Learn how to control the false cords, use fry like an expert, and discover the best exercises for developing your grit and screams beyond what you thought possible. Explore the importance of bracing, breath support, placement, yawning, sobbing, and being versatile with your screams. In this episode, we’ll take you from the basics of vocal distortion to mastering the most advanced techniques, in a great preview of what we teach in our Extreme Singing course.
In this episode:
- The foundations of vocal distortion: the first thing you need
- Why learning to sing first is essential for developing effortless grit and screams
- How distortion works and interacts with the voice
- How to gain conscious control of the false cords for ultimate control
- How fry is useful for building vocal distortion
- What an old man’s grunt, witch’s cackle, and smoker’s voice can teach you about vocal distortion
- How to use glottal stops, thinning out, and cry to develop fry
- Crucial steps for combining fry and the singing voice
- How to control compression and why it’s useful
- Three main grit placements and how to work on them
- One of the best exercises to develop effective grit
- The spectrum of the two main distortion types
- The balance between singing and grit placement, and how to use it to shape your sound
- Why bracing is essential to effective vocal distortion and breath support
- How yawning can affect the intensity of your distortion
- If you can sing it, you can distort it
- How to go from grit to screams
- A simple exercise for improving your screams by letting your voice fall apart
- How to use sobbing to get better at screaming
- Using the feeling of the false cords to improve your grit and screams
- How to distort in your lower range
- Adele vs Randy Blythe: how to build versatility and coordination in your screams
- What to expect about how long it takes to develop great vocal distortion that doesn’t hurt your throat
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