HOW TO TALK LIKE A GIRL GOOD: RESONANCE ( great for beginners! MTF TRANS VOICE ) — Transcript

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1. 0:00Are you tired of trans voice tutorials
2. 0:02that require either a linguistics degree
3. 0:04or a sound engineering degree to even
4. 0:06understand it? Would you like a tutorial
5. 0:08that could be comprehended by literal
6. 0:105-year-olds? Here it is. Learn to change
7. 0:13the voice from this [music] to this. How
8. 0:16to trans voice resonance. Let's make
9. 0:18this make sense.
10. 0:24I'm okay.
11. 0:30The last residence video was 2 years
12. 0:32ago, so I've learned a lot since I made
13. 0:34that video. So, consider this video a
14. 0:36bit of a cleanup job.
15. 0:37>> We still get emails about that one error
16. 0:39you made.
17. 0:40>> Yeah. So, there's a few ways to learn
18. 0:41[music] resonance. One of them is bubble
19. 0:43phonation, which I have a video on.
20. 0:45Today's video is about a different
21. 0:47technique. But if this technique doesn't
22. 0:49resonate, then feel free to find another
23. 0:51video. using this voice as a bass
24. 0:53resonance is basically moving the voice
25. 0:55forward like this so that you can change
26. 0:57the [music] overall sound and then with
27. 0:59other stuff it will sound great but this
28. 1:01is just a small building block point
29. 1:03you're kind of moving the voice forwards
30. 1:04like this and making it [music] in this
31. 1:05kind of spot that's the rough thing
32. 1:07that's different as opposed to like back
33. 1:08here I'm moving it forward here consider
34. 1:11it a forward motion so first off we
35. 1:14don't do a resonance instead resonance
36. 1:17is like a quality of the voice similar
37. 1:19to how there's high pitches and low
38. 1:21pitches es. [music] There is bright and
39. 1:24dark resonance. If you want to do a girl
40. 1:26voice good, like the title says, then
41. 1:29you want a bright resonance. A bright
42. 1:32resonance voice is strong and clear with
43. 1:34the vocal folds barely touching. Without
44. 1:37good resonance, our voice is going to
45. 1:39sound a bit weak and hard to hear. Let's
46. 1:42imagine this window is the vocal folds.
47. 1:45You want the voice to travel right
48. 1:47through it without smacking into THE
49. 1:49SIDE.
50. 1:56WE DON'T WANT OUR VOICE TO bump around
51. 1:58with our vocal folds too much cuz otherw
52. 2:00other otherwise
53. 2:02we won't be able to get bright
54. 2:04resonance. [laughter]
55. 2:06So, let's learn an exercise
56. 2:10so we can build muscle memory of what
57. 2:13bright resonance feels like so that you
58. 2:17can utilize it when speaking.
59. 2:20When doing the following exercise, just
60. 2:22know we're grabbing the vibration over
61. 2:25there and slapping it up here. We are
62. 2:30moving it. Resonance is the shape of the
63. 2:33voice as it moves from here
64. 2:36to here.
65. 2:39Now for the fun part. Here's the part
66. 2:41where we actually get to do something
67. 2:42and make changes. [music] So techniques
68. 2:44in trans voice are just various
69. 2:46exercises to engage muscles so you know
70. 2:48what they feel like so you can
71. 2:49manipulate them on command. What's
72. 2:51today's silly sound, you might ask?
73. 2:56I've organized our criteria into four
74. 2:58B's. These are what we're looking for
75. 3:00when we're making these sound. Now, why
76. 3:02is it four B's? Well, the M sound kind
77. 3:06of sounds like a buzzy little bee. So, I
78. 3:09thought it was cute. Step one is
79. 3:11brightness, lovely audience. If you can
80. 3:12already raise your larynx from the
81. 3:14larynx video, you already have this part
82. 3:16sorted cuz the larynx and resonance,
83. 3:18well, they're a team. They work
84. 3:19together, right? If you haven't seen the
85. 3:20larynx video, the short version is
86. 3:22making like a
87. 3:26sound and making that little ball move
88. 3:28up a little bit to avoid the vocal folds
89. 3:30touching too much. Wait, not that high.
90. 3:32But once you learn that and you apply
91. 3:34this to this, if you have trouble doing
92. 3:36both at the same time, you can actually
93. 3:38do both techniques together and smush it
94. 3:40like a little sandwich. A ham sandwich.
