hey Chris Liepe here with special guest Lauren Babic and we're going to find out
how you found your grit and as a result you can find your Grit
now before you try any of this make sure that you are good and warmed up so click
the link in the description to my free course called how to awaken your inner monster and
that's going to help you warm up for this how did you initially stumble upon because
that's really what this is all about how did you initially stumble upon singing with grit
or Distortion it was pretty much in the music I listened to when I was a teenager so like
Linkin Park the used My Chemical Romance and it's this sort of Reckless abandon of
singing rock and roll and being just a badass and putting pushing yourself slightly beyond your
limits but knowing how to live slightly beyond your limits right but doing that in a healthy
way so you can make it sustainable right because I think a lot of people who who oh yeah just I
just push myself till I we're not talking about pushing yourself in terms of volume or intensity
even we're talking about pushing yourself how we're going to try and find your chest voice
pitch ceiling where your voice breaks so where you want to naturally break up into your head voice
start to do that right exactly it's not going to
be pretty but we want to get you feeling that sensation so that you're not scared
so we're going up and we're trying to find where does your voice break
yeah yeah you can't just have rasp or grit on one note right if you're going up to this one
area okay well fine I can do distortion on that note but how do you transition from that to being
able to use it around different parts of your range I think it's getting comfortable with
the sensation first because often we get very afraid and we tend to hesitate the moment our
voice starts to break yeah and we think oh my gosh I'm I'm gonna do something or hurt myself
yeah or it doesn't sound right right so we we tend to get very critical and when we hesitate
that sometimes affects the airflow and keeps us from from discovering what we want to discover
so find the sensation first and then once we can really lean into that in that one particular area
of our voice then start moving it around right I wouldn't start increasing any sort of volume
because when we think I need to be loud that's when we're going to over exert so
once you find that little area rather than thinking be louder think hold back air yes
and it sounds contradictory yeah like oh grit means I need to be loud and and powerful and
just scream my heart out but it's actually the opposite we are controlling the air and almost
building up a pressure at the back so seeing that section of Empire do it without the grit and then
show us the sort of exposed breaking of the dialing it in and then show us the tightening
it up because that's that's in one where you add that grit that's in one particular area of your
voice so it's a really good way to practice this particular thing and I think it's the easiest for
me because it lives there at that break right at the breaking point of my chest voice ceiling
these weather hands are jaded yeah you're almost exposing it or exaggerating the brake before you
lean in and try to tighten it up that's our jaded you want to play in that little glottal area
these well I'm gonna lower it yeah these are shaded
these weathered hands are jaded these Weathers
this is
oh these weathered hands are cheated and I like how your your manipulating your airflow too and as
the the notes come down you're backing off sure so that's that's good for Dynamics as well not locked
into one one thing it's not like every note has to be the same grit and I think I think the that's
almost a side effect of like I'm not really gonna break in this area I mean I can try but yeah and
there's you know there's other ways you can access Distortion in those lower those lower notes but
this particular method works really well when you have that sort of lift into a Melody so
great thanks for the examples it's fantastic seeing another voice and a female voice do that
same approach one of the questions I get a lot is can can females do this sort of thing and I
mean you're yes and not only can they do that but that's this is your primary method for that that
um not so strained natural sounding Distortion and so often even as a female we are so scared to
get out of our clean voice because often maybe in high school you're in choir and you were taught a
specific way and vocal course coaches and teachers maybe told you this is bad bad bad bad yeah so
we're trying to get you out of that fear because it's getting out of of your headspace yeah so
that you can sort of grid up your voice a little bit embrace the ugliness and the weirdness lean
into these Sensations and pay attention to your body and if you'd like to go deeper with Lauren's
approach click that link below and join the free warm-ups course get your voice good and warmed
up to try this stuff and learn a few more things about how to approach harsh and aggressive singing