Hey Neils: Being a hard rock/metal singer, myself, I feel uniquely qualified to at least begin to address some of your questions. First of all, vocal training does NOT have to "make" you sound any one particular way. The best vocal methods will teach you HOW to sing and not what to sing. The method in which I study and teach is the Speech Level Singing Technique as developed by famed Hollywood vocal coach Seth Riggs. It is a method based on bel canto. So you can train your voice to become a better singer and not hurt or damage your voice and still maintain your own personal style and sound. In terms of Kurt Cobain, I have never heard of him having any vocal training and I think if you listen to him that is evident. The dude form Live I am not sure about. Singing with grit and rasp is a delicate matter indeed. It is something that I still struggle with to this day. Sometimes I get it where it feels fine, other times it stresses my throat and hurts. That is when I am pushing too hard I believe. What makes it sound that way is the result of overdriving the vocal cords. Mark Baxter has some excellent articles on this subject and I think his most recent article deals exactly with overdriving the voice and creating a raspy, gritty sound. The URL for his website is http://www.voicelesson.com HTH LataH! :=)
Yours In Music, Denis J. Lanza Lead Vocalist - Infinity Minus One New CD - "Tales From the Mobius Strip" - Coming Soon http://www.infinityminusone.com http://www.denisjlanza.com
-----Original Message----- From: helmutti2000 [mailto:d@d...] Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2002 2:49 PM To: vocalist-temporary@yahoogroups.com Subject: [vocalist] singing lessons
Hello everyone, I sing in a band but i never had any lessons. Well, i had one lesson. It was from a classical singer, and i felt i didn't want to learn to sing like him. I make a lot of progress on my own, but i wonder if there are some important things i miss out on without any lessons. By the way, i am talking about singing rock music. Maybe this is not the right place for that, but does anybody know what is? There are some singers that i really like, for example Kurt Cobain and Ed Kowalzyck (i believe that's his name, i mean the singer from the band 'Live') and a lot of other scratchy sounding singers. I wonder if these people had lessons and if the way they sing is harmful to their voices.
Regards, Niels
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