That t-shirt Lauren is wearing looks pretty dope! Also yall are very talented. love everything(all the content) that you produce. Almost every track you cover or original is a automatic add to my work Playlist. Solo she kicks ass and the band RHD kicks major ass!
I've spent like...15 years trying to scream and failing, and somehow the gag exercise here is the thing that led to my first breakthrough in that entire time, so thank you!!
@@jessicam9121 similar techniques for screaming and singing. I can't sing for shit but explaining to us how she screams sounds simple. Just needs a little bit more training
It’s actually simpler than singing normally, since (ordinarily) it doesn’t envolve pitch. It’s just a bit intimidating and can be scary before it “clicks”. For me at least, learning at a time when there wasn’t really much information out and easily accessible, I hurt myself for a good while trying randomly, before one day I just got it, and it became easy and even effortless forever since.
HELLO! Im an old school technically trained singer here and the way you describe is SO MUCH BETTER than all the others. I cant understand the "closing the folds" and then pushing the air through... it doesnt compute for me. But THIS. Might be the kicker! :) Thank you!
I feel much more confident listening to a woman trying to explain this, mostly because what this sounds like when I try to do it sort of seems to be in the direction of what Lauren sounds like. With men, the sound is often so different that I have no clue if I'm even going in the right direction.
I have two biology degrees and love all of the jargon (false cord, false folds, fry, distortion, etc.), but that approach has only gotten me so far, so maybe I should try Lauren's method. I wrote a "blegh" into one of my songs, but I can't do it very well (yet).
This is a great method to get into this stuff. Gagging, grandpa voice works really well. I started this from mixed voice, then learned raspy singing from it, and at some point, i got the pitchless scream. This technique takes time to hone, but absolutely worth it.
Pitchless scream? My god, the misinformation being spread in regards to screaming blows my mind. Every sound has a pitch. And you can control the pitch of EVERY scream by manipulating the base pitch with mouth shape.
True, that every scream has a pitch, its just masked with other sounds. The ratio of it is the important. Also, when you control the sound with your mouth/tongue, the pitch of the voice should not change, only the place of the resonance which can alter the sound. You dont make “pitch” with your mouth.
@@laszloegri4959 yes this is correct. You bend the base pitch with mouth shapes.. the base pitch still comes from your false chords...or whatever else you are using to create the distortion... It remains the same pitch, as you said, however once the note bending and the overtones and undertones, the resonance and the mix of cleans to harsh all take place, the sound that leaves the mouth is different than the sound in your throat. I take it by pitchless scream you are refering to a scream where their is minimal 'voice' in the scream?? (Like will Ramos highs??)
I think it was mentioned that way in this video or in another video by Chris, so i used that term to be on the same page with the audience. So in this case pitchless=more distortion, less voice, but maybe we can call the base technique by fry. It would be hard to categorize perfectly this scream since it can use all of the mechanisms. I learned this by taking out singing voice and applying more distortion by fry, throat singing and using that ary-something which gives more compression and a froggy character into the sound.
I recently found a way to do high screams from my headvoice! Can’t wait to try out your way ❤ thank you for sharing your techniques. You‘re such a rolemodel to us females in metal and rockmusic 😊
DAMN! Lauren!! Thank you so much for this video! I tried that gag 6-7 times, and i immediately was able to make a awesome scream! I try to learn it since a year, but was never able to make one that doesn't hurt after a short time. Again: Thank you so much!
Yo... I've watched all the technical videos and still always just hurt my throat. Half way through this video and I was accidentally doing good screams that didn't hurt at all. The whole "above the vocal chords" section made everything start to click! Thank you so much!
The fry scream, it's the final technique that I want to learn. I've learned to do almost everything else. American Head Charge - "The War of Art" is my favourite album from the early 2000s. Cameron Heacock was an amazing singer, IMO.
