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Awesome!!! Awesome!!! Awesome!! That's an amazing story!!!! I know from experiencing breakthroughs in my own voice because of your amazing courses. I love your voice, and when I heard you sing songs from the greatest singers, yet I was loving your versions even more, still do, and then sharing how you got there, and how to bring out my own vocal discoveries through tonal dynamic resonance , and character. Wow! It changed everything!!! You're amazing Chris!! You are the greatest in my eyes vocally and as a vocal coach/teacher/instructor. I say that honestly from experiencing it myself. Thank you!!!!

Hey Chris, I’ve had plenty of people in the past tell me to stick with my comfortable, “natural” range(E2-E4). But I didn’t want that. I wanted to be able to sing my rock songs. Now with a lot of experimentation and your videos I can now sing up to F5 with tons of different characters all through out my voice.

He's so missed, thank you for this.

I also experienced vocal coaches telling me I shouldn't even try. Being willing to sound silly and get it wrong over and over again as I find my own way has been the most freeing thing ever!

When I was 16 I played the part of Danny Zuko in a high school production of Grease. The Musical Director for that production was the music teacher, Amanda Bowater. She was all about getting us cast members to expand our range, and sing through our limitations. She was the person who first taught me about "chest" voice, and "head" voice, and she also taught me about mixed voice, although she used to informally call it "throat" voice, which IMO is actually a better way to think of it for a number of reasons. Although that musical was only a few months out of my life, her advice was always in the back of my mind from then on, so I always believed it was possible to achieve the "rocky" falsetto, and mixed sounds of Axl Rose, Robert Plant, and Chris Cornell, to name but a few. Also, she made it clear that very few people have a natural tendency to sing that way, and most people have to learn how to make it sound good, and then work at it from then on, because it takes practice, BUT anybody can get better at it WITH practice. So I want to say two things to the world at large: 1: ANYONE can learn to do this, it just takes PRACTICE. 2: God bless Mandy Bowater.

Which also means that good singing is a pathway to healthy screaming technique. Because with higher tenseless notes its easier to do this distortion

You have the best approach to teaching and singing rock music. In my early 20's (20 years ago) my first vocal coach came at me with the same approach as you deliver. It started with him testing me to see what kind of silly and weird sounds I could make with my voice without it hurting my throat. I learned very quickly that a lot of what people hear on recordings is an illusion because of reverb, delay, gain and compressors. He was able to "imitate" a lot of good vocalists like Robert Plant and all the way down to Louie Armstrong. I'd go see his band perform every Tuesday night for what I took as "free" lessons. I learned a lot over a two year period with him. He drove it home that baritones are great rock vocalists and most of the best of em are. Hearing him sing rocks song without a mic right in front of me in his studio really opened up to me what it sounds like without smoke n mirrors. I couldn't grasp conservatory methods of trying to teach me to sing properly. They were limiting to say the least. Thank you for delivering these videos to us. Keep em coming!!

I relate so much to this story. But my breakthrough was you, I watched one of your videos on mixed voice and my jaw dropped (and the same happened to every musician I showed your videos to). I always heard the same "he is a tenor, you are a baritone" or "that require years and YEARS of practice to slowly get to those notes". After watching a few MINUTES of your video I could reach notes one octave higher than I thought possible to me. It was mind-blowing, a revelation. It felt like finding a musical instrument hidden in a cupboard that had been in front of me my whole life but I didn't know I could open. You are amazing. Thank you for your videos!

The one vocal coach I had immediately classified me as a Bass. Admittedly, in the prior year, I had discovered Home Free and was working to match Tim Foust. I extended my low end from a D2 to Bb1. But I still love to sing Hard Rock, Grunge, etc. The day she told me I was "being greedy" for attempting a G4, I was done with her. Not to mention my distain for singing scales. Using distorted Head and/or Falsetto, I could always imitate the SOUND of Cornell, Halford, Brian Johnson, etc, but I didn't have the power they had. Like your discovery of Cornell, my muse has been Myles Kennedy and Alter Bridge. In the last year, I've discovered my Mix and am regularly (with little to no tension) getting up to B4 and even C5 before switching to Head and Reinforced Falsetto, which gets me to A5. Not too bad for "a Bass". 😉 I think part of my success has been switching to clean vocals, but more so by imitating Myles' tone. 👍🏽😎

