False Cord Intermediate 1 - How to Remain in Falsetto - Aliki Katriou

[@aix83]

Heeyyy coach! Aliki is a fabulous vocal teacher. I've got a ton of voice problems and she's super patient, knowledgeable, and really, REALLY works with you to get you out of the ditch you're in.

[@AlikiKatriou]

[@aix83]

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[@Head-Gin]

I can’t tell you how thankful I am for your videos. You deserve so many more subscribers, I was doing so many things wrong trying to teach myself.

[@AlikiKatriou]

Yaaay thank you so much :D

[@horseradish4046]

The Queen of Metal Vocal Lessons is back!

[@Mattylarochelle]

omg yes I'm so stoked for the intermediate videos!

[@AlikiKatriou]

:D ^^

[@erwingheller1387]

All this time I thought I was doing fry scream but it was FC with falsetto,very nice for DSBM and Atmospheric Black Metal, I joined a post hardcore band and I used that technique me thinking it was fryscream and it didt match it with them,so I quit, but still I was trying to find out what the heck I was doing and here is the answer!! Thank you so much!!!! Cheers!!!

[@lillycue]

Thank you for this fantastic series, it's helping me a bunch. I'm taking my time to learn, I don't practice for too long per day, and I drink water with honey after I'm done to make sure my false cords heal properly if they hurt. I can locate my false cords when I use them and that's super useful too.

[@AlikiKatriou]

Nice :) I love short practice sessions :)

[@resurgence6169]

Thank you so much! I absolutely love every one of your videos and tutorials! You have helped me far more than any tutorial I've ever watched, which is saying something considering I've been looking and trying to learn for around 10 years now (on and a lot of off). With your videos I've made great progress though and it's all because of your amazing teachings! Thank you again!

[@AlikiKatriou]

Yaaaaay :D

[@americanriot8689]

Love your videos! Glad your creating more screaming tutorials!

[@AlikiKatriou]

yaay thank you :D

[@dualwieldsoftware]

Awesome to have you back with the videos! I've found that with the sigh method and breath distortion, I feel the distortion pretty high up. Not quite nasally but close to? When I aim for false fold distortion and do a proper scream, I lose all of the breath distortion. Or at least 90% of it. At this point I'm mostly just trying everything i can do keep my true chords out of the way as much as possible, because it's the days they want to play that are the ones I have to stop practicing early due to fatigue/soreness.

[@AlikiKatriou]

Yes. One idea is to go from clean to slightly breathy on your true vocal folds before you go into your distortions just to remind yourself physically that you want less compression on the true vocal folds. Of course, degree of vocal fold compression, amount of airflow etc, all these things will provide you with different tones/colours/timbres of distortion...

[@dualwieldsoftware]

​@@AlikiKatriou Will do! Appreciate that you respond to all the questions!

[@XwoooahX]

@@AlikiKatriou O_O I just tried "slightly breathy on true vocal folds" before I did death metal style growls that I've been working on lately, it just improved my death growls SO MUCH! I found my comfort spot for doing them is kind of what I believe to be a fry / false fold combo distortion. So it's not as loud as you see a lot of people doing barking or breath distortions on youtube (I find his too tiring and I have little control and honestly it sound dumb when I do that), but I engage my false cords more than a strict fry scream. The problem is I would have trouble keeping the sound ofdistorition clean and sometime my voice would crack or get int the way and hold back too much air, so I've been working on improving the sound and control I have on it. Well doing the breathy voice first I recorded and nailed the sound of my growl PERFECTLY on the first try! So glad I read this comment!

[@AlikiKatriou]

@@XwoooahX Yaaaaaay wooohooo, good job!! :D I'm glad it worked!

[@mustafatarek2697]

i really can't wait the next video !

[@squashedeyeball]

A great and lively guide, as always :)

[@AlikiKatriou]

Woop woop!

[@user-hf6sr7do3u]

I love how your voice sounds!

[@leanegaronrmt9233]

thank you so much : i picked up from the beginner videos and the chocking mickey mouse voice worked instantly !!! AMAZING

[@AlikiKatriou]

yaaay :D Glad to hear it!

