Q&A for How to Sing Screamo

Give yourself time to rest and recover! For instance, if you have a very intense training session or a very intense gig where you're maxing your voice out and singing at a full belt, you need to give yourself an 1 hour of shut-up time to rest and recover your vocals.

Somewhat. Girls can have a harder time learning to scream if their voice is higher pitched. This can be fixed if you learn how to sing or speak in your lower register. This allows your voice to be deeper, which is necessary if your voice is pitchy. If you were blessed with a lower voice (like me), screaming will be easier.

Gerard Way (since I'm most familiar with MCR) has a bit of a mixed singing style, I guess you could say. His voice sounds fairly rough, especially in older songs, and the screaming/louder parts are often not much louder than the music (though they probably get toned down in editing a bit). Anyways, to go for a Gerard Way style, mix your singing with a softer, more gentler voice, a more regular volume, and then finally you can add in your screamo lyrics. It's quite the mix, but if you listen to him and really listen for it, you should be able to see what I mean by this.

Yeah, it's perfectly safe. Sing in a low tone, hum to your car engine revving, and make sure to drink warm drinks. Let your voice rest afterwards.

Because you are using your throat to scream. It should come from the diaphragm and stomach.

Practice singing in a high-pitched voice, and then just add your ¨growl¨ to it.

His scream sounds like someone saying, "uhhghhh" and then trying to raise it to the rooftops.

Drink a good tea. Try and drink earl grey tea before you sing, especially if you are sick or have a lot of mucus in your throat. You can also use coffee or hot chocolate. Preferably something warm.

Yes. If you're practicing, try to find a secluded area or relatively soundproof room, such as a basement. During a performance, be sure you are in an area where you're not creating a disturbance to your neighbors.

Use your diaphragm properly and protect your throat.

Yes, that's how a lot of bands do it - Black Veil Brides, Memphis May Fire, Pierce The Veil, Sleeping with Sirens, and even Nirvana.

In the beginning of the song he uses a fry scream; look up videos about that. For the rest, go from your diaphragm and sing low while screaming.

Yes. Your voice can be raspy and sore after screaming.

You can find lessons on extreme vocal online, but don't hurt yourself. If it hurts, you are probably doing it wrong. And, don't practice more than 30 minutes a time at first, as you may lose your voice.

Yes, so long as it doesn't cause you any sort of pain, as the pain can mean you're harming your vocal cords. At 16, your vocal cords should be mostly developed, so it won't effect your voice as badly.

It's not any more or less safe for you because you are 12. Just stop if you feel any pain, and if you get hoarse or lose your voice, rest it for a few days.

Probably because you are singing too much and pressuring your voice too much. Try taking a break when singing, or drinking some water.

Chester was using 4 similar techniques - vocal fry, fry scream, power fry and compression fry. The first thing you have to do is a warm up - work with your mouth muscles (it may look a little comic, but if you open your mouth wide like a snake trying to swallow a giant mouse and then chew big invisible bites, it works to warm your mouth muscles up). Then you sing at your standard height. Now, what is really important is to breathe into your diaphragm (abdominal breathing) then you sing out of your abdomen, which adds the raspy fry tone. Then you simply change the pitch and strength of pushing the air. Never through your vocal chords, use false chords.

Instead of using mainly your throat voice, try belting with your core and then slowly adding more of a rasp by allowing your throat to tighten up a bit.