hey chris liepe here with why even after you've done all the tricks and practiced
really hard and tried to be super introspective your voice still hurts particularly after
trying to practice or use distortion and three things you can do to go
a little deeper still to fix it and sing freely with distortion with grit with aggressive singing
before we go any further what i'm going to be sharing in the video today is only the very tip of
the iceberg when it comes to truly introspecting with your voice and learning what it can really
do i've got lots of options for you if you want to go deeper with me but the best place to start
when you're ready is to click the link below and join my free voice course i'll make sure
that you have the correct fundamentals down and can start exploring this stuff in a greater
more in-depth level but it starts with the fundamentals if you don't understand the
basics of breathing airflow management and support this isn't going to work
tip number one as to what we can do to try to sing freely with distortion
i've worked with so many students the first thing that they say is man my voice dries out and i get
this pain in my throat and i tense up when i start to add grit and i say well where is it placed do
you feel like it's coming below your voice box or above your voice box is it high and a lot of
you've been following this channel for a while know that i advocate that high placement of grit
and they go oh yeah yeah it's high it's high and then i say clear your throat for me
then they go okay i said where did that feel like it was coming from well let me do it again
it's coming from below okay now try to add grit
does it feel like it's coming from the same place that you clear your throat
and a lot of times they say yes there are two ways to clear your throat
the first way is the way i just did it and that's the way we want to do it when we want to get
stuff out of our throat which isn't terribly good it's actually making me feel a little bit hoarse
just to do it even those couple times there's the gruff way and then there's the polite way
m if you want to check your distortion
placement and your compression placement dial in these two ways to clear your throat
very very high m and then when we go down and we start adding a bit of true chord engagement
you can't do that with this one hear how different you know how different it sounds and and it feels
way different it tickles it dries out doesn't work hi the polite way to clear your throat will
help you make sure that your placement is correct that's number one check your placement number two
it's about airflow management and using the right proportions not just going harder and
harder and harder on your chords what we just did there with clearing our throat um
both were very quiet but i actually got a m by doing this m m that's i'm singing with distortion
and i'm doing it very quietly i am holding back air via that clearing my throat m m m
m now we hear a lot of singers and our perception of them is as they get
louder they add distortion which is unfortunately true for a lot of people but you don't have to
and if you want to save your voice and you want to do it without pain or you want to be able to do
it for a long time you have to learn how to do it quietly and then add dynamics as a response to the
art of it all as opposed to the necessity to get the distortion so here's what we're going to do
we're going to start by clearing our throat the polite way m and then we're going to
find a note m we're going to hold it on m m then we're going to go out of that distortion
now i am not getting any louder what i'm doing is i'm practicing moderating my airflow with this m
by by extending the feel of the polite way to clear my throat
and balancing it with a note
if i can balance it i can add more distortion or more grit by simply holding back air and
feeling out how i'm gradually releasing the air with my upper throat with my false cord area
there's a lot more grit there right
versus
i'm going to take this around to different places of my range
let's let's do it on an e e
this isn't me doing this
yeah that's very very different and that's going to fry your cords
the important thing to remember is our vocal cords don't actually have any pain receptors on them
what we're actually feeling is the misuse of cartilages and muscles in our throat and those
are becoming raw dry and then ultimately you feel pain or you're you're harboring tension in some
way where you're you're really causing a muscle to tense your vocal cords they're just going to get
hoarse that's their warning that you're screwing things up so we want to moderate
with a good way to clear our throat and practice going in and out of clean notes
without getting louder this is going to feel like this you're going to be pushing a little
bit more um with your primary support join my free course if you don't know how to dial that in
um you're going to be pushing more and closing off via the correct or the polite way to clear your
throat closing off the airflow so you're actually saving your vocal cords as you're doing this
um yes yes then we bring this around into different parts of our range
it's going to sound different
and check it if it feels like it's starting to get low
reset m check your throat
okay so that is number two number three be willing to adopt and consistently implement the
abandon principle with your grit you've heard me talk a lot about on the channel expose or
take advantage of your vocal break you've likely seen the video where i'm doing yodeling noises
the problem when i work with people who've practiced this technique is a lot of times
they stop with the idea that okay well i'm gonna i'm gonna do this yodeling thing
oh great okay i tighten things up and i got the sound but then when applying it in actual
singing they can't seem to make that jump and so they end up just pushing harder and harder until
they get somewhere and then they get nowhere what we want to do is we want to take this feeling of
of creating an opportunity out of our vocal break and abandon into it so the example that i saw at
the beginning where i'm on that a working all day we take that particular phrase we want to
choose a note to abandon on and go into this crazy yodel thing but then abandon and lean
in at the same time with that line that note is one that i can hit but i also know that i don't
hit it very well sometimes it's a challenging high chest note these are the perfect notes to practice
abandon with working all day okay but if i let my support out from under myself on day working
all day working all day that's what happens so i'm gonna let my support out just for a minute
and then as soon as i feel my voice start to break i'm going to lean into it so i'm going to
abandon it and then i'm going to push into it working all day working all day working all day
working all day working all day working all no that's a really like broken up blood curdling
thing yeah let's combine it with what we were doing earlier working all day there's
that nice squeeze that we were doing working all day working all day what if i want both
working all day working all day see how we're using both if i really deconstruct that
working all working working all working all day working all day working all day
working all day clean working all day working all day many more exercises like this in my course the
aggressive vocalists master plan of attack but you have to start with the fundamentals
and you have to think about distortion as an additive process it is not just turning up
the drive on your vocal cords it is adding false chord engagement it is and adding abandonment to
an already clean controlled vocal that's why i can go in and out of distortion so easily and
come right back to talking that's why i can do a full song all the way through and clean it up and
scream and it also doesn't seem to have an effect on my voice you can too with the right mindset
the right practice disciplines and the right approach again please like and subscribe to the
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