How YOU should practice Metal Vocals 

I’m definitely guilty of just screaming along in my car without warming up, so I’m glad I found this to remind me how important warming up is

So whiskey and Marlboro reds aren’t a good warm up for some lows?

This has to be the most important video when it comes to screaming

You are criminally underrated. The algorithm gets to decide who pops off and not the quality of the videos, sad innit.

You have such a calm, gentle voice. I keep having to remind myself you make screaming tutorials lol

I have probably seen most of the videos on youtube teaching screaming at this point, and the stuff you're releasing has been absolutely the best and most useful out there. Keep em' coming!

I’m trying to develop The Old School Death Metal. Vocals and kind of like that dissection Blackend death metal sound.

I'm practicing screaming since 2014 (for my own) and I a never saw a such informative video like this, this channel is gold for those people that practice screams 🤘🏻🔥

Your emphasis on not just GO GO GOing is so important for me to hear. I'm super excited to get to where I need to be and rushing has been resulting is disappointing outcomes so you've made it clear that it's time to step back and refocus my efforts on learning how to walk before sprinting at 200bpm

I'm getting back into this after 10 years, recording at home and hit a wall hard. Got extremely frustrated and ended up throwing out my voice. Your videos have helped me so much getting me back on track, not only the break down of techniques and warm ups but just the advice to just chill out 🤙

This was THE video that got me to unlock my screams! I've always been a guitarist but tonight for the first time ever my vocals stood out as being good. Thank you 😊

I love this. I know in vocal therapy they didn't want more than an hour of vocal exercise a day. You got me to subscribe! You clearly know how to do it safe and healthy way

I used to practice every day or at least 5 times a week. But I eventually learned that it's enough for me to practice two times a week that I give at least two days rest in between. Every since I started doing that I felt that I did way more progression in a shorter amount of time than I did when I was practicing every day.

First video I've watched from y'all, and the first few minutes have already impressed me immensely with the presentation and mindfulness of the whole-body care approach. Excellent instruction!

Your view on practicing little bits at a time and letting it strengthen and improve reminds me of training in the gym. People who thrash 2hr sessions every day in the gym tend to struggle to progress whereas taking it back to an hour a few days a week allows the body to recover. I guess the vocal muscles aren't any different from hitting the muscles in the gym. Love the videos man keep it up 🔥

You could have a millions subscribers and I'd still say you were underrated. The way you talk and explain things is so nice and I'm looking forward to watching more of your videos! Already have like 5 saved! I'm an aspiring vocalist and can't wait to break into the scene! Keep up the great work!

This is great advice in general! I'm trying to learn metal vocals and guitar. Much more frustrated with guitar than vocals and the talk about getting stuck, and trying something different absolutely resonated with me. Thanks David! Solid advice 👍🙂

No.1 extreme vocals teacher in the galaxy! What a skill!

12 years of hardcore vocal and I’m self taught I learned over the years what your saying and I just seen this video and from my experience this knowledge your are teaching has helped me ten fold !!!!! Thank you so much brother 🙏

First 2 min buddy has my exact routine down and I feel exactly like what he described

these are really good tips, tips that no one or videos out there have gave me. Taking it slow and being patience. This is gold Thank you

Bro you speak with the heart. I feel it. Thanks for being yourself, you are amazing!

Excellent videos. Best content for extreme vocals in RU-vid. Love the structure of these videos, so detailed.

This is amazing, you're amazing. I'm so motivated to do this!

Amazing video, amazing articulation and I'm glad that I'm subbed now. Thank you!

Thank you for high quality in depths lessons best help I’ve found online

The tips you have here are excellent, not just for screaming and singing but honestly anything. I teach dance/fitness and this totally applies to that as well. Good stuff. Thanks

I love all of your videos so much in how informative they are and how much you genuinely care about the safety and health care that goes into practicing and performing safe vocals ive been trudging and struggling for the last 3 years and doing some for a couple days then forget for several months but for about the past 3 months when I stumbled upon this channel and watching and absorbing all of this stuff it’s making me more positive about my vocals and I’m still trying to find my sound but I think with what I’ve learned I’ll be closer sooner then I would be if I had not found you

Thanks for the info man, appreciate it

I'm a beginner and very grateful for ur videos cuz they are easy for me to understand. Now I have something I can practice with and thanks to You I know how to start ☺️

Relearning everything again properly. You're an inspiration.

I'm thankful for people like you who is super insightful and knows how to keep an honest voice for practice. I've been wanting to get better at singing ever since I was 14 but never truly seen my worth. I think this video will help me go a long way. Thank you again for this awesome video!

This was extremely insightful. Thank you!

glad i ended up watching this, great discussion to have

To anyone interested in exercise, you can pretty much replace everything he said about training vocals with training your body. Your vocal chords are trained like any other muscle. Don't train too frequently, don't take long breaks from session to session (be as consistent as life allows), and do NOT train to failure. Blowing out your vocals from overtraining is the same concept as blowing out your shoulders from bench pressing too often.

great instructional video bro thank you!🤘😎

Thank you for this video, it was like therapy

I just wanna say, regardless of if you see this or not...This has been excellent help mentally and physically. Your positive outlook and advice is absolutely excellent and I can see myself applying it to more things than just vocals...This type of mentality works wonders for art or writing. I'll be revisiting this again that's for certain! Thank you again for the excellent opportunity to learn!