This channel is the gift that keeps giving. It’s like you’re handing out gold man. Thank you

Ive been watching your videos over and over and over trying to grasp the idea of screaming .. I finally got it. Thank you🙏

Chris, may I say for me, so much of high notes or singing high tessitura songs is training with lack of fear and a relentless, unwavering attitude. You must believe those notes are available or will one day be available. Some vocals I have realized are just better sounding in my voice when I drop them a half step. That friggin' half step can make such a difference (up or down). Sometimes the half step down is just temporary, but you don't realize it. I'm always playing with half steps....lol!!

My favourite videos of yours are where you discuss Chris and his voice, thank you for another one!

For some reason, I've always been able to sing. I started playing piano by ear at four years old. I just sat down at the family piano one day and started banging out Beatles melodies. My parents were quite shocked to say the least. Then, when I started playing keyboards in a rock band in my late teens, I was asked to sing. So I sang. No problem. It's weird. Once I started my career as a software engineer I gave up keyboards and music altogether. Since retiring, I've started singing again. Singing to backing tracks. I love it. We go to karaoke clubs. That's how I'm re-living my band days. But yeah, you're spot on with the vocal strategies. I liken it to people who do voice impersonations. Rich Little. Dana Carvey. You experiment with sounds using your voice. You use your voice in fun ways outside of your normal speaking range. Exactly what you teach. Cheers!

Dude you're going to change the face of rock music. Mark my words.

My exact experience studying Rob Halford You are absolutely correct

Yes Chris! I have recently been singing Disney villain cover songs and I am able to hit higher notes and even achieve curtain vocal distortion! By embodying some OTHER character voice, I am not afraid to go to wired or silly places that actually allow me to sing higher and with more power. This is because it's only a "character" voice and not my "real" voice.

Super inspiring…. I’m not a singer, I’m a string player, and even so there are a lot of takeaways for me here in this -also from a teacher’s point of view. Thanks 🙏

all these people your helping ,has to be awesome! 😁

Man Chris everytime I watch one of your videos I get inspired. Especially when you highlight Chris Cornell. He's one of my all time favorites as well and I often try to mimic him in my own songs. Doing exactly what you are saying has enabled me to increase my range also. What you say is absolute truth. Thank you for some great content👍👍👍👍

You helped me break through my vocal "brick walls". =) Thank you again, Chris!!!

Chris Cornell also was my inspiration for getting into singing and really made me appreciate good vocals and lyrics. Your course also has been game changing for me. Thank you!

All my favorite singers don't mess up live, so I'm a perfectionist lol. But surprisingly, it's grunge and nu metal that helped me improve my voice, and later on progressive metal and symphonic metal. And now, belive it or not, kpop and jpop are helping me with higher notes and lighter tones for softer songs. So far I have a 2 octaves range (D3-G5) but I'll try to reach a C6 and a C3, just for the fun of it.

you are more then a gift

@@Chris Liepe I absolutely 100% owe you a massive debt of gratitude. You taught me, through your humble and approachable teachings how to get past the tight throat issue. Thank you a 100x over! Eden

Your videos have improved so much in just a year.

Thank you so much!!

Dude I've been trying to sing this song for some time now and thanks to your content I was able to break through that ceiling just recently. I don't exactly have much freedom with my voice while singing this song in particular BUT I'm going to just keep experimenting like you suggested and I have no doubt I'll improve. Thanks for everything you do man, you've helped me a ton.

It's funny because it happened to me recently. I'm an average baritone that couldn't push beyond A4 in full voice on a very good day then I participated into an amateur choir that really triggered in me what I've always suspected about Chris Cornell's singing hitting high notes on a whim as a baritone. When I started to think my body as an air conductor going right from my diaphragm pushing the air out of my mouth rather than forcing my throat to emit sounds, something clicks to reach C5 to F5 without straining much. I was like "Wow so that is how Cornell was doing it with such absolute control!". It's like I unlock an upper range above my natural baritone voice that sounded like a tenor's natural range. It's not painful like when you're forcing your throat because you're relaxed and the air is just merely circulating through you. You think yourself like an air control button that controls the amount of air necessary to produce whateve note then modulates to attain a certain pitch that you interiorize priorhands in anticipation, now I work trying to nab that sensation and blend that mixed voice naturally so I can be able to switch with ease between my chest and mixed voices. Adding some grit too. It's like trying to tame an elusive unicorn that you witnessed one day. OMG it exists and it was within me all this time!

