An ACTUALLY Simple Trans Voice Tutorial: Vocal Weight Transgender MTF Voice Training Guide — Transcript

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1. 0:01Are you tired of trans voice tutorials
2. 0:03that require either a linguistics degree
3. 0:05or a sound engineering degree to even
4. 0:08understand it? Would you like a tutorial
5. 0:10so simple that even 5-year-olds could
6. 0:12understand it? Well, here it is. Change
7. 0:15the voice from this to this. How to
8. 0:18transvoice whatever power up to vocal
9. 0:21weight. This one was a long time coming.
10. 0:24So, regulars of the channel might be
11. 0:25wondering why did it take so long to
12. 0:27make a tutorial about vocal weight.
13. 0:29Exactly. Well, when I was voice training
14. 0:31myself and I watched all the other vocal
15. 0:33weight videos, I'll be honest, I just
16. 0:36didn't get it. For this tutorial, I'll
17. 0:37be using this chart that I prepared in
18. 0:39advance to explain what vocal weight is.
19. 0:42We're going to have voice examples of
20. 0:44what each part of it sounds like. But
21. 0:46the only vocabulary you need to
22. 0:48understand in order to do this is to
23. 0:50know the difference between brightness
24. 0:52versus darkness and thick versus thin.
25. 0:56Right? So our goal is to achieve bright
26. 0:59and thin qualities in our voice. If you
27. 1:02already know how to raise your larynx
28. 1:04and do a bright resonance, you already
29. 1:05can do the bright part. Vocal weight is
30. 1:08more focused on the thick versus thin.
31. 1:10But explaining what the difference
32. 1:12between those are is a bit difficult. So
33. 1:14let's meet some characters that have
34. 1:16some voices very similar to the extremes
35. 1:18of both so that we can understand the
36. 1:21difference. Let's go.
37. 1:25So, how's that gorilla breathing
38. 1:26underwater anyway? Oh, same way we are.
39. 1:29Oh, that makes sense.
40. 1:32Okay, I've invited Spongebob and
41. 1:34Patrick, my best friends in the world,
42. 1:36to help demonstrate the different types
43. 1:38of voices that fall in this vocal weight
44. 1:40chart here. For example, my voice would
45. 1:43sit in thin and bright, right? That's
46. 1:46what we're going for by the end of this
47. 1:48tutorial. However, let's look at
48. 1:50Backaxa's voice, Spongebob's voice, and
49. 1:53Patrick's voice to see the different
50. 1:55extremes other than my voice on this
51. 1:58graph here.
52. 1:59>> I'm ready.
53. 2:00>> Is mayonnaise an instrument?
54. 2:03>> Is mayonnaise an instrument? Is
55. 2:06mayonnaise an instrument?
56. 2:08Who wrote this? Is mayonnaise an
57. 2:11instrument? Is mayonnaise an instrument?
58. 2:14Is mayonnaise an instrument? Is
59. 2:16mayonnaise an instrument? So those four
60. 2:19voices were the four extremes of this
61. 2:22vocal weight graph here that will
62. 2:24hopefully help demonstrate the rough
63. 2:26difference of how it sounds. Right? So
64. 2:30let's have a little play around to get a
65. 2:33feel for it so we can identify those
66. 2:35differences in isolation so that we can
67. 2:37then get a thin and bright voice later.
68. 2:40Sound good? Cool. Let's start with a
69. 2:42stereotypical mask voice. Okay. Like a
70. 2:44voice kind of here, right? Something
71. 2:46along these lines. You'll notice that it
72. 2:48sounds grally and dark, right? Those are
73. 2:50distinct qualities of something being
74. 2:52dark but also thick, right? Like
75. 2:55thickness, right? Now, let's try to do a
76. 2:59Patrick Star impression. It doesn't have
77. 3:02to be perfect. Heck, it doesn't actually
78. 3:03have to be good. Right? You just have to
79. 3:06get that general quality. Okay? You want
80. 3:09to have like that attempt to try to make
81. 3:12it sound very uh uh that kind of sound,
82. 3:16right? If you have trouble doing this
83. 3:18voice, try pretending you're yawning cuz
84. 3:21you're really bored. Imagine someone's
85. 3:23explaining something like taxes or
86. 3:26something. Just
87. 3:28that's so boring. Oh my god.
88. 3:31If that also doesn't work, if you also
89. 3:33do a bad moist critical impression, that
90. 3:36is roughly the same voice. Hey guys,
91. 3:38what's up? Shadow does taxes here. Today
92. 3:40we're going to be making a a sound in
93. 3:43between each of the extremes on our
94. 3:45little graph here. Okay. So, what
95. 3:47they'll sound like, for example, is me
96. 3:49going.
97. 3:53You can either blend the sounds together
98. 3:55or do them as three separate sounds.
99. 3:58Right? You could either go
100. 4:03like that. Right? Now, bear in mind when
101. 4:05you're doing the dark fin voice, your
102. 4:08larynx is still going to be down. That's
103. 4:10because once you hit the dark fin, the
104. 4:12only thing you have to change is your
105. 4:15larynx. It's quite literally doing a
106. 4:17Patrick Star voice and then raising both
107. 4:19your pitch and your larynx at the same
108. 4:21time and you'll probably get the desired
109. 4:23result. This voice here would be an
110. 4:25example of a dark and thick, right? Lary
111. 4:28is down. It's really grally and well, it
112. 4:31doesn't sound very bright, right?
