Foundation Vocal Course

My brother brought home Superunknown when it came out in the mid 90's - up until that point, I'd really just been a diehard Metallica and ACDC fan, thrashing away on a guitar pretending I could play those riffs better than I really could (hindsight is definitely 20/20).

But something really changed for me when I heard the way Chris Cornell was wailing through these sludgy... but somehow still accessible songs that sit somewhere between the heaviest of Black Sabbath songs and the Beatles in some weird way.

The thing is, I couldn't actually SING any of these amazing songs that I loved.

Come to think of it, I couldn't really play them on guitar either - and if you know the sheer amount of bizarre tunings they were using at the time, it all makes so much sense.

But the singing continued to elude me even through many years of vocal training - I continually took songs like Limo Wreck and Fell on Black Days into vocal teachers, and they either laughed me out of the room saying it wasn't possible, or in most cases just encouraged me to sing an octave down when the higher sections came in.

It's taken me decades of study, trial and error and many years of pulling my hair out (it's starting to go pretty grey I've noticed lately) - I finally worked out exactly WHY I'd had such a hard time learning to sing, and exactly WHAT I need to do to hit these notes - and help singers just like you all around the world do exactly the same thing.

After 15 years of experience teaching other singers all around the world how to sing this stuff - I've since been able to identify what really sets apart "natural" singers (like the teachers I was going to) and the rest of us like you and me that take training, but courses, do the exercises - but still fall short of our favourite songs and singers.

You gotta activate your formants.

It's EXACTLY what Chris Cornell is doing on Fell on Black Days, especially in those challenging higher sections - the sound just rings and pings with the minimal effort, and it gives way to such a gnarly sound because it's really so EASY for him (and now me) to hit these notes in the first place.

If you're straining, struggling and choking trying to hit half of these notes like I did before working this out and developing the Foundation Vocal Method I'm sharing with you here - you absolutely MUST work out how to get your vowels right, they're honestly the lynchpin of a great rock singing voice, especially if you're trying to sing like Chris Cornell.

Kegan DeBoheme
Founder - FOUNDATION VOCAL METHOD