I've been practicing screaming for over a year and I started with one of your videos. I've began a band of my own this year and just wanted to say you have helped me vocally in soooo many ways dude. Yes I've had moments where I've blown my voice out or felt/looked stupid, failed, but all we can do is move forward. I can't believe the sounds I can make and how far I've come and large part of that is due to your guidance. Thank you for what you do Chris, keeping doing it!
oh damn..you taught me so many important things man..i have learned to do crazy growls and screams without hurting myself because you taught me dude, youre the man dont quit..!
I don't keep up with your content regularly, but I took your free course and I watch videos from time to time. I sincerely appreciate what you're doing. You have a gift for teaching and an amazing talent. I have gained many useful tools from your lessons that I've regularly been incorporating into my vocals. I've been singing for a while, but we can always learn more. And I also think it's important to know why we do certain things. You've been a great help. Thank you, Chris!
U sed it, man! What an awesome device that comparison is. Even when people do go or do the exercises - how much focus and maybe more importantly what kind or degree of focus is offered/met - consistently makes worlds of difference. [separates the sheep from the goats] Tis also why the exceptional arent asking questions about results before they have plateaued. [takes more than physically showing up] The true 1% know all about this difference. Cheers, my friend. Carry on!
You have curiosity, you have openness, someone teaching still having a spark in their eye when it comes to learning and curiosity is not a very common thing. You have it. Most teachers just teach without it. That's why I come around to your videos (not too much but way more than others at least)
Awesome Chris tbf I’ve always failed with support n what I learned from that failure is support is not exactly how u make sound yes its where ur energy comes from but what I’m saying is we engage are vocal cords n then use the air in our lungs to support the sound I also discovered that it’s not as much intense push from ur pelvic floor I discovered my support feels the best when I use a reasonable amount of push and with that push I allow my air to travel through my body and it still needs to practise I need to practise it more in order to get it right every time I’ve got it right a few times but I want to make it natural to me so basically I failed many times n tried many things n failed even more n that’s how I discovered how proper support should feel thank u so much
Great message that can apply to just about everything you could ever want to get better at from sports, to visual art, to singing and instruments, literally any other pursuit 🙃
Always enjoying your philosophy and grounded perspective of improvement and motivation. Humble and keeping it real as always, appreciate your positive fortitude thank you very much Chris.
That was me getting ready to tell you to keep going and giving positive reinforcement and such only to find that you are doing the same exact thing in this video. Love & peace.
Very true dude! Sometimes these things just need to be said and restated to keep our motivation up. This applies not only to vocals, but every learning journey we embark upon. You rock Chris🤘🎶🎶🎶
Thank you for this brother Chris! You are a great singer and an amazing teacher. Please keep the videos coming, they are so helpful! Staying relentlessly curious ;-)
You’re takes on music is exceptional! As a vocalist, I was introduced to you via your first MJ video and now I listen to any video you release! You are great!! 🔥
My singing journey is.. yeah it's miserable. Because I haven't learned to fail and learn much based on my own experience. I typed a comment a day ago about how unsuccessful i am in finding out my voice yet again. The day after i realized all these imposter thoughts with stupid explanations - it's not what people think about when really solving a problem - it's usually a waste of time. I'm really willing to take failures in my own hands now and think them through properly, learning from them. Either way I'm really happy I can go on this journey with a great community of other people who are learning to sing and to discover like me.
i follow you for a long time. this is why. you are positive in a way that embraces being confident in your imperfections, accepting, and learning from them, moving forwards. it doesn't just apply to vocals, but a lots of other things in life. keep up the good work chris, i love this video and been loving your whole attitude towards teaching. you were born to be an educator, and i think your channel is massively underrated!❤
This is really awesome. As somebody who's a bass baritone and been working on my voice for 20 years and probably at the best it's ever been in my early 40s this is 100% true. Thank so much for validating my own experience!