4:06 - LOL, I learned how to do this from listening to Cameron Heacock (American Head Charge), for like 10,000 hours ("The War of Art" is a masterpiece).
I used to be the vocalist of a metalcore band, but lost my ability to scream after years of inactivity I'm hoping I can get it back ! Thanks for your video ❤
4:05 warning anyone who might be a lil sensitive with the gag reflex sound. Dudeiful I love this video with you and Chris ❤️ I also call it my cookie monster vocals
I subscribed to you because I was fascinated by your vocal part in " CHOP SUEY". But besides your voice, there was another miracle - your facial expressions. My Queen ! )
This is the video that finally made it click. For over a year I've been trying to scream and could do ok growls and some whisper screams but the volume was never there and i could never figure it out. Started bleghing in the shower then suddenly hit that deafening roar. Learned how that felt, replicated it with different vowels, and now I've got it
Thank you both for freely sharing your mind and knowledge with the rest of us! I love singing and always thought this ability was lost on me. Now i feel the drive to work on it. Even if i dont scream like i want to, maybe I can add a rhasp and grit to my voice that ive always wanted!
Youre kidding me. Ive watched a ton of how to vocal fry scream videos and literally nothing clicked and made me FEEL that sensation until trying BLEGH 😂 awesome!!
Lmao, I'll never not laugh at how funny this all sounds..! xD At least practicing this technique will be fun, right? Totally not overwhelming at all! :] Thanks for sharing your tutorial video for free, Lauren! I'd have totally bought a disc or something from you about this, but I really appreciate how you're going about it! ❤️❤️❤️❤️
it sounds, feels and its so funny, but it totally works, even when you are not making any sounds while placing the tongue you can actually feel where the sound would come from. Great tips!!!
the reason why your tongue crawls up behind in your throat is because you use your epiglottis in the back tot bend like in twang, keep your larynx at the same place, don't use the vocalcords in compression(means the vocalcords itself can make tension). You use your false chords as well during the scream. If you feel itchy and you start to cough, then you don't do it in the proper way.
I think my cat has been taking your lessons because I often hear that gagging sound at 3am. I always thought it was because he eats too fast, but no, he's just a closet metal cat. In all seriousness though, this is great. I've been able to 'scream' in very short bursts intuitively for a while without engaging my true vocal folds but I could never maintain it for a full song because yeah, it does feel strange and tickly.
Almost every "scream" singer I've come across doesn't know much of any of the terminology. They all go by experimentation and feel which helps them develop their own style and in a much safer way.
Thanks a lot. After the first time you made that noise, I finally had it 😂. Trying now for nearly two days but up to this point had to hold my head in strange positions to get a good resonance.
I am able to project my sneezes. I took that same technique and applied it to screaming. I have that Viking Roar like Mastodon had in the early days. My vocals are similar to Staind, Tool, Alice in Chains, Mudvayne, Days of the New, Seether, Cold. I am trying to learn the screams that Mudvayne, Slipknot, Lamb of God, and Devil Driver does. Once Human and Jinjer has some crazy screams too. Lamb of God had a "Blep" scream on the song "Resurrection Man".
