Interview with Grammy-Award Winning Singer, John Brancy
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- Опубліковано 5 жов 2024
- Ever wondered what's actually different about male and female voices?
Join grammy-winner John Brancy and Elizabeth Zharoff as they dive-into how guys and gals vocal cords are wildly (and sometimes not) different.
We talk about (gasp) puberty, how your changing body also changes your voice, where voices change register, falsetto vs. head voice vs. chest voice, and much more! John even demonstrates a few vocal exercises that have helped him sustain an award-winning career as an operatic baritone.
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Elizabeth Zharoff is an international opera singer and voice coach, with 3 degrees in voice, opera, and music production. She's performed in 18 languages throughout major venues in Europe, America, and Asia. Currently based somewhere between Los Angeles and Tucson, Arizona, Elizabeth spends her days researching voice, singing, teaching, writing music, and recording TONS. She also plays Diablo and Dungeons & Dragons.
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Such a cool voice. You can absolutely hear the influence of the freedom from the falsetto training in his baritone rep. I love seeing people explore and use their whole instrument.
Dang, this dude's voice is so strong just from speaking normally. I was able to practice the transition form chest to head when a vocal coach said that it's like a zipper. Try to go from chest to head voice as smooth as possible and it just clicked.
We add or remove air force and volume to adjust to the resonances of our body and even the resonances of the structure we are singing in. Resonance tuning is used in engine intake tuning as well to increase the force of the air moving through the intake tract, think about your throat in the same way. Resonance changes from below the chords then expands upwards as the tuning length changes. It eventually moves to completely above the chords into the "head", which is your "head voice". Remember that higher frequencies vibrate faster and require a change in pressure but not volume and vise versa for lower frequencies. We feel very emotional also when the sound we hear literally resonates us. We resonate with what we are literally feeling. Awesome experience. I just found your channel, I like the breakdowns you explain.
This popped up on my recommendations page. So, let's have a look, I thought. Very cool. This demonstration was perfect. And I thought I was too old for school now. :P Nice post!
Such a cool youtube instructional! John was such a nice counter-point to your voice in this Female-Male match-up, Elizabeth! :)
I study speach and language therapy. I really find it funny that you are talking about a nasal voice. The noice you hear when you pinch your nose is actually called hyponasal (hypo means below normal) which actually means that it is less nasal then your normal speaking voice (with less air through the nose then normal). Not many people know how a hypernasal voice sound (hyper meaning more then normal; so more air through the nose). And not many people know how to let it sound that way. It does not really sound pretty XD
As someone who has a dying cat falsetto that reaches G#5 in a good day and who constantly losses his falsetto as a consequence of not practicing, I'm jealous of that guy.
Btw, how high can he go in his falsetto?
This was so cool, I really enjoy these kinds of conversations. It did raise a couple questions for me but unfortunately it's kind of vague since I don't know what I'm talking about well enough to ask it better lol. For a contralto voice, is it normal to find that I relate more to what he said about resonance in male voices than where you would typically feel it in female voices or is that indicative that there are things I'm doing wrong that need to change? I feel like almost my entire voice comes from my chest. And regarding what you said about women deepening their voices and damaging them, I had actually spent years doing the opposite. I had forced it up high until it was strained to the point no one could hear me anymore, once I realized I was doing that and let it come out more naturally I felt uncomfortably loud.
Hi! I hear you - and you're one of the very small percentage of women who has a naturally low voice. YOU COULD MAKE SO MUCH MONEY DOING VO. But that's beside the point ---
Contraltos are often more at ease singing in their chest voice - which means you'll feel more of the sensations that John was talking about.
As for speaking voice range - try clearing your throat. Seriously, just do it, and notice where your voice sounds. That is your optimum speaking pitch. (don't try to manufacture this - just do it naturally). It sounds like you've already figured this out, but I wanted to put this tip out there for others who may be having a similar struggle.
Thanks for your comment!!!
