An ACTUALLY Simple Trans Voice Tutorial: Pitch — Transcript

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1. 0:01Backseater, what does the scouter say of
2. 0:03Pitch's power level?
3. 0:04>> It's over 9,000.
4. 0:06What? 9,000? There's no way that can be
5. 0:09right. That's not sustainable. Pitch,
6. 0:11you got to stop. [snorts]
7. 0:15Are you tired of trans voice tutorials
8. 0:17that require either a linguistics degree
9. 0:19or a sound engineering degree to even
10. 0:21understand it? Would you like a tutorial
11. 0:23that could be comprehended by literal
12. 0:255-year-olds? Well, here it is. Learn to
13. 0:28change the voice from this [music] to
14. 0:30this. How to trans voice pitch. The most
15. 0:34requested video. I'm finally doing it.
16. 0:36So, you might be wondering, why did it
17. 0:38take me so long to make a video about
18. 0:39pitch if it was so in demand? Well,
19. 0:41truth be told, compared to other trans
20. 0:43voice techniques, pitch is not really as
21. 0:45interesting or in depth as a topic.
22. 0:48But, it's still important. So, as a
23. 0:51result, we're going to cover it today.
24. 0:52Because while you can't only do pitch,
25. 0:55you still got to do pitch in conjunction
26. 0:57with the other techniques. So, I repeat,
27. 1:00after you enjoy this voice tutorial,
28. 1:03please don't only do this technique. Do
29. 1:05it in conjunction with the other
30. 1:07techniques. But don't skip this
31. 1:09technique either. Unlike my other
32. 1:10tutorials, how about I teach you the
33. 1:12technique we're going to do first, then
34. 1:14I'll explain the theory around it. Sound
35. 1:16good? Cool. Let's go.
36. 1:17>> [music]
37. 1:18>> So, the best way I found to teach pitch
38. 1:20is similar to the way Undead Voice
39. 1:22teaches pitch in her video, which is
40. 1:24also great, by the way. The only real
41. 1:25difference between my technique and
42. 1:26Undead Voice's technique is just the
43. 1:28sound we make. So, just keep that in
44. 1:30mind. I've just found greater success of
45. 1:31changing the sound slightly. We love
46. 1:33trial and error here. So, humor me and
47. 1:35imagine a bunch of warriors behind me
48. 1:37about to charge into battle and then I
49. 1:39make like a da da da sound, right? When
50. 1:43you make this da da da, it gives you a
51. 1:45good indicator of how much higher your
52. 1:47pitch should go. Now, if it still feels
53. 1:50like it could go higher but a bit more
54. 1:51comfortably, you just got to stack it.
55. 1:53Da da da da da da da da. That kind of
56. 1:57thing, right? But do it in those little
57. 1:59intervals to find a comfortable
58. 2:01position. If you feel any strain in your
59. 2:03throat, stop.
60. 2:05Since we're already making this sound,
61. 2:07we can then tag it with a sentence. In
62. 2:10this case, I'm making it did you know?
63. 2:12So you can go da da da da, you know,
64. 2:14doesn't feel high enough. All right,
65. 2:15we'll just go a couple of times. D,
66. 2:21you know, that kind of thing. You get
67. 2:23into a general ballpark. So if you
68. 2:25master resonance in this video, for
69. 2:27example, not that one. Get that out of
70. 2:30here. That one, if you don't do pitch
71. 2:33alongside it, it'll probably sound like
72. 2:35a stereotypical bad Spongebob
73. 2:37impression, which isn't really the
74. 2:39ballpark we're going for, now is it?
75. 2:40Even when you're learning, you should
76. 2:42not feel tension or stress in your
77. 2:45throat. Okay? This is a YouTube video,
78. 2:47not professional speech pathology. I
79. 2:49can't make you sign a waiver. Okay?
80. 2:51Please don't hurt yourself. Increasing
81. 2:53the pitch is all well and good and all,
82. 2:54but if you go too high, you won't be
83. 2:56able to sustain the voice and you'll
84. 2:57probably pass out.
85. 3:00I'm okay. If we increase our pitch too
86. 3:03much, no one's going to hear us at the
87. 3:05party. And if no one around us can hear
88. 3:08us speak, then what's the point of voice
89. 3:10training? Now's the part of the video
90. 3:12where we talk about the app Voice Tools.
