What LOUDNESS Reveals About Great Singing & Screaming (Prepare To Be Surprised) 

Can you do a video on how to sing like Chris Liepe? That dude has killer vocals!

This is hands down the most useful channel there is about singing. What a great coach, I can't thank you enough for putting this out here for free. I know you take lots of requests, but if you have time and it interests you, i've always tried to figure out what technique Jens Kidman from Meshuggah uses. From the Obzen era onwards. Thanks again! Keep up the great work!

Would love a "Sing like Serj Tankian"!

When you were like, “isn’t that cool” I was like, “yes, that's actually really freeing” and you basically said those same words as I was think it. Amazing.

As a singer that actually benefits from nerding out like this, you are the perfect coach for me. Do you do Skype lessons???

I used to sing very loud, the wave would be ridiculously bigger than the spoken voice. But it didn't sound right. Recently I've started focusing on finding the right frequencies and a good color. And even when the level is slightly above the spoken tone, it sounds great and cuts the mix. Loudness sometimes doesn't fit with every single vocal and/or genre, focus on the outcome!

There’s a db app I searched for and downloaded after watching this video called decibel X and it measures dB but also literally says “quiet conversation” or “loud singing” which has been really helpful as well! Sometimes when I’m listening to a studio recorded song it sounds like the singer is hitting it hard the entire time but most likely is just compression added in production. This is definitely helping save my voice during practice sessions!

The voice that has always fascinated me is Devin Townsend. The man is so incredibly diverse and powerful. If you haven't looked into his stuff, I think there's a ton to learn there.

Welcome to Chris Liepe channel where the PROOF!! is in the teaching.

You are by far the most helpful singing intructor online, IMO! This REALLY helps with gauging how things should and shouldn't feel! Thank you! \m/

You are the best youtube teacher out there. And I follow A LOT of channels. I hope your channel gets huge. Thank you for sharing all of this!

Wonder what you guys got. I'm male. Small chest (about 88cm) I got: Silent room: 20 db Talk: 40-50 Fry: 50-58 High fry: 60 Chest voice: 74 Head voice: 78 Mixed voice: 80 Falsetto: 75 Belt: 80 (Very Lame) false chord "growl": 56 Can't sing with distortion without pain so haven't tried.

Congratulations Chris!!!)))) 100 thousand subscribers!!! Keep it up. You're an awesome teacher. Thank u for everything)))

Greatest vocal coach out there. What's interesting to see is that throughout all his examples, the larynx remains relatively neutral and doesn't move a whole lot! Thank you so much Chris! ❤️

we DO love well supported head ;)

This is even more thorough than I thought it'd be! Thanks for answering my question, Chris. It's a real eye opener.

This was great! Really helps to see things from another perspective.

Another hugely helpful video, thank you! I've been wanting to sing and work on my voice for a long time and your videos are really helping me to begin to do that and show that sounds and pitches I could only dream of using are not entirely unachievable for me. I've just signed up for your free course and am looking forward to working through it. Thanks again!

And there it is! Thank you for gettin The dB meter! This clarified my thoughts about doing some things too silent.

I asked this a couple of weeks ago so not sure if was only one, thanks so much either way for doing the video I can now have some references to compare with! You’re great!

This is a fantastic thing! I always wondered about how "loud" singers are actually being that the vocals live and on a recording are some compressed.

Thank you so much! This was wonderful. God bless you brother! ❤🙏

Definitely do the free course! I noticed enough improvement that I decided to join the 12 week program. I've been singing since I learned to speak and this is the best my voice has ever sounded

You have no idea how much this helped. I immediately subscribed after seeing this.

This was a great idea for a video. I think I have a bad habit of trying to make my screams as loud as possible, and my voice starts to suffer after doing it for prolonged periods of time as a result. This is yet another good example of prioritizing technique over volume. Zero dislikes for the best vocal coach on RU-vid.

What a great channel. So glad I found it!

I've wondered about this since I was a kid. It's so great to see this covered so thoroughly. Your videos have changed my life. I was always so uncomfortable with my voice, to the point that I wasn't willing to pay a vocal coach because I thought it was a lost cause. Now I love it. I can't stop singing, and I can't stop watching your videos. THANK YOU so much, very sincerely. To offer this for free is incredibly generous, and it's the only way I would ever have discovered my voice.

Very cool! That's a great lesson, that mix doesn't need so much air and "effort" to be loud and cutting.

We love you Chris thanks for all these videos

Love what you do man! Keep it up

I like this video because is not only explanation but also demonstration. Very good.

