transvoicelessons

behind the scenes sneak peak new video! and question!

okay so i've never posted a "behind the scenes" kind of thing before but I'm trying to post more and stay connected to everything better.  I'm just gonna blurb my thoughts below about this video and topic:

This video is intended for absolute beginners. I'm about 85% done with it. It appears about 66% of my YouTube audience are beginners. I've tried to make a beginner video for awhile but honestly I find it much more difficult than making more advanced videos. The "beginner" video h...

Exclusive Patron Music Files: Modal Studies in Tetracot - Piano Improvisation

Patron Exclusive: downloadable files to all of these improvisations are attached.

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I've been enjoying playing in 34neji or 34edo lately. I play a tetracot mapping. This makes it so the "home row" key of my keyboard is a 6L1s scale type. It sounds nothing like the modes of Western pop and classical music. The first mode has a flat major second, a neutral third, a superfourth, perfect fifth, submajor 6, and neutral 7.   This scale and its modes real...

15 YEAR SINGING TIMELINE & An Extra Question for Patrons! . <3

Hi everyone! I released this about two weeks ago but I forgot to post it here because it went live when I was in an airport. I just want to make sure I post all the YT stuff here as well. <3

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ALSO: 

Is there any interest the old music being released for patrons? I have SO much music I've never released. If y'all would be interested in that, I could put together a patron album of old music.

Beginner Voice Workshop

Hi everyone! Last month we had a beginner voice workshop in which we focused on the "first steps" of going to alter the voice. The goal was to speak directly to individuals who are just now getting started and give a longer form resource that illustrates key perspectives and actions to take when get started.

The goal was to be short and succinct but we ended up having a ton of fun and going way longer than intended. I'm going to be releasing a much shorter but higher production YouTube ...

Community Event Announcement: Story Time - June 10th

Story Time is an event hosted by our lovely community members, Danika and Theresa. Story Time is a time to gather and take turns reading something together. Individuals are free to experiment, explore, and participate using any voice. Conversely, if you'd like to listen in that's ok too!

• Story Time this week is Dune!
• Thursday June 10th
• Time:  4:30 PST / 7:30 EST PM
• Title: Dune
• Where: In the Discord

If you would like t...

EVENT REMINDER: Beginner Level Workshop, June 8th at 3pm EDT

Voice Workshop: How to Get Started scheduled for June 8th at 3pm EDT.  This workshop will be a beginner focused gathering where we discuss ways to get started, get active, and progress towards vocal goals. While this event is focused on beginners, anyone is free to join and participate!

This will be filmed in such a way to create a beginner friendly resource for new comers to the community! 

zhea erose - Decorporeal [noise/pop music video]

*STROBE WARNING*

parental advisory!!

distortion go brrr

animation, production, performance by me :)

3 BIZARRE WAYS TO EXPLORE VOCAL RESONANCE

Hi everyone! I wanted to challenge myself to film and release a video in a day. This video has a bit less editing than my other ones and is more casual. It was refreshing to make after focusing on just really long videos for awhile. I'll try do intermittent shorter videos from now on while focusing on larger works. I have a really big video in the works! :D  

This video describes 3 fun and interesting ways to explore resonance. 

1) Noise + Phone   

2) Bot...

The Art of Voice Alteration - Chapter 1: Pitch - Excerpt

Hi everyone! Over the last couple months, Nick and I have been hard at work drafting, recording, and organizing a really powerful and impactful voice resource for everyone. 

I've been loosely working on a book for several years but a text is finally shaping up to see the light of day. This full resource will be a massive bible of voice alteration complete with over an hour of ear training, mimic along, and exercise audio files. The book itself is organized into several chapters bas...

Pitch Workshop: How to Match Pitch, Why Pitch is Important, and Much More!

Hi there! :D this is a recording from April's seminar we had on pitch. There is a ton of great information discussed in here and a lot of fun exercises to try.  

