how singers like Dave Grohl, Dan Reynolds, and others “scream-sing” without instantly losing their voice or coughing up a storm?

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How can they sing like this and continue into the next song in their set? Is there a secret to this kind of singing where there voice doesn’t go out right away?

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Anonymous 0 Comments

Grohl’s voice does drop off during a set. Many, many metal vocalists have much better screams.

Anonymous 0 Comments

I saw Halestorm in concert. She did the first note of miss the misery for so long, she started alone on the stage and when she was done the rest of the band was set up and ready to go! I estimate it was over a minute. It was a sight to behold!

Anonymous 0 Comments

[Will Ramos](https://youtu.be/Ua8SuWNPrLE?si=kXnCLIXqnmT5evCO) of Lorna Shore had a camera put down his throat while doing harsh vocals.

He’s the lead singer of a deathcore band. His vocals are a lot harsher than the Artists you pointed out. I recommend listening to some of his one take videos as well to hear his raw vocals.

Here is my favorite one [take](https://youtu.be/jRzozK37EVc?si=rAhbSdWgbCXNsjLw)

Enjoy 🙂

Edit: I’d like to mention, in the camera down his throat video, he is at the National Center for Voice and Speech at the University of Utah. So it’s not some random thing. They actually study is Voice!

Anonymous 0 Comments

I always wondered how certain dudes can pull it off for so long. Corey Taylor, Phil Labonte and Jonny Hawkins come to mind for me. Scream and switch to legit good clean vocals. I’m sure there many others.

Anonymous 0 Comments

Just above your vocal cords, you have another set of membranes called “false cords”. If you manipulate position and air pressure correctly, the false chords will vibrate along with your vocal chords. They are less delicate than the vocal cords, so they make a somewhat non-musical, noisy sound. With practice, you can learn to activate the false cords while producing a normal, healthy tone with your vocal chords at the same time. That’s where the scream-sing (and a lot of other interesting vocal tones) comes from.

For a pure scream, you remove the sound of your vocal folds by squeezing them tight enough or opening them wide enough that they don’t make their usual sound. You do this while still vibrating the false cords.

Anonymous 0 Comments

Dave Grohl actually does shred his voice. I remember a Fresh Air interview where Terry Gross asked him about that, then mentioned that she had interviewed Melissa Cross (the vocal coach who released The Zen of Screaming.)

Dave said something along the lines of he thinks his mom bought him that video, and he should probably sit down and watch it because he does horrible things to his voice.

That interview was a while ago, so maybe he has gotten around to improving his vocal technique.

Anonymous 0 Comments

I once heard a singer describe how he learned it from Jon Duplantier of Gojira. He’s in the studio with Duplantier and he shocked at how quietly the man is singing his “scream” vocals. Then he realizes the mocrophone is dping the heacy lifting of getting volume. In the imterview the guys said that this was an epiphony for him, “Amplification, you say.”

Anonymous 0 Comments

Head voice with rasp. There is video where someone shows a clip of Wes Scantlin trying to sing About A Girl. Wes is singing in full voice. Then they cut to Cobain singing it. Cobain is using head voice with a lot of rasp.

Anonymous 0 Comments

It’s like the trick Dave learned and then forgot to stop doing. Saw them once a long time ago and honestly the awww-yeahhhh’s! got old quick.

But yeah, as other’s have said.. push from the diaphragm and not your throat.

Anonymous 0 Comments

I used to do sound for a Philadelphia joint years and years ago, and we used to do hard-core shows. The first one I did, I was so surprised at how quiet the vocal levels were from most every band. The singers were borderline whispering. it might look like they were screaming, but they were actually singing really soft, so as not too overtax their voice. However, despite being incredibly quiet, it sounded huge!