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Earlier this week, we talked about raising or lowering pitch. Today, I'm going to give you an exercise for determining your baseline pitch so that you can get a sense of where you need to go when you're raising and lowering it. For this exercise, you're going to need a tuner. There are plenty of...
So, you're interested in learning to raise or lower the baseline pitch of your voice, but how much and where do you even start?
Pitch is an interesting characteristic because most people have an average pitch around which they speak, however, some people use a wide variety of pitches and others...
This will probably not come as much of a surprise to you because I'm a very introspective person, but I love reflexive journaling in both my life and my voice practice. It's something that I encourage my students to do all the time. If you've never tried reflexive journaling, all you have to do...
A question I get asked often is, “Can I masculinize my voice without taking testosterone?” And the short answer is yes, that is my job. I literally teach people to do exactly that.
However, if you're planning on taking testosterone someday, it doesn't hurt to learn some...
One of the most powerful tools for creating a strong habit in your life is called Environment Design. This refers to designing your space to either include triggers that cue positive habits or remove triggers that cue bad habits. This can get fun when you start connecting light, music, times of...
Hello, trans voice friends! Today, I want to talk about the concept of dynamic range.
Dynamic range is a little hard to describe, but it's related to the characteristic of inflection. It depends on how much pitch variability there is when we inflect during speech. This can be a gendered...
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