Vocalist Journey

Throughout the journey, I’ve bounced back and forth between what I thought would be the key to the next step.

When I first started I thought that loudly performing a LAH scale would eventually lead me to having the ultimate chesty rock voice. How wrong I was. For years I was stuck at G4. Listening to a particular vocal coach here, his program did not help.

Then I thought to go by feels, completely feeling vibrations in my voice and instrument, that too did not particularly work as I still am figuring it out, however, I lacked understanding the mechanics that lead to feeling the right feeling in the voice.

Then now I go purely by listening to someone who struggled and who now sounds amazing, I can name him here, it’s Kegan from FoundationVocalCourse, he sounds majestic. Crazy ring.

His Youtube videos and course which I’m applying are slowly helping me unlock ease within my voice, my mix is become easier, my EE vowel is getting less squeezy, I’m not perfect, it takes me time to rewatch the videos and pay attention to new things all the time.

Recently I’ve been focusing on following Kegan mainly as well as very few other vocal coaches, one that focuses on mixing and the other is another Australian vocal coach with few subscribers whose content I’m slowly going through.

I try not to overwhelm myself, learning to sing is the hardest thing I’ve ever done so far in my life, I’m terrible at it still, my goodness. I’m awful.

But that’s fine because I haven’t figured things out at all, I don’t have resonance down, I don’t have any vibrato, I don’t have mix working, I cannot sing EE and OO vowels with ease, I have no vocal tract control and seamlessness in the voice transitioning and singing consonants.

And most importantly, my vocal tone is still very bland and poor due to a severe lack of resonance, I’m guessing my epiglottis isn’t producing the twang needed for my voice to vibrate in the right places? I am unsure, of course my vowels are piss poor as well.

I don’t know where this will lead me, I am unsure whether I’m capable of actually making this happen, but I’m learning, I’ll try and I’ll see.

My ultimate goal would be to sing crawling and figure out how to fry scream and perfect my already existent false cords technique.

Crawling by Linkin Park is my metric, because it’s a hard as hell EE vowels based song and I think he sings it with so much passion, distortion and it sits exactly at the edge of my chest voice, the holy G4 / G4#. Unholy for many.

Time will tell.