Napoleon1800
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As a person into singing, rapping, guitar and other musical instruments, I managed to find out a way that one can deepen their voice via SINGING and VOCAL PRACTISES, all of which will be explained in today's guide.
Voice types
You see, in order to fit a certain style, singers often have a voice that is separate to their normal talking voice, now this is often in the SATB (Soprano (highest), Alto, Tenor, Bass (lowest)) scale. However, as these are quite strict restrictions around ones vocals, what some singers have done is experiment with their singing voices, adding ranges between Soprano to Bass, so singers came out who were able to switch between singing very high pitched to very low pitched. Others experimented with a gradual movement down this scale. So from this solo singers came out that were capable of fitting into different vocal and not fully limited to traditional labellings. Now alongside this other singers came and said that they want to disrupt the normal standards of singing, and added things such as RASP and AGGRESSIVE SCREAMING into their singing. This can be best within the early 90s in the alt rock/grunge band NIRVANA, in particular their leader KURT COBAIN!
Some context
As this is not music class, I will not be explaining the history of the band Nirvana as it's irrelevant. However, I will tell you a little bit about Kurt Cobain's vocal technique. The Seattle Grunge scene, and the genre of Grunge as a whole, is meant to be rebellious, aggressive, resentful, edgy and unconventional. So Kurt Cobain, taking inspiration from the pioneers of grunge, decided to insert such feelings into the way he sang. He adopted a harsh vocal technique consisting of an aggressive/angry yet lazy/depressed rasp, which is best seen in the song Smells Like Teen Spirit, Nirvana's biggest hit, where Kurt's voice is clearly raspy and angry yet seems calm, relaxed, lazy and apathetic. He does not seem to be coming forward into the microphone with energy. This was meant to reflect his own personal attitude to life as well as the style of grunge. Alongside this, he implemented loud, violent and gut-wrenching screaming that would shake listeners to the core, good examples are the end of his song "where did you sleep last night" and "Negative Creep". His screams are said to be one of the hardest things to match by singers ever since due to how unique it was. How did he get this scream? By smoking (which you can do but I don't recommend as it's horrible for your throat in the long run), proper breathing, lots of emotion and vocal practise. However, Kurt, being a rebellious young adult, disagreed with mainstream vocal practices, and what he would do is go to isolated forests and lakes and scream with as much rage and emotion he could, going through different ranges and scales, and attempting to hit notes both high and low. This gave him bloody coughs and a scratchy throat, which in turn DEEPENED BOTH HIS NORMAL AND SINGING VOICE.
Implementation
So what use is this information to us? Well I have personally used a method inspired by Kurt cobain and those who refined his techniques to improve my singing which allowed me to gain more control over my normal voice and deepen it, though I did gain a very slight rasp that will occasionally occur at certain points when I'm speaking.
THE METHOD
Watch the following videos and get yourself familiar with this kind of singing and Kurt's vocal style:
Now this is the more controversial "Scream as loud as possible" technique and here is a video on it, I recommend you do this but not regularly. I would say do this once every 2 weeks, with an isolated session.
Now after you have managed to learn those, you should start practising on learning to sing, as accurately as you can, these following songs, remember to breathe properly from your diaphragm and maintain proper posture
Just the last verse
After you have done this, begin trying to find a balance between your normal voice and your deeper, raspy singing voice, and when you manage to find that sweet spot, which comes from practise, you have to keep doing it, until it becomes natural and there, you have a new, deeper voice.
Voice types
You see, in order to fit a certain style, singers often have a voice that is separate to their normal talking voice, now this is often in the SATB (Soprano (highest), Alto, Tenor, Bass (lowest)) scale. However, as these are quite strict restrictions around ones vocals, what some singers have done is experiment with their singing voices, adding ranges between Soprano to Bass, so singers came out who were able to switch between singing very high pitched to very low pitched. Others experimented with a gradual movement down this scale. So from this solo singers came out that were capable of fitting into different vocal and not fully limited to traditional labellings. Now alongside this other singers came and said that they want to disrupt the normal standards of singing, and added things such as RASP and AGGRESSIVE SCREAMING into their singing. This can be best within the early 90s in the alt rock/grunge band NIRVANA, in particular their leader KURT COBAIN!
Some context
As this is not music class, I will not be explaining the history of the band Nirvana as it's irrelevant. However, I will tell you a little bit about Kurt Cobain's vocal technique. The Seattle Grunge scene, and the genre of Grunge as a whole, is meant to be rebellious, aggressive, resentful, edgy and unconventional. So Kurt Cobain, taking inspiration from the pioneers of grunge, decided to insert such feelings into the way he sang. He adopted a harsh vocal technique consisting of an aggressive/angry yet lazy/depressed rasp, which is best seen in the song Smells Like Teen Spirit, Nirvana's biggest hit, where Kurt's voice is clearly raspy and angry yet seems calm, relaxed, lazy and apathetic. He does not seem to be coming forward into the microphone with energy. This was meant to reflect his own personal attitude to life as well as the style of grunge. Alongside this, he implemented loud, violent and gut-wrenching screaming that would shake listeners to the core, good examples are the end of his song "where did you sleep last night" and "Negative Creep". His screams are said to be one of the hardest things to match by singers ever since due to how unique it was. How did he get this scream? By smoking (which you can do but I don't recommend as it's horrible for your throat in the long run), proper breathing, lots of emotion and vocal practise. However, Kurt, being a rebellious young adult, disagreed with mainstream vocal practices, and what he would do is go to isolated forests and lakes and scream with as much rage and emotion he could, going through different ranges and scales, and attempting to hit notes both high and low. This gave him bloody coughs and a scratchy throat, which in turn DEEPENED BOTH HIS NORMAL AND SINGING VOICE.
Implementation
So what use is this information to us? Well I have personally used a method inspired by Kurt cobain and those who refined his techniques to improve my singing which allowed me to gain more control over my normal voice and deepen it, though I did gain a very slight rasp that will occasionally occur at certain points when I'm speaking.
THE METHOD
Watch the following videos and get yourself familiar with this kind of singing and Kurt's vocal style:
Now this is the more controversial "Scream as loud as possible" technique and here is a video on it, I recommend you do this but not regularly. I would say do this once every 2 weeks, with an isolated session.
Now after you have managed to learn those, you should start practising on learning to sing, as accurately as you can, these following songs, remember to breathe properly from your diaphragm and maintain proper posture
Just the last verse
After you have done this, begin trying to find a balance between your normal voice and your deeper, raspy singing voice, and when you manage to find that sweet spot, which comes from practise, you have to keep doing it, until it becomes natural and there, you have a new, deeper voice.
