Screamo singing?

Question:i want to learn how to screamo sing and i am a girl.
do you have any advice?
i don't understand when people say scream from your diaphram
can some one please explain this???

thanks
and please no stuipid answers!!

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: i want to learn how to screamo sing and i am a girl.
do you have any advice?
i don't understand when people say scream from your diaphram
can some one please explain this???

thanks
and please no stuipid answers!!

Haha. Good on ya'! Massive respect for you!.

Try listening to Arch Enemy. They're a metal screamo band with a girl singer. And diaphram is hard to explain...
Ummmmm, If you're at school. Try talking to your music or drama teacher to ask what diraphram is. And get into your local band scene they'll help with teaching you how to 'scream'. Try get onto MySpace and search for local bands in your area and send them a message asking when their next gig is on and if youse can meet up. That should help. That's really cool. I'm going to try get my friend to start 'screaming'? Lol

hey, well i know the diaphram is the muscle that power your lungs its kinda hard to explain i just like make my voice really low to do it :/ hope it helps

The other responders are correct, there's really no way to show you how to do it here--you need either pictures or diagrams or a live coach.

But in addition--did you know that when recording companies sign artists, one of the first things they do is get a voice coach for the singers? Because if you don't use proper breath support (i.e., diaphragmatic breathing) and placement and tone production, you stand a good chance of harming your voice and losing the ability to sing at all, much less screamo.

So go hire a voice coach for yourself. Don't worry about being taught at first to generate a nice head tone...you need to get the basics right first, and after you strengthen up that voice-box and make breathing properly a habit, then you can start to generate the outrageous tones you want--without much risk of vocal nodules, torn larynx, or plain old vocal fatigue.

You could just yell into a cheap mic. Yelling overloads cheap mics, causing them to distort. It's kind've the same thing. Run that into a mic preamp or a compressor or something that will smooth out the harsh sound and you might actually get something decent out of it. You could also run a better microphone into a vocal effects processor with distortion, for a similar effect. This won't give you a true "scream", but a lot of screaming is done in a similar way or is a studio effect. (You'd be surprised at how many bands use tricks like these)

That said, any kind of loud vocal projection will damage your voice if you don't warm it up properly. Getting a vocal coach is a really good idea.

Or you could just learn how to sing. I know it's a novel idea... but if you're thinking "hey, i'll learn how to scream cuz that's easier than singing" then you're actually in for a rude awakening. Screaming is much harder on the voice in the long run than singing, and you'll have to work harder to keep your voice from being effed up from screaming than singing.

So, to sum up - overload a cheap mic, distort a yell, get a vocal coach who can keep you from blowing your voice when you insist on doing stupid trendy things with your voice, or just learn how to sing properly and have a chance at acquiring a skill you might still have a use for in ten years.

I'm a little biased, but that's because I prefer the human voice when it's making a melody, not noise.

Saul