I had the exact same experience, with the same song as my white whale. People told me the same thing back in the day. I went to the live recordings, l learned the techniques from people like Melissa Cross, and now this song and many others are easily within my capabilities. Nowadays I keep myself in shape with your vids, a bit of Ken Tamplin, and a steady diet of new songs, new artists, and new techniques. Thanks for this video. Soooo validating.

My vocal coach that I went to a couple of times restrained me to the point of blocking my voice from expanding. You showed me the approach of "letting voice do stuff, not making voice do stuff" and it was just groundbreaking. From the point of forcing my voice through countless hours of intervals and being frustrated to the point of just going with the flow and feel. For example your warm up video that I "sing" along with probably 4 or 5 times a week.. it's just great. I never thought I would be able to sing in mixed voice, songs by Richie Kotzen or Chris Cornell. Thanks to you I might be able to success in what I love doing most..thank you !

The realest teacher in the game. Wish I would've had you in the late 90's/early 2000's. Awesome Video!

AMEN! Very inspiring to keep grow up my voice. ...Never ending process Thank you Chris!🙏

Thank you so much this was so helpful! 🙏

As usual, inspiring and honest, thank you Chris Liepe ❤

Great stuff as always Chris!

Inspiring message, Chris. Thanks for all you do!

awesome video man... ! inspiring!

Chris Liepe’s videos are genuinely helpful if you want to learn to get your voice to be more dynamic. I stumbled into his channel because of Chris Cornell (I have a similarly low voice, and I’m primarily a guitarist, not a singer) and I’ve found Chris Liepe’s advice accessible and usable in real world scenarios.

Enjoying your videos and unconventional approaches Chris! Thank you for your time and effort!

Always so relevant and interesting. Chris. You’re a great person. A great coach. A great mind.

Great teaching and great encouragement rock on!

What a great, well-produced video!

Glad to find another passionate CC fanboy X

Chris thank you so much for opening all that doors for us 🙂

This video was very inspiring. Thank you for sharing Chris!

I’ve noticed something similar. Listening to some of my favorite singers helped me more to be a better singer than what vocal majors and teachers were doing during my college days. Though I didn’t think to look at live performances in particular, I just took both live and studio as one bit package.

Great production.

Your channel is very educational!! My voice is deep/thick when I talk but I’m learning to use mixed voice and other techniques you teach. Thank you!

Great video man :)

I’ve been watching your videos for about a year now and I just want to say that your unconventional approach to singing and analyzing music has been very eye opening to me. It is very relatable, and at the same time, it also points out the subconscious behaviors that our favorite singers possess and draw the parallels between us and them. Needless to say, you have helped many up and coming vocalists, me being one of them as I am just starting my journey. These videos are great. Keep up the phenomenal content and keep being you!

Chris! You have helped my progression in harnessing grit and vocal breaks so much! I am headlining a local show in Kalispell, MT on Aug 6, and I have you to thank for confidence in my control.

Great video

Thank you Chris!

Beatifui video. All around, a masterpice. I don't even like soundgarden guy music, but this guy chris is amazing singing and is a great content creator. Fun, interesting, to the point and inspiring. He's so good.

Great content! I’m loving the courses too

2:20 like me and Chester Bennington.. i'm a girl i can't sing low like him or high and powerful like him his voice is more beautiful than me,too....

Thanks Chris great video I enjoy your singing and Chris Cornell's great voice.To me it's about experimenting and have the confidence to bust through the ceiling of your comfortable range

Chris with hair! Crazy time. Thank you for sharing, so many of us have similar stories we're living chapters of right now.

