Thanks!

Have fun! 😁

That’s awesome!

I’m not sure whether he’s had formal training or not, but either way he’s a genius. His ability to teach himself is evident in the fact he can sing that well and accompany himself with equal proficiency. AND he engineers his own music?! The guy is a true savant.

@@PhillipNathanielFreeman Yeah, Devin is the real deal, a real artist. Here's what he stated in an interview a few years back: " Somebody led me to a Myles Kennedy interview yesterday where he’s talking about his vocal technique. He knows what he’s doing, so I thought ‘I’d like to read this’. In the interview he’s like ‘I utilize the top part of my palette for this and that, and I’ve got this operatic technique that I went to school for for breaking between the head tone and the chest tone…’ "I realized that I felt quite insecure because I don’t know any of this. None of it. In fact, whatever technique I have has been based on trial and error. I know what I do, but I don’t know the technical aspect. "There’s this trend lately on KZbin where they have vocal teachers reacting to performances. They were explaining my technique and how I control it and I’m like ‘I have no idea’.

On the contrary! Mammals of all kinds make such noises. The majority of humans have simply forgotten 🙂

Good question. Mostly it’s for liability’s sake and to be transparent about how skills like this aren’t usually developed over night, but a video like this might provide an idea or insight that the viewer wouldn’t otherwise have had. Sadly, voice coaches can’t be present one on one with every single viewer of their content, so it’s important to set expectations for students both direct and indirect and encourage them to take responsibility for their own actions. Negative situations that students can experience if they take this advice at face value and complete novices: Short term vocal strain and swelling caused by lack of training and practice Long term vocal hemorrhaging and/or nodules from overuse and over practicing There’s a lot of mechanisms to consider especially when you’re starting out. That said, those mechanisms deserve to be exercised, and like anything in life, there’s always risk involved. As long as that risk is accepted and not feared, the student will usually excel. Hope that answers your question!

@@PhillipNathanielFreeman Yeah, that makes sense. Thanks for the honest reply, man! I appreciate your transparency. I guess I'd always just wondered what it is about these mechanisms specifically that people feel are higher risk, but I suppose it probably is simply that they're not mechanisms someone can just hear and then do. They really do need to be trained more-so than just learned, and it's a whole body thing that may even require different lifestyle choices for some people, depending on their voices and... so many other factors. Not that someone untrained can't do it on a good day under ideal conditions, but whether self-taught or not, getting it sustainable and consistent enough to be useful in even a semi-professional capacity is much more difficult than just replicating the sound for a bit. I spend a massive amount of time on these techniques and styles because I have such a low voice, but no matter how much work you put in or how much you know, they're just really demanding vocal styles to maintain, and there's a kind of fragility to them. It's not that they're necessarily unhealthy to do, but just that getting it in a healthy way is a relatively unforgiving balance, so anything that pushes you a bit outside of that balance is enough to cause harm where otherwise in a more comfortable part of the voice with a more forgiving coordination it probably wouldn't. That's been my experience, anyway. I also found that most teachers aren't willing to teach these techniques, and I don't know how much of that is because it takes years of consistent dedication to do it safely, and how much of it is because in the process of getting it really stable you're unavoidably guiding someone in developing a niche voice that can limit their other options a bit. There's some liability concern there too, I suppose. Ultimately though, I don't know if it's necessarily any more risky than something like opera is, and that's a question I've wondered at for a long time now. I've never had any formal training of any kind, so I don't actually know.

Doesn’t look like it’s able to separate snare, kick, and cymbals yet, but I’m sure it’s on the horizon!

A tight spot to be in. 😬

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Of course. We rock the same hair do 👨‍🦲😅

Yes! Specially Lex Luthor as portrayed by Clancy Brown.

It is one of those nose strips! And great question! If it does change any resonance, it is certainly not intentional. It just helps me breathe when my fall allergies are on fire 🤪 and the only reason why the other character doesn’t have it because it was falling off my face by that point 😆

Good call! That would be fun!

Thank you!

From what I know of WASP and Blackie, he goes back-and-forth between TA and CT. A lot of the 80s metal band vocalists lean on CT dominant sounds for their super high notes, if they don’t stay in that register consistently.

#nofilter 😬

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Immediately recognized his voice. I like the playful way. He goes to vocal extremes. He doesn't seem to take himself very seriously. Kind of reminds me of Mike Patton a little bit.

Doing my due diligence 😂