In all things, we start as beginners. However, it's typically easier and less emotionally painful to make mistakes in other skills or crafts. Individuals with dysphoria tend to wrap their validity up into voice. When combined with the fact that voice is unique in that the only way to really make progress is to take action it can create recipes for hopelessness and anxiety of failure. Making mistakes is completely normal. They are the educational moments that pave the way to success.
2:43 I would like to add: For some people might work the argument that you are just trying to learn "a girl voice" for fun, to troll your friends or whatever, because some cis male folks actually do that, Natt for example
You're a fascinating person, like some kind of genius. Maybe you don't think that way of yourself, but very few people are that observant, articulate and resilient. Your work is immensely influential and inspiring... Thank you for sharing your rare gift with the world 🌺💕
The Andro voice is probably the closest to my goal voice! Also I was leaning towards a tracheal shave but now i'm more worried as I didn't find so many complications that was mentioned.
Keep in mind my numbers may be sample biased since people often bring up voice related things to me. My sample size in that anecdote is about 22-28 people. Recently a friend and former student got a trach shave and had zero issues. They got it done with an otolaryngologist. As with any surgery, YMMV
I live in an unsupportive environment and it's very tricky for me to practice feminizing my voice. I haven't given up on my gender identity, though. But OMG I SO want you to make a video on how to practice my voice in unsupportive environments! My dream is to transition to as girly as I can get, even hyperfeminizing a little. But I'm worried that sooner or later I'll be caught.
Thank you! I am happy to inspire you. It's a bit strange cause I feel doing non-voice content on this channel might not be the best move but I guess I'll try it anyway. :D
Just wanted to say you are such an inspiration! I've always hated my voice, even before my egg cracked, but your advice and videos give me so much hope that I can overcome it!
Say the words "Soooo Cuuuute" as high as possible, like you're looking at infinite kittens, and every time you say it, go higher (and softer). Doing this pushes my voice box up and in.
i’m still trying to wrap my head around the fact that you made the scrap mechanic ost… i bought the game a long way back, and the music in it was always so beautiful and haunting. some of my favourite memories were driving around to various tiles on the map, trying to piece together the lore of the world, and the music creating the majority of that image. basically, i wanna thank you! no clue if you’ll see this, but i wanted to write it just in case :)
Your Aspirate Andro Voice at 02:04 is incredible and the frequency ranges from 157hz - 185hz. That's an amazing example of how pitch isn't that relevant.
your lessons mean so so so so much, (I move out in a few days from toxic parents who are extremely transphobic), I absolutely cannot wait to utilize the tools you have give me and so many others who desperately needed it.
Infinitely thankful !!! It would have been such a different, worse, and strange timeline of my life if that moment had not happened. I'm so grateful for your friendship and insights, Tom!!!!
I just found this channel yesterday and I have to say. In addition to you being very down to earth you also break down the information and material into bite sized segments. This makes the material more easily processed and easier to understand and more fun to practice. It feels great to know how to play with ones voice and feel comfort knowing not only how it works but also why something might not work.
Oh my GOD!! I was not expecting the Broodwar pull--I grew up with it and fell in love with the pro scene last year. I watch all the ASL matches with my 65 year-old Dad and it's just my favorite thing--I've been wanting to get into playing but it feels really intimidating (both gameplay and community) so it's really comforting to see another trans face in the community!!!!!! PS: Thank you so much for all your videos, work, and art. SO inspirational
That's honestly so awesome you can connect with your dad by watching Starcraft! I love BW so much. It's so beautiful. ZvP is probably my favorite matchup to spectate at the pro level. I've been watching Korean Proleagues since ~2004 with iloveoov vs Boxer. Can't describe how much "at home" it feels to watch. :D
@@TransVoiceLessons YES-PvZ is the best match up to watch-the ASL finals were such a treat last month. Funnily enough, I’m actually watching a great pro-series PvZ right now that Artosis has been casting-Stork vs yabsab. Really cool seeing how an old hand like Stork has been adapting mini’s corner-cutting style-highly recommend!! Brilliant games
Your videos are my new favorite thing. For a few years now, I had given up on my voice because I was ashamed of it. Even though I've been out for close to six years, I still have a lot of internalized transphobia, and sometimes I just reflexively feel really scared or endangered whenever I do something that others could perceive as me "trying to" be feminine. But your videos make vocal feminization feel like a really safe space to explore and I feel like I'm finally starting to find my own voice
Have you considered making a video on vocal-underdoers, or talking more clearly? I have a really hard time speaking in a clean, pure, easy-to-understand way without sounding like a robot which I in my opinion you do do really well!
Absolutely planning to make content for vocal underdoers. Talking more clearly can be interpreted a lot of ways so I can't comment on that one right now.
