I can't sleep...I thought I'd say that Melissa Cross' DVD focuses primarily on screaming through engaging the false vocal folds, and a warm-up routine. It's a good thing to have, definitely worth it as it's all useful information applied in a very easy to understand way.

If adding rasp to your voice, or indeed growling, even whistling out wonderfully disgusting sounds, appeals to you, I suggest you look into khoomei:

http://www.busker-kibbutznik.org/khoomei/HOW-TO/

It's really easy to hurt yourself examining these techniques, but done properly, you'll be able to do FAR more than just add rasp to your voice, and it won't hurt at all and will aid you in vocal expression.

I am not exactly sure if this is how it goes for everybody, but when I add rasp to my voice, I can clearly feel with my finger that the membrane coming from my mylohyoid muscle (right under your chin) and connecting to the larynx gets tighter/looser, and my larynx does indeed go up.

I never feel any pain when this happens. I can produce anything from a light raspiness to completely throwing the note away and just hearing harmonics.

I believe that this 'tigtening' I feel is the false vocal folds coming more and more into play, and I can conciously control whether I am accenting high or low harmonics.

I think the sensation of the vocal folds tightening is because of the larynxtube twanging together, in order for that sound to produce. This does not happen in the vocal folds but only because of a twanging in the tube above.

Johannes and James are right there. There is a tightening a bit above the cords, but not a pinching off of the pharyunx, and your larynx does not need to rise to get it. It's not that I don't want to explain it, because it is all basically already there, but I don't have time to write out 50 pages of info that will be rel;eased very soon in a system I am developing specifically for screaming. It's really not all about the info anyways. it will be about new specific exercises to help you isolate your voice to prduce the grit while adding pitch. I can't release any of these exercises because I am under contract with a company to produce them. That is another reason the extra audio files aren't done yet. I've got 30 projects to complete and only time for 15 of them ;) I have sooo much stuff to do0 my head wants to explode. I even have great people on this board dying to write out audio intervieews I have and I haven't been able to convert them yet to email the interviews to them. I still also try to be loyal anjd check the message board everyday and offer advice. So, everyone please bare with me. When my new book, the new vocal system and a few other projects I have to complete are done, then I will finally have more time to add a lot of stuff to The Voice Conection :)

Jaime V