Best Vocal Technique Quotes

"I like how freaking tiny and minimalistic she is with her vocal, like her mouth modulation is so small, and it amplifies the feel of this. It makes it oddly more attractive as well, more seductive in that sense, as if it was somehow a whisper or a secret."

"Real human connection like vocals connect with Beats."

"Either Owen's a dumbass and intellectually dishonest, or this motherfucker is the dumbest idiot to ever be a dumb idiot, and he's being intellectually honest. You get to pick one of these to write."

"Oh my goodness, the way he reinitiated the ooh vowels."

"It's entirely up to you but you don't have to go and do this large emphasis of the sound of A, you just use that slide element to get you to the next position."

"That run, that little like run melisma down seems so difficult."

"Chris Cornell generally sings with what sounds like a healthy distortion. He's able to put on that distortion and take it off at will, adding a grittier edge to some of those belted notes."

"Every woman's book, I want you to get your high falsetto when you lip-sync."

"That little run is kind of the best example of a Flawless passaggio so kind of passing from one um one register to another without any Interruption."

"Your voice is an instrument. Not every beat uses the same instruments."

"The thing about this album is Tony's not doing a lot of heavy belting but she's more so writing the song and letting her voice almost be the instrument as she carries the melody."

"First register, nice transitions, good use of aspiration and other effects that lean a little bit more towards distortion."

"The vocal technique utilized here is actually very impressive."

"You're not including your voice box, your larynx at all, you've got that lovely and free beautiful natural balance."

"He's got a really cool uh he's got a really cool onset he does a voiced onset on a lot of his screams which is not necessarily uncommon a lot of vocalists who do it though they do it starting in like their head voice."

"Belting is the sensation of carrying the sound and connectivity of your chest voice over your vocal break in a way that's still efficient."

"Part of the reason people will squeeze their throat to hit high notes is because when our vocal folds are switching gears from that chest voice to that head voice, our vocal folds are blowing apart a little bit."

"If you want to hit high notes first of all stop caring about high notes develop your comfortable voice first learn proper technique then carry that proper technique up to your vocal brake up to your bridge get comfortable there get comfortable there."

"A lot of people will call this mixed voice more over our bridge that's a whole nother can of worms but um get comfortable with your voice first then think about getting over the bridge."

"She's not belting because she's not really using her chest voice in that space she is just having this really incredible forward nasal resonance that I think is a product of good vowels a product of good air support and resonance."

"She's not reaching up with thick folds. She isn't in a chest dominant mix here for sure. She is mixing and blending so doggedly. Oh, there's so much of that whininess happening there."

"So these more centered, panned, collapsed vocals are giving us more of that kind of more felt than heard center, which is awesome."

"He's singing in a very comfortable range, and it's very low compression, right? There's a lot of air coming through."

"Good vowel shapes are good vowel shapes whether you're singing or screaming or anything like good vowels are good vowels dream on Aerosmith."

"This is when the vocal votes aren't just going like this to produce piss there's also a little bit of like this happening."

"She manipulates her voice in such cool little ways."

"It's not forced distortion-type grit, this is actually guttural grit which comes from the backside versus coming from up here."

"With false cord, the problem is people are too aggressive, because they've been told this is an aggressive scream and they accept more pain."

"You cannot really get away with fry screaming and not being able to sing."

"So everything that I'm doing right now is all to get that base kind of moving around the vocal in a way that feels like I'm getting some movement."

"His vocals are just so like I don't know how he's straining his voice in that way it's [__] sick"

"Learning to sing without strain is super super important."

"His highs are super up there, right? And a lot of the way that we do that is we can take sort of our simple false chord and slowly raise the tongue and activate our nasal space."

"... I can activate my false cords and I can switch to fry and stuff and I can hit like pitch notes, uh, just run through every one of my screams that I know I'm going to do and make sure that it feels comfortable."

"I love the wide mouth she's really she's using the space inside opening up a lot of times for really clear vowels and obviously shaping these sounds so that we've got that raw grit kind of feeling very nice."

"If the tongue is active, you then can release tension where the tongue connects to the larynx or the hyoid bone."

"Flexibility of tongue equals flexibility of sound."

"It's called the sound of silence, right? It's not called the sound of belting."

"Whitney's vocal technique is rooted in the tradition of old school gospel."

"And there's a growl that kind of comes from the back of the throat right it's different than a really nasally like more forward growl this one comes from back here and it it's easier to do because she's using that larynx right to to bring some richness to the color."

"The fact that she did all of that and then was still able to hold an accurate note in her head voice with her falsetto is just insanity."

"Instead of using a single compressor on a vocal, I almost always am going to use a technique called serial compression."

