Vocal fry is life changing if you use too much falsetto and tend to try to yell notes that are too tight. I can't really tell if it adds compression or takes it away, but fry is absolutely amazing as a warm up. I just sang 10 songs last night in public on no sleep and a couple cups of coffee, and the fry got my voice relaxed and free, and has never sounded stronger or more full. If you have a habit of hanging out in falsetto too often, or worse, whistle register, and you find that trying to pull your whistle registered down into your speaking range has caused your voice to be tightened up like a winch, then vocal fry will undo all of that and make your voice voice feel like a long, tall tube of tone. A few years ago, I went to an ENT and we could see on the monitor that my arytenoids were not closing all the way. It produced a strangled sound, and I was also choking on liquids because the airway wanted to stay open when esophagus was jammed shut via a high larynx. After only a few days of using fry, I no longer choke on liquids because the fry has closed the gap that was happening when I would try to swallow, and now the esophagus opens when the airway closes. I can't believe that another ENT once told me to avoid vocal fry. That led to a preoccupation with falsetto, and I got very unbalanced vocally and functionally. Now it all works again! Fry is awesome.
Eric, after watching all four videos in this lesson, I have started to practise everyday. After about 3 days, I have noticed a HUGE difference in my singing. Major improvement. I could not be happier. The tone is great and my voice is much more powerful. My range still needs work and a notice some strain when I get a little high, but I will continue to practise everyday. Thanks so much! :)
I'm a voice major and composer at my university. So far I've only done the warm-ups in your video series, but I noticed a big difference after just the first day. Your approach to singing has really helped me beyond all the Professors here. I just wanted to thank you.
Remember guys, ALWAYS listen to your body. If you feel pain or discomfort with ANYTHING, then stop; you are doing it INCORRECTLY. Healthy technique practice feels good and relaxing to the voice. Despite the harshness of the fry sound itself, the feeling should be EFFORTLESS. This is not the pressured/strained Kim Kardashian vocal fry. To the contrary, this is quite gentle (think "feather light"). As most of you have noted, there should be an immediate improvement in the clarity and freedom of your voice. Some of you have even noticed that healthily produced vocal fry can soothe a sore throat; feelings of the throat being soothed, "loose", or relaxed are excellent indications that you're headed in the right direction. So... If you've tried repeatedly but still feel uncertain, then stop doing it completely. And then set up a session with a certified AApproach instructor, to figure out where you might be going wrong - www.AApproach.com
Huey Freeman If you do all the videos every day, you will see greater improvement that if you just saw one video. There difrent exercises for difrent things.
I havent yet no. But if your seriosly considering singing, all his stuff is going to help you alot. I mean, the more you put into your voice the better it will get. My practice has bin playing alot of live shows, instead of teachers, but if i could afford teachers im there.
Eric, I've been watching your videos for a couple years on RU-vid and you've helped my voice grow in so many ways. I listen to old recordings and I smile because of all the growth you've helped me achieve. Thank you for making these videos, I know that they can possibly sacrifice an additional income for you, but there are those of us out there that don't have access to a personal vocal coach so your videos are a total asset!! Thank you and I wish you continued success! :)
Well.. I've learned something today. I've been doing vocal fry my entire life and I didn't even know it was a thing. Seriously. I've been starting with the crackles and working up and down since I was like 2. I feel proud in this moment. 😂
Eric Arsenault is the ONLY online vocal training professional my primary vocal coach is okay with me following. After 2 diagnoses of muscle tension dysphonia in 2008 and again in 2017 (Bad singing techniques/stress/cobblestoned voice box from acid reflux) and 7 yrs unable to sing because my vocal folds wouldn’t touch, leaving an airy and inaudible sound, a year and a half of therapy at a voice Institute and additional sessions with a speech therapist, not to mention years of discouragement, his 4-pt warmup helps me tremendously after I do my daily therapeutic vocal exercises! I recommend him to all my professional friends and singers at my church. Thx Eric! You’re the best to provide these videos to help singers and people who use their voices for a living at no cost. Treatment for my condition is $150 per session and insurance doesn’t cover it! So this has been a tremendous help in my recovery journey. After four years of using these videos for my daily and weekly warm-ups I just had to say thank you! I am definitely on the road to recovery and even back in studio. 😭😭😭🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾♥️♥️♥️ Luv n Blessings!
Thank you for your vids, unfortunately im in a place in life atm that i dont have money for anything extra so these vids help alot, i've watched many but so far yours are the best. Greetings from the Netherlands
Love vocal fry! I noticed once when I didn't have time to do this warmup but did the others my voice just didn't sound right, vocal fry does 90% of the work in my opinion!