Great advice and great video!

Your videos have helped me take my screams to the next level and I am so grateful!! I absolutely love pushing my range and hearing all the weird ass noises I can make. Metal has saved my life and I will always be here. Now to make it out of Wyoming and find kindred souls

You are definitely the best vocal teacher by fair that i found!!!

This helped me so much, you’re awesome David!! Thank you from Kittie in Austin, hope Renesans can play here soon

Thank you very much for these videos. I'm going to be starting the process of learning how to sing/scream properly and this video has been a big help, especially on the mental side of things. THANK YOU

I’m so glad I found this video, especially for free. Can’t thank you enough

Thank you for the video broni

There is a huge amount of practical, general life advice packed into the structure of this video. My mind is blown.

Congrats on 80K!

Great video! Thank you.

Thanks for the content! 👍👍👍

Wow! Thank you so much!

you're amazing thank you.

did not saw the the video yet but i read the comments. a bit more than a month ago i thought i had to get to a point where i can practice/scream at least half an hour every day. i also did a lot of other stuff that includes a lot of voice too and guess what - my muscels gave in. just about to start practicing again im so glad i found your videos :)

Thanks man, i needed that ;)

I’ve been doing false chords for 16ish years and I’ve picked up some bad habits along the way. I’m glad there are videos like yours out now. I’m starting to retrain my body and voce with better techniques and habits. We didn’t have very good videos in the early 2010’s haha I think I was in 8th grade at the time of learning, so I was between 13-14. I can say, one thing I’ve never been able to comprehend was fry screams and your videos have helped me make more progress in the past 4 days than I have in all of this time. I forget which video exactly, but you made a simple hand gesture and sound and it made sense. Seeing as I’ve been doing vocals for this long, it immediately made me realize that I had been adding tension/comprehension in the wrong area and a light went off in my head. I’ve already got a solid fry down now I’ve made the proper adjustments and got my body used to what it should actually be like and not whatever it was that I was doing before. Now I just have to spend the time slowly chipping away at it until it feels natural like my false chords. Tbh, a lot of my bad habits came from leaving my band, moving across the country and barely practicing after. Maybe I’d jam to a song here and there, but I can definitely feel and hear that don’t sound as good and it takes a little more effort now. I stopped using my diaphragm a lot so I gotta get that back in check lol but anyway, dude, thanks for making things so simple and right to the point.

This guy is really good at articulating his words and explaining things in a way that is easy to follow. I have add, and have no problem listening to him

Dude the way you explain things is spot on ! Definitely been through my fair amount of videos around vocal training,keep them coming dude ! 😁

Hey Thank you so much for really good information and a nice video. Iam a singersongwriter and I love music and sounds. This is a great video cause its helping the thinking of vocal exercise. Take care see you :)

When I finally make a go of this, I'm going to head your way. This was an excellent video. Thank you for the advice and tips. I look forward to the day when I can make it to your institute. Peace bro.

Part vocal coach, part psychologist. Some solid advice, thank you!

Hey great video man!

dude. so helpful. thank you

Thank you!!!

Thanks alot🤗

Wonderful information friend

Im 5 minutes in amd already so helpful. I ruin my vibrato concentrating to hard on controlling my fry to attempt tje high screams and pop my throat every day almost. Been wrecking the voice i started with trying metal aye. Not going back though im hooked

this is solid advice

Great video! 🙌🙌

I lost my voice after trying to get my scream out right, ive taken so long trying to get a fry scream but i cant seem to get it out so i might just have to stick with my false chord for now but im so thankful i found this because it got to the point my throat felt scabby and thats when i would stop.

Tus vídeos son oro!!!! Se agradeceria mucho subtitulado en castellano gracias, 💪🏻🔪🔥🔥🔥

Oh man the apparent lack of progress sure is frustrating sometimes. That why I started uploading my stuff, just so I have an easy way to compare where I am now to where I was before. And sometimes it sure feels like I'm stuck at the same spot, but looking back 6, 3 and sometimes even one month there's a big contrast haha. And everybody's different and progresses differently, so if you want to compare yourself to someone else, it should definitely be you from the past, there's no use in comparing you at day 30 with your favorite singer who's at 15 years of experience. So I highly recommend to keep absolutely everything you do!

Amazing insight. Thank you so much for sharing this. I have one question - where and when do you recommend we practice? I live in an urban area with many neighbors who I'm sure do not appreciate my vocal practice. How can I put in the work that's needed to improve my vocals without disturbing others? Thanks again, and love the video series.

