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Summary: Becoming a screamer in a rock band requires taking care of the voice and learning how to scream without causing too much damage. Protect the voice when trying to achieve a screaming musical sound with helpful advice from a professional singer and songwriter in this free video on voice lessons.
Karina Hayes Blakeley began her professional career in music as a jazz singer in Sydney, Australia. In the early '90s she was the vocalist for International Bank SPK and recorded their...read more
"Hello my name is Karina Hayes Blakeley and I'm with artistsrepresentingartists.com. In this clip we are going to talk about how to become a screamer in a band. First of all you've got to find yourself a band of like-minded screamers and rock artists that are already rocking out. Or you can look on Craigslist and various other forms of the Internet content and see if you can find yourself a band and start from scratch. Now you have to really take care of your voice when you are a screamer because you can get nodules on your throat and that, what happens is that two nodules reverberate on the vocal chords and then you can't sing at all and you can't scream. Talking after you've been singing in a rock club is a no no especially if there's smoke in the venue because your voice is raw from screaming and then you are talking and the smoke is going in and you are going to have problems with your voice. So taking care of your voice as a screamer believe it or not is really important. If you think about the classic screamers like Janis Joplin, she lived that lifestyle and she was a very raw person. And that's very rare, but I know for a fact that she did have nodules on her voice and who knows, by the time she would have it forty, forty-five, she may not have been able to sing anymore. I'm going to give you a demonstration of screaming in the right way. It may not be apparent at first that I'm doing anything different but first of all I'm going to sing the line Summertime. Janis Joplin did do a version of that song and if you were singing it like a Jazz vocalist it would be Summertime when the living is easy. So it's sort of more down here in your chest when you scream, it comes up here into your throat. And you get all that tension in the neck. Summertime when the living is easy. Fish are jumping and the cotton is high. And I'm not fully screaming but you'll see even though it was quite loud I was opening up my neck muscles. I wasn't screaming and damaging my vocal chords. Thanks for listening. My name is Karina Hayes Blakeley."
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