Top Ten Vocal Feminization Videos
Find your voice. We need to hear what you’ve been waiting to say.
One thing I’ve learned as I’ve gone from traumatized baby trans to mother hen eager to help anyone fresh out of the egg?
I know a lot more than I think I do. Stuff that could help my queer community if only they knew it, too. Stuff that might help us all empower ourselves and empower each other.
We all have a voice. It’s time to learn how to use it.
Here are my Top Ten Vocal Feminization Videos.
PS. The only thing harder than numbering them was understanding that in the end, what’s advanced to one trans-type-person might be hella easy for the other. If that’s you, LOL, leave a comment on what makes it so easy!!!
PS2. Cis girls get vocal coaching, too. Trans experiences with your voice are just part of being a woman.
PREVIOUS TRANSVOICE ARTICLES Dear Cisters: Fun Trans Voice Feminization Exercise (two magic words) You’ve Got Me Feeling EMOTIONS (fun trans voice exercise)
OUTLINE WARMUP PART 1: MAGIC BULLETS KARAOKE INTERMISSION PART 2: VOCAL EXERCISES PART 3: SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIALS Final Thoughts from a Queer Trans Mom THE END (damn girl, that’s dark)
0. WARMUP: Zoey Alexandria — Vocal warmup
The gift of a good teacher isn’t that they tell you anything new. It’s that they share a new perspective that adds meaning and insight to what you might already know.
Zoey walks us through easy scales, trills, and funny sounds to get you in the mood to let go and use your voice.
PART 1: MAGIC BULLETS
1. Ada Han — Make your voice feminine (with and without head voice)
Ada’s videos are the Texas Hold’em of voice lessons. Thirty seconds to understand, but a lifetime to master.
Thank goodness you’ve got the rest of your life to practice!
Watch these videos. You will instantly understand how to shift your voice in the direction you want to go.
2. AmaRoseLessons — Fem Voice in 8 Minutes
It’s no coincidence that many of the best vocal coaches aren’t just great at teaching you how to speak. They’re also great singers.
That’s because your voice isn’t really a “voice.” It’s a sound made by a voice box, and that voice box can coordinate with the rest of your face to make an infinite amount of sounds.
This video from Ama guides you through several of those key sounds (Big Dog/Small Dog will blow your damn mind), how to almost instantly shift from the male vs female version of those sounds, and how to use these techniques to ground your speaking voice when turning those sounds into words.
3. Zoey Alexandria — Immediate Voice Feminization
The obstacle to you achieving the voice you want might not have anything to do with the sound coming out of your throat.
It might have to do with the shape of your mouth that sound comes out of.
This video won’t instantly transform your voice, but that’s only because the video lasts 10 minutes.
4. Zoey Alexandria — One Step to Vocal Feminization
Look who it is again! I can’t help it. Voice lessons sound better when they come from a redhead. At least to me.
We all have our weaknesses.
One weakness you might share with me is a Lazy Larynx. It’s a throat position that plagues a bunch of us. Cis, trans, man, woman, non-binary, literally everyone can find themselves speaking with a larynx position that’s so low, you sound like a frog who spent the last ten years chain-smoking lily pad stalks.
Zoey will show you how to develop the Muscle Memory to always speak with the larynx height appropriate for your voice.
5. TransVoiceLessons — The Gender Dial
If you haven’t heard (or just heard of) Zhea yet, get ready to go down a rabbit hole of resonant proportions. She exploded onto the scene with her unique insight into vocal pedagogy grounded by an even rarer ELI5 explanation for difficult concepts. She turns the impossible into the already there.
6. Stef Sanjati — Vocal Feminization 101 and Voice Training for Trans Girls
Stef doesn’t do videos for beauty and activism anymore. I can’t blame her for taking a step back. I also can’t blame her for needing to process the earlier parts of her journey through that activism. Some would say I’m even doing the same thing!
The below videos are just a couple of those she left up after she transitioned to her new career as one of the brightest talents streaming video games on Twitch.
7. TransVoiceLessons — 8 Exercises to Reduce Vocal Fold Mass
Look who it is again! I didn’t want to stack them on top of each other. Zhea makes things incredibly accessible and engaging. She also truly educates you on how your voice works, so don’t worry if you’re like me and need to break apart her videos into bite-size chunks.
One of the hardest things as an early vocal practitioner is in finding exercises that are easy to integrate into your daily routine. Thankfully, Zhea already did the hard work for you.
8. Seattle Voice Lab — What Comes After “Heat from Fire”
That’s totally a Trans Voice Lessons reference!!!
Right…?
KARAOKE INTERMISSION
PART 2: WARMUPS AND EXERCISES
Okay, maybe I should have put the warmups BEFORE the karaoke intermission…
9. Bria — Speaking a Sentence
Bria delivers an enormous amount of free content and daily exercises. She’s as much a joy to listen with as she is to practice alongside.
10. Caroland — Voice Training for Trans Women Part 1 and Part 2
Practicing alongside Carol feels like singing with a friend. Let go of any anxiety you feel about needing to sound good. You will remember the simple joy of singing and speaking.
BONUS: Zoey Alexandria — What If I Want a Deep Female Voice?
Pitch has nothing to do with gender. Well, at least not everything. Maybe not even most things.
While I work on a much bigger article to answer this one, Zoey’s video is a great place for you to get started.
SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIALS
I came across this guide on r/transvoice at Reddit (it’s like a pocket of air in a cloud of patriarchy).
Credit to /u/adiisvcute for making this very detailed collection of resources.
This big wall of text contains infinite information, but it can be a little overwhelming if you’re new. The content isn’t necessarily advanced (though some of it is), but it’s so much info at once that it can feel like picking up an academic textbook and trying to teach yourself how to make a spaceship from scratch.
But once you’re comfortable, /u/adiisvcute made one of the most comprehensive collection of resources you’ll find here or anywhere else.
Plus their guide includes current Voice Feminization Coaches and that most elusive piece of info…their hourly rates!
LET’S TALK FOR ONE MORE SECOND (Final Thoughts From a Queer Trans Mom)
There is no magic bullet beyond time and practice.
There are no strategies or techniques to instantly feminize your voice.
There are no quick fixes to change the sound and perception of who and what you express about yourself.
We make micro improvements one day at a time.
Sometimes, those micro-improvements converge to manifest a sudden leap forward in the sound we manifest. But it’s not as though knowing what you know now would have made you able to sound like that sooner.
We are learning how to coordinate different parts of our voice to make new sounds. We can’t bypass the time component required for mastery (or even basic competency).
But if we put in the time, we WILL get better! To borrow some wisdom from Zheanna Rhose at Trans Voice Lessons, it isn’t a question of WHEN we will feminize our voices, but how much we will feminize our voice from day to day.
Your voice already belongs to you. I hope these tools empower you to use it.
AND NOW FOR…
SOMETHING FUN: Wait…the Little Mermaid was trans? (co-written with singer and poet Jenny Starr✨)
SOMETHING SERIOUS: I Was Today Years Old When I Understood My Family Sent Me to Trans Conversion Therapy (co-written with every fractured part of me)
THE END (DAMN GIRL, THAT’S DARK)
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