Totally new with voice training, help me out?

[Guest melanie maritz]

Could anyone post some links of sites that really helped you find your female voice?

I read somewhere that just singing along to a song sung by a girl with a high pitched voice can help , is that true?

And even though my parents know how I feel, I'd feel embarrassed if they were to hear how I was straining to find my female voice, that's kind of why I've never started, I'm rarely alone on my own and I'd prefer to do it when I am alone.

Also, how long would it take if you practiced a lot , I know it probably depends on if you're voice type is tenor , baritone or bass. I sang in the choir and I was bass although a lot of people are surprised to hear that because i don't have a particularly deep voice, I can just sing very low notes if I have to but I can sing high notes too although it's harder to do.

So, what can I do on starting with my voice training?

[Guest Sarah Faith]

Hmm, I dunno that singing along with a high pitched female singer would be productive, and it sounds like it would strain your vocal cords super fast. Ive been working on my singing voice and I started out trying to go outside of my range and it wasn't very productive at all. Trying to sing soprano when you're a contralto is painful lol.

As for practicing you need to be careful not to strain your voice, it will take time to strengthen the muscles used to hold your voice box in the new position, so you just practice as much as you feel comfortable. Then you let your voice rest before trying it again so you don't permanently damage it.

As for resources that I used to reach where I'm at with my talking voice, I can't seem to find the website I originally used years ago to get an idea of where to start. For me it was easy to find my female voice because I did funny voices all the time outside of my old male range, it was more a matter of strengthening my voice and improving how long I could maintain it with out feeling strained. So I never really needed to use some of the techniques that some suggest to try to even find it, but I did find one set of youtube videos last summer on this subject that I felt was pretty in depth. I watched them all and even used some of her techniques to see if I could further improve where I was at.

She has a whole series but I believe that is the first one in said series. Hope that helps some Melanie!

[Guest chibi_usa]

Could anyone post some links of sites that really helped you find your female voice?

I read somewhere that just singing along to a song sung by a girl with a high pitched voice can help , is that true?

And even though my parents know how I feel, I'd feel embarrassed if they were to hear how I was straining to find my female voice, that's kind of why I've never started, I'm rarely alone on my own and I'd prefer to do it when I am alone.

Also, how long would it take if you practiced a lot , I know it probably depends on if you're voice type is tenor , baritone or bass. I sang in the choir and I was bass although a lot of people are surprised to hear that because i don't have a particularly deep voice, I can just sing very low notes if I have to but I can sing high notes too although it's harder to do.

So, what can I do on starting with my voice training?

Did you try reading this?

http://www.lauras-playground.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=4765&page=1

[Guest Ashlyn M]

I'm the exact same way! If I people are in my house I don't want to even try it. But, even when people aren't in my house I still get kinda paranoid. Not sure why.