General overview of things discussed:

• Why Pitch is Important
• Pitch and How it Relates to Other Vocal Elements
• Pitch Contour
• Pitch Matching
• Much More
  
  p.s. a few parts have scuffed audio from when I was playing sound through my speakers and creating a little feedback but...
  2021-04-25 23:26:00 +0000 UTC View Post

Update & Event Annoucement for April

EVENT:

Hi! I am hosting a voice module on "How to Match Pitch" it be on the Discord server Friday April 16th at 2:30pm EDT,

UPDATES:

• 1) VIDEO PRODUCTION: I'm settled in from the move and filming is going better than ever for me. I should have a second video coming out this week! I'm going to try and post 2 videos per month to my YT at first. Ideally I'd like to post weekly but I'm going to s...
  2021-04-14 04:51:13 +0000 UTC View Post

HOW TO MASTER VOICE | Practice Fundamentals

In this video we discuss the fundamentals of successful practice. Effective practice is by far the most important element to obtaining mastery over your voice. Action is the root of all success and practice is the art of taking action.  

Effective practice is less about the specific things you do but more about the mentality and perspective you have while doing things. Practice is an idea you create for yourself. You have the power and freedom to define every aspect of what it mean...

Breathiness vs Thinness: Solutions, Discussion, and Considerations

Hi everyone! This is an excerpt from a recent office hour event I had. A few individuals asked a very common and important question about breathiness vs thinness. This excerpt discusses the topic in depth and describes why this confusion may emerge in voices, 4 solution paths for fixing breathiness, and several other considerations.

The excerpt begins with a brief discussion of the topic and two basic ways to address the issue of breathiness. Then we discuss reasons why it's a common pr...

zhea erose - fluorescence [acoustic just intonation]

Since moving into my new studio, I now have constant access to an acoustic piano. I got some piano tuning tools and have spent a lot of time exploring and experimenting with different complex just intonation tunings on piano. This piece is my first "official" release of some just intonated piano

This is improvisatory and I actually made a mistake 2/3rds the way through but wanted to leave it in.

The tuning is quite irregular and has special patches of varying ratios across it.

MARCH EVENTS:

Office Hours:

Saturday March 27th at 2:30pm-4:30pm EST.

Voice Workshop: 

Sunday March 28th at 2:30pm EST.

Looking forward to seeing you all there! These will both be happening on the Discord server. <3 :D

How Speech Hacking Makes You A Better Singer

How will changing your speaking voice impact the ability to sing? This is a common question I receive and this video discusses the topic in depth. Voice alteration can be broken up into two primary action components: sound production and sound modification. Both of these skills have profound impacts on your ability to sing. This video will teach you about that! :)  

There are of course many other benefits to singing that speech training causes but here are a few fundamental impacts...

Psychological Blocks and How I Overcame Mine

Hi everyone!! Here is a short snippet discussing psychological barriers we set for ourselves during the process of voice alteration and how I overcame mine. 

warmly

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General Thoughts on Tongue Positioning - Video

Hi everyone!! This is an excerpt from a workshop I gave in October. Our lovely community member Theresa volunteered to make some small video segments out of a few areas from the workshop. I'll be posting a few over the next week or so.

In this, we discuss the general structure and behavior of the tongue during voice feminization.

New Event: Monthly Office Hours for Patrons!

Hi everyone! I hope all is well! I'm really excited to announce that I will be having office hours every month from now on. These will be open windows of time where I'll be present in the Discord voice channels. Anyone is allowed to join, ask questions, get feedback, and get direct assistance.

Patrons with the voice feedback tiers will have priority in these spaces but everyone is welcome and allowed to participate!

Our first office hour mini-event will be: January 24th at 1:30...

HOW TO HEAR RESONANCE

Hi! In this video we will be listening, discussing, and observing how to hear resonance. Understanding how to listen for resonance the interpretation of your own voice and other voices so much easier. It's important to understand resonance has a sound. It's not an abstract nebulous concept but instead a concrete melody-like shift of the sound.   

