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  1. The one Bono did over the extended solo at the end of the song on ZooTV. The high screaming falsetto/headvoice:

    I'll give you roses
    I'll buy you things
    I'll show you places you've...
    never seen

    Something like that.
  2. Oh yeah, I remember now!
  3. I sang that part a lot a few months ago, and I could basically nail it. Now I've forgotten how I did that.
  4. About the screaming, hope you're doing it the right way if it is those kind of distorted, raw kind of screams.
  5. I must try it and see how I go. I think I could do it.

    With the screams, it's not raw at all. Very high, like this. Not easy.
  6. But kind of raspy. Hope you're not doing that raspiness with your vocal cords, but those 'false' vocal cords things.
  7. I just do the rasp however it comes out. I can't really describe how I do it because I don't know how but I just do them.
  8. You can do them with both, but the vocals cords get damaged by it. The false vocal cords are things above the real cords that can't produce a tone by themselves, but they can do raspiness. So if you can add that raspiness to normal singing, your real vocal cords will be much better off.
  9. 1) Will the vocal fry exercises give me the desired “grit” that I want over time? I’m talking about where it sounds like your yelling on pitch. I can distort my voice in head fairly easily, but it seems like more work trying to get the same effect in chest. To give you an example, I consider Layne Staley (Alice n Chains) one of my biggest influences and I don’t want to mimic him, but I do want to get that deep chesty “growl”.

    Question 1 – grit and raps is subjective to each singer. How you want to sound will different from each person. Grit and Rasp are also hard to control if you can’t do it naturally. Find the right amount of grit in chest voice starts with the sound you make when you clear your throat with your mouth closed. Not a cough thing but that internal little “ehm ehm” we do to clear the voice of phlegm. Get that little internal “ehm ehm” sound going and stretch it out for 1-2 seconds. Now open your mouth and keep doing the “ehhm” sound. You should hear a raspy/gritty sound. The vibration should sit above your vocal cords right in the back of the throat – not down low in your throat. Experiment with this sound and feeling. Don’t let the growl sink down into your throat – try to keep it high in the throat near the back of the tongue. This is vibrating the false cords which are little blobs of flesh above your actual vocal cords. It’s safe to vibrate these blobs of flesh and not blow your voice. It should NOT hurt to do this. If it hurts you’re too low.
  10. Well I'm singing with a lot more rasp now because of my throat. Either I sing a song with very high notes but restrained in a way, or I sing very low. Tne screaming may only be used once or twice, and not for any longer than maybe 30 seconds in total. Because I couldn't do any more than that.
  11. Well, I'm not a vocal coach so I guess I shouldn't be talking too much.
  12. It's alright, the more I can take on board with me the better. Hell, if I didn't know from here and various other places, I'd have blown my throat out by now.
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