@@TheCharismaticVoice that throat clearing thing was actually very helpful, I probably actually should be speaking even a bit lower than I've been. I'm still training in the habit of doing it correctly too so that's a nice little self check to make sure I'm where I should be.
Thank you so much for your help and your videos :)
@@trashcanbees2739 ::high five:: thanks for actually trying that! It's such an easy and quick way to check-in. I use it sometimes too!
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About the "perceived threat": as a biologist, I think, as males are probably more physically confrontational more often among each other, (I feel this is an area where society, psychology, biology and evolution may blend seemlessly, and there are years worth of debate and tons of things yet to learn there, let´s just not go there for now), the voice might be a subconscious cue for "sizing up" your potential opponent: Lower voice--> longer vocal chords --> larger body --> larger muscle mass, better leverage--> let´s not escalate this.....
I came to this speculation by the observation that Wolverines have longer vocal chords, and really low voices in relation to their body size in comparison to other mammals, and although they are extremely strong and pretty aggressive for their size, they are only like 35kg, but often can confront larger predators and steal their prey without actually having to fight, as they get overestimated due to their low growls, and wolves or bears are more likely to just give up their prey, so, low voice seems to maybe be even an evolutionary strategy. At least for wolverines. So I could imagine, that male humans with low voices are perceived subconsciously to be bigger than they are. And of course a big man is more menacing, so other males are on average less likely to challenge an established hierarchy.
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I want to hear John Brancy's low G's (G1). He mentioned that after the 5:10 minute mark
He was talking about low G for a baritone (G2).
First! As a trans woman, I’m quite intrigued. :)
Awesome! Did you do any specific vocal training during your transition? I'd love to hear about it. A lot of people have asked me about this, including a dear friend who is mid-transition. I've also been chatting with a couple of speech pathologists about their approach. :-)
The Charismatic Voice Indeed, plenty - I still am! Though much of it now is just learning general technique on the voice I’ve got. Indeed it feels like I have two voices. I have the baritone, like him, and I have a mezzo-soprano voice that I use more often than not, which can bridge well into soprano and even carries a whistle register. The latter I think of as a reorganized portion of my voice that I use to primacy. It took awhile. I linked some resources and clips to show more of what I’m referring to. Much of it is just bridging chest or “head” (light chest / chest mix) into the falsetto range to create a brighter, lighter and higher resonance. I think there are sources that refer to this very registration as voce faringea (pharyngeal voice) and voce finta (feigned voice). The voice is very real, not merely feigned - it functions usably, but it is an adaptation of a larger, thicker instrument essentially into a smaller, faster-vibrating space.
The Charismatic Voice Currently, a lot of what I’m working on is improving my pitch accuracy and cleanness of tone. My new voice can be kind of shaky and fry can leak into it, including when I belt. I’m also working on fully integrating the registered into one multifaceted “voice”. But overall, the pure tone of it and its range are nice and should serve me well as time goes on. You should check out my teacher, Stav German! She’s on here too; she teaches CVT.
@@gillianomotoso328 Thank you for this information! Stav seems like a great teacher - her fundamentals presentation was great!
The Charismatic Voice Had a lesson with her in NYC just today! She’s lovely and adorable and intelligent :)
Hm, not really good info for a pop, rock or metal singer. I think we use a whole bunch of different techniques for power and range.
Z’s feminization myths: ua-cam.com/video/AnUD0gfLevo/v-deo.html
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From what I can gather there is a more subdued, “easily mixed” chest registration (chest-dominant mix) that occurs in a woman’s voice, as her chest registration (M1) is generally less developed or expansive. There is higher acoustic resonance at any given pitch for a woman than the same pitch in a man’s voice, and a man’s voice will be more easily sympathetic to fry register. A woman’s voice is generally slightly airier thus, as well as thinner and higher in sound. But anyway. These might interest you!
Geez this guys speaking voice hits like a truck