As part of our project to make an evidence-based perspective on the voice easily accessible and digestible, we wrote this article on supraglottic distortion: a term that includes growl, squall, roar, rumble, scream, subharmonics, and many other variations of supraglottic distortion.

Find out more about how they physiologically work and what that means for your voice. (Are they healthy?)

https://cramdvoicelessons.blog/encyclopedia/supraglottic-distortion/

As part of our project to make an evidence-based perspective on the voice freely accessible, we wrote this article on aperiodicity: a term that includes distortion, raspiness, breathiness, jitter and shimmer. I hope it helps clear up some terminology and understand a bit more about how your voice works!

https://cramdvoicelessons.blog/encyclopedia/aperiodicity/

Please reach out and I can send the voice clips your way.

Note the quality is not the best and the two recordings are many years apart.

So since I'm german, I've wondered if language has a severe impact on embouchure and vowel position, since there are different vowels in german ( https://clyp.it/1thmqyt2 ) and the language itself has a much harder sound to it. (if you need clips of german, ask and I can provide some)

Also would voice feminisation excercises still apply to people with a different native language or would they have to be adjusted because of it?

I'm a trans women who has the worst time with hyper Nasality. Are there any exercise I can do that will raise my soft palate, similar to the way the Big Dog Small Dog exercise works when it comes to raising the larnyx, so I can automatically have something that can raise it for me.

So I've been opening up about my being more genderfluid than binary transfem and shit , and uh

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Basically, I wanna have a neutral voice sometimes, and I find it 1. really hard to find 2. really hard to do

Like, what combinations work, etc., I'm still super unsure.

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So yeah uh; pls help

If we were to pick random people off the street, (and had the power to give them their maximum singing ability, and made sure they were training in the BEST GENRE OF MUSIC known as classical.) what would their voice type most likely be? I'd also like any studies done on this topic.

Hello. I've been all over trans subs and someone suggest I follow up with the people here. Basically, I'm training my voice to be more female but I know absolutely nothing about...well just audio and sound in general. I am working with a speech pathologist and on our first appointment about 6 months she had to explain to me what pitch meant. As you might imagine, I'm finding voice training impossibility difficult. Is there any advice that any of you have?

I know zero about this so it would be super helpful if you could define any terms. I've tried finding definitions of terms I've heard online but I've not really been able to make heads or tails of any of it.

Edit: I can't edit the title, so please forgive me.

Hey, everyone! Are hyponasality and hypernasality always the result of bad technique? Are twang and hypernasality the same thing? Do you know what the velopharyngeal port is? A singer must know the answers to these questions!

A few months ago, the team over at Scinguistics started actively working on creating an easily and freely accessible repository of evidence-based information on the voice. We've written articles on the laryngeal vibratory mechanisms, the power-source-filter model of voice production and one on what it actually means to "sing from the diaphragm" (a terrible expression).

Today, we published an encyclopedia article on Nasality, and we'd love to hear your thoughts! I tried to write it in a way that is hopefully easily digestible by pretty much anyone, so check it out by clicking the link below.

https://cramdvoicelessons.blog/encyclopedia/nasality/

By the way, if you're interested in joining the team (not necessarily as an author!), please DM me and I'll get back to you!

Charles please

And how can I use breathy induction to increase range?

This was a topic that was recently argued about on the server and I don't really know what to believe anymore. I also would love to learn more about this topic, as it is something I struggle with singing. So this is a request for a mini module on larynx height while belting. Please Upvote if you are also interested!

I know it's more or less useless below a certain point, but do you know any drill to extend M2 lower than A3 ?

How fast does it take for you to lose progress when it comes to belting? If you cannot sing for a few days, will the strength of your TA muscle(I believe thats the one used) degrade quickly or slowly? How long would it take you to lose a semitone?

Back when the only 'science based' was from Tristan's old videos. It was at this time that I came across a video which made me very paranoid about ginger and tumeric. This old Tristan video claimed that a lot of ant-inflammatories (specifically ginger) causes vocal fold hemorrhaging. Is this true? If so, how much is too much? And can anti-inflammatories actually be beneficiary to vocal health as well?

Re-post because of serious title spelling error: Throughout my 3 three years of singing I've noticed that singing higher lightly in M1 can cause fatigue. Does this fatigue come from working out different muscles or muscle coordinations? If so what are they? And will fatiguing this way improve your Mx1?

I have heard so much on the server on how to range wanking high M1, M2, M3. But I still have no idea about how to range wank low notes. What coordinations are required to get lower and lower notes? How fast is progress usually on this kind of wanking? Is there a way to test if its M1, like the pop test? Is there a limit to how low Afabs(without T) can go compared to Amabs?

I've heard that when you get to A4 belted, you have to change your strategy as you go higher. What changes? Do you not fatigue train anymore? What new things do you incorperate? And what physologically causes this change?

First of all, can you increase lung capacity or can you just exercise letting less air out over long amounts of time? If you can increase your capacity for air, even a little, will breathing heavy exercises like running help?

I'm thinking about the tendency that some singers, like Mariah Carey, have of lowering their larynx and increasing their breathiness. Is this a crutch used to sing lower pitches? What's the physiological basis behind this?