emptyparadigm wrote:vidret wrote:how does anyone manage to scream for more than 10 minutes without sounding like a chainsaw trying to talk afterwards? i know i should've done practice AFTER work.
1) Practice
2) Make sure you're doing it right. It's hard for me to articulate, but there's a way to scream and your voice is fine afterwards. It took me a while to hit that point.
3) Honey and room temp water.pelliott wrote:In addition to proper warming up and practice, find your range and I wouldn't recommend trying to emulate any vocalist in particular. It's really easy to shred your vocal cords in a few minutes just by trying to go outside of your natural range. With practice you might increase that range but it's going to be limited, especially at first.
Also, this. I hurt my voice pretty badly trying to do low vocals a couple of years ago. Turns out I have a high scream and that's it.
http://www.melissacross.com/home.php
guitarist/singer in my band (not doom, but lots of scream-y stuff) used to fuck his voice up after almost every gig, which was a pretty huge damper since at the time we were touring a few months out of the year. he took a few lessons from melissa and did the warmups religiously (every day even if we weren't playing) for a long time and it completely changed the way he sings/screams. he doesn't lose his voice anymore and has way more control in general. it's just like anything else, like emptyparadigm noted - points 1 and 2 are crucial.
