One of the best ways I have found to experiment with my voice is by singing. I am curious as to what songs/artists others have found it useful to emulate while discovering the female voice.

I'm a huge fan of Tori Amos and I love practicing singing along with her.  She has great dynamic range and constantly changes up the 'texture' of her voice so it seems like good practice.

*sings*
We scream in cathedrals
Why can't it be beautiful
Why does there gotta be a sacrifice
*stops singing*

Lucky for you that you can't actually hear me singing that, hehehe

I have taken to Joss Stone with her rich voice.  I got so into her song "right to be wrong" that I could barely talk the next day. Her vocal range is outstanding.

Quote from: kilkan on September 15, 2013, 07:52:32 PM
One of the best ways I have found to experiment with my voice is by singing. I am curious as to what songs/artists others have found it useful to emulate while discovering the female voice.

Lords is at the top of my list right now.

My other go-to is Stevie Nicks with Fleetwood Mac.

I have others, but they escape me... was Joplin one...?

I like a vocal challenge! Maybe it comes from too much Glee lately!

The first songs that I ever sung which really helped me find a reasonable voice that sounded feminine, were actually both by Joan Baez... "With God On Our Side" and "Forever Young." Copying her nasally tone was actually exactly what I needed to learn how to lift the voice up and forward.

singing didnt work for me since you dont really speak at singing volumes.  Copying voices and the way people spoke in animes I watched worked best for me.  The one I flocked to was Major Kusanagi's voice in Ghost in the shell stand alone complex. She had a real mellow female voice that was kinda cold but upbeat.  which fits my never smiling face XD

I raised my base pitch into the lower end of the female range by myself, and got rid of the chest resonance - sometimes called using the head voice instead of the chest voice.  Then I had some speech therapy and the therapist was pleased with what I had already done and concentrated on intonation and dynamics.

I do sing in two choirs at the moment.  I still sing bass so I'm a bit unusual.

To illustrate something. If someone held a gun to your head and said talk like a girl you probably would. Carrying this further if a person has not made a real commitment to transition then all the practice in the world will likely mean nothing.

On the other hand if a person goes out in the world and you would be surprise how quickly the voice falls into place.

Katie

Right now I am trying to strengthen my upper register.
I practice falsetto as an exercise by singing along to ' we are ghosts' by james vincent mcmorrow.