Thank you so much for answering my question! Also you are absolutely right about your answer. Internalized transphobia is definitely a real thing. I've been coming to terms with being trans for months now and I even tried coming out to a gender-fluid friend of mine (which I kinds sorta succeeded at). I still cannot say the sentence "I am transgender" out loud. It's a really rough thing, ya know. It triggers bad imposter syndrome for me and when I really want to tell someone I get that same anxious feeling I would get as a child when I would admit to doing something wrong and get in trouble ya know. Not sure if I put that into the correct words lol. But still, it's comforting knowing that I'm not the only person who experiences that 🙂.
I came out as genderfluid too at first even though I knew I identified as something else. It helped feel less dysphoria when my body didn't align with what I wanted. I only did it to make it easier on myself to process the pain of dysphoria. So I feel that
In response to these sort of things, I developed the epiphany that the Foundation of Respect is adopting people's decisions about themselves and not imposing our decisions onto others. It comes from a place of self-respect to reject negation from others. just let go of the negation, as What we focus on, expands, and we use our time in the best ways that we can.
Not to brag but... I appeared in the video. Thanks a lot, really interesting to watch, I worry sometimes about losing my masculine voice, I'm just too insecure probably, but hearing how much your voice has changed is really inspiring, I wouldn't mind having only one voice if it sounds like that
You play broodwar? Awesome! Ive been a Scarlett fan forever. I play zerg in sc1 and 2 myself but im mediocre at best. I wonder if this is is one of those little known trans stereotypes.
I was a Terran player for ~19 years. Just switched to Zerg recently I like the micro and macro of Zerg better. Moving tanks is annoying lol! I like bio terran control though.
Yes, tanks ARE annoying! I dont have the apm for it. I usually rely on macro and mass hyrdas to win. Sc2 I'm a little more versatile but not by much lol
Just wanted to drop by and say tysm, I really appreciate how these explanations work. So much better than the vague cliche phrases other people have said, specifically about singing and voice therapy. It's hard or impossible to put feelings into words unless you've actually felt that feeling before, so as a beginner I was just completely lost. But not anymore!
Best game ever made. I would love to make a video on a map I've been creating since 2015. I've been map making on BW since 2000! Was an early member of clan Oo and (U). I can't stress how formative that game has been to my life. I love supporting the BW scene like artosis, tasteless, and the foreigner pro scene (Western pro scene). I watch all the non foreigner Korean pro matches! :)
@@TransVoiceLessons I still love watching ASL when it's going. I never got into map making but I played so many use map settings games back in the day. Pretty much burned through a few summers in high school just playing brood war all day long. I don't play it online anymore but I do still reinstall and do the campaign's at least once a year. That game made a huge impact on me.
@@Vivi2372 yessssss to all of that. ASL is so sick! Graduated high-school with a 1.8 GPA bcuz literally all I did was write music and play BW/diablo 2 lolll
I hope you the best of luck with your VFS! :) I could never go through with a trach shave or VFS cause the risk is too high given my career but I'm happy those options exist for those who want them. Sending good vibes!!
@@TransVoiceLessons After seeing the brilliant results of so many from Yeson I had pretty much made up my mind in that instant! I figure VFS from Yeson combined with your training videos will accelerate transitioning my voice dramatically. Just started HRT like 2 months ago so I have a ways to go and I'm not in any hurry! By the way you mentioned your next song "Hex"; you're not referring to the HEX cryptocurrency are you?
i used to sing in a choir, and due to me being 🥚 i AVOIDED being an Alto at all costs but was still "very cis manly man" lmao 😂😅 but yeah it means i still have good range and could do the things you said in the last vid pretty easy. i also nornally speak about an octave higher normally above the falsetto, which i worked out is in the ~150-200 Hz range. but yeah thanks, ive been working on reducing weight to sound less masc. one thing is, i have a stutter, but thankfully with voice training it isnt an issue at all. also my adhd meds have helped it alot too! im really hoping my stutter will improve with voice training too, because neuroplasticity, higher confidence, etc. really interestingly, the majority of my issues with my stutter has been when using my masc voice and when speaking/recording to others. my stutter also varies alot. it goes from basically nonexistent to i basically cannot speak sometimes. so i wonder if it's partly dysphoria related?
@@TransVoiceLessons So lovely you responded to little me :) I am doing better now. I am also dont have any wealthy backround to start from. So I honore you what you already achived. You are the person I would love to a buy a drink and spend time talking :)
One intermediate way to discretely practice is to play a game like Dungeons and Dragons and play a character of a different voice. Not the same as talking to people regularly but it's better than nothing!
6 to 8 months same thought it was impossible month 7 basically crying bc of voice. month 9 i'm going in as confident as ever bc i figured out how to separate residence from pitch. Now if i could just learn how to sing. I tryed practising "alive and well and things seem like there always on the up." it's from one of my favorite songs. Also it makes me feel alive and well.
