What We Can Learn From Dave Grohl About Great Rock Singing
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- Опубліковано 21 сер 2024
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Dave Grohl is powerful singer, a great songwriter and a confident front man. In this lesson, I discuss and demonstrate two huge aspects of Dave's singing that any singer or aspiring singer can use to improve their voice, confidence and singing presence!
I love how you got around a copyright strike at the beginning
Ahaha yes it's a nice clever version! xD
I think I'll start greeting my wife like this 7:17 when I come home from work :D
I did that when i woke up my childern, and they start crying like a baby
😂
lol
I love this channel. It's such a functionalist approach to vocals. As a rock vocalist, I really damaged my voice before I figured out how to get the sound of throat tearing force, without actually slapping my throat parts together in a destructive way. It permanently reduced my range and control. I wish I had a resource like this 15 years ago. Keep up the great work you're doing.
So glad you found the channel and that you're enjoying the content!
This happened to me, and it sucked. It was like I forgot how to sing, and had to start over. My voice improved in my opinion after it though. Probably because afterwards I paid more attention to how I was singing. This channel helped me become a better rock vocalist as well.
i was gonna say that it'll be cool to have a "how to sing like.." episode on kurt cobain but i just figured out that there's no healthy way of doing it hahah so i guess this one works on kurt too haha!
1:57 YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!
Christopher Cornell was actually trained, as was Layne, same coach. But love your vids and your approach to making skills accessible to meet mortals. Great stuff. 🌞🙏
Technically they weren’t first trained. After their first or second albums after they got label support they got vocal training
It is genius how you change the songs to keep from violating copyrights while still maintaining the vibe of the originals. Super clever and creative!
Just subscribed to your channel. Why? “Embrace the yell.” “Most people have never let their inhibitions go when it comes to their voice.” And you’re extremely brave for revealing something so intimate and personal as singing freely without hesitation. And the examples you use, Chris Cornell, Layne Staley etc, are not represented enough. Simply brilliant. Thank you!
Thank you for watching!
I was HOPING you had a video on Grohl. Underrated vocalist with incredible pipes
I love your philosophy with this stuff. You have a great outlook on the mechanics of rock singing/screaming etc
That’s great to hear! Thanks so much.
Hey chris. I owe you my singing life. I finally after 2 years got the concept of support that you teach. For sure this time. It’s about expanding the stomach at the onset like going to the bathroom. This is key my man. I can suddenly hit all notes without strain without tension with confidence and passion. I love you chris.
My only problem is, that I can only take this voice so high comfortable and these songs are a few steps to high to sing them without tension for me.
Here’s a video I did on mixed voice that might be helpful to you! ua-cam.com/video/t_wju9Numnk/v-deo.html
Hit the nail on the head, dude! I've been practicing singing in my room for 3 years almost and I just sang my heart out, and I've started to be able to control it. Just sing with all you have and don't think about what others might think. If it sounds good to you, good. You'll be able to feel your way through it. If your throat starts to hurt, then hold back and think about how you're singing. Other than that, sing with EVERYTHING you have.
I can't fully express how grateful I am for your channel, but this video especially. I've spent almost 2 decades trying to sound like the best rock vocalists. Some pretty successfully, others have remained impossible, like Grohl's fry screams. Hearing an expert like you, who also studies and has true, deep appreciation for these artists and their work, explain why imitation is a losing game, might genuinely save my voice and sanity in the long run.
From the bottom of my heart from one soul who rides the waves of sounds this video breached the missing gap as to why I wasn't entirely engaging my diaphragm, the going to the loo analogy helped me so very much.
Makes you stop a little bit and appreciate the people who are in an abundance of caring and light.
Thank you Chris.
Wishing you continual future success.
That’s so great to hear! Thank you, Roy. I appreciate your feedback and encouragement. I wish the same to you!!
Cornell and Staley were both professionally trained. Thanks for your work man
I'm lucky that when I started singing I was singing Foo Fighters songs with Dave inspiring me that you don't need musical training to be a musician
I found your channel a few days ago and I'm finding your videos very helpful. I love how you give practical, step by step techniques to get into the feel of these different techniques. An episode on Julian Casablancas and his grit/fry technique would be really cool!
Man , that "I feel BAAAD!" sounded really real! Nice job
You really sound like Gregg Alexander from New Radicals... And you really looks like him too xD I'm loving your vids. Thanks a bunch! Would be great to hear you singing You get what you give!
thank you for loving our own true feelings, any feelings and sound comes out from our body are all fine.