This is so true. After I started to stick to therms when learning vocals (especially screams/grit vocals) I've started to get lost and confused. Started to hurt my voice, I was almost sure that I couldn't even do it at all. Then I started to practice by myself, and then I've learned MY way of getting in the type of vocals that I've been trying to get, all I needed was the basics (Breath support, warm ups, don't overshoot, listen to my body and knowing my limits at that moment). And now I can do a lot of screams safely, still trying to get some but I know with time and patience I'll get there. Patience, wisdom and determination is key to basically every goal. And you helped a lot with your content, so thank you so much! Greetings from Brazil ;)
Youre one of the only people who does this very informative content on vocals that has a great voice and can teach it, like i can sing but explaining what im doing or helping someone get there is like a whole different skill that is priceless❤
You said this really well, and though I am sorry to hear that more people struggle with that self judgment than most realize, it is also nice to know I'm not the only one. Samuel Beckett said it well - “Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better” Thanks very much for this video and keep creating!!
I resonate so much with what you said in this video about not getting caught up in technique/terms. At the end of the day, music is a form of creative expression - and the terms are simply a left brain framework created to try and explain what the right brain understands intuitively. There's a John Lennon quote I love: "'[Songwriting]'s very easy... all you have to do is say what you mean, make it rhyme and put a backbeat to it." We get so caught up in how we're doing something, it's easy to forget why we're doing it in the first place - to say what we really feel. (thanks for coming to my ted talk) Anyways, thanks for all the great vocal lessons, they really have helped so much in changing my approach & perspective of singing. I used to be very shy about my voice and thought I was just a bad singer. Just a couple months of following along with your YT videos and doing the free course, I'm dragging my friends out to karaoke and looking for bands to do vocals for lol Take that as a testimonial I guess! Weird as all the noise making can seem, it definitely works - I started noticing the difference in my sound after just a couple weeks.
Your lesson that you just put into 5 minutes can be applied to basically anything, not just singing and vocal performances. Thank you Chris for making this video and I wish you further success in your future career!
theres a saying that the master has failed more than the student has even tried, in my 10 something years of creating music and learning to sing along with it, finding your videos and learning from them (with all the weird goofy super effective excercises only you demonstrate on yt) has been the biggest improvement i've seen, literally feeling like i took many many shortcuts to understanding what singing really is, thank you for your effort and making this easier to understand for everybody looking to learn, easily the best singing lessons on youtube
Hi C.L. ! I'm sure you've worked with, studied, and taught people in many different ways. And over time, you were able to achieve good results with your open, calm attitude. It is often difficult, and you move slowly towards your goal, but you are persistent and you take hold of people, inspire them and help them. I really miss representative people with such an attitude where I live, be it in any part of life. thank you for all the work you do over a few videos. (even though it's hard for me to understand your language, I don't understand the songs, but I still learn from them) May peace and love be with you!
This is probably the most important message for any person trying to learn. If you succeed 100% of the time, you won't learn anything and you won't grow. Improvement comes from challenge, failing, and trying again. It's why I say so much of art is about surrendering yourself and placing your ego aside. Not just for performing, but for creating an exploring. There is no piece of art that is a finished product, because it's up to you to decide when to surrender it from your personal control and privacy, to release it in the world. You, me, and everyone else is just like that too, versions of ourselves are a constant work of art in progress. Never gonna be perfect or finished, cuz that does not exist in a definitive objective sense.
i kinda like these lil motivational blips. i definitely need them lol. i dont even rly work on vocals all that often cuz its not my main focus but i like ya chris 😆embracing failure in anything is good advice that i feel like most people might tend to forget nice to have lil reminders every now and again to draw ur own blueprints instead of obsessing over someone elses
I've never taken one of your classes, but what I will say is that the benefit of your channel, at least to me, is not necessarily that you teach people how to sing, but that you're a thoughtful and intuitive vocal analyst. That's what I see. You analyze what makes vocals as good as they are, and you use that to try to help others, and yourself, become better… I dig your channel.
Ive been in my band since 2017, and I've been bad for years but I still did shows anyway, still learning as I go, and its just this year im starting to get more of a handle of understanding things. These things take time to click, sometimes years especially teaching yourself. You just need to find a reason to keep going and get better and push yourself, hear a variety of techniques, thoughts, approaches and opinions and being patient with yourself, not being afraid to keep going back to the basics and relearn things here and there
Learning how not to do something is just as important as knowing how to do it right. If we never fail we don't know if we're making progress. This is an important message for anyone doing anything. And the beautiful thing is if you keep working at it your failures get smaller and happen less often. So never let the potential for or fear of failure get in the way of doing something, just embrace it as part of the process. (Btw Chris, I sent you an email last week. You may have missed it, I know you're very busy).