Not sure if you'll see this, but I'm transfemme and have some not fun vocal damage from years of laryngopharyngeal reflux and it makes it more painful and difficult to voice train. Would you be able to talk about dealing with vocal damage and how that affects feminization at some point? Love your work
Hi, I am Zhea, Petra-B from Kent, in South East England, I identify as non-binary, I connect with my female chums, My voice varies in the 220 to 240 Hz area, I do not use falsetto if I can help it, I do my androgynous voice if I am dubious of some one is appears over-macho, much love Petra-B ❤
I have recently found that I'm genderfluid, but ranging more between non-binary/androgynous and feminine without really going masc. I have struggled a lot with voice and identity, because on one hand I really want a voice that can do what anime voice actors do. In particular, women in anime screaming orders, like in the military, triggers an intense longing and a weird kind of euphoria imagining myself being her. I also like the singer in a Japanese band called Lightbringer. When her voice goes really high I just feel free and I want to do it do. It's like watching birds fly and wish you could fly too. On the other hand it doesn't quite feel like me. I can't see myself speaking like that all the time. I didn't know about Savannah Brown until you mentioned her, but I think that's the kind of voice I could see myself speak with. Most voices that really fascinate me (although not all) are deeper or otherwise not high pitched. Another one of my favorite voices is Hikari Mitsushima.
Hallo Z, please, would you be able to make some video for MTF people how to learn femine singing? There is non on youtube i think, and you would be first. Take care. Love you.
Idk that much about the actual vocal anatomy or techniques involved but it's kind of interesting how you can do that demon voice and still have trouble doing a male voice despite a good amount of time trying to get back to practicing it
The demon voice there is created via epiglottal trilling. It actually doesn't use the vocal folds at all. Using my vocal folds to generate increasingly lower and heavier sounds (except for strohbass stuff) is what I struggle with these days. So the epiglottal stuff lets me bypass that lowness barrier and go suuuuper lower.
Yea, it's honestly kind of wild. Thinking back to my thoughts when I first started.... I felt so scared, hopeless, and lost. Now I get frustrated I can't sound more masculine sometimes lol. Strange how things change.
Have you ever dealt with anybody with cerebral palsy who wants feminization so much but is afraid that the brain damage would make this even more difficult if possible
1:54 i like this part some much because i have one VERY important question. when i finally master my girl voice can i start practicing extreme vocals or it will affect the girl voice?
What is the program you're using to play the chords in question #12? I love making microtonal music and I would enjoy playing around with different tunings.
is it possible for you to do a video tutorial on exactly how to set up the Spectro analyzer exactly how you have yours? In many of your videos you have set ranges and when trying to follow along it can be difficult without having a comparison
Sure. I am kind of sketched out by making a lot of videos using software though. We should always be listening above all else and beginners can sometimes see voice software and end up staring at a screen practicing voice. Voice analysis software definitely has a use but it can be easily abused or misused by beginners so by opening that can of worms here it might do more harm than good. I'll consider it though! Maybe a video even explaining the use cases for it to try and stop the analysis abuse :D
Hey Zheanna.. i have a question, will be awesome to hear your opinion. As we get old will it be possible to still have so feminine voice after we train it? Or will it change or be hard to keep like that
Yes, we will absolutely be able to maintain our feminine voices as we age. Aging of the voice *does* occur, but it doesn't have to impact our ability to feminize. I've worked with students in their 70s and 80s who are still able to feminize and in some cases have maintained their feminine voice for 60 years. Long term it's more about behavioral normalization. We will sound older though -- but there are techniques to "deage" the sound of a voice.
How did you go about feminizing your hands? They look so pretty, delicate, and soft, so I’m just wondering if it’s basically all genetics or if you’ve got any tricks up your sleeve
I use tretinoin on my hands. But that just stops them from aging. I haven't done anything to feminize my hands. I've gotten a lot of comments about them throughout my life even when I was pre-transition. I don't notice them myself. They just feel like appendages of creation.
Absolutely! You don't even need feminization for a whistle tone (m3). Trying practicing with lots of adduction and slowly inhaling to make sound at first. Controlling whistle tone is what is hard, not producing it at all. :)
No not really. Power chords are Root - Fifth - Octave in 12-note equal temperament. 12-note equal's fifth is off by 1.95 cents. Equal divisions of the octave cause all of the frequency relationships to be irrational ratios. Just intonation is the use of rational ratios to make frequency relationship. We could tune the power chord justly and it would be a 2:3:4 frequency relationship though. A powerchord is just a fifth and an octave. The chords I was playing are deep extended chords in just intonation: 37:45:50:56:60:67:68:89 vs 2:3:4
Amazing youtube content! I wish it existed when I was a beginner. :) I studied orchestration, harmony, and counterpoint through old texts, modern texts, and lots of experimentation. I love how he integrates sound so well into his video lectures. That's a gift of the new medium of video content!!
@@TransVoiceLessons awesome and thanks for a response! I just have a brother who philosophically perceives any identity at all as heavily socially constructed which also challenges some of the ways in which I perceive myself as a potential trans woman, so while not directly transphobic, it would be nice to conceal what I can until ready to face the world as myself...
