Saturday, May 22, 2010

Emo screaming?

ok.. i know it isnt just SCREAMING! i know you need to breath, and sing correctly.... but think of afi, or hawthorn heights


how exactly do you even begin to scream? im just wondering.

Emo screaming?
1.) Decide whether you will have a low, mid, or a high scream. This is not decided by your regular speaking voice. If you have a low voice, for example, your scream will be louder, and more powerful. If you have a higher voice, your scream will be quieter, and not as powerful. Listen to different bands and find a scream which you believe is in your scream range.





2.) Warm up. Go up and down a simple 5-note scale, the same old boring 5-note scale used in just about every choir as a warm- up, but do it on 'ga.' Make sure that you do it from all parts of your throat, it will make different sounds when you switch parts. This is more of a mental warm-up. It trains your body to accept the potentially harmful feeling on the vocal chords while making a raw sound.





3.) Sing the sounds of the vowels-- Eh, Ee, Ah, Oh, Oo --on that same 5-note scale, except every time you pass by, try putting a little raspiness on one of the vowels. Try pulling the sound up the back of the throat and through the nostrils, making it a more nasally sound. This trick will save your vocal chords. At first this exercise will make you sound like you're in pain, and you just might be, if you don't do it correctly.





4.) Pour your heart and soul into a song just like you pour your body (vocal chords) into it or else it won't sound sincere. It's an attitude thing, it makes 100% of a difference if you mean what you're singing and put emotion into it. This also helps with using your diaphragm, since you will most likely use it to emphasize mostly everything already.
Reply:Don't begin. It takes years of practice, smoking, drinking, not getting enough sleep, listening to bad music.......Yep, that's how I began to scream and look at me! I'm worth more than 10,000 people's lives!


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