Just know this man, because of you I learned how to use my voice, I’m about to release some songs with my new band, which I am the lead vocalist of, and it’s all thanks to you, without you I would not be where I am. Literally no one else has taught me the way you have, and you’re the best, thank you so much
Oh, you had me worried for a second there. I've learned more about singing from you than any other human on this planet, mainly because you give us that encouragement to fail and learn and fail and learn...
the only real failure is to not keep trying. you can give up temporarily, but never permanently. As then you can't improve at all! I believe in all of you ❤
Maximum respect, Chris. There is no "true" knowledge; each new piece of learning, and progress, should mainly serve to refine our understanding of our "ignorance" about the subject. If we can humble ourselves in the face of that, there is no limit, just a continual journey
lifelong musician, done plenty of live backups when not drumming, some while I was. Lots on records. Singing lead TERRIFIES me. I tried it a couple times after watching your videos and maaaaan. Even alone in my office it's just . . . hard AF. I've always had MAD respect for vocalists, shit is TOUGH. I took one of your courses, and put up a little video - and actually got some decent feedback - nobody liked it, but I was compared to a couple singers, it has me trying harder. You mentioned how it feels in the video I watched as well, and so I started paying more attention, and thus started making progress. Thank you! I still can't even sing to my cat, but I'll get there.
True sometimes the click bait is necessary though in order for us to hear what we need to hear. If he put what the video was truly about in the title then most wouldn’t even look at it.
It's how the "almighty alg0r1thm" works. Unless you're either fine with not getting potential viewers or have a HUGE channel ("tens of millions subscribers" level), it's almost unavoidable nowadays.
@@chrisliepe You did fine dont stress it at all. I get it and i honestly think you're the best Vocal coach on YT. Don't hate the player hate the game. You deserve views just based off of the content imo
Nah, I'd rather learn from someone who got everything right the first time 😜 . You've helped me get over more than a few plateus and enjoy voice again. Appreciate you.
Great message Chris, it's reassuring to know I'm not the only one that has to battle impostor syndrome every fucking day haha but you're right , as artists we don't have to let fear of failure become bigger than the excitement of curiosity
Ego is never satisfied but “love never fails”. Honestly..., would you rather listen to someone coming from the heart or one who is a slave to technique. There is no failure, there’s only growth.
I have just been told I can't hit a high note in a song I am trying to sing. But I want to carry on failing that note. There is a part of me that wants to continue to fail hitting that note till I learn how to hit it. Thanks for the encouragement to keep failing but learn from it
"failure affords you the opportunity to learn, by forcing you to seek nuance" This is my quote, ive worked on. I was lucky enough to learn this as a child. I have ASD+ADHD and my first obsession since I was a kid, was electrical engineering. Since I was 5, I was just obsessed. I learned very early, that I learned more through trouble shooting my failed circuit design that I did when it just worked. because when it works, there was no need to delve into the nuances of the design deeper. only through failure, was I forced to seek nuance. Later on in life, I heard EE professors say, I hope you fail at your circuit design. everyone would get mad, like why. But I was the one dude smiling, agreeing. Raising my voice, and explaining it. its only when you fail do you seek nuance to find your antidote to failure.
I agree that the terminology variations in regards to singing can be maddening. However, I think it should be clear that TERMINOLOGY properly connected to EXPERIENCE is one of greatest tools we have. By being able to name a certain aspect of singing, it can help us identify, understand and recreate it. The actual terms may vary. To my understanding, “Sing from the diaphragm,” “Provide more support,“ and “use more air“ all are essentially the same thing. Still, it’s invaluable to have some term (and understanding thereof) we can call upon to produce a desired effect. Thanks for all your great work, Chris!
Hey, Im an art teacher. I managed to prepare 100+ students already for university and they get in with ease. I constantly have this negativity too, especially before bed. But then I remember that an artist always learns and if i want to learn i have to also teach for teaching is the most efficient way of learning.
