hey chris liepe here you want to do terrifying screams and
create blood curdling moments live and in your recordings
you need to lean into the truth
you need to lean into the whole story
here's the whole story it's not enough just to know how to scream safely
or how to sing aggressive safely those things are important
it's not enough to simply want to be like your heroes and imitate them and go after
some of the emotion that you feel like that they have and to put that into your own voice
that's important it works these things are important
you need the pain
you need a reason to make the noise
you need the fear you need the glass in your foot or the thing that you can't
solve the problem that you can't solve in your life and you need to lean into that
and when you've leaned into that and you've combined it
with some of the things that we've worked on on this channel
you will get by accident the results that you want to get
john
just like what you say
everything is
no rule following no practicing no exercising none of that is going to get you what you want
to get out of your screams out of your vocal intensity out of your emotional connectedness
unless you learn how to channel the things that you are frustrated and fearful and anxious and
sick about unless you learn how to channel that into what you're doing you might be saying well
you're just stating the obvious yeah throw more emotion into what you're doing and let that take
over that's not really all of what i'm saying you have to break you have to get to the point
to where the only thing that you can do to medicate yourself or to
express is in that scream is in what your voice is doing that energy there's a big difference
because you're almost reaching out for a lifeline as you're abandoning into your voice
this is what it takes if you do any reading or scouring about the stories of aaron lewis
or corey taylor you know that some of their best work came out of this is really true for
a lot of artists but came out of times when they were gen genuinely suffering
there is an aura about those recordings that is so raw and real and unintentionally scary
and we go into stuff you know in our our songs and and and our singing so much of like
yeah yeah you know things are pretty much okay and and um
but i i'm gonna sound angry like that just doesn't it's just not the whole
picture and it's not going to come out in a way that's going to be completely relatable
it's not completely genuine be honest with where you are at be honest with how you feel
let that honesty come out in your recordings in your voice and how you speak if you
want help with your technique aggressive singing screaming and you'd like to learn
how to lean in to these emotions safely without messing up your voice i can help you with that
i've left a couple links below in the video description that you can go further with
but for the rest of this video i want to take you through
what i experienced and what i recorded uh during this segment of this stained song show you the
imperfections show you that the abandonment and the the the feeling the emotion that was captured
was unrepeatable in all honesty these were first takes of me coming down here today
extremely frustrated and needing something to take my frustration out on
this is what you hear and i want to walk you through it not because it's my best work
or not because it's the you know as good as what aaron lewis did or anything like that
but i want you to hear raw desperation anger fear and anxiety combined with
what i've trained my voice to be able to do and that is
lean into sensations safely you have to be able to do both we start here blame you
this particular area yeah i'm using compression i'm lifting something heavy
i'm bringing things into my upper vocal tract
but i'm blaming other people at the moment
and there's this looseness about not listening to the other recording you know i laying this
one down first and then doubling it without that one in there and you can hear that at the end
here they don't they don't follow they follow somewhat of the same thing but there's that theme
throughout this whole passage that i recorded i'm not listening to myself i'm just going at it and
and some of the things that are happening are end up being happy accidents these screams here
and you can see that the timing is off uh these are decently uh synced but right here you know
i cut off early again i i wasn't i wasn't privy to the previous take i just laid down this take
and then this take and the this take and this take are the same and this take and this take
are the same so i just put them on different tracks to mix them in a little bit better but
if you listen to this this is the first time i opened up on the mic with those screams and john
i mean listen to this listen to what happened here this this sigh into my normal voice right
i'm just so done right i mean that's that's not an intentional thing yes
i'm leaning into muscle memory and i can do that stuff because i've i've trained
but the expression comes out of out of being so done and if you listen if i if
i remove the distortion and some of the other things going on here listen to the raw track
it's not consistent it's it's not you know the best technique scream but that almost makes it
better i mean when you when you get it in the mix and you hear it uh there there's a
there's a vulnerability to it um and then the the quality of this doubled stream
the two layered together create this just blood curdling nonsense
if they were both perfect they would be one dimensional and you wouldn't get that
out of it shut up shut up
you know this little crack that i just left
i mean i always talk about the yodeling i mean that's that's it and then here listening to
what aaron lewis did on the uh the original i wasn't even gonna go for doing what he did but
just you know i hear him sort of screaming in the background as he's going through uh this
this ending i'm just gonna do two passes that i'm not even really caring and and see what happens
take it all away just like what you said
and what's what i find interesting upon listening back to this
is i'm doing my normal thing right i pick a pitch
uh you know we've got the the normal pitch of the or the root of the song is hey hey so i've i've
created i'm singing on the ninth and that that was that was something that i did in my head you know
i want some i want a dissonant note uh to go into this with it doesn't matter that that's not what
he did you can't hear that ninth in the original aaron lewis recording uh but that helped me get
to a point to where i could abandon into that scream i could abandon that note um and and here
you hear it yeah you hear it there and you hear it here but i'm i'm holding my mouth a
little differently again i was just different you could see on the video i'm just different
levels of frustrated and the things that i've talked about and the things that i've practiced
are coming in and being like okay we got you you you need help at the moment we we got you these
these things that i've practiced it's not like i'm sitting here or standing or whatever going
in especially in this case there are some recordings where i've done this
but okay now i'm going to intentionally hold my mouth differently
that came out because i i'm experiencing different levels of intensity um and the muscle memory
kicked in i did not think about it this is the way a lot of people get great recordings
they end at different times there's squeaks there's all sorts of things
leave them in and then on a production standpoint i brought him back to the center for for the end
there is something magical about holding a mic and leaning into it and you can't do that with these
and i think with screaming uh it's it's best even if the sound quality is isn't as good
to go grab your beater mic with a dent on the top and and add some damage to it
that's the going to be the best way to well all of these things combined you want to deliver
blood curdling authentic uh painful sounding screams you have to complete the picture
again if you want more of my help i'll help you click those links below we'll see you for more