I would literally LOVE to. I have so many things I've made that I spent years making on there I'd love to share. Not sure how that would "perform" on my channel tho T_T
@@TransVoiceLessons You could always try streaming it sometime! If it doesn't perform quite as well as your main content, it could still be fun. Even a hundred or so viewers would still be like a lecture hall full of people watching BW :v
For some reason, when I heard the Bill Clinton voice I thought haha, the voice wasnt that perfect b/c it's too feminine but it's good enough for a girl. Now, I'm like wait ...ehhhhhh...
I am personally still struggling on pitch like I can get my voice thinner but not high enough, is there anything u can recommend to help with that because I’m still not quite getting it
It would depend on what's causing your struggle which would require me to hear it. In general though, it's okay to struggle when you're first taking action. Experiment a lot and try to find the solution to the problem by trying out lots of different things.
no they don't have clear names in all cases because these aren't 12-equal temperament. Only 12edo and some pythagorean or meantone extended systems have clear chord names. Chords built in JI which have similar quality to 12edo structures can easily be named but even something as simple as: 8:10:11:13:15 doesn't have a clear name. I'd have to call it MajS4n6vM7 (Maj, super fourth, neutral 6, down major 7) which is not ideal. I have done my best to give names to novel structures but there are far too many and the old chord names are far too low resolution to capture all. You can see some of my names for these on the Primodal Chord Archive on the Xenharmonic wiki and some of my categorical names popping up during the demonstration here. However, even if you give these discrete names, which is a great objective, there an infinite amount of ways to tune any abstract chord type due to the way just intonation and rational tuning system works. For example, Major triad can be expressed by 4:5:6 or by 22:28:33 or by 34:43:51. These are all **major** triads. They are just tuned differently. Thus, the ratio enumerated is the only way to accurately describe the blueprints to the chord while the chord name is just a rough categorical description.
Question two is comforting, in a way, since it shows that even those mastering a skill have to start somewhere in a potentially frustrating journey
In all things, we start as beginners. However, it's typically easier and less emotionally painful to make mistakes in other skills or crafts. Individuals with dysphoria tend to wrap their validity up into voice. When combined with the fact that voice is unique in that the only way to really make progress is to take action it can create recipes for hopelessness and anxiety of failure. Making mistakes is completely normal. They are the educational moments that pave the way to success.
2:43 I would like to add: For some people might work the argument that you are just trying to learn "a girl voice" for fun, to troll your friends or whatever, because some cis male folks actually do that, Natt for example
you could also say its for playing female D&D characters
You're a fascinating person, like some kind of genius. Maybe you don't think that way of yourself, but very few people are that observant, articulate and resilient. Your work is immensely influential and inspiring... Thank you for sharing your rare gift with the world 🌺💕
This is very kind. I'm thankful to receive such words and thankful to have such reception towards what I produce in this lifetime. 💕
@@TransVoiceLessons agree
The aspirate andro voice tho 👍 we need a tutorial for this one
I'd looove to.
The Andro voice is probably the closest to my goal voice!
Also I was leaning towards a tracheal shave but now i'm more worried as I didn't find so many complications that was mentioned.
Keep in mind my numbers may be sample biased since people often bring up voice related things to me. My sample size in that anecdote is about 22-28 people. Recently a friend and former student got a trach shave and had zero issues. They got it done with an otolaryngologist. As with any surgery, YMMV
Absolutely same! Any tips @TransVoiceLessons?
@@TransVoiceLessons I don't think my @ worked, but do you have any videos or tips on the aspirate andro voice?
I live in an unsupportive environment and it's very tricky for me to practice feminizing my voice. I haven't given up on my gender identity, though. But OMG I SO want you to make a video on how to practice my voice in unsupportive environments!
My dream is to transition to as girly as I can get, even hyperfeminizing a little. But I'm worried that sooner or later I'll be caught.
Your burning passion for sound and life really inspires me a lot, thank you! Also, can't wait to see more non-voice content from you.
Thank you! I am happy to inspire you. It's a bit strange cause I feel doing non-voice content on this channel might not be the best move but I guess I'll try it anyway. :D
I mean, doing non-voice stuff here would indeed feel a little off, but I think it's worth trying out
@@TransVoiceLessons You could always put some of it on a separate channel and link it at the end of videos.
Headphones, hair, and cami coordinate really well. effortless fit
Just wanted to say you are such an inspiration! I've always hated my voice, even before my egg cracked, but your advice and videos give me so much hope that I can overcome it!
I'm so glad! You can crush it!
Say the words "Soooo Cuuuute" as high as possible, like you're looking at infinite kittens, and every time you say it, go higher (and softer). Doing this pushes my voice box up and in.
i’m still trying to wrap my head around the fact that you made the scrap mechanic ost… i bought the game a long way back, and the music in it was always so beautiful and haunting. some of my favourite memories were driving around to various tiles on the map, trying to piece together the lore of the world, and the music creating the majority of that image. basically, i wanna thank you! no clue if you’ll see this, but i wanted to write it just in case :)
i love this comment so much. that's seriously amazing to read. such a small world. i'm glad the OST touched you so much!