I do think there is value in vocabulary and understanding what certain words refer to in a proprioception sense. I actually accidentally learned how to fry scream YEARS ago from hearing Tyler Sheltone's part in an Infant Annihilator song (Behold The Kingdom Of The Wretched Undying) and just imitating what it sounded like he was doing. I actually had the technique down then, but I didn't know what fry screaming was, so I assumed I must be doing something wrong and potentially damaging my voice. Nearly a decade later I started learning fry screams from Justin Bonitz' patreon videos, and I actually struggled a LOT because I was avoiding that noise I figured out a long time ago, not realizing that was the right way to do it. I could have saved myself months of failure if I knew I had the right technique down years ago and just didn't know the word for it
Holy shit. This relates a lot to overthinking and analysing, instead of actually digging deep and experimenting what is right in my own experience. And instead of trying to find the "right" teacher. And holding on to certain youtube channels (yours included) about how to navigate different topics like singing for example... Ironically it sounds like the follow up is to do what is told again and not follow any one person as truth
Your videos helped me a lot to discover new vocal styles but the thing that brought me the furthest was trying stuff that i thought was not possible for me a few years ago i tried very hard to get melodic screams right and never managed to do so, but instead of saying "yeah i sound like shit and i should stop" i was "yeah i sound like shit and i should keep on going" general advice for vocalists: you don't grow with the songs you *can* sing but with the ones you *can't*
Honestly i respect anyone who can project low screams without hurting their throats. They're so much harder to do and so much harsher on your throat than highs. On God when it sounds anything past the dog bark stage my throat gets sore for the next few days and it doesnt sound right to me outside of a mix bc of what i address as annoying chicken scratch high end sounds lol
18 years of in-person and online music lessons and I teach constantly: "The best lessons in life are often our failures. They're the ones we tend to remember the most." Well done as always Chris!
Learn from a complete failure. Join my free course! chrisliepe.com/free-your-voice/
Not clickbait. You come in and rock the Mr. Clean look very well!
Top comment worthy
“The master has failed more times than the beginner has even tried.”
You're awesome Chris. Keep it up. You help more than you can possibly imagine.
Dont worry chris, you're the best in the business as far as I know, and we all love you for who you are and what you teach us.
I've been practicing screaming for over a year and I started with one of your videos. I've began a band of my own this year and just wanted to say you have helped me vocally in soooo many ways dude. Yes I've had moments where I've blown my voice out or felt/looked stupid, failed, but all we can do is move forward. I can't believe the sounds I can make and how far I've come and large part of that is due to your guidance. Thank you for what you do Chris, keeping doing it!
oh damn..you taught me so many important things man..i have learned to do crazy growls and screams without hurting myself because you taught me dude, youre the man dont quit..!
Don't worry, I'm never going to quit.
Dude, our mindsets are so freaking similar here! thank you for sharing!!!
Chris, I love your energy so much. You bring a lot of heart And warmth to your teachings. Thank you very much keep it up❤️
"The greatest teacher, failure is!"
I think you mean, "Failure is the greatest teacher!" Or maybe, "The greatest teacher is failure!"
@@DJIncendration it's a quote from Star Wars, from Yoda.
@@GabiBrooks Maybe Yoda meant the things I said.
@@DJIncendration I mean, yes, he does. That's just how he speaks 🤣
I don't keep up with your content regularly, but I took your free course and I watch videos from time to time. I sincerely appreciate what you're doing. You have a gift for teaching and an amazing talent. I have gained many useful tools from your lessons that I've regularly been incorporating into my vocals. I've been singing for a while, but we can always learn more. And I also think it's important to know why we do certain things. You've been a great help. Thank you, Chris!
You’re so right! It’s like studying all the exercises at the gym but never going.
U sed it, man!
What an awesome device that comparison is.
Even when people do go or do the exercises - how much focus and maybe more importantly what kind or degree of focus is offered/met - consistently
makes worlds of difference.
[separates the sheep from the goats]
Tis also why the exceptional arent asking questions about results before they have plateaued.
[takes more than physically showing up]
The true 1% know all about this difference.
