I'm just wondering if you guys (and any girls hanging around) could give your opinion of my singing voice? Does it sound male? I've posted singing clips here before, and I'm trying to take advice from previous threads.
http://www.jenny-jackson.com/dustinthewindsept1.mp3 (http://www.jenny-jackson.com/dustinthewindsept1.mp3)
I'm almost 5 months on T.
thanks!
Definitely male, in no way can I picture your voice coming from a female of any age. You sound like a young male, maybe 15-18, and...kind of gay. Not a bad thing and I hope you don't take offense, but your phrasing and the inflection with how you end your words sounds a tad effeminate, the slight hint of girl-ish lisp that people generally associate with gay males. But as I said, not remotely female, your pitch is way too low for that. Your voice is lower than mine and we've been on T almost exactly as long (5 months for me will be the 5th). You sound great, by the way, you're really good. Have you found it hard to learn your new range, or has it been gradual enough that it's been pretty smooth?
I can't sing half the time these days. I'm not professionally trained or anything, but my parents are professional musicians and I've always had a good voice and pitch control naturally, plus we grew up singing, just a musical family. Not anymore, however, my voice is in a weird in between stage where I can't instinctively tell what notes I can reach and can't, sometimes it's a nice tenor, others I sound awful. Practice will help I'm sure, but some days it's just a hot mess. If you don't mind my asking, have you noticed any squeaking or cutting out when you try to make certain sounds/noises? I work with dogs, so when they howl sometimes we'll howl along with them, and I can't anymore...at all. It just cuts out. O_o If I try to make a surprised noise or add much upward inflection, I also squeak. I'm just curious if others with good voices pre-T have had similar experiences. I was always told my speaking voice pre-T was 'pretty'. That made me shudder, of course, but I was hoping maybe that meant I'd have a very pleasant sounding baritone some day. A guy can dream, at least. XD
Logan - thanks. I will work on booming it more from the diaphragm. I'm working with a teacher at school this year and I hope that will help me develop the male side. I've been singing as a female for 27 years so that's probably where the female inflection and enunciation comes from. Also, most of my experience with male singers is through musical theatre, so that's probably it, too.
Bahzi - It'll be 5 months for me on the 4th. :) My voice dropped really fast at the beginning, in the first month, and since then it's just been very gradual. Especially in the beginning I did get some squeaking when I talked - not really like a teenage boy whose voice is breaking, but more like you describe, when I try to make certain noises. Like when I'm surprised or try to add any upward inflection it just gets more squeaky and it's hard to actually make noise up there. It just cuts out. I've pretty much lost my falsetto range, so I wouldn't be able to howl along with dogs either. I've heard that the falsetto range eventually comes back, so I'm hoping. I don't notice as much of a problem with upward inflection nowadays, but I don't know if that's because it's finally starting to smooth out or if I just learned not to talk up there. As for the singing, it just seemed to grow very smoothly. I went from singing high soprano to singing baritone and it just happened pretty quickly at first, but I never had a time where I couldn't sing. The closest to not being able to sing was when I started to lose my high notes, and then I just had a limited range for a few weeks.