Gender dysphoria when a new video is posted :
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Your Aspirate Andro Voice at 02:04 is incredible and the frequency ranges from 157hz - 185hz. That's an amazing example of how pitch isn't that relevant.
your lessons mean so so so so much, (I move out in a few days from toxic parents who are extremely transphobic), I absolutely cannot wait to utilize the tools you have give me and so many others who desperately needed it.
Good luck ❤️❤️❤️ please stay safe
@@丛雨线 Great now!! I am already to the point my natural voice is unrecognizable to my google assistant! Lol
Aw, the part where you're reflecting on Schoenberg is so sweet!
Linking you that piece was my personal contribution to society. My work here is done xD
Infinitely thankful !!! It would have been such a different, worse, and strange timeline of my life if that moment had not happened. I'm so grateful for your friendship and insights, Tom!!!!
I just found this channel yesterday and I have to say. In addition to you being very down to earth you also break down the information and material into bite sized segments. This makes the material more easily processed and easier to understand and more fun to practice. It feels great to know how to play with ones voice and feel comfort knowing not only how it works but also why something might not work.
Oh my GOD!! I was not expecting the Broodwar pull--I grew up with it and fell in love with the pro scene last year. I watch all the ASL matches with my 65 year-old Dad and it's just my favorite thing--I've been wanting to get into playing but it feels really intimidating (both gameplay and community) so it's really comforting to see another trans face in the community!!!!!!
PS: Thank you so much for all your videos, work, and art. SO inspirational
That's honestly so awesome you can connect with your dad by watching Starcraft! I love BW so much. It's so beautiful. ZvP is probably my favorite matchup to spectate at the pro level. I've been watching Korean Proleagues since ~2004 with iloveoov vs Boxer. Can't describe how much "at home" it feels to watch. :D
@@TransVoiceLessons YES-PvZ is the best match up to watch-the ASL finals were such a treat last month. Funnily enough, I’m actually watching a great pro-series PvZ right now that Artosis has been casting-Stork vs yabsab. Really cool seeing how an old hand like Stork has been adapting mini’s corner-cutting style-highly recommend!! Brilliant games
Your videos are my new favorite thing. For a few years now, I had given up on my voice because I was ashamed of it. Even though I've been out for close to six years, I still have a lot of internalized transphobia, and sometimes I just reflexively feel really scared or endangered whenever I do something that others could perceive as me "trying to" be feminine. But your videos make vocal feminization feel like a really safe space to explore and I feel like I'm finally starting to find my own voice
Have you considered making a video on vocal-underdoers, or talking more clearly? I have a really hard time speaking in a clean, pure, easy-to-understand way without sounding like a robot which I in my opinion you do do really well!
Absolutely planning to make content for vocal underdoers. Talking more clearly can be interpreted a lot of ways so I can't comment on that one right now.
its insane that with those videos im going to not only achieve voice i want but also be able to make children and bill clinton voices for my dnd games
I'm so happy that you are making videos again 💕
Just now starting to feel healthy after a year of celiac related illness. Still have a long way to go but I'm feeling my energy and wellness return.
As a massive Sigur Rós and Kendrick Lamar, I must say, your answer to my question was very nice
Thank you so much for answering my question! Also you are absolutely right about your answer. Internalized transphobia is definitely a real thing. I've been coming to terms with being trans for months now and I even tried coming out to a gender-fluid friend of mine (which I kinds sorta succeeded at). I still cannot say the sentence "I am transgender" out loud. It's a really rough thing, ya know. It triggers bad imposter syndrome for me and when I really want to tell someone I get that same anxious feeling I would get as a child when I would admit to doing something wrong and get in trouble ya know. Not sure if I put that into the correct words lol. But still, it's comforting knowing that I'm not the only person who experiences that 🙂.
I came out as genderfluid too at first even though I knew I identified as something else. It helped feel less dysphoria when my body didn't align with what I wanted. I only did it to make it easier on myself to process the pain of dysphoria. So I feel that
In response to these sort of things, I developed the epiphany that the Foundation of Respect is adopting people's decisions about themselves and not imposing our decisions onto others. It comes from a place of self-respect to reject negation from others. just let go of the negation, as What we focus on, expands, and we use our time in the best ways that we can.
Not to brag but... I appeared in the video. Thanks a lot, really interesting to watch, I worry sometimes about losing my masculine voice, I'm just too insecure probably, but hearing how much your voice has changed is really inspiring, I wouldn't mind having only one voice if it sounds like that
You play broodwar? Awesome! Ive been a Scarlett fan forever. I play zerg in sc1 and 2 myself but im mediocre at best. I wonder if this is is one of those little known trans stereotypes.
I was a Terran player for ~19 years. Just switched to Zerg recently I like the micro and macro of Zerg better. Moving tanks is annoying lol! I like bio terran control though.
