Vocal Fry Tutorial IV - How to stabilize your fry - Vocal Distortion Tutorials by Aliki Katriou
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- Опубліковано 16 гру 2020
- The fourth tutorial in a series about vocal fry distortion. This video teaches you the skill you'll need to stabilize your vocal fry and increase its reliability.
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If you're interested in exploring your false cords, check out my false cord tutorial series!
I'm a metal singer and singing teacher. I specialize in distortions - what people would call false cord, vocal fry, screaming, growling, grunting, grit, rasp, yelling. Basically, vocal texture!
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I want this channel to blow up and get thousands of subscribers but I also kinda want this channel to be our precious little secret - a hidden gem
XD I'm ok either way, as long as I ethically approve of my work I'll be happy :)
This channel is a frickin' gem..
*joy*
LOLOL THE NOISE FROM THE GRUDGE! been doing that since i was a kid, who knew so many different things i was already doing were vocal fry... this needs to be the most viewed for how to, glad it was the first to pop up tho.
I’m obsessed with these videos
Your squeaky sounds and mannerisms give me so much serotonin!!! :D
Now I can mimic a Geiger counter with fry, a yodaling goat herder AND a shaver with false chords. Maybe I'll become a foley artist.
No time like the present! Honestly, is there anything more fun than foley work? What a great job...
Always do focal fry thinking it was a neat trick but know that I know it was actually vocal fry its pretty cool.
you are the only person who has given me practical ways to practice and get better from the ground up. i seriously needed these exact kind of videos. you have already saved me so much gripe by literally having this whole process laid out for me. thank you so much. now im go count to 5 80 times
XD yaaaay ^.^ Remember to rest and be lazy; laziness is the best way to be efficient XD
Wasn't expecting an other episode so quickly after the third one on vocal fry :D Thanks a lot, it actually helps so much !
wooohoo XD
you're so underrated really these are the best singing vids i've ever seen :)
thank you so much :)
It takes time to get the "masses'" attention. ;) They'll find it eventually.
Hi there! You do this very well! I've been singing my whole life but some years ago, I tried out for a band and I was rejected because...I wasn't enough aggressive! At first, I was hurt and I was like "Fuck them! They don't know what they're talking about" and bla bla bla...just excuses for me to feel better but then I thought about it and yeah, they're right. So I started to look into all those terms: vocal fry, vocal distortion, rasp....
I've watched a lot of videos made by a lot of different "vocal coaches" and in this video, I realized, I noticed something very important that you do and that most of the others don't: You not only tell us and show us how it's done but you also tell us and show us what not to do! This is so important because....let's use the example in this video, if you tried to do that by squeezing (or compressing) instead of using your breath, you wouldn't get it right and you wouldn't know why!
Again, very well done and I'm looking for the next videos!!!
:) thank you
This channel is so unique
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This was very helpful, I've been practicing my vocal fry but you have shown me that I need to start off at a lower pitch & slower tempo instead of screaming at a high pitch. So glad I came across your video.....thank you very much
Wow you're tutorials are amazing!! SO helpful, thank you very much!
aww thank you very much!
Thank you for your series on vocal fry. I can do false chord vocals for personal enjoyment and I am finetuning those techniques and using your practices to actually be faster at false chords as I definitely struggled with certain vowels and keeping up with high tempo. I have a pretty deep and mildly raspy natural voice and always found fry easy to get in my chest voice but impossible with doing in falsetto and getting something high up but slowing everything down even more and then trying to push it up towards falsetto with that little to no air I was able to do it. I will continue to practice getting up into my falsetto like this until I can start and stop without starting low, and I will definitely apply the counting technique to my vocal fry as my voice naturally does want the fry to linger instead of pop in and out. Your videos break down everything to the individual step and focusing on components that go into distorted singing and your personality is extremely entertaining.
Aww, thank you so much! I'm glad it's making sense and is hopefully helping :)
This Fry series is great and I also watched all the false cord vids to work on that as well.
:D
This is so nice to see you doing what you like
So lucky to find your video !!!
You are doing somesthing very useful for all of us... Thnx a lot! You are great!
thank you!
I like the beginning of ur video. It always makes my day :)
^^ thank you ^^
Yes! I was waiting for it.😊😊
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your videos are really helping me progress in my singing and screaming🤘
Glad to hear it ^^
I have been practicing a lot with help of your videos, and I can already tell a difference from week one to a month in my vocal fry!!
aww yay ^^
Love your Videos about vocal fry. Thank you so much.
