So you want to learn how to sing rock - but that powerful, edgy sound you love so much in your favourite rock singers is TOUGH to achieve, and even tougher to sustain in a healthy way, right?

What if I told you that you could learn how to sing rock and the approach is really no more difficult than singing pop or classical?

The key is to let your voice RING with resonance.

Where most singers go wrong when they're trying to sing rock is the pushy, throaty way they think their favourite singers are singing - when in reality, they're approaching the voice in a much more sustainable and simple way.

It's easy to sing rock when you understand these four simple but imperative vocal techniques.

I like to call this approach "The Four Vocal Fundamentals".

Basically, all the crazy stuff you hear on YouTube - mixed voice, open throat, twang, edge, modes, formants, support, appoggio, placement; all of these techniques are simply ways to support the four basic principles of great singing;

• Forward placement
• Height in the vocal tract
• One flow of air
• Tonal intent

Literally every single technique under the sun supports one of these four principles.

When people talk about raising the soft palate, or even in a more simple sense 'singing into the back of the head' - what they're doing is create height in the vocal tract. The voice is almost like a trombone, where the resonant space literally changes as you play different notes - the soft palate can spread, narrow, lower or raise through different registers of the voice to 'ring' with resonance in different ways.

Once you understand this, it becomes MUCH easier to sing high notes with ease - you're literally just 'receiving' the resonance in a more efficient way, rather than trying to push out higher notes.

Support is the same idea too - basically, support/prop/appoggio are all just ways to explain/describe sustained but limited airflow, kind of like letting the air out of a balloon slowly. 

Many people get the wrong idea with concepts like compression and support, where even just in the name 'support' itself - it can seem like you need to clench and push to 'support' that high note, right?

What if I told you support was actually all about exhalation?

That's right, you have to EXHALE to support your voice properly - literally singing on "one flow of air".

Pretty different to how you've been approaching support in rock singing, right?

Understanding the "What", "why" and "how" with vocal technique, and how every simple concept, trick, term, sound and exercise relates to the Four Vocal Fundamentals, is the key to developing a powerful but effortless rock vocal approach.

Here's how to get started with a better rock approach today;