hey Chris Liepe here with the three keys to building great sounding free healthy feeling
Distortion into your voice [Music] now as you're working on these three keys that I'm
about to share with you remember that if at any time you feel yourself pushing until your
voice breaks up until Distortion happens you are not doing it correctly and you will not
be able to free your Distortion you will not be able to use it for a long period of time
we have to do things in the right order and we have to pay attention to things in the
right way in order to unlock good distortion if we simply push into it or try to force
it into it at any point it's not going to work so keep that in mind the first Key Well
supported cleans now if you need help developing your support realizing how it's supposed to
feel so that you can use it for what I'm about to show you make sure you click the link below
and join my free voice course and I'll help you understand how support should feel at
various stages of intensity all right so well supported cleans this doesn't mean loud cleans
it just means tension free cleans I can have a well-supported head voice
I also have an unwell supported head voice
more on this balance in the free course below but you can see the difference even one of
them is is coming I'm trying to get to the pitch by using my throat one of them is I'm
I'm literally relaxing into the clean I'm relaxing into the pitch
same with chest voice we may think sometimes that we support our lower notes better just
because they're easier to get to but I'm going to do a lower chest voice note and show you
the difference in in body countenance and in sound between a well-supported chest voice
note and a not well supported chest voice note well supported
oh it is not hard for me to hit
oh not well supported
well supported
there's a huge difference here my energy is coming from my lower abdominal muscles my
poop muscles when in the supported notes my Consciousness is there as I'm creating the
pitch and therefore I have a lot more to work with in terms of airflow management a non-well
supported clean and you can see it comes from me focusing on this area my jaw gets involved
a little bit more
my neck I feel it in my neck a lot of it's just how you think so think about low engagement
well supported poop muscle engagement cleans regardless of what you're seeing in head or
chest voice and practice that practice that Consciousness again more in my free course
in the video description here is key number two to developing great Distortion awareness
of two specific Sensations one is kind of like a gag and the other one is kind of like
a sigh now you've heard me talk about both of these on the channel before but if we can
have the consciousness of what it feels like to support well and then add these honed Sensations
over the top of good support we will find great ways to use Distortion so let's talk
about the gag I'm going to start with primary chord engagement and I'm going to make sure
it's well supported I'm not going to sing a note or anything I'm just talking and then
I'm gonna
stick my tongue out [Applause]
what I'm doing is I'm moving number one I I do feel my lower abdominal muscles kicking
in but I'm moving with I'm moving the sensation upward as I gag it's not just a haphazard
gag no I'm feeling
unless I sound like an old man [Music] as I move my tongue out yeah that that gag or
that that uh contact or constriction starts to move higher so I'm paying attention to
this sensation movement as I do the gag
hello
so at the end of it with my tongue out the constriction or engagement is as high as it
can possibly be when I start the gag it's low so we're feeling out that sensation we're
becoming aware
it's as high as possible it should feel as high as possible this isn't something you
get instantly this is something that you practice we are honing this sensation okay next sighing
we want to start in a relaxed well-supported head voice area
and then release into the sigh
huh
and we want to keep in mind as we continue to support as we release into this Psy
we want to ask ourselves where are we feeling that engagement in our throat does it feel
like
does it feel like Cookie Monster or low below the Adam's apple or towards the chest bone
or can we direct that sensation higher
now compare it with the gag
sigh
okay again the gag should go low to high the sigh [Music] should go high to low not so
low is down here it should still be I feel like it's above your Adam's apple but we want
to start paying attention to how these feel how these land as we abandon into these two
different ways all right now here's the third key and please be patient with these and work
on these let me know how it goes practiced transitions I've been working a lot on different
types of distortion sounds lately and I've come to the conclusion fairly recently that
great Distortion is found in the transitions between these different Sensations well-supported
notes dags and size once we land in a particular distorted sound that feels good and sounds
good if we live there we end up locking up and are not able to maintain a particular
distorted sound the way we want to why I think it has something to do with the fact that
we try to oh I got it and then we tense up to try to hold on to what we got whereas if
we're constantly of the mindset that we're practicing the transitions into and out of
distortion we can mask with our performances the fact that we are transitioning but we
are always transitioning this is a really key mindset and this is something that's that's
gotten worked into my own singing very recently and I'm excited to share it with you here's
how to practice it it involves making more stupid noises we're going to start with a
comfortable well-supported note choose a chest voice note for now
and we're going to transition from that to a gag okay
let your pitch falter a little bit but keep thinking that pitch
and see if you can once you transition see if you can hold on to that note if you start
to tense up or lose support start over again and work the transition it's all about repetition
and continuing to be mindful of the sensations and the support as you're transitioning
balances that you have to feel out what I'm doing is I'm passing the airflow management
of the air that I'm I'm putting up with my support from my primary chords to my false
chords and some upper constricted areas
yeah okay choose a higher note
[Applause] oh there's all sorts of ugliness but I'm following
the sound and The Sensation upward [Music] I start clean
[Applause] ing and it works now some of this is coming a little faster in real time as
you can see because I've honed the muscle memory in the sensations but it's the working
of these transitions from clean well supported into the gagging sound we're moving we're
moving not locking up all right let's go to the PSI side now now with the gag we started
with a note and then we added the gag over it with the PSI we're going to start with
the PSI and then add a note thinking about the note to the PSI huh
okay so I'm gonna think about this note well supported I'm gonna sigh into it but it's
gonna be a loose sigh
choose a different note
yeah now I'm gonna combine the transitions of clean to gag and then Psy to to note side
note I'm just gonna hear me play around with it given what I've just done this is really
cool
[Applause]
oh yeah
[Applause] you hear the different textures that's happening as I move and I transition
around I'm not holding anything super long but over time I figured out how to add more
support right at the right time as I move in and out of these different transitions
now these are the three things the three keys that have unlocked my distortion if you need
more help with this particularly the balance of support again join that free course linked
below first giveaway right here [Music] alone cause when I am alone there's my well-supported
clean
gag I'm actually keeping my tongue in but there's this because when I'm alone because
when I'm alone okay listen on
that's a sigh into a well-supported last into that note listen again you hear it on high
I start with an H
fast I'm sighing into that
okay memory is a memory
that's the gag memory
but I found the right medium level of gagnis as I've practiced to put in there so I'm not
oh I'm not just going memories
just doing that
now right there I'm taking some time to well to just bask and well supported cleans that's
all listen again
it's a sign
well supported Psy at the right time
living inside my own confusion
ah confusion confusion
confusion
as I think gag and how that gag moves higher as it becomes more pronounced I heat up that
note confusion
I hope we're relating it back to my Linkin Park cover can help you see these transitions
in these keys in action thanks for watching we'll see you for more