Welcome to the #ScreamSmart Voice Training!
Singers of Pop, Soul, Blues, Rock and Metal Genres, Vocal Coaches and Voice Teachers, Voice Therapists, Actors, Voice Artists,... "What are Vocal Effects?" "What unites and what defines them?" "What exactly is happening physiologically?" "Can everyone learn them? And if so... HOW?" "Is it dangerous or harmful to the voice?" These are very good questions and we try to answer them.
RATTLE, FRY SCREAMS, GROWLS, RASP,... ?
Vocal-Effects are neither a new fancy trend nor are they unnatural to the human voice.
In fact, most of them are innate and intuitive since humans attain them unknowingly; but probably in a non-musical context... yet.
The Terminology used to describe what we hear - or feel when producing those effects - adds to the confusion for singers, songwriters, voice performers, producers and even voice scientists.
So, instead of assigning Vocal Effects to Rock and Metal genres exclusively,
many other musical genres and singing styles benefit considerably from adding variations to a clean voice :
Can you imagine P!NK without her rasp or Lady Gaga without her compressed and edgy notes?
What is the story you want to tell with your songs? What does your voice need to learn to represent the emotions with authenticity ?
VOICE SCIENCE meets PEDAGOGY & DIDACTICS
You are a Singing Teacher or Vocal Coach ? Awesome!
You may have noticed the limitations of the method you are trained in and explored new ways by yourself or within the voice teacher community but still feel insecure adding Vocal Effects and other stylistic elements to your voice teaching repertoire - That's totally okay!
#ScreamSmart Voice Teacher Training addresses
Terminology and classification: the WHAT, WHERE and HOW
Common misconceptions and cognitive biases
Genre considerations: What is typical to which musical style?
Approaches and strategies to certain effects: How to attain a particular vibration or rattle
Cognitive vs. playful teaching style: A continuum of possibilities
Applying musical qualities to a sound: Embouchure, Pharynx and the Formants
Vocal health considerations: the Does and Don'ts
Exemplary difficulties in voice lessons or actual requests
#ScreamSmart Voice Teacher Training courses are held 3 - 4 times a year via Zoom. If you are interested to participate just text or email us.
"Having 100 vocal students requires having to find 100 different ways to teach the same thing"
(Marko Osterholz, "Singing ROCKS! - didactic approaches to vocal effects in contemporary Pop & Rock music")
AUDIOS
Here are some audios of applied vocal effects
Medium Fry Scream - compressed: 1
transition False Cord Scream: 1
Mixed Voice with Twang and Distortion: 1
transition from spreaking to Grunt/ False Cord Scream: 1
Rock Scream | "Rattle" in Headvoice: 1
False Cord Scream | Deep Grunt: 1
"DeathScream": 1
1 taken from Songs of my Band NUUK HARBOUR. ©2020 Nuuk Harbour
2 taken from Songs of my Band Dust II Dust. ©2017 Dust II Dust
3 taken from PHARAO Musical ©2012 Marko Osterholz