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When I lower the volume while compressing, I sound like a grandpa... Any advice ?

Christina Aguilera’s voice has the most varied distortion sounds I’ve ever heard in a single singer. The level of colour selection that woman has is absolutely unbelievable 🔥 She does growl, rasp, grit, breathiness, fry and mixes all of them on demand. A lot of people don’t like it because she uses it on genres that are unusual for those sounds, but I like that she goes full on rock and doesn’t give a damn about it. I’d recommend watching her live rendition of “Beautiful” at CNN Heroes from a few years ago: it’s a masterpiece of vocal distortion while an orchestra plays behind her.

That's the difference between push and apoggio

Just listen to the star and play house of the rising sun.. There is a reason there are stars

I'm so happy to learn these things. Exactly what i need 😊

I love it when someone says something so casually and it’s a massive lightbulb moment for me. When you mentioned that the false chords are the muscles that help out with swallowing, I reflexively swallowed and I felt the squeeze. I mean …. Total “duh” moment, but I’d never actually FELT my false chords so clearly before. Immediately I was able to follow along with the exercises and purposely engage those muscles. Definitely a bit of an odd sensation, but I know by now that just doing a few minutes in my regular practice will have me being able to call on them in no time. It’s astounding how quickly our brain dials into these teeny tiny little muscles in our vocal tract. You can go a lifetime never being aware of them at all but as soon as you “find” them, your brain creates that feedback loop IMMEDIATELY. So awesome. Thank you so much! What fun 😃

Isn't this arytenoid rattle? Etta James and Brenda Lee are definitely using arytenoid rattle in these clips.

Hands down some of the best instruction I've seen on RUclips. Thank you!

Kurt, thanks. Do you recommend any resources we can use to go deeper on this?

Wow what a great mental tip to set up the pitch instead of jumping into it!!

Kurt, you are the best instructor I've ever come across on RUclips. I've thought that this kind of vocal distortion was simply inaccessible to my voice and after watching this you've reignited my imagination of what I'm able to achieve. I feel like doors are opening to me the more I watch your content and wish I lived in NYC to come to one of these sessions.

So good. Thank you!

I need help with this. I can add rasp with no effort in middle or low notes, but it's impossible for me to do it with high notes, when I'm in my mix o head voice my throat opens and I only can make strong and connected sound, but totally clean. For example, I can add rasp to the whole sentence "devil always makes me think twice", but it's imposible for me to add it in the second long and high "deeeevil", my throat opens and I can't keep my folds together. Is there any way to practise to achieve this? Thanks!

This is beautiful. It's still imperative to watch the whole video to avoid pitfalls and to interpret everything going on in the first 3 seconds, but after that, you have all you need right there as soon as you hit play.

Hi love your video's but i have one question.is this the same as growling like beyonce and Christina Aguilera do?

Can this be done in a light mix, or head voice? If I try it on a G4 (for example), I feel like I need the body of the vocal cords engaged, and not just the output edge of the cord (head voice).

I love this because it dispells the confusion of distorted singing being loud. Is this an effect that can be applied to the head dominant side of mix?

Just keep that tongue down mate. 🤣

Kurt, thank you 🙏 Beste Grüße aus Deutschland 👋

YES! I was so looking forward to part two all week and you did not disappoint. Nicely detailed info and simple approach. Thank you for this Kurt.

Kurt; this video is a masterpiece! Thank you for all the time you put into this. Love it!!

He’s perfect 😭❤️😍

I guess I'm going with little Michael then

for real.

Me who can't sing at all: Yeah, that's true, yeah.. ok. Oh! I see, I see. Ok..

Even this dude sounds better than the original unless the mixing<?> was just bad. Part of why Isaa Corva's cover is pretty much my assumed perfect combination for the song. Wish EDEN or Stephen had a cover of it.

Would I be correct in saying that without first mastering vocal cord adduction, everything else subsequent is going to be a bit tricky? 😬 If so, how do I master vocal cord adduction? 🤪

I really wish I could have a singing teacher, in theatre school I was coached enough to have a passable, not unpleasant to hear voice, but now I hear myself so flat on too many notes & with all the surgery my breath is all over the place & my diaphragm appears to have taken an extended leave of absence.

Evan Phillips should not throw a single pitch with anything less than a 5 run lead.

Wow watched several videos and got it immediately from yours ty

Amazing... I love a free class count me in

Thanks

Beautiful ❤

awesome tip on the volume flex, thanks

Cant do this exercice well, the mamama feels so shacky and wobbling. Yours is so smooth and sounds easy. I have the same problem when singin high notes with compression in songs like lewis capaldi for example, it sounds like a crying grandpa... Even when lowering the pitch a bit. Any tips with this issue ? Thanks for your work and very helpfull content.

Appreciate this breakdown. Always gotta remind myself how it goes cause I let it get away from me sometimes at gigs

Cant beat George Jones version. This version is just a show

you have to be an angel to sound like this

Breathy .. i can think of only one song.. father figure.. by George Michael...

Great video. Thank you. I subscribed 🎶🎸🖤

eeyyyy...wow❤🎉

Best Coach ever❤ made it!

Been watching these videos and can already tell this will help me a lot as someone who is very analytical about my singing. It’s hard for me to “feel” something and replicate it without knowing how it should work first

Trying to understand this

Fabulous workout ! Thank you Kurt

Faltou as legendas

Your videos are so good! Being in Australia I can't get to your classes unfortunately. If you have any more vocal distortion exercises please please share a couple of them. I watched your Teddy Swims video as well but I can't seem to get the distortion happening. I tend to flip or just sound super squeezed, minus any distortion.

Loved the breakdown of vocal distortions! Super helpful for beginners! 🔥The ‘Mum’ exercise is also so effective! True vocal technique segment was pure gold. Thank you for making this video.

Just found your channel singing for 17 yrs .. Muscle memory refresher always good

That vocal technique sounded like a chorus!