Vocal Fry Tutorial II - How to control your vocal fry - Vocal Distortion Tutorials by Aliki Katriou
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- Опубликовано: 12 сен 2024
- The second tutorial in a series about vocal fry distortion. This video focuses on developing and achieving vocal fry through a breath shift rather than squeezing your true vocal folds.
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I'm a metal singer and singing teacher. I specialize in distortions - what people would call false cord, vocal fry, screaming, growling, grunting, grit, rasp, yelling. Basically, vocal texture!
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I've watched A LOT of "how to scream" type tutorial videos on RUclips, and I must say that you are a wonderful teacher. I was losing hope that I would ever find a teacher that explains the techniques in an easy-to-understand what that makes sense to me, but you've given me a second wind to give another go at learning fry and false chord techniques. Thank you. Keep em coming. Oh, and congrats on your new album.
Thank you ^^ I'm really happy with the album :D Also happy that you haven't lost hope ^^
Sooo true
Can we all just agree that she’s a genius?
*ultimate dork stare* woop woop!!
Yes! 😎
Fellow voice teacher here! I just wanna say I really appreciate your channel! My training is pretty much exclusively in classical voice, so to have a resource like this helps a LOT whenever I have a student interested in voice genres outside of the classical realm (so like allll the time!!!)
Yay! Hello, good voice teacher :D My foundation is classical singing and it took me years to learn how to navigate information on more contemporary styles, distortions etc. There is so much information out there and it can be difficult to know what is what XD
You're a unique, stand-alone teacher. Your exercises give us so much self-awareness of any issue we may have in our own voice. That's the key to great vocal tuition.
🤗🤗
This must have been the cutest lesson ever
why do i relate to the random noises? 😅 I love this, you really helped me figure out what to do. I couldn’t figure out how to do it AT ALL but could do false cords perfectly fine! I also dont want to damage my voice because I sing more than just screaming and want to keep my voice healthy for many many years. thank you so much you’re actually amazing at teaching. i love when teachers can make it so easy by describing how it feels.
XD I don't know, but I also relate to the random noises that others make in life XD
I love the way you explain. Thank you, Human being :)
Yay, thank you, human being ^^
1:35 them: “making it slightly risky 😗✌🏻”
me, who also knew what was coming for me: 😗✌🏻
Ok ok ok so i think that feeling of "always needing to be prepared to drop down" kinda openness, might have actually just helped my regular singing voice lol
Hehe, that's good ^^
This is so much fun!
I sound like Kayako Rob Halford. I suck, but I am having such a blast with you, Aliki!
Love your lessons, you take so much pressure off with your way of explaining!
^^ thank you ^^
You know what you're talking about. I enjoy your teaching. When you go into the vocal fry your voice sounds harmonic. I finally understand someone who teaches. I want to hear you sing sometime. You are great
Aww thank you ^^ I don't know where you are but my band Eight Lives Down are going to play at the FEMME festival in the Netherlands end of April XD
Wen is part 3 coming out
Working on it; everything was on hold because my band Eight Lives Down were releasing their album Humans XD
OK what do I search for to know what you know? I NEED TO KNOW WHAT YOU KNOW. xD best singing video I've ever seen, I love singing and I'd love to understand my voice the way you understand yours. And so eloquent and articulate, and fun, wow!
Quickest sub of my life btw
Ooof, where to start... A lot of books, a lot of reading research papers, I trained as a singing teacher at New York Vocal Coaching & then did advanced work with Vocal Process in the UK. I am now training with Vocal Health Education around vocal health. And an attitude of not believing anyone and what anyone says XD
It is so helpful and fun to watch. My favorite teacher !!!
:D thank you!
are you a comedian?
or teaching how to do vocai fry?
i love your facial expressions
from japan
i enjoyed your tutorial
thank you
^^
apparently i have a natural fry when i talk and my voice is deep to the point where my fry range is basically the same as my talking range. upside, its natural to get the fry at low tone and doable at mid. downside, cleaning up takes more focus than taking a test. thanks for the great instructions!
Yup, cleaning up fry for those who speak with a lot of fry or close to fry is tricky but worth it!
What a personality. So beautiful.
I really love your teaching, your personality, and your humor. Thank you for you content!
Thank you :)
Thank you! And yeah, this was the tutorial I was missing, i tried the exercise and realized that I was having problems getting the fry in the head voice, that means I need to practice this!!
