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Hi everybody!
My name is Justin Stoney and I'm the founder of
New York Vocal Coaching here in New York City.
Welcome to episode 48 of Voice Lessons To The World.
The show where we want to help you guys as singers by answering your
questions from all over the world.
And I'll give you a chance to ask questions later.
But our question for this week comes from Sophie M. in Nice, France.
And this is actually part three, the third and final part
of our Vocal Fry Trilogy.
And Sophie writes, "Dear Justin, what is that crazy raspy sound
that Sara Bareilles does in the middle of notes?
Like in the song "Gravity"?
Now that's a great question Sophie.
And this is actually a part of our vocal fry stylization.
I think you can guess it, the sound that she's doing
is actually a fry.
But it's a very specific fry coordination, stylistically,
that we're going to learn together today.
This is something very cool, it's something that can make
you sound even more authentic with your riffs,
and with your pop, rock, R&B stylization, okay.
So first one more quick recap.
We talked about what is the vocal fry, right?
It's the register beneath your chest voice,
that [vocal fry] sound where the cords are short, fat,
and lightly compressed.
And we know that it can help with our high notes,
with our style, and we saw stylistically with Ryan Adams last time
that we can fry into notes, right?
We can start our pitches with the lowest of tones first,
and then springboarding into whatever pitch that we want to do,
again for style or for the note.
So last week we really explored what is it to fry into the note.
To have the onset be the vocal fry.
But now here's the very cool thing, Sophie.
It is possible to have the fry be the offset.
To get out of the note with a vocal fry.
Now this is so subtle and so cool
that if you can hear this and get this right in pop music
you're going to really have an awesome stylistic benefit.
So this is one of these very subtle things
that I want you guys to start hearing.
And so you asked me Sophie about the song "Gravity"
so I'm going to take a look at it I'm going to work through this
and show you this thing that I'm talking about.
Which I'm going to call a fall-off.
You guys may have heard, I like to invent terms for things
that are in pop music.
But we talked about a slash which is actually a grace note.
But you can call it a slash when we sort of have
a quick note into another.
But this is going to be a fall off.
Where the note falls off into a fry.
And so I'm going to take this song "Gravity"
and explore some of these things
so that you can start to hear it.
Then I'm going to give you a chance to try it.
So here's Sara Bareilles' "Gravity".
It's a very, very cool little nuance to pop.
You're going to hear
it
in Sara Bareilles.
You're going to hear it in tons of artists.
And if you can learn to do this,
it's tougher than it looks,
you're really going to have a new benefit to your sound.
So now again if the fry is something way down here,
and we fry into the note,
what we're going to do with this is fry down,
fall down, fall off, into the note.
And so I'm going to create an exercise here for
you guys today to help you get this, alright.
We're gonna do "way way way" on an 8-8-8
and then down as if we're going down an octave to 1.
And we're gonna go down all the way into the fry.
Take a listen to what I mean.
We're gonna do this...
♪ WAY - WAY - WAY ♪
Okay?
♪ WAY - WAY - WAY ♪
I'm dropping my voice all the way down to fry.
Now today since we're gonna be up in pop land,
I'm not going to separate guys from girls.
Everybody's gonna be on the same pitch today.
And do your best to slide down into the vocal fry
that you now know.
So here we, go guys and girls same notes together...
Excellent work.
Amazing work on that new concept of
falling down, falling off, into vocal fry.
Use it mostly for your style, but it's also good for technique.
Because if you have registration where you
can move from sky-high notes to low notes quickly like that,
that means that there's not so much of a separation
in how you're using your air and your sound
between registers that are far apart.
It's very, very good coordination if you can do it.
And it looks like you guys did a great job.
So, Sophie and all, thank you so much for that question.
And I hope that's been helpful for you guys today as singers.
If you have questions that you'd like to see us answer on the show
you can send an email to, Questions@VoiceLessonsToTheWorld.com.
And this concludes our Vocal Fry Trilogy.
Thank you guys so much for being with me for this trilogy.
And I just want to encourage, you don't lose the joy,
don't lose the passion, don't let people tell you that
you can't sing because you and I both know it's just not true.
Get with a great voice teacher in your area.
Or if you guys are in New York City
or you want to Skype with one of us at
New York Vocal Coaching on our staff
you can visit, www.NewYorkVocalCoaching.com.
I also encourage you guys to download our
free iPhone and iPad app.
There's tons of free resources, tips, articles,
lots of stuff there that hopefully can help
you guys take your singing game to the next level.
And you can also visit, www.VoiceLessonsToTheWorld.com.
I'm Justin Stoney.
We'll see you next time.
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