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I want to learn how to sound like a girl while singing. Is it possible? I'm a 17 year old male.
Thanks in advanced :)

Quote from: HelloWorldVirus on November 01, 2011, 06:10:19 AM
I want to learn how to sound like a girl while singing. Is it possible? I'm a 17 year old male.
Thanks in advanced :)

I find it to be extremely difficult. I'm a singer and I have no problems talking and sounding like a woman but I can't sing in female range. And when I try, I sound like a dying cat. Lol.

Perhaps Zoe can help me xD

It's difficult probably impossible while I can do it for awhile (ignoring my lack of singing talent) my personal vocal training that gave me my female voice ultimately sacrificed Endurance and Stamina in exchange for incredible strength and dexterity. While I can push out incredible notes high and low for a short while voice is very prone to giving out all together. Collapsing if I speak normally for 1 hour or infact 5 minutes under stress.

Hi pebbles,

Take heart; everything is possible.

Recently a good friend of our family got to the finals of "Australia You've Got Talent". He sang in the style of Frank Sinatra, and was coached by some middle weight Sydney vocal trainers. Well to make a long story short, he is now booked out for the next 18 months. But since the end of the show, his new manager, has ensured he gets the best training available.
During the show, singing that 'Sinatra' style (grovel type) he was only able to sing, including practice no more than 2 hours before his voice started to show strain. With his new trainers, he can sing including practice in excess of 3 hours without any form of strain. And he said he can go much longer than that. He now just has to practice this technique to extend his vocal range and strength.
I don't understand vocal training myself, however to those who know the mechanics of it, can perform wonders. Obviously you have to seek out the 'top shelf' of the industry, but it certainly worth it.

Keep up the great work, and be safe, well and happy
Lotsa luv
Catherine

It's just a matter of technique you don't have to pay for a voice specialist I personally did it myself using spectogram gotten questionably analysing other females voices and my own and experiementing with different sounds to get harmonic patterns I needed after it took a good 4months of hard training to get it in a range where I could speak without sounding shrill for any length of time and then another 3 months for it to feel natural and it to become "my voice" and got overall good results I could have gotten better results faster If I'd gotten over certain amounts of dysphora and LISTENED to me speaking in recordings.

It's research and experimentation. an expert is just somone who knows somthing... and occasionally an extra pair of hands.

I wish I could explain how to do it, but I've just never stopped doing it since I was a kid so the range is still there! :laugh:  Kind of ruined my voice a bit when I tried pushing it down in my mid-20's, but I've recovered most of what I had before.  Strangely, I have really deep range and I have really high range, but it's the middle that's so tough for me.  Managed to get that back by singing Beatles songs primarily.

I have the opposite problem ... singing in a female voice works relatively well (as well as my singing can be anyway, considering I've only picked it back up a month ago after not having sung anything for about 10 years).
But I can't even remotely talk with a female voice. Not that I'm complaining though, because I have only been practicing for a month and I definitely don't expect things to move along that fast ;)

In general, work on your falsetto. You probably won't be able to sing loudly, but especially if you're naturally a tenor, you should be able to get into alto range. I can get pretty high above my normal range with falsetto, but unfortunately I'm the lowest of the low as a bass (Lowest tone is D below the staff in Bass clef) and can only get into tenor range. Fortunately I'm an androgyne, but when I present as female it's a nuisance. Fortunately, timbre plays far more a role in passing than pitch.

What I noticed is that there are two major parts to getting a female voice down: Removing the bottom resonances of your voice and adding top resonances. For the longest time until like, two weeks ago, I didnt even know I had the top parts. When finding the top part of your voice (this is the easier of the two) try vocalizing through your nose. You don't even have to do it with a high pitch, it can be low, just make a humming sound and add a little "nasally" highness to it. Those parts of your vocal cords, which i've recently discovered, are crucial to sounding female. I've tried doing so much from removing the bottom but it's nothing unless you add those top parts.

Now removing the bottom end is VERY tricky, and I would recommend looking up CandiFLA's voice videos on youtube, she does an excellent job at explaining it. In a nutshell she teaches you to slowly raise your voice until you find your falsetto, then kind of pinch it a bit to try and remove that bottom end, then focus on relaxing and lowering your voice to make it sound natural.

It took me almost a year and now I can get my voice working the way I want to maybe around 25% of the time, but because I didn't even think about using those top vocal cords that I almost never use, I didn't get too far until recently.

I'm jealous of this guy. He is able to sing female xD

PILIPINAS GOT TALENT SEASON 2 - MARCELITO PO MOY (HD) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCGXEY5CEmk#)

@Anthopos: I'm a bass D2-C4. My falsetto tops at G#5 xD