This video covers a few primary topics: 

-Resonance / Vowel Basics 

-Hearing Resonances 

-Hearing R...

CHRISTMAS LIVE STREAM #2

https://youtu.be/SBu_2Y_ZmlM

Eurybia - String Orchestra Work in Just Intonation

Hi everyone. <3 

I've been a bit silent the last month. I traveled and had a surgery. I was recovering for most of November but now I'm regaining balance and consistency again. I wanted to make voice content in the last two weeks (I have something almost done but needs edited) but my heart has been in dire urge of musical expression. The arrival of winter has been challenging for me emotionally and mentally. Around this time I always feel somewhat depressed. This piece allowed m...

VOICE WORKSHOP: October Edition (3 hours)

On October 30th, our community met for a voice workshop. The theme was based around building an evolving discussion and presentation based on the needs of the community. As an intro we sourced questions and difficulties from the group. Then we had a block of material discussing warming up followed by key rules of practice. Following that, we organized the communities questions into a more optimal presentation path and started going through them. We didn't get to cover everything asked but cov...

Singing and vibing with the universe :)

the setting: witched out of my mind, completely empty room, Halloween, under a full moon, clamorous house, freedom of expression, harmonic clouds, and i'm crushin'    

I felt some kind of way and wanted to make something to thank all my supporters. I get a lot of questions about singing in a feminized voice yet haven't really shared my singing outside of composed pieces. This entire 17 minute chant was improvised over the course of ~35 minutes. I edited t...

Voice Workshop today (Oct 30th) at 1:30pm Pacific

Hi everyone! I am hosting a voice workshop tomorrow on the Discord server. Everyone is invited! I've planned a fun range of discussion topics, exercises, demonstrations, and some spooky stuff! As usual, the recording will be available on Patreon afterwards. 

1:30pm Pacific on Discord, Oct 30th.

Be there or be quadrilateral! :D

Raising R1 from 500-1500 Hz with fry/creak.

Here is a nice audio of R1 climbing from 500 - 1500 Hz. This is basically the full range of normal feminization techniques for throat space reduction. Creak makes it quite audible. Additionally, altering resonance while maintaining a stable creak/fry trains separation and independence of the vocal folds vs the vocal tract (glottal behavior vs resonance).

HOW TO HEAR RESONANCE | patron video

Hi everyone! Here is a video which discusses and demonstrates how to hear and identify the sound of resonance. We have discussed resonance in the past at a theoretical and application level but in this video I want to focus on aural skills (ability to hear). Sorry about the plosives clipping the mic! 

This video is broken into a few parts:

• Basics
• R1 vs R2
• Hearing R1 change
• Demonstrations with thick and thin
• Illustrations of how t...
  2020-10-22 15:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post

Soulspace [mp3]

I recorded a little improvisation last night I really like. Please enjoy this and have it as a token of my appreciation. <3

FALSE VOCAL FOLDS | Clean Up Your Voice & Avoid Strain | 8 Exercises, Document, and Lecture

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1sH8EyvMcGkt_4pOBY4EzfW2MLFfrfL3LnZNsfV-0n3c/edit?usp=sharing 

Hi everyone! In this video we are finally covering false fold control. The false vocal folds are a secondary pair of tissue that sit above the true vocal folds. We can control these to achieve a variety of different sounds by constricting or retractin...

Voice Workshop for Feedback Tiers

Hi there! Over the past month and a half, I've had a lot of health issues which ultimately led to me suspending my operations and focusing on my health. I'm very glad to say I'm feeling much better. As a way to give back and make up for missed feedback, I am hosting a voice workshop for everyone in the $15 and $25 patron tiers.

It will be tomorrow:  August 31st at 1pm PDT on the Discord Server.

I will be evaluating and giving feedback to everyone. The option ...