Chords for How To Sing With Distortion And Rasp - Ken Tamplin Vocal Academy

How to sing with distortion, or how to sing with rasp.
[D] HOOOOOO!
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[Ab] My name's Ken Tamplin, and welcome to Ken Tamplin Vocal Academy.
[N] This happens to be one of my specialties, and I'd like to discuss some very important things.
Now if you stopped here for five quick tips on how to sing with rasp, you're going to
be disappointed, and here's why.
There is no such thing.
And in fact, if you go from a clean sound, straight to a hyperglottal compressed [G] distorted
sound, chances [Ab] are you'll either hurt your voice, [N] or lose your voice altogether.
That's not how we grow compression or distortion.
Here's how we grow compression.
First we start with a powerful clean sound, [G] _ _ _ _
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[C] and then we go to varying degrees of distortion,
where we turn up the volume, or lean into the sound a little bit more for more and more distorted sound.
So I'm going to play a couple clips back to back of myself singing, and then a female
student singing, so you can hear both male and female versions of first a clean, powerful
sound, then turning up the volume with a little bit more distortion, then a little bit more
vocal distortion, and then finally, a lot of vocal [G] distortion. _
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Okay, so as you've seen, you can tell, there was different degrees of that distortion.
So what we do is we lean into the sound, starting with _ _
LAAAAAAAAM
And then we [D] kind of push into the sound with the compression, using our diaphragm, and
I can't cover diaphragmatic support here, I have this in my singing course.
I cover all of [Ab] this in my singing course, How To Sing Better Than Anyone Else.
So [N] we start out with a clean sound, LAAAAAAAM, then we can lean into the sound a little bit
more, _ _ LAAAAAAAM, right?
Or, AAAAAAAAM, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah!
We can kind of push into that sound just a little bit more, _ LAAAAAAAM, you know, we can
hit it really hard, but we have to start out with a clean sound, and then go through levels
and stages of distorted sounds.
And then when we're all done, we must come back and clean up the voice, because if we
don't, we will forever [G] sentence ourself to a heavy [F] distorted sound, which we don't want.
We want versatility, and we want [Ab] good vocal health.
So I [D] cover all this in my course.
You can click on Ken Tamplin Vocal Academy dot com, or type in the URL, and I hope to
see you around the Academy soon.
God bless you all.
Thank you.