hey Chris Liepe here with special guest Will Ramos what's going on it's very exciting
well the first step to growling like that is making sure you're warmed up oh 100 and we're
not going to cover that in this video but we do cover it in the free warm-ups course that
we've put together if you want to know exactly how will warms up and takes care of his voice
so he doesn't injure it while he's practicing this sort of thing click that link below and
join the free warm-ups course for me when it comes to doing growls there's three steps I
start out very simply and it almost sounds like I would describe it as like a very bad
scream because that it just it's I'm not really trying too hard to sigh into it
oh
that already sounds so like so thick
but you're you're sighing into that you're exhaling first right it's like
and I I get this sense of like even before that sound there's almost this like right you want to
be engaged like that and then and then put that that upper throat constriction and engagement
over it right just like try and think about it as if like when you're when you're doing
that yes you are doing that constriction but you're also because normally when you saw you
just let out all the air but you're constricting it and you're almost adding that little whatever
everybody has their own word for it to be pushing down oh yeah use your foot muscles
your poop muscles exactly you know there's a billion different words for it but it's like
that it's almost like you're trying to constrict the air while at the same time letting the air
out and by constricting it it almost the more you constrict it the more scream like it gets so yeah
yeah yeah it's almost like a very relaxed constriction it's there but it's not like
you're doing anything too crazy okay so you start with that simple sigh then add the constriction
exactly just like that it's a big and that's a it's so incredibly important
to start like that because like I said if you just jump right into
something you might just get super tired a lot faster whereas if you're on stage
that's gonna wear you out really quick getting your body used to figuring out
which muscles are gonna you're jumping back into when you actually get into screaming
also if you notice I will do I'll put my hand yeah up to my ear a lot because if you for those
of you that don't know when you sing or will you scream your voice goes outwards and unless you're
like in the bathroom or like in the shower or in the car you're it's gonna be harder to hear
the things you're going and that you're exhaling out and you want to make sure that you're really
hearing your voice so when you're dialing that in are you plugging your ear or are you just putting
it so that you can get a little bit of that sound back like I don't plug it I know I know singers
do plug it but for me I just I almost make like a little like a like an open cup my cup yeah that
almost cut my ear this way and you can even hear it like when you talk like this it just sounds
like your voice is just going straight back yeah it's really interesting and that's and that is
very important too because as you're going into screaming and learning these frequencies and the
frequencies that you want the frequencies that you don't want this is very important because
you can you'll start to see you know as you do it and you start to hear that that rumbly
sound it's feedback real-time feedback for you oh yeah and that grumbly feet that rumbly sound
you can start to as you're listening to it you could start to your body will start to pick up
what muscles make that sound what muscles don't make that sound and then you'll start to almost
instinctually separate them until eventually you're more of a scripture over people who can't
figure out how to scream this is the perfect way to figure out where to find those muscles within
yourself I never thought about this being that important but I totally can because you start
understanding how the sound is exiting better instead of just going just going out like think
about when you're on stage you have a microphone yeah and um usually if you have in-ears it'll go
straight to your ears yeah so this is mimicking that this is literally the version of that without
a microphone it is so helpful I even use it even when I'm in the car because you know a big thing
that people do and what messes them up and I mean obviously we can go more into depth with
this later yeah you push too hard and that is what will absolutely destroy you and so the best way to
find where that nice healthy spot is is to just hone in on tone in on those frequencies yeah and
find out what frequency you want super awesome yeah so step two so we've done the PSI we've
made it a bit more complex then we go to you got the side down you got it that you got the
death metal vocals will do a lot of that sigh kind of scream where our death core vocals
would be more just like Monsters surroundings yes more rather than leaning into it it just
starts and it just hits immediately at that sound so that the the growl that we're going
for is is that that direct lean in so that's kind of step two is you you eliminate that transition
of sighing into it and you attack it head on so show us that so for the side this side would be
oh
You're Gonna Go uh
and that's just that constriction and again you're pushing and it's fighting the perfect equilibrium
what I'm hearing and the differences is that onset right we're not we're not doing you're trapping
the air kind of letting it build up and then it starts it's an onset as opposed to a transition
yes so that's the second step is you you create an onset you let the pressure build up first and
then release yes so step one is you are signing into it to get the placement to understand how it
feels and that balance of pushing step two is to turn it into an onset yes you wanna you wanna hold
it and just almost like you're punching something rather than you're just letting something out nice
and smoothly and obviously there's you could do that you could definitely let it out smooth
if you want there's definitely different genres that use those kind of things in the metal World
obviously but like for what I do specifically it is very much a punch in the head that's what we
want that's what I want that's how I get my tone cool so that's that's a big thing and then step
three is moving the mouth around right step three is all mouth movements and it is such a
it is so important when it comes to these things it's not just a mouth it's the tongue
it's everything because people will oh people a lot of beginners will listen to
something and be like they hear this crazy sound in their mind they're like that's all
coming from the throat but literally nothing is changing the two most common things that death
core vocalists and like death metal vocalists will stick to is tongue or no tongue tongue
hey no tongue
do tongue again
I almost hear like an ER like it's it's an ER sound yes sir
cool so when you go there
it's not near as developed but I'm getting the right idea yes it takes
honing in on those frequencies that we were talking about before with the whole it takes
practice let's put it that way it's not a you won't get it necessarily overnight
but you'll notice that especially as you're doing this and you're practicing it more when
you put the tongue up you'll hear a different frequency that you didn't hear before and then
as you start to focus in on that frequency you'll notice the screen completely starts
to change into something completely different yeah that's awesome well let's hear you mess
with it in context huh let's do it okay no tongue first your best no tongue no tongue
all right so now you're going to do the same thing with tongue with
this next one is with tongue you'll hear the difference immediately okay
foreign
yeah and it really helps to hear it over the track to to hear how it it like melds with what
you're doing knowing what choice to make Tong or no tongue is is probably just made in the moment
but I love hearing the difference I think it's always good to be able to to fluctuate between
both because a lot of vocalists nowadays will just do one yeah or they'll just do the other
doing all lows of this same type will sound insane for a while and then sure everyone will start to
think that every song starts to sound exactly the same yeah so that's why it's nice to have
a little bit more dynamic range to it really just the tip of the iceberg right oh absolutely
make sure you're warmed up before you try doing this stuff even before you do the first step or
you're gonna mess something up because you don't know how things feel when you're not warmed up
especially if you're just learning how to do something if you just go full 100 into
something like that you will realistically hurt yourself and that's the biggest thing that turns
people away from even wanting to be a vocalist because they think they can go 100 when they're
not ready to go a hundred and uh then people just quit and at the end of the day you don't want to
quit you want to just keep going for as long as you can and if you want more help learning
how to warm up the right way make sure you've clicked that link below and join Will's free
warm-up course learn how to take care of your voice we'll see you for more soon see you soon