Really like your lessons! I was trying to sound like Dave Grohl for a parody I'm about to record, but you convinced me to draw inspiration from him instead of trying to sound like him. Also employing some vocal fry I learned from another vid of yours!
You are my hero man, your teaching style makes so much sense
Coheed shirt, while talking about Dave Grohl? And youve done Chris Cornell videos??
These are my my favorite artists! DID WE JUST BECOME BEST FRIENDS???? Awesome stuff!!
Also your content, perspective and insight about singing rock music is truly great for aspiring rock vocals! Thanks for much for all of this, keep making video man! 🤘
he knows how to sing! And appreciates the best of rock singers! This dude is great, and a badass in his own right .. if he isn't already in a signed band, he fucking damn well should be.. he's got an amazing vocal!
This is such a cute comment
Dave does alot of belting, I only hoan in and challenge my voice to more talented singers , , but you still made good points in this video, thanks
Dude, Coheed and Cambria has been one of my favorite bands for years. Huge fan and influence on me. Sick shout out.
Your approach to teaching is amazing and unique. I've never seen someone demonstrate exploring their voice and not being shy about showing all the barnacles. Demonstrating all the ridiculous noises, cracks, etc to get to the finish line makes an amateur like myself realize I have to sound bad before I get there. Cheers Chris!!!
Rest of me is my new favorite doo lighters song
I can’t wait to learn how to get grit like that without it hurting
Just go to the top of your chest voice just before the break, use a lot of breath and compress a little while singing
Chris, I gotta say thank you for being such a fantastic teacher and posting these videos for free online. This video helped me obtain passion and power in my voice. Also your video on Gerard way helped me unlock my false chord scream. You are the best!!!!
He's not rangy? To be honest I think he can sing pretty high and pretty low aswell. He's just not the guy who sings high pitched glam-metal notes. :-)
I'd love to learn how to sing like Jonathan Young. A legendary vocal cover artist.
Ive always think that he has one of the best style of singing
2:40 I feel BAAAAAAAD, i love this man
This is a great tutorial thanks for this, I need to sing confidently
HELLO FROM NEW ENGLAND..I'M A FAIRLY NEW SUB, AND ALTHOUGH I HAVENT SANG TO ANY EXTENT IN BANDS IN 20 YRS...I HAVE HAD NO PRIOR VOCAL TRAINING BUT DID DEVELOP A STRONG VOICE IN THE VAIN OF LAYNE STALEY AND EDDIE VEDDER..NOW ALL THESE YRS LATER WATCHING YOUR VIDS HAVE REKINDLED MY PASSION TO SING AND I HAVE BEEN DISSECTED THE LAYNE STAYELY AND MAYNARD J. K. VIDS... IT SEEMS I PICKED UP SOME GOOD HABITS NOT VISE VERSA CONCERNING SELF TAUGHT PLAYERS BY LEARNING HOW TO SING BY JUST JAMMING ALONG WITH MY FAV BANDS AND TRYING TO GET AS CLOSE AS POSSIBLE TO THEIR TONE AND DELIVERY, FOR EVEN THEN (AS YOU STATE OVER AND OVER) I KNEW IT WAS IMPOSSIBLE TO SOUND EXACTLY LIKE THEM AND WOULD STRAY INTO PARODY IF TRIED, AND TO JUST SING IN THE SPIRIT OF THOSE SINGERS...I NOTICE YOU PLAY MULTIPILE THINGS, DO YOU POST DRUM BREAKDOWN VIDS.., FOR I AM DRUMMER, LIFE LONG...? I ENJOY WATCHING YOU LAYING DOWN THE VOCAL TRACK THEN EXPLAINING UPON THAT...KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK...PEACE FROM THE NORTHEAST....
Not sure why I never considered that he was just double tracking and not adding chorus effect. Whenever I use chorus it usually makes the vocal actually sit back in the mix
Hey Chris - found your channel about a month ago, really enjoying your videos. Really helpful stuff and inspiring! I’m learning so much. Thank you for all you do. How about Robert Plant?
Oh man I see you are also one among the Fence! Cheers
Must of bin another singing teacher who put a dislike competition! Lol I just wanted to say this is wat I mean bout this guy the Poop and sickness feeling love it I tested that sitting here in my living room still cracks me up, any way I totally felt those two different feelings top and bottom of my diaphragm huge tip to knw what I shud be feeling Thanx love this guy and his channel!
Love the clean guitar track too.