This helped but I share a room with my little sister and it’s 2:39 am and she decided to wake up right in the middle of me gagging trying to figure it out, she’s now sleeping on the couch😭😭
I love this!!! What I’m realizing tho is besides the coughing I also feel like that spot where your tongue & the back of your throat meet loses lubrication. So I gotta swallow some spit lol
Found you today threw Chris 🎶🎶❤️🎶🎶 Sub'd ya today too. Not tryna bragg but I'm pretty good at the "death rattle grudge b!tch sound" LOL that's my technical.... Gag .... ❤️
I deeply apologize if this question is TOO personal but Im Asexual and a while back found a commercial for for "pride rings" and there was an "Asexual PRide Ring" and it was completely black, just like the one youre wearing on your right arm which you can clearly see at 1:07 so I was just wondering if you're an Ace too? Or maybe you just thought the ring was pretty (it is) IF you dont wana answer at all, I completely respect that and I apologize
I disagree with the classification of this as a fry scream, I would describe it as pure upper constriction. When you say the word "hut" without the T and hold that closure, you get the sound Lauren gets. If you then add a head voice note, allow the sound to open up and relax, and then project, you get a true fry scream of the kind Sam Carter, Austin Carlisle, Courtney LaPlante do. It's a valid scream in its own right, but there's a reason why Lauren's scream doesn't have the same extreme overtone that most well known fry vocalists get, and her scream is much, much more limited in volume. Justin Bonitz talks about upper constriction in his fry tutorial. I learned Lauren's method first and then switched to Justin's, and my control over the tone of the scream and overall power has improved enormously. I question whether the gag technique should be taught under the "fry" umbrella, because it's a fundamentally different distortion and it's extremely hard to make it sound anything like the more conventional fry.
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Lauren you've been such an inspiration to me with screaming vocals and I've almost done them for 3 years. 🤟🤟🤟
That t-shirt Lauren is wearing looks pretty dope! Also yall are very talented. love everything(all the content) that you produce. Almost every track you cover or original is a automatic add to my work Playlist. Solo she kicks ass and the band RHD kicks major ass!
This is amazing! I have been saying since high school (like 20 years ago lol) that I wish there was a class to teach this!
😂😂😂🤔 false chord 😂🤣🤣 it's ok too gag😝😂🤣🤣
The name reminds me of the Skillet song Monster
I've spent like...15 years trying to scream and failing, and somehow the gag exercise here is the thing that led to my first breakthrough in that entire time, so thank you!!
You're making it sound simple and approachable even for me. Someone who can't even sing the regular way. I appreciate this way of teaching.
The regular way 😂😂😂😂 I love it
@@jessicam9121 similar techniques for screaming and singing. I can't sing for shit but explaining to us how she screams sounds simple. Just needs a little bit more training
It’s actually simpler than singing normally, since (ordinarily) it doesn’t envolve pitch. It’s just a bit intimidating and can be scary before it “clicks”. For me at least, learning at a time when there wasn’t really much information out and easily accessible, I hurt myself for a good while trying randomly, before one day I just got it, and it became easy and even effortless forever since.
HELLO! Im an old school technically trained singer here and the way you describe is SO MUCH BETTER than all the others. I cant understand the "closing the folds" and then pushing the air through... it doesnt compute for me. But THIS. Might be the kicker! :) Thank you!
My girlfriend just walked in on me doing this. I think we're done
😂😂😂
Lol
😂
I’m not the only one!
Then she wasn’t the one😂
I feel much more confident listening to a woman trying to explain this, mostly because what this sounds like when I try to do it sort of seems to be in the direction of what Lauren sounds like. With men, the sound is often so different that I have no clue if I'm even going in the right direction.
same actually
ikr??
They scream like monsters but talk like normal people i love it
Ahaha!!!
Lauren + Chris = vocal coach dream team!
So happy y’all got in the studio together; can’t wait for more 🎉
I have two biology degrees and love all of the jargon (false cord, false folds, fry, distortion, etc.), but that approach has only gotten me so far, so maybe I should try Lauren's method. I wrote a "blegh" into one of my songs, but I can't do it very well (yet).
I literally just sat here making strange noises for like 8 minutes straight 😂😂
thats basically the point hahaha
Have to start somewhere. 😊
@@olivemaclean I know it just sounded so sad 😂
😂😂😂 I’m done , strange sounds
So you did the tutorial correctly?
I hope we get more with Chris and Lauren soon! I’m ready to find my inner Blegh!
I am so psyched to learn how to do this just for fun!
I love your blegh! I've been really liking the warmups so far!
i get the giggles so bad from practicing scream noises like this fjdjddndjsaj
Same 😂
This is a great method to get into this stuff. Gagging, grandpa voice works really well. I started this from mixed voice, then learned raspy singing from it, and at some point, i got the pitchless scream. This technique takes time to hone, but absolutely worth it.
