How to Sing wth a Raspy Tone without Hurting Your Voice - Metal, Rock, Extreme Singing - Vocals

[@Kxnnix]

i sound like a sheep. i’m quitting

[@VocalSplendorStudios]

Keep trying! It takes practice.

[@Emily-om6mg]

I mean, so does Stevie nicks.

[@hannasasmitha7562]

Lol😆😆

[@mariadelmar4636]

❤

[@tringtrong8411]

🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@hiuwo]

1:54 fry/ babycry/ alien 3:38 Rattle/ spit 4:53 false cords/ cookie monster

[@MsNoMotiv]

😂😂😂

[@MarMoif]

A million “how to scream” videos and this is the first one that really allowed me to understand the technique! Very effective! Thanks a bunch!

[@sarrystylesofficial]

The best tutorial I’ve found for distorted vocals. The visual ideas also help a ton, like the spitting and the cookie monster. I have to watch this every time I practice scream singing.

[@thecrowuknow]

Actually I have a really clean girly voice and I just learned how to activate my false chord, you can loosen it up and make it work through exercises, the Distortion/Rasp Tutorial/RockyMusicStudio video on youtube is a good starting point, I watched that and some of their other videos for vocal exercises that help with that stuff. I'm having a hard time connecting it consistently to my singing though so I've been watching videos by other people to see if anyone else can explain it better. I think pretty much anyone can activate their false chords because we've all done it before when we are sick, you know when you are sick and you cough a lot and suddenly your cough starts sounding more like a barking seal? I'm pretty sure that's your false chord, and when you are sick, the more you cough, the easier it is to make that sound until you basically just sound like that every time you cough until you heal up and get better. Also, the false chord above the roof of the mouth even though the location of the false chords are in the throat.

[@j.c1574]

This explains why i always liked my singing more when sick

[@gianlucasbarbati]

Connection between cry sound/head voice sound and vocal fry= scream. Good suggestion for teaching!

[@crunchybroll4731]

i tried this and i want to sing like joan jett and ow

[@musiciangal02453]

That's what I want to do as well. I want to cover "Bad Reputation" with my band which I will be singing lead and playing bass.

[@TheDevilsHighway]

I love ur pfp

[@TheDevilsHighway]

And Gerard way in general

[@melodyluvsyou]

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[@fidrewe99]

Joan Jett is doing a totally different thing. What you guys need to learn is strohbass. It appears to be rather easy for some voices and very difficult for others. If people can't help it, it's a sign that the vocal folds are overworked. If it's hard to do, light false chord distortion ("grit") is the technique that gets closest.

[@ViktorJaneba]

Haha, at 2:35 my cat jumped up from her sleep and start searching for something to comfort it. Which means you nailed the sound... cats react to babies crying this way because it is very similar to kitten meowing.

[@kittyscorner3557]

The gargle one you mentioned works best for me. It's one i figured out on my own and it came pretty naturally, but I was always spooked that it was incorrect until now, since all the other videos I've seen this far have only addressed vocal fry and the cookie monster styles. Glad to know that my instincts were alright for the vocal chords. I've been trying the voice fry and it hasn't worked for me great. Something about it just isn't "clicking" so I'm probably going to shift my focus to getting good at the gargle technique since it's sounded better and felt more comfortable

[@deanna04]

Thanks so much for this. I always hurt my voice so bad while singing to skid row in the car and I needed this

[@magicianrexofficial]

Interesting! I have a clean countertenor-like voice. The rasp would come when I wake up or get tired but this was cool! My friend didn't know I could sing like that 😂 I learned it from here lol

[@VocalSplendorStudios]

Yay! ✨

[@greyman7605]

IV been trying to learn how to incorporate vocal fry into speed rapping like some artists do an this actually helped thank you!

[@VocalSplendorStudios]

I'm so glad.It's tough to figure out!

[@lovequba2006]

I’ve been trying to learn this voice for so long! And this helps!

[@rong805]

If you watch Elvis singing in the 68 Comeback Special, he's got that raspy sound. The best example is "If I Can Dream", or maybe "Trying To Get To You". Supposedly though, it was from the constant singing he was doing and his voice was worn out. So is it that, or was it technique?! 🤔🤷‍♀️

[@vanessatignanelli6337]

This took my punk singing to a Hole other level (if you catch my drift) - thank you so much! Fantastic lesson!

[@Rosannasfriend]

What a pleasant surprise! Not only that you have a video on distorted vocals, but that is the best one I have seen on KZbin. You come across like a very clean, singing, operatic type.

[@VocalSplendorStudios]

Wow, thank you! Well, I came to rock singing later in life. I started out in jazz and attended college and sang in a world class vocal jazz choir. And I also sang opera. I think my looks didn't always work for rock because I don't look tough and all. lol Actually I started singing rock when a random drummer found me of Myspace. By then I had been learning how to belt so it was perfect for to get it together. I then started singing and playing keyboards in R&B soul band which was a it more comfortable to me since so much of that music came from the blues. And I randomly met Melissa Cross at the NAMM show in LA. We bonded and she sent me her material on screaming and then the next I took lesson from her. It's not really my thing but I can teach others and that was my goal.

