Hi rockers! I have finally made all exams in school and after couple months of hard school work on psychology I´m back into it. Today I went excercising after like three months of break to begin training on regular basis again. i decided to add transcending tone and low grit excercise, with transcending tone no problem at all to go all the way to the highest note of my register with full voice. BUT with low grit I was able to go 3 notes from the bottom and then just couldn´t make the rumbling sound anymore. I tried it as best as I could,, not to hurt my voice but ended up with little scratchy throat at the end. I drank plenty of watter before and during session. I felt slightly scratchy throat for couple of hours. I went on the board to look up all the posts on topic of low grit and found couple of helpfull info. For example I read that if I had troubles to make that rumbling sound against soft palate while tightening my cords I should do it in slight falsetto to do my best to disconect the placement from cords (pharyngeal cords). and minimize the airflow comin out. and focus up in soft palate. so did I get it all right?

also, is it bigger problem if I just end up with voice like today very often? i mean if it can do real harm to my voice or ruin it or not att all. ( I mean feeling scratchiness or tingling in my throat or whatever you call it) I do the warmdown and I also do another warmup between sirens and transcending tone just before low grit. I try to minimize tickling or scratchiness while doing low grit excercise. I know it is not easy at all for beginers and it may take months to make progress making the solid rumbling sound in higher notes.

So what excercise would you recommend me along with low grit ( in between transcending tone and low grit)in order to help me making the rumbling sound/(or whatever it´s called) distortion against the palate easier? My guess would be vocal fry but it´s only my guess and I would rather get the advice of someone who has gone the journey of getting the solid grit.:) Thanks very much for the advice in advance!

You could grab a matchbox car and drive it around on your desk while making all of the appropriate sound effects.(As a child I spent many hours doing this) It really helps to drive like a maniac screeching around corners, revving up your engine and shifting gears like an indy 500 driver.

LOL gruemanticus that's an awesome idea!!!!!!!!!!

here's another idea:
warm up the voice cleanly and then start working your grit in your comfrotable range. this is usually in the mid-upper chest range.

The reason why it's easier up top is because there's more pressure and higher notes require less air and when you produce too much air with grit there's a higher chance you'll dry out your throat and hurt yourself.

So get the upper range working first then start taking it down lower little by little

Now here's the key:

DON'T BE TOO EAGER TO GET HEAPS OF GRIT. just take what yuo can get!!!

people get a little grit then they get greedy and try to take more and more and end up pushing and hurting themselves.

grit is something that SEASONS ITSELF OVER TIME.


Phil Moufarrege
Grow-The-Voice.com
Youtube.com/PhilMoufarrege

Thanks Phil! It is awesome to know I am on the right track!

thanks Phill and Gruemanticus for quick reply. Yesterday night I found that if I apply less air and do it with less power I get the rumbling sound. but if i get louder I loose the rumbling. so it looks like I should be developing the power and start lightly with voice first. There is one funny thing I found if I do it reversely (I mean when making a grit while breathing in)my voice perfectly cracks without hurting and at the bottom it sounds like from horror movie.

OK, after 10 sessions and after longer disease which took 2 weeks to get to normal I got back on track and finally have cut through that gritty sound. And yes it sounded like scraching car :D After other sessions I started to notice minigains in producing ocassional grit during singing. I realized that many people are probably afraid of getting on grit excerises. When training high I use to push hard to cut deeper and then sometimes end up with a blowing head for couple of seconds.:D I found it paradoxical that making Yee while producing gritty sound is easier than Yaa. I hope that after 100- 200 sessions I get what I have wanted.