Another "How to properly growl..." thread.

It sounds like you understand most the basics of how to growl, so it actually wasn't a bad attempt, although it was pretty sloppy overall. But more takes could probably help that.

hehehe yea :p it was a last minute kind of thing, so ot had to be done really quick. I'm gonna record the vocals properly soon and maybe add some bass to the track :D then I'll upload it again and see what ya think.
 
I dident know hot to growl, lookin on u tube for help and nothin did, till i found this singing lesson thingie (it isent growling bu dam it helped me to growl)

just do everything that it says with a growl

The most important aspect of good singing technique is AIR. Singers must control their breathing or they become fatigued quickly and their singing suffers. These exercises will produce immediate results, and permanently improved performance if practiced on a daily basis. I have never yet seen a singer--regardless of the style--who didn't make instant improvement by doing these exercises.

Start by taking a deep breath, filling your lungs all the way down to the abdomen (not just the top half of your lungs). Then let it out very slowly in a constant stream. Imagine that you're exhaling through a very thin straw and the air is going out so slowly that you don't appear to be breathing at all--like playing "possum." It may help to picture a candle out in front of you, and your breath is moving so slowly that the flame doesn't flicker as you exhale.

Do this ten times.


Now do five more. But on these next five breaths, pick a nice comfortable note and hold it through the entire breath. Don't let it change in pitch or volume--make it seem like a key being held down on an organ. Be sure that each note is a comfortable pitch--somewhere in your normal speaking register. Low notes are good because they help the throat relax. Use a different pitch for each breath. Don't try to belt out high notes. That strains the vocal chords.

Now do five more of these, gradually CHANGING the volume for each note from zero up to a medium volume and back to zero over the entire duration of the breath. Always choose a different pitch for each breath and NEVER let the pitch go flat or sharp. In the case of these last five breaths all that is changing is the volume, and that should be changing at a rate that is undetectable.

For the last set of five breaths (this is now a total of 25 that you'll be doing) do everything you just did in the previous five, but change the timbre of your voice at a faster rate than the volume is changing. This is done by "sweeping" through the vowels: a,e,i,o,u. Make the change gradual in any order you wish. It'll sound like Tibetan chant, so if anyone asks tell them you've converted to Buddhism and you're atoning your spirit.

You may be asking yourself how this helps you and why results are immediate. The answer is remarkably simple. By concentrating on keeping your pitch constant you focus in on what your body needs to do to sing on pitch. Let's face it, pitch is the most common and important concern of any singer. Another side benefit of doing this exercise is that it pumps extra oxygen into your brain. The brain likes oxygen. In fact, the brain can't function without it. So more oxygen makes you think better and focus more clearly on the task you have at hand: SINGING.

When you're on the mic remember to keep the abdomen tight (imagine you're going to lift a piano) and the throat relaxed (like yawning), allowing plenty of air to move. If you need higher notes you get them with more air, not by squeezing off your neck muscles (a common mistake make by singers who burn out before they're ready to quit). Test this by imagining you see a friend across a busy street and you need to get his attention. Holler out "hey". You'll notice that you do this in a very relaxed way with lots of air. That's how to hit those notes that are right on the edge. RELAXED throat, pushing the air out with the abdomen.


http://www.vocalist.org.uk/breathing_techniques.html
 
I was bored so I made a video of me doing the first couple minutes of the song "Horns of Baphomet" by Akercocke. Havent really growled in a while but I think I did pretty decent. The highs are pretty much as high as I can go. For the growls I didnt even try doing the real lyrics, they are very indecipherable and it would be hard to do it right so I just growled the noise lol. And I believe this is the 666th post in this thread, wowee.
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Sorry it was hot out yesterday.. geez. Plus I've been working on gettin my beach body, by your reactions obviously its not proving fruitful lol. I usually do growls with good pronunciation, its important to me as well cause it requires more skill, I just did this one so I could go as about as deep as I can. I have a vid on my myspace from like a year ago of me doing a couple minutes of Wreath but I wasnt quite as good back then as I am now.
 
Sorry it was hot out yesterday.. geez. Plus I've been working on gettin my beach body, by your reactions obviously its not proving fruitful lol. I usually do growls with good pronunciation, its important to me as well cause it requires more skill, I just did this one so I could go as about as deep as I can. I have a vid on my myspace from like a year ago of me doing a couple minutes of Wreath but I wasnt quite as good back then as I am now.

the bod's fine dude, just ask what we think if it's such a great deal of an importance, don't use the growling thread as an excuse to show off haha


put something with pronunciation up soon then
 
fleshmountain your body isn't manly enough-a manly body is when you can tell that someone drinks too much beer!:D

I think I will put up my growl soon, still a very beginning beginner though.
 
i cant stand the high pitched screams (i cant stand most vocalists highs though, so it doesnt mean much).
about the shirt, wtf i never wear a shirt in my house its pointless
 
Well thanks for the reassurances lol, and all the positiveness, such as it is. Once I get a chance Ill do something with good pronunciable vox. Any suggestions? I'm not very good at songs that have fast, long growling lines like Furnace Funeral, I dont have enough wind. More drawn out stuff is easier for me to do. Maybe I'll do something off Ghost Reveries, maybe the song Thy Horror Cosmic by the Black Dahlia Murder. Throw some songs at me and I'll see what I can do.