Pitchless scream? My god, the misinformation being spread in regards to screaming blows my mind. Every sound has a pitch. And you can control the pitch of EVERY scream by manipulating the base pitch with mouth shape.
True, that every scream has a pitch, its just masked with other sounds. The ratio of it is the important. Also, when you control the sound with your mouth/tongue, the pitch of the voice should not change, only the place of the resonance which can alter the sound. You dont make “pitch” with your mouth.
@@laszloegri4959 yes this is correct. You bend the base pitch with mouth shapes.. the base pitch still comes from your false chords...or whatever else you are using to create the distortion... It remains the same pitch, as you said, however once the note bending and the overtones and undertones, the resonance and the mix of cleans to harsh all take place, the sound that leaves the mouth is different than the sound in your throat.
I take it by pitchless scream you are refering to a scream where their is minimal 'voice' in the scream?? (Like will Ramos highs??)
I think it was mentioned that way in this video or in another video by Chris, so i used that term to be on the same page with the audience. So in this case pitchless=more distortion, less voice, but maybe we can call the base technique by fry. It would be hard to categorize perfectly this scream since it can use all of the mechanisms. I learned this by taking out singing voice and applying more distortion by fry, throat singing and using that ary-something which gives more compression and a froggy character into the sound.
@@laszloegri4959 you on about the scream that sounds like white noise?
I recently found a way to do high screams from my headvoice! Can’t wait to try out your way ❤ thank you for sharing your techniques. You‘re such a rolemodel to us females in metal and rockmusic 😊
I watched this at 1.5 speed and it was too funny 😂
You should see the looks my dog is giving me right now👀🤭🤣
DAMN! Lauren!! Thank you so much for this video!
I tried that gag 6-7 times, and i immediately was able to make a awesome scream! I try to learn it since a year, but was never able to make one that doesn't hurt after a short time.
Again: Thank you so much!
Yo... I've watched all the technical videos and still always just hurt my throat. Half way through this video and I was accidentally doing good screams that didn't hurt at all. The whole "above the vocal chords" section made everything start to click! Thank you so much!
4:57 sounds like in the South Park movie when they make the dying giraffe noise
La resistance😂 im crying
The fry scream, it's the final technique that I want to learn. I've learned to do almost everything else. American Head Charge - "The War of Art" is my favourite album from the early 2000s. Cameron Heacock was an amazing singer, IMO.
Just So You Know is a 10/10 song. It's such a dynamic journey instrument- and singingwise
4:06 - LOL, I learned how to do this from listening to Cameron Heacock (American Head Charge), for like 10,000 hours ("The War of Art" is a masterpiece).
Tyvm for this video so dope. Love how you two feed off each other's ideas it's epic keep up with the videos
Listening to your songs and covers. I’m a fan. I think that you’re amazing!
Lauren and Chris!
Finally the best content! Keep doing this videos pls!
I used to be the vocalist of a metalcore band, but lost my ability to scream after years of inactivity I'm hoping I can get it back ! Thanks for your video ❤
4:05 warning anyone who might be a lil sensitive with the gag reflex sound.
Dudeiful I love this video with you and Chris ❤️ I also call it my cookie monster vocals
Your so damn pretty😍😍
And i love this!!! I wanna be in a all girl heavy metal band n scream like this!!!🤩🤩
Looking forward to hearing more new music, Lauren.
I can’t stop laughing 😂 you guys are awesome
I subscribed to you because I was fascinated by your vocal part in " CHOP SUEY". But besides your voice, there was another miracle - your facial expressions. My Queen ! )
Lauren is the best of the best!
This is the video that finally made it click. For over a year I've been trying to scream and could do ok growls and some whisper screams but the volume was never there and i could never figure it out.
