so as ive been working with my voice teacher on making my head voice not suck ass, the focus has been on pharyngeal reduction and epilaryngeal twang, raising resonance formants without pinching the vocal tract. apparently this is also the focus of vocal training for trans woman. u just have to do that shit when u voice has a fat ass
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@jannem i see people posting fanart of dubious quality all the time so i figure why can i not post my own hobbyist things of dubious quality?
i hope my experiences as a deep voiced cis woman having to put in a shitload of effort just to make my voice sound nice by societal standards are gender affirming for any deep voiced women reading this 😂
someone on TikTok said they thought i was a former trans man who detransitioned. there is nothing wrong with that but in my case this is provably false because post HRT trans men can't smoothly blend into head voice in the manner of a non-t puberty voice, and i read they often have a dead zone where a tenor's passaggio would be due to their vocal folds outgrowing the laryngeal cartilage. so weirdly enough my voice does have more in common with that of an AMAB individual than a post HRT trans man
a t-puberty voice has significant hardening of the laryngeal cartilage which I do not have but what a non-HRT t-puberty voice and my voice share in common is large vocal fold mass in a larynx that has grown to match the size of the vocal folds, which means it is possible in both cases to achieve higher pitches without strain by training to vibrate the edges of the folds only
so what ive found out is that my singing as a beginner does sound shittier and worse than any other beginner because to get a good sound i have to train in "shedding mass" something other cis women aside from maybe dramatic mezzos don't have to do. i have the gat dang deck stacked against me. but lol at all my friends the last few years who have gently suggested in private that i give up due to being naturally untalented
THE NUMBER OF TIMES friends have said to me "you're the modern Florence Foster Jenkins haha just kidding but not really"
ok first of all tell me where in my stuff im out of tune. you can't. i have many sins, tone deafness is not among them.
but second of all the fucking audacity. and ive just eaten shit about it because what else do you say to such a shocking insult from an alleged friend?
@Xibanya@mastodon.xyz What? After checking your YT, you definitely are not.
You sing some soprano stuff an octave lower, and some bass stuff an octave higher. So?
That doesn't make you a FFJ. It makes you an alto.
You may want to add a slight amount of reverb though - whether in audio editing or by recording from a slightly more reverberating room. At least when checking out e.g. your Modern Major General. Your newest short has reverb, but you really should have done some noise reduction in Audacity.
Also, Sarastro aria "In diesen heiligen Hallen" and Queen of Night aria "Der Hölle Rache" when? Interestingly you may be able to pull of both, octavized. Seriously, don't do the latter one, it will definitely invite FFJ comments. Even though it would show how much better you sing, as she did that one too...
You sing some soprano stuff an octave lower, and some bass stuff an octave higher. So?
That doesn't make you a FFJ. It makes you an alto.
You may want to add a slight amount of reverb though - whether in audio editing or by recording from a slightly more reverberating room. At least when checking out e.g. your Modern Major General. Your newest short has reverb, but you really should have done some noise reduction in Audacity.
Also, Sarastro aria "In diesen heiligen Hallen" and Queen of Night aria "Der Hölle Rache" when? Interestingly you may be able to pull of both, octavized. Seriously, don't do the latter one, it will definitely invite FFJ comments. Even though it would show how much better you sing, as she did that one too...
@divVerent thanks but I have a noise floor of -60dB for most stuff so idk what you mean about noise reduction unless you mean deleting my own voice In which case lmao. I don't know what's on shorts I mainly post horizontal videos .
also I cannot recall ever transposing a bass thing up when did I do that? must know so I can delete it lol
What is your working range ?
@tuban_muzuru @divVerent G2-C6
bass arias very rarely go to G2 or lower, not because basses can't sing that low but because it doesn't carry well over an orchestra.
the C6 is not pretty but it exists lol
@Xibanya@mastodon.xyz @tuban_muzuru@beige.party Yeah, I can barely sing "In diesen Heiligen Hallen" (which goes from G2 to C#4 in the score I have). It definitely sounds a lot better from a real singer though, not gonna record myself 😊
@divVerent @tuban_muzuru if your floor is G2 you might be a bass-baritone (notable roles include Figaro and Leporello) a basso cantante is expected to have a loud E2
@Xibanya@mastodon.xyz @tuban_muzuru@beige.party Yeah, but my absolute ceiling is D4. It's already painful. As said, I'm definitely not a good singer.
@tuban_muzuru @divVerent I'm not a good singer either lol
Also your vocal type isn't actually determined by your range but rather where you flip into falsetto! I have a friend who is a professional baritone who cannot sing lower than A2 (typically the lowest note of a tenor) but he has a baritone's transition point, hence the classification
@tuban_muzuru @divVerent a bass has to be 100% in head voice/falsetto by ~E4 hence the most exciting notes in a bass aria being D4/E4 (great example of this is La Calunnia, with a climactic "cannon shot" of a note on D4 https://youtu.be/jKqNgCrx4Vo?si=iFJFFlG9hJJpNGOx heard at 2:20 in the video) so highest chest/mix note being D4 does point to bass
La calunnia è un venticello (Il Barbiere di Siviglia - G. Rossini) Score Animation
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Bach doesn't do much distinguishing between baritone and bass.
J.S. Bach - Ich will den Kreuzstab gerne tragen, BWV 56 (1726) {Fischer-Dieskau}
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@divVerent @tuban_muzuru they hadn't invented baritones yet back then
No seriously, "baritone" as a classification didn't arise until the early 19th century
@Xibanya [goes looking online for "laryngeal cartilage softener"]...