It is much harder to get vocal fry in head voice because we tend to use waaaayy more air in head voice :) Don't waste too much time obsessing over head voice; first make sure you figure out the amount of air needed for fry ^^
@@AlikiKatriou Thanks!!!
I love these videos!! Youre hilarious but also helpful!
Aliki thank you! You are the best! More valuable than any vocal coach i know!
awww thank you so much!
Best tutorial I have watched! Really starting to feel comfortable with these exercises. Would love to get some tutorials on how to make my fry scream louder and play around more with the sound🤘🏼
We'll get there as a topic, it's on my list of stuff to do :)
Good to hear!😁
The sound volume for this video was much better, thanks for that! :D
I'm gonna get really good at counting to 5 hahahaha.
:D
I’ve been looking a long time for a great vocal fry coach! Here it is. Thanks.
aww thank you ^^
Now I need a 3rd and 4th lesson! :P
You gave some really useful tips but since I'm a bit "over" this level I am freaking curious to know your approach on how "scream" at a decent volume like Alexi Laiho and other singer who use fry screams!
It's coming up ^^
COB !!!!! \m/ hehehe.
wow this is gold content for screamers !! thank u !
Thank you ^^
I struggled with the power and fullness of the basic fry scream and now I tried to start from falsetto and it was so much powerful! Thanks.:D
yaaaay :D
Thank you very much for this! Really gave me a lot of answers I was already wondering! Fricken loved your teaching style!
aww thank you ^^
Thank you! I found your false chord series and I've been trying to learn. From earlier sources I've been accessing fry via compression but I'm relearning! I love BMTH and Dance Gavin Dance so I've been practicing clean singing before distortion so far to get the right stability.
^.^ Fry via compression is a common strategy and it works for some folks. It does tend to go into a hybrid/combo distortion of fry + false folds, but then again, lots of singers are doing that anyway, so it might be the target sound. Regardless, I hope these videos address some details in more depth and explain the anatomy more clearly XD
These are the best lessons I’ve ever seen explaining this technique in a way that makes sense, can you apply vocal fry to sing with rasp/grit or is that a different technique all together?
It depends on who you're thinking of. If you're thinking In This Moment raspy, yes. If you're thinking Nirvana, no. Raspy singing can be fry based, false fold based or aryepiglottic fold distortion.
@@AlikiKatriou interesting, there’s multiple bands that I listen to that would probably each use a different technique so I would like to learn all of them probably haha. Thanks for responding!
@@reidbuckley7 Yeah, that's kind of where I'm coming from... I listen to so much music and I love all different distortions, so I want to learn/improve everything :)
Oh my god, I've seen so many videos about vocal fry and yours are truly helpful. You're an amazing teacher!
Question: how long and you often should we do these exercice?
PS: Love that energy as well!
You can do these vocal fry exercises for as long as you want. Vocal fry is very low impact on the voice. Just make sure that you can get out of it when you're finished and that you're not frying all over the place XD
Thanks for the tutorial :)
would you consider doing like a "analysis" of vocalist in a way of what vocal style does (e.g. Anders Friden of In Flames or Nergal from Behemoth) use? I am always interested in hearing how they do vocals.
Ooooo, sure. Any specific songs you're really interested in?
@@AlikiKatriou woooh thanks :) For In Flames I would be interested in "Moonshield" because for me the Screaming from the studio version sounds vastly different from the 2004 Live Version (Sticky Fingers) and the 2017 Live Version (Hellfest). I don't have a specific song for Behemoth, however another vocalist who's style I would be interested in is Josh Middleton from Sylosis especially "Leech". :D
@@XxDiZx Awww yay, Sylosis ^^ Ok, I'll check it all out ^^
yeah the both vocal fry tutorials are great .......i saw both and this helped me the most then any tutorial on you tube .thanks for that : ),i wanna know can you make a tutorial on how to sing in whistle register ......plss doo that i think u can explain the best ..
Ah... quick question: are you interested in pure whistle register (aka Mariah Carey) or extended screams in whistle? And, if yes, do you have a particular sound in mind?
Actually i wanna learn to sing notes above C6 and to take upto seventh octave or as high as i can,yeahh i wanna ask you to how to discover the pure whistle voice which mariah carey uses lots of the times and after discovering that how to control that and build that ....and yeahh some vocal exercises that i can do for strengthening my whistle register.
