It’s good to be back at work after a brilliant holiday in New York. Tonight’s theme is the one that was postponed from two weeks ago and it’s “songs that feature screams and shouts”. I’ll also accept involuntary yelps or shrieks.
For some bands, screaming is a serious business. There’s a whole sub genre of emo musical called ‘screamo’. So just in case you thought bands like Fall Out Boy or My Chemical Romance weren’t loud or annoying enough, you get the lead singer bursting his lungs with ear piercing howls.
Trawling the net for screamo bands I found a Wikihow page with handy hints for potential screamers. Top tips on the site include:
Screaming is 30% skill and 70% confidence. You have to be thinking "I am the best screamer in the world!!" at all times….Quite a claim to fame really.
Drink any generic cola, this will coat your vocal cords in a kind of a spit film that makes reverb sound louder…and having that spit film will make kissing so much more fun.
Scream alone for a while, it can be embarrassing to scream around others who already know how to scream…I always get that way around others who already know how to scream! But then again how do you know they can?
Be patient. Learning to scream safely can take approximately a year, and for the first many months, often times, it simply sounds bad…. You don’t say?