91. 3:14Don't worry, this isn't a sponsor. I can
92. 3:16dig on it all I want. So this app's
93. 3:18popular, really popular. Okay, so
94. 3:22essentially it shows your pitch on this
95. 3:24graph [music] here, but represents each
96. 3:26bit of pitch in these colorcoded boxes,
97. 3:29which you know lowers the barrier of
98. 3:31entry of knowing what rough pitch range
99. 3:33is considered masculine, feminine, or
100. 3:36androgynous, which just means in
101. 3:38between. The issue comes where if you
102. 3:39rely on this too much to determine your
103. 3:41progress, um, one, you'll stagnate a
104. 3:44bit. B, you're probably going to talk so
105. 3:45high you are going to hurt your throat.
106. 3:47Just because the pink box goes all the
107. 3:49way up there does not mean you have to
108. 3:51go to the very top of the pink box.
109. 3:53Okay? Most sis women talk in like the
110. 3:56lower section of this pink box. And
111. 3:58some, believe it or not, are even in the
112. 4:00androgynous zone. Talking in the
113. 4:02androgynous zone will not make you sound
114. 4:04masculine. That's not how androgyny
115. 4:07works. There's a lot of factors in trans
116. 4:09voice that shape the gender perception.
117. 4:11If your voice is in the blue box, don't
118. 4:13view that as a be all end all of how
119. 4:15your voice is going to be gendered.
120. 4:17There's no objective way to view how
121. 4:19masculine or feminine you or I sound. It
122. 4:22depends heavily on who you're talking
123. 4:23to, the culture they're in, the social
124. 4:25experience they have, that sort of
125. 4:26thing. So, just keep that in mind when
126. 4:28you know accounting for what you see in
127. 4:31this app. I'd say in the past there was
128. 4:33a misconception that trans voice is
129. 4:34purely only pitch. That's why older
130. 4:37transvoice tutorials hyper emphasize how
131. 4:40much pitch is not needed, but we've
132. 4:42accidentally caused a thing where now we
133. 4:44think pitch is completely unimportant.
134. 4:47Think of pitch is that really overrated
135. 4:49movie that your friends say or absolute
136. 4:51cinema, but they're ignoring all these
137. 4:52other movies that you like that are a
138. 4:54[music] bit underrated. View trans voice
139. 4:56techniques is all-encompassing. They're
140. 4:58all important. They all work together.
141. 5:00We just want all the techniques to be
142. 5:02acknowledged. And so we talk about pitch
143. 5:04in a bit of a strange way. So just keep
144. 5:06that in mind.
145. 5:08>> I take it you don't have a ticket.
146. 5:12There's also other ways pitch can help
147. 5:14us, but this is technically procity.
148. 5:15>> Frost one.
149. 5:16>> So for anyone that was raised with the
150. 5:18expectation they would become a man.
151. 5:20There's a couple of little social habits
152. 5:23that have intertwined into our speech.
153. 5:25If we want to speak more fem, we have to
154. 5:28undo these. For example, observe how I
155. 5:31say this sentence in a masculine and
156. 5:32feminine voice. And pay attention
157. 5:34specifically to the end of the sentence.
158. 5:36>> This is a sentence.
159. 5:38>> This is a sentence. This is a sentence.
160. 5:41So, that third one is considerably more
161. 5:43fem. The second one is pretty fem, but
162. 5:44then there's a bit of a dip at the end,
163. 5:46which is an overexaggeration of what's
164. 5:48going on in that first one. Essentially,
165. 5:50when you do voice training, you're going
166. 5:51to notice your voice will probably do
167. 5:53this at least once. You'll feel like a
168. 5:55sudden drop, like you're on a roller
169. 5:57coaster, right? We have to undo this.
170. 5:59And there's a couple of ways we can do
171. 6:00that. And this is my favorite way.
172. 6:02[music] Essentially, when you do a
173. 6:03sentence, try to extend it a little
174. 6:05longer to make the sentence well longer.
175. 6:08This sounds like this. This is a
176. 6:09sentence. Yeah, that's super
177. 6:12exaggerated. No one talks like that. But
178. 6:14every time you do that sentence, try to
179. 6:15then slowly chop it down until it sounds
180. 6:18more natural. This is a sentence. This
181. 6:20is a sentence. This is a sentence. Like
182. 6:23that. Right? This way, you'll avoid that
183. 6:25dip at the end, and you'll find the
184. 6:27sweet spot of where it sounds natural
185. 6:29inonation wise. Feminine pitches tend to
186. 6:31flick up a little bit at the end of a
187. 6:33sentence. That's what we're trying to
188. 6:34replicate here. You know, when you ask a
189. 6:36question like, "Is that good?" and our
190. 6:38pitch like bounces up. We're replicating
191. 6:40that, but slightly less exaggerated. You
192. 6:42can do a similar thing like we did
193. 6:44before, but with this rising inonation.