Started bleghing in the shower then suddenly hit that deafening roar. Learned how that felt, replicated it with different vowels, and now I've got it
Thank you guys for promoting safe techniques while encouraging potential. Keep being awesome.
Thank you both for freely sharing your mind and knowledge with the rest of us! I love singing and always thought this ability was lost on me. Now i feel the drive to work on it. Even if i dont scream like i want to, maybe I can add a rhasp and grit to my voice that ive always wanted!
Thank you lauren. Is very helpful🖤
The timing of this is perfect for me and my songs
Youre kidding me. Ive watched a ton of how to vocal fry scream videos and literally nothing clicked and made me FEEL that sensation until trying BLEGH 😂 awesome!!
Lmao, I'll never not laugh at how funny this all sounds..! xD At least practicing this technique will be fun, right? Totally not overwhelming at all! :] Thanks for sharing your tutorial video for free, Lauren! I'd have totally bought a disc or something from you about this, but I really appreciate how you're going about it! ❤️❤️❤️❤️
it sounds, feels and its so funny, but it totally works, even when you are not making any sounds while placing the tongue you can actually feel where the sound would come from. Great tips!!!
How many of us started going "blaaaah" 🤔😂
the reason why your tongue crawls up behind in your throat is because you use your epiglottis in the back tot bend like in twang, keep your larynx at the same place, don't use the vocalcords in compression(means the vocalcords itself can make tension). You use your false chords as well during the scream. If you feel itchy and you start to cough, then you don't do it in the proper way.
This is so helpful!
When's the full course coming out? Def gonna buy
Thank you so much for making this! I've finally gotten to a good starting point with my voice to scream thanks to your explanations!
Thank u so muchhhhhh for this❤
4:05 😂
I think my cat has been taking your lessons because I often hear that gagging sound at 3am. I always thought it was because he eats too fast, but no, he's just a closet metal cat. In all seriousness though, this is great. I've been able to 'scream' in very short bursts intuitively for a while without engaging my true vocal folds but I could never maintain it for a full song because yeah, it does feel strange and tickly.
Thanks that is really simple!
Now we all know some of your secrets 🤘🏻 😂 thank you both for the video it's really interesting
im working on this at 3 in the morning, i feel like my neighbors are gunna complain/ call the police xD
Almost every "scream" singer I've come across doesn't know much of any of the terminology. They all go by experimentation and feel which helps them develop their own style and in a much safer way.
Amazing 💖💫
I'm walking around cleaning my house while making the gag sounds, trying to learn this technique and all my neighbors think I'm weird... 😂
🤣🤣🤣 by next week you can scream at them so it's fine 🤣🤣
Wow you look so much like Chaney Crabb who does vocals for Entheos its kind of crazy. You are both awesome.
it worked. trying to make alternative rock with singing and screaming this is helping!
In the very near future, aliens will find this video and believe this is how we talk @5:55. Then we know we did our jobs as metalheads. /\m/\
I need it for a four words sentence in my song. I'm just trying ideas 😂 Love this explanation ❤
Nice Introduction. Was surprised at how deep I my voice could go with this :b
I love screaming like you Lauren especially when it comes to awesome song
You're my hero Miss Babic.
“You just need to be able to do this one simple sound”
*does a perfect fry scream*
Thanks a lot. After the first time you made that noise, I finally had it 😂. Trying now for nearly two days but up to this point had to hold my head in strange positions to get a good resonance.
i made my first legit growl/scream words, with power behind them!! thank you.
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anyone ever get Melissa Cross' The Zen of Screaming? that's how i learned how to scream when i was 15 back in 2005 lol
I literally said to my fiancee last night that I wanna learn how to scream. Perfect timing. Lol.
I am able to project my sneezes. I took that same technique and applied it to screaming. I have that Viking Roar like Mastodon had in the early days. My vocals are similar to Staind, Tool, Alice in Chains, Mudvayne, Days of the New, Seether, Cold. I am trying to learn the screams that Mudvayne, Slipknot, Lamb of God, and Devil Driver does. Once Human and Jinjer has some crazy screams too.