Cheers, my friend.
Carry on!
Thank you for your videos, they always help me and it’s because of everything you do and say in them
Whoever claims to know it all usually knows nothing. :) The psychological aspect of your channel is one reason I keep coming back to your videos.
You have curiosity, you have openness, someone teaching still having a spark in their eye when it comes to learning and curiosity is not a very common thing. You have it. Most teachers just teach without it. That's why I come around to your videos (not too much but way more than others at least)
Thank you for sharing your thoughts, helped me a lot!!!
The greatest teacher i have ever come across. I love your videos Chris. Much love from Greece
I thought this was going to be about clean vocals
this is the exact message i needed right now. thank you chris!
Awesome Chris tbf I’ve always failed with support n what I learned from that failure is support is not exactly how u make sound yes its where ur energy comes from but what I’m saying is we engage are vocal cords n then use the air in our lungs to support the sound I also discovered that it’s not as much intense push from ur pelvic floor I discovered my support feels the best when I use a reasonable amount of push and with that push I allow my air to travel through my body and it still needs to practise I need to practise it more in order to get it right every time I’ve got it right a few times but I want to make it natural to me so basically I failed many times n tried many things n failed even more n that’s how I discovered how proper support should feel thank u so much
Great message that can apply to just about everything you could ever want to get better at from sports, to visual art, to singing and instruments, literally any other pursuit 🙃
Always enjoying your philosophy and grounded perspective of improvement and motivation. Humble and keeping it real as always, appreciate your positive fortitude thank you very much Chris.
What an amazing video wow
You just spoke the truth and it was beautiful.
That was me getting ready to tell you to keep going and giving positive reinforcement and such only to find that you are doing the same exact thing in this video. Love & peace.
Nice.
Enormously important advice for all of us but essential for our young people that want to create in any field.
Being transparent like this makes me wanna learn more with you and from you! Such an amazing video!
You have been changing my out look and helping me get better at my craft for a long time. I swear by your teachings. We love ya hear in ATX
Thank you Chris! You are a really great teacher to me!
Been feeling this way for last week was about to give up on being a vocals this vid count have been suggested at a better time, thank you
Very true dude! Sometimes these things just need to be said and restated to keep our motivation up. This applies not only to vocals, but every learning journey we embark upon. You rock Chris🤘🎶🎶🎶
BEST vocal teacher on the tube the mentality always resonates
Fantastic message. Thank you, Chris.
Thank you for this brother Chris! You are a great singer and an amazing teacher. Please keep the videos coming, they are so helpful! Staying relentlessly curious ;-)
You’re takes on music is exceptional! As a vocalist, I was introduced to you via your first MJ video and now I listen to any video you release! You are great!! 🔥
My singing journey is.. yeah it's miserable. Because I haven't learned to fail and learn much based on my own experience. I typed a comment a day ago about how unsuccessful i am in finding out my voice yet again. The day after i realized all these imposter thoughts with stupid explanations - it's not what people think about when really solving a problem - it's usually a waste of time. I'm really willing to take failures in my own hands now and think them through properly, learning from them. Either way I'm really happy I can go on this journey with a great community of other people who are learning to sing and to discover like me.
i follow you for a long time. this is why. you are positive in a way that embraces being confident in your imperfections, accepting, and learning from them, moving forwards. it doesn't just apply to vocals, but a lots of other things in life. keep up the good work chris, i love this video and been loving your whole attitude towards teaching. you were born to be an educator, and i think your channel is massively underrated!❤
This is really awesome. As somebody who's a bass baritone and been working on my voice for 20 years and probably at the best it's ever been in my early 40s this is 100% true. Thank so much for validating my own experience!
This is so true. After I started to stick to therms when learning vocals (especially screams/grit vocals) I've started to get lost and confused. Started to hurt my voice, I was almost sure that I couldn't even do it at all. Then I started to practice by myself, and then I've learned MY way of getting in the type of vocals that I've been trying to get, all I needed was the basics (Breath support, warm ups, don't overshoot, listen to my body and knowing my limits at that moment). And now I can do a lot of screams safely, still trying to get some but I know with time and patience I'll get there. Patience, wisdom and determination is key to basically every goal. And you helped a lot with your content, so thank you so much! Greetings from Brazil ;)
i have learned so much from you and seen so much growth from watching your videos. You da man!!
