#post-testosterone

[incognitomiamigo]

So last week i started T and I should be getting my period at anytime. Does anyone know how your period effects testosterone?

[indi-flying-with-dragons]

Indi's New Voice Rambles

Had a ton of fun figuring out my new vocal range. o.o~ I'm WAY deeper than I though. E^E Over 6 months on T and I'm apparently comfortably singing at a bass tone!

HOLY CRAP.

My previous voice as a woman was like... mezzo-soprano or alto. I could sing along to most of Michael Jackson's voice in the songs. And match pretty most men in their songs as well.

I'm finding out now that most singers are tenors or sopranos, which sucks finding a song I can actually match with my new voice!

BUT. I did a vocal range exercise and found out I can sing the lowest note they can set before me and feel a comfortable relaxing sensation, like what happens right after you stretch a muscle that needed a good stretching. Like I rarely get a chance to get that low and it's now like "ahhhh~" to do so.

I'm relearning a lot of vocal tricks now. I can't go *higher* for more emphasis anymore. I have to go *deeper* to do so and gods I actually like the ~feel~ of hearing my deeper voice when I give that emphasis. Very... resonant. :D <3

People never say how singing real low with a bass voice feels like you have a vibrator in your chest. e.e~ I can tell if I go real low by how much vibration I have going around in my chest and even a bit of my abdomen too!

Now I have to do like a reverse-mirror of the singers I sing along to. If they go higher for emphasis, I must go lower. If they go deeper to have something "go more in the background" or with less emphasis, then I go higher. It's... strange. I'm having to relearn a shit ton tonight.

Maybe if I do this enough, and relearn how to laugh, chuckle, giggle, and even speak normally, then I can really use my new voice to full effect?

I found my tessitura (comfortable range) is from middle C (C4) to second E (E2). I'm not joking! E>O~ I can force it higher past C4 to B4 but if I try to get beyond that, my voice literally cuts out and no sound comes out. -x- Darnit.

My days of "matching" people singing is over. But at least I can get more comfortable with my wicked low vibrator voice. :D ...I actually now enjoy listening to myself sing along to people and start to prefer my voice over theirs. :3 <3

Still getting there at speaking lower for my "thank you" and stuff like that. X>X I try and my human woman programming goes "AAAAAAAAH!??!?!?!?!?" and I am immediately c o n f l i c i t e d . We have a ways to go I see. X>X;;; Ahahah...

Fun of a deeper voice on T. :D

[indi-flying-with-dragons]

Indi's Singing Voice Update

I went from a mezzo-soprano or alto singing voice as a woman, to what is a bass singing voice, MUCH to my surprise! I'm only 6 months on testosterone! O.O I'm sad about not really matching my usual favorites in singing along to, but I've been finding songs that I can actually sing along nicely to. :D

Like Larry Graham's "One in a Million" which is my go-to now to really practice my range. It's nice to sing along to the highest notes the singer does, without wincing in anticipation of my voice literally cutting out on me if I go too high. I DID make my boyfriend swoon epically hard when I crooned "I'm Your Man" by Leonard Cohen and got all the deepest notes easily. <3 *so gonna do it more often ;3*One of these days I'm gonna be comfortable talking, chuckling, exclaiming, giggling, laughing, and so on with a deeper voice. One of these days! (I think I MIGHT have a baritone speaking voice, with bass singing voice, but we'll see what my speaking voice ends up being once I relax totally and talk comfortably with it.)Fun fact: Didja know that if you sing reaaaal deep, it feels a fucking vibrator in your chest and throat? Even in the abdomen at times if you go the utter deepest? :D And if I croon with my lips super pursed but with a slight opening (almost reminiscent of blowing through a skinny straw) I can feel a vibrator there all around the inside of my lips. Without ever needing to It's really cool! XDI mean I always could feel vibrations in my waterbottle if I hold it up while listening to someone play in front of me, or the underside of a slightly lifted foot, or even deep in my chest if we're playing music a bit louder than normal in the car (we have to crank it up REAL loud for my hearing peers to feel anything) so it's super funny to sing and feel vibrations whenever I want in my chest. XDD 

I actually love my deeply resonant singing now, even when I'm crooning slightly too high for vibrations to happen. Hell, if I place my hand on my stomach now and sing deep, I can feel the vibrations even there, no joke! It's like my entire torso is now a cello. XDDD

Fun of being on T. :D