hey Chris Liepe here with my daily warm-up for getting my screens Distortion aggressive
singing growls getting those in shape for the day what I'm gonna perform or record
this three-stage warm-up is very simple to do anybody can do it and those of you who
are not quite comfortable with aggressive vocal techniques may find that doing these
warm-ups helps you discover more things about how you can access these types of techniques
now before you try this warm-up you should be fully warmed up with your singing voice
and to do that a great place to start is to check out the video that I recently did on
the channel my foolproof warm-up for singing high once you've done that once you feel like
your singing voice is properly warmed up then tackle this be prepared warning there are some
ugly Sounds here it's not pretty but we're not trying to be pretty we're trying to feel out our
voice come to terms with where our voice is and what it can do for the day and then use it to
its fullest potential without burning it out now if you feel like you're stuck with your voice and
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help you free aspects of your vocals aspects of your singing so that you can be more likely to
discover these kinds of things the first thing I do this is stage one I just give some good size
take deep breaths
and notice these size these particular size
I'm engaging my normal speech level vocals right those are pro that's primary chord engagement
there's also some breath on either side of it right
and on both sides of that primary chord engagement once I've done that and I'm
properly relaxed and maybe even feel just a tiny bit pleasantly lightheaded
I start adding a little bit more to this PSI I'll do it and then I'll explain it
now what did you hear that was different about that PSI than
the first PSI this first the second side actually starts in head voice
and then it goes down to this sort of forlorn chesty grovely thing
but it's important that you know I'm starting with size I'm not starting by pushing I'm
starting with this this posture of release this posture of get rid of control and then
I start to notice okay I'm going head voice and then when I ground in head voice it breaks up
just a little bit those that subtle breakup is false chord is it it's like intermittent
false chord engagement in the midst of that sigh remember our warm-ups we want to ease into things
oh there was more of a breakup on that bottom of that as I cracked from head voice into chest
voice the Sigh becomes a method for Awakening my crack my break from head voice into chest
that time as I continue to give more to this sigh
I I went back up into head voice there was this sort of thing that happened I'm Waking
that up as well now remember my singing voice is warm so I could easily go from some sort of note
I already have that Consciousness and that those juices flowing this is really good hmm
my size become longer they become more drawn out they become more accessible
between my two resonances so that is Phase One or stage one sighing yeah you're gonna
get a little light-headed if you get a little light-headed
stretch it out it's good to stretch this out stage two I do calculated hard onsets
in various parts of my range and then I let my voice fall apart like this ah
so I have this element of control with that hard onset ah I might do a couple times it
sounds like some bird noise I don't know but then I let the last one out and then I sigh
out of this control so in other words I give it up I give up my voice you see a theme Here
warming up my screams and my aggressive vocals is not about finding where to go harder it's about
learning how to release and abandon and I have to learn this almost every day I have to get my
voice to let go and when I Let Go these wonderful things come out after the ugly things come out ah
so I'm combining that with the PSI okay do it lower
no when I'm doing this especially in the lower range oh
I want to make sure I have a very open throat low larynx position free relaxed
you know you're not oh you're not doing that you're still relaxing into this oh oh
not judging anything that comes out of your mouth
okay let's do a couple of those in head voice and then sigh down oh
you can hear some interesting things happen as I start to sigh out of head voice hear
how broken up that was that was kind of cool it starts with the most basic sigh
as I transitioned from head voice and I feel that break come in using the PSI as a vehicle
I start to add more support into that area I lean in to that
ugliness and it creates some really interesting things
these are so horrible I'm sorry hopefully you're listening on headphones hopefully you're not
hopefully someone else hears this and goes what maybe they start making some of the same sounds
just in reaction to the sounds they hear me making stage three siren up until the break okay so we're
gonna start low we're actually starting for I and then rather than doing what I did before where we
we saw downward and with with these onsets and then lean into it we go upward until we feel our
Voice start to break and we kind of do the inverse but we start with this very chesty feel now you
hear a lot of singers do this uh whether they're doing it with this approach probably not but
do you hear people like Eddie Vedder or Jared Leto when they start to top out in their range
and they they kind of you know it's like that very high and then it goes to gritty that sound
that's kind of the end result of this last approach this last stage
okay so we siren but rather than me reaching for the notes once my voice started to crack
I I activated the same Sensation that I felt when I lean into my head voice
as I was going down off of those onsets so in other words the Sigh came in to play here
very interesting things happening my voice is starting to wake up to this type of Engagement
what's happening is my false chords are becoming more and more engaged
I'm tricking this survival mechanism my false chords into engaging when I
feel they should instead of simply trying to protect me
foreign
you can take the same idea when you start manipulating the way your mouth
and your tongue work as you go down in the siren if you want to awaken
up some some growl type sounds simply go back down
and go back down to fry where we started change your mouth formation
and lean into the false chord engagement that you feel that
you that you intercepted up at the top area of your chest range like this uh foreign
that's simply the false chords without a note there's a note
in there right but here that uh fry with false chord engagement so those are the
three stages start with the most natural uninhibited whatever your voice does size
then create these exaggerated size let yourself break from head voice into chest voice and then
lean in during that sigh and then create an aspect of control that you're going to give up with the
onset exercise that's the second stage and then finally do these intentionally broken sirens
these are things that I do nearly every day and every day when I am going to warm up for
aggressive singing and they never fail they they have to be done mindfully though they
can't just be gone through you have to really think about what you're feeling and what you're
doing how long should you do these for me it ends up being really only five to seven minutes
but that's gonna vary you're gonna have to feel things out depending on what other things you've
already done with your voice how warm you are from your singing but that's a good guideline a good
starting point let me know what you thought of these ridiculous exercises we'll see it for more