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Hello, my name is Jamie and I'm a professional singing teacher offering high quality lessons for students interested in learning to sing harsh and screaming vocals for metal.
I have worked with rock and metal singers throughout my career as a vocal coach. Taking a holistic approach, I encourage those who wish to perform heavier vocals to first ensure that their basic vocal technique is sound, establishing a solid foundation to work from.
I am an avid fan of all types of metal, and have sung in a slew of bands over the years. I teach all sorts of techniques spanning a wide range of metal genres. If done incorrectly trying harsh vocal style can be really damaging to your voice so my lessons will focus on how to best use and protect your voice for many years to come.
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My lessons are built around the styles and genres that you love but are mainly focused on heavy metal and the many subgenres it entices. Together we will make a lesson plan that specifically covers the heavy bands that you enjoy the most and together we will tailor your voice to suit that style.
Our lessons together will be focused on being relaxed and having fun. I want to you learn but I also want you to enjoy what you are learning. This way, I believe we can learn faster and more efficiently. Not only do you get to improve as a heavy vocalist but you will be able to perform the songs that you love most at the end of it too.
Lessons are pay-as-you-go, weekly, fortnightly or as suits you.
I like to teach my students how to scream or sing using the correct technique. You'll be able to maintain the power you need to perform without blowing out or damaging your vocal chords.
Jamie is a vocalist based in the South West of England. She has been singing since a young age, however found her niche within metal in her early teens. She started to learn how to use her vocals in a harsh way; and through trial and error found our how to do this without hurting her voice.
She has since worked with artists such as Alestorm, Venator and Vortigern, as well as toured the UK and some parts of Europe. Her vocals have been compared to singers such as Dani Filth (Cradle of Filth), Randy Blythe (Lamb of God) and Alexi Laiho (Children of Bodom). However, she is able to replicate the sounds of other singers in the genre, as well as use her own unique voice.
Her preferred type of vocal is using a mixture of whistle register and fry vocal, to create eerie textures through her voice. She has mostly worked in the folk metal, black metal and melodic death metal genres. However, she has also worked with a synthwave producer (Venator), deathgrind/grindcore and punk bands, as well as offering compositions and instrument playing to some independent projects, including working on a video game soundtrack. She is also the lead composer for her band, Vortigern, as well as the only lyricist for this band. Jamie is available to help teach you how to sing harsh vocals, including fry vocals and guttural. She can also teach you how to compose lyrics for metal songs.
We will go across the basics of the vocal style, what you want to achieve, who you are influenced by and anything else you need. During our lessons, we’ll choose a song that you want to sing, and we’ll pick it to pieces session by session. At the end you’ll know the techniques and care routine to be able to sing this song, and be able to sing it.
I believe that I am pretty easy going and have plenty of experience teaching both advanced students and beginner students. Together we will create a lesson plan that best suits you as a harsh vocalist or screamer to ensure you are always always learning material that you are passionate about. I also really focus on offering longevity so you are able to sing harder for longer.
It is my job to help you develop good techniques so that you can preserve your voice and get a better tone for those harsh vocal styles. What we learn is entirely up to you but I have experience and can teach singing/screaming in Metalcore, Classic Rock, 80's Thrash, Death Metal, Deathcore & many more.
Here is some information to help you get prepared to take your online guitar lessons.
Speed Test, is a very useful tool as having a stable internet connection is one of the most important parts to these lessons. Here you will be able to see what your speeds are and we will only need a speed of 3mbps to have a stable enough connection for the lessons.
As well as a stable internet connection you will need to have access to some kind of electronic device that has a camera on it. This could be things like a laptop, tablet or a smartphone. Many things have cameras on them nowadays so once we have access to one of these you are ready to go.
Once you have a device ready to go, there are many services we can use to connect for the actual lessons. The most common and reliable services tend to be Zoom, Skype or Facetime for Apple device users. There are other options too so if these don't work for you for any reason please just let me know and we can go through other possible options together.
I can help you both improve your singing and screaming using both a wide range of exercises and techniques that I use on a daily basis. I believe that learning should be fun and I will always create an exciting lesson plan that we can complete and work through together.
[email protected]My lessons are charged at £15 per half hour or £25 per hour. For students interested in paying via USD, my lessons are charged at $25 per 1/2 hour, $50 per hour. And for students wishing to pay using Euro, my lessons are charged at: €20 per 1/2 hour, €30 per hour.
My lessons are taken online via either Skype or Zoom. For more information please send me an email.
Because of the type of vocals I teach, I would recommend starting no younger than age 14.
Weekly lessons combined with plenty of personal practice is recommended for the best results, but not essential.
If you cancel a lesson with less than 48 hours notice you can still be charged for it.
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Metal Singing Teacher
Jamie Burton