[@soyasokolova7103]

OMG) at last i find my best teacher)) thank you so much)) you're brilliant )) 1 billion LIKES!!!

[@rhondagray8518]

Wish I would have learned this earlier...any idea of how to fix damaged vocal chords.

[@chipmiller4350]

This will help with my Phillip Phillips voice

[@LadyAxe13]

I get a perfect Dio/ CCR rasp when I just sing casually or softly, but as soon as I sing louder, my voice cleans up like an Amy Lee! It is so annoying.

[@yanagood7906]

The example with a baby crying helped me a lot! Thank you for the video, I've subscribed to your channel.

[@Jepysauce]

"'Kay that sounds pretty rancid" I'm fucking dying, you're hilarious. Love your channel.

[@carolphillipsart]

like like like! haha i love your videos.. your awesome! this totally clarified some stuff for me. i hadn't heard about the cookie monster one either. i am not into heavy growls, per say, i don't think my voice can do that.. but it would be awesome for people who are if you could do a vid addressing like how people can more safely do like death metal style grunts and growls and stuff like that? if you know about that. i just think learning about what the voice can do is fascinating!! i wish there was some vids of actual chord footage or what is actually in gauged when people are making all these types of sounds, it would be interesting to see.. like the vid of the ct scan of the lady doing harmonics thats been floating around.

[@rogical4929]

Somewhat informative, it pretty much put a lot of things I was confused about into perspective.

[@evab6420]

Thank yiu for the video. I understand of what you say but I am unsure how to start. Experts talk about taking a deep breath and not letting any breathing out

[@athirahahmad5065]

0 : 07 Hello beautiful coach!

[@maxkaddell]

I think a better example of vocal fry is quiet tibetan throat singing. All that pretty much is, is vibrato on top of vocal fry . I do scales with the vocal fry sound. I imagine it sounds like a dying rabbit, but it doesn't take very long, so I can fit a quick scale in, in between songs. That scale helps me get warmed up for lower and higher notes, and allows me to pick up a rattle at almost any pitch. I find you can almost catapul soundwaves off of it. Say, you've just done your warmup, haven't sung yet, encounter a high note, but can't quite reach it. Wherever I max out, I vocal fry, and continue to the higher notes. Takes some practice, since certain facial expressions and sounds can make a high note hard to hit. Likewise, it is nearly impossible to do disturbed's cover of sound of silence while sporting a massive grin. Edit to add paragraphs and save you from seeing a block of text 😂 Initial the fry was solution for supposed emotionless singing lol

[@Tesh3934]

Please explain how to do the scratch one further. I want to learn it.

[@L33PL4Y]

OH MY GOD, THANK YOU FOR THIS! I bought both Zen of Screaming DVDs and neither helped me figure out how to do what Cross calls the "Marge Simpson," the vocal fry because the first DVD doesn't even touch on screaming and in the second one she very quickly skims over vocal fry and doesn't explain very well how it should feel, where it's placed in the body, or anything that would help a viewer understand how to imitate the technique. I've watched a ton of other people on KZbin try to explain it and none of those helped me, either. But this finally made me understand! When you said it's at the top of your throat, at the palette, the way a baby cries...that is exactly what I needed to hear to finally make sense of how this technique works. When you said how a baby cries I immediately tried imitating the sound of a baby crying and it clicked. YOU ARE A LIFE SAVER! I'm sure Cross is a great one-on-one vocal coach, but her DVDs are virtually useless for someone trying to learn proper scream technique imo without that individual attention. This was infinitely more helpful. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS VIDEO!

[@DapperDobro]

I have a deeper baritone voice, with a 2.5 octave range. I want to add a deep, delta bluesy-er sound to my singing, will these techniques get that classic sound?

[@dondonlumanog9414]

Very very nice idol.

[@nihil1]

First video I watched from your channel and I already subscribed. Fantastic explanation.

[@VocalSplendorStudios]

Awesome! I am so glad this helped you. And thank you for the comment. :)

[@MAY-bm3lh]

I'm currently shocked...wowww

[@WangleLine]

Thank you!!

[@dianaraymond9]

Love your hair!

[@VocalSplendorStudios]

Thank you!

[@ilaila3504]

you didn't explain what you are actually doing in the first rattle, and you didn't explain much about the second one either. You didnt give any serious examples...:-/

[@VocalSplendorStudios]

Hi ila, Thanks for commenting! It's really hard to explain and show how something feels. These rattles are an internal sensation, like most singing technique is. It's not like showing the exact finger position like piano and guitar. My intent is to get you to experiment with some of these variations with a sense of play, like a child does, because that is a key way to finding the feeling.

