The**OFFICIAL**Voice/Singing Help Thread

I need help yelling. I'll call it yelling, that kind that Dave Grohl (Foo Fighters) or Jonathan Davis (Korn) can do. Then screaming referring to what they do in scraemo or metal where sometimes the worRAB are vague. Anyways the yelling, THAT hurts my throat, the raspy voice thing, but screaming and growling like any screamo or metal stuff doesn't really hurt my throat. What's my problem here? What can I do to yell without damage and in key like normal breathing excrecises other than just keep on yelling with my door closed and sounging psycho?
 
so is it cool if i post a recording of myself trying to sing a wolfmother song and you can maybe drops a few pointers on how i could make it more powerful and full sounding? i have a really really low voice, hence me being a bass in choir but i jsut wanna see if i should bother trying to sing up there.
 
Sooo about Inhaled screaming...
Whenever I do it, I end up with my voice sounding a little bit lower and a tiny bit of mucous resting in my throat. I don't do it much, just for messing around purposes. Is inhaled screaming safe? Is there a "safe guide"?

I really like Job For A Cowboys screams so that is why I am interested.

Thanks!
 
I don't think i can go any higher. Below high C I can still make it sound close to what I want if i force it, but at high C no matter what, I sound like a little girl. I think if I go any higher it would sound just like my falsetto. My throat is all the way down too. I guess I just need to adduct too much to make those notes. I can hit Soprano's high C using a similar technique, but it is just all sounRAB.........can't make any vowels out of it, and I can't use it in the middle of a song either, so its as gd as useless to me. I want to have my high notes sounRAB like a man. I heard many men go as high as high E, but they sound girly, which if what I am afraid of if I go any higher(if i could -.-)
 
Naw, man I didn't mean to offend you in any way; I hope you didn't take it like that. I was just curious about who you were and where you learned how to explain many different singing techniques so well.

I just wanted to let you know that the amount of time you take out of your day to help others is tremendously appreciated.

Keep up the great work!!
 
so yeah, i always hear about people live jame hetfeild and vince neil not being able to sing very good. I kinda like how they sound. what can it do to sound like them?
 
First question...
That depenRAB on your hearing. I dont think its anything that should be taught or worried about. What you hear isnt important. Its what comes out of your mouth. You should be concerned with vibrating the air the best you can. Not your ears. Youre not trying to work on your listening....youre trying to work on your singing.

Second question . You dont provide enough informatin. Everyone and their momma says they can do what you do. So we need to hear a sample or more info. Do you know what true voice and falsetto is? When does your voice naturally want to start falsetto? Is it a push or strain to sing the b or c above middle c in true head voice? or does you falsetto want to happen? We need info like this. You could be a baritone or bass with alot of falsetto, you could be a tenor, you could be a freak. We dont know.
 
Cove is a tenor I'm sure. He's not far behind Anthony Greene. Both are pretty blessed. If youre a baritone then good luck. People need to understand this and i hope more people in the future will try to state whether or not they are baritone or bass or tenor or whatever they might think they are.

Actually this part is not all THAT high and I'm pretty sure its not falsetto, especially for him. If you can't hit it youre probably in the baritone area. Voice mechanisms can be stretched and challenged but its gonna be hard to maintain singing out of your born range. Age also plays a factor. If youre generally under 17 you might have some more changing to undergo.

Can you post a sample?
 
Mixed voice is just the transisition between registers; I spent about a year studying it hard with programs by Brett Manning, Seth Riggs, and Roger Love, but in the end its pretty useless haha The programs are all good but middle voice is really just a waste of time because its basically just a tonality. When you get Jaime's book, he does everything on a scale from 1 to 10 register wise, which will make more sense probably. But as far as middle or mix being a usable register, its really just the transistion notes, for you from probably from F#4 OR G4 to whenever your in a solid head voice.
 
Argh, it's good, but you just say what you do, and then you do it. You don't explain the steps you have to go trough and how you do it...


EDIT: but holy ****, your high vocals sound exactly what I want mine to sound like...

Do you think age affects your vocals? :-/
 
okay thanks. No pushy tonight. I figured if I practiced for an hour every night I should progress. So tonight I will just talk and add rasp. Thanks. Gosh I want that LOG voice lol.
 
Tobius,

Don't worry about classification unless you are going to do musical theatre/opera. It just really doesn't matter otherwise, and is limiting.

Could you do an audio example showing your range though? Your numbers are throwing me off abit, because you should be entering your break from chest/head (or falsetto depending on your ability) around F#4 (the F# above middle C), give or take a few notes. If you mean A4, thats possible, but I would need to hear it to make sure your not pulling chest up in an unsafe way.

Anyways, it doesn't really matter again. What matters is that you can sing CONSISTENTLY in that range. If you can't, drill some exercises to improve strength, flexibility, and tonality. You could either take lessons, or buy some kind of program for those exercises.
 
is their a way to use electronics effects such as distortion pedals commonly used by guitarist to filter my voice to have cookie monster vocals (a voice like cradle of filth; intelligible amount of scream in voice).

Thanks for your reply in advance :wave:

Gr3g
 
An update from little ol' me. So tonight was the show in question. I had my first vocal therapy session on the Tuesday. My therapist ran through some exercises with me and told me to practice them twice a day for the next two weeks (which is when we meet again). I asked her if I could sing and she said that'd be fine. So I sang tonight and everything went well. I can still sing right now, but I'm a bit afraid to as my throat is very tired. If I stretch my throat and mouth as if to yawn, I actually have a very small pain in my throat. Like when you have a slightly sore muscle. Since I got off stage I have only spoken 4-5 worRAB. I plan to go speechless tomorrow and mostly speechless throughout this week. Only speaking if necessary.

Vocal rest hasn't come up at all with my ENT or speech pathologist. I know that they are very qualified and know their stuff, but I'm taking it upon myself to rest my voice for the next 6 weeks. No singing and minimal talking. Assuming things are feeling better in 6 weeks, I'm going to start up with a Voice Teacher. I don't have a ton of money, but I know its something that I've gotta strap down and do.

Thanks for all the advice Merkaba and Kristina. It really is appreciated.
 
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