Yes, tanks ARE annoying! I dont have the apm for it. I usually rely on macro and mass hyrdas to win. Sc2 I'm a little more versatile but not by much lol
Just wanted to drop by and say tysm, I really appreciate how these explanations work. So much better than the vague cliche phrases other people have said, specifically about singing and voice therapy. It's hard or impossible to put feelings into words unless you've actually felt that feeling before, so as a beginner I was just completely lost. But not anymore!
Brood War hype!!!!
Best game ever made. I would love to make a video on a map I've been creating since 2015. I've been map making on BW since 2000! Was an early member of clan Oo and (U). I can't stress how formative that game has been to my life. I love supporting the BW scene like artosis, tasteless, and the foreigner pro scene (Western pro scene). I watch all the non foreigner Korean pro matches! :)
@@TransVoiceLessons I still love watching ASL when it's going. I never got into map making but I played so many use map settings games back in the day. Pretty much burned through a few summers in high school just playing brood war all day long.
I don't play it online anymore but I do still reinstall and do the campaign's at least once a year. That game made a huge impact on me.
@@Vivi2372 yessssss to all of that. ASL is so sick! Graduated high-school with a 1.8 GPA bcuz literally all I did was write music and play BW/diablo 2 lolll
I think a video about training in a unsupportive environment would be really helpful to a lot of people.
I would love a video on microtonality and alternative tuning systems!
I did a livestream on my music channel for it. If I do content like that, I'd probably do it on that channel.
Holy Shit. I just Stumbled upon a Voice Master Black Belt!
yes!! :D
You inspire me so much thank you for what you do! I plan to go through Yeson!
I hope you the best of luck with your VFS! :) I could never go through with a trach shave or VFS cause the risk is too high given my career but I'm happy those options exist for those who want them. Sending good vibes!!
@@TransVoiceLessons After seeing the brilliant results of so many from Yeson I had pretty much made up my mind in that instant! I figure VFS from Yeson combined with your training videos will accelerate transitioning my voice dramatically. Just started HRT like 2 months ago so I have a ways to go and I'm not in any hurry!
By the way you mentioned your next song "Hex"; you're not referring to the HEX cryptocurrency are you?
@@BMindfulofLove sounds like a plan!! I'm sure you'll absolutely crush it! Nah Hex as in curses, hexes, enchantments, magic. :)
You are such a role model for me, obviously in voice but also just in well everything. Thank you for all your videos🥰🥰
i used to sing in a choir, and due to me being 🥚 i AVOIDED being an Alto at all costs but was still "very cis manly man" lmao 😂😅 but yeah it means i still have good range and could do the things you said in the last vid pretty easy. i also nornally speak about an octave higher normally above the falsetto, which i worked out is in the ~150-200 Hz range. but yeah thanks, ive been working on reducing weight to sound less masc.
one thing is, i have a stutter, but thankfully with voice training it isnt an issue at all. also my adhd meds have helped it alot too! im really hoping my stutter will improve with voice training too, because neuroplasticity, higher confidence, etc.
really interestingly, the majority of my issues with my stutter has been when using my masc voice and when speaking/recording to others. my stutter also varies alot. it goes from basically nonexistent to i basically cannot speak sometimes. so i wonder if it's partly dysphoria related?
Hallo Z, you still inspire me
Lovely to hear from you! I hope you are well!
@@TransVoiceLessons So lovely you responded to little me :) I am doing better now. I am also dont have any wealthy backround to start from. So I honore you what you already achived. You are the person I would love to a buy a drink and spend time talking :)
BT and Snails House are extremely in my wheelhouse
One intermediate way to discretely practice is to play a game like Dungeons and Dragons and play a character of a different voice. Not the same as talking to people regularly but it's better than nothing!
6 to 8 months same thought it was impossible month 7 basically crying bc of voice. month 9 i'm going in as confident as ever bc i figured out how to separate residence from pitch. Now if i could just learn how to sing. I tryed practising "alive and well and things seem like there always on the up." it's from one of my favorite songs. Also it makes me feel alive and well.
you're voice is awesome! i checked out your YT channel!
@@TransVoiceLessons thx
Of course you're a BW player too!! lol
Coolest person alive, honestly
Your aspirate andro voice is awesome!
Glad you think so!
Not sure if you'll see this, but I'm transfemme and have some not fun vocal damage from years of laryngopharyngeal reflux and it makes it more painful and difficult to voice train. Would you be able to talk about dealing with vocal damage and how that affects feminization at some point?
Love your work
No way we use the same eyeliner 😍
thank you for the video!