Youre one of the only people who does this very informative content on vocals that has a great voice and can teach it, like i can sing but explaining what im doing or helping someone get there is like a whole different skill that is priceless❤
You are the reason I am still singing and making music at all-- no joke.. I can't tell you how much you have helped me come into my own voice.
You said this really well, and though I am sorry to hear that more people struggle with that self judgment than most realize, it is also nice to know I'm not the only one.
Samuel Beckett said it well - “Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better”
Thanks very much for this video and keep creating!!
Absolutely right man!
I love this. Thanks for the reminder :)
I needed to hear this, thank you! I felt a little discouraged on my singing journey but your course and videos are helping out a lot!
For what it’s worth I really enjoy your channel 👏🏻👏🏻
I resonate so much with what you said in this video about not getting caught up in technique/terms. At the end of the day, music is a form of creative expression - and the terms are simply a left brain framework created to try and explain what the right brain understands intuitively. There's a John Lennon quote I love: "'[Songwriting]'s very easy... all you have to do is say what you mean, make it rhyme and put a backbeat to it." We get so caught up in how we're doing something, it's easy to forget why we're doing it in the first place - to say what we really feel. (thanks for coming to my ted talk)
Anyways, thanks for all the great vocal lessons, they really have helped so much in changing my approach & perspective of singing. I used to be very shy about my voice and thought I was just a bad singer. Just a couple months of following along with your YT videos and doing the free course, I'm dragging my friends out to karaoke and looking for bands to do vocals for lol
Take that as a testimonial I guess! Weird as all the noise making can seem, it definitely works - I started noticing the difference in my sound after just a couple weeks.
Thank you for the advice!
Nice. Knowledge and wisdom. You learn something, but true wisdom comes with experiencing things.
Your lesson that you just put into 5 minutes can be applied to basically anything, not just singing and vocal performances. Thank you Chris for making this video and I wish you further success in your future career!
"Embrace failure as opportunity" so real
feels like this is not just about singing
this is a life lesson / way of living 👍
Always enjoy your content. However, this video is now my top pick! Really good advice and message!
I'm glad to be growing along with you and every other viewer! Best wishes to all =D
theres a saying that the master has failed more than the student has even tried, in my 10 something years of creating music and learning to sing along with it, finding your videos and learning from them (with all the weird goofy super effective excercises only you demonstrate on yt) has been the biggest improvement i've seen, literally feeling like i took many many shortcuts to understanding what singing really is, thank you for your effort and making this easier to understand for everybody looking to learn, easily the best singing lessons on youtube
I’ve been to college for vocal performance, and gained more from this channel then any other teacher or instructor had to offer.
that is some deep insight beyond singing!
I love this message, Chris!!
Hi C.L. ! I'm sure you've worked with, studied, and taught people in many different ways. And over time, you were able to achieve good results with your open, calm attitude. It is often difficult, and you move slowly towards your goal, but you are persistent and you take hold of people, inspire them and help them. I really miss representative people with such an attitude where I live, be it in any part of life. thank you for all the work you do over a few videos. (even though it's hard for me to understand your language, I don't understand the songs, but I still learn from them) May peace and love be with you!
I love FAILURE tooooo....Fantastic Planet is one of my favorite albums of all time !!! ;)
Your videos have helped me so much! I was too afraid to sing in public for years and now I have a lot more confidence!
This is probably the most important message for any person trying to learn. If you succeed 100% of the time, you won't learn anything and you won't grow. Improvement comes from challenge, failing, and trying again. It's why I say so much of art is about surrendering yourself and placing your ego aside. Not just for performing, but for creating an exploring. There is no piece of art that is a finished product, because it's up to you to decide when to surrender it from your personal control and privacy, to release it in the world. You, me, and everyone else is just like that too, versions of ourselves are a constant work of art in progress. Never gonna be perfect or finished, cuz that does not exist in a definitive objective sense.
even though others have done this, you do it the best, btw, I joined your free class and it really did free my voice
i kinda like these lil motivational blips. i definitely need them lol. i dont even rly work on vocals all that often cuz its not my main focus but i like ya chris 😆embracing failure in anything is good advice that i feel like most people might tend to forget
nice to have lil reminders every now and again to draw ur own blueprints instead of obsessing over someone elses
Nicely done sir. ❤🤗❤
Failure is SO necessary to really learn anything.