[@VocalSplendorStudios]

I may be able to expand each of the rattles more in depth in a later video. I do recommend Melissa Cross's material if you want more information. To be honest, it doesn't come easy. All the material out there is just so you can find the feeling using different clues. It took me a while, with lots of practice, to be able to make these sounds consistently. And yes, I actually had private lesson with Melissa Cross, too. Sometimes things can only be taught one on one in a lesson. :/

[@VIDEOHEREBOB]

Val is 100% right. You can be taught these sounds to a point, then it's up to you to configure to them and practise. It takes experimentation and I'll even go as far as to say courage because you can also spin your wheels if you under power sounds like these.

[@madelynne9375]

It’s very hard to put a voice into words, just try your best to imitate her sound as best as you can. I’m self taught in singing, piano and guitar and the ONLY way that I can actually learn from someone else is from examples. So if I’m learning piano, I like to hear someone else play it (cuz I can’t read music) then I just find the right chords and keys and just imitate it. And that’s what I do with my voice.

[@b3ndzso155]

Thanks, it worked!

[@chrisst8922]

Oh I have no problem with noise when I sing. In fact I'm an expert.

[@gabrielstevens41]

I wish I'd have seen this video long ago. I naturally do the cookie monster technique but I didn't know how I was generating it, just that my vocal chords don't really get sore from it.

[@jasonfitnesscaptainmusic8962]

Hi absolutley love your video. Thankyou your beautiful and brilliant!

[@VocalSplendorStudios]

Thank you so much!

[@fidrewe99]

1. fry is nice, but already on the extreme end of the spectrum. 2. is completely useless. Is there any record, where this is successfully applied as a singing style? 3. false chord vibrations are powerful and versatile and cookie monster-style is not a good sounding or healthy way of applying them.

[@jjanssen431]

Ever heard of echoing? Since you came to love the show best singers, i would recommend to listen to og3ne on the same show! They use echoing in the song from er sheeran 'sing'

[@leeeng1199]

My cat is very concerned

[@derek5168]

What if I smoke 🚬 an entire pack of cigarettes before singing ha ha ha 😂 to get a raspy voice

[@leonardoenrico2152]

4:53 😄😄😄

[@Z4444aZa]

I sound like a bird now,thx

[@cheeseyste]

All i have to say is! i am surprised you have not referenced Michael Jackson "come together" that is the ultimate lesson in how to sound "raspy" ?!?! trust me everyone,listen to that song and that will show you how to be raspy x

[@ComplexConfiguration]

why havent you done that and linked us all to the video before this? I am disappointed in you. You kinda suck.

[@utilitydisk]

But I don’t know if when I imitate that sound I hurt my voice

[@Tatzkie725]

Nice video.....

[@austinraymond6883]

Gray fox

[@sofianewville1557]

I'm sorry wtf 😂😂💀

[@naielmusic]

I wanna sound like Michael Jackson

[@dionroberts3743]

Hi I love your videos and I have some singing videos myself on my KZbin and wondering if you would be able to make a reaction video on your channel of one of my singing videos and give your most critical feedback thank you so muchq

[@OVI-Wan-Kenobi-8]

You either naturally have it or you don't, it's not really something you can reproduce without harming your vocal chords, at least long term wise. Natural raspy vocalists include ROD STEWART, KIM CARNES, TINA TURNER, SASS JORDAN, AXL ROSE, BRAIN JOHNSON, JANIS JOPLIN. It's actually very rare for a vocalist to actually have naturally raspy vocals because it requires a certain type of unique vocal chords.

[@pandasinspace8700]

That's not necessarily true. Janis Joplin, for example, sang in a very damaging way. She could barely sing as she got older because of the vocal damage. This video is to show how to mimic the sound in a safe way

[@naielmusic]

Is this the technique Michael Jackson used in his songs?

[@utilitydisk]

Hi have you learned how to make that sound?

[@FrfdjdjdRfff-rw9qd]

Too bad videos like this didn't exist when Axl Rose was in his prime, maybe he would not kill his voice this badly

[@jusskb5]

Anyone wants a great perfect prime example of how to utilize the rasp in your voice listen to Michael Jackson

[@utilitydisk]

May I ask what’s your approach in distortion like M J?

[@fillydaroo]

I’ll tell you if I get it Be back soon

[@_nanashi]

Update?

[@Delusion_Dimension]

I sound like a dying cat

[@kackahavrlantova]

I sound like a dying cat :/

[@sonicstep]

Hmmn.. . Fascinating. 👹

[@sg71717]

Neither one of these techniques is practical, especially the second, which can only be used for high-pitched falsetto screams that 80's metal singers used to do. Vocal fry, on the other hand, can be implemented in the voice but it will never be stablized or controlled. In fact, using vocal fry too much will damage your voice to the point where singing in your mix voice is bound to sound crackly and uncomfortable. The only real way to sing with distortion is by using the false chords, which requires a shit ton of stamina and a lot of control.

[@Silentknight052]

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[@danieljohns7499]

Thanks for teaching me nothing

[@Loveyosoul]

I’m tryna b majinblxxdy wen I grow up

[@rhiansongs]

I’m so happy I discovered this video. This is just want I need! Thank you!