How to Sing like Layne Staley - Alice In Chains 

Why did Anthony Kiedis start learning mixed voice? He said he got tired of singing “Under The Bridge“

this must be one of the hardest things to try and figure out on your own, let alone teach. youre awesome man.

I've got a full on shnoz buster cold brewing but couldn't help trying to sing along while watching this one. It made me realize something. This fall will be 2 years since I started taking lessons with you. When we started, I could rarely get past a D4 without flipping and I was all systems go, max muscle tension to get there. I could "carry a tune" as they say, but I wasn't singing. Even with a head full of goo (and hey, that helped when you started talking about clearing your throat) I was able to get into those compressed spaces with you today and it sounded good! Brother, I would never have understood how to do this if it wasn't for your ability to teach these techniques so many different ways. Each week I come back with some new pig squeal, chord cracking problem, and you find a new way of explaining the coordination to help me make that next leap. So, to those that discount your method I say "... and the horse you road in on."

I’m a lead guitarist, played Glastonbury before 😁Really like your vids mate. Awesome teacher. Watch your Chris Cornell videos regularly. I have a bass voice which is a novelty when speaking but boy opening up some range takes weeks and it’s gone if I don’t maintain it. One singer who sounds as awesome as he did 50 years ago is Paul Rogers. Unbelievable. And what a voice. I watched a performance of him in his 70’s and then the Isle of White festival when he was 20. Identical. How does he and say Steven Tyler keep it and Axl Rose/Bon Jovi have lost it? 👍

awesome video! love how clear you are explaining all these concepts. Thank you

No way i’ve been trying this for months and discovered your channels yesterday night and now you drop this.?!?

Always love your breakdowns of these wonderful singers.

This is what I’ve been waiting for. Love this!

love your energy

great video as always, dude! 🙏

Great stuff man. Any chance on doing one for Rod Stewart? Faces Stay With Me? That'd be sweet :)

Great Job man!

Nice video man. I think you were spot on about the way Layne produced his distortion. If you listen to him live after 91, he was often struggling on harder songs (like Man in the Box) and had to take lower harmonies for the top notes.

Really awesome video, love watching the different people you cover in this "How to sing like" series you do. It would be really awesome if you did one on Shaun Morgan from Seether, he's super underrated and has a lot of awesome things going on there.

Thanks for your content❤

Great video as someone who is purely interested in singing as an admirer of those who discover their instrument. Side note: I wonder what is going on cosmically that LS is seeing such an amazing resurgence of late (it's awesome)

Thanks for your videos!!!🎉

Great video as always. Can you do a break down of 18 and life by skidrow as well?

Yay!

do you think you could do a video on how to belt high notes with rasp and distortion like chris cornell? im able to do it but not properly, i just sound like a croakier axle rose and it's not very appealing and i cant find any tutorials to do it

Every guitarist needs an EBow sitting on their desk.

Could anyone help me answer this..? How do I get a mic set up like he has and make it come through a monitor and put effects in it as well. How do I figure out the stuff I need to buy for this?

13:57 I've been trying to get distortion up high and I can do a James Hetfield distortion at chest and more nosey. When I do it for sometime my voice does that at head/falsetto and It makes another type of distortion that its uncontrollable that sounds like that. What do you thing I'd need to do? (I have breath support down) Also these videos are great, cause you get into the details of what rock singers do to make the sounds that they do. 💯💯

Hey Sterling dude😊 got a question, when you were teaching the squeaky door technique to achieve M3 or Flagolet, should I be in head voice placement or chest voice placement? When I try this I don't know which area of the throat to be, I appreciate it dude , great video😊

Have you listened to greta van fleets new album? I'd love to hear your honest opinion of them, in general! Cheers M8

Bro is dropping Stewie Griffin ad libs in the middle of the video 😂😂😂

"sh!t loads of ways you can produce sounds" amen, brother. Layne AND Jerry's [don't forget Jerry's part in what we often mistake to be exclusively Layne's sound] droney-next-level harmonious compellingly distinct and uber creative work is some of the most wow sh!t loads there be. Altho imitation can be flattery, this will never be fully done, in Layne's case. [i love the attention u give it, nonetheless]

do you have a flange type effect on your vocal or is it just compression?

You are the only man on youtube who can make a great video without a SINGLE cut!

Does someone like layne having sort of cracks and 'meat getting in the way' in natural way of speaking help in not tiring out their voice when they do distortion? Granted there is always some 'intentional' adding of distortion for affect. I notice a lot of these singers like Vedder, Cobain etc have a vocal fry kind of crackle just in their normal speech.

Also for rooster singing the beginning 2 harmonies, I can only do the lower one, the higher one is a little too high😢 is this m2 ? If so then I'm not stretching as high as a should/ could be. Also with that higher harmony it's really airy and I can't quite get there. It's this a chord closure issue or not enough compression? Super annoying😂

Fun fact: Layne had the same vocal coach as Chris Cornell, Geoff Tate (Queensrÿche), and Ann Wilson - David Kyle. Although Chris also trained with Ronald Anderson who was a vocal coach and Opera singer. Ronald also trained Ozzy Osbourne, Lenny Kravitz, Adele, The Weekend, Axl Rose and a ton more - maybe the funnest client was Tom Cruise for his role in “Rock of Ages”. Anderson suffered from a significant vocal injury early on in his career so he was dedicated to learning how to use the voice efficiently and I think by his list of clients who all use some pretty powerful techniques and have/had demanding touring/performing schedules, he succeeded. Mr Anderson is no longer alive but there is a RU-vid channel with limited content. Also, David Kyle’s protege, Robert Lunte has a RU-vid channel with good content on it for anyone interested. I’m not offering this, by the way, because I think your content isn’t very helpful, Sterling. I know I continue to benefit from listening and watching a variety of vocalists and vocal coaches from all different genres and schools of training. So much about singing is about figuring out how to get all those tiny muscles working together and it can be hard to find them or get a good analogy that will help you lock on to the placement you’re searching for so I like to listen to a lot of people because someone somewhere will say something that connects. I got a lot out of you mentioning that you need to be able to find distortion placements/techniques in diff’t places up and down your register. That gave me something to work on. Thank you ❤

Poop in the old pants😂

I just listened to the original, and I think you’re over the top with the yarling thing. Otherwise, pretty good.

You should listen to the 'demo' version of Rooster - one of THE best versions and you can then realize that bottom jaw 'stupid' voice as you consistently mention really isn't there. If you know AIC, you'll realize many different styles of singing Layne had. Even his background vocals were different. He had such a versatility to his sound & voice that MOST ppl don't know and it shows in their videos.

You are a phenomenal singer. But from my ears there’s a couple thing your voice is missing. It’s missing that pain and addiction voice. You remind me ALOT of Chris Cornell. Laynes voice was like a gravel road that took you someplace you’ve never been, and you’ll never want to leave. Chris Cornell’s voice was gods personal paved driveway

There's a weird phase thing on your voice. It's distracting.