Assessing adolescent male voice change for singing teachers

A brief sample of the DVD available to go with the book 'Teaching singing to children and young adults'. Available at www.jenevorawilliams.com

[@orhoushmand85]

When my voice changed during puberty I was upset, I felt like this deep masculine voice is not for me. Adapting to this masculine voice was very hard for me, I felt like I can't sing anymore and it hit me too hard when I still had the same singing habits I had before puberty, I also have a sensory regulation disorder that interfered me in adapting to my masculine voice when it was established and overwrote the voice from childhood completely without the ability to return to it even temporarily. And in the first days I had a real masculine voice I really felt embarrassed, it sounded to me like "that's it, now I am just as mature as my parents and my teachers", the embarrassed passed away quickly but I had different reasons to hate my voice before I adapted to it.

[@hetedeleambacht6608]

i can imagine......! But you can do wonderful things with it nonetheless

[@KentPetersonmoney]

Yeah growing up I actually hated the sound of a deep voice. I thought deep voices were ugly and never wanted one. Of course I wanted to stay a little boy forever but I'm not Peter Pan.

[@aliceweasley8569]

1:21 that sounded like an angel

[@carwashslayer4235]

I agree

[@brianheyward1411]

Enjoyed the preview. Thinking about checking out more of the resources.

[@hetedeleambacht6608]

beautiful voices, especially theguy with the dark curly hair and tartan shirt

[@N1ck_1004]

1:46 😂😂

[@jameschannel9931]

Help me too, my voice changed. Before I can sing really high and I can belt. Now I can't sing high cause my voice always go low and I tried forcing to sing high which results, it sounds like an opera. Luckily I can still whistle like Mariah Carey

[@hetedeleambacht6608]

wtf..wow

[@hetedeleambacht6608]

opera is mot bad, either!

[@ekakipshidze3428]

hello !!! .I have such proffessional question with you.when a boy is between 13- 15 years and has male mutation with his voice Since the young male voice breaks during puberty, ther exists a theory that males must stop singing until the voice completely changes. .must he stop singing or continue singing in future years what you advise?

[@jenevorawilliams4550]

Hi Eka, if you'd like to know more about boys singing throughout their voice change, there's lots of information on my website: www.jenevorawilliams.com

[@ekakipshidze3428]

Oh.thank you very much

[@DiggaStiggaTheGamer]

eka kipshidze i wouldn’t stop singing. Singing is just talking on different pitches rhythmically. If he’s vocalizing and doing exercises he can maintain his high notes through the vocal changes up to C5.

[@N1ck_1004]

Halo 3 *plays*

[@N1ck_1004]

0:35 😂😂😂😂

[@socksumi]

They used to castrate some boy singers to keep their voices high pitched sounding like female singers. Even now they can (vocally castrate) them with medical/drug treatments while keeping their genetalia intact. There is rumors that this was done with Michael Jackson as an adolescent which explains his unusually high voice while his brothers were normal.

[@DiggaStiggaTheGamer]

socksumi his brothers had high voices too Jackie has a high voice and jermaine has a light voice for a male. And chemical castration doesn’t effect the voice much , and if it did once stopped the changes will still occur . Mj’s lowest note was around E2. That’s pretty low, his voice changed like normal but it just didn’t drop as much as most guys .

[@orhoushmand85]

How is it possible to keep boys' voices high without fully castrating them?

[@hetedeleambacht6608]

michael jackson is not castrated, jos voice dropped considerably. He is 'just' a very high tenor. And he has been training singing high notes all his life. If you never use or train you highest registers, they ll disappear

[@hetedeleambacht6608]

​@@orhoushmand85with men, there will always be a significant drop in register. but you can train your high notes most certainly, you will however need to retrain your voice and learn a somewhat different technique then you were used to

[@orhoushmand85]

@@hetedeleambacht6608 This is interesting.

[@innocentme4506]

Plz help me I'm so depressed I used be the best singer in my area now i am fucking useless):

[@MichelleBanda77]

Don’t say that! You can be the best. I think it’s getting used to your new voice and practicing and training it. You can still be the best ❤️🌹

[@hetedeleambacht6608]

how are you doing now??? Keep on singing!

[@florianmeuleman3433]

Wtf did I just watch

[@Туся-я3м]

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