194. 6:47This is good. This is good.
195. 6:49The first one sounds way more unsure
196. 6:51because we're doing that rising
197. 6:52inonation as if we're asking a question.
198. 6:55We need to cut it down a little bit so
199. 6:57we sound more sure of ourselves.
200. 6:58Otherwise, that speech at school will be
201. 7:01pretty rough. In this speech, I'll
202. 7:02explain why dinosaurs are cool. I think
203. 7:06another thing to note, the voice kind of
204. 7:07jumps up and down a little bit with some
205. 7:09voices as opposed to a masculine voice
206. 7:11being a bit monotone. So, if I like had
207. 7:14the like little bit of jumping up and
208. 7:15down with the mask voice, it would sound
209. 7:17a bit like well all over the place.
210. 7:19That's kind of what we're doing with the
211. 7:20fan voice. We're kind of going up and
212. 7:22down and then up and then down and up
213. 7:23and then down and up and then down. So,
214. 7:26when I speak, you'll hear the slight
215. 7:28little jumps and jumps and jumps and
216. 7:30that kind of thing. The best way to
217. 7:32learn this specifically is mostly to
218. 7:34copy and shadow other people speaking.
219. 7:36When doing this, copy someone that has
220. 7:39an accent similar to you or an accent
221. 7:41that you would like. I did this of trans
222. 7:43voice lessons when I started out and it
223. 7:46Americanized my accent.
224. 7:50How many Australia themed videos do I
225. 7:51have to make before people believe me?
226. 7:53To recap everything in this video in a
227. 7:55couple of seconds. When we want to raise
228. 7:56our pitch, we want to d, you know, like
229. 7:59that to get to a comfortable pitch.
230. 8:01Don't go too high or you'll hurt
231. 8:02yourself. Be wary of the little dip that
232. 8:04will happen at the end of a sentence.
233. 8:06You can circumvent this by making the
234. 8:08sentence a little longer then slowly cut
235. 8:10it down. like this is a sentence, this
236. 8:13is a sentence, this is a sentence like
237. 8:15that. Also, you can try to have a slight
238. 8:17rise in ination to make it sound more
239. 8:19fem. In addition, you can try to copy
240. 8:21voices to get that slight little
241. 8:22bounciness to it. And that was the long
242. 8:24awaited pitch voice tutorial. I know it
243. 8:27took me quite a while, a very long time.
244. 8:29And then this is a highly requested one.
245. 8:32Truth be told, there's not that much
246. 8:33source that I could put in this one as
247. 8:35it's not the most interesting topic. So,
248. 8:38I decided to tag on some extra little
249. 8:39inonation stuff to hopefully make the
250. 8:42tutorial more fun and enjoyable and give
251. 8:43you more to work with and tinker with. I
252. 8:45hope this tutorial is helpful. I know
253. 8:47this will probably be one of the more
254. 8:48popular voice tutorials I do just
255. 8:50because of the topic. But I encourage
256. 8:52you to check out voice tutorials of all
257. 8:54sorts of techniques throughout the
258. 8:56journey. Though, do it one by one. Don't
259. 8:58rush into too many at once. Whether
260. 8:59[music] that videos from me or other
261. 9:01people, just bear in mind that I also do
262. 9:04trans voice lessons on Patreon. If you
263. 9:07are interested in joining that and
264. 9:09getting one-on-one lessons with me and
265. 9:11maybe group lessons, if I ever open
266. 9:12those back up again by the time you're
267. 9:14seeing this video, check the Patreon and
268. 9:16see. Just note, my slots are usually
269. 9:18full. Um, it's actually pretty rare for
270. 9:21a slot to be open. I won't lie to you.
271. 9:24Once I get a student, they stay for
272. 9:26quite a while. And that warms my heart
273. 9:28that I've done lessons good enough that
274. 9:30people want to stay. That makes me
275. 9:31[music] happy. Just bear in mind, I'm
276. 9:32not a company like Seattle Voice Lab or
277. 9:35Trans Voice Lessons. I'm just one little
278. 9:37goober in Australia that's just doing
279. 9:40their best. I'm just a YouTuber that has
280. 9:42a Patreon where you can learn trans
281. 9:43voice with the techniques I used in my
282. 9:45journey. [music] Simply put, because my
283. 9:47income is not as directly tied to voice
284. 9:49lessons, per se, I can kind of put all
285. 9:52the information in the videos and not
286. 9:53need to withhold anything. So, I hope as
287. 9:56a result it makes the voice tutorials
288. 9:57more helpful and easy to learn. So, I
289. 9:59won't sugarcoat it. Voice training is
290. 10:01hard and it's okay if when you do this
291. 10:04it doesn't work straight away. It's okay
292. 10:06if it takes a week and it's still not
293. 10:07working. It's okay if you've done voice
294. 10:08training for a couple of years and
295. 10:10you're not really getting anywhere
296. 10:12right. Voice training progress [music]
297. 10:13is not linear and different people will
298. 10:15get it at different speeds. Don't view
299. 10:17that as an indication of your skill or
300. 10:21worthiness to have a girl voice if that
301. 10:23makes sense. The rough thing is like if
302. 10:26you play an instrument poorly, you know,
303. 10:28you don't view that as a reflection of
304. 10:30you because it's not really your body.
