chris liepe here new slipknot new corey taylor the chapel town rag it's been a while i love it when
it's been a while and then all of a sudden i see stuff start exploding on the internet about a
new artist that i love and i get to dig in as with the last time this happened which was i think just
last week i have not heard this song yet i have waited to hear it for the first time and react
to it right here also for any of you who follow my channel my reaction videos are a little different
i end up trying a lot of things with my own voice and pulling things out with uh with my own voice
so that i can learn about my own voice i want to learn a little bit from corey taylor every
time i listen i'll try not to be too annoying we'll try to dive into this together if you want
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he's got such a thick thick voice and he's using just that's just basic vocal fry and they've
they've increased the bass and compression add a little bit of distortion if you've seen some
of my other videos on corey taylor i go into the production aspect of how they've captured
this voice on recording so often and so far they're doing that same sort of thing here
even with that screen lots of doubling some distortion that they've added like a combination
between tape saturation and other sonic audio distortions are happening at the same time
he's doing his trademark false chord yell which i've talked about a lot on the channel as well
it's really fun to try to pick out in any slipknot recording but right now too when they decide to
double the vocals and where they decide to place them in the mix you know you can hear
go back and listen to this a bunch of times without me yapping through it the original
recording and you can hear that sometimes these these screams and yells are placed out here
they're they're panned and doubled and he's using slightly different performance techniques on them
each time and then sometimes it's just one guy like right in the middle that's part
of what makes slipknot recordings so fun to really get immersed in because the immersive
vocal production is it it's more than a lot of uh vocal production things in this genre
is
so here we can hear his scream front and center and we'll just take the phrase what is wrong with
our lives and let's get there i've done this on other videos and it gets mixed responses because
how could we get to this level of intensity by doing what i'm about to show you well you
really can't but in order to get to this level of intensity and not totally jack up your voice
you have to be willing to let your voice go in some ways and what i like to do to coax my voice
into a scream yell false chord engaged highly compressed vocal like this is to pick a pitch
what is wrong with our lives that i'm gonna crack a lot on so in other words i'm not just gonna
yell i'm gonna start by by just okay what is wrong with our lives
what is wrong with our lives and this is a great phrase to do it over ah i've chosen a pitch that
my voice is uncomfortable with and so it cracks in and out and i'm accentuating the crack
what is wrong with our lives and then i'm bringing i'm leaning in to where my voice cracks and then
adding airflow adding compression adding support to it and what corey does is he tends to a longer
really open up very open throat and he's unlikely he didn't discover his false chord engagement like
i'm showing you here but this is a great way if you haven't yet to discover how to engage your
false chords so that you can scream and yell and get lots of distortion out of your voice
without trashing it what is wrong with her what is wrong with our lives what is wrong with our lives
what is wrong and then we can we can manipulate the pitch a little bit once we've really gotten
in there what is wrong with our lies higher what is wrong with our laws lower and then you
start doubling this stuff you start adding clean vocals behind it gold all right let's listen on
internalize some of this stuff too the further you he's uh jeff's voice holding back a lot of air but
you can hear his normal voice in there right he's just kind of speaking the further you die
and you can hear as he gets into that full false chord engagement
if you if you peel back the layers a little bit
right there where we're starting to break is when he really leans in he's just got
that down so tight he's been doing it for so many years and yes the very thick neck and
very um thick voice in general helps mask this even more
don't worry about sounding exactly like him but try this start singing sort of
clean in a comfortable chest range and then erupt into an abandoned scream
abandon scribe going from singing into a better nut is a really really
awesome thing to experiment with your voice but it starts like this sing
sing
this stuff sounds i think almost as intense as the iowa era of his vocals but it there's a there's a
healthier bent to it he's got that yell connected chest voice false chord engaged thing going on
but it sounds healthier it sounds but it doesn't sound deluded in any way that's really hard to do
alive right there again the buried the he's got that the the speaking where you hear his
normal talking and then he he blends in that pure false chord engagement so well so well
i love how they chose to do the harmonies and then they left some lines alone and then they have that
that gang of corey harmonies there it's it's really really neat it fits the mix really well
and it sets up some of these you know nearest lie stuff it sets that
up really well because you've got this soundscape of vocalists narrow singing
and then you've got that doubled very subtly doubled uh nearest lie scream right there in
the center playing with the spectrum as well as all the vocal textures so awesome
taking his naturally low voice read all about it if you i don't have near the
the beef to my voice naturally but and being right on the edge of vocal fry
read all about it if you want to know i just sound dumb doing it but but that's the the idea
get as low as you can to where you're almost getting into that it's pure vocal fry which
not to be confused with fry scream they're not the same thing and they're not really related
it sounds like there is a lot of animosity about social media and online uh usage from this song
uh which i'm happy i am happy that guys like corey taylor are speaking out and they have the platform
to expose what an addiction uh this can be and how harmful it can be to really living your life
um neat that he's going down that road
oh vintage cory taylor did you hear how he came off that afraid i'm i'm afraid
i'm afraid
i'm exaggerating a little bit there but he has this ah you can hear this on the iowa era
a lot too but he is just completely immersed in torment when he's delivering these vocals he means
every texture and every layer it's not a lot of vocalists can capture this in recordings the way
that the way that he does and i know that in in past i've read articles about how you know he was
cutting himself during the recording process and getting glass bottles thrown at him and getting
you know beat up while recording and you can hear that kind of thing it'd be interesting
to know if that sort of thing returned here or if he's just gotten even better at capturing
the the torment without having to in his voice without having to physically
abuse get physically abused at the same time but the other thing that i love about this
little section here is he's he's talking and sort of not rapping but you know aggressively
speaking and then he's got these yells over uh to emphasize certain words so he's able to just
and the the the middle vocal the guy that's narrating isn't changing his he's kind of
arcing his into his intensity up he is in one of the corey taylors and then he's got this gang of
this angry mob that's panned out here again another production thing
which wouldn't be possible without the amazing versatility of cory's voice in the first place
there it is again love it
ah
and the trail of those undecipherable at least on first listen
uh vocals in the background with heavy distortion on them
it is great to hear corey in this way after many years uh he had said for a long time
that he was going to be returning to more extreme vocals and he absolutely delivered this was really
fun to hear for the first time uh and of course i'm gonna be going back and listening to it more
and trying to pick out more subtleties this is how i love to listen to my favorite singers in general
really digging into the subtleties of the production and the vocal performance
i hope you've enjoyed it if you have be sure to check out some of my other videos on the channel
if you haven't already and again if you'd like more help with your own voice click that link
below and join my free course if you're going to take away one thing from cory's approach and style
it's the way that he's aggressively able to yell and transition into that false chord engaged full
false chord engaged scream like we talked about earlier in the video pick a simple word behind
say the first part of the word yelled and then transition into that false chord engaged
scream by experimenting with your vocal break behind behind behind behind behind behind behind
experiment with your vocal your your uh your mouth shape so you can get more of them real baby behind
let your voice crack as you're dialing this in behind behind behind go back and forth between
them see how intense you can get once you really find where your voice breaks and you learn to
lean into that you can get incredible amounts of power and intensity out of it and go right
back to talking just like i have and it doesn't hurt at all you can do it for a long time thanks
for watching and listening putting up with all my commentary and silly noises we'll see it for more