[@marklewis5033]

That was very helpful and makes me confident that I can achieve a good sounding false chord scream. Thank you!

[@AlikiKatriou]

Thank you ^^

[@sinkeo789phommachack9]

Thanks for teaching how to sing high note

[@Keigen12]

YES, FINALLY ❤️

[@ShadinCore]

hell yeah, human bean returns!

[@isis1762]

Thanks you’re definetly the best !!

[@zero_zero107]

is throat soreness normal while practising this? I have a wierd feeling in my throat that i woudlnt really describe as pain.

[@AlikiKatriou]

Yes, soreness is normal. Be lazy to begin with, and don't do more than 1 minute per day. Give your body some time to get used to it :)

[@soniabartholomeu9426]

Is it common to have a high larinx during the false fold distortion?

[@AlikiKatriou]

Yes, it is common. It will affect the tonal quality/timbre of the distortion, so depending on your goal it might be something you want to keep or change :)

[@alexanderctrial1]

"A mouse at a dinner party". Brilliant!

[@AlikiKatriou]

Ah, yes, I love thinking of mice in costumes with singing... XD

[@TheShmrsh]

Hi! Would you be able to explain somewhere a tecnique of harodcore type of scream ? (cult of luna for example)

[@AlikiKatriou]

So it's a more compressed false fold distortion. Meaning the vocal folds need to be closer together than they do for death/black etc. Then, you'll probably need to keep the volume of your clean vocal folds relatively high and go for a light activation of the false vocal folds, which is going to sound heavier than it is because everything else in the larynx is going to be a bit closer together...

[@TheShmrsh]

@@AlikiKatriou i actually struggle to squeze sound of clean vocals through false fold distortion since i been practicing black \ death style of sound from the beginning only

[@AlikiKatriou]

@@TheShmrsh Aha... Ok, so work in reverse: rather than squeezing clean sound through distortion, start clean and then try adding the lightest distortion you could possibly do. Keep the clean volume high so the false fold doesn't have the chance to overpower the cleans.

[@TheShmrsh]

@@AlikiKatriou yep i did exactly that and it clicked , but whilst trying it i almost deid lmao

[@AlikiKatriou]

@@TheShmrsh Hahaha, good. Dying isn't good. That being said, it's a very different coordination. Your challenge now is to do that and, over time, use less air pressure underneath it and maybe bring down the volume a tiny bit so it's more sustainable and you don't die. (It will still need to be on the loud side but not maximum volume eventually)

[@manuelmucignat6820]

i read that combining your false cord with your falsetto is really dangerous, so i was a bit scared to try this but since you are doing it i assume that there is a way to do it safely?

[@AlikiKatriou]

Oooo, interesting, any idea where you read it? Was it more of an opinion thing, or are we talking about research? I have been combining false folds with falsetto for almost 20 years at this point in my life (I'm 34)... I see no working hypothesis for why it would be problematic, based on my knowledge of the larynx...

[@geoffreycheuvart9228]

thank you for your video :-)

[@AlikiKatriou]

thank you for your comment ^^

[@kalmodoom]

Awesome! Thank you!! \m/

[@TheShmrsh]

so to do good lows i need sing my lowest (E2) in falsetto?

[@AlikiKatriou]

I would say the most common false fold "lows" are on a D4 in death metal, you have some A3/B3 stuff in deathcore and the lowest fundamental pitch I have heard is a B2 on Slaughter To Prevail's Demolisher.

[@TheShmrsh]

@@AlikiKatriou yeah , the tone makes all the diffrence, not the actual lowness of pitch

[@TheShmrsh]

@@AlikiKatriou btw how you measured Shikolai's pitch ? lmao

[@AlikiKatriou]

@@TheShmrsh yup ^^

[@AlikiKatriou]

@@TheShmrsh I just listened to the song and listened to his pitch. The more you consciously practice distortions, knowing the pitch you're on and what you're doing, the more you'll start to hear what pitch others are singing on.

