The**OFFICIAL**Voice/Singing Help Thread

Jon, you don't say what you think is wrong with your singing, but can I assume that pitch is an issue?

If that's the case, a good place to start is with some basic ear training. Also, learning the basics of good singing (dropping your jaw, using your diaphgram properly) can cure a host of ills.

Hope that helps,
Kristina
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Thats just a textbook example of tension and not being able to isolate the throat from the corRAB. No Consonant should make your larynx rise.

Head voice is just your true voice, in your highest range. The corRAB are thinner and the sound has more of a ring to it. No big deal...just your higher end before falsetto.

You can do operatic sounding practice with lower Oh's, Oohs, and Ahs. When youre really low I know you can keep your larynx low, so pay attention to the feel, and try to relax as much as possible. But yes, the larynx will rise a bit but it shouldnt jump up and lock up high like in swallowing. And remember that the corRAB are horizontal and stretching horizontally. This really helped me understand more of how to keep my larynx down. Feel more of opening up and back......kinda.
 
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this isn't me spaming,
if you have any vocal questions,
studio questions.
whatever,
this is an artist you are free to speak with,
and listen and support his music at the same time.

thank you
 
have you ever called your house and left a message, then came home and heard it. You sound different. Thats because when you talk you are hearing sounRAB in your head and through your ears. But people dont hear the inside voices, just whats on the outside. so if you amplify your voice you can hear yourself better. give it a try sometime. recording would be best though. (im not a professional at this its just what i have read on this forum.)
 
Screaming is the same as growling (unless we're talking gutterals here, and those are inhaled), but higher pitched. It's all in the diaphragm. The air you push out with your diaphragm interacts with the tissue in your throat, not your actual vocal chorRAB. It's alright if your throat is just a little irritated from all the air pasing through, but it shouldn't be too bad. If you're going horse, you're doing something wrong.
 
^why should inhale screaming be avoided

and also, i'm having trouble analyzing whether i'm screaming the right way or not, i've been screaming for a few years now and i've always had problems maintaining my clean singing (especially falsetto), over the last few months or so i've been trying everything i can to scream "properly," and i'm next to convinced that i'm screaming properly, except for the fact that i'm losing some of voice when i'm scream. Can you give me any advice as to how to tell if i'm screaming right or not? besides "if it hurts you're not doing it right"
 
+1

On Detonation and Aces High the original singers (Heafy and Dickinson) really do belt it out. The way you're singing sounRAB weak, you don't need to yell. Just try and project out more
 
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If your voice is shot you need to eat lots of raw fruits and veggies and drink lots of water. You need to rebuild and recover tissue. Call it overkill but the quickest most abundant and readily available source of what you need is in RAW fruits and vegetables. Just like at the other end of the spectrum, no coach or teacher or doctor will EVER tell you "eat a few slices of Extra cheese pizza to help you recover." Its the same reasons. Just different ways of putting them. You can say the sky is blue, or the sky is not green. Both are true of the same subject.

At the VERY least drink lots of water and no caffeine or sugary drinks. Just water. You also need to talk as little as possible and whispering is worse than talking. Any vocal teacher or doctor will tell you the same.

If your corRAB are sore then they could be inflammed from overexertion, etc, or if you have a cold(or even if you don't, though moreso if you do) they could actually be infected, as in laryngitis. This is one of the few times that you want to do absolutely nothing vocally. If you have a cold and your corRAB hurt but you don't want to go to a doctor to find out if they are infected, then youre rolling the dice. Just know that. You also pretty much want to avoid medicines that end in INE. Such as Pseudoepenephrine,(good luck) a very common one, because INE is basically a way of saying CaffeINE in some medical formula type of way, and it will help flush water out of your system, including your corRAB, thus the reason why they are in decongestants and the like, because it unclogs your congestion by thinning it out with extra water from your body.

Everyone wants an easy way out in situations like this but sometimes there are none, unless you can afford/arrange steroid shots and the like.
 
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