I might not sound great doing so (and no-where near as good as Devin), but I can pretty-easily hit all of the above clean notes with no real problem (I could do a video for you guys ), but everytime I try to scream I feel like I'm half-step away from blowing out my voice. It's a little scary, actually!

The more I try to sing, the more I think I should actually go see a vocal-instructor. I really don't want to mess my voice up with improper techniques. What think ye?

You might be able to hit them, but to sing the song in its entirety is very different. If you can do that, then you're just a good singer. I can also hit the high notes, but I sure as fuck can't sing.

Screaming puts more of a strain on your.. everything, but it's not really fair to count it as part of a single vocal range. People can be TERRIBLE singers with VERY little range, but excellent screamers.

I used to sing-along with everything, but then I read something on a singing forum that emulating/copying your favorite singers wasn't good for your voice.

Now I listen to audiobooks in the car

EDIT: listening to the mighty masturbator right now and want do nothing more than sing-along I don't think my girlfriend would be pleased to be woken up by Devin. She's not a a very big Devy fan. The only compliment I've gotten out of her was that she thinks he sounds like he belongs in a Disney movie (listening to Storm) Ahh, well. No one is perfect.

I used to sing-along with everything, but then I read something on a singing forum that emulating/copying your favorite singers wasn't good for your voice.

That's weird, I think that is how Devin learned to sing. I think he once said this on Formspring 'singing along with Skid Row albums in the car'. Or something like that.

Actually, I have been learning to scream since a couple of months. Me and my singing teacher have listened to Devin with a very technical point of view.

It seems that most of the screams Devin does, are his falsetto voice combined with a very large scream distortion (some like to call it 'fry')

They might like to call it "fry" but they really shouldn't - I prefer the term "rasp". Vocal fry has a very specific meaning and it has little to do with the high screams Devin does.

See "The Vocal Fry Epidemic": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsE5mysfZsY

Tbh, I'd love to know if there's any way you can be taught to produce the tonality Devin produces for his screams 'cos I seem to be stuck with an irritatingly clean voice right across my range, though I think the choral society I sing with would prefer it if I kept it that way

In the live version of Kingdom it sounds like Dev starts on a G5, and ends up on A5. Are my ears correct?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iU0W6iiYF3g

It's the very first lyric section. "I. I wonder."

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In the live version of Kingdom it sounds like Dev starts on a G5, and ends up on A5. Are my ears correct?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iU0W6iiYF3g

It's the very first lyric section. "I. I wonder."

Yep, although I checked with Guitar Pro to determine the notes.

I used to sing-along with everything, but then I read something on a singing forum that emulating/copying your favorite singers wasn't good for your voice.

That's weird, I think that is how Devin learned to sing. I think he once said this on Formspring 'singing along with Skid Row albums in the car'. Or something like that.

He also mentioned working at a restaurant and going into the freezer to practice singing/screaming.

I used to sing-along with everything, but then I read something on a singing forum that emulating/copying your favorite singers wasn't good for your voice.

As a rule of thumb it's a good idea but it's not an absolute truth. The problem is that everyone's voice is subtly different so it's easy to end up stretching your voice in terms of pitch or end up mashing your vocal chords together to try and emulate someone else's natural tone.

There's no reason not to sing along with your favourite singers, you just have to be careful to stay true to your own voice in terms of tone and pay attention to your technique if what you're singing along to is challenging in terms of pitch.

The hardest thing to cope with, I find, is when a singer has a much higher voice than your own and can be singing in full chest voice at notes that are right in your chest->head passaggio. It's instinctive, and potentially damaging, to want to sing the notes in the same register as the singer.

In the live version of Kingdom it sounds like Dev starts on a G5, and ends up on A5. Are my ears correct?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iU0W6iiYF3g

It's the very first lyric section. "I. I wonder."

Nope, that's a G4/A4 he's singing. Scientific pitch notation switches on the C and those notes are between middle C (C4) and the next one up (C5).

I used to sing-along with everything, but then I read something on a singing forum that emulating/copying your favorite singers wasn't good for your voice.

As a rule of thumb it's a good idea but it's not an absolute truth. The problem is that everyone's voice is subtly different so it's easy to end up stretching your voice in terms of pitch or end up mashing your vocal chords together to try and emulate someone else's natural tone.

There's no reason not to sing along with your favourite singers, you just have to be careful to stay true to your own voice in terms of tone and pay attention to your technique if what you're singing along to is challenging in terms of pitch.

The hardest thing to cope with, I find, is when a singer has a much higher voice than your own and can be singing in full chest voice at notes that are right in your chest->head passaggio. It's instinctive, and potentially damaging, to want to sing the notes in the same register as the singer.

In the live version of Kingdom it sounds like Dev starts on a G5, and ends up on A5. Are my ears correct?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iU0W6iiYF3g

It's the very first lyric section. "I. I wonder."

Nope, that's a G4/A4 he's singing. Scientific pitch notation switches on the C and those notes are between middle C (C4) and the next one up (C5).

Thanks for the advice and the correction. Much appreciated

just stumbled over this video a few days ago. watched it at least 5 times since then.

whoa, what a voice! simply amazing, now I know again (or: once more) why I adore his music.