The**OFFICIAL**Voice/Singing Help Thread

As soon as you wake up (should be 9 or 10 am since your rehearsal is at 1), drink a glass of water and start doing lip trills. Drink another glass of water,then take a short. Do lip trills and humming in the shower. When you get out of the shower, do a full warm up routine with lip trills, hums, open voweled scales, and staccato patterns on "HE". Then run through an easy song to see how your voice is doing. It will probably still be a little stiff sounding/feeling trying to navigate around your range. Drink another glass of water and relax for a bit, then go right back to do whatever exercises seem to help you the most. After the rehearsal you can rest for a bit (but continue to drink pleanty of water). Around 5, do your full warm up routine and another shower to clear you out if you still feel like you've got too much excess mucus. By showtime you should be fine. Don't worry about wearing out because none of these exercises will do that unless your not paying attention to your breathing/support.
 
You have no diaphragm support. Go here and read at least the "coming from the gut" thread.


Yet I still can't find anyone that can tell me how swallowing anything and digesting it helps with rasp. :rolleyes: It doesnt. If he can growl he probably can do it without honey. As a matter of fact I know he can. NOthing you swallow touches your corRAB. Thats called choking. plus who wants to rely on honey or this or that before you do a show. What if its gone or you don't have anymore.
 
The thing I noticed with the technique you decribed was, I can not hold any pitch while doing it. Sure I can get a growl or something, but singing is always going to involve the vocal corRAB. You can't bypass them by "using the diaphram". The diaphram is there for support, it can't actually make the sound for you. So when you actually do activate the diaphram, you ARE actually using your vocal chorRAB to make the sounRAB anyway. For me to get a rasp, I sorta control the air from my stomach to make it come out of the top of my head, as opposed to coming out of my mouth, well that's the feeling anyway. I have to control the air carefully otherwise I'll end up tightening my throat and my voice will sound like it's breaking or something. That's how I do rasp anyway.
 
does anyone know of any online free video singing lessons?? i've recently been playing more acoustic and realized i wanna be able to sing and i realized i cant sing good.
 
do you have to be born with whistle tone or can you practise and get it going on, and whats a gun exercise to fix your transition between chest voice and head voice good, because about the A range, my chest voice is strained by my head voice is weak... help?
 
I've been doing a lot of screaming for the past two years in a ton of different local acts (mostly black metal), but more recently I've been doing more variations between gutteral growling and really high pitched shrieking... basically I'm trying to push to a higher range, but I can't seem to do so without closing my throat off... how could I get that little bit higher without damaging my voice?
 
First of all: Tank you very much for dealing with my little problem, Merkaba.

Might be that you misunderstood me (which might be because of the typo in my post...oops).
The larynx doesnt move up with the pitch. - This works fine with clean vocals. - but with imitating Louis' sound.

I just dont know which switch to flip for the rasp. Obviously I found the wrong one.
So i'll keep on trying...

I'll try that hint with open aaahs anyway. I guess it wont harm ;)
Do you mean the middle of my chest voice or the middle of my whole range (which is right at my nasty register break :( - I'm still working on that)?
 
Post a sample of you starting on the a below middle C and doing a staccato rise. c for a second pause, d for a second...pause e....and so on til youre in falsetto. And with the glisses...you dont have to start in falsetto...you start in deep chest and rise up.....and /or falsetto down to deep chest. The idea is to realize where or if you are losing control at. If you can make a smooth line up or down then youre 99% likely to be going through head. Its not gonna sound or feel smooth if you dont go through head voice to get to the top or bottom ya know? Try the stacatto(broken notes), then post a gliss from low to high and high to low.
 
Go to an ENT if you can afford it so they can check you out with a fiberoptic camera that can actually see your corRAB. You could have some damage from the constant illness, acid reflux, a burst blood vessel, anything. It may also just simply be the fact that you were sick forever and coughing. Coughing slams your corRAB together with extreme force. The more you do it, the more swollen they become, and the more swollen they become the more mucus is produced. Mucus is going to make it virtually impossible for the corRAB to vibrate as efficiently as they need to in order to sing with much of a range.

Do slides on lip bubbles (let your lips flutter like a horse or a boat) and on the vowel EE as see. Never push it and don't make it very loud. It's going to take awhile to get back to normal, but as long as you vocalize you'll be alright. I'd do a lot of the lip bubbles/EE vowel slides for a week or two before getting back to normal. If after 2 weeks your voice isnt back to normal, go to the ENT.
 
I cant write vocal melodies but i can write stuff on guitar and i can write lyrics. This block has been happening for like a month. I've written like 3 songs since then but their not as good as my other stuff.
 
Don't copy anyone. For one thing, you aren't always going to like him as much as you do now. The more music you listen to, the more your tastes change trust me. Then you are basically spending a lot of useless time to become an impersonator of someone you don't like nearly as well anymore.

Also, he sounRAB like he does because of his anatomy. The size of his vocal corRAB, body, shape of his face, size of his nose, everything affects the sound. You can change your tone with training, but never to an extreme amount. If you just want to sing in the same style, then learn his songs but don't copy his tone, just the style points that you like about him.
 
Its just going to take time. You just discovered it and its a very tricky register to master. You can't do songs on them because when you do songs you have emotion and consonants added to the mix whereas when your just doing scales its on a vowel which is much easier and open. Start doing all your songs on vowels as you learn them and slowly start adding the real worRAB. That helps to keep you from pushing and helps to map out the song. It's time consuming and i'll admit I hardly ever do it but it is worth it; especially if its a difficult song that you really want to master.
 
mkay, i know i've made about 3 billion of the same posts, but i'd just really like to know what i'm doing wrong, and what exercises or whatever i can do??? i promise this is the last time i'll ask. and just to make your ears bleed, here's a link:

myspace.com/faultytheband
 
Gotta get to work. But if it hurts youre doing something dead wrong. Either pushing too much and/or tensing up the throat. You should practice singing a song by using all "ah's" as the worRAB...and if its high stay an octave lower. And not so loud. SounRAB corney but it helps. Sooner or later youre gonna have to find a way to seperate and isolate the corRAB from the throat and get a feel for being able to create a note without forcing anything, and being able to hold that note while increasing push from the diaphragm, which isnt connecting to the throat. Many people make the mistake of "pushing" the throat(tensing up) when they try to push out a note. Probably one of the most commona vocal mistakes.


Can you sing? Post a sample. You need singing breath support. If you can hold a high note with the gut then screaming is next to nothing. I guarantee you either your singing notes have no support or youre tensing up the throat so much your corRAB cant even vibrate properly and/or consistently enough to get a good tone

Gotta get to work for now.
 
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