The**OFFICIAL**Voice/Singing Help Thread

It's all a matter of practice. Get down the foundation (breathing correctly, pushing down for support, placing the tone to the soft pallate, not letting the sound fall "below the pencil" as melissa cross says). Buy her The Zen of Screaming DVD and get her new one which is about to come out called The Zen of Screamin 2. Zen 1 gets you ready for exactly what your wanting to do by giving you the basics, and Zen 2 is going to show you how to get that sound.
 
I will be having rehearsals around 1, then the performance is later at 7. Do you think i should be working my voice from the rehearsal till then? What i'm scared is i would tire out my voice, since the first piece i'll be performing is the kind of song that normally I can do it once perfectly, but if you tell me to do it again right after, it won't be as gd, since it is a fastish song with not much room for taking a breath.
 
Her DVD along with Mark Baxter's 5 Secrets of Screaming MP3 would be best. The MP3 gives you step by step in getting rasp in a good way, and her DVD will give you good warm ups to do and tips to keep you doing the screams correctly.

Its a good thing that you feel more open afterwarRAB IF open means stuff is easier to hit, better tone, throat doesnt close up when going for high/low notes, stuff like that.
 
Sing first. Try to sing it in normal voice only for a while. Whenever you try dont succeed go back to normal voice for a while. A while in these two sentences can mean five minutes or so.
 
"after drinking water for some reason"....?? YOu obviously havent read the voicehelp hotline --->http://www.rabroadmusic.com/forums/showthread.php?t=219911

If youre not a "natural"....you need to practice your *** off. You need to get used to your voice and its limits and know how to get into head voice consitently to expand your range. Grab a sandwich....well...actually some fruit and a tall glass of water and read some. Then get back to us.
 
Whats usually a waste of time is when someone says....I sing or sound like "X" from the "X" band, as I'm very picky and dont listen to alot of popular music. So I have no idea about who that is...

If youre doing alot of forceful screaming then be sure youre warming up. It doesnt seem like the "macho" thing to do but you should. Just like you were about to go sing in a choir, because thats what youre doing anyways. But you didnt give us enough information. Is it saliva in your mouth like youre about to eat something good, or is it thicker like youre catching a cold? How does your throat feel? If youre getting a mouth full of watery saliva then you need to work on that. Some people make alot when they do alot of vocalizing. I dont have much advice on that except to make sure youre cleared before singing, and avoid drinking or eating much before singing, especially anything besides water but water will sometimes increase this as well.
 
The problem is, I can't get my voice to go very low. What can I do to work on that? I mainly checked around these boarRAB about screaming, not so much about normal vocals.
 
I want to know something. I'm a smoker, I smoke a pack in 2 days. I'm thinkin about trying to quit, and I want to know if my body will recover? I'm a singer, and I've noticed a slight difference in my range lately. Also, when I do quit, is there any songs/vocal excercises to work on my throat to aid in the recovery process?
 
Hello everyone,

i have recently be roped into singing for my band........i have developed a decent scream but i found at practise yesterday i wasnt able to find it,

was it just an off day? or do i really need to work on it a lot more?

i still get slightly sore throats from it but much better than when i started about 3 months ago.
also my singing voice, the more i practise will it become better??


thanks
 
I just don't get it.

I tried everything to access my head voice and I just can't do it and if I can then I can't tell it apart from falsetto.

It's kinda ridculous too, I mean I can zip my chorRAB up to whistle but can't do it halfway to head voice. I tried narrowing vowels and such but I either end up with stretching my chest voice, or falsetto (could be head voice though, I can't tell). Did anyone have this problem? It's just so frustrating.

I think I'm one of those people with really stubborn vocal habits.

I read Merkaba's voice hotline parts: "Vocal Chord Isolation" and "Finding Your Head Voice". And I'm currently doing glisses though I don't get whats the use if I'm starting at falsetto? I'd appreciate any kind of help. Oh and yeah over the years I've developed a pretty good falsetto so that's one more thing against me.
 
I finally found my head voice today. It felt my ears ringing and vibrations in that area when I went into it. I even tried to sing the same notes in falsetto and didn't have the same sensation. Also, I only got to D#5 with head voice where I can go alot higher in falsetto, so I'm pretty sure now it actually is head voice.

The problem: I can't seem to get into my head voice in songs. When I'm doing scales, I eaisly got to A4 (which was surprising, since my highest note was Ab4) then got to about B4 with a mix voice and I used like 90% head voice on C5 and then after that it was pure head voice. But then I tried singing songs with A4 high notes and I couldn't do it. I'm pretty sure I sang the same notes while doing scales, so why can't I use them in songs yet? Do I need more practice?
Another thing is that I'm feeling a slight pressure while I'm in head voice and I'm close to shouting my notes. I'm not splatting my vowels or anything like pulled chest voice, but it's still loud. Does anybody know how to solve this?

thanks..
 
good tip on getting that growl(not sure if this was posted yet sorry if it was:thumb:) my lead singer for my band drank honey before our gig to get that raspy tone.
 
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