The cap trick has been extremely helpful. I have a passable voice but I've been physically forcing my larynx up which has caused a lot of straining. This exercise has helped me re-discover my resonance without any straining. Thank you so, so much :)
This is sooo wonderful to read! I work with a lot of individuals who have normalized a voice that functionally works for them but still has traces of strain built into it. I know I had a lot of strain for 2 years before I used the external noise approach and got rid of my strained resonance behavior. I'm so glad you had that experience and this video was able to guide you to it.
I was playing around with modifying resonance with an external sound when my dog walked in with the biggest face of concern, trying to figure out how the heck I was making that strange sound. I pulled my phone away from my face to let him sniff it, and he seemed content after that.
Sounds around 1:40 are so reminiscent of noise through a fixed filter bank, it's uncanny. The human voice and everything that goes into it is so fascinating.
This external noise approach made resonance CLICK in my brain so I could finally understand. Now I have an effortless voice I am comfortable with. Thank you so much!
I can't really watch your videos without crying.. I can hardly get through any of them. It's like.. your voice is a product of years of hard work and I love it. I wanna get my voice sounding like half as good. I get overwhelmed by your videos they're so inspiring. I'm gonna try to get a trainer so I can do it right without damaging my voice. Thank you for these awesome videos
@@SixHundredAndSixtySix This WOMAN is an angel! Hmmm. Wait, why stop there? Labels can be so harmful and hurtful these days, I should do better! Here we go. This person is good! Wow, I feel so much better! Thank you for helping preserve the sanctity of the comments section. Without your diligence, people may go about throwing wild accusations around potentially bringing others to their knees in distress. I've never personally worked with her before nor does she know my personality and my speech patterns. If it wasn't for your lurking, I'd never get one step closer to true enlightenment. Please, o wise one, carry on your holy crusade to bring others to justice, helping to right true wrongs! I pray for thee daily! God bless!
Hey Z, just wanted to say thanks for the free voice training info! You're beautiful, your voice is to die for & you're a true inspiration. I'll definitely be joining your patreon, hopefully from this Friday! Hope to train 121 with you by the end of this year
I cant thank you enough for making these videos available to us for free, thank you so so much. You're doing me and so many others an amazing favor ! Ur great queen keep doing what ur doing
holy shit the bottle cap technique worked almost immediately WTF?! my resonance is noticeably higher!!! my other trans mtf friends have been raving about this lately!
Because your voice is so good, i find it hard to even envisage how i can change my voice from a man's and god knows i've tried. I would love to see you with a willing participant and for you to post a series of lessons with students so that we can get a measure of what we can achieve if we do it right, because right now, this all seems like magic to me. x
This video helped me SO much in figuring out how to do a resonance I like without strain!! Once I realized I could map my vocal tract with white noise like a SONAR, I could finally feel how I needed to speak to have a sound I liked.
I appreciate you sharing all of your hard work and experience, thank you so much! Noise can be an issue where I live so these techniques are going to see a lot of use.
You are my hero, omg every video I watch is just so amazing thank you so much you are the only reason why I’m not giving up on my voice it feels hopeless sometimes but I’m still trying
Wow, I’ve been idling playing around with #3 for years as a neat trick. I just wish I could accomplish any semblance of that resonance change while... making my own sounds.
Thank you for expounding upon these techniques. I’ve come to use the phone method whenever I’m feeling “unsure” of what I’m doing mechanically. The other methods not so much. I don’t get a lot of feedback on those and I think it’s because I wear a denture. Question: when you do the phone thing you appear to be changing the shape of you oral cavity whereas I try to focus just on the larynx. Is this incorrect? Can’t wait for my turn for lessons! In the meantime your vids have been wonderful and the best. Thank you so much! You’re beautiful inside and out! Nikki
I record myself talking or saying certain words and i can almost hear my mom talking to me every now and again but it's very hard judge my own voice "I'm a total noobie and this is my first few days of trying this" I for sure don't sound like me anymore, but im unsure of how feminine my voice is, i showed a friend and he said it sounded like a friend he had at college. But i'm worried that he's just trying to sound supportive. I know i have a long way to go, but this is honestly terrifying to practice in my home.
Should I be moving my tongue when doing the one with the noise? This is something I've really been confused on because the placement of my tongue changes the sound by a lot.
I saw in another video where you couldn't mimic your old voice anymore. Will doing these exercises completely get rid of my deep voice, because if possible I'd like to have both?
These tips are super useful, especially the Noise trick. I just found out that my voice has no resonance change whatsoever until I tried this trick. My first time is a bit of a strain, but a few more days of practice helps the strain ease. The best part is I can practice this without fear of being caught. Thanks so much for these tips, sweetie~ 💖🏳⚧
In all of the methods the only way I was able to change the sound was by opening my mouth more or less, and with tapping my neck I wasn't able to change it at all. Could you explain how to just move resonance around? I don't think I fully understand
an issue I found with the bottle cap method: widening the opening of your lips also changes the sound. you do it in the video. how you are holding it can also have an effect. it still seems useful if you know to be careful about that issue, but without that knowledge im worried that its actively detrimental to peoples progress and the tapping sound goes up, but their voice doesnt change in resonance
Widening the lips (i.e. - as in a smile) is intentional. It's one part (R3) of why women tend to speak with more bright voices, they've been socialized to smile more. So she's intentionally changing the shape of the lips here as part of the exercise, not on accident.