I have to say that you are hands down the best vocal coach I have had the privilege of viewing I have been singing ever since I was a small boy and I have ran into a lot of vocal coach’s mainly opera vocal coach’s who told me you can’t do this you can’t do that without backing anything up and being a rock/grunge/metal kind of guy that limited a lot of things I was able to produce vocally and I had begun to bitter with myself then I found your channel and everything changed I can sing more freely and love the sound of my own voice so I just want to thank you from the bottom of my soul for what you are doing for us your fans. P.S I love your artist videos the Maynard James Keenan one was amazing again thank you for all you do.

Chris! Thank you for this!

This is probably one of the most useful videos about singing out there! Thank you so much!!!

This was indeed freeing. to see that I actually hit more volume was encouraging. Now, I don't have any of the control and technique you possess but that's training. My fear of being too quiet is at least out of the equation which is...a lot.

You're the best teacher out there my man. Great vídeo as always!

Insanely beneficial!

Love this channel! 🤟 The guiding light in the darkness of how hard to try singing better 🤣

I feel so special now :D I know I am probably not the only one who requested it, but I will think that this video is a reply for my request. :) Thanks, Chris! This is exactly what I wanted to see! A huge surprise for me.

Awesome Video!

This video helps a lot understanding better the differences between the types of singing and distortions. Thank you a lot for what you do here! Stay metal, from Italy ;)

Yay! I was getting worried because when I first started learning to scream, it wouldn't feel like it was too much louder than just doing mix, glad to know I'm on the right track Just gotta keep practicing now

What I'm getting from your videos is that in the voice we have these knobs, in the same way a keyboard has .Volume (Support muscles,poop muscles) .Pitch (Vocal cords) .Tone (Soft palate/tongue/larynx) .Compression. ( false vocal cords??) Please, feel free the comunity to add anyone or correct Chris, gratitude to you.

Appreciate you Chris

Awesome video! Really love your grit. I know you already did a couple videos on that topic, but it would be super cool if you could go even more in depth on the sensation and the placement of the grit in an upcoming video. Keep it up! :>

This is so freakin great, i was always thinking screams must be very loud and i always fail because they get to be high pitched, and i was loosing that growling deepness. Amazing find!! Thanx

priceless info, thanks!

I needed this video

very cool video to see it shown side by side.

Amazing video as always! Can you teach us how to maintain the volume of your mic in the same level all the time? Btw, seeing your channel growing up is fantastic! Greetings from Brazil ^^

Please teach us how to sing/scream like Ryan Kirby of Fit a For A King!

Chris, Thank you for all of the tutorials you have given so far. I was wondering if you could do a David Lee Roth / Steven Tyler type of screaming for effect tutorial?

I had this idea about db-meter but didn't asked it in comments. Dunno why. But anyway the collective intellegence is damn powerful and now the question was asked so we got this great experiment. Thanks a lots for your conversations with us and all the "interactivity"!

Learned alot thanks

I was thinking about this decibel thing yesterday! I mean, the only way I can "properly" sing to train scream is with my head shoved into a pillow, or with it very close to my mouth, as to not annoy my neighbours (at least until I get the optimal larynx position for screaming)

I wish there were more vocalists like you

i gotta say dude, i keep coming back and getting inspired from every video you put out. love it dude, though im sure i get some weird looks when im in traffic xD

Thx❤ very interesting and helpful❤

Thanks for all of this great content, Chris! I'm on week 9 of your course and it has helped a ton as far as discovering what my voice can do! Also, I think a sing like Chino Moreno or a sing like Chris Stapleton would be really cool :D Thanks again, Sensei!

Hey man, as usual, great content! I have to keep this in mind. Could there be a video about mastering a vocal track? I am trying to learn mixing and mastering and I won't find a better coach than you on RU-vid

Really exciting, thank you! :)))

I feel your voice would suit some of Pete Loeffler's stuff from Chevelle. Feel free to check them out if you don't know them, good band. But more great insight as usual👍

Interesting and helpful. Never thought to test this and I even already had that spl app as I use it to check monitor levels for mixing. Results…im loud lol, but I knew that. FoH has mentioned that to me before. But the helpful part is that my head voice isn’t super far off from my chest 100 v 110 ish. That’s really helpful. I had long avoided any head voice as thought my timbre was just awful. Turns out when I actually recorded it at my sister’s urging for some songs, I apparently only have that phenomenon where I hear myself differently for my head resonances. I sound recorded, speaking, chest voice, exactly like I think I sound. But man I would’ve thought the volume was way off too. Another reason I’ve be subconsciously avoiding using it more.