Thanks Chris. I am at a point of my musical journey, where I really really needed that. Other people's opinions can discourage from trying to expiriment. It's glad to see someone, who had similar struggles saying they overcame them. I hope that one day I would get at least somewhat close to you with mastering my voice. ❤️

This was a Great Video. Best Vocal Coach Ever. 🙏👨‍🎤💜

nice one cl, cornell was superb, still reeling from it all, life exp into music equals soul

Chris Liepe IS the person for me who allowed me to dream and eventually start getting voice qualitites that all of my irl teachers said aren't acquirable (it's gotta be THE talent, they said)

This video was really helpful. I've also struggled for a long time to try and sing higher so I'm going to try taking this approach

Hey Chris, first off, thank you for taking the time to distribute this knowledge and teach it in a way that's easy to learn. Second, the fact that you provide it for free shows the love and passion you have for music, which is never celebrated enough. Lastly I wanted to say I thought it would be interesting if you did a breakdown of Mastodon, especially since they have three different vocalists with three different sounding voices. Thank you again for doing what you do, please continue and know that your work is very appreciated.

You have been the one that made me aware of this, my friend! I used to think I had to just yell louder haha! Thanks so much Chris you are the best!

I think where you are mentally has a lot to do with it. Chris didn't reach for notes, he ATTACKED them and dominated them fearlessly, even sometimes to the detriment of his vocal health. Just look at how he sang live during his Audioslave days. Not always the wisest choice for longevity, but he was a real rock star, and always gave 100% every performance.

You go Chris! Your generous youtube videos, free course, and other courses (which are a bargain) have transformed the way I sing, too!! I've been an instrumental musician for over 50 years. Got to work with some amazing singers, including some you would know of. They might say something helpful here and there, but I never approached it like learning guitar, bass, keys, drums... all of which I learned to play. by experimenting, listening, approaching with confidence. I just figured you were born with it I guess. Until I ran into you talking about Spencer Sotelo a while back and started looking into the free and paid training you offer. Thank you for putting it out there like you do!! So if anyone out there thinks "it's too late for me to learn to sing like that" I'm tellin' you- If I can do this really anybody could... Thank you!!

Wow...I can relate to my range stopping at G4...but fortunately my voice has grown so much since then. I feel much more freedom since learning some proper technique from people like you on youtube:)

I certainly learned A LOT ofrom this subject and concept, thanks to CHRIS!!!! Buy his COURSE!

Super helpful video, thank you Chris! (Both 😉 )

Gold video as always. I came to this realization not long ago and as a low baritone it completely changed my approach. Of course I can't hit those Rob Halford, Bruce Dickinson notes (yet?) and I still even struggle singing the chorus to Plush by STP but I feel less pressure on "hitting those notes".

You're the man, Chris! Thanks to you I've increased my range by an insane amount and can do things I've never thought possible. Joined a buddy's punk band as the lead singer before I even knew any of this and the journey has been a blast. Can't thank you enough!

What a great story! The best way to learn is to be able to imitate different singers or characters to learn their techniques. One thing I struggle with is vibrato. I’ve watched your vids but still don’t really have a grasp on whether my technique is correct or not. I’ve been doing it this way for 30 years, but I’ve always wondered how singers got that tight, fast vibrato. Keep up the awesome work, man! Love your vids!

A very inspirational story, Chris. I think though your approach isn’t a one all be all one too do. Having those foundational warmups or exercises that may seem limiting or boring in conjunction with what you are saying would be more ideal given my own background to a degree. Obviously everyone will have a different approach and may not have hit any walls for any of this to apply. In general though I do believe that experimenting with your voice or any instrument for that matter is one of the best ways to see what you are capable of and maybe finding new techniques and approaches to what you already know.

I remember hearing 2 guy's shouting at each other in a traffic situation, it was 'f'you' and the other guy replied, 'no..f'YOU!' I never forgot it because they were so stressed their voices were really high way beyond mixed voice but certainly loud. Don't suppose either of them were singers but I aways default back to mimicking their exchange when I feel myself straining a bit, the placement then alters slightly and the strain disappears.

I've had a theory there is a direct correlation between a singer's range and how many annoying sounds they have made in their lifetime. Someone like Mike Patton being a prime example of someone that obviously makes endless noises and has a huge range probably as a result. Your channel really reinforced the theory more so than anything else so far with all of your videos of dying cats and whatnot.

