This is the introductions thread. Say hi, tell us where you’re from and what you’re all about! In your introduction, answer these 3 questions: ➡️ What is your current music project and vision? ➡️ What moment made you want to pursue being a rock singer? ➡️ What's the main thing holding you back? We can’t wait to meet you!

Who are you seeing in concert? What project are you currently working on? What do you want to see happen here? HELP ME LIVE VICARIOUSLY THROUGH YOU! HAHA! I'm just kidding...mostly. While August brings a lot of transitions for me, the main transition I'm excited about is moving from months of court stuff to finally having more time for music and community. I've had so many things I want to do here, but increasingly less time to do them until now. While I it won't all be ready in August, I will be starting the setup of my new course versions, memberships, and a new vocal program, using this community as the hub. With that also comes ramping up content like I've been wanting to do for months. But there's something particular about my ADHD brain that I want to keep in mind. Often, if I tell you all the details, my brain marks it as done already. So, I'm really only going to say that I'm excited about what's coming, and would love to hear more about... What would YOU like to see here? I'm also producing an alt. rock artist while planning out my own music for this Fall. Being in the hard rock genre with a southern gothic soul, I've been thinking about collaborations as I build. I have a connection with Lzzy Hale, but I'm nowhere near where I need to be yet to bring her on. Taylor Momsen and Dorothy Martin also are on my list for the future. But I'm looking smaller, like Jared Benjamin, Lø Spirit, or others on the rise in social media. Is there anyone you would recommend?

Some vocalists will use grit in a way that makes a fairly high note like an an A#4 still sound almost thunderous. What are they doing differently from other vocalists to creates those lower subharmonics to be so prominent? The best can sing an A#4 and make it sound as full as it were an A#3! Is there a specific supraglottal structure that they're engaging that some of the others aren't that leads to their lower and more prominent sounding subharmonics? Or is it simply a matter of their vocal cords creating a more robust clean note to start with? If it's the latter, is that because a more robust and chestier the clean note, the more capacity it has to be saturated with distortion? Here are Rob Halford and Sebastian Bach singing "Delivering The Goods." Sebastian Bach does a fine job at this, but the lower, more prominent sub harmonics in Halford's singing dwarf those of Sebastian Bach! Halford's technique almost gives the effect of what an "octave divider" does to an electric guitar. You'll especially notice that effect around 1:02 to 1:07 into the video when Rob Halford sings and then when Sebastian Bach immediately starts his lead vocal, you'll hear the bottom drop right out of the sound. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXzz8LkVEHs

Some say: "Well, you don't really use your vocal cords when you scream; you use your false cords, so if you're hurting your true cords, you shouldn't even be using them." There's the legendary story of Corey Taylor who had perhaps the most ferocious scream in metal. It's even got it's own name: the Iowa Scream! Iowa was Slipknot's first album and many maintain that Corey's screams were never as brutal after the Iowa album because he had sustained damage to his true folds. Now think about that: Corey Taylor essentially invented his own technique for the Iowa scream and then he screws up on HIS OWN TECHNIQUE TO WHERE HIS VOICE IS NEVER THE SAME AGAIN! You'd think a guy would be a master of his very own technique. You'd LIKE to think so, wouldn't you? Then there's the case of M. Shadows who screwed his voice up terribly and there is some confusion as to whether he actually had surgery for it or not. There's also the case of Matt Heafy, who had a great sounding scream, did it well for quite a ferw years, but then blew out his voice. He went on to record an album of all clean singing because he was recuperating. Finally he came back with his "safe scream",. but Trivium fans maintain that the "safe scream" Matt Heafy used never sounded as good as his original scream which begs the question: Was his original scream fixable? With some minor tweaks, could he have kept doing his "original scream"? After all, it's hard to believe that his "original scream" was so dangerous that it had to be ENTIRELY CHANGED to make is SAFE! So, with that in mind (especially the Corey Taylor incident with his Iowa scream being something he could never truly do as well again) what do you think are the main things that screamers do that end up injuring their voices?

Hi, it seems I misinterpreted your 4th of July post. I took it to mean that when you were writing about how after July you'd finally have control of your business, that you had temporarily lost the ability to write about singing here (until August). After all, I wrote a question 22 days ago and when you wrote your post, it had been six days or so since I asked it and I thought the non-response was atypical, but I figured you were just ultra-busy and would get around to it. Then I saw your July 4th post and thought: "Oh this makes sense. No wonder there has been no reply to my question. Draevn can't write about music here until August." Further confirming this idea, the board shut down more than I'd ever seen it shut down before to where there was literally nobody on the 7 day scoreboard at one point. So that confirmed my idea that you simply could not post about music here until August and (almost) nobody was posting because they knew you wouldn't be here to reply. So, imagine my surprise when today (day 22 since my original question abouut "rev") I saw Shijie get a reply only 3 days after posting a question. I guess I just worded my original "rev" question poorly and should have written it more tersely. Looking back on it n Now, it is pretty long. Ha ha! Sorry it was so long. I'm gonna try to condense it into the most concise form possible because I truly am interested in the "Rev Your Voice Like An Engine" technique and the specific problem I've always had whenever I tried it. I have tried this many, many times, especially when I was trying to get a Rob Zombie Dragula type distortion. In case you haven't heard that song here's a link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqQuihD0hoI My thing with using this type of distortion is that while it's great for bringing out the bassy sub harmonics (almost making it sound like it's sung an octave lower except it still has the sharpness or edge of the octave it's in, despite having those subharmonics, but I could never get the full amount of distortion above about a D4.