Thank you for your videos! I practised 15 min a day this past week and am feeling and singing with much more range and strength! I can't even believe it because I've experienced straining and pain in my throat usually by the second verse whenever I sing. Now all that straining is gone and I'm hearing this different but better voice come out! My range changed too - I'm hitting the high notes with much more ease and with more practice I feel like I can go even higher!! I am doing relaxing techniques and doing vocal fry and yah yah along with lip rolls - for like just 5 minutes each and this is just amazing! Thank you so much for teaching me. XOXO
As a tenor singing mainly opera and classical I used too much of my vocal folds. I knew about vocal fry before discovering Eric but it turned my voice around. It made me really understand just how lightly the folds need to come together to produce sound. I often discovered that it often feels like nothing. It's what I return to when working on a new piece that is challenging. What was also very important for me was doing the exercises without expectation. I spent years getting frustrated because I was not making progress. The light approach has been my saviour. I have my own teacher but I'm always in great admiration of Eric. I've directed several amateur singers to his site knowing how safe his approach is. I needed to SHARE!
i know you'll probably never see this, but i'm a drummer. i went this route because although singing was one of my biggest passions ever, i felt i wasn't good enough. recently i've been giving it another shot, and using these warm-ups i legitimately feel more confident in my range, strength and just overall voice. i understand that practice makes perfect but after only three days i can feel and hear the difference. thank you so much for this, i hope i can reach my dream some day.
Thank you so much for taking the time to post these videos. As someone who has always aspired to be a singer, but had trouble affording vocal lessons, this is so appreciated!
Many of my students (especially those who suffer from chronic anxiety) have noticed that healthy vocal fry has a calming effect on the fight/flight response in the body. It's pretty great :)
I just wanna say, thank you for sharing your knowledge here on RU-vid. I have been listening and doing the exercises for only about 30 min now and I can already hear a diffence! Thank you, thank you, thank you for giving these awesome instructions to everyone that will take the time to listen and do the exercises. You are a God-send. God bless you.
I do your warm-ups everyday fro about 20-25 minutes and then I start practicing vocal techniques like falsetto, high notes, Riffs and runs and vibrato! And then I just try singing a song.
I had never considered myself a singer. I am a creative person who is venturing into new territory. Growing up I only sang in choirs, but if someone asked me to sing solo, I let fear literally constrict my voice. YET... whenever I was just "playing around" for funzies I could do amazing things and sound beautiful. I realize now that the only difference was fear. Thank you for helping me relax, strengthen, free, and own a voice locked by fear for too long. You're awesome!!!
I'm playing a concert (was asked to play with one week's notice, and I have school and work on the side) this saturday. I started singing the other day, and it psysically hurt because I was so out of practice. Tree days of doing your vocal warmups, and my voice is almost back. One round of warmups and singing didn't hurt anymore. If I actually pull of this concert, it'll be thanks to you my friend!
Hi Eric, I've been singing for years, and have had my issues with tension in the throat and neck area in the high notes. Thanks to these 4 videos on warm up I've managed to improve immensly! So I just wanted to say thanks! =)
I just tried all 4 warm ups once each. I noticed how I never felt my throat as prepared like this ever when I sang before. I was trying to do warm ups to open my throat to speak with better tone for public speaking, but these routine made my tone, both speaking and singing WAY better than I expected! Thanks so much! I'm gonna start doing this regularly.
However, I often brighten my tone when teaching, since many beginner singers hear the pitches more clearly and distinctly that way. Voice classification is ALSO dependent upon where you "bridge" or transition. Unlike a true tenor, I begin to feel a significant transition as early as Bb below middle C (the exact pitches vary, based on vowel sound & intensity/volume of the tone).
I started singing lessons in my teens, which I'm just turning 60 years this month. I love the simplicity and form you are showing that loosens the vocal chords up so effortlessly! I just started them today for the first time in years, and I'll give you some feed back to how my vocals feel by birthday in 2 weeks. Already, from a these few exercises, I feel my voice loose up quite a bit! So, I look forward to more practices and improvements. Great Tutorial!
the 4 videos u made.. have helped me just speak louder normally.. and help me not mumble so much ... and iv been working on my screaming, and saw your videos... they helped me more then anything I could find
Thank you Eric, we use these videos for choir practise, and as someone who has never sung before being in the choir I have heard improvements in my voice after just using one of your videos. God bless you, Jesus loves you.
A thousand thanks Eric! Over the past 6 months your videos have helped to bring me to a point where I'm now confident enough to sing on my own records, and begin a new band project. Before finding you, I was purely an instrumentalist. For changing my music for the better, I owe you my gratitude!
