Voice.

[notyouraverageguy]

I was wondering if any of you guys that are on T, didn't have a singing voice before T but do now?

[Greg]

Funny you should ask this because I was singing a bit today and actually thought that it didn't sound terrible. PreT I had a horrible singing voice. Until about 2 weeks ago I couldn't sing because my voice was very weak due to it dropping. It's still dropping but now it's gaining resonance which gives a nice tone when I sing. Also it's easier to stay in tune since I have absolutely no vocal range at the moment.

P.s I'm still a horrible singer, but now slightly better.

[Ruben]

I'm worried about the OPPOSITE. xD

I can sing fairly well at the mo [pre-T], and I'm a little concerned that I won't be able to hold a note if I manage to get onto T later on. xD

Call me silly if ya like xD

[Edit: why does the word 'opposite' look like it's spelled wrong when in caps...? Just a passing thought. xD]

[Nathan.]

I was wondering about this, right now i'm pre T and can't sing so I wonder what T will do to my singing.

[notyouraverageguy]

Haha it does look spelled wrong in caps.

But I know some guys that have singing voices worry about not having them after so they don't take T. But what if you can't sing pre-t, and can after?
Haha, jw.

[Carson]

Haha I couldn't sing to save my life pre-T. Then right after my voice dropped for the first time I had a badass range and voice. Then the week after that all of it was gone again. Now as I start to feel more comfortable with my voice I'm trying to start singing and am realizing that a main problem with my voice pre-t was that I wanted to be singing alot lower than I actually was which was throwing everything off. Now that I actually have the ability to sing in the range I feel I should be able to. My singing has gotten alot better. 

[Lachlann]

It might just be that people who can sing 'better' after taking T like their voices more and are more comfortable with it. You're still going to have to exercise your vocal 'tool' to get better at it though. I don't think T will make you magically better, but you might enjoy what your voice sounds like enough to motivate you.

[Devin87]

It might just be that people who can sing 'better' after taking T like their voices more and are more comfortable with it.

It's also about how you see your voice in your head.  Before I took voice lessons in college I saw my voice as being low.  I always tried to sing along with the male singers on the radio and stuff and so I was never in tune.  I took voice lessons and it turns out I'm a soprano and my voice just wasn't meant to sing low, which is why it sounded so horrible when I tried to push it down there.  It took me a long time and a lot of coaching and pushing from my professor before I was able to sing up high comfortably and now I'm a much better singer.  Of course, I'm going to have to learn all over again once the T starts lowering my voice more.  But for someone who never had lessons and wasn't pushed to sing in a female range, your voice stating to match what's in your head will definitely sound better than trying to push a female voice to sing like a male like I was doing all those years.

[Ryan]

My singing is definitely improving! Pre-T I really struggled to hit most notes, but now, I'm finding more and more songs that I can sing reasonably well.

[kyril]

It's also about how you see your voice in your head.  Before I took voice lessons in college I saw my voice as being low.  I always tried to sing along with the male singers on the radio and stuff and so I was never in tune.  I took voice lessons and it turns out I'm a soprano and my voice just wasn't meant to sing low, which is why it sounded so horrible when I tried to push it down there.  It took me a long time and a lot of coaching and pushing from my professor before I was able to sing up high comfortably and now I'm a much better singer.  Of course, I'm going to have to learn all over again once the T starts lowering my voice more.  But for someone who never had lessons and wasn't pushed to sing in a female range, your voice stating to match what's in your head will definitely sound better than trying to push a female voice to sing like a male like I was doing all those years.

Yeah, I've suspected for a while that I'm trying to sing too low for my voice. I have the best control in the tenor range, but the lower notes really hit the bottom of my range, and that "bottoming out" sensation is unpleasant.

But my voice breaks and cracks and crackles when I try to go into the soprano range - I can't even sing along with the vast majority of female singers. Even Cher, whose voice is most like mine, occasionally goes where I can't. And the very high male singers like Journey...well, there's no hope. So I have a really narrow functioning vocal range, about the bottom 2/3 of Cher's, or most of the bottom half of Kurt's from Glee. And I have wondered if my inability to use my upper range is really because my vocal range is that narrow, or if it's just a lack of control and could be fixed with voice training...but then I've never felt at all motivated to learn to sing soprano.

[notyouraverageguy]

So are you able to keep your high range you had before, plus the new lower range?
Or do you lose it?
Cause I had a biomale friend who I watched through puberty &after he was able to change his voice from high to low(from before puberty &after).

[Devin87]

So are you able to keep your high range you had before, plus the new lower range?
Or do you lose it?
Cause I had a biomale friend who I watched through puberty &after he was able to change his voice from high to low(from before puberty &after).

It depends on your own particular voice and your level of ability.  I know a guy who sings as a beautiful strong bass and then just to show off sings the soprano part-- in our octave.  He's just a bass who's really good at singing in falsetto.  It takes a lot of time, practice, and probably lessons to get like that, though.  I'm not expecting it for myself, although I think the fact that I've sung soprano and have decent use of my head voice and knowledge of how to manipulate my resonance will help me keep a decent high range, but I'm not expecting to keep my high C or anything near it.

[elvistears]

Oh man, I am excited to see what T will do for my singing.  I am so jealous of that male vocal range, you can do anything. I was an alto during my year in school choir.

[notyouraverageguy]

I see,
Is the change permanent?

[Lachlann]

Yeah, it's permanent.

[Ryan]

My range has completely shifted down. I can't even try to hit the higher notes that I once could anymore as my voice just won't come out, or will crack.
Like others have said, it's permanent. Although the voice takes at least a year or more with most guys to completely settle.

[xxaussiexx]

Pre-T, I was always told by my family that I sounded like a cat run over by a car everytime I attempted to sing...My favourite back then was Elevation by U2   I was never encouraged to sing, in fact encouraged to stop.

Now that my voice has dropped, it sounds a lot better and have more control.  Its still not a fantastic voice but definitly more bearable than when I was Pre-T

[notyouraverageguy]

Hmmm, &what all happens or can happen in that year.

Pre-T, I was always told by my family that I sounded like a cat run over by a car everytime I attempted to sing...My favourite back then was Elevation by U2   I was never encouraged to sing, in fact encouraged to stop.

Now that my voice has dropped, it sounds a lot better and have more control.  Its still not a fantastic voice but definitly more bearable than when I was Pre-T

This completely answered my original question. Lol, I wonder if it'll be like that for me, if I go on T.