how to scream/growl?

[momentum]

hello all. im a metalhead noob here, recently started opening up to heavy metal music as the mainstream stuff you get on the radio totally suck. so now im into bands like Nightwish, Sonata Arctica, Slipknot, Korpiklaani, Finntroll. but anyway the real question i want to ask is, how do you scream/growl like they do? i'm good at just singing, though i've never taken any proper lessons, but it would be awesome if i could scream and growl like Corey Taylor, Marco Hietala, people like them. so does anyone have any tips or instructions?

and one more question. i dont know how to put this into words but is it possible for one not to be able to scream/growl simply because their bodies weren't made for it?

 

[zamir666]

is it possible for one not to be able to scream/growl simply because their bodies weren't made for it?

i don't think so

 

[momentum]

i hope not haha

 

[zamir666]

haha, but have you tired screaming/growling?

 

[momentum]

screaming no, but as for growling, well i have but it always sounds like shit. and my vocal chords always hurt when i try, so i stop trying, dont want to damage them. obviously im doing it all wrong

dont want to try any screaming at home too, my parents will think i've gone mad! lol

 

[zamir666]

screaming no, but as for growling, well i have but it always sounds like shit. and my vocal chords always hurt when i try, so i stop trying, dont want to damage them. obviously im doing it all wrong

dont want to try any screaming at home too, my parents will think i've gone mad! lol

i see. well for me, it does take a while to get used to and takes practice to improve as well. i've been doing it for 2 years by now and when i listened back to how i sounded then, it sounded like crap. hahah

 

[foosiong]

inward screaming lesson

outwards screaming lesson

 

[buffalo man]

it would be awesome if i could scream and growl like Corey Taylor, Marco Hietala, people like them. so does anyone have any tips or instructions?

errrr.....marco doesn't growl or scream seriously but anyways although this sounds lame but wiki actually has a page on growling and its effective,it doesn't really teach step by step but it gives you so many tips its immposible not to learn something eg. inhale,exhale,death metal growls will damage your voice no matter what.....blah blah blah etc etc.....

 

[astaroth]

watching melissa cross helped me alot. chk her out on youtube

 

[zakyyy]

Basically inhale screaming is the easiest form of screaming. I can only inhale, but not exhale. So I guess only lucky ppl get to exhale. But yeah, at first you won't sound good but after months of practice, I suppose your screaming will be rad. My inhale sounds br00tal, but it's gay hahaha cause it's inhale