Biden must be so knowledgeable
100%
@@Goodmorning1221- Ha!
I've never taken one of your classes, but what I will say is that the benefit of your channel, at least to me, is not necessarily that you teach people how to sing, but that you're a thoughtful and intuitive vocal analyst. That's what I see. You analyze what makes vocals as good as they are, and you use that to try to help others, and yourself, become better… I dig your channel.
Nobody's perfect. There's perfection in imperfection. You learn new things every day.
Ive been in my band since 2017, and I've been bad for years but I still did shows anyway, still learning as I go, and its just this year im starting to get more of a handle of understanding things. These things take time to click, sometimes years especially teaching yourself. You just need to find a reason to keep going and get better and push yourself, hear a variety of techniques, thoughts, approaches and opinions and being patient with yourself, not being afraid to keep going back to the basics and relearn things here and there
Learning how not to do something is just as important as knowing how to do it right. If we never fail we don't know if we're making progress. This is an important message for anyone doing anything. And the beautiful thing is if you keep working at it your failures get smaller and happen less often. So never let the potential for or fear of failure get in the way of doing something, just embrace it as part of the process. (Btw Chris, I sent you an email last week. You may have missed it, I know you're very busy).
Based!
Failing to try is the greatest failure of all.
Just know this man, because of you I learned how to use my voice, I’m about to release some songs with my new band, which I am the lead vocalist of, and it’s all thanks to you, without you I would not be where I am. Literally no one else has taught me the way you have, and you’re the best, thank you so much
This could be applied to everything in life.
Oh, you had me worried for a second there. I've learned more about singing from you than any other human on this planet, mainly because you give us that encouragement to fail and learn and fail and learn...
the only real failure is to not keep trying. you can give up temporarily, but never permanently. As then you can't improve at all! I believe in all of you ❤
Maximum respect, Chris. There is no "true" knowledge; each new piece of learning, and progress, should mainly serve to refine our understanding of our "ignorance" about the subject. If we can humble ourselves in the face of that, there is no limit, just a continual journey
Yessssss
lifelong musician, done plenty of live backups when not drumming, some while I was. Lots on records. Singing lead TERRIFIES me. I tried it a couple times after watching your videos and maaaaan. Even alone in my office it's just . . . hard AF. I've always had MAD respect for vocalists, shit is TOUGH. I took one of your courses, and put up a little video - and actually got some decent feedback - nobody liked it, but I was compared to a couple singers, it has me trying harder. You mentioned how it feels in the video I watched as well, and so I started paying more attention, and thus started making progress. Thank you! I still can't even sing to my cat, but I'll get there.
Hate the click bait Love the message. I get why you do it though.
True sometimes the click bait is necessary though in order for us to hear what we need to hear. If he put what the video was truly about in the title then most wouldn’t even look at it.
With deep fried declining attention spans, it's starting to become a necessity
It's how the "almighty alg0r1thm" works. Unless you're either fine with not getting potential viewers or have a HUGE channel ("tens of millions subscribers" level), it's almost unavoidable nowadays.
I tried to choose a title that accurately describes the content while leaving room for some curiosity to make you want to click...
@@chrisliepe You did fine dont stress it at all. I get it and i honestly think you're the best Vocal coach on YT. Don't hate the player hate the game. You deserve views just based off of the content imo
Needed this. Thanks bruvva.
thanks chris, i needed this 😁
Even if Chris isn't the best vocalist to ever exist, he's an absolutely stellar teacher! He is a stellar vocalist too, though!
Nah, I'd rather learn from someone who got everything right the first time 😜 .
You've helped me get over more than a few plateus and enjoy voice again. Appreciate you.
Amen, Brother!
Thanks Chris! My singing has improved dramatically from your courses.