@@musicalchamp2421 Ok, cool, so you're talking actual whistle register. I'll think about it ^^
@@AlikiKatriou HAAHAH sure : ) i am waiting for the amazing tutorial till then : ) ^^
1,2,3,4,5.. OMG! You rock! I finally got it! Tho it is very quiet I finally found it.
Oh it is quiet, that's good, let it be quiet :)
I want her to b my personal teacher suuuuuper sympathetic
XD you can book a lesson with me from www.aliki.katriou.com - shameless self promo :P But really, thank you :)
This is such a help!
Thank you!!! This was definitely worth the wait.
:D
This is incredible! Great descriptions and exercises!
Thank you so much for these :)
How can someone be so Trve and real but also so cute. I love your Videos!!!
:D Just like cats! Super cute and really black metal xD
Super concise, awesome guide through the basics, truly a door for beginners to play around with these weird concepts, tou visualise everything pretty well
Would chance anything one bit
A++ content
Looking forward for new vids
Keep up the awesome work
Thank you ^^
If you ever decided put together a course on beginning singing - advanced with stand alone mp4 exercises / drills. I would buy that in a second you're a fantastic teacher.
I've watched some of your performances as well also fantastic. Thanks for the lessons.
Aww thank you so much! I appreciate that!
You are so cute😂 love the video 🤲
i cant wait for part 3
It's in the works ^^
Have you, by chance, looked into subharmonic vocals? I noticed some similarities in this video, and your level of fry control, I think, would lend itself nicely. And with your ways of explaining things, I think you could make an awesome video on that, were it to take your fancy!
You bet I've looked into subharmonic vocals :D Although if you have any material/books/sites you'd recommend please throw them my way as it isn't the easiest to find resources on. ^^
@@AlikiKatriou only the stuff on RUclips, David Larson and bass2yang. There are a few others I can't think of. That's all I've really found.
@@rapidfire1400 ah ok :) I tend to search for books and references etc - youtube videos are sometimes a bit too free-floating for my taste but I'll check everything out :D
You are brilliant!💗
Thank you!
Very helpful, thank you!
Love this energy! XD
What should happen in my throat when I go for a high vocal fry? I can sing quite "breathlessly" in my head voice but when I try to go higher with fry, my throat simply stops frying. Also, I love your didactic! Thanks for sharing all this knowledge
What should be happening in your throat... In theory, we're trying to maintain the vibratory pattern of vocal fry whilst speeding it up in order to increase pitch. You'll need extremely low air pressure to stay in vocal fry. You'll also need to make the sensation of vocal fry as light as possible low down because that will increase chances of being able to go higher. When we increase pitch we tend to 1) subconsciously increase breathflow and 2) tense the vocal folds. Neither of these things must happen in vocal fry. So, start practising a very ugly, weak, non-breathy head voice that is quiet - think volume 2/3 out of 10.
7:08 😲awesome
exciting stuff!
Hey - you're videos are some of the most helpful I've found so far - thank you so much they are really helping me get underway. Question - I'd love to be able to work myself up to high screams - do I need to be able to hit 'falsetto' notes clean first to be able to achieve them? My melodic range is pretty low and have always struggled to get close to anything falsetto. Thanks!
Hi. Thank you :)
Let's see, it does depend on what we're defining as high screams. What most people call "high" screams, really aren't very high at all. That being said, having clean falsetto notes is just fundamentally useful to every aspect of singing, so if you unlock them or work on that area, it will help everything.
Given that you're on the vocal fry tutorials, you can also reverse the process. Meaning, some people find it easier to get higher in fry than falsetto, and if that's you, you could unlock your high fry first and then add air to start unlocking your falsetto notes in the same zone.
At the end of the day, anything you can do, can help and inform your singing & screaming and the process and journey you take to get there doesn't have to be linear or the most common course of action followed by others :)
Yay!!! It's here!
love it, keep like that
Finally I got the fry a bit, great videso! :) Sometimes you sound like McGonagall :D
Teach us how to add volume to our vocal fry singing/screaming... Pretty pleaseeeeeeeee!!!! : )
Yup, that's coming up ^^
omg it's very helpful . I need more practicing, ❤️
Wow, that profile pic! Getting serious Kingdom Hearts vibes ^^
@@AlikiKatriou 😄 yeah
@@YesJustTia wooohooo ^^
I love your approach to fry stuff :) I’m curious though because NO ONE ever mentions it, even though we’re being gentle and not pushing, when we take the fry higher, are we compressing/supporting it at all like we wild be with singing even a tiny bit or not at all?
