I can’t discern different muscle movements and elements of my voice, all this lingo like vocal fold mass, weight, fullness and shit like that, just confuses me. I’ve been training on and off for almost a fucking year and I haven’t made any progress
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there are 2 things u need to know: weight and size.
weight is how stretched or not stretched your vocal folds are. size is how big the space in your mouth is. you know how, if you blow air, it makes a soft sound, but if you blow air through a constriction, like a kazoo or in whistling, it makes a sharper sound? that is weight. your larynx is a little kazoo that holds your vocal folds, which air goes through. you know how, if you blow air over a big bottle, it makes a deep sound, and if you blow air over a little bottle, it makes a light sound? thats size. it’s the, well, size of your mouth. your mouth is the bottle and you want a smaller bottle for a lighter sound. the main way of decreasing size is by taking the bottom of the bottle and moving it closer to the mouth of the bottle. in your mouth, this is moving your larynx from the bottom of your throat to the top of your throat. if you see the term resonance, resonance and size are directly interchangeable. they mean the same thing.
fullness is how size and weight interact. you dont want too much of one and not enough of the other. for any given size, there is a certain interval of weights that will sound normal with it. not enough weight makes your voice underfull, sounding hollow. too much weight makes your voice overfull, sounding nasally.
there are more advanced terms, like purity and brightness and whatnot. learn weight and size now and learn more advanced terms when you’re ready.
voice training is FIRST learning to hear weight and size SECOND recording yourself doing different voices and hearing your own weight and size THIRD repeatedly speaking into the mic, listening to your voice, and adjusting weight and/or size as needed, then repeating.
TLDR: there is no tldr. you want a passing voice? read the whole thing
I don’t get the difference between weight and size still
weight is constriction of vocal cords. size is basically where the vocal cords are.
what’s the difference between constriction and position? Everyone always has different answers for what these terms mean, it’s so always so confusing
you’ve played a string instrument, yes? your vocal cords are just that-- cords. and you can tune them. how stretched out or loose these cords are by tuning is weight. you know how if you tune the cord to be more stretched, it makes a sharper sound, and if its looser, it makes a deeper sound? thats weight. and bigger instruments, with more space inside, make deeper sounds, yes? this is size. except with your voice you dont have different instruments, you merely move the front of the instrument, where the cords are, making the space inside bigger or smaller.
this isn’t a mere convenient analogy-- this is the exact mechanism used in your voice. if you know the difference between the tuning of an instrument and the size of the space inside an instrument, you can extend that knowledge to know the difference between vocal weight and size.