Excellently said
Great message Chris, it's reassuring to know I'm not the only one that has to battle impostor syndrome every fucking day haha but you're right , as artists we don't have to let fear of failure become bigger than the excitement of curiosity
You are the man. I got the lukas course but i need to get the discipline to start and finish. Failure taunts me😂
Ego is never satisfied but “love never fails”. Honestly..., would you rather listen to someone coming from the heart or one who is a slave to technique. There is no failure, there’s only growth.
I have just been told I can't hit a high note in a song I am trying to sing. But I want to carry on failing that note. There is a part of me that wants to continue to fail hitting that note till I learn how to hit it. Thanks for the encouragement to keep failing but learn from it
CHRIS!! I DIDNT KNOW YOU COVERED MAKE ME FAMOUS
Hey Chris, I love your track "Please Don't Change". Could you make a video going over your approach to that song? I love it!
"failure affords you the opportunity to learn, by forcing you to seek nuance" This is my quote, ive worked on. I was lucky enough to learn this as a child. I have ASD+ADHD and my first obsession since I was a kid, was electrical engineering. Since I was 5, I was just obsessed.
I learned very early, that I learned more through trouble shooting my failed circuit design that I did when it just worked. because when it works, there was no need to delve into the nuances of the design deeper. only through failure, was I forced to seek nuance. Later on in life, I heard EE professors say, I hope you fail at your circuit design. everyone would get mad, like why. But I was the one dude smiling, agreeing. Raising my voice, and explaining it.
its only when you fail do you seek nuance to find your antidote to failure.
I agree that the terminology variations in regards to singing can be maddening. However, I think it should be clear that TERMINOLOGY properly connected to EXPERIENCE is one of greatest tools we have. By being able to name a certain aspect of singing, it can help us identify, understand and recreate it. The actual terms may vary. To my understanding, “Sing from the diaphragm,” “Provide more support,“ and “use more air“ all are essentially the same thing. Still, it’s invaluable to have some term (and understanding thereof) we can call upon to produce a desired effect.
Thanks for all your great work, Chris!
Hey,
Im an art teacher.
I managed to prepare 100+ students already for university and they get in with ease.
I constantly have this negativity too, especially before bed.
But then I remember that an artist always learns and if i want to learn i have to also teach for teaching is the most efficient way of learning.
I do think there is value in vocabulary and understanding what certain words refer to in a proprioception sense. I actually accidentally learned how to fry scream YEARS ago from hearing Tyler Sheltone's part in an Infant Annihilator song (Behold The Kingdom Of The Wretched Undying) and just imitating what it sounded like he was doing. I actually had the technique down then, but I didn't know what fry screaming was, so I assumed I must be doing something wrong and potentially damaging my voice. Nearly a decade later I started learning fry screams from Justin Bonitz' patreon videos, and I actually struggled a LOT because I was avoiding that noise I figured out a long time ago, not realizing that was the right way to do it. I could have saved myself months of failure if I knew I had the right technique down years ago and just didn't know the word for it
Holy shit. This relates a lot to overthinking and analysing, instead of actually digging deep and experimenting what is right in my own experience. And instead of trying to find the "right" teacher. And holding on to certain youtube channels (yours included) about how to navigate different topics like singing for example...
Ironically it sounds like the follow up is to do what is told again and not follow any one person as truth
Exactly!!!!
Your videos helped me a lot to discover new vocal styles
but the thing that brought me the furthest was trying stuff that i thought was not possible for me
a few years ago i tried very hard to get melodic screams right and never managed to do so, but instead of saying "yeah i sound like shit and i should stop"
i was "yeah i sound like shit and i should keep on going"
general advice for vocalists: you don't grow with the songs you *can* sing but with the ones you *can't*
Nice video. Singing is so mental based 🤙
Honestly i respect anyone who can project low screams without hurting their throats. They're so much harder to do and so much harsher on your throat than highs. On God when it sounds anything past the dog bark stage my throat gets sore for the next few days and it doesnt sound right to me outside of a mix bc of what i address as annoying chicken scratch high end sounds lol
18 years of in-person and online music lessons and I teach constantly: "The best lessons in life are often our failures. They're the ones we tend to remember the most." Well done as always Chris!