^^ thank you
It took me so long to find you! hallelujah lujah yeah🤩
Just thank you! Thank you a lot!
thank you :)
I just cannot get the "single fry pop" no matter how little I push air - I can only get constant fry or then if I lessen the air even more I just get a hissing sound without fry or a very very low volume constant fry. I've tried so many times and I have no idea how to use less air. What am I doing wrong? I've tried to learn fry screaming for so long and nothing works... Different fry placement, trying different levels of air, mouth manipulation... I just don't get it. Other exercises have gone fine (e.g. the 1,2,3,4,5).
It isn't the end of world, it's just one exercise in your toolkit. Leave it, come back to it and it might work later. If not, move on to the next stuff.
If you just get a hissing sound, you have probably disengaged your vocal folds and the air is now just leaking out. So your brain thinks less air is less vocal fold resistance, rather than less air... Work on your cleans, working the inhale - meaning sing, then inhale normally, exhale, inhale less and sing and keep varying the amount of air you're singing on.
If you're getting a very low volume constant fry, your brain has probably connected amount of breath with phonation and thinks breath & volume are 100% related (they are related, but not 100%). Again, go back to your cleans and give yourself the challenge of adjusting your volume levels (just a bit, not too much) without changing anything about the breath.
@@AlikiKatriou Wow, thank you so much for such a detailed answer. Now I definitely have something new to think about instead just retrying things that don't work. You are the best and I love your channel!
thats exactly the problem im having and it kinda weird for me because i used to do this all the time in elemtary scool
You' re amazing, thank you so much!!!
thank you :D
Ick, prepairing to move houses has made me miss this video! Hope to be able to book a lesson or two after the dust has settled down. Something tells me you might be able to help me out on the harsh vocals and soms mezzo stuff, too ✌️
Oooooo, that sounds like fun! I'm here for the harsh & the mezzo stuff XD
pulse is actually fun :3 i have to admit although, never try it after drinking coffee XD everything just disappears when up in falsetto area in a whole bunch of mud ahahahha
loving this channel EVEN MORE :3
aha, so you're one of those people whose body doesn't agree with coffee XD
@@AlikiKatriou despite my mind and gustative buttons love it, my larynx says NOOOO everytime I just smell coffee (plus i drink espressos only, even worse than the big watery stuff we all drink in the uk, you know what I mean ahahah)
@@fabriziopresente5652 XD
The first Fry video that made sense
Isn't it? Check out the false fold ones, too..... ;)
oaaah. thank you so much for your tutorials.
Ah, so it depends on what you call whistle notes/register. Yes, I can but I don't do it often and I would consider it inconsistent for myself in relation to other things I can do vocally. I could probably work on it and pin it down but it's not high priority for myself personally at the moment :) If we're talking for a student, yeah I could help with that.
@@AlikiKatriou good to know. thanks! :)
I've been training for like 2 weeks, i can do the 1 2 3 4 5 exercice effortlessly, i can do a vocal fry whenever i want with no problem. Im also starting to be able to do it in falseto a bit, although it uses way more air than i'd like. But i've been trying hard, and yet, i absolutely can't do the low pulse, its either a rather fast pulse or just air, it feels like there is no in between at all (where should be the slow pulse). What am i doing wrong? It's starting to get very frustrating... I am reducing the air and controlling it the absolute best i can, im doing it for like 20/30min a day, some days even more, and yet i feel like this in between just doesnt exist for me (which doesnt make sense). Does anyone have any idea of what i should do? Btw im not squeezing at all, i use only air. Thanks in advance.
How do I know I'm not squeezing? It feels like I'm squeezing in falsetto and after some time my throat gets kinda sore..
This is going to sound so terrible but in order not to squeeze you must literally do nothing. The minute you try to do anything vocally, you will squeeze because that's the only movement muscles can actively do. So you're just trying to use less air without moving/changing anything on your vocal folds... Think of it as a meditation exercise rather than an active movement.
If your default falsetto feels squeezed, then start with a silent exhalation and slowly try bringing your vocal folds into the breath stream. It might be difficult to do but should enable you to feel the difference between relaxation and a squeeze... Hope that helps a bit!