Wow, out of all the exercises i've come across/done, this is the best one for my voice - which is also deep/baritone. It feels like it's much easier for me to talk with a rich depth without feeling like my throat is straining! There's just a natural projection to my voice without sacrificing the depth and clarity. Amazing! Thank you!
just get it i was unable to sing low pitch song but it hel[ed me a lot your classes are just perfect i hit the subscribe by now you are just amazing clarifiying the most errors in class it self ... i liked it man
Your vocal lessons are great but I feel so awkward doing them sometimes XD My family thinks I'm crazy now because of all the sounds they hear coming from my room when I practice. I'm not going to stop though.
I really adore these vocal warm-ups that you have provided for us. The impact it has had on my voice is truly amazing. I haven't been able to sing like this in a long time. I will continue to do these daily. Thank you. This really is gold. I tried it even with singing in other languages and it still helps, just need to work on pronunciation and enunciating. Thank you again. So, so much.
3:14 Shoulders, jaw, neck relaxed 4:04 what is most advised to do (m instead of uh) 4:27 what not to do with it (don’t obtain the crackle at the expense of your neck. It won’t do you any good). 𖤛 Make sure it feels VERY GENTLE!! The touch is featherlight. If you lose the crackle, let it and come back. You’ll build the fry up. 𖤛 Only vocal fry in the range that feels comfortable for you. WHY ITS GREAT 1:25 and 1:40
Thank you sir this is really helping my voice I do all of the warm-ups..I've been looking for a vocal coach for along time now and I finally found one...I just wanted to know is it good to do Skype lessons
Hi Eric. Thank you so much for these video's. I'm a primary teacher, in the UK, and I sing at my church as well so my voice can get really tired. I seriously cannot tell you how helpful I have found these video's as I have, more recently, been suffering from sore throats. Along with increasing my water intake, doing a few of these exercises before work and after work is helping me get back on fighting form and enhanced my understanding of how my body works in harmony with my voice.
Eric, you are one of the best things that ever happened to my voice and to my teaching studio. I'm a full time musician, have been studying voice for 10 years, and still found this INCREDIBLY helpful. So often we are told what to do and how it should feel, but this set of 4 exercises gets IMMEDIATE results in ways that many of my old professors and vocal coaches were never able to do.
This is amazing. I've improved already, I feel, in just minutes. And I've never even liked my voice. Singing is something in which I've always been interested. This may be the start of a new phase of my life. So thank you so much for sharing this with us. I am very pleased!!
when I was little I used to sing so well,I used to play with my voice a lot and make weird noises and I used to do this voice fry thing haha so it's actually good for my voice OMG :D
Man i love you and i thank you for your generosity, you have helped so much with your lessons. You are a magnificent teacher and a very generous human being. Greetings from Greece.
Me now: why do vocal warm ups have to be so weird😩 ***tries it anyway Me in the next five minutes : zayuuummm, I'm a Celine Dion reborn!!! 😍😹 Thanks Eric. Your warm ups are life! You're cute BTW🌚💜
***** its like a warm up, you do it once a day and like it will expand ur range so yea you will slowly become better and the workouts help warm u up for better freer vocals, by the way id like to hear u sing is there any way we could communicate like send me a voicemail so I can hear?
I just wanted to thank you for this knowledge. After doing these 4 videos everyday I'm able to speak much better, and breath better. After having a double stroke, and covid-19.
I've been watching your videos since I was 15 (I'm 19 now.) I wish i could show you how much my voice has improved thanks to you over the past four years! Merci!
These warm ups are great thanks! I'm not hurting myself as much attempting to rap. Never knew how much vocal work was really involved, this is a great resource!
I've been watching your videos since I was 15 (I'm 19 now.) I wish i could show you how much my voice has improved thanks to you over the past three years! Merci1
I just found your channel. I love it! You may have answered this, but how do you clear your throat of post nasal mucus? It affects singing my tremendously.
I am novice looking to build a solid voice for composing original material, should I treat all 4 segments as one warm up? or take one video as the bulk of my practice? also notice your scaled exercises are in octaves, should I work on one scale at a time or move consecutively up the keys?
Thank You, Eric! I have noticed great improvement in my voice, just by watching your videos for a couple of days. I will buy your vocal training videos for sure!
im like... maybe 3 - 4 months now i been doing em 6 or 7 days a week...... goddamn i really had no idea just how much my voice could change... i used to have the paralyzed throat and now that im loose and getting a column of tone im realizing im gonna have to be that singing piano player now .... im not afraid to do that anymore... thanks eric