Not at all :D Not even a tiny bit. When you see people talk about compressing/supporting etc they almost never produce pure fry; it's always a combo distortion of fry + false fold. This video is about fry because combining fry & false fold increases the risk of injury etc, so if you want to attempt that tone you'll need to be good at pure fry and pure false fold first :)
Aliki Katriou Thank you! You’re the first person to even answer on that one! Very appreciated :) 🤘
hello. excellent tutorial undoubtedly the best I've seen. I do not know what to do because it is very difficult for me to control the air flow, it is difficult for me to fry my voice and when I do it I feel a lot of discomfort and I cannot avoid involving my throat in the process which makes when I try to do it in falsseto is impossible for me.
I agree that controlling airflow is very difficult. I'm not sure what kind of discomfort you might be feeling, but it sometimes helps to think of fry as being a very light, effortless vocal gesture. To begin with, the easiest way to adjust airflow will be simply exhaling a percentage of the air in your lungs. (So inhale normally, exhale 50%, try making a sound, then inhale, exhale 60%, try making a sound etc)
Thank you very much for answering and thank you very much for your advice I will apply it. The discomfort I feel is a slight pain and irritation inside my throat. Greetings from the Dominican Republic
Aliki, you are really a great teacher!
Do you recommend to warm up before fry exercises? And if so, how? :) Thanks a lot :)
If you're going to do these exercises, there's no need to warm up. If you're going to go into a song, yes do a quick 5min warm up. In general, I would say if you go into your falsetto range and siren down, 3 times clean, 3 times going into fry at the end, that should be enough of a warm up :)
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You gonna do something with 8 lives down for oldies but baddies: 90 edition too?
Hehe, not for now, we're a bit rushed off our feet prepping for our album release on 5th September :D
Aliki, I am 63 years old and I can no longer do any vocal fry. I have also lost about 4 notes in my lower range. Any suggestion for how to et it back?
Ooooo, that's interesting! In theory, as one ages, hormonal levels shift and the male voice loses some low notes, the female voice loses some high notes and we slowly all head towards similar vocal ranges. That being said, you're still young but the changes are most likely hormonal. The first thing I would suggest would be to find out whether your low range is the same when your tongue is inside your mouth VS hanging on your lower lip, relaxed. From then on, the idea would be that you're trying to sing down low getting very breathy and then not getting breathy at all...
@@AlikiKatriou thank you. I have not heard your suggestion yet. I'll do it.
@@MostlyBlue I hope it works out. Either way, remember to be patient and kind with yourself and your voice! :)
I still get a burn in my throat by using less breath and I don't know why... :( I'd love for you to analyze Parker Cannon on his screams or belts if you will in "Things I can't change" The Story Soo Far
Hey! So when following this guide, in this step I'm supposed to be able to do the counting exercise in my falsetto?
If you can, that would be great but I wouldn't worry about it just yet. The intermediate tutorials are more focused on falsetto work :)
Hi, that's for me:
5:48
6:27
When I was doing the reverse counting starting with the focal fry, on three and four it was kinda stuck at the back of my throat.
I am now realizing that my number 5 always has vocal fry in it
@@LaurenEliseM Yup, increase the volume until you remove the fry :)
You have mentioned that you are a vocal coach. Do you offer private lessons?
Yes, you can book a lesson with me via my website www.aliki.katriou.com :)
I don't have a falsetto range, like I'm physically incapable of going high with my voice, anytime I try It just comes out as a bunch of air. I'm assuming that's a problem but what should I do about that? And is that going to prevent me from being able to learn how to scream?
It won't prevent you from learning how to scream but it would be awesome if we could change that... In order to promote falsetto you'll need to stop yourself from dragging your chest voice upwards. Keep the amount of air you're using as stable as possible and keep the volume medium & stable (so don't get louder as you go up). Let's see if that promotes a flip sooner in your range...
Why does my focal fry cut off when I sing higher? I have a background in singing Bel Canto. Maybe too much upfront diaphragm support? Appreciate your feedback.
My immediate guess would be too much breath pressure underneath the vocal folds. If you're a Bel Canto singer I would say don't support at all (you might need to find how to sing your high range with no support clean first), and keep the quality of your voice very weak and "shitty" (basically don't do a technically good pianissimo)!
@@AlikiKatriou Bless you for the tip! I will try that approach.
