An Actually Simple MTF Trans Voice Tutorial: Bubble Phonation Enhance Resonance — Transcript

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1. 0:00you know back seeda that last voice
2. 0:02tutorial was wild we covered so much but
3. 0:05I feel like we forgot something oh you
4. 0:08forgot to save pitch we forgot to save
5. 0:10pitch hey lovely audience are you tired
6. 0:13of trans voice tutorials that require
7. 0:15either a Linguistics degree or a sound
8. 0:17engineering degree to even understand it
9. 0:20have you ever wanted a trans voice
10. 0:22tutorial that could be understood by
11. 0:24literal 5-year-olds here it is change
12. 0:27the voice from this to this out to
13. 0:30transvoice part seven improve resonance
14. 0:33with
15. 0:35bubbles wait improve resonance with what
16. 0:38back seat to pullover there's some stuff
17. 0:40we need for this exercise all right so
18. 0:42in order for us to save pitch from
19. 0:44Shadow the Hedgehog as explained the
20. 0:46other video we need strong residents
21. 0:48luckily this shop should have everything
22. 0:50we need to achieve stronger resonance so
23. 0:54to get the fancy words out of the way
24. 0:56today we're doing a thing called
25. 0:58semi-occluded Vocal Track
26. 1:00exercises this is just fancy music
27. 1:03theory talk for exercises that are done
28. 1:05with the mouth partially closed these
29. 1:08exercises help better breath control
30. 1:11voice strength and a bunch of other
31. 1:13useful things today's exercise in
32. 1:16particular is often called Bubble
33. 1:18phonation which just means we are making
34. 1:21sounds into bubbles once you have all
35. 1:25our equipment I'll explain how you can
36. 1:27do this little experiment at home so the
37. 1:30first thing we need is a water
38. 1:32bottle let's go look for one where even
39. 1:35is the water bottles anyway that I don't
40. 1:37are I swear there was like a stack of
41. 1:39Stanley Cups like right here sorry ma'am
42. 1:42those aren't trendy no more people found
43. 1:45out there was lead in it wait when did
44. 1:48this happen um months ago I don't know
45. 1:51you got to move fast to the trends these
46. 1:53days oh um I'm not really good at that I
47. 1:57can tell with your overreliance of frug
48. 2:00Aon nostalgia in your background music
49. 2:03good day ma'am leave ponga out of this
50. 2:06it was a revolutionary MMO and it was
51. 2:08ahead of its day oh I found the water
52. 2:10bottles so for today's exercise to
53. 2:12strengthen our resonance we need a water
54. 2:15bottle now we should always have a water
55. 2:18bottle when we're doing voice training
56. 2:19but today we need a water bottle that
57. 2:21you can fit a straw into it can't be
58. 2:24that hard to find a straw let's go find
59. 2:26one 3 hours later you know I Feel Like
60. 2:29Straw are a bit of a niche product I
61. 2:31have an entire section dedicated to it
62. 2:33but okay all right let's do a bubble
63. 2:35phation exercise that's our goal today
64. 2:38also known as like bubble sound the
65. 2:39bubble technique a semi- included vocal
66. 2:41tract exercise whatever why are we doing
67. 2:44this exactly that's a good question see
68. 2:47this technique allows us to practice
69. 2:48resonance but the added pressure of
70. 2:51water being able to create the desired
71. 2:53sound in the water will help strengthen
72. 2:55our ability and our vocal muscles in
73. 2:58order to produce a really strong bright
74. 3:00resonance sound all right so let's get
75. 3:03started with the sound we want to make
76. 3:05with this technique right so the sound
77. 3:07we're going to be making is like
78. 3:10a kind of sound like w o o o o o o and
79. 3:15so forth right so try it with me
80. 3:20[Music]
81. 3:22okay cool now literally place your mouth
82. 3:27into the straw okay you literally do
83. 3:30that and you end up with
84. 3:32[Music]
85. 3:34a you
86. 3:36[Music]
87. 3:39try all right now make sure you have a
88. 3:42water bottle filled with about this
89. 3:45amount okay you want most of it filled
90. 3:49but not too much otherwise you will
91. 3:52Splash
92. 3:54yourself all right so now we got a comfy
93. 3:59amount of water
94. 4:00in our water bottle so we're going to
95. 4:03place the
96. 4:04straw into the water bottle nice simply
97. 4:07put right you want to leave a little bit
98. 4:10of space right at the bottom of the
99. 4:13bottle so there's actually a spot for
100. 4:16air to come out of the straw otherwise
101. 4:19we're not going to make any sound
102. 4:21right the sound has to go somewhere now
103. 4:24when you make
104. 4:27a sound you'll notice bubbles will start
105. 4:31appearing in our little water bottle
106. 4:33here and it'll get a bubbly which is the
