hey chris liepe here i just found out i get to go to a rage against a machine concert very soon
i'm excited and i thought i haven't done a video on rage in a while so i thought i would
react to a performance of rage playing in 1993 killing in the name one of my
favorite rage songs featuring a very young zack very young everybody incredible use of
dynamic resonance and if you list know how to listen to zack you will be able to unlock
lots of really high notes in your voice you'll be able to figure out the sensation of mixed voice
much faster than if you're just trying to hit high notes that you're uncomfortable hitting now
so bear with me here i always say on this channel that the best way to unlock higher notes and i i
work with people in my course this way too the best way to unlock higher notes is by going at
it from a speech-based perspective first we have to figure out how our speech voice can be very
flexible this is all speech voice listen carefully to what he does in light of my commentary as we go
through this so key if you'd like more help with your own voice if you like my approach and you'd
like me to become your vocal coach click the link below and join my free voice course that's
the best place to start and there's lots of ways including private lessons and group lessons that
we can work from there they use force to make you do what the deciders have decided you must do okay
i've decided you must do that's the timbre of his voice right there
the deciders notice that that range everybody can talk in that range right well not everybody he's
got a little higher voice and he's young and but just keep that in mind now listen to how
this arcs here they use force to make you do they use force they use force notice how's his
his pitch not notes but his pitch goes up when he yells lots of people don't do that
lots of people will they use force they use they just keep getting gruffer and gruffer and and
stay in the same range because partially maybe because they're afraid of their voice cracking
keep listening what the deciders have decided you must do they use force to make you do
what the deciders have decided you must do what the decide who my voice cracks a little
bit who cares experiment with it what the deciders what the decide what's the deciders
they use force what the deciders what the deciders what to the deciders
he is impassioned here and you can tell my voice is doing all sorts of things as i'm
sort of dialing in his tone the point is though and he's not he's not trying to dial anything
in here he's just emoting they use force to make you do what the deciders have decided you must do
with the deciders yeah yeah now i'm not trying to sing what i am doing is i am pushing up to a very
vulnerable part of my voice if i'm not careful my voice might crack to the deciders to the desires
but as i learn to feel out what it's like to raise in pitch
as i get more intense just that simple concept is going to help you feel out how to
emote in a naturally higher voice like he's doing he's using mixed voice he's
using compression he's using crow he's using a lot of things ah deciders he's using a lot of
these sorts of things he's not thinking about it he's worked that into his muscle memory
but it's super compelling to hear how he uses it in his speech in this sort of rap-ish kind of way
his voice isn't that high his normal speech resonance is not that high come on yeah
great stream then
even right there there's music to that killing in the name of killing in the name of
that's not just killing in the name of it's
it's that programming of i'm gonna be loud and i'm gonna i'm gonna train my voice so as i get louder
and allow myself to break here and there but continue to inject support into it louder i
get higher as i get louder i get higher and accept all of the breakup that might accidentally happen
and lean into it and then you get really cool screams
listen carefully
some of those that work forces he's kind of whispering ah so much variety in what he's
doing it's so cool try that with your own voice here some of those that work forces
make sure that that sensation of rasp is high in your throat who saw this it's not old man
it's stage whisper combined with clean voice clean speech voice it's so fun to experiment
with these things without having to try to hit certain notes it's why i love musing with
zach yes
listen to this build up here
do what they told you and do what they told y'all
now you do what they told you now here he's not getting into that ah screechy
sort of sound he's perfect he's he's purposely keeping it darker and more contained because in
the next section even though his pitch isn't going to change that much then it's justified
it's his tone and his his level of compression and his vocal posture is going to change what's
so neat is that he's demonstrating here again no notes how possible it is to be so expressive
without definitive melody by just being really speech expressive i know it sounds like i'm
being a broken record a bit but the best way to do this when you are singing this kind of
dynamic resonance and compression and screaming and all these mixed voice things the best way to
do that when you are singing is to start by doing it when you don't have to sing listen
those who died yeah he didn't go up and picked that much now he's got and he's
using this sort of crow nasality thing too those who die yeah yeah
he's not shutting off his nasality entirely he's not always nasal but there is a component of that
we're in the badge where in the bed there is this component too of getting your mouth
involved and part of his accent is doing this some but even that that rap attitude
um or spoken thing that he's doing is contributing to this but having a super rub
i'm gonna talk and i'm gonna let my lips just really fill with air not lips but cheeks
that sort of sound i know i'm exaggerating and i sound like dribbly dog but those kinds of things
that you do with your face as you're working out how the rest of your resonance works they all come
together take things to extremes and experiment with them as you're working with this so key
forces
you can hear notes there if you really listen and you can also hear him cracking if we try
to do this stuff and we are afraid of cracking my voice cracked i must not be a real singer
nope these guys everybody that's good at this stuff has learned to
lean into the cracking that's what makes these screams so compelling
see if you can hear me in the crowd doing it
did you hear his voice crack there under concern it wasn't a perfect thing lean into it
one of my favorite guitar players ever
i'm just stopping it for timing and algorithm and youtube god's reasons here starting again
[ __ ] you i won't do what you tell me
kill me
notice how broken up he is there he goes from this very controlled tone yeah to it
this is not something that he's planning this is something that over the years and
his practicing and his his vibing with the band he has stumbled upon that doesn't mean
we can't learn from these things place things in our voices correctly
and then do the same thing not everybody has the opportunity to experiment in a
musically enriched way that zach has had and if you want help more help with with
stuff like mixed voice and developing distortion your voice grit stuff like that i've done
literally hundreds of youtube videos that help you do this and if you want to get more in tune
with the foundations that are going to help you get there that's what my free course is for
yeah
i think one of the key things to take away from watching any especially live rage video
if you are curious about your own voice is that his natural speech voice is not really different
from anybody else's natural speech voice yes different voice types can play can come into
play a little bit he's got a naturally higher sound at least right now it'd be interesting to
hear what he sounds like now after all these years live i'm looking forward to this but
he doesn't have anything that you don't have other than a particular awareness of how to really push
his range in his speech resonances this is so key remember that he doesn't have anything that
you don't have experiment do it safely do it in short increments while you're feeling
things out take these tips check out some of my other youtube videos as well see you for more