hey Chris liepe here in this video we are working on how to sing aggressively
screaming shouting adding distortion to our voice without trashing our voice
so we can come on and all of the problems that come about when someone's trying to
figure out how to sing in these ways really stem from one issue we are looking out at
someone we like it's a vocal sound that we like who is singing intensely and we're
making assumptions about how things should feel in our own voice without really knowing
anything based on what we hear them doing those assumptions are almost always wrong
so I'm gonna completely break down how I figured out how to sing aggressively both
with pitch and without pitch I'm gonna give you a step-by-step look into what I've done so you
don't have to make any assumptions you can try and experiment with each one on your own
before we get started I just have to say this if you don't already have a foundational
understanding about how your support muscles are supposed to work with regular old singing these
things are going to be pretty difficult for you I'm likely gonna be mentioning things that you
may not already be comfortable with and that you need to be comfortable with in order to take your
singing to the level that I'm demonstrating in this video if you do want to explore what your
voice can do in either preparation for these types of techniques or just because it's fun
be sure to click the link below and join my free singing course all right here we go I'm gonna make
a lot of goofy noises you should too this is a process of self-discovery for you for anybody
watching these videos if you're not willing to make stupid noises and make a fool of yourself
you are not going to be able to do this so that's rule number one the first thing we want to do
is become intimately aware of how our break works stay with me this is important the break
right I am low I'm in my chest resonance ah I'm high we want to accentuate the
transition and make it as blatant as possible you've heard yodelers do this
that crack that you hear is going to be key to our aggressive vocals so just like I'm doing make
some noise don't make some pitches make some noise and see how drastic you can make that break sound
ah do it in different parts of your voice start super low like I just did
and try to make that sound now dil hai Tarzan right this is good stuff now before we go any
further I want to share with you what aggressive vocals will not include it
will not include Cookie Monster no it won't that hurts my voice to do it for even ten seconds it
will not include that it will not include the intentional tightening of our neck or
the just singing louder and louder and louder until we until our voice breaks up those both
are recipes for vocal fatigue and injury so we're not going to be doing that okay so back
to the vocal break and being keenly aware of how that feels with different volume levels
I'm gonna push real hard and I'm gonna be soft and I'm gonna be keenly aware of my vocal break
uh-uh okay the next thing I want to dive into an experiment with is my vocal fry and fry that's
vocal for uh you can discover that when you go as low as possible and your voice starts
to break up and it starts uh it doesn't hurt you could do this forever it's actually kind of good
for your voice it's really annoying when you're listening to podcasts and a guy who's delivering
the podcast talks in vocal fry for a long time it can kind of drive you crazy it's driving me crazy
listening to myself but if you can get to the point where you can talk and vocal fry and even
enter a note with vocal fry what you're doing is you're familiarizing yourself with that feel
of that broken voice both of these things that transitional break thing and this fry they have
a hints of what it sounds like to really break up your voice right so we got fry we've got now
you've heard some vocalists do things like this yeah maybe when they're when they're singing or
something at the end of a phrase maybe not maybe you haven't but I think I have I've heard people
just dwell on fry alone and that can be having a command over vocal fry and singing is really
helpful but that's not really the whole of the sound we're going for we want to be able to sing
energetically and loud so we have to combine this idea of broken voice vocal fry with the idea of
this break which is also a broken up part of our voice it's this unstable nature that we're going
to harness and live in the middle of that while we use just the right pressure from our support
muscles that's how we're going to accomplish the sound so I'm going to make some more weird
noises here and I'd encourage you to do the same either while you're watching the video or after
you watch the video take this stuff to heart here are the noises what I'm doing there notice
I'm not in my very lowest area of my voice but I am joining together this idea of fry I'm getting
to my that that area where I'm gonna break and then I'm creating that fry sound right on that
break and I'm letting it go over and under and you can hear more and more as I start at once
I find that little break point and then add fry to it but I'm doing it not at the bottom of my
range as I start adding pressure down here it starts to become more consistently broken up
there it is right I'm not actually singing that loud or well it's not call that singing
yet I could do that all day long that doesn't hurt my voice at all and you
can hear because I can speak again if I had really hurt my voice there'd be this I'd be
I'd be out of it so we're adding just the right pressure as we experiment with the
balance between our vocal behavior between the registers and then that sensation of
vocal fry' vocal fry' it doesn't just have to happen at the very bottom of your register it
doesn't okay so we're making noises that are starting to resemble that broken up voice
but we're not really aiming for a pitch here's where we bring pitch into the game let's choose
a pitch let's oh it was pretty close to that one we're gonna make that our target note and we're
going to experiment with again push falsetto playing with that break and then inserting
vocal fry' okay I'm gonna do it real slow so you can hear the transition of what I'm doing
huh you you hear you're hearing less and less pitch as I push more and more but you still
hear the pitch now if you want to eliminate the pitch altogether you can push a little bit more
and think accentuate vocal fry' as opposed to think accentuate your falsetto that's how I
think about it if and I'll demonstrate both we've gotten rid of a lot of pitch and you heard the
cracking in there as I was dialing in that sound now and you when you see me push also nothing's
really changing here other than my face might be getting red I am pushing a lot from my support
muscles I'm not just getting louder for the sake of getting louder I'm finding that vulnerability
between in my break inserting the vocal fry' and then I am pushing so that it starts to break up
but not more than that if you start to do more than you are wasting energy and you will start
to fatigue your voice so it's about living in that transitional period and only giving just
enough that you need to make it happen here's the same thing demonstrated with pitch pure note
ah
a little bit more there's a little bit of distortion there
huh you hear me breaking and cracking and all that
often times singing aggressively with Distortion while pursuing pitch can be more difficult than
the no pitch game that way that we were looking at earlier but both are come about the same way
it's just how you balance those things now I've got a backing track pulled up and I'm
gonna sing the simple phrase so we can come alive over this track and now that you've heard me make
these noises and explain how to start getting there how to start singing aggressively both
with pitch and without pitch I'm gonna sing over this a bunch of different ways with this backing
track so that you can hear how it sounds in a bit of context keep all the things that we've
talked about in mind as I vary my intensity as I vary the amount of grit as I vary the amount
of pitch you're gonna have a little bit more of a mind for understanding how those things
are happening it's not Cookie Monster it's not sheer force its strategy and it's walking that
line it's finding where that brake is milking that brake transition inserting vocal fry'
and then pushing just enough to get the to remain teetering in that transitional area
so we can come on
so
so we can come
you start to get a sense for as you hear me crack
you hear little bits that actually sound kind of cool
so we can come along
yeah
so again double
so there I picked yeah which is a see I was doing a and I I'm doing it all fast
but and then finding right where that break happens and then pushing it's right when you
find that break and you'll learn over time to hold it in that area to hold it even if you're
not centered around a particular pitch you're still sort of thinking a pitch so
here we are with some less just screams and more pitch oriented Distortion
so we can come along
so we can
so we can come alive you can still hear that pitch so we can come
being able to come out of that and then use normal pitches is
a great way to sort of ground those sounds you don't always want to sound
all gritty you want to sound gritty sometimes it sounds smooth other times
yeah so we can try
so we can come alive these lessons are so fun to make I hope you're enjoying
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