hey chris liepe here with how to get low screams growls those
rumbly extreme sounds out of your voice
right now right now
and perhaps a sequel to this video should be how to not look like a complete idiot while
you're getting great low growls and screams out of your voice actually though if you're
not willing to go there and look like an idiot and be really really vulnerable with your voice
and yes your facial expressions you'll never get this you don't always have to be quite so extreme
but if you watch any of these guys that really do this well even live
they are drastically messing with their countenance to get these low sounds that's
because a lot of the low sound that you get that low tone comes from the way you shape your mouth
but more on that in a little bit in this video i'm going to give you three angles to approach your
voice with so that you can start to develop low tones low screams low growls in your voice and i
go in depth on all three of these things in my course the aggressive vocalists
master plan of attack linked below so if you'd like more help developing this style
click that link check out the course tip number one we're going to center around the fry sound
in our voice ah fry fry and we're gonna develop a very loose sounding fry now this is true vocal fry
ah i can talk down here and i sound like i'm kind of croaking this is different than which is
a compressed sound a false chord engaged sound lots of people confuse vocal fry
with that sound they are different but for right now we're gonna go into just vocal fry and as we
phonate in vocal fry we're going to be adjusting the shape of our face the shape of our mouth
the position of our larynx we're going to simply observe how different things sound see fry
has no pitch in it has no note at all
at least the way i'm doing it right now complete floppy chord engagement if i go and then i go
and then i further lower my layering so that i'm yawning oh versus ah but i do it in fry
try that and notice the difference in resonance
this is huge when we are developing low screams in our growls in our voice because a lot of it comes
from this sort of posture change and the exercise that i'm going to have you ultimately do here is
going to expose this with some other things but you heard it in the beginning example too uh smile
and don't worry that you look really stupid just experience
those differences in resonance working this way first before we start nailing our voice
and and using a bit more energy centers on the fact that this is a huge tone control
just the way we posture our face or legs position all of those things all right next
we're going to use this silly phrase for this next section what we're going to do is we're going to
ground in the healthy clearing of our throat so not like this which actually can make you
cough and it's tickly and it doesn't feel right we're actually going to ground that clearing of
our throat in the polite way which i've covered in other videos excuse me sir this is very very
high the sensation is high when we're clearing our throat this way and we're going to go bum
mo then we're going to go down and ground in that sensation so it's going to sound like this
now we're not quite there with with the overall growl sound but we'll get there
what this is allowing us to do is open in a certain way like we did in the first exercise
we're allowing our primary cords to be engaged but we're practicing this engagement of
while we're shaping our throat in a sort of a quiet way this is not loud what i'm doing here
but you can start to hear a little bit of that guttural sound if you feel like when we go down to
o as you're opening your throat and lowering your larynx that you have a sensation that's lower in
your throat and you start to tickle and cough you are not doing it right you must center your energy
high as you do this a good way to check you know if you if you're starting to cause temporary
damage and then permanent damage if you are doing this a long time is to go check your head voice
if you can still squeak well and have good closure in your head voice while you're experimenting with
this stuff you know that you are not introducing swelling that's keeping your your chords from
closing correctly so i strongly recommend when you're experimenting with these things be
uh in and out of your head voice quite a bit oh checking that ah if it starts to sound like this
without you being able to control it then you need to stop you're doing
it wrong and you will cause swelling and ultimately damage if you continue
emo
so we're further you notice i'm smiling when i'm singing what i'm saying
now you must make sure that you are not getting too low i'll repeat that again
not low in in terms of timbre low in terms of sensation
and here's the third exercise we're going to incorporate we have fro
we have
and now we're going to practice sighing in the midst of this now a good sigh if i go
notice in that sigh
there's a bit of head voice going on
and then i'm breaking my voice is actually cracking i'm using a lot of air and i'm cracking
you've heard me talk a lot about exploiting our vocal break this is another way to do it
