemporary society and take a deep dive into nature. Unplug every device, avoid the internet from here on out. Disconnect from all mainstream forms of media.
Although I find the exercises etc from all of your videos quite difficult and have not seen much positive results in the past few months, I am so incredibly grateful for this resource, the amount of research into the science behind voice you have done really shows. No one explains or backs up their advice anywhere near as in-depth and accessable as you.
Thank you so much for taking the time to help us, even though I am struggling at the moment, for the first time I truly believe that my true voice will come to the fore with hard work and dedication.
Thank you so much.
I'm going to make a video soon about how to implement things and make use of vocal explorations / exercises in an applied way. I think will help you specifically based on what you're describing.
I'm so glad to be able to help in any way.
@@TransVoiceLessons that sounds so lovely. thank you so much for all you do.
I know this comment will be kinda cliche, but just keep practicing and you'll get there. I still literally can't differentiate between pitch and resonance but I just kept grinding at my voice (with lots of water and breaks of course) for a few months, tweaking things here and there, trying to sound incrementally better, and I'm at the point where some people, even in discord servers specifically meant for trans voice feedback, say my voice sounds good. I suck at voice and mimicing sounds and everything but I still made progress. Just give it a few months and make sure to record yourself so you can look back on the progress you have made!
I think this is one of the best videos you've ever made, thank you for this. Already can't wait to see what you've got next for us here on UA-cam 👍
Lisa Carson I take home on pills I won't be a woman I want breasts like a woman I want a vagina like a woman I want long hair like a woman I want to talk like a woman I want to wear dresses like a woman I went well pantyhose like a woman I want real high heels like a woman
You are the best person I could have ever found on UA-cam. Thank you ❤️
Thank you. 🌸♥️
stoppppp this just transformed my voice so much! im so thankful i found this video sooner on it made everything sound so much better and feel better
I am on estrogen finally 🎉and I’m really glad to have found your UA-cam channel my voice is one of my biggest insecurities it helps out a lot
Thanks!
Thank you!!
Wow, this is the video I needed! I feel like this adds a new dimension to exercises from other videos even. A big struggle for me currently is consistently achieving the sounds I want right at the onset of vocalization, and I feel like it throws me off completely because I psyche myself out before I’ve even started speaking. I notice I have more difficulty keeping the same sound with certain single words/sounds than others and I think the different onsets required for different sounds is something I haven’t really considered yet until this video!
“Build-an-onset workshop” 🧸🥰 love thinking of it this way
That section on pressurizing too much is exactly what I've been doing. In ninety seconds you explained what I have been failing for months to put into words! "Puh"ing and getting quieter as I go up immediately felt better, tysm!
Voice training has leveled up my journey. Not just feminine, but ive always had fun making sounds, and now you're (YT coaches) adding dimension direction and purpose to old fun time sakes
I don't know what all these detailed words mean but ive been following and mimicking your playlists and im starting to hear improvements
You're a legend. Thank you for doing what you're doing.
That little microtonal scale at 22:21 sounds SO similar to 1:54 in King Gizzard's "If Not Now, Then When?"!
Specific and random musical associations aside, thank you for this video, I managed to take my voice to a new place after watching. Very helpful as always!
You are awesome, you helped so many people including me. And your getting more beutiful every time. Just the best for you !
Awesome stuff as always! Definitely the best channel in terms of how much it's helped me
"The volume of your Pee is based on [...] how much pressure you're releasing" -Z 2023
This is the best and most detailed explanation about the different onsets. Your explanations are always accompanied or followed by appropriate examples and this really helps me to improve my singing, because in the songs I love there are so many vocal onsets and I have to learn especially the balanced ones. Thank you so much for this very interesting and useful video!❤
Now this is a seriously SPLENDID haircut Oo
Yes, I love how it's a very thorough and detailed video on the subject I wanted to dive more into, especially in terms of practicing different types of onsets and not just focusing solely on one specific type - that's very helpful for us! But... the haircut makes it for me. It's just awesome, I dunno '
Thank you for making this video, this is an incredibly good explanation and demonstration of these concepts, most of the other videos i've found seem to expect some base level understanding, which you've now provided us with :)
I'm very new to this, and hadn't realized what i was doing wrong, the pressure was the biggest thing i was messing up, and i strangely enough, i found that by holding my body in a more composed "feminine" posture, i was able to get a more comfortable and natural regulation of the pressure than trying to do it manually while in the more slouched "masculine" posture, if that makes any sense.
