when did your voice come to fruition?

FinsburyParkCarrots

Originally posted by digster
Something I've been wondering; I have been working on my Vedder wail, and I wonder...when you go for that rock and roll scream (see...I don't know...Save You I guess or whatever, you know what I mean), do you tend to go up really high straining your voice, or do you stay lower but just kind of growl/scream it? I mean, I'm no master with the high notes, but when I do it lower, it never seems....I dont know....sincere. How do you work on this section of singing, what do you do?

If you're living somewhere that doesn't appreciate you raising volume and trying for upper reaches of your vocal range, and if you haven't a big enough room a big to sing in, go out a couple of miles and shout in a field. I'm serious. Salif Keita built up his roar herding cattle in the country; if you live in a more confined space, invest in a walk out a few miles and test your volume. If you're not classically trained and you sing according to emotion (like me), the way to find out what your voice can do is to get miles away from everyone and sing into the wind when it's making you a bit breathless. Fight it and get breaths to sing from the gut when you can. If you can do it, you'll sing those notes from the soul and always have a resource to sing more.

69charger

http://www.voicelesson.com/html/lessons/free_lessons.htm

Whole bunch of great lessons from Steven Tyler's voice coach. Don't buy the video though. Not worth it.

Lucimara

I put any Soundgarden's CD (or Audioslave, or Temple of the Dog, or solo) , put the volume on the last level and I sing together. My voice isn't equal like the Chris Cornell's voice, but it's a start...

digster

DAMN IT.

I really want to sing Grievance so bad, scream it from the rooftops, but every time I do, I crack notes left and right, and I sound so damn insincere. That really sucks, because this song just hits me right in the gut.

It sucks not being able to be a punk rocker :-(

AndyManderson

I was in choir from 6th grade until i graduated high school. I only missed making the texas all-state choir by 1 place. I never really had any training though. I just went to class and sang. I never did have much of a rock voice though. I started smoking when I was 16 and when I turned 18 and could legally buy cigarettes I started smoking way too much, and it started making my voice a little rougher. That's when I really started liking my voice. I could sing more rock type songs and sound good instead of trying to sing a rock song and sound like I'm singing in a church. Also I would just drive around in my car and sing at the top of my lungs to really get the feel for my voice how I wanted it(I got lots of weird looks from other drivers doing this though). I am definently not teling you to start smoking though, that would be stupid. It's a bad habit and if you don't smoke you shouldn't start. It's just what made my voice more appealing to me. In a few more years it'll probably get horrible though, hah.

given to jam

Originally posted by digster
DAMN IT.

I really want to sing Grievance so bad, scream it from the rooftops, but every time I do, I crack notes left and right, and I sound so damn insincere. That really sucks, because this song just hits me right in the gut.

It sucks not being able to be a punk rocker :-(

i'm with ya on that one. i try to sing grievance all the time, but i still can't do it well for the life of me.