Trans Women Sing: Vocal Resources

Allison Washington
1 min readSep 14, 2016

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Links to a few transfeminine voice training resources:

Some basics from The New York Speech & Voice Lab.
http://www.nyspeechandvoicelab.net/transgender/voice-feminization/

In greater detail, from Kathe Perez, with links to further resources.
http://www.exceptionalvoice.com/home/voice-feminization/ (scroll down)
http://www.askkatheperez.com/how-to-sound-feminine-one-step-at-a-time-step-11-november-fluency/

There are dozens, perhaps hundreds of transfeminine speech tutorial videos on YouTube.
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=transfeminine+voice

For development of the modal-falsetto passaggio — these articles are directed at male singers, but the mechanics are the same.
http://www.musicedted.info/SingingBetter/Vocal_Quality_%26_Registers.html
http://www.musicedted.info/SingingBetter/Falsetto.html
http://www.musicedted.info/SingingBetter/Sotto_Voce_%26_Passaggio.html

http://music.tutsplus.com/tutorials/an-easy-change-from-a-mans-head-voice-to-his-falsetto--audio-14762

Singing into the mask.
https://music.knoji.com/mask-singing-the-best-method-of-vocal-practice/

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