Oh hell yes, another Zhea video!!
nice, so subtle but makes a big difference.
Wow this was cool. I was in chorus and chior when I was a kid. We were taught to sing in unison to a very large crowd so we were trained blocked abrupt. They never even told us that these were things. I did the P thing and it was like oh wow that's neat lol And yes even with my background it is hard to get the balance.
This really helps me, came out as trans few months back, and I feel happy that I found this channel 🥰❤️
This helped so much -- thank you !!
23:50 problems w onset can cause weight and resonance issues
So maybe lookin into this
17:20 practice guided
21:15 how to practice
Because I say "heat from fire, fire from heat" so much, it's trained my onsets to have a small amount of breathiness where the "h" is
I am happy for a new video from you. Thank you.
I think we use closed offsets and too much pressure because when we raise our larynx, we do not think of it as lifting our larynx. Instead, we try to push up on our larynx. The analogy I can think of is instead of having the larynx float like a balloon, we keep seeing it our throats as a blocked pipe and keep pushing it with as much force as possible. That's how I am rationing it, makes sense as to why I feel like my voice is too breathy without any body to it, like a speaker with all the treble without any of the mids.
Yes agreed!!
woah this is so freaking cool, i had no idea about any of this!!!
Whrn i mimic stuff and especially listen back to it idk why but my brain cringes like AGGAABSZZAATGAAAAH- but i keep try 😅
No please don't remove my head AAAAHHHH
Found this channel thanks to Facebook, I listen to a lot of music and try to match the voice on my own (no idea how good I sound because my headset is on every time 😳
Your videos are so good!!!!!!
Slayeth queen!
You are literally saving lives, I hope you know that 💜
i love your videos and they're an incredible resource
but my dysphoria goes crazy every time i try to watch whats wrong with me
Loving this content (also is that a Lumitone microtonal keyboard behind you?! Ahhh!)
pls don't remove my head to look at my vocal cords 😳
This is immensely helpful! (also do we need to actually remove our head and peel back our neck??)
Oh my cat lord 🥺, you look so extremely pretty
The legend itself is back c
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Quick question tho. Would you say that when you run into issues as long as you know what youre trying to sound like it will eventually iron itself out? I've noticed that ill have like this yodel quality when I try some of these exercises I would like to assume since I'm mimicking you, with enough practice it will fix itself as long as I'm aware of it
Hi hi, so we don't actually lift and hold the larynx 24/7 right?
When I am working on my voice I am thinking about sound quality not mechanical positioning of my anatomy. This is so important and I have to stress it.
That said, primarily no -- everyone has an active speaking posture and resting posture. Our active speaking posture is what we primarily shift into during speech (this is true of all voices). Although over many years my passive resting posture has shifted less so for vocal reasons and more so for cosmetic reasons. Lightly pinning the tongue body to the velar area slims the neck / jawline more.
@@TransVoiceLessons thank goodness I thought I was doing something wrong bc constantly holding it was destroying my voice!
Hi Z, your videos are helping me so much with voice. Apologies if you have answered this before, but it's a real struggle for me currently - but, how can I get over shutting myself down from using my voice in front of people I know? I am happy with how I am training, but feel like I can't push through the embarrassment/ self-consciousness that arises for me when it comes to using my voice with others. I'd love your advice, if you have any. Thanks so much. -Rhea.
I think after watching all the videos on UA-cam about voice transition I'm more confused now than I have ever been
I'm new to singing practice and I'm 53. I don't really sound great but I have always liked to sing to myself - it's fun. This video has given me some targets so thank you. But I have some problems getting smooth onsets.