Now that sounds familiar...Oh, yeah, the Chernobyl show...:-P
I did all the exercises and everything is working, i can do whatever u r saying, and i'm practicing daily, when i'm supposed to do the scream, after how much months of practice? ;(
+ I want to improve my cleans, please upload some vids about cleans ;(.
Ok, I'll start making notes about cleans. I don't know when you'll do the scream, voice is highly individual and I have never met or heard you so I couldn't even begin to guess I'm afraid...
I'm trying to do it but when i slow down the vocal fry i don't that much volume if i don't squeeze i think
We're not aiming for volume at this stage in fry... fry work tends to be very quiet :)
Its really weird, once i get to falceto my vocal fry vanishes entirely, i tried reducing the breath as much as humanly possible but its still silent. Ill keep trying tho, i am truying to figure out exactly where it disappears by going from my lowest vocal fry point to my highest
I would say this is extremely common and usually, when you unlock fry high up, you'll be amazed with how low the airflow is. It's very difficult to explain just how little air is needed!
You remind me of my Libra friend you look just like her o.O
Hi, - that's for me:
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3:03
Is it okay to have a regular speaking voice with vocal fry? I've always spoke with a little fry and I wander is that a bad thing? The 12345 things is very hard cause I don't normally speak clearly... If u understand what I'm saying 😅
speak a bit louder, it gets rid of the vocal fry
Yes, and yes to the comment of speaking a bit more loudly. It isn't bad to have fry in your speaking voice. It's just that, as a singer, you want a higher level of control over your voice :)
Is this going to lead to any sort of screaming?
Oh yes ^^
I'm kinda stuck rn with figuring out the pulse i feel like i literally cannot do less air and it still isnt pulsing.
I think this is normal. It can take a long time to figure out how to reduce the airflow drastically. Regardless, in relation to the tutorials, I'd say move on :) Just use the tools that work for you and every now and then check in on challenges.
Hi Aliki, is there a third technique? Because if you look at ua-cam.com/video/UZEjivRiCHo/v-deo.html 20:20 and 21:20 it's neither false cord, nor creaky fry. 41:30 shows how that technique goes from little grudge to a full voice. And that little grudge is way different from your fry. Sorry, that channel is in Russian, but you should get the scream samples. :)
Hi :) Yes, there are more techniques. Other distortions would be epiglottic, arytenoid, breath distortions, arguably aryepiglottic distortion (I teach this often but the jury is still out on whether you can 100% isolate it from the false folds) and velar distortion, which you don't hear often.
The examples you are looking at are a combo of aryepiglottic + light false fold. No fry in there at all :)
@@AlikiKatriou would be cool to see aryepiglottic distortion tutorial on your channel then!
@@VadimKirilchuk I am planning on it, just wanted to complete the beginner's fry & false fold first :)
Am i doing it correctly if it feels like im holding my breath?
that's potentially too much holding back... we don't really want you to hold back, we want you to use less air overall... so less air in the system and less air going through/past the vocal folds. If you feel like you're holding your breath, you are essentially increasing the subglottic pressure (the amount of air held underneath your vocal folds) and that will make things tighter and less resonant.
@@AlikiKatriou This makes sense, I do feel some tight pressure. Will try to find out how to achieve this using less air! Thanks for the reply :D
Hi. Is vocal fry supposed to take the note an Octave lower? Because I do wanna sound raspy but I do not wanna sound an Octave lower.
All distortions add a subharmonic element, usually of the octave below. However, you can highlight that subharmonic or disguise it so it doesn't mean you'll necessarily sound an octave lower.
@@AlikiKatriou thank you for replying💖! Do you have any tips on that? How to disguise the note? Cause that's the way I wanna sound.
@@yaralahoud7574 Play around with the underlying volume slightly :) If you don't want it too dark, just play around with the vowels and see if any vowel sounds closer to your target for now
@@AlikiKatriou could you please make a video on that topic? Because I think everyone would wanna sound raspy without having to sound an Octave lower.
@@yaralahoud7574 I'll make a note of it :)
Oh shit, i think she always addresses us as "human beings" because shes an alien :)
Most definitely!
I do this all the damn time. It's my grudge voice. Can't figure out false cord to save my life though
Keep watching Aliki's videos on false cord distortion! ;) If that doesn't work, book a lesson. 🤘 She'll get you there.
False vocal folds are much higher energy & effort than vocal fry...
Welp that explains why I can't figure it out. I'm a low energy type of person 🤣
Ps- Love your channel 💙
@@Pheoria Thank you ^^