i'm looking for some advice on good warming up techniques as well as methods to help take care of your voice, especially after you've been screaming your head off several nights in a row. What do you guys (and gals) do?

Lemon honey green tea works wonders if you make it yourself with no sugar,room temp water.Try to avoid sugar.

grundlegremlin said:

Translation: Gargle semen.

garglesemen is what it sounds like peter steele is saying for the first words of god is dead by carnivore

Grundle, thanks for the tip. i've only been able to find stuff for actual "singers', like Faith Hill and shit. nothing to help with screaming and stuff

I smoke about 2 packs a day, get stoned a lot, and drink a steady stream of mountain dew & coffee.

Oh, and I drive around in my car and sing along with "night at the opera" by blind guardian. I don't know if it helps my singing, but it really bugs out the people next to you at stop lights.

ArrowHead nli said:

lol my fav to rock out to is majesty if you get a whole car singing it people start to get pissed off

valhalla is my guardian sing-along of choice

eddie said:

can was just talk about how great Blind Guardian is in every thread here instead of any other lame topic?

i smoke a pack a day, and drink sufficiant jager and Bass Ale.

brian_dc said:

i guess we can make fun of rapcore if you like, although it's not as good as talking about blind guardian.

jack daniels and fresh squeezed vagina juice

The Essential flavor of vitamin water works really well. Other than that just don't overextend yourself. And screaming from your stomach helps too.

that's how you end up vomitting?

i usually warm up with hammer smash face.
orange juice helps make your throat more gurgly.
gatorade dries out your throat, grundle's right, stay away from sugar.

chai tea with honey, Formula 50 or Power-C vitamin water, and marijuana

lots of smoking. wait, i dont sing.

I dont really do anything any more to take care of it any more, just lots of water to stay hydrated.

the best thing would probally be to start an instrumental band cause singers are fags.

ArrowHead nli said:

And Then There Was Silence is fun to do if you know all the words and have a bunch of people. Me and two or three friends of mine used to walk down the street singing that at least 3 times a week. People came to their door and applauded us for our rendition of Nightfall once...

Hot tea does help alot. Avoid sugar. Best thing to put in it as grundle said is honey and lemon. Drink lots of water. Avoid sodas and the like. Coughdrops are your new friend or at the very least jolly ranchers. Try not to talk if thats at all possible.
I dont know if all of this is completely necessary but I was on the road for two weeks and I managed to keep my voice the whole time so it definitely did more good than bad.

Throat Coat = best tea ever for scratchy day after screaming voice.

My vocal warm up: A budweiser and a Camel followed by a scream going from guttural to halford and back down again.

bing

Jack Daniels?

melissa cross has a dvd for this type of screaming its called the zen of screaming http://www.melissacross.com/home.php? and can also be found in all that remains web store http://www.allthatremains.cc/frame.html

i think the dvd goes for $30 kind of up there but its your voice you know the dvd takes you though all the warm ups and even shows what the inside of your throat looks like when screaming right and wrong and shows you how to get your own voice view a trailor here

opps trailors here

i eat a lot of general tsao's fried tofu and chive dumplings. works like a charm.

DRIVING AROUND SINGING BY YOUR SELF AND LETTING PEOPLE LOOK AT YOU WHILE YOU GIVE THEM THE MOST BRUTAL FACE YOU CAN BUT THATS ONLY ACCIEVED AFTER YOU GET CAUGHT WHILE SCREAMING,THATS HOW I LIKE TO PRACTICE AND THE BEST ADVICE I CAN GIVE YOU,AND I KNOW YOU ALL DO THIS, YOU CAN ADMIT IT.