when we have talked on the channel before about
it we've talked about pushing higher until your voice breaks
and then you can get these higher pitched screams up there really aggressive and blood
curdling it's really cool here though we're not going to take the posture of
pushing up till our voice breaks we're going to take the posture of going down till our voice
breaks and again a lot more on dialing this in in a usable way in my course the aggressive vocalist
master plan of attack linked below but this is the beginnings of it so just start sighing
and let your voice kind of do what it does you're going to be blowing a lot of air so you shouldn't
be practicing this kind of thing very long because you could dry out your vocal cords
but if you're doing this softly and accepting what happens paying attention if you're feeling
light-headed or not that's fine just make sure you're not doing these things too long and when
you're first starting a few minutes a day dialing in these kinds of sensations or experimenting
with them but let me show you the progression that happens and what this sigh unlocks when we combine
it with these other exercises essentially what i'm doing is i'm learning to break my voice not by
pushing higher until my voice breaks not till i've reached my limit my range limit in my chest voice
but what i've done is i've i've started to expose how low i can go in my head voice
until i naturally break into a lower chest note which when you go like this
notice how low in pitch or note not it's not really a note but low in pitch
when i finally ground into my chest it naturally goes
that's low and rich it's not
right i don't have that high sound i am sighing and i'm in my head voice as
long as i possibly can be until i ground and that
so what we're gonna do
we're gonna sigh
notice i'm not adding any compression i'm not doing that i'm not doing that
that high sensation clearing my throat i'm not doing that but now i'm going to combine them
ah notice there your voice is going to do all sorts of things right when i feel my voice
sighing into that lower chest breaking into it
right there i'm going to invoke
that m sensation i'm going to let my voice crack in and out it's okay as you're dialing this in
bummer
okay if your voice cracks i can't say that enough now as you're doing this as you're grounding on
the oh and the position of your larynx and bringing it down make sure you're keeping
the sensation high and that you're not getting into cookie monsterville no we don't want that
because that creates conflict with your primary cords and can cause the tickling and coughing
that a lot of us experience but as you get into this and you and you add compression
more compression which is this uh polite clearing your throat
you're going to notice the sensation broaden not necessarily lower but broaden in your throat
boom
now the last thing we're going to do is we're going to think vocal fry
fry fry as we get down to that lower sound again check your head voice do i have good
closure am i burning out my primary chords now we're about to cause loose chord engagement
so after we sigh then do the bum mo
we're going to remove all pitch so we're not going to be doing bum
we kind of have that little note in there instead we're going to think fry
loose chord engagement as we broaden this experience of compression that we've sighed into
them
that's really really cool now you're going to feel like when you start doing this that wow you
run out of breath quickly yes you do lows growls low screams take a lot of air especially as we
are practicing sighing into them after a while you won't have to sigh as much this transition
is going to get faster and faster for you also like you heard at the beginning with my example
practice recording these things and layering them and listening back to how the layers
inform the overall sound what you heard at the beginning i invite you to go back and listen
to that sample again was three of me doing the scream what we hear on most recordings that we
really like most studio recordings when they growl is these is this layered so it both smooths out
and makes it more terrifying and rich and layered at the same time
this is important that we do this as we're even as we're developing the technique because what we
are used to hearing on our recordings is more than you can make with one voice if we assume
that one voice does all of this that doubles and triples isn't part of what we're hearing we tend
to overdo it while we're training this kind of sound and sensation into our voice so fry fries
number one number two
compress compress compress and then add the side
then add the compression in
then work the sensation of fry back in
that was brutal loved it felt great and i can still go i still have all my vocal stamina doesn't
hurt at all doesn't tickle there's a little bit of heat and engagement but that's totally okay
hope you found this helpful again for more of this more development and how to get rangy long-lasting
energetic screams and aggressive mixed voice click the link below and check out
my course the aggressive vocalists master plan of attack we'll see you for more