Problem one: I can feel my tone snap in. Literally it is like a permanent blocked onset. I breath into it and it still snaps in once I get enough air flow. A smooth onset only happens during specific tones or by accident. So I am trying to copy what happens during the tones that do smoothly come in. Man that is a lot of work and it rarely works. What can I do here?
Problem two: attempting to hold prolonged tones without fluctuating in and out of pitch. My throat feels weak. Is there a specific exercise I can do to manage it or strengthen my throat?
Problem three: That damned old person vibrato. I have always used vibrato. It was learned when I was younger. Now it is in every sustained tone. Does this relate back to strength in my throat? And if it does what can I do to keep that tone flat?
Thanks.
Liked subscribed and shared.
Commenting for engagement, though granted I have to watch this another day.
Z, please help me with my larynx. Whenever I try to increase the resonance and hold it and say some words, it really hurts and I can't say anything properly. I can't make it relaxed and my voice soft. Is it normal in progress? IDK What shall I do?
thank you for this video! :)
what software do you use in you videos to visualize different aspects of sound
hello there i emailed you about maybe lessons ? not sure if you offer that or not ?
why did it feel so much like being taught proper articulation when playing a trumpet ( or I guess any brass/wind instrument) 😲
It’s really the same thing! :) keeping the lips buzzing for a brass instrument involves balancing airflow vs valve tension! the bi-valve in this case is the lips instead of the vocal folds. balanced and efficient sound production is key! and that starts with the onset of sound. Great observation!
I think I'm too stupid for this
2:21 because dysphoria
12:42 she sounded like a child learning how to speak for the first time, lol.
13:26 mother mothering
TIL the volume of my pee is based on the air i'm displacing
3:03 vocal manta ray!
✨
Why do i sound like lois griffin tho 😭
It is best not to struggle with the volume of one's Pee...
Taking Notes: perfect onsets = cute
13:15 ...Zhea, I'm trans. All I know is internal chaos.
👀
Worst possible onset is , Oh Gosh I still sound like man , what will this young cis gender with gorgeous curves and hair will think when I open my mouth, what will I sound when I'm in a line at a grocery store and the store manager says, mam can I help you here, will my voice fall back to man's voice .. so on .so forth.. why am I saying this , because that's me.. now that the cover is blown allover the place..
🥰🥰
5 key mistakes? Psh, I can make mistakes in more keys than that.
slay
weeeeeee
lol
c:
Whoa she’s just a woman not even trans. She’s just blowing hot air
Makeup sure fooled you
🗿
Intro is so dramatic...
Hi there!
Thank you so much for this and every single other video you have made on the topic of voice modification or anything else!
I'm really happy to have been recommended your channel, since I am a transgirl and I'm really struggling a lot to feminize my dang low boy-voice.
Although one problem I have is the practicing. I'm very confused and lost. Like, how often do I do which exercises and for how long? And do I always try to speak with my feminine voice or just when I'm alone? How long might it take to hear a difference? If you could help me with this, I'd be the third happiest girl you've ever gotten a UA-cam comment from! :D
Much much love from Penny!
Keep in mind I'm not a professional, but I'd recommend using your femvoice as much as you can. If that's tough for you (because you strain), then try working on that.
I personally use my femvoice while alone, but if you're comfortable with using it with others, then totally go for it.
@@stirpiano I appreciate your answer!
Right now I wouldn't be very comfortable using it with others because I haven't even come out to my friends and such. Altough I might do that soon... I'm just a bit scared of the risk that it may bring.
It sounds like you are also working on your femvoice, so I really hope that's going much better for you!
A big hunk o' love from Penny! :)
omg i think we played on melee netplay (tuff #599) was fun, reminded me to watch this vid :3 if wasnt u then oh well! have a good day yall
that was me! great games. had a fun time. i got some nasty fairs on you 😆
@@TransVoiceLessonsso honored to be apart of ur fair labbing journey :D ggs
ssbm pog!!!