107. 4:36goal right so you want to try to achieve
108. 4:40that when doing it right you'll notice
109. 4:42lots of Bubbles and you'll get that
110. 4:45distinct sound you'll be able to hear
111. 4:47the bubbles being all
112. 4:51bubbly another quick thing is you want
113. 4:54your cheeks to like bounce like this in
114. 4:58the video provided you want the cheeks
115. 5:01to kind of whoop whoop whooop whoop
116. 5:03whoop whoop when you're making
117. 5:06that sound that's key that's key to all
118. 5:09of this you really want your cheeks to
119. 5:12jump up and down cuz that's the
120. 5:13resonance going to your mouth similar to
121. 5:17the technique I explained in another
122. 5:19video right so you want to make sure
123. 5:24that there's lots of bubbles in the
124. 5:25water bottle you want to make sure
125. 5:27you're making that
126. 5:29sound into the straw that's going into
127. 5:31the water and you want your cheeks to
128. 5:34kind of like a little jumpy Castle now
129. 5:37let's try and hold this down for three
130. 5:39seconds to get started all
131. 5:42right three 2
132. 5:50one
133. 5:53nice cool cool so for your practice try
134. 5:57to see if you can hold it for about 8
135. 5:59Seconds this will give you good breath
136. 6:01control while also helping your
137. 6:03residents in case you're wondering my
138. 6:06record is 15 seconds which for a voice
139. 6:09courage is a bit embarrassing but I'm
140. 6:11still
141. 6:15practicing so I know what you're
142. 6:17thinking random voice coach YouTuber
143. 6:19with a cool patreon Linked In the
144. 6:20description how do I turn this into a
145. 6:22real person voice well I'm glad you
146. 6:24asked because this is the part where we
147. 6:26apply it and make it actually you know
148. 6:29part of our actual voice instead of it
149. 6:31being random sounds in a water bottle
150. 6:35and um back Ceder is my um is my
151. 6:39background meant to look like that yeah
152. 6:41I changed it to a bookshelf yeah it's
153. 6:42just
154. 6:44um it's a little uninteresting you know
155. 6:47like um it's just a bookshelf sound
156. 6:50smarter I know it kind of makes me seem
157. 6:52smarter it's just this is a bit bit
158. 6:55performative don't you think um the
159. 6:57video is too over a stimulating yeah
160. 6:58this isn't this isn't me backseater I'm
161. 7:00sorry can we um can we put some kind of
162. 7:03Pop Culture reference behind me that's
163. 7:04not really important to the overall
164. 7:06video but is aesthetically
165. 7:09nice yeah yeah I love that game so how
166. 7:12do we apply this
167. 7:14whole sound to anything even remotely
168. 7:17practical to our own voice well I'm glad
169. 7:19you ask lovely audience when we have
170. 7:21this
171. 7:23whole sound and technique with our water
172. 7:27bottle we're actually going to try to
173. 7:30say words and sentences into the water
174. 7:32bottle it sounds
175. 7:34crazy um I questioned it at first and I
176. 7:37first L this but essentially you grab
177. 7:40the water bottle grab the straw and you
178. 7:43just kind of have like
179. 7:45a and while you're making that sound
180. 7:48you're going to try your best to say
181. 7:51words into the
182. 7:52straw the idea of this is just to get
183. 7:55used to making that sound in the straw
184. 7:57both more important is in a second we
185. 7:59going to take a mouth out of the straw
186. 8:01and make the sound in a more proper way
187. 8:05of speaking so essentially it kind of be
188. 8:07like
189. 8:14going so as you can hear there I
190. 8:16attempted to make some kind of sentence
191. 8:19you probably don't understand what I'm
192. 8:20saying that's fine um let's use a
193. 8:23sentence cuz we're already making like a
194. 8:24woo sound how about water is cool so
195. 8:28let's make like a
196. 8:30[Music]
197. 8:34that kind of sound it sounds ridiculous
198. 8:35I know I know
199. 8:37but um what we do then is after we
200. 8:44go water is cool so the idea is you do
201. 8:48it into the straw and then you
202. 8:50immediately take it out of the straw and
203. 8:52you try to say it properly but try to
204. 8:54maintain the power and the resonance
205. 8:56that we achieved from getting the
206. 8:58bubbles in the bottle in the first place
207. 9:01so if we have nice bubbles in the water
208. 9:03and we can hear it and our cheeks are
209. 9:05going
210. 9:07whooooop then your voice is probably
211. 9:09fairly resonant on average so this is
212. 9:13just a visual and audio audio indicator
213. 9:15I guess of if we're doing the technique
214. 9:18correctly now obviously this technique
215. 9:20doesn't immediately solve all resonance
216. 9:22issues but I have had students that um
