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Learning to growl/scream.

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ViolentDove:
Learn the Kargyraa style of throat singing. Then you can impress your friends and destroy your enemies with harmonic overtones and undertones.

Quote from some guy: "This style can also be described as the howling winds of winter or the plaintive cries of a mother camel after losing her calf."

Thrillho:

--- Quote from: KharBevNor on 01 Nov 2007, 15:34 ---Well, for practical tips, it would really help to know what SORT of screaming you want to do. You mentioned hardcore, and that's basically just shouting, unless you're referring to something different. The type of screaming basically depends on where you vocalise, if that makes sense. Classic death metal screams come from the back of the throat, up top. Black metal vocals come from way deeper down in the throat, and employ less technical aspects: you really just scream until you start coughing up blood, then you drink some more. Or at least, you do if you want to avoid the cookie monster. Piq squeals come from practically up in the nasal cavity. The real trick is simply to practice. Most people, if they did a proper death metal growl, would probably start coughing or maybe even throw up*. A lot of people never do proper growls, and there's lots of ways of faking up the sound (for example, putting massive overdrive onto whispers can sound a lot like the real thing. I'm reasonably sure that's what Brendon Small uses to do Nathan Explosions singing voice in Metalocalypse).


*I've seen this happen.

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I had presumed, or at least hoped, that hardcore wasn't just shouting because:
 - I know that can ruin your voice.
 - Henry Rollins has been screaming like that for 26 years and it doesn't seem to have done him any major harm, suggesting to me that there was a technique.

I think it is the higher pitched, more throat/nose based one I'm thinking of. Honestly, I don't want to growl like the guy from Machine Head, but being able to do that too would just be helpful for future reference. I think the current vocalist from Killswitch Engage is the best example since he seems to sit between the two (End Of Heartache features him delving into both, sort of), and yet can sing as well. I don't want to learn to growl or scream at the cost of my singing voice, because I've worked my ass of to get where I am and I'd sooner be another simpering James Blunt than piss away my voice just so I can cover 'Six Pack' for a room full of phoney edgers.

Kai:
There is a big section on one of Henry Rollins' videos where he talks about how much the screaming fucked up his voice and how he went to this voice doctor (that Michael Bolton went to) and the doctor was AGHAST


so uh

good luck!

a pack of wolves:
Rollins really does just shout though, from everything I've read proper screaming like that bloke from Killswitch Engage does won't screw your voice up as long as you generally look after your voice and use common sense. I know a few people who've been screaming in bands for ten or so years and they don't experience any problems.

valley_parade:

--- Quote from: DynamiteKid on 01 Nov 2007, 16:41 ---I think the current vocalist from Killswitch Engage is the best example since he seems to sit between the two (End Of Heartache features him delving into both, sort of), and yet can sing as well.

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Yeah, but they've sucked horridly ever since he joined the band.

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