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4:38 pm
September 2, 2014
OfflineOk guys, a very specific topic.
I have no troubles adding grit on chest voice, but when i want to put it on mixed voice, i just end up belting and not being able to maintain the mixed voice qualities.
I recently found a way to add grit without losing the blended qualities of mixed voice. Yet, it works only in the very high range.
It is quite loud so i had to leave my flat and did it in an empty building.
This is a poor Bruce Dickinson impersonation, i don't even know what i am singing
but you got the idea :
https://app.box.com/s/2oqqd6vq8mlsqu0v8ioz
Is it how it is supposed to sound?
Is there a way to have this distorsion coming earlier in mixed voice, like for instance on A#4 or B4?
I can't really nail it if it isn't really high pitched, or it really sounds strangled.
4:49 pm
September 8, 2014
OfflineIt sounds good to me quentin but I'm just listening as a listener listening to someone sing a song...not as a teacher critiquing technique. As a listener it sounds good. I have no insight on your questions...sorry. But I am interested in hearing responses from those in the know. I add grit to my singing often but normally it is a much lower range. For me it's more "rasp." On occasion I do use it for higher notes like falsetto. However no matter how I use it I would never be able to explain it. That is what makes me interested in reading responses. For me it is just "imitation of sound." Like I was a child playing and making believe i was a monster or an animal or something. I just make sounds and apply them to pitches and melody. But there are some songs where I do falsetto type of grit or rasp where I somehow use my nasal passages to do it. It's very nasal somehow. I couldn't explain it. I use it in a Ray Charles song I do (on my youtube channel) called "Drown In My Own Tears" as well as some Joe Cocker songs...Feeling All Right" for example, among others.
"It's not how many notes you know. It's what you do with them."
5:10 pm
September 2, 2014
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September 8, 2014
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August 19, 2014
OfflineYou're starting to get it Quentin. Remember I told you that it seasons over time. You couldn't do this before. Now it's showing up. You're doing great.
Mastering glottal compression is where it's at for this.
I have some exercises I can show you when we train together next. Doing extremely long scales on a single breath at max power develops this really good. What you are looking for is to roll up as much weight as you can with as little breathiness as possible. If it gets too breathy you will hurt yourself.
Keep doing what you are doing and it will come more and more.
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