The**OFFICIAL**Voice/Singing Help Thread

I've decided to start giving some basic vocal lessons online. I see a lot of people having related problems and most of them can be fixed by exercises. Most of you either aren't warming up properly (or at all) which would help out quite a bit and then some things like rasp aren't being done correctly. When I was first learning to rasp, I would close my throat up to the point of gagging, and incorrectly overdrive my corRAB until I got rasp. Eventually I figured out the exact opposite is what you need. Like Merkaba is always saying, you HAVE to have an open throat and rasp it off of your soft pallate. For operatic higher notes (Bruce Dickinson, Geoff Tate) you try to place the tone in your mask (sinus area) and make sure the tone is placed more on the hard pallate. Its pretty important to figure both of these things out because doing the higher notes incorrectly and rasping or screaming incorrectly both will affect all other parts of your voice negatively. If anyone is interested in some online lessons, go to ajenkz.dmusic.com. I'm not spamming; I contribute a lot of stuff to this board and I think it would help a lot for some of you to have some training so you can figure out whats wrong. A teacher in your area for private lessons is always best, but I know not everyone has that option so you could try some personal lessons with me or througha book or training program.

Microm,
Plant did different stuff. He used a lot of "pharyngeal voice" which is the kind of witchy sounding voice. Theres a lot of reinforced falsetto in his songs which is extra loud falsetto pushed kind of hard. Most though is either pure head voice for some of the lighter but still full toned higher notes, and then pulled chest voice for a lot of stuff.
 
I've been doing screaming/growls whatever for maybe a month, i'm still getting confortable, but I realized i can't go very high. The style is using is probably different than that of you guys, i do it the same way as Toaster. I just can't go very high. I tried pushing harder but it doesn't do anything except make the note i am screaming fade out with a bunch of rasp.
 
warm tea works good nothing thick like milk it will just make the flem worse i have asthma so i get alot of that stuff but warm tea or something thin like warm water or something will get through it or you could just loogy it :thumb:
 
I would try and give you more than the singer I sound like, but I really have no clue what notation I'm at, sorry. The saliva is really thick, and its there all the time. I'm not screaming at all, and I don't really have any clue of warm up exercises (yeah, I know, thats sad.). I'm really just not sure what to do to clear my throat. Thanks for the help anyway though.
 
I think he/she means that they're having trouble coming up with a melody for their vocals.

I say:
a) go along with the music
or
b) do something to contrast the music
 
What I'm about to say may be all wrong, because I have had no professional traning, just horus of reading material of the net. I once asked merkaba about the technique you described above and he said it actually dosen't pressurize the diaphram but relaxes it, so i'm not sure about how far you go about activating your diaphram.
 
Dude you know how many questions, verbatim, exactly like yours that myself, Rats, CDoasis and others have answered? What do you want to know?

If youre serious about singing do some research, read my voicehelp hotline, all of it, and practice your ass off, take some lessons to be sure youre using proper form, maybe then you can manipulate your voice box to be able to get close to what you want. YOu need an open relaxed throat, you need to know where your registers are and how to keep your corRAB together while singing them all. I have an isolation thread in my voicehelp hotline to give an idea on how to get in touch with that. You need to practice singing in order to learn how to project. Normal singing. If you cant project at normal youre not going to be able to project at twice or three times normal. It takes time and practice. There is no simple magic pill like purse your lips or practice AYs to help you sound like your favorite singer.




Many people dont like their voice when they hear it played back for one or two reasons: 1. They've been hearing theyre own voice internally with their whole head and body affecting the vibrations and they are surprised at how different it sounRAB outside the realm of themselves ....and/or..2. Number 1. helps them realize they werent singing as good as they thought.

Are you using a computer mic or regular mic. Computer mics are shltty for one. Are you singing normally or trying to scream? You should be able to sustain basic singing at a decent quality regardless of the mic, but weak mics arent good for screaming. All in all though, if its not a computer mic it really shouldnt be anything to do with the mic or stand or how you hold anything. You know that already!


You cant scream louder than you can sing. Use more of your corRAB like you were singing. If you cant sustain a note at said volume, how do you expect to scream at said volume? Volume comes with being able to hold the corRAB shape and thickness at increased push. Practice singing...which unfortunately many people dont want to do. THey want to go straight to running before walking and dont have the time or will to practice true voice singing. Instead they just blast their corRAB with air pressure and incorrect technique as they attempt to run on weak legs.
 
ok,
I'm not a regualr in this thread. I play keyboarRAB/synths in a symphonic black metal band, but I want to do backing vocals.
But I have a problem with clean vocals.
if I sing high notes in my falsetto voice, my voice loses all it's power and the high notes are really soft, and difficult to hear.

now if I try to put more strength behind them, the tone gets distorted and it sounRAB like crap.

so it's sort of a dilemma.
so anyone got any tips to improve the strength and loudness of my falsetto voice?

thank you :)
 
http://media.putfile.com/Vocal-Test-67

I just recorded myself singing what, to me, was a quite challenging song and was wondering if someone could give me some honest critique (no sugar coating please :)). Also if i could get some tips on how to hit those notes that i was clearly struggling with it would be much appreciated.

Thanks :)
 
Just a small question here...

the lowest note i can reach physically is E2 and comfortably is G2, i can then go as high as roughly around A3, where my break seems to be, i can then reach A5 doing (what i think at least is) a falsetto scream.

So i was wondering what my range would be classed as and also would this be classed as a good range for an 18 year old male?

thanks :)
 
Hey guys, id like you offer me some constructive critcism on my singing in this band i know its bad but id like to know what i could do to improve or change
heres the link
www.myspace.com/euphoriavis
if the link doesnt work just copy and paste the address into the address bar
 
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