113. 4:33Whereas this is a dark thin voice. It's
114. 4:36thinned out. That's because you can't
115. 4:38hear the kind of right. We removing the
116. 4:42and turning it into a yawn.
117. 4:45That's the sound we want. Okay. And then
118. 4:48from there, all it is is literally
119. 4:50raising my pitch and larynx. Honestly,
120. 4:52doing the thick bright voice, the
121. 4:54Spongebob one is a little uncomfortable.
122. 4:56It's just this kind of a
123. 4:59kind of sound, right? Cuz if you do like
124. 5:02the
125. 5:06it almost sounds like a bad Spongebob
126. 5:08impression, right? The more techniques
127. 5:10you learn and bring it together, the
128. 5:11better it will sound. It's like building
129. 5:13a little castle. If you had the little
130. 5:14pieces, it might not sound perfect. But
131. 5:16you might be wondering what it sounds
132. 5:17like when someone learning is doing
133. 5:19vocal weight, right? Well, here's an
134. 5:21audio example from one of my students
135. 5:22from Patreon.
136. 5:23>> When the sunlight strikes raindrops in
137. 5:25the air, they act as a prism and form a
138. 5:27rainbow. When the sunlight strikes
139. 5:29raindrops in the air, they act as a
140. 5:30prism and form a rainbow.
141. 5:32>> So, that recording was from someone's
142. 5:34second lesson doing vocal weight. And I
143. 5:36think they did a really wonderful job.
144. 5:38So, you might be wondering, random voice
145. 5:40coach YouTube of a cool Patreon linked
146. 5:42in the description below. How do I turn
147. 5:44this into a real person voice? I'm glad
148. 5:47you asked. Let's grab this jetpack
149. 5:49underwater, go to the surface, and let's
150. 5:51practice this technique with sentences.
151. 5:54Let's go. Wait, how did she use a
152. 5:57jetpack underwater?
153. 5:59Pitch, how did
154. 6:02[Music]
155. 6:03Guess I'm walking underwater.
156. 6:08Got water in the microphone again.
157. 6:11Good thing it's just a prop. Anyway,
158. 6:13let's try what we just learned, but
159. 6:15let's apply sentences. This way, we can
160. 6:17learn to use vocal weight practically,
161. 6:19right? Similar to how we did this whole
162. 6:24sound earlier, this time we are going to
163. 6:26do that with a sentence. All right. So,
164. 6:29let's go from dark thick to dark thin
165. 6:33finally to brightite thin. This will
166. 6:36sound like
167. 6:37>> milkshakes are tasty. Milkshakes are
168. 6:39tasty.
169. 6:40>> Milkshakes are tasty. Just like that,
170. 6:42right? Similar to the mayonnaise as an
171. 6:44instrument part earlier in the video.
172. 6:46You can try any sentence you'd like.
173. 6:48There's no real requirement for what
174. 6:50makes a good sentence for this
175. 6:52technique, unlike some other techniques
176. 6:53that we do. So, just pick any sentence
177. 6:55that feels comfortable and perhaps even
178. 6:58fun. Try practicing this like a couple
179. 7:00of times a day for just a couple of
180. 7:02minutes. You don't have to sit there in
181. 7:03front of a brick wall for an hour.
182. 7:05That'd be really boring. Instead, space
183. 7:07it out through your day and build the
184. 7:08habit. The idea of this is so that when
185. 7:11you get really good at swapping from
186. 7:13each section of this graph here, you'll
187. 7:15be able to do it on command. So what
188. 7:17they'll build up to is for example I
189. 7:19could go oh do dark thin which is that
190. 7:22part of the graph and you could then go
191. 7:24milkshakes are tasty you can lock into
192. 7:26that right however if I said to do
193. 7:29bright and thin you can think back to
194. 7:31the extremes you can go from
195. 7:36like that and you'll get really close to
196. 7:38like a bright and thin voice and the
197. 7:40more you do that the quicker you'll be
198. 7:42able to jump up to that section
199. 7:44eventually you can just jump straight
200. 7:46there. So, if I went do a bright thin
201. 7:48voice, you could then go milkshakes are
202. 7:50tasty, right? It won't happen
203. 7:52immediately. It'll probably take a few
204. 7:55weeks and that's fine. Now, within this
205. 7:57tutorial, I referenced the terms larynx
206. 8:00and resonance, right? If you don't know
207. 8:02what those are, I have videos about that
208. 8:04and that can help build a foundation to
209. 8:06make this technique sound even better.
210. 8:08Right? I recommend doing like larynx
211. 8:10resonance then vocal weight, but you can
212. 8:13kind of do vocal weight in the middle if
213. 8:14you'd prefer. It's really just personal
214. 8:16preference, but I do recommend doing
215. 8:18larynx first. I'm sure at least one
216. 8:20professional swimmer has had to have a
217. 8:21lifeguard go get them. You know what I
218. 8:23mean? So, if you don't get it straight
219. 8:25away, that's fine and not a negative
220. 8:27reflection of your transition. Okay?
221. 8:30Voice training is very vulnerable. So,
222. 8:32give yourself grace and kindness and
223. 8:35give it your all. If you have any
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