this is why i love this channel and my viewers i did a video a little while ago on roger waters and
david gilmore and was analyzing run like hell and roger waters was doing his thing and i said in the
video that i wasn't quite sure how he was getting the sound but that it was really cool and i hinted
at that he was possibly using some kind of whistle register the second the video came out i had some
cool comments telling me that these were inhales and i was like of course i didn't hear it that way
but i i dug into roger waters a bit more and was just elated to start experimenting with
inhales in this way so that's what this video is about experimenting with inhale screams
now the airflow tricks and support manipulation that you're going to be doing while performing
inhales is not possible if you do not have a good understanding of how to use your support
in regular singing if you are unsure if you are using your support correctly and are able
to breathe freely without tension click the link below and join my free voice course i will help
you dial that in so that what we're working on in this video will be much easier for you
as i've experimented with this i've unlocked all sorts of things possibilities in my own voice i'm
really excited about it what i started doing was figuring out how to get in and out of these inhale
textures musically but also while still maintaining my other voice my regular voice
what's really hard about inhales is that initially when i started working on them it seemed like they
trashed my main voice i got in this inhale mode and then
it felt weird to sing afterward so the first thing that i
started to do after realizing things kind of felt weird was producing fry out and in out and in
out and then
in so going back and forth and figuring out how to place it it's easy to place it out
but it harder to place it in so it takes a minute to dial it in
there
and what i notice is that i always want to go too low sound like compression
i always want to go too low when i am doing the inhale at first so i have to focus
on placing it correctly then i go out and in and out and in to make my voice feel super agile
and then start to embrace whatever happens as you go in and out next add more pressure but don't
try to go high yet focus on holding back your inhale just like we do with our exhale sometimes
okay that's compressed whisper out and then inhale compressed
i'm compressing that i'm not just going and i'm not going
i am using the very top of my vocal tract
and then start experimenting with different things you can do with your mouth
as you learn to go out and in agilely and as you learn to use more and more holding back the air
on the inhale now what's interesting about this is we can start to use pitch in these inhales
and as we go back and forth between that sort of fryish broken up sound caused by holding back air
and letting our voice do sort of random pitches we get that neat
notching sound which you heard some in my intro and you hear roger waters do
and then we can start combining a little bit of those pitch howls with the fry
and then creating these pitch arcs which are super fun
that's kind of low i'm i'm combining the mouth i'm combining the pitch and i'm combining that
inhale fry sound for some really neat things now you can go even further with this and access
whistle tones and it's all about pressure and what you're doing with your mind so if i inhale
and focus on pitch rather than fry and let the little
things happen that's okay that's a pretty high note
kind of cool now if i go back and forth between the fry and then hold back more pressure
i will start to get these harmonics of that pitch
that's so that's so cool right did you hear as i as i let it dial in it turned into this
screech it's a really high note you have all that neat notching and stuff that's happening in there
oh it's fun to experiment with here's a closer look of how i experimented inside run like hell
here's uh i layered three and put some delay on them and a little bit of distortion you know just
to have fun with it there's my distortion my saturation and i've got a time delay but let's
solo this first one out you can hear this notching that happens and i'm messing with my mouth
and you can hear that neat whistly sound in there next
oh
i really low sound and then on these background ones i decided to make them more pitch focused
so cool sounding you can totally hear that roger waters influence
that one was neat because it started clean and then turned into
had some of that fryish sound at the end
what i love about them is there's this element of strategy but there's also this element of surprise
you kind of get what you get and finding those balances and realizing some of the sounds you can
pull out of your voice is incredible have fun with these have fun experimenting leave comments below
uh let me know what you thought there will be more videos coming on inhales and whistle soon