Hi, I am Zhea, Petra-B from Kent, in South East England, I identify as non-binary, I connect with my female chums, My voice varies in the 220 to 240 Hz area, I do not use falsetto if I can help it, I do my androgynous voice if I am dubious of some one is appears over-macho, much love Petra-B ❤
Heh, it feels like a lot of people into both sound design and composing together end up also getting into alternative tuning systems… 😊
I have recently found that I'm genderfluid, but ranging more between non-binary/androgynous and feminine without really going masc. I have struggled a lot with voice and identity, because on one hand I really want a voice that can do what anime voice actors do. In particular, women in anime screaming orders, like in the military, triggers an intense longing and a weird kind of euphoria imagining myself being her. I also like the singer in a Japanese band called Lightbringer. When her voice goes really high I just feel free and I want to do it do. It's like watching birds fly and wish you could fly too. On the other hand it doesn't quite feel like me. I can't see myself speaking like that all the time. I didn't know about Savannah Brown until you mentioned her, but I think that's the kind of voice I could see myself speak with. Most voices that really fascinate me (although not all) are deeper or otherwise not high pitched. Another one of my favorite voices is Hikari Mitsushima.
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I asked you about voice surgery thank you!! Bridget
Did she?
A tutorial for aspirate andro voice would be amazing
You should make Udemy class for voice to handle all the requests.
I'll look into that! I currently soft launched auto booking which is gonna help a ton. Thanks for the suggestion!
Hallo Z, please, would you be able to make some video for MTF people how to learn femine singing? There is non on youtube i think, and you would be first. Take care. Love you.
Idk that much about the actual vocal anatomy or techniques involved but it's kind of interesting how you can do that demon voice and still have trouble doing a male voice despite a good amount of time trying to get back to practicing it
The demon voice there is created via epiglottal trilling. It actually doesn't use the vocal folds at all. Using my vocal folds to generate increasingly lower and heavier sounds (except for strohbass stuff) is what I struggle with these days. So the epiglottal stuff lets me bypass that lowness barrier and go suuuuper lower.
CHILLIN W MY HOMIES AHHHHH 2006 just hit me like a brick
First time being early to one of your videos. Just wanted to say hi!
🤓 hiii
i love the bill clinton voice. so much meme potential.
You’ve spent so much time on training your voice to where you can’t sound like a man anymore even if you tried and you saved money from a surgery
Yea, it's honestly kind of wild. Thinking back to my thoughts when I first started.... I felt so scared, hopeless, and lost. Now I get frustrated I can't sound more masculine sometimes lol. Strange how things change.
Cutie is back 3:
Have you ever dealt with anybody with cerebral palsy who wants feminization so much but is afraid that the brain damage would make this even more difficult if possible
That's a great question. I don't believe I have. But I am always open to learning and trying.
1:54 i like this part some much because i have one VERY important question. when i finally master my girl voice can i start practicing extreme vocals or it will affect the girl voice?
I had a panic attack when you talked about internalised transphobia aaaaaaa
Luv this
Thanks!
Thank you!!
14:27
needed this
What is the program you're using to play the chords in question #12? I love making microtonal music and I would enjoy playing around with different tunings.
That is Scala, the freeware scale and tuning program. It's incredible. www.huygens-fokker.org/scala/
@@TransVoiceLessons WOO thank you!
would you be able to dedicate a video to voiceless exercises? if you haven't already lol
i really like the aspirate andro voice, i request a tutorial on it, just a request of course
Yeeaaaah more brood war!
Your stunning .
you're so cool
🥺🥺🥺
Love your videos, quick question, what music did you use in your intro?
All sounds in my videos are created, composed, and produced by me. The intro is an unreleased piece of music I made called Astraldove.
is it possible for you to do a video tutorial on exactly how to set up the Spectro analyzer exactly how you have yours? In many of your videos you have set ranges and when trying to follow along it can be difficult without having a comparison
Sure. I am kind of sketched out by making a lot of videos using software though. We should always be listening above all else and beginners can sometimes see voice software and end up staring at a screen practicing voice. Voice analysis software definitely has a use but it can be easily abused or misused by beginners so by opening that can of worms here it might do more harm than good. I'll consider it though! Maybe a video even explaining the use cases for it to try and stop the analysis abuse :D
Hey Zheanna.. i have a question, will be awesome to hear your opinion. As we get old will it be possible to still have so feminine voice after we train it? Or will it change or be hard to keep like that
Yes, we will absolutely be able to maintain our feminine voices as we age. Aging of the voice *does* occur, but it doesn't have to impact our ability to feminize. I've worked with students in their 70s and 80s who are still able to feminize and in some cases have maintained their feminine voice for 60 years. Long term it's more about behavioral normalization. We will sound older though -- but there are techniques to "deage" the sound of a voice.
@@TransVoiceLessons thats amazing. thank you ❤❤❤
please do a video on belting!
How did you go about feminizing your hands? They look so pretty, delicate, and soft, so I’m just wondering if it’s basically all genetics or if you’ve got any tricks up your sleeve
I use tretinoin on my hands. But that just stops them from aging. I haven't done anything to feminize my hands. I've gotten a lot of comments about them throughout my life even when I was pre-transition. I don't notice them myself. They just feel like appendages of creation.
starcraft brood war!!! ahhhhhh.
yesss. it's sooo good :)
After years of feminizing, could we possibly create a whistle tone?.
