hey Chris Liepe here you guys have been asking me to check out Spiritbox and Courtney Laplante
for a while now but some recent nudges from Elizabeth from the charismatic voice and will
Ramos have put Spirit Box in the front of my mind again and I'm excited to finally check
this band out as recommended to me I'm going to be working through Courtney's one take
live performance of circle with me I was told this was going to make some really good material
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is fake change
hands are frozen [Music]
all right we'll go back in a second it always catches me off guard even though it shouldn't
when a female voice does that kind of low engaged scream there's very little reason
it should sound any different because that kind of sound is coming from engaging the
false chords and other upper constrictions that are above your primary vocal cords your
primary vocal cords don't have anything to do with that sound if you're doing it right
God altar
excellent execution
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what an awesome disposition colors change no
colors change change [Music] there's a compression that's happening above her vocal cords using
similar areas that she used to get that wonderful false chord scream at the beginning to create
this this whispery intimate sound with her voice I bet she'll develop it as we go on
but there's so much you can do if you treat your vocal tract as more than just a set of
vocal cords she's already demonstrating that in amazing ways here
to love
my hood I'm standing out of control the sickly sweetness is crushing me
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did you hear how she leaned into her voice
good morning she leans in with her chest voice belts and then abandons into her head voice
and then grounds again on oh it's so full it takes you on this journey she's not she's
leaving room to hit you with more intensity as the song continues to grow
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down [Music]
all right
nothing lost [Music] she brings back that wonderful breathy sound did you hear how she's
saying lost nothing lost she turned it into two syllables and accentuated the breath even
more some of those little creative nuances that make a vocalist interesting
[Music] my they promise I won't feel the pain not strong enough [Music]
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lightly throwing up her voice there and then she had listened to this part
is crushing me
the fire is called fire is called there's no note there it's another articulation the
ways that she's abandoning up into some of these pitches is so interesting and fits so
well with her her breathy sense of impending doom sort of calm sound [Music]
[Music] she separated circling too circling circling using an exhale breath as percussion
in the middle of a word [Music]
in the flame [Music]
oh we have to back up there's some really cool things that she's doing there's there's
these notes that she's grounding in and touching on and and then screaming over so there's
there's like this sub Melody thing that's going on it's really awesome
this idea that she has this yeah
it increases for me the depth of the vocal line and the performance so much because there's
these actual notes that make sense on the bottom of that screen [Music] good
then that beautiful low there oh
see how her mouth shape is so much different there when she was doing the power power and
then blue circle it's removed all pitch and she's changed the shape of her face so that
it resonates completely differently [Music]
go away so tight feel the weight
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oh that was a great line oh listen to that again listen to how she's like wide open here
she's belting
and then there's this abandonment but there's a little bit unlike some of the other screams
she was doing there's a little bit of a suggestion of a note in what's coming
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watching me that note is suggested but she has dirtied it up with that false chord engagement
over a pitch this time what watching me there's just a little bit of that pitch but it's overtaken
by the screen
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if you've got a lower voice try bringing it down and practicing the same thing in a more
comfortable range for you this could
such a great technique
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oh God
oh I like how she had the all and yours she did it on the lower yours on that last time
that was pretty amazing what an incredible song and performance one take through she
has the this amazing ability to go into different sounding voices different arcs different resonances
and of course the screaming and and the the engage singing and the quiet whisper singing
I mean she has got it all
thanks so much for watching and exploring Courtney and Spirit box with me this was amazing
I look forward to getting into a lot more Spirit box thank you to all of those who suggested
I check out this band and the extra nudges helped a lot too if you'd like to explore
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