I’ve had an amazing vocal transformation and it is all thanks to you and the resources you’ve so kindly provided to us. I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart, you changed my life!

came for the lessons, stayed for the Mongolian throat singing.

tl;dr: resonance is when it goes ooooooeeeeooooeeeeeooooow wooooaaaaaooooaaaaooo

"people think vowels are eyy, ee, eye, oh, you" that feel when you were born in a phonetically written language environment XD

As someone just beginning my transition I don't know what I would have done without this channel. You explain everything in so much detail and help me understand what I'm actually supposed to be doing to achieve the desired sound. Thank you so much for making these videos.

As someone who is an electronic musician and works with synthesis this approach makes so much sense because you're adjusting the filters in your throat like you would a synth for resonance. You're making me realize how similar my voice is to a synthesizer and it's mind blowing! Thank you this makes so much sense! I love your videos!

You could probably get a University to fund you to write a PhD on your work hun. It is the right time in society terms and could also be linked to androgyny trends as well as trans gender. Your insight and approach is remarkable.

yes!! the queen has returned ♥️♥️♥️

omg that 1st example you gave of the common R1 issues sounded basically exactly where I'm at right now with my voice it was so uncanny xD It's making me feel excited to work on it more now! Amazing video Z thank you!!

I'm not feminizing my voice, but this channel really helped me understand my voice on a completely different level! Thank you!

You are such a good teacher, breaking it down into bite sized chunks! I was like, hmm, A3 is girl frequency but no matter what I did despite feeling my nasal cavity vibrate with my mouth, the most I got was an andro sound. Still masc tho. With your reasonance technique (mimicked it) and omfg thru the echo app I was like "IT'S A GIRL" 😂💖💓

The quality of your videos has reached a golden point. The fact that you put your fantastic music is excellent. Oh, and thank you for this video 😊

19:10 Right here. Right here is where the resonance part clicked and changing it gave me such a drastic result. It's not completely where I want it but It's given me a completely new sense of hope that I can get a voice I want without surgery. You're amazing!!

You, my dear, are literally a lovely human synthesizer. Thank you for sharing your unique insights and passion. 💜

I have a spectrograph too and this makes it so easy. So, the undervowel is the low pitch of your voice and the overvowel is the high pitch of your voice at the same time. And the undervowel is controlled by your throat and the overvowel is controlled by your tongue. This is easy when you explain it this way. I'm giggling while I type this :) This is helping so much!

This is probably the hardest part for me because listening to my voice sends me straight to Dysphoriaville. But I know its necessary to make progress, so I grit my teeth and push on... I really love your technical approach to voice training and find it... resonates ( lol sorry) with me in a way no other training system has. Thank you so much for providing this service.

You just got mentioned in an r/egg_irl post! All us trans girls love you, haha 💖 I commented in there how much help you have been, basically saying how this channel should be in the Transfeminine 101 pamphlet you metaphorically are given when starting transition. I had a really funny interaction the other day on the phone, I was calling a urology clinic to ask whether they performed or had info on a testicular sperm extraction to do before orchi, and lo and behold my voice passed enough that the lady on the phone was so confused, mentioning things like "do you have an OBGYN?" and "your partner will have to set up an appointment", totally not realizing this was for me until I mentioned gender-affirming surgery lol (there was a loud "OHHHHH" after a pause in which she figured it out). It felt so good to have my voice pass a blind test like that, all because I'm listening to my own voice with intention on an almost daily basis, and learning from your videos

My singing teacher used to go on about all this stuff, I had no idea what she was in about 😅. You explanations & visualisations tho are friggin amazing, it all makes sense to me now!

new terms "undervowel" and "overvowel", tacking on additional alternate names for older stuff. gonna need to get used to that. I guess for most people it's more intuitive than R1/R2

Thank you SO much for this video! It's EXACTLY what I needed! 🥰 I struggled for 1 year to get any feminine sound. I was ambiguous at best despite having a soft voice. I raised my larynx but my voice was still not small enough. I had no idea why until I watched this video. I discovered that vowels are created with the shape of our tongue. I practiced vowels for about 15 minutes, and I'm not sure how, but I achieved a voice as sweet as yours! ♀

I'm amazed she was able to get me to isolate these sounds aurally so quickly. Amazing teacher. I'm a trans man and this helped a lot. I just need to stop my voice from sounding so dopey when my throat is relaxed and low

Re-watching after our consult yesterday :) Thanks again for all the explanations and tips!