Chris helped you developing your own voice. And you helped me ❤️. Little request: i want to go further. I want to break the ceiling of my voice and achieve whistle notes. I want clean whistle notes and use them also for screaming like David Lee Roth or Eric Martin. You are the only one that I can always understand easily. I would like to see a video where you explain it (I mean exhaling not inhaling, I've already seen it) and add a feature that I always dreamt about. After all, thanks for everything you do and you teach to us❤️

Hey, thanks for this video... He is one of the greatest, a very good singer, sure... You have talked about these issues already I think, and it's true that if you don't try you will never know where can you get, maybe even somewhere else you had not thought before... Btw... I think now, maybe I change my mind later on, I don't know, that there is a compromise between technique and emotion and rawness, and that sometimes you have to accept a little bit of soreness, dryness, not exactly pain, but to have some discomfort in order to achieve the raw emotion... Maybe, I don't know...

The real lesson, is that this is why you don't listen to people who don't know wtf they're talking about. Thanks for the great video chris, KEEP IT UP BROTHER 🤘🤘🤘

Hi Chris! I’d love for you to do a breakdown video of Andy Cizek of Monuments or Daniel Thompkins of Tesseract, both phenomenal singers. Cheers man!

Would love to have a lesson with you man, I think you’d definitely re unlock my voice …. 2 years ago I was touring and singing night after night… hitting notes from B1 all the way to sustained C6 … I think my confidence is shook.

CC is the GOAT

I really like roger waters singing voice, he has one of the widest ranges ive ever heard. In song For the first time today pt.2 he hits e5 and holds it for 4 seconds! But the most impressive thing that is he is hitting e2 in the same song. I really want you to review this song

Hey Chris, I needed to hear this today. This is inspiring! Hearing about how you were told what you were told and how you found a way to do what you wanted anyway...that's great. I want to expand my chest voice range considerably - I have that same G4 ceiling! Mixed voice is useful but there's no substitute for the fullness of chest voice. I hear guys hitting A sharp 4s and B4s with chest. Where there's a will there's a way! Do you have a video that specifically covers expanding chest voice?

Chris Cornell... Awesome! Black hole sun, for instance.

3:13 The same thing that people say about Sam Carter XD

Until now still hoping that i could sing like Airbourne. He sings the same in the studio and live😍

Sang Like a Stone in Am with a new buddy of mine last week… and later on he said, “Well, you’re a Tenor so I can’t hit the same notes.” But.. I had the deeper, fuller voice. Played him your video on baritones and it blew his mind. Cause let’s face it… belting out the Black Hole Sun refrain is far more fun than meandering through Folsom Prison Blues on the acoustic all night.

You look like 2000s woody Harrelson when you had hair back then lol Thanks for all the hard work by the way thanks man your the best

If you are stuck at a note, try overshooting the note. My passaggio is around G4-A4, and I went for power metal out of the bat. I can sing pretty high, but my voice still struggles around G4-A4. However, if I climbed higher and higher instead of trying out crazy power metal singers, I may have been stuck at G4-A4.

Good stuff Chris. I have always mimicked singers, styles and for me if your covering a song it sounds odd to do it with your own voice. That has helped me be able to use the vocal techniques from different genres and playing covers of all kinds for over 22 years, im getting to use the flavors in my own music. Question can you do a pdf of the warm up techniques spencer used on your video course? Id glady donate for that. That helped my voice a ton but i cant afford the course lol. Love your content and approach to teaching😎

I would love too if you make a video of Stevie Wonder...

College really is just a massive waste of time and money, run by embittered and limited ideologues. With the internet - and generous, enthusiastic people like you Chris - we really don't need them anymore.

I think everyone should pick a super cartoony character voice and sing the song they are having turbel with. Let the character make the mistake, rather then you.

Nice Beyond The Wheel cover.

Really well made video on a really important topic! Listen to Chris and free your vocal chords \m/

Wow, nice to see a timeline when Liepe had hair! 😜

0:38 Holy shit, Chris Liepe with hair!!!!

I mean this is really inspiring and interesting but the editing is all over the place ^^