How to Scream Without Losing Your Voice

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"How to scream without losing your voice. Well, there are many different ways to do it, but for me personally, I have a routine that I do before every show. What I do first is I gargle some water, put some water in my mouth, swish it around a bit; get my throat ready. Then, usually I go off by myself, because usually you sound pretty ridiculous doing this, maybe in my car, and I really just get my vocals warmed up. Usually I'll sing a little bit; do things like that, because your vocals like any other like muscle in your body needs to, you know, be worked out, needs to be loosened up before any kind of show, especially when there's that much stress going on it. Then, I usually make this kind of grinding, kind of growling sound; kind of do it over, and over, and over again, and it really kind of loosens up the muscles and gets you ready for it. Now, one thing you have to realize, and keep this in mind; if you do it too much before you go on, you might ruin your voice and you might not be able to sing at all because what you have to realize is every time you scream it's kind of damaging your vocal in a little bit. So, if you're doing some screaming and some singing you gotta' make sure that you do it the appropriate amount of time, because if you overdo it your voice is going to be shot before a show and you're not going to be able to sing and that's no good, so you have to make sure that you don't overdo it. And you also have to keep in mind too that if you're screaming all the time it's going to have a lasting and a permanent effect on your voice. So, always keep that in mind. If you don't like to sing all that much then I would say don't worry about it. It's probably not the safest thing anyway. But if you do do some singing like I do in the band I would recommend that don't do it too much, but make sure you get warmed up for it because that's the best way to keep your voice going, and also to have a good scream when you're doing your show. And that's usually the best way to warm up your voice."