Nice shirt. I’d love to see you analyze Claudio Sanchez’s voice! 🤘
Great video Chris, so helpful! Thanks!
Pls do about Jørn Lande, and thx for such good lessons!!! You're awesome
My favorite band
AWESOME! Great job! Best regards from Thuringia! Andreas
Awesome video! I was struggling with my shouting rock vocals. Feel much better now.
7:45 What exactly is your throat doing that every cord of muscle is being seen. Also, can you describe how that feels?
I actually feel very little in my neck. I’m focusing on my support muscles and my face. More on that in my free course linked in the video info! :)
Wow, your awesome at Grohl as well!! man, if you haven't already.. I would love to see you do a video about singing like Mike Patton, and maybe even Cobain now that I think about it. Patton would be a really tricky one... Hes a damn vocal chameleon. Rock on Chris!
Really like this
Another great video, I love how you take inspiration from others singers techniques. These videos deserve loads more views!!! I briefly flirted with this song in the past but backed off for fear of hurting my voice (that was a while back). These days I suffer from a lot of vocal tension. I got scoped a few months back thinking I had nodes but the guy said it was just tension causing my pain. Refereed me to speech training, still waiting on it. It don't help I work in retail and have to talk all day.
Weirdly I think if I sang and spoke with more passion/gusto/umph like this my throat would be in better condition - I often mumble B¬}
If you've got anymore of these in the pipe line I'd love to see I breakdown of Nick Oliveri and or Jeff Buckley!!
dude, you are an awesome coach!
Is it normal for your voice/larynx to be soar the next day after doing these exercises the first time? I actually found progress in my voice doing these tricks! I sound like a bad ass!!!
Coheed Shirt 🤘🏻 Please do a Claudio Sanchez singing video. I’d be forever grateful
👍 I reconfirmed where my volume should come from. Thank you 🙏
Great lesson. Thank you. ;)
Hey Chris. Love all of your videos! Especially these that draw from great rock singers. Could you do one on singing like Jared Leto? Kings and Queens is a good example. I feel like he has a very unique approach, almost like screamo but with support. Not sure if that makes sense, but I'd love if you could cover something similar to that!
Thanks man! Got some Jared Leto studying to do :)
Chris Liepe You already are doing the Leto technique in your “How To Scream” video. Same thing as far as I can tell. Thank you for these videos!
loving you're channel so much! you have a great way of explaining things in a simple way that's easy to understand :) could you please one day do a video breaking down Matthew Bellamy vocals? his the lead singer of Muse.
Perfect!
Enjoying your channel !!!could you do a episode on Shaun Morgan of Seether , Maybe Given or Deseased !!! Thank You
Great Video! Thx for your inspiring Work. Would you make a Video to Kurt Cobains Voice?
Yes!
@@chrisliepe great
Super cool.
Dave Freaking Grohl!
I recently started taking vocal lessons with a classically trained teacher, but I want to achieve a punk/rock/metal sound. I'm finding your vids tremendously helpful as a supplement. One q: Would you adapt your advice if you're training a female vocalist or do the same principles apply? Thank you!
This stuff works great for females because it's all FEEL based. Ultimately, I'm teaching you how to FEEL your voice, so once you learn how the muscles should work in your own body... you're off!!
Thanks Chris! You rock!
Do Kurt Cobain!
Kurt did vocal fry rasp and was damaging his voice every time he sung with dist he damaged his voice and was almost not able to do it at the time of his death
@@surike he wrote a song as late as 10 days before his death and was singing just fine. idk where this rumor comes from
@@roseblack6342 so? Him writing a song doesn't mean that his vocals were deteriorating. He had fairly poor singing due to not getting taught apart from buzz ozzborne teaching him how to scream etc
You know you're right was recorded in 1994 but obviously he would not be able to continue singing like that much longer
kurt didnt have good technique
Do you think when he preforms live he has reverb on his mic as well
Yes
You should totally voice act
While we’re on Coheed and Cambria, can you do Claudio?
He's on the list for sure!
I can almost hear 2 different tones in your voice when you scream/belt "the rest, the rest".
What if you layered 10 times
I feel like most of this also depends on the pitch of your voice. I typically can’t hit those high of notes with my chest. How can I expand my range to be able to do so? Is it possible, or are the vocal cards I was dealt the only thing I have work with? I am also still in puberty which doesn’t help 😅
He starts every concert with a vodka shot(s) to be confident
I wonder, if behind the scenes Chris uses conventional singing exercises?