I can’t believe how much you know about voice, and how much more you know about voice compared to pretty much anyone else in the world! It’s so cool but also somewhat sad.

Your videos are always a treat :)

Where did you download the application that you're using? (The one where you can identify resonance)

This video is extremely informative!

Thank you for making these.

I love the way you teach, thank you so much x

Super helpful, thanks again Z.

i started a voice class recently and one of the girls suggested this page. im so happy you do this and glad i found this channel. only channel ive clicked on the bell

Your videos are so helpful, and they give me hope.

thank you for the video!

Wow! So happy to have this video. Life changer.

Now this. this is amazing content! With examples, demonstrations and clear definitions (as well as some extra stuff for the well practiced peeps out there). Thank you truly for that ❤️

I kinda binged a few videos so I'm not entirely sure if it was even in this last one I watched, haha. But, the whole R1 and R2 think helped a lot. I never realized just how it was divided before and while I still need training, that made it all click together and I sound like 20x better immediately

Great video! Have been missing this very grounded set of hearing concepts to complement your resonance series. Happy New Year btw!

This is finally starting to click a lot more ☺️ thank you so much Zhea 🙏🙏🙏

I've watched only two of your videos so far, but I've managed to get the basics down pretty well! Thanks to you for making it seem like something actually plausible for me to pull off, and to my mom for making me take choir so I know how to control my voice!

Ahhh thank you for this!!

really, great lesson, I'll be watching over & over

Cool, I've been working with a speech therapist and she hooked me up with some apps that do some stuff like that. She said that the things I need to work on are raising the pitch of R, O, and M sounds. The hardest part for me is to not slip back into my old voice. Keeping it up and loud enough for people to hear in a restaurant has been a great practical exercise. Thanks for all your hard work, it helped me a lot.

This videos are so amazing. Thank you

A really informative video - thank you so much for sharing 😄

I waited so long for a new video and noticed 2 days too late, super useful info, I'll make sure to activate the notifications for the next time. Thanks for making content this good without asking anything in return, you're awesome

girl, the more i watch your videos, the more amazed i am ! :D i've always wanted to try polyphonic overtone singing, and it seems my transition is a gateway to it. got a lot of work ahead of me, thanks for making it fun :)

i love how professional you are! i also change the size of throats. no banerino issa joke

This is so informative! Thanks so much for sharing your knowledge. I *think* I'm able to replicate what you teach to some extent, but visual confirmation from the spectro-whatsits can really help. What software do you use to visualize resonance? Like at 4:00?

thanks for another great one, sound witch 👍

I swear you are a godsend! All of your videos have helped me so so much! I'm at the point that when I hear my voice I no longer feel terrible, and with every new video my voice just gets better. The fact that you make these videos and upload them for free is such a massive help and makes a huge impact in the lives of many trans girls like myself. So once again thank you so so much for doing this! All of these videos are a gigantic help for so many people!

After hearing the clip from Eurybia over the title card I ended up listening to the full piece, and I was completely captivated by the sorrow and the longing it instilled in me. Just incredible.

Wozzers! I'm getting really good after watching your videos. You're an amazing teacher! Thanks for being such a helpful part of my transition. 💜

You have a way of teaching that I actually understand. I am making some progress on my voice, but sometimes knowing where I am going wrong is my challenge. Thanks to your videos, though, I feel as though there is still hope!! I requested to be put on your list, so here's hoping you get an opening soon :)

The sound at 14:15 scared me (and each time it played afterwards) I feel like it could easily be in some horror creature feature. The red of the video was very informative thank you.

