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Rock Singing Success

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Training for cry
When going for the shape, I start feeling this muscle strain in the throat. Am I trying way too hard / doing something wrong, or just having those specific weak muscles 😅. Some background to my singing journey: I've been practicing distortion for the past two years semi regularly. Lately I have finally been able to make all sort of great sounding distorted sounds which feel good while singing. The issue still is that I seem to her a bit hoarse due to thick mucus about half an hour after distorted singing even if the singing feels relaxed and not too pushed. I still feel like I need to somewhat push for the initial distorted coordination but am able to relax once I've found it. I am hoping that this "if you feel like you need to push, cry more instead" approach could solve this!🤘
1 like • Mar 2
@Draven Grey thanks for the reply! I've noticed there is some tension to what I was doing in the video clips. When doing the distortion exercises a bit longer, I feel like I can change the way the distortion happens and it feels a lot more relaxed, more like letting go than forcing into it. Also once this happens, I seem to be able to transition seamlessly from distorted singing to "atonal" screams and back. This feels like the less compressed shape that you mentioned. I think you have made a distinction between the compressed distortion and this "fry" distortion. Is the difference to use false folds to hold back air for compression, or add the "witches cackle/fry" over clean tone?
1 like • 25d
Hi @Draven Grey I finally remembered to revisit this after a few months of trying to get the distortion more relaxed and consistent. I think you mentioned in one of your videos that one way to get to the distorted singing is to start with the fry scream and add a lot of cry to that to flip from scream to voiced distortion. Here is my demonstration of that. Another way that I found to make the distortion more relaxed is to sing the clean and relax the closure a bit to get to a bit of fry. Then activate the smokers voice into that with a good support to get the distortion. I think I picked up this method from one of Chris Liepe's videos but you may have discussed it in some of your videos as well.
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Valtteri Lipsanen
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Discovering distortion and screaming. On third year.

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