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 Review by: Matt Whelihan See others by this writer ![[staff]](/images/icons/staffsticker.gif){kind=icon}
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 Published on December 22nd 2005
Melissa Cross is a vocal coach, but she is not showing her students how to crack glasses or generate endless vibrato. Instead, Melissa caters to the crowd that wants to scream their lungs out. Over the course of The Zen of Screaming, Melissa goes through plenty of simple exercises that seem less about becoming a better vocalist, and more about controlling what you already have. Melissa teaches how metal and hardcore singers can keep from damaging their vocal cords or consistently losing their voices.
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its not about learning how to scream, dumbshit. its about taking proactive measures so you dont fuck up your voice. You can't learn how to scream you just do it.... and yeah that everytime I die vocalist got worse after those leasons his scream was that much less intense and so fuckin contained. I would toss another vote into the "ghostmonkey has no clue what he is talking about" side. I have no personal experience, but every interview I've read with singers of hardcore bands talk about the importance of technique, learning warmups from other bands you meet, how not to permanently damage your voice. You ever sing along to a band at a show? I get hoarse from doing that one night a month. Imagine doing that weeks in a row, it would shred your vocal cords. Melissa Cross - The Zen of Screaming DVD as someone that screams in a band and has taken lessons from Melissa Cross, all Ic an say is that there is indeed something creepy about teaching people how to scream. While it's definitely important to learn a little bit about the mechanics of how screaming works so that you don't injure yourself, i wonder if my favorite punk and hardcore vocalists might not have had such character if they'd taken lessons like the ones Melissa offers. Yeah, there might be alot of shitty metalcore bands out there. But this is probably teaching you to scream so you don't sound like them. just fucking scream already. dont need nobody to to teach that. Great..as if we dont have enough shitty metalcore bands.... actually pretty cool nice. |