I'm so glad to have found you. I have two bigendered identities and I'm trying to get a voice I'm happy with for both

Oh my god this video was such a game changer. I previously watched your video about the basics and it felt really hard to maintain a good fem voice. This video just made it completely effortless for me. Thank you so much! ❤️

Holly Mmmolly your channel is the best I've seen on voice control! It so interesting because you give precise analytical explanations to so many things I've heard here and there or voice experiences I felt. like the overtone singing, what ppl call head and chest voice, false chord compression or retraction for purer sounds etc etc When I resume practicing harmonica I'll definitely practice resonance with new perspectives

My DnD players are going to love this!

QUEEN! I hope you’ve been good babe

Just discovered your channel. So underrated

This is so helpful and makes me super happy in only three days iv noticed a significant difference in the first two days I was trying to get my voice to sound feminine but was raising my picth giving me a falsetto and buzzy voice. this video showed me I dont really have to raise my picth to sound feminine instead my r1 which I'm still confused about how it necessarily works but the exercises have defaintly help a ton and havent hurt my throat or made it soare at all

ty so much for these videos

Thank you, this video is like a new year gift for me.

You are just an incredible person for doing this. God Bless you woman! I'm slowly getting there. I've always been a bit of an impressionist. Celeb voices, US presidents, sometimes female characters. So I've been training many of these vocal structures for years without knowing it. Only making my vocal feminization easier. Thank you so much!

Thank you!

This video was amazing! I really can't express enough my awe at your teaching. You make very complex topics easy to understand. I love that you do all your own music, too. ^-^ question: While practicing this and fold thickness, is there a way to know the difference between being tired and doing things that may cause harm to your vocal folds? What is a normal amount of "tiredness" to expect while practicing voice?

Just one day before my birthday this was posted, and I was in St. Louis.

Haha I was thinking about how this reminded me of overtone singing, and then you Did That! Amazing!

Oh Z l! Wow, I know I am commenting twice but I learned about overtone singing years ago singing chants along with David Hykes and the Harmonic Choir! Well worth a listen!....

Hello! I just found your channel and absolutely love it! I am day 1 on my female vocal training and I had a question that I thought you might have the answer to. When doing exercises, do you use your diaphragm, like you would for singing? Any guidance would be greatly appreciated! And thank you for putting so much wonderful content for all of us to learn from!

I'm totally in love with you and your work as a musician and as a voice changer teacher

Resonance helped raise my pitch up a tad bit as well, its so interesting how the voice works, and how interconnected it can be. My voice is far from where I'd like it to be, but its a WHOLE lot better, and I have a general idea of where I am at to where I want to be.

thank you!

Most helpful video to date! I found your explanation of the anatomical mechanisms and their affect on the sound to be especially insightful. Love the microtonality in your music btw😊 -Signed, another trans music major, who is very happy with her vocal progress😁

I keep leaving these glowing testimonials...but.. I have to say.. you are an amazing teacher. I understand what I am supposed to be doing at all times.. Ok, sometimes I need to repeat some lessons,... but thanks to you, I now have a more feminine high pitched voice, where I feel like I am still talking low, because my register (r1) seems to now be Kinda stuck higher. I bought a book that explained everything that you are teaching,... but it did not really explain how to isolate the Muscles that control the different aspects of speach and sound. Before all i knew was the Intonations and some of the articulation.... But I could Not nail a way to get rid of the bass from My voice.... Now it has diminished significantly. Thank you sooooo much for helping me unlock My true femme voice.

fascinating!

yes, good job

this is like a didgeridoo lesson at the same time! fantastic work v helpful :D

thanks you so much :)

I'vew been listening to 18:50 nonstop and i cannot comprehend how she did that, what is the modification to her tongue or nose or any muscle in her neck how does she does that?! I'm pretty much right at the first example with my voice but she just transformed it into perfection in a second lol.

Always awesome videos Z. So many Tw and Tm get this wrong. Way too much pitch without watching resonance. They still get read as their birth sex and wonder why. This is Very Important. Keep up the great work girl!!

Thank you so much for your content. i just started a little over a month ago and its difficult but you make it manageable to learn and practice

Your hissing is great! :o

Girl, you are just amazing.

Have you thought about going over resonances with respect to the IPA vowel chart? If you put the vowel resonances on a 2d plot (using the R1 and R2 as the x and y values) from the section at 7:42, that is essentially all there is to how the IPA vowel chart is constructed.