Z, I was wondering if you could perhaps make a video (or include in another video) something about some issues that I've been having. I generally practice my voice as I walk to the bus stop and that's been progressing nicely (if slowly), and I've noticed that my voice does pretty well as a cashier; however, I've noticed when I get home or on days off when I'm chilling all day at home, my voice seems to shit itself. Like if I talk to my mom, the pitch might be lower or the timbre may be rough and not-so-feminine. I'm trying to figure out what's happening and I've tried drinking more water but so far I've had little to no success. I would say that my average pitch at work might be 190-200 Hz while my average at home is probably somewhere around 170 Hz. I've considered whether it's because I'm more relaxed and perhaps not vocalizing as strongly at home (as walking on the street, I have to compete with passing cars) but at work, I don't vocalize as much either, though perhaps a bit more. It could possibly some awkwardness with my voice around my mom but I've been out for 20+ years, so I don't know about that. Anyhow, if you have any ideas, that would be cool.
The first method is actually probably pretty familiar to a bunch of people. There are a lot of those videos out there "put your phone to your mouth and sing" kind of things where the video is just notes and the goal is sort of like a talk box effect. A lot of people may recognize Harder Better Faster Stronger by Daft Punk (or the one Kanye West did). Personally, I love that because of that familiarity since I've played around with that concept for years, way before I was out or even had the slightest suspicion
People have sent me here to understand how the tapping-on-neck thing works but I still don’t get it. I just hear the sound of my finger hitting my skin.
that means you aren't holding your breath. It only works if the vocal folds close and nose closes. The easy way to make sure you do both at once is to hold your breath. :)
yea! I recommend starting with basic weight and pitch exploration. Resonance is fun to do but imo it's best explored after you get comfortable being a bit higher and lighter.
I struggle to find a good place to tap the neck, I get almost no sound out of it, but the bottle cap method works very well and is fun to play melodies on.
Hi! I am new to your channel but just wanted to say you have a fantastic voice and great tips and explanations. I have a good voice I think (I don't have issues passing) but I think I've only understood *why* and how it works after watching your videos on resonance. They also opened me to how it could be even better. Do you plan on making any videos on how to apply these techniques to singing? I would love to hear what you have to say on the matter of getting better resonance and better pitch in the context of singing.
venting here cuz i figure yall in the community likely know the feeling and may have ideas. i'm no expert as my vocal knowledge is something of a hodgepodge after years of related interests, so take my conclusions with a grain of salt. these have helped me make a lot of progress, but it still feels like i'm hitting a hard block. i can mimic the sound effects by adjusting my throat muscles with the noise and a pitch-producing app (usually use 197 hz) with a fair degree of success. with the exercises i'm then able to reproduce the adjustments without the noise/app and work on speaking. when i convert it to speech though it feels way too bright and forward, almost exaggerated. i've a baritone voice with a nasally midwestern accent (using a pitch monitor app i seem to stick from around E2/F2 to E3/F3 when keeping it at what seems like baseline; G2/A2 are about the middle of the road for me). With the accent my voice always feels fairly thin/bright but somehow heavy (not a great combo; it's always seemed to cut through a room obnoxiously). anybody have any ideas on what to do?
About holding my breath, I need to "close" my throat, right? Because I can also hold my breath by not moving my diaphragm without moving anything in my throat
When trying to follow the example you said for the ideal noise I find it almost impossible to get there. Do you just keep forcing your voice until you are able to get to that area or am I just doing it wrong?
Hi Z! I sent you an email a few days ago through the website for classes and was wondering whats your average response time? I was thinking of sending another one but if your busy I don’t want to overmessage! Thanks in advance :)
Hi! We are super swamped all the time but we are currently booking for August. If you send another we should be able to sneak you in :) dont be afraid of over messaging we are like thousands of messages deep now :(
I wish I understood the noise exercise better, but it feels like I'm just changing the shape of my lips/mouth. I also end up licking and lipping my phone, which is gross. lol
This gets to the heart of how to start adjusting my resonance. Thanks! Can you recommend a free or cheap Android sound analysis app or Windows software that will show something like what is on this video?
How do I tell of I'm using the resonance of my vocal tract and not just the resonance of the inside of my mouth? Like, I don't understand what to do to actually try and change my resonance. P.S. the flick neck trick doesn't work for me. I get no sound from doing that. Sorry. I've asked a lot of questions on your videos past couple days but I didn't know this level of feminization was possible and now I'm obsessed with getting there to alleviate my dysphoria. But I feel like I just don't understand very well
I want to preface by saying I haven't had a chance to watch the video yet but I fully intend to so if my question is answered there awesome. But I just wanted to ask about voice lessons. I sent out an email using the contact form on your page and hadn't got any word back. Just wondering if you're really backed up with emails or if there's something else I need to do?
I still don’t understand what muscles I’m moving 😭 I also don’t understand the r2 and r1 stuff. I’ve been practicing on and off for a while but recently I’ve been doing a lot better. Honestly I’ve just done stuff with my voice till it worked 😂 now I can kind of manage my voice, but i struggle to hold it