Talking about Eric Adams Like screaming. Fry or false chord?
false cord :)
Ok.... so Hetfield in I Disappear. What technique is that? False chords? I'm not interested in singing death metal. Just adding a little growl here and there.
Yes, false vocal fold distortion for Hetfield :)
@@AlikiKatriou I'd love Mr Hetfield to make a video about how he discovered his voice. He always just says things like "I kind of just shouted in tune" and "I wasn't meant to be the singer" and plays down how great his vocals actually are. At some point he must surely have discovered that throat singing type sound and gone "Aha, that's cool! I'm going to work on that!" or someone showed him it... maybe they don't want to give away their secrets, hmm. I just can't believe he suddenly sang the way he does completely naturally without properly working on technique.
I love your tutorials but this is still difficult to comprehend
I would tend to agree. I wouldn't gravitate towards fry with a beginner if I could choose a learning structure...
You should just get familiar with vocal frying before you watch any tutorials on it: it'll make it a lot easier
@@22tfortnitevevo True, then again you can build up fry in different ways. It's a bit different going for pop onsets VS screams VS subharmonic bass singing...
i like her lol
Are you from greece?
Yup :D αλλά δεν μένω εκεί πλέον
🖤 I can do this but nobody knows 😐🤟
Hey aliki when doing the vocal fry too long, once in a week my voice completely looses any „crispyness“? And sounds totally breathy and less energetic, how can i fix that?:D
Oooo, interesting. One option would be to slide in and out of your cleans, starting with your chest voice into fry. If you're moving up to falsetto, spend more time on the falsetto tone and try to make sure no air is escaping (the tone can still be soft and quiet, you just don't want to hear any audible air leaking out). Another option would be to check in with the amount of air you're using and what your abdominal muscles are doing. For fry, you want both these things to be as "switched off" as possible.
Would you say fry and false folds are enough to produce all healthy vocal distortions ? Or is there something else that is used for some kind of grit without hurting?
I would say false folds will probably be 95% of what you'll hear in metal vocals. If you're listening to other genres, you'll hear a lot of breath distortion in rock, epiglottic distortion in pop/musical theatre, some arytenoid rattle in blues, fry in core stuff and maybe aryepiglottic distortion in rock/grunge (but the jury is still out on that one; more research is needed). What genre of music do you have in mind?
@@AlikiKatriou Im thinking more about Russel Allen, Ronnie James Dio, Coverdale, Robert Plant, Chris Cornell and Etta James.
@@Guilhermevphmay Oooo, depending on the song, these people are doing different distortions - especially Etta James! I personally gravitate towards aryepiglottic distortion for the whole Dio, Plant, Allen, Cornell sound at the moment...
@@AlikiKatriou Thanks for the clarification, to me it´s easier to sing the high screams without hurting, but when it comes to mid-high and mid range, it always hurts, I end up on some kind of cookie monster drive that´s probably a badly done false chords, do you teach aryepiglottic distortion as well?
@@Guilhermevphmay Yes, I do :) "Cookie monster" could be false fold or epiglottis - they can both hurt quite a lot >
ive been practicing a bit and my throat is a tiny bit sore is that okay?
If it's happening consistently, challenge yourself to be even lazier and see if you can eliminate the soreness. (general pains, soreness, scratches, tickles, itches etc are common hiccups of trying to learn distortions in the beginning)
Hi how to give not to fry screem?
Could you try rephrasing the question?
For some reason when I do this my throat gets tired after holding it
You might be attempting to use more effort than it needs. Challenge yourself to see how lazy you can be :)
isn't it partially false chord in 1:06?
Nope ^^ 0% false fold there :)
@@AlikiKatriou crazy, thanks ^^
Jesus fucking Christ, I didn't expect that the hardest part would be NOT using vocal fry. It seems that 20% vocal fry is just how I talk in any heighth of my actual speaking register.
Oh yes, this is a whole conversation in itself... It's really annoying when fry is just happening easily but everything isn't kicking in...
hello! what happened to the rocky channel??? I am not updated, can someone lease fill me in???
Hi :) They got shut down and they have started a new channel: RMS Vocal Institute
@@AlikiKatriou thanks so much for answering! Oh ok now I know. Great videos btw!
@@Pikachu-o2j Thank you ^^
It hurts 💔 😢.
Wait, your vocal fry hurts? Are you doing false vocal folds maybe?
1,2,3,4..........100 but i still can't😂
I feel for you, life can be like that... >
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1:48 What's wrong with you?
Am I the only one here who tries to sound like Corpse?