Any suggestions for someone who can't afford a voice coach at the moment but wants to make their voice higher? I've been doing a lot of singing practice, singing soprano parts, to help stretch my vocal cords but beyond that I'm not sure what to do... My voice is pretty versatile, but I've lost my ability to do higher more feminine voices in recent years... I can do some higher voices but the still have a masculine tinge to them unfortunately... And I have trouble making them sound natural... Any help would be appreciated and rewarded with kisses and hugs!<3
That masculine tinge you're mentioning is resonance. It's good you practice the way you do because getting a feminine voice starts with talking a lot in falsetto so the higher ranges don't hurt. Once you've done that you gotta lower it a bit so your voice isn't super high as that usually just makes you sound like a child or a stripper. Then there's the tricky part. After finding the right pitch, you gotta decrease the resonance. It's a little bit hard to explain, but you basically need to restrict your throat and make it smaller. It might be a bit painful at firat because you're using muscles you have never used before. It's a matter of practice. A good example of how resonance works is blowing into a bottle. The emptier it is, the deeper and more vibrating the sound. Your voice box works much in the same way. There are some pretty good tutorial videos on youtube. It's a good idea to stick to videos with a few views. 50k or so.
http://youtu.be/qbaj4tIX1kw Personally I think that's the best video out there, obviously that's just my opinion though.
Yeah, she's good. She's saying the same thing as many others do, she just explains it a little better.
