Hard Rocking. It's not hard, it just sounds that way.

I love this ridiculous video by AC/DC.

I'm thinking about today is that we tend to think rock singers sing "hard" - as though they have these superhuman lungs and they just can push out more sound than the average singer. But it's not true. What I hear as ROCKING is mostly texture. And attitude.  

Here's an example of what I mean by texture: Say "ribbit".  Say "ribbit" like you, then say "ribbit" like a frog. Now try to keep that froggy "ribbit" feeling and go: "YAAAAAAAAAA!" That's what some people call a " vocal fry" and that's what I'm working on.  

It's tricky because our vocal cords are actually pretty short, and the more air we force through them, the harder it is to hold them together, so it's easy to blow them out, or force them too hard. OR keep them too rigid, or tense up in the throat.

But you know, Brian Johnson from AC/DC just makes it all look so easy!

Here's another video. Talented vagina? Nope! Those are your vocal cords! Well, ok, they are not your vocal cords, they are someone else's vocal cords, but they look a lot like yours and mine!

Oh, right, and today's recording.  I'm not gonna lie, I wasn't really working hard on this one.