The**OFFICIAL**Voice/Singing Help Thread

Go right ahead; im sure their are a few people on here that can help. If your interested in a lesson or two to get some exercises that will get you working on your range up in head voice so you can do wolfmother type stuff email me at the address on the link I posted. Ignore classifications like bass, baritone, tenor. They dont apply to rock, only to classical people who seem to have no interest in singing much out of their set range according to the fach system.
 
Oh no I didnt take it that way at all. I was just being silly. I didnt think it was gonna sound that way! And uhh...its not everyday I take time out for this site. I used to do more but now I work more hours. Still try to give what I know when I can. Anyways....guess I should get to bed.
 
The trick is that that power is a result of proper support with full voice resonance. This comes way before the usual modern overblowing of most vocal styles. Most opera singers are probably not even using more than 50% diaphragm push at the most. The corRAB will just lose air and bow with overpushing, making the sound weaker. Its all been covered before.....

http://www.rabroadmusic.com/forums/showthread.php?t=219911
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Otter, don't be so hard on yourself. You are doing a lot of things right. Nice selective vibrato, nice control, sounRAB good. You don't stay perfectly on key throughout the song, but I'm sure you do when accompanied.

To make this better I'd suggest a couple of things:

- Less tension at loud volumes, because sometimes it starts to approach a bit of a shout. When I want volume like that, I think about moving the tension from my throat down into my belly (where it becomes "support" instead of tension). The descriptions like "it feels like when you are going to the bathroom" or sneezing or coughing are right on. Try putting a hand on your belly and a hand on your back and coughing to feel the muscles engage.

- More dynamics (loud vs. soft). This is a touching song! Find places to be gentler, like you do at the end of the word at 0:48.

Are there other specific things you believe need improvement?
 
Play another melody on top of it with the guitar. Make that your singing melody. Or put some reverb and chorus on the track and play it from another room. This works alot of times for me. Or used to back when I actually wrote a good bit. The lingering of the tones gave me lots of ideas.
 
I think the same thing as my above post. You just have to be able to keep the tension on the corRAB, and not on the throat muscles. I just think the difference between yelling and screaming is the pitch usually. chest voice is more of a yell, lower chest being a growl...head and upper head being a scream. Its all the same though. Just increase push from the the gut without increasing the tension of the throat muscles. If you can make the ANNNKK wrong answer sound or a bark like a dog, you can do it.
 
Okay, then.


A scream is literally just a yell onto pitch, with rasp. Once you learn how to yell onto pitch, you add the rasp. The rasp is(of course) the tricky part. You need to make sure that your rasp is being created lower in your throat, as opposed to your throat being closed up top. Just make sure that your throat isn't closed. If you can't tell, you're basically screwed.

When you're practising getting rasp properly, only practise for 5 minutes at a time. Wait a couple hours and then try again. I say this because you will be doing it the wrong way at first, and doing it for any more than 5 minutes is going to tear and scrape your larynx up really bad.

Screaming is going to hurt in the throat for the first, I'd say, two weeks. This is because the pressure is much higher when you're screaming, rubbing your throat raw. I bolded throat, so you know that it's throat, and not vocal corRAB. You don't want your vocal corRAB hurting. A lot of people will tell you that you must not have any pain or discomfort in your corRAB when you start screaming. But the truth is, if you don't sing at all, and you suddenly start screaming, you're asking a fair bit more of your corRAB to hold notes when you're yelling. So you may notice a bit of problems(ie. voice sounRAB like crap, swollen corRAB) when you first start out, because of overuse. So make sure you warm up your corRAB, and make sure you exercise them just like you would any muscle.
 
Hello. I was wondering exactly how can I use falsetto properly? I guess what I mean is, how do I get it to sound less lifeless and more powerful. More resonance, as I read earlier in this thread. Also, is falsetto supposed to come from the gut as well, and if it does, how can I do that. When I go into falsetto now, I can feel it a lot in my throat, and I'm pretty sure I'm not doing it right. Thanks.
 
So Merkaba-1... I have read many of your lessons throughout the time I've been here. Now, I have practiced for about three months now, and I still suck horribly at singing. I am probably doing something wrong. I am more interested in harsh vocals though, and I can pull off a black metalish or Zao-style sound pretty well. But I want to go deeper and harsher. I dream about sounding like this guy: http://www.myspace.com/styg

What could I do to train my voice better than just simple scales? I seriously can't hold a note if my life depended on it, and I have really practiced to the point that my throat feels like it's buzzing. Perhaps there is some special technique or excercise to get this exact style of vocals.

Thanks and sorry if this is a dumb question, which I'm sure it is.
 
Hello everyone, I've got a couple of questions about singing.

First of all, where do you start? I've read Merkaba's Voice Help Hotline, but I can't seem to find where to start. Should I try to find my Head Voice, work on ChorRAB Isolation, do some exercises... I'm a complete beginner when it comes to singing (I can sing some ballaRAB, nothing awesome, but I think I'm not hopeless). If you could just show me how and where to start learning, it would be great!

Also, I can't seem to understand the concept of Head Voice and Chest Voice. (Probably because the english terms differ from the french ones. French is my primary language).

I want to first be able to sing correctly before even trying to move to Screaming.

So, if anyone could help me, or even the All-Mighty Merkaba himself, it would be awesome!

Thanks in advance!
 
I was wondering if anyone can give me some links to read up on on recording vocals for a noob? I started reading around some of the recording threaRAB in the forum and they are talking about stuff I have no clue about. Everything that is included in the recording process would help and what I need to do to set it up and get a good sound out of it. I'm completely new at this, so it would help a lot.

Thanks.
 
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