[@privilegium9280]

D oyou have aspereger?

[@privilegium9280]

I'm sorry for being indiscreet, your content is amazing.

[@AlikiKatriou]

@@privilegium9280 Not that I know of, to be honest.

[@ryanlewy9544]

There is am imtermediate now? 😱❤ Thought i'd have to sing quiet screams for forever

[@AlikiKatriou]

XD

[@marcelloestemiele]

Isn't the breath distortion dangerous for the true vocal cords?

[@aix83]

It always depends, but I can do that regular false cord distortion they use in mongolian throat singing without any true cord engagement. If they're not touching, they're not getting any wear.

[@marcelloestemiele]

I did the breath distortion for a year because i thought it was false cord scream but, when i was working only on that sound, my falsetto range was decreasing even after two songs. Mongolian throath singing no problem for me too

[@aix83]

@@marcelloestemiele Okay, so I'll talk about me just in case it helps. None of the low distortions involve my true cords, regardless of how irregular the sound is. The high pitched false cord screams do start bringing together my true cords, and this seems true to an extent no matter what I do. The more tired I get, the sloppier my open throat technique, and the faster it gets worse. To me it feels like the high pitched distortion (black metal) is bringing everything physically very close together, so it's really hard to isolate the false cords. This may or may not be a technique issue. However, and it's a big however. I worked on strengthening my thyroarytenoid and cricothyroid muscles (now working on the lateral cricoarytenoids) and I can close my vocal cords even if the mucosa at the surface is a little stressed (and it's making me hoarse). When I get hoarse, I drink a hot drink, I eat, I rest 15-30 mins, and I'm good to go again. The better my muscles got in time, the less damage I seem to be experiencing from this (shorter rests, and longer singing without losing range). But I highly recommend getting an hour with Aliki to see if she can give you personalized advice. Maybe there is a way to do this without any true cords engagement whatsoever. She would definitely know it.

[@marcelloestemiele]

Thank you very much!! I will think about it; Aliki is very good at explaining this stuff!

[@AlikiKatriou]

It kind of depends on how you do things. Anything and everything can damage your true vocal folds and anything and everything can be perfectly sustainable and cause no harm. People tend to struggle with 2 primary issues. They either squeeze the true vocal folds too closely together, in which case they would need to learn a correct breath distortion (basically part the true folds so that air leaks out rather than pushing more air to blow the folds apart). Or they devoice completely, have no true fold engagement/light false fold engagement, in which case they would need to work on Mongolian throat singing in order to really target the ventricularis muscle on the false folds and balance this with true fold activation :)

[@satuhamalainen8903]

Jess!!!

[@kovokkovariki]

Thank you, human being. I don't know if this is going to be a cause of chortles or ANATHEMA PER SECULAE SECULORUM!! As I nervously fix the wrinkles on my fancy dinner mouse attire: Inhale screaming: no way to make it safe?

[@AlikiKatriou]

I have nothing against inhales. I have heard all the badmouthing etc and all I can say to that is "show me research". All I can find on inhales is how they are positively used in therapeutic settings and the benefits they can generate for more efficient vocal fold vibration. As long as you're also checking in with some exhaled sounds, go for inhales all day long! The key with inhales is the same as exhales: find the right amount of air. What is the least air you can make that sound on? Singing is about discreet, micro coordinations, not big walrus breaths :P

[@kovokkovariki]

@@AlikiKatriou I used to do some inhale screaming back in the day but... well... that same badmouthing kept me from pursuing that technique. Further research is needed, I guess...

[@DonkeyScourge]

Bro I've never falsetto'd or cleared my throat 💀

[@AlikiKatriou]

'Tis never too late to start XD

[@mr.san9man123]

Freddie Mercury girl, you amazing

[@apositron84]

Did Freddie sing death metal? I must've missed that album.

[@to_boldly_roll]

@@apositron84 Thank you! 😂😂

[@kamenboneff2270]

I've never looked forward to becoming a mouse when I get home! Well now I

[@AlikiKatriou]

Always good to have something new to look forward to :P