I sure do! That's all my exercises are! Feel based, speech connected exercises.
@@chrisliepe Nice one man
Chris! How do I yell without being an utter nuisance to my family whom live with me?
Tell them to deal with it for 10 min a day while you do some focused practicing 😀 I’ve had to do that for 20 or so years!
Do these things also work for a female voice ?
Yes!!
"dave grohl is a confident frontman"
dave in nirvana: 👁👄👁
Good observation but I don't think he's doing it that way...I think there might be another vocalist singing the same thing 🤔.
It sounded different to me
Hi, Chris. I've been seeing your videos for a few weeks and I still can't make it to Dave Grohl's songs. I can reach a F4, but not the F#4 in Everlong (it's like I sing it ok until that note, where I can just do head voice - that it is not so cool in such song ). Neither the G#4 in Best of You. Neither in My Hero. I've been reflecting a lot and thinking, but can't make it. I get the point of these video - being energetic in singing - but will I ever be abel to get those songs right? You do get Best Of You with such power and not like mikey mouse voice as I get in F#4 and beyond. How do I do it? I've really saw loads of your videos, but still not good in those right notes.
How do I go for singing like The Colour and the Shape, Wind Up, Breakout's screams? Is not something that I am focusing right now for not getting hurt, but I wish to do that. And Dave's voice is still amazing to this day, so it must have a way.
Keep at it man! It’s a log process of training the muscle memory, internalizing feels etc. have you thought about joining one of my courses? The aggressive vocalist master plan of attack might be right up your alley! Go to www.MyMusicalVoice.com to check it out
@@chrisliepe Thanks. I really want it, but as a brazilian, every dollar is * 6 + taxes. So I'm going to see if I have the money for it.
The gum too?
When I "push" , I feel the base of my throat closes and tightens, even if i don't make any effort from my chest to top, just compressing my stomach muscles has that effect and my voice doesn't sound anything like Grohl ;c
Did you watch Chris's compression w/fry video? He explains adding the fry shape to your throat and having that feel of holding back air while your giving a clean note. I think.. I just watched almost all his videos and might have left out some details.
Confused. You say practice yelling-but that'll trash your voice as its cookie monster right ? Please clarify what you mean when you say yelling ..is it fry?
Good question! Check out this video for more: ua-cam.com/video/uhaoJcQozEU/v-deo.html
@@chrisliepe cheers will do
I like most of your videos but this one has little practical advice unless you're coaching someone who is already a very good singer but lacks the ability to get wild. The only thing separating Dave Grohl from 99% of people watching is not just "confidence"... It's at least 30 years of already being a great singer. If it was as simple as letting go and being a rock n rolla then who would need you to teach them techniques? :P
I agree with you on this video. This isn't one of my typical "dissect the techniques of a singer" And I've done a ton of those since releasing this video. The point here really is that "letting go" is what most of these guys did to discover their vocal potential... not by studying formal voice training. But given the context and my other videos, I can see how this one feels a bit incomplete.
@@chrisliepe Thank you for your response and your candour. What I like most about your teaching style is that you are not afraid to talk about psychological factors and imagery, which is a huge part of singing, maybe the biggest after a while. I just saw this and thought, damn a lot of kids are going to scream their head off in their bedroom and they need practical advice. Which of course you provide in other videos :) Keep up the good work man, I love it and I think you're really on to something here
Are you that guy that keeps stealing my girlfriends
maybe??
best of you changed to rest of me? it just got me confused lol
he's got another confession to make. i'm no fool
@@brooklynbayou1359 well, If you got here, you NEED to check my channel man!
Stupid copyright trolls on UA-cam targeting fair use. Check Rick Beatos rant about it
yeah, but a lot of those rock singers lost their voices overtime.
Ya, they have... but we don't have to if we use the right techniques, hone in on the right sensations, and practice vocal budgeting! We can learn from them if we don't set out to merely imitate them! Study... pull inspiration... learn good technique... GO :) Check out this video: ua-cam.com/video/fTwDMrEfYr0/v-deo.html
Can’t get any close to that sound :(
It’s not so much about trying to get this sound, but about pulling the confidence and intensity from Dave’s singing. Get to these levels with those and then listen in anticipation for what unique qualities are showcased in your own voice. It won’t always initially be all that great but with practice, you’ll learn some great things about your voice and how it can really sound!
I will not listen to anyone talking about rock music who is wearing a Coheed and Cambria shirt.
and i will not eat green eggs and ham Sam i am
What a lame comment