This guy is the Bob Ross of metal. Metal dudes are always the chillest dudes off the mic.

i used to work in loaders and dump trucks a few years back, over the course of a year i self taught myself how to do the vocals but never knowing how to warm up for such things, ill definitely be paying more attention to this kind of thing going on. but from what i learned on my own over time id say im not too bad, i have sang many songs to the tune of a growl my favourite song to practice with is arch enemy - war eternal. its definitely my favourite song by these guys but its also the only one i actually learned the words to so naturally i sang this one hundreds of times. one cool thing i found out is i can imitate a mountain lion's scream almost perfectly. ive scared a couple people because of this lmao. once was completely by accident. i found out if i practised too much i would get bad headaches, sometimes theyd get bad enough theyd become migraines. ill be following your channel from now on and hope to hear some more really good tips on practicing properly.

You could be a motivational speaker of some sort for people with mental health issues, when you said the thing about seeing how far you’ve come and not deleting old recordings. I started to think about life and started crying legit. I’m never proud of how far I’ve come. Lessons for the future.

Thank you! I was stuck after weeks of nearly daily practice...

Incredibly essential video that covers one of the most important things - mindset. Because the only way you can become a good singer is to practice regularly for YEARS. The most hard thing to do is to not burn out to what you're doing, especially when you're thirsty of being able to do things that your favorite musicians are doing, not seeing that they are professionals who are showing their best of what they managed to accomplish in 5,6, 10 and even more years.

Any tips how to work on my highs? Usually it feels easier for me in the lower register and powerful but with highs that power is lacking and it’s very frustrating. Also how to project properly. Your content is very educational, I’ve been practicing harsh vocal for around 7-8 months and I’ve got a lot better thanks to your videos. Keep it up and keep spittin’ xd

I’m a sprinter and needed to see this video

The advice on not deleting your recordings that you aren't pleased with it to keep it and use that later to see how much you have improved. I taught myself this and it's clearer to see where you're improving ECT. That's why I choose a handful of different levels of difficulty to constantly improve and have past examples of where I was at compared to where my development grew. It's a great book mark on where your progress is! Great advice.

for one fucking year didnt understand how to even fry scream and now i am trying to discover the false chord for the art i love

Thanks, with the help of this video I achieved my Fry sream on the wait to school.😅

perfect

Having been that idiot who almost wrecked his chords back in the day (I started coughing up blood during a garage performance with a band I was trying to join.) I gotta say your videos would’ve been a huge benefit when I was in my early teens. but what you said about the body’s ability to heal is too true. It actually took me over a decade to be able to do roars and screams again. (I was 13 when I injured myself and I couldn’t do extremes again till mid last year when I was 27. so literally just over a decade). but it’s strange cuz now my vocals have a particular sound to them that I struggle to describe. I’ve also noticed that my vocals are easier to initiate than ever. another thing is that i’ve found a way to use them in voiceover work. like how i’ve been developing a character that uses my deep roaring vocals to add emphasis when that character gets angry.

Is there any specific rutine for warming down? and how much time do i need to put into it to make it enough?

I've found my clean singing has actually improved due to my growl-focus practice, and vice versa. It's a bit synergistic, which feels great. I'm curious to hear your take on inhale vocals, if you haven't made a video on that (I haven't looked).

Dope

Guru Jedi David is wise!

My goal lately is to get through 1 song every time I practice. If I can make it through 1 brand of sacrifice song or 1 shadow of intent song (they're in an easier register for me) then I've done well. I don't have the endurance to do harsh vocals for much longer than that yet but I'm working towards it. For now this is okay and better than I used to.

i abide this knowledge my dear lord.

Really great tips here! I just a quick question, so these aren't really harsh vocals but how would someone do a thrash metal vocal style like singing raspy? (Metallica, Slayer, Testament, Overkill)

It gets extremely hard to pace yourself when you start getting some noticeable improvement. I’m still a novice but have noticed a little improvement and have to force myself to stop before my throat begins feeling stressed so that I can maximize the benefit of the work I put in.

I’ve only been practicing for about 3 months on my own, but I’m getting a hold on vocal fry. I’m still suckish cause I just started. But when I get the sound I want I get so stocked.

thank you bro

Thanks for this tutorial man ( Between I LOVE YOUR FUCKING STUFF )

doin this in my garage😎

It's cool to talk about vocal technique for metal and heavy rock. How does one create a sound that has a physical, animalistic core without riding this tiny set of muscles into tension and ultimate oblivion? Id like to figure out how to make a wider range of sounds. I have this notion that I don't actually sing with muscles or even with my vocal chords; I sing with my mind and breath and the vocal chords and voice box is the aperture through which the sound flows and is coloured.

Hey man, I'm 100% new to the doing vocals, i haven't done anything yet in any form or shape in term of doing extreme vocals, is this still apply to me?

I want to learn how to get louder and more consistent fry screams and, weirdly I wanna learn to make my false chords more quite and activated

Hahaha, @00:23 for a second I thought you said "what the fuck it should be on," I was like, "damn, calm down a bit..." lol!

I always try to practice in the car with out music. I always record it on my phone/pc (if I’m at home) so I can hear it played back instead of in my head.