If you are new to voice feminization work, this is the perfect place to start.
One Weird Trick Live is an 8-week online interactive group class for voice feminization based on One Weird Trick: A User’s Guide to Transgender Voice. In this supportive setting, you can put your new voice tools into practice, setting you up for confidence and ease as you use your techniques in daily life. (A copy of the book is provided with registration.)
Your instructor will offer information and allow time in each class for participation and feedback as you explore the exercises for yourself. In this class, we want you to feel safe, supported, and free to try new things both inside and outside of class.
Weekly class outline:
- Getting started + breath and body - How to use the book, and how to bring attention to your breath.
- Pitch - How to find your habitual and target pitch ranges, and implement new pitch goals in speech.
- Inflection - How to explore more feminine-perceived ways of adding emphasis in speech.
- Resonance - Brightening the sound and creating more full, consistent tone for sustainable voice use.
- Articulation - Bringing the consonant and vowel sounds more forward to be clearer and more feminine-perceived.
- Non-verbal communication and non-speech sounds - Gestures, facial expressions, coughing, laughing, sneezing, sitting in a chair, etc.
- Implementation part 1 - How to use all the concepts in conversation and daily life.
- Implementation part 2 - Continuation of daily life application and class wrap-up.