Lamb of God had a "Blep" scream on the song "Resurrection Man".
Lmfao my neighbor just knocked on my door to check if I was okay 😆
This helped but I share a room with my little sister and it’s 2:39 am and she decided to wake up right in the middle of me gagging trying to figure it out, she’s now sleeping on the couch😭😭
I can’t w this guy 😂
Awsome ❤🎉
I like your views and yes this is exactly how with warm ups. Thanks.
Thank you, Emo Abby Jacobson. I’ll take this and run with it.
Okay, this is weird. But I'm gonna try it anyway - with the "yeah". Thank you for the tutorial! Love it ❤❤❤
Lol this is hilarious out of context 😂
my neighbors must be worried about me after making all these noises
I love this!!! What I’m realizing tho is besides the coughing I also feel like that spot where your tongue & the back of your throat meet loses lubrication. So I gotta swallow some spit lol
Watching this in my car and i forgot to check my surroundings and i think i just traumatized the mailman
Found you today threw Chris
🎶🎶❤️🎶🎶 Sub'd ya today too. Not tryna bragg but I'm pretty good at the "death rattle grudge b!tch sound" LOL that's my technical.... Gag .... ❤️
Is this leading to a fry scream?
your such an amazing singer lauren such an amazing voice. ps. i to do the beHHHH sound.
I think this was the most helpful and quickest intro into making the sound 🫨🙏🏼
I tried this and giggles came out 😭
It feels so weird lmao but ima keep practicing!
What did cinderalle say when she got to the ball?
I deeply apologize if this question is TOO personal but Im Asexual and a while back found a commercial for for "pride rings" and there was an "Asexual PRide Ring" and it was completely black, just like the one youre wearing on your right arm which you can clearly see at 1:07 so I was just wondering if you're an Ace too?
Or maybe you just thought the ring was pretty (it is)
IF you dont wana answer at all, I completely respect that and I apologize
Ace rings are usually worn on the middle finger of the right hand ^^
Not gonna lie getting sick 🤮 is how I knew I could do this. Thank you for videos like this
omg i started getting the sound but it hurts still i think its coz my actual vocal folds are engaged but ill keep working on this
I'm screaming and I'm laughing my ass off right now 😆
I can do this, but it sounds bad recorded, like you can tell it's quiet? How do you mix this to sound full?
I’m laying here at 4 in the morning saying bleghs over and over again 😵💫😂
I would love to be able to do the blegh but yet i can't do the gag cuz it makes me want to actually 🤮
great to learn from the pros!
Where should I be feeling pressure/muscle flexion, if any? In my throat or chest?
IS this fry or false chord?
ok guys can you help it like scrapes my throat i know i’m doing it wrong but am i pushing too hard i dint get it
I disagree with the classification of this as a fry scream, I would describe it as pure upper constriction. When you say the word "hut" without the T and hold that closure, you get the sound Lauren gets. If you then add a head voice note, allow the sound to open up and relax, and then project, you get a true fry scream of the kind Sam Carter, Austin Carlisle, Courtney LaPlante do.
It's a valid scream in its own right, but there's a reason why Lauren's scream doesn't have the same extreme overtone that most well known fry vocalists get, and her scream is much, much more limited in volume. Justin Bonitz talks about upper constriction in his fry tutorial. I learned Lauren's method first and then switched to Justin's, and my control over the tone of the scream and overall power has improved enormously. I question whether the gag technique should be taught under the "fry" umbrella, because it's a fundamentally different distortion and it's extremely hard to make it sound anything like the more conventional fry.
oh i thought i was doing it wrong because the back of my throat tingles wwhen i try, good to know its supposed to come from there XD
Day 1 of wanting to hear you cover Heartbreaker by Pat Benatar!