Absolutely! You don't even need feminization for a whistle tone (m3). Trying practicing with lots of adduction and slowly inhaling to make sound at first. Controlling whistle tone is what is hard, not producing it at all. :)
1st comment. Love your content
poggg
0:57 me on the third day lmfao
Intonated Chord Structure Question: What was that program? (around 11:30)
how much for the aspirate andro voice? id like to buy it!
Are those number lists similar/related to power chords? I used to do a gcg in two spots on the piano to make it rumble, it's really fun to do.
No not really. Power chords are Root - Fifth - Octave in 12-note equal temperament. 12-note equal's fifth is off by 1.95 cents. Equal divisions of the octave cause all of the frequency relationships to be irrational ratios. Just intonation is the use of rational ratios to make frequency relationship. We could tune the power chord justly and it would be a 2:3:4 frequency relationship though. A powerchord is just a fifth and an octave. The chords I was playing are deep extended chords in just intonation: 37:45:50:56:60:67:68:89 vs 2:3:4
Oh interesting, have you heard the conducted scene from Close Encounters?
Hey, Zheanna, what are your thoughts on Alan Belkin?
Amazing youtube content! I wish it existed when I was a beginner. :) I studied orchestration, harmony, and counterpoint through old texts, modern texts, and lots of experimentation. I love how he integrates sound so well into his video lectures. That's a gift of the new medium of video content!!
Heya!
Looking forward to training in unsurportive environments!
@@leedent7260 Definitely!! I've written about it a lot but haven't really addressed it fully in a video. I'll try to do that within the next 4 months.
@@TransVoiceLessons awesome and thanks for a response! I just have a brother who philosophically perceives any identity at all as heavily socially constructed which also challenges some of the ways in which I perceive myself as a potential trans woman, so while not directly transphobic, it would be nice to conceal what I can until ready to face the world as myself...
Starcraft content when?
I would literally LOVE to. I have so many things I've made that I spent years making on there I'd love to share. Not sure how that would "perform" on my channel tho T_T
@@TransVoiceLessons You could always try streaming it sometime! If it doesn't perform quite as well as your main content, it could still be fun. Even a hundred or so viewers would still be like a lecture hall full of people watching BW :v
Ooo the demon voice sounds a bit hydralisky :3
Woo Brood War represent!!!
Which race is your fav?
what software are you using at 11:45 ?
I want to know who did your FFS surgery 🥺
For some reason, when I heard the Bill Clinton voice I thought haha, the voice wasnt that perfect b/c it's too feminine but it's good enough for a girl.
Now, I'm like wait ...ehhhhhh...
1:54 made me jumpscare, not gonna lie
sry :D
gurl how old were you when started your hormone therapy its so successful
OMG THE DEMON VOICE HAHAH
epiglottal voice stuff! woo
Late comment But new question :
Zerg terran or protoss?
I am personally still struggling on pitch like I can get my voice thinner but not high enough, is there anything u can recommend to help with that because I’m still not quite getting it
It would depend on what's causing your struggle which would require me to hear it. In general though, it's okay to struggle when you're first taking action. Experiment a lot and try to find the solution to the problem by trying out lots of different things.
@@TransVoiceLessons yea I think I just need to work on the style of my voice, thank you
WHAT.... BROODWAR FAN? OH SHIT.
immense!!
You’ve been playing a game for 22 years?? Girl you LOOK 22 years! How???
how do you deal with beard hair, or body hair?
Laser hair removal or electrolysis. I don't have a beard anymore. I don't have to shave.
11:55 ok but why not just use the actual chord names instead? because all of those chords have official musical names
no they don't have clear names in all cases because these aren't 12-equal temperament. Only 12edo and some pythagorean or meantone extended systems have clear chord names. Chords built in JI which have similar quality to 12edo structures can easily be named but even something as simple as: 8:10:11:13:15 doesn't have a clear name. I'd have to call it MajS4n6vM7 (Maj, super fourth, neutral 6, down major 7) which is not ideal. I have done my best to give names to novel structures but there are far too many and the old chord names are far too low resolution to capture all. You can see some of my names for these on the Primodal Chord Archive on the Xenharmonic wiki and some of my categorical names popping up during the demonstration here. However, even if you give these discrete names, which is a great objective, there an infinite amount of ways to tune any abstract chord type due to the way just intonation and rational tuning system works. For example, Major triad can be expressed by 4:5:6 or by 22:28:33 or by 34:43:51. These are all **major** triads. They are just tuned differently. Thus, the ratio enumerated is the only way to accurately describe the blueprints to the chord while the chord name is just a rough categorical description.
@@TransVoiceLessons woah, thanks for the response
1:56
but can you pull off a full on growl?
yea. I used to scream occasionally in a metal band. Not a fan of doing it so I stopped practicing it many years ago. Prog metal was my roots.
@@TransVoiceLessons cool! What bands were you into?
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How old are ypu?