So you've been trying to learn how to sing like Chris Cornell from Soundgarden and you're coming up short on range, right? I hear you - I took a Soundgarden song into one of my first singing lessons over 20 years ago, and was basically laughed at by my teacher about how my voice would NEVER do that, NEVER sing that high and how you should NEVER sing like that because it's bad for you voice.
All total bullshit - lets call it for what it is.
Chris Cornell was known for an extremely high vocal range, sure, and an extremely aggressive approach, sure, and extreme prowess in every aspect of singing from tone to pitch, style and texture - these are absolutely all true.
But if you're not someone who knows how to paint, does that mean it's simply something you cannot learn how to do?
Keep in mind, Cornell took lessons with the most famous, most expensive top of the line voice teacher that all 'hollywood' singers from the 90s were known to train with - his voice wasn't a fluke.
So what does it take to learn how to sing like Chris Cornell of Soundgarden?
I should know - because it was my very first goal as a beginner singer in the late 90's, and his style is something I'm personally very comfortable with now after many years of training and learning the "what/why/how/when" of his voice.
First up, you're probably thinking - "how the fuck do you take your chest voice that high???" - and the truth is, it's really the CT muscle (the cricothyroid - or, "head voice muscle") that actually carried Chris Cornell's voice so high on those early Soundgarden records. So, if you're trying to belt the SHIT out of Spoonman or Jesus Christ Pose, you're just going to come up short every single time, because that is simply not what he was doing.
The key here is "mixed voice" - which I'm sure will elicit some groans from those of you that regularly watch YouTube singing videos. But, has anyone ever told you WHAT mixed voice is other than some magic dragon that you're meant to find with funny animal sounds by fluke one day?
No?
Well that's why you haven't been able to learn how to sing like Chris Cornell.
Remember, he was an incredible well trained singer - he wasn't just fluking this stuff with funny sounds.
So let me show you my approach for singing like Chris Cornell:
https://www.foundationvocalcourse.com/pages/how%20to%20sing%20like%20chris%20cornell