95. 3:42We can make like a little ham
96. 3:46sound like that to bring it together. If
97. 3:49you have trouble with this first step, I
98. 3:51call this the ham method. Get it? But
99. 3:54random YouTuber, there's two larynx
100. 3:56videos. Which one do I watch after this
101. 3:58video? Uh, that one. I like that one
102. 4:00more. This one's better. Up next is
103. 4:02buzziness. When you're making this h
104. 4:05sound, try to see if you can feel
105. 4:07vibration coming from your lips. I mean,
106. 4:10literally grabbing your finger, placing
107. 4:11it on your mouth, and seeing if you can
108. 4:13feel vibration. Different people
109. 4:15experience this vibration sensation a
110. 4:16little differently. So, if you don't
111. 4:18find this technique works for you, feel
112. 4:19free to try the bubble phonation
113. 4:21technique as that might work a little
114. 4:22better. They do the same thing. It's
115. 4:24just whichever you find easier. That
116. 4:26said, no one gets things first try. So,
117. 4:28let's keep going. When we make this
118. 4:29sound, imagine your mouth is a dam. Try
119. 4:33to get your voice to be an intense flash
120. 4:35of water that bumps right against the
121. 4:38dam.
122. 4:45Not like a
123. 4:48We want it to be more.
124. 4:52Yeah. Step three, breathing. Without
125. 4:54strong resonance, our voice lacks power.
126. 4:56Without good breathing, though, then we
127. 4:58can't get strong resonance. A lack of
128. 5:00strong resonance is sometimes why a lot
129. 5:02of people sound a little weak when doing
130. 5:03a girl voice. So, let's chill in this
131. 5:06part of the video and focus on our
132. 5:08breathing.
133. 5:12Sure
134. 5:17the algorithm love that one. Our last
135. 5:19criteria, lovely audience, beyond
136. 5:22forwardness. That kind of forwardness
137. 5:24that I alluded to at the start of the
138. 5:25video. So, we're going to master our
139. 5:28fume. This is a bit of a mental trick.
140. 5:30Sound in general, of course, bounces off
141. 5:33any surface. That's how sound works. But
142. 5:36humor me for a moment. Let's imagine our
143. 5:39voice as an energy source that exists
144. 5:41within the body. Imagine that energy
145. 5:44moving from the chest to the front of
146. 5:46our mouth. I essentially want you to
147. 5:49imagine where the voice spawns. Pay
148. 5:51attention to where you feel your voice
149. 5:53come into existence.
150. 5:55You want to move that spawn point to
151. 5:58your mouth rather than the lower parts
152. 6:01of your chest or the lower parts of your
153. 6:03throat. We're moving our spawn point,
154. 6:06our energy. This is a metaphor to trick
155. 6:09your muscles into doing the things that
156. 6:11we need it to do. Imagine the energy or
157. 6:14the spawn point of your voice starting
158. 6:16there and then move it up there. When we
159. 6:19make this m sound, you want to imagine
160. 6:24that moving there. When doing this, you
161. 6:26might actually feel your tongue move up
162. 6:28a little bit. That's pretty normal. When
163. 6:30we do a bright resonant voice, our
164. 6:31tongue actually raises a little bit,
165. 6:33which actually helps alter the sound a
166. 6:35little bit. When you try the buzzy M
167. 6:37this time, imagine your voice knocking
168. 6:39over those liquids over there. You want
169. 6:42to imagine your voice forwards.
170. 6:46You might even want to push your hands
171. 6:49through.
172. 6:52Try to replicate the sound.
173. 6:56[sighs and gasps] Yeah, not bad. So,
174. 6:58we're combining all that together to
175. 6:59create our final product so that we do
176. 7:02all the steps like avoiding that window
177. 7:04from olio, having that [music] forward
178. 7:06sound, having a buzzy sound, and
179. 7:08breathing. With the buzzym technique to
180. 7:10practice it, we can slap it in front of
181. 7:12vowels, words, sentences, the pokey rap,
182. 7:16paragraphs, the entirety of a free. Uh,
183. 7:19but now let's start with vow, shall we?
184. 7:21So we're basically going to make this
185. 7:22kind of
186. 7:25kind of sound and go for each vow. So it
187. 7:28would kind of sound like
188. 7:39you won't feel vibration in your lips
189. 7:40once you open your mouth because well we
190. 7:43broke the dam so to speak. We've allowed
191. 7:45the resonance to go flying into the
192. 7:47sunset. But if it's buzzing on your lips
193. 7:50before you open your mouth, then you're
194. 7:51all good. A, E, and I are bright sounds,
195. 7:54so these might be a little easier. Try
196. 7:56making the sounds A, E, I, and you'll
197. 7:58feel the muscles towards the front of
198. 8:00your mouth activate. Whereas Ooh, you'll
199. 8:03feel at the back the dark souls of
200. 8:05resonance.
201. 8:06>> It's just a little harder with these
202. 8:07sounds. You might feel like the voice is
203. 8:09being like pulled back, so to speak, but
204. 8:12you'll get the hang of it. Here's me
205. 8:13doing it again.
206. 8:16M.
207. 8:28You don't have to say vows the way I do.
