I heard in metal singing you have to put rasp into your voice, I tried getting rasp into my voice but I think the way I did was wrong because after about 30 seconds of straight singing I would end up coughing or my throat would hurt so I decided to stop. I don't know anything about metal singing so can somebody who knows about it help me?

Chain smoke become an alcoholic and eat glass.

, no way I'm gonna do that

smoking and drinking are pretty much the most natural ways of developing a raspy voice though.

Thats 90% of the reason I smoke cigarettes. The other 10 being I don't know what to do with my left hand most of the time.

I don't drink all that much though, I get depressed as hell.

Yeah, but I'm talking about an Axl Rose or Robert Plant raspy

You could always just yell a lot which would probably help...drinking milk too.

Well, if you want what happened to Plant....you're going to have to get the flu and continue touring and singing when the Dr. tells you shouldn't and thus damage your nodules, which will lower your range and give you that harsh voice he had afterwards.


P.S. The first time he caught the flu was on January 2, 1973, when his car broke down and he had to hitchhike to the show. His problem with his voice lasted all of 1973. He would continue to catch the flu and sing when he shouldn't have many times over the next two years, afterwards. His voice really was never the same after 1975....the it will happen around the same time that Page broke his finger and still continued playing.



You can really hear all this happening on the bootlegs from those tours. It's actually pretty depressing to hear how bad his voice was on several of those nights.

It was a different time back then. Bands didn't shut down tours or reschedule a show, like they do now.



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It's not a natural voice....so there is no correct way of getting it. You get it by damaging your vocal cords/nodules one way or another. Axl got it from not knowing how to properly use his diaphragm when singing and smoking.

didn't plant smoke like 2 packs a day or something like that?

He and the rest of the band smoked and then there was all that Ganja....but it was the continuing to sing when he shouldn't that did the vast majority of the damage.