Fun Zhea, Petra-B❤xxx

I'm a cis guy (Probably. Maybe.) but honestly these are just really good resources for understanding how voices work.

I have been waiting for this since you mentioned it on your Christmas stream! I hope you're doing better, iirc you said you were depression.

Hello there! I watched some of your videos that's all about voice training and understanding how sounds and voices work, all thanks to you, I started a level 1 training with myself few months before the first day of 2021, to improve on level 1 and 2 more for a better next level, I stayed on level 1 and 2 for too long, I'm actually more than ready for level 3 (to start this time vocally and not silently), I have absolutely no problem at all to begin level 3 voice practicing right now, but the only one problem here is: What if my dad judges me for training my voice? Look, I'm sure I'm not alone on this, but I'm one of the very few (rare) people when it comes to their parents, I won't care if my mom hear me all the time because she trusts me a lot (and she means a lot to me too), however, my dad isn't less likely to not judge me at all, at least. I know both of us are different in careers, you're sticking to sound engineering, music, and singing a lot, and I'm sticking to science/technology, history/geography, and these "nerd" things, but it doesn't mean I don't wish for what you have in skills, I can actually sing as a generic talent, the only problem is I'd be shy for singing in a "fair-enough" masculine voice, my voice isn't in the masculine zone, it's in the androgenous zone, but a little closer to masculine, which means I could take time less than the most natural and generic adult male voice, I don't care how much time it would take to completely feminize my voice, the 2nd and final problem is simply not about voice at all, this time I just became heavily testosterone sober because I waited for too many times without coming out at all, and I think you've barely guessed I'm living in a conservative society, but now that I'm no longer afraid, I'm willing to come out to and in front of my parents, even if it means I would not only being rejected, but also kicked off the house, or even murdered for who I am, my mom is more likely to support me after coming out than my dad, while my dad is far less likely.

👀 those synths in the background tho 😍

Hey there Z Thank you for the videos! I am looking to analyse my voice in this way and I was wondering if you could recommend what sort of hardware I would need? Thanks x

I'm still practicing :') But progress is difficult.. ♥ My voice just turns into breathe if I go too high >-

Thank you so much

Very nice, just started transition .. very late in life. But here is what I found, I was able to do simultaneous when you do and overlap the frequencies. It was kind of confidence building. Ran it a few times and seems to get a hang of it only with you as a duet. The spectrum you show is it a TFFT a temporal fast Fourier Analysis /?

That video helped me a lot to visualize better whats happening to my resonance when I use my feminine voice. I've always noticed that R1 and E2 are working in unison when I make the overall resonance brighter but seeing a visualization of this is just super cool. I wanted to ask you what exact software did you use in this video? I'm using Abletons internal spectrum but it's not detailed enough. Thanks for the great video! :) edit: I've been learning with your videos for the last 6 months and just kept going and going and 2 weeks ago it finally clicked and I started to be super satisfied with my new voice and went full-time with it instantly. :D My life quality is so much better now and I think without the resources you gave here I wouldn't have made it so far.

I can hear it. I just have to change it. Thank you.

Are there any techniques I can work on to improve maintaining a good resonance at higher volumes? At the kind of volume you talk at in your videos I'm absolutely fine but if I have to deliver a presentation to a lot of people and project my voice or talk in a loud environment I really start to struggle to maintain good, clean resonance and my sound becomes less bright and sounds more forced. My pitch isn't a problem - it's just resonance as I increase volume... I think this is the last bit I need to master. Ps. your videos are super-helpful!

Hey Zheanna, I've got most of the Resonance stuff down but I was wondering if you could give us some exercises or explanations on how to get a more open quotient :3

Hey z great video! You probably get lots of recommendations but you might like Glass Beach l. No microtonal stuff but very interesting music

When you said about vocal folds coming closer together, was that the same thing that the exercise in a previous video of breathing silently or trying to get that smiling in your throat feeling were for? And just curious, if the line of pink dots and green dots were r1 and r2, what were the blue line and the two black lines?

TransMeleeLessons when tho