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Originally Posted by feedthegods666
WOOOOAAAHHHHH!!!!!!!!! 
you really know what you're talking bout.
the only thing i say is, think about someone you really hate, and then imagine screaming the lyrics in their face!!! thats what i do, and it works really well.
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well that works for some! the thing is that many people will let that feeling tense them up and then they tense and close up the throat, which may be fine until repetition and time take their toll. Like with chino. with a mic, you really shouldnt have to push that hard, (unless the sound guy is shltty,or you have it too low in rehearsal) maximum gain without feedback is what you want. you can scream so easily then, with tone, and for longer, once you learn the feeling of screaming. youre working with an acoustic instrument. your mic should amplifiy you as much as the other instruments and you shouldnt have to push that hard to get the sound out. of course in heavier music that is the style, but i(and anyone) can look like im pushing and straining but really be giving about a 75-80% scream. its all in the emotion you convey. depending on what the gig length is, i might push harder if im near the end, and i dont have a show the next day. (i havent had a gig in a while though now, no band!
), but you get the point. if youre in festival or multiband show where you know youre gig time will be short, warm up longer. I'm at my best after a good hour of warming up(excersises and singing).
i grew so much by singing in the car. luckily i've always had a twenty to thirty minute drive to work. so i would always be singing and fukin around. i realized later that i had been helping myself, once i started singing seriously. so looking back on those monotonous boring going to work again drives, it can be a key. Now its not uncommon for me to leave work at 12, it normally takes 20 minutes to get home, but i wont get home til like 2 or later because im out working on my voice, burning gas, eating up the ozone, but i dont have to worry about criticism, jokes, neihbors, my sister, dad, etc. its just me, my body, and the music. because you need a space where youre not worried about what you sound like, what your friends/family think... thats where you get to push your limits and grow, and you can warm up properly. because when you start off warming up your notes arent gonna sound as good. so most people go harder to get that tone but your cords arent warmed up. so you start out singing more when you should be vocalizing at normal push. what happens is you put yourself in a hole from the get go. you heat up the cords and fatigue the muscles early. this(and mucous(another long topic for later)) leads to you thinking you have to push harder to get the same tones because your cords are already misaligned. so you push harder again and again and you go in a downward spiral to keep the same tone. adding more stress and shortening the work time which doesnt build stamina. when youre warming up, your notes might sound crappy for a while. but you dont worry about it. just do normal push. then you later add the stress and force of holding tone and singing. Your cords are vibrating at a certain shape hundreds of times a second for any mid range note! that makes for quick heat and fatigue. now imagine after blasting them before they are warmed up good. But be careful of singing in the car, you dont want your acoustic to compete with the electric. you cant do it. however, again for me, over time i realize that by doing so for so long i strengthened my voice. just be careful. and warm up. after a long warm up, the vocal cords can take a beating, and thats how to get them to strengthen. (be sure to warm down afterwards)
and another thing is that there is a point at which you get diminished returns anyways. if you push too hard then the volume and tone are compromised because there is too much air passing. so each person has to find there own spot really. everybody's different and capable of different things and all have our own limits, but the principals are all the same.