I once saw a video where a guy made guitar sounds with his voice and it’d be cool if you went into how specific instruments sound and how to achieve that sound too.

Very interesting video! As I said before, your content is quite cool and useful Chris, cheers!

I once hit 123 or 125 dB on a meter quite a while ago when I used to do Dani Filth high screams.

Very cool episode.

It would be awesome to see a fresh new intro! I like the intro you do have, but I think change could bring some life back to it. 100% just my opinion! Keep rocking! :D

I would love a video on Jay Buchanan the lead singer of rival sons he is pretty loud and soulful

Cool vid. My numbers are about the same as yours in most styles of singing except screaming (which you do way better than me). My scream is about 102. This was encouraging to me - I thought my numbers would have been much lower. I underestimated to power of my voice - which has become much better thanks to you Chris!

Ok mine are: Sitting and measuring in a diesel Ford truck with engine on: 45 db Talking 60 db High frys 100 db Mid-low false cord growls 95 Super loud yelling with vocal break technique and false cords: 110 db

That was so amazing

Dude this guy is awesome

what a phenomenon

Man, you've got that Chris Cornell distortion on those high notes. I'm so jealous. I wish I knew how to do distortion.

Would be awesome if you did a video on Conor Mason of Nothing but Thieves. Amazing dynamic range.

that's the video i needed

That was interesting. Thanks)

Could you possibly do a "How to sing like" Chris Motionless? Mainly with the higher, distorted notes he hits like in the Chorus of Soft, when he sings "My Disguise! In Disguise, and so on. Definitely would be a good one, I think.

That's a lot of power.

thanks for this :-) Hallelujah Chris Liepe Hallelujah

Great Video 👍👍👍

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The pressure he feels at lower frequencies are in the passagio area, that is why he says that at higher frequencies it's less effort.

hey could you do one of your vocal technique dissection videos on Blackie Lawless of WASP? i'd love to hear some insight on how he achieved that savage howl from the early albums. it's a sound I've chased for a long time, and this video kind of got me thinking about it. I can mimic the voice pretty well at lower volumes but adding any kind of projection sort of ruins it. should I maybe not and just like the mic do the work?

Me: Ok Google, call mum Phone: Who u want to call? Me: CALL MUM Phone opens Google Maps: Here is mum close to you Me: 12:17

Sing Like Lewis Capldi!!

Chris, will you please cover Norma Jean - If Loss Than leader? I'd love to get your opinion on this style! He blends harsh with a clear note mixed in so well. Thanks for all you do!

If you want high notes and super cool distortion check out beast in black, yannis papadopoulos

This is so fantastic, I've always wondered. But I am curious what about fry screaming and false coord? Would love to see some db levels from a pro.

That's pure head

I was watching your vid on Cobain's scream. Reminds me of Lizzy Paplinger's ability to push her voice, particularly in LPX's "Tremble." Ooof, great.

when he says what he's doing its like an anime where they announce their attack before the do it haha

First of all, thank you for this video: I have been looking for something like this for a while. I know it is a stupid question but, obviously, you are measuring the sound from your mouth right? Not through any speaker. I am just making sure lol. So helpful. I love your channel.

So many people say that you should stay the same volume all the way through the range. I'm so glad that I refused to except that...because it's just not true. Staying quite means going to headvoice early and I don't always want to got to headvoice early...sometimes I want to sing around C5 in a chesty mix...and that is not going to happen at a speaking volume. Yet another great lesson, thanks again Chris

Hey Chris, could we get more videos about writing and recording your own music? There's a lot of things about writing and recording that I don't know and as someone who has a goal of becoming a home recording musician your insight would be incredibly valuable.

Thanks for doing this, I can't check my singing yet but my speaking in a 30db room seems to be around 70-80, so I guess there's some validity to people who get mad at me for talking too loud lol

Your voice reminds me of Trevor McNevan from 1000 foot krutch. Please make a video of his vocal technique. Ty

Hello Chris First thank you for your work, it's great and you're some talented guy for sure. I would like to know how did you learn all your advanced techniques especially when it comes to grit etc. Let me be more precise (I'm french btw, gonna do what I can) : every guy that master these techniques is able to explain it really clearly but also seems to have learned it kind of automatically. Every time I master something, I can explain it being precise (explaining what happen in my body, how can I visualize my voice with "beams"...) but I didn't learned it thanks to this kind of advices. I mean, it helps to figure it out but is it really the main part of my understanding ? Anyway, you keep me motivated to get to my goals (Chester ;) ) and I thank you again for this

Is operatic sound louder then belt/mix?