217. 9:24have found doing it this way easier than
218. 9:27the other resonance techniques I've
219. 9:29taught so hey we'll see what happens
220. 9:31right let me know what you think but
221. 9:33essentially we just going to have
222. 9:38a water is
223. 9:41cool um now unlike me don't drop your
224. 9:43water bottle over and over that's not
225. 9:45good um but essentially if you keep
226. 9:48doing that you'll be able to apply
227. 9:50bubble phonation to your voice now if
228. 9:54you wanted to strengthen your voice
229. 9:56there's some other exercises you can do
230. 9:57too such as
231. 9:59drills if we were to go up and down up
232. 10:02and down up and down with our little
233. 10:04bubble exercise we could end up with
234. 10:06like
235. 10:11a like that the idea of that one is just
236. 10:14to get used to making the sound for long
237. 10:17periods of time um but adding extra
238. 10:20little obstacles you know how earlier I
239. 10:22mentioned to um try to aim for 8 seconds
240. 10:26well now try to do 8 Seconds of this
241. 10:27wall going up and down up and down up
242. 10:29and down and Pitch will this directly
243. 10:32change your voice not really it's more
244. 10:34something that strengthens your breath
245. 10:35capacity and also makes you more
246. 10:37comfortable in doing a resonance sound
247. 10:39with less issues so now that's sorted
248. 10:42you have lots of exercises to work on so
249. 10:45try to work on those like couple of
250. 10:47times each day don't do it for too long
251. 10:49in one session just do a couple and just
252. 10:50see how you go um and if it's
253. 10:53strengthens your voice that let me know
254. 10:55um if anything resonance related in this
255. 10:58video didn't make too much sense I have
256. 11:00two entire videos about resonance view
257. 11:02bubble phonation more is it's kind of
258. 11:04supplementary but for some people it
259. 11:07works better than these ones it's just a
260. 11:10personal preference I've had some
261. 11:11students prefer this and some people
262. 11:13prefer that if you do all free you'll
263. 11:15become more well-rounded that's what I
264. 11:16did um doing like all these techniques
265. 11:19and I found that very
266. 11:21helpful from all of us here at Fairy
267. 11:23Princess Lucy Channel on YouTube
268. 11:25youtube.com Fairy Princess Lucy Creator
269. 11:27code Princess Lucy we hope you have an
270. 11:29amazing holidays this year I know the
271. 11:32holidays are tough for some trans people
272. 11:33but I want you to know that there are
273. 11:36people that care about you and I'm sure
274. 11:38there's so many people that are going to
275. 11:40wish you luck in your voice goals okay
276. 11:42so thank you so so much for watching
277. 11:44this pretty crazy video as usual um be
278. 11:47sure to give feedback in the comments I
279. 11:49want to make this video better and
280. 11:51better and until then
281. 11:55I'm going to go celebrate the holidays
282. 11:59with those that mean a lot to
283. 12:03me thank you and of course stay hydrated
284. 12:07and know you're valid uh we wish you a
285. 12:09happy holidays and if you're watching
286. 12:11this outside of the tiny Niche window
287. 12:13where this can apply then I hope you
288. 12:15have a great rest of your day thank
289. 12:20you well see more I made it despite your
290. 12:23directions welcome I hope you're
291. 12:25prepared for an unforgettable Lon and
292. 12:27there I was about to steal all her trans
293. 12:30voice techniques I could have
294. 12:32monopolized the space ruled the trans
295. 12:36community of an iron fist yet here I am
296. 12:40for Christmas lunch look buddy do you
297. 12:42want to talk about
298. 12:44it I don't want to talk about it is it
299. 12:48just me or is there smoke coming out of
300. 12:50Skinner's kitchen probably not no must
301. 12:54have been the wind the wind yeah yeah
302. 12:57yeah that's reasonable
303. 12:59I hope you're ready for mouthwatering
304. 13:01hamburgers I uh I thought having steamed
305. 13:04clams no no I said steamed hams That's
306. 13:08What I Call hamburgers you call
307. 13:10hamburgers steamed hams yes it's a
308. 13:13regional dialect uhuh what region uh
309. 13:16Upstate New York really well I'm from
310. 13:19Australia so I don't know stuff about
311. 13:22Upstate New York so um I uh guess you're
312. 13:25right I guess this is steamed hams
313. 13:28everybody
314. 13:30body
315. 13:31um let's enjoy
316. 13:34it and thank you for coming along the
317. 13:37ride of trans voice let's enjoy the
318. 13:41moments in front of us be thankful for
319. 13:43what we have and hope for a better
320. 13:46future I believe in you now if you
321. 13:49excuse
322. 13:50me I got some steam hams to enjoy