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derekreno

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  1. Lol, kiddie waves. Laird Hamilton is insane, that doc Riding Giants is really good. As is the soundtrack
  2. I can relate to the lower/back of the neck pain. Turned out it was the way I was sleeping. The way my head was positioned wasn't giving my neck muscles a chance to relax...which landed me I the er with a neck spasm. This sounds dumb, but I bought one of those contour pillows (getting old sucks) and no more neck pain. As far as the other symptoms, idk man. See a doctor or chiropractor.
  3. I'm not saying he hasn't gotten better per say, more that his voice hasn't aged...to my ears anyways. His sound was still the quintessential "Vedder" voice. Whereas somebody like Cornell, who has taken up a lighter approach now, or he did last time I saw soundgarden, has really changed it up. Not saying he still doesn't sound good, I just think he fried his voice in the audioslave days ;)
  4. Well whatever he's doing, he's doing a damn good job :D
  5. So I saw PJ last weekend and was actually pretty damn impressed. I know over the years, especially in 90s rock, singers voices age or they change up their technique...Grohl, Cornell especially (he still sounds good) just not quite 90s cornell. Anyways, EV still sounded exactly like he did back on the Ten album. Now PJ isn't quite as aggressive as Soundgarden, but I'm interested in your guys take on how one preserves a voice for 20 years. I was honestly completely blown away at how great he sounded, while drinking several bottles of wine on stage over a 2 1/2 hour show. Maybe he was just really on that night...
  6. This is a good thread. This kinda has me confused too. The dopey sound I get, and can get some pretty good grit below the passaggio. When head voice comes into play, that's where I get all messed up. Like MDEW said, I can do the underlying tone easily, but if I try to add some balls to say an A4, it all falls apart. What confuses me is the low larynx with twang. Isn't twang produced with a higher larynx?...or am I getting my buzzwords mixed up. So how do you twang with a dampened larynx...
  7. Try apple cider vinegar. I believe there is a pinterest board on keeping your larynx damp...also keeps away fruit flies. :D
  8. That's some killer vocals. This thread reminds me of something I heard from Jamie Vendera the other day. Exercise does not develop the singer, it only strengthens the instrument. So sing, to become a better singer.
  9. Wow, haven't really listened to much of Journey lately, but on those covered notes he almost has the Adam Sandler "Opera Man" sound going on. I saw them back in 2010, and he didn't sound like that. He really didn't sound much like Perry either, whereas he would approach his songs with lighter mass phonations, Arnel really powered through them.
  10. So I guess the break did me good. I was goin at it pretty hard before I stopped, not training as much, but doing a lot of physically demanding tunes. There was a time when my old band was doing 2-3 nights a week, 4 sets a night...so I never got any rest. Haha
  11. Anybody ever go awhile without singing or practicing? I ask because due to 3 sinus infections in the last month and a half (damn the wife from making me move away from the desert), plus some other things that have come up, I haven't really sang or practiced, except maybe singining along in the car, for about a month. Anyways, I was goofing around tonight with some cover tunes, and stuff that's normally hard was easier. Like hanging on to a nice chesty high B. Plus I've got this tone, prob do to the fact I still have a touch of the sinus infection. It sounds cool, lol....almost joe cocker esque....it'll prob go away though. So this got me to thinking, the voice works the same way as the body? Like you go at it hard in the gym, take a couple weeks off, come back and you can lift more weight? Sorry for the long winded post...sudafed makes me chatty :D
  12. That's fry screaming...with some processing on it There's 2 parts to my video bty, the one I linked was part 2. And yes, this is the same type of screaming.
  13. The "fry scream" took a little playing with to get right...a lot of tickly throat, lol. My throat is pretty much open, with no squeezing. When I do it, I feel the resonance shift more to the mask. The way I figured out how to do this was mimicking Elmer Fudd, just adding more fry and eventually more volume...plus my old band always wanted to do Manson covers, so that helped This in my opinion, is one of the easier "tricks" to do. Now screaming a chesty C5...still working on it...haha
  14. Dude, fry screaming is actually very easy. It's the pitched stuff that's a pain in the arse. I've got a vid YT.
  15. I think it get the "leaning" term now...in a nutshell just bringing more chest resonance into a note? I just chose to lean a bit more into it, for the raspy effect ;)
  16. That's actually a good example...better then Jack Sparrow Michael Bolton Funny thing is, I actually stumbled on the sound I was wanting, farting around with a Zac Brown cover last night....a friggin country tune, lol. He's got this part where he belts out a G#4, and me just screwing around trying to give it a rock edge, got this gnarly gritty sound that for the life of me I can't recreate now! Should've recorded the thing...:/
  17. This has nothing to do with my original post, but anytime someone mentions Michael Bolton, this is all I can think of
  18. That's what I was wondering, cool. Cause I'm holding back air on gritty notes...I heard "leaning in" and it confused me cause it feels more like I'm pulling back...air that is So basically, messa di voce...just pushed/compressed a little more for the effect? I'm gettin there dude...slowly but surely it's starting to get easier :)
  19. Ok, so more or less, higher notes...I'm talking G4-C5, take a more aggressive approach to it? Not shouting (obviously) but giving it a bit more gusto? I guess kinda like high head notes like maybe an F5, where you just add a tad more compression to get those to distort. I'll give your link a listen when I get home Ron.
  20. So this is a term I've been hearing a lot lately. I know it has to do with a more "aggressive" sound, but I'm not quite sure the technique behind it. Does it mean, pushing harder to get the sound to distort?....cause the notes I can distort, I'm not really "leaning into them"....it feels more like I'm cutting back, to get that sound. Any thoughts peeps?
  21. The onsets are a little "pushed". The lip rolls should be light and easy feeling.
  22. For sure. I think we got off topic at some point, lol. I was just saying that with the mindset of "should I bridge here", "what mode should I be in"...at some point, IMO anyways, you should let your training take over for your brain and just sing it. That G# in the Foo's tune doesn't feel strained like I'm pulling up chest or anything, it's just physically demanding...for the time being to keep that intensity throughout the song.
  23. I think after a certain point, you need to forget about/not worry as much about bridging. I don't even think about it, I just do it. For a beginner, yes maybe focus on bridging through the passaggio. After a certain point I don't think you should constantly be worrying about bridging early/late...at some point with training, it should just "happen". In my experience anyways. But yes I agree, train the G4-C5 area, and like Video said, narrow your vowels and shed weight as you ascend.
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