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hey singers I'm Justin Stoney the founder of New York vocal coaching here with you for episode 124
of voice lessons to the world I'm joined once again by one of the world's leading
Distortion researchers and experts Nicolas or mazaba hola my friends how are you um
so let's do it again let's do it again so far Nicholas and I have walked you through growls
falseful Distortion I am and death growls oh man and today we're gonna start talking about vocal
fry yeah now there's already a vocal fry Trilogy that you may have watched but for the next two
episodes I'm hoping that you will see that vocal fry can go from very basic uh to very advanced
oh yeah totally insane okay I'm excited to dive into this but first a few quick disclaimers about
rasp and Distortion distortions should not hurt they are not loud the microphone does the work
they are usually much less aggressive and much more subtle than we think they are not damaging to
the voice if done properly distortions take time be patient with yourself and study with an expert
if you can so Nicholas how would you describe vocal fry vocal fry it's a creaky distortion
sometimes we can produce it with pitch and sometimes not
it's really common use fry to bust emotion you know like I can stay awake yeah
better than I can stay away and without Friday yeah very good okay well we're
gonna do a formal definition of vocal fry vocal fry is a creaking or popping quality produced
by the vocal folds typically vibrating in an a periodic unpredictable fashion
and accompanied by softer volumes now let's listen to a few singers using vocal fries
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I go back to us when I met you in the summer
to my heartbeat sound we fell in love as the leaves turn brown Party Girls
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so how do we learn to perfect our vocal fry let's look at three strategies [Applause] first
create your quietest compression so the quietest compression how does that work yeah well we will
use something we want to use in other style of singing you know we will use the valsaba maneuver
you know it's like you're lifting something really heavy yeah but when you want to speak or produce
the sound you have to produce the song with the quietest loud or volume you can so it sounds like
uh uh you know yeah so like a squeeze but just so quiet yeah uh at the same time okay
very very cool now another strategy that we can use is finding your low notes and
then adding your style a really easy way that I like to help singers find their vocal fry is
simply to get down to the lowest pitches in your M1 chest voice range like this [Music]
and once chest voice runs out we can sort of let it give up
or we can pass the Baton to vocal fry [Music] should feel like a gentle compression
give that a try
that's nice and once you've found it you can try adding it to your vocal style like Nicolas
was talking about maybe at the beginning of a phrase like I love you or maybe at the end of
a phrase I love you yeah all right strategy number three play with pitches so fry can be
done while singing other pitches yeah so cool yeah so one of the best strategy to improve
your vocal fry it's trying to sing [ __ ] with fry so maybe we can start with glaze sandals
I'm going farther and farther for beginners could be really difficult because when we want to do a
vocal fry we are turning our vocal folds so when we want to go high we are stretching so
change your time it's difficult but yes it's it's possible to
go high with fry and eventually do you kind of uh
it's so awesome well I hope that gets you started with vocal fry in our next episode
we're going to take these fry fundamentals to another level with fry screams yeah yeah so
awesome one of my favorites so I'm so excited and and remember if you're a voice teacher looking to
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