25-03-2024, 03:59 PM
(25-03-2024, 03:11 PM)Billie Wrote: Question, are you using voice tools like music scales exercises to hold on to for the future? Have you listened to your voice lessons recording?
I've been a vocalist in bunch of heavy metal bands for over twenty years, so obviously I record my voice from time to time and I practice my singing with which I've been lazy lately. Its been a while now since I listened my voice on a recording. I think last time was a random voice demo recorded on my phone. (Phone and laptop mics are all potatoes without exceptions.)
Last time I heard a professional quality reocrding of myself was vocal recordings for my black metal band and it was surprising. My voice sounds much brighter by both pitch and resonance to other people as it does on record when the quality is decent. For myself it sounds deeper and darker because of internal resonance. (Voice resonating though skull straight into ear, the stuff no other person hears.)I haven't done scales on purpose, but I do some times just sing along with music to keep up. My range has widened at upper end for at least 3-5 notes if not more. Before transition singing Scorpions was very difficult, now its super easy and singing Lorreena McKennitt has become manageable. So that's quite significant improvement.
On my voice demo done at the phoniatrics clinic my vocal range went from A#2 to D5, that 458Hz which I did without a warmup, without pushing the far ends. I'm quite sure I could do wider range after warming up decently. The vocal chord surgery might do some interesting things, it might cut the lower end, make my average pitch higher and likely it will make brighter resonance more natural. Widening my vocal range is more about practice and my therapist seemed to think that I might be able to further widen my upper reigster with training. Its really interesting what she comes up with, she mentioned that we might figure out some new approaches to practicing resonance which is awesome as that is something vocal chord surgery alone cannot achieve.