Trans Voice: How To Match Pitch for Vocal Feminization
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Hi everyone! I’m Olivia Flanigan, your gender-affirming voice teacher. Pitch can be an important part of feminizing your voice. In this video, I’m going to explain what pitch is, how we measure it, and how you can make sure that you’re matching and maintaining the pitch you want.
How to find your habitual speaking range:
To get started, I’m going to help you find your habitual speaking range. This is simply the pitch range where you typically speak. It’s great to know what your starting place is so you can track your progress. We’re going to figure that out using a pitch app. I have Voice Tools, which is completely free, but you can use any pitch app. When you open up the app, you can go to “tone”, and you’ll notice when you speak into it, it registers your pitch. Your pitch varies a lot when you speak, so you might notice it changing quite a bit.
We’re going to say the phrase “I like pie”, and hold out the last vowel sound so Voice Tools can register where you speak. You can try it a few times to see if it’s a similar pitch each time. So wherever you are, you’ve found your habitual speaking pitch!
How to match pitch:
We’re going to use the Voice Tools app to play a tone and match it. I’m going to start with a G3, which is in the lower end of my range, but you can use whatever your habitual speaking note was. We’ll start by playing the note and holding it, and trying to match the pitch with “mm-one”.
Once you feel comfortable with that, you can play the tone, stop it, and then match the pitch on “mm-one”.
The display will show you whether or not you’re on the pitch. The hertz will move a little bit, and if the note names are moving a little bit, that’s okay! Make sure to take a nice breath before hand and send your air forward. One thing that really helps me is to sing the note in my head before I sing it aloud.
Next thing you can try is moving up in pitch, and see what feels comfortable, uncomfortable, and just get to know the feeling of these different pitches in your body.
If you start to feel comfortable there, you can challenge yourself by jumping around. Make sure that you aren’t sliding into the pitches, but are thinking about singing right in the center of the note. I’ll give you an example.
As you feel more comfortable, you can work on maintaining your pitch by going all the way up to ten. Make sure that you’re taking nice low breaths, so we have consistent airflow, and always checking in by singing your note in your head first.
I hope this helps you understand what pitch is and how to make sure you’re matching it. Play around with your pitch app and get to know your voice! Thanks for watching, and I’ll see you in the next video!