"I love how he does this sneak rasp where he's able to mix it into his tone without making it super forefront and prominent."

"Think about how much of that chest resonance can I keep in the vocal because a lot of times that's where all the emotion is coming from."

"I like singers who often hold back what they have."

"Have you tried doing a vocal rock scream without losing your voice? That is hard."

"When you're a singer, you really got to know how to use that instrument."

"We want our throat to be relaxed, we want our resonance to be forward."

"Keep the neck relaxed, learn how to do some distortion separately from your screams."

"Allow your voice to cross into that next place; don't try to pull up all the way from chest."

"If you can start with that by finding your falsetto stuff, finding your really light stuff, and then try to blend that down until you start feeling it in your chest without it having a massive jump in color, that's a good way to start blending those two voices together."

"She's using a bit more of her chest, that's a really cool, really impressed with her vowels."

"The crossover in the voice is going to lead to your singing being completely transformed."

"It's a point where your vocal cords go from stretching to zipping."

"It's like you're smiling in the back of your throat, you've got it."

"Interesting for sure, really thought-provoking from a vocal technique standpoint."

"If you're in mixed voice or if you're finding mixed voice or if it's working right for you, then join me and we'll chat about it."

"I love the way that he was combining what's essentially like a classical vocal technique with all of these harsh vocals."

"Singing with chest voice is definitely important in singing because it's going to give you a stronger sound."

"Your goal is to have an even balance of airflow and sound."

"Whether you're a contemporary singer or a classical singer, whether you're a beginner or a total professional, the best exercise I recommend is the SOVT: semi-occluded vocal tract exercise."

"SOVTs help you get this transglottal pressure difference optimized by creating this positive acoustic energy above the vocal folds."

"This week we're going to be talking about six common songwriting mistakes that metal vocalists make."

"Just like the vocals themselves, you want to try and maintain balance."

"Why we practice a lot of scales is that it gives us not only intonation but allows us the ability to work up motor skills in our vocal tract."

"It's really important that we get the diaphragmatic support working for us to sustain, to support pitch."

"How can we get those higher notes to mellow out, round out, have more chest sound? We're going to do it with the overtones."

"What you have to do is think the opposite... when you sing low, think high; when you sing high, think low."

"She has amazing vowels, breath support, agility, her vibrato is so natural and unique."

"The great thing about this distortion is that it's higher up, farther away from the vocal cords; anytime something is farther away from the vocal cords, it's healthier, more sustainable, there's more longevity in it."

"The key to sounding your best 100% of the time is making sure that you are 100% relaxed."

"There is an incredible amount of open space in her vocal mechanism, right in her mouth; she is creating room for the acoustic properties of her voice to do a lot of the work for her."

"The vocal stretch method sounds more natural for voices."

"Petula has that vocal technique that allows her to sing night after night without affecting her vocal cords in a negative way."

"Great projection, great support, her vibrato from here, from the diaphragm, not here."

"Try to be seamless in the connection between chest and head voice."

"The voice is organic, temperamental, and fragile, and it needs that kind of care."

"It's about finesse and technique and understanding how we can keep the voice healthy for a really long time."

"The greater the space in the back of the throat, the greater your ability to maintain a nice big round sound."

"Very important for keeping that color and intonation in your voice."

"The lips interact with the air as if they're the vocal cords."

"Her vowels are what it does for her sound, it creates this resonance and efficiency that is just really clear to hear."

"The voice centered low... is very important when you are singing the bel canto repertoire."

"The tongue jaw apparatus plus the lower body breath support plus a horizontal Airstream equals a centered tone in all registers."

"How to use a compressor to create a really professional upfront vocal sound."

"Generally for vocal compression, you're looking for a gain reduction of about negative 3 to negative 6."

"Vocal folds are almost closed, creating a strong resonance in your throat, enabling you to play altissimo."

"It's not just about singing loud and shrill, it's about how you can have your voice be beautiful and in beautiful tones and ranges."

"Understanding your vocal range, your vocal quality, the vocal effects of your voice gives you a really clear idea of how to pick music."

"Learning to sing with the correct posture can have the effect of making your voice sound completely wonderful."

"The way she jumped up to that falsetto after that first sustained note and then immediately jumps back down again for the second note was pretty impressive."

"We're going for ease, we're going for fulfillment, we're relaxing the voice as we descend."

"He's one of the only idols I've really seen use falsetto as like an extension to his voice rather than just random high notes here and there in the chorus."

"I love the way she released up and out of that note."

"Both of them using lighter, breathy, sweet kind of tones but still very sensual."

"He's got a really nice head voice."