208. 8:30I'm Australian. I say vowels
209. 8:32differently. [music]
210. 8:33It's okay. Some potential issues to
211. 8:35troubleshoot if you're not quite getting
212. 8:37it. Is the larynx raised? Is the window
213. 8:41from earlier being passed through
214. 8:42without clipping our legs? Are we doing
215. 8:45the big big breath before making the
216. 8:47sounds? Is our tongue raised a little
217. 8:49bit? Was the M part extra buzzy
218. 8:52sounding? We can do words, too. So,
219. 8:54let's just grab M. Milkshake.
220. 8:58Milkshake. Watch out for that C-C.
221. 9:02Those can be a bit tricky when doing
222. 9:03this exercise. Lucy, is it true you
223. 9:06claimed CO is a fricative despite
224. 9:07obviously being alosive? Um, yeah, I
225. 9:10did. I did. It was 2 years ago. Lucy,
226. 9:12why would you reference linguistic
227. 9:13terminology despite wanting to avoid
228. 9:16jargon in your videos? Look, it was two
229. 9:18years ago. Give me a break. If you
230. 9:20didn't understand anything in that part
231. 9:21of the skit, that's fine. I'm just
232. 9:24fixing up a mistake from 2 years ago.
233. 9:27Back to the tutorial. If we were to use
234. 9:29words, we would just go
235. 9:31milkshake.
236. 9:33For example, if we did a sentence, we
237. 9:35could go
238. 9:37milkshakes
239. 9:38are tasty. Nice and long like that, like
240. 9:42we're summoning something. Then
241. 9:44afterwards, we do it a little quicker
242. 9:46than we can do it in a regular speaking
243. 9:47rhythm. Consider this exercise like
244. 9:50getting into a good stance in martial
245. 9:52arts. It's our strong foundation. So
246. 9:55once we get that stance, we can go back
247. 9:58to where we were. Once we practice the,
248. 10:00you know, smooth movements that lead to
249. 10:02that stance, but eventually we can just,
250. 10:04you know, lock into it, right? Once you
251. 10:06get better at it. This is similar to how
252. 10:08trans voice works in this case.
253. 10:11Milkshake.
254. 10:13You know, getting comfortable with that
255. 10:14stance, right? Then we pause, reset, and
256. 10:18then we're going to try to milkshake.
257. 10:21So, we're getting into that stance much
258. 10:23quicker and stronger. But the previous
259. 10:25instance was good for getting our
260. 10:27position right. So, in full sequence of
261. 10:29practice would be kind of like going
262. 10:32milkshakes are tasty.
263. 10:36Nugshakes are tasty.
264. 10:38>> Remember, practice makes perfect.
265. 10:44>> I thought you were ready.
266. 11:03No.
267. 11:09Hey lovely audience. I hope you enjoyed
268. 11:10this video about resonance. The last one
269. 11:13was like nearly two three years ago now.
270. 11:15Wild. That video is kind of why I have a
271. 11:18career in the first place. So I'm very
272. 11:20thankful of the opportunity to get to
273. 11:22try again and make the video better. I
274. 11:25took on quite a lot of feedback from
275. 11:26that last video to be honest and a lot
276. 11:28of people told me things, you know, the
277. 11:30more egregious mistakes and I tried my
278. 11:32best to fix them up. But you might be
279. 11:34curious about the fact that the
280. 11:35technique is about the same. The reason
281. 11:37for that is I still think that part of
282. 11:39the video was pretty good and I want to
283. 11:42stand by it and have confidence in my
284. 11:44own work. So I understand that the kind
285. 11:46of Ford resonance technique is come out
286. 11:50of favor a little bit with trans voice
287. 11:52coaches on the internet. However,
288. 11:54professional speech paths still use it.
289. 11:56I don't know if that's an instance of
290. 11:57them being outdated or that's just what
291. 11:59the technique they use, [music] but at
292. 12:00least for me, it was a technique that
293. 12:02gave me my voice. So, I'm a bit biased,
294. 12:06but I like this technique because it
295. 12:08gave me the greatest gift of all, right?
296. 12:11Um, so that's why I teach this specific
297. 12:14method and other videos don't.
298. 12:16Understand that other people may not
299. 12:18like this technique. If this video and
300. 12:20technique did not work at all, feel free
301. 12:22to try the bubble fination video. That
302. 12:24might make more sense to you. that's
303. 12:25perfectly fine. Just understand that um
304. 12:28I think this is a really good resonance
305. 12:29technique and I think it's more
306. 12:30simplified. I've tried explaining the
307. 12:33whole resonance chamber thing to Patreon
308. 12:35students. Um people kind of come out of
309. 12:38it more confused than anything. So I've
310. 12:40kind of stopped doing that. I understand
311. 12:44that's technically more correct and that
312. 12:45focus of the specifics are important.
313. 12:48However, the reason the old videos did
314. 12:50well was it being hyper simple. And uh
315. 12:54as a result, we're gonna keep the videos
316. 12:57hyper simple.
317. 12:59That's all there is to it. Stay hydrated
318. 13:00and know that you are valid. I'll see
319. 13:02you next time.