305. 10:32You're just using a guitar, for example,
306. 10:34as an extension of your body. But if you
307. 10:36do a transv voice technique wrong, then
308. 10:39you can feel really bad about yourself
309. 10:41because that's the voice is part of your
310. 10:43body. All these little muscles and bones
311. 10:46are part of our body. So, it's okay if
312. 10:49you feel really upset when this stuff
313. 10:52doesn't work straight away. I know
314. 10:54personally, and I've shared this
315. 10:56anecdote a few times, when I was
316. 10:58starting my voice training journey, I
317. 10:59remember staring at a brick wall for a
318. 11:01couple of hours, saying heat from fire,
319. 11:03fire from heat repetitively. I did it
320. 11:06until I cried. You just got to practice
321. 11:08in tiny little chunks rather than a
322. 11:10really long gauntlet in front of a brick
323. 11:12wall. If it means anything, I had a lot
324. 11:14of trouble early on. It was kind of the
325. 11:16thing that I did last really with my
326. 11:18transition. It was always the part I was
327. 11:20bad at, if that makes sense. I got
328. 11:22invalidated quite a lot because I
329. 11:25couldn't do it. I could, you know, dress
330. 11:27fam, go to the shops, that kind of
331. 11:28thing. But then my voice was this,
332. 11:30right? I was told constantly, "Oh, you
333. 11:33can't do a trans voice. You can't sound
334. 11:36like a girl ever." That kind of [music]
335. 11:37nonsense, right? If you're able to
336. 11:39articulate sentences in any capacity,
337. 11:41you can do trans voice. You know, it's
338. 11:45not a thing locked off to certain
339. 11:47people. So, if you have those moments
340. 11:49where you feel like you can't do it or
341. 11:50you feel like it's not worth it, you
342. 11:52can't get out of bed to voice train,
343. 11:55just know that so many of us feel that
344. 11:58way. And videos like these can't
345. 12:03instantly fix that, but it can give you
346. 12:07the tools in order to do that. I'm
347. 12:09trying my best. [laughter]
348. 12:11I'll admit that I was given this
349. 12:14position in the trans voice space very
350. 12:16abruptly. I'm still adapting to it and
351. 12:19I'm still [music] learning lots. There's
352. 12:20a couple of mistakes in some of the
353. 12:21older videos, for example, that I've
354. 12:22since corrected and even the newer
355. 12:24updated ones have some things I'd like
356. 12:26to correct someday. So, I acknowledge
357. 12:27these voice tutorials are not perfect in
358. 12:29any capacity and they don't substitute
359. 12:31seeing a professional speech ofologist,
360. 12:34but I hope it makes this information
361. 12:36more accessible and I hope it gives you
362. 12:38like a good starting point or even a
363. 12:41good end point. If this video helps you
364. 12:43get started, let me know. [music] If you
365. 12:45voice train and get to a spot you feel
366. 12:47good at and use the videos, feel free to
367. 12:49come back and let me know. It really
368. 12:51warms my heart when some of the older
369. 12:52videos I get comments saying that it
370. 12:54helped people a lot.
371. 12:56I have um
372. 12:59a giant manifestation of pitch going
373. 13:01Super Saiyan that is going to
374. 13:04cause a lot of damage if I don't do
375. 13:07anything about that. So, um I'm I'm
376. 13:09going to go sort that. But but you get
377. 13:10practicing, okay? Tiny little sessions
378. 13:13throughout the day. and um and like
379. 13:15being hydrated and believing in
380. 13:17yourself. Believe in yourself. You can
381. 13:20do it. Okay. Okay. As always, stay
382. 13:23hydrated and know that you are valid.
383. 13:26I'll see you next week.
384. 13:30>> 3 hours later.
385. 13:31>> Well, Pitch, I finally made the pitch
386. 13:33tutorial as I promised. Now there's no
387. 13:35more loose ends and I can make whatever
388. 13:37videos I want.
389. 13:41What?