it sounds to me like you're trying to directly activate your false cords. For direct activation, I suggest you try it with Kargyraa throat singing. See if you can get it so that the distortion is consistent and comfortable. Then you can play around with different vowels and syllables. Make sure you understand good breath support first.

@Draven Grey Does the hyoid focused close give you the option to do a high-level constriction engagement (constriction near top of throat), broad based constriction engagement (takes place slightly lower in the throat - not too low or it will compete with the true cords and tickle) and low level constriction (even lower in the throat) engagement? Chris Liepe says there are the three types of constrictions available. High level engagement is for what what someone like David Coverdale or Ronnie James Dio or Janis Joplin used. Broad based is like what Chris Motionless, Oli Sykes, Sam Carter or Howard Jones use on a lot of their heavier more screamy type distortion though they use high level constriction on lighter grit parts and then low level constriction is like for the deathcore style distortion. At least that's what I gather from having studied Chris' tutorials. The ability to narrow the throat or cause constriction at these different places along the throat make these different styles of distortion possible according to him.

Oh good. Distortion is kind of confusing to me. You say to start with a sort of what sounds kind of like airy sounding fry. Is adding that fry and the airy sound it makes a stylistic choice....or a thing you just gotta do for safety? OK..this video you posted reminds me of a good example that relates to this a lot. Matt Heafy in Trivium at first made his distortion where you didn't hear that airy fry and it sounded hard and aggressive and good. But he said it blew out his voice. So Matt went to a vocal coach and said he was taught a safer distortion. He started using a distortion where you always hear that airy fry sort but to me...it muffles the note. It's less badass sounding, The new way he does, you hear a lot of the airy fry sound you say to start with. To my ear...it muffles the notes Matt sings with distortion now. The old way he made distortion, I didn't hear the airy fry I now hear sort of muffling his distorted notes.. Matt Heafy's vocal coach taught him his more airy newer more muffled sounding distortion for safety but the Trivium fans, most of them anyway, like the dangerous way he first used and Matt says he might try the old way again because he is stronger now and he likes that sound better too, I think. Sorry this is long, but I do have a question - - - -Is starting distortion by making the airy fry a sound style choice....or a necessary thing you suggest everyone does for safety? I really like the sound you get at 1:04 in the video you just posted.....Are you using the airy fry there but for some reason I don't hear it or I barely hear it? Maybe you're using it but using less of it? I like it that example because I don't hear the note being muffled. Then at 1:08 in the video you say "up here" for a higher note and in that example, I do hear the airy fry you suggest to start with that to me sort of muffles the note. It's a different sound and good in its own way but I prefer the type of distortion sound you make at 1:04. If you could explain a little about this, whenever is convenient for you, that would be great :)

Hey everyone, I'm Kenny. Right now, my big thing is wanting to get better at singing so that I could record an EP and probably eventually get in a band. The time when I began to want to be a rock singer....I think it was like 2 years ago being frustrated with the guitar that it's not as expressive as a lead vocalist can be. I wanna be able to be as expressive as I can be, with my voice, whether it's metal music or something more mellow. The thing holding me back...well it's 2 things really..clean singing is not too hard but distortion is confusing to me. So that's one. The other, i would think, is that I love the idea of singing for an audience but the reality of actually doing it...I don't want to feel shy about it, I don't like the feeling of being shy.