How Sepultura's 'Roots Bloody Roots' Merges Metal with Indigenous Power | Vocal Coach Analysis

this band is totally fascinating for a couple of reasons the vocal technique of course but also this song and a lot of their music is in collaboration with the Shante people who are an indigenous group in Brazil so I am excited about what we are going to hear [Music] BL oh Blood rock that's interesting Blood rock ooh so we've got a couple of interesting things going on here first of all let's talk about that drum beat I'm assuming that comes from the Chante people there's a little mini documentary here on YouTube but seur went to

go and meet these people so that they could find out more about the music and they used that to inspire this entire album and the chiante people are only about 30,000 people and they disappeared from the known worlds Beyond them in the 18th century after being enslaved it's a classic story and it wasn't until the 19th century until 1930 that they were like hey okay we're here and they're not massively keen on contacting people outside of their own people quite understandably but they were super Keen about sharing music I love that the other thing that

I wanted to talk about was how he is singing Roots it's really interesting because I think and I'm not entirely sure but we're going to talk about this in a moment that he is both voicing it Roots using his vocal cords roots and using his false vocal for and at some point it transfers into just pure false faults I think let's have a listen and I'll point out what I'm talking [Music] about so you can hear like root roots that tone coming through but at the end it's like his Bogle cords come open and you're

just left with false cord [Music] blood blood and then that ah sound at the end he's changing the pitch by shaping his vocal tracks by making it a wider more a shape and changing the valve and actually you should go and check this out on charismatic vo's Channel she's actually doing a kickstar at the moment where she is taking some amazing metal artists and looking at how they're creating these different sounds so they'll be doing stuff like scoping them and sticking little needles in their neck so that they can find out what actually is making

these noises and I am certainly personally really looking forward to hearing about the results of that and seeing how these different artists are making these amazing amazing sounds anyway that's my suspicion for this guy but um you know if he was in that scenario maybe we would find out a little bit more there might be something different going on that we don't know about I believe in our F we don't need to F it's all we want to be watch [Music] me I said we're going every day it's stronger everywhere I'll take you to app

where to find our the interesting thing about Distortion it doesn't have a pitch if I'm like sing that note somewhere around here and we can hear kind of lower and kind of higher you can hear that it is higher ah but we don't really have a note in there whereas if you listen back to this there is a little bit of something so I think he's combining watch my and then fry it up I we're going every day it's strong everywhere I'll take you to a place where you find our Ro blood ro ro blood

Ro whatever we discover there are a few ways that this sound can be distorted it comes up through that chbe from your lungs through the vocal cords so they can be closed or open closed you get ah a note and if they're open breath comes through now above that you've got lots of different bits of tissue that can shle around you your epiglottis which is a little flap that stops you choking on your food you've got the Ary epiglottic folds which are just on the side of those you've got your false vocal folds you can

use them to stop your breath if you just hold your breath for a moment you'll feel vocal chords and your false vocal folds close any of these can juggle around they might be able to twist it might be how you move your tongue that changes that sound but there are lots of different structures and different ways and they're quite complex that can create this distorted sound whether it's just through that straight air flow coming out your mouth or with your vocal cords kind of getting in the way doing their usual thing that you do when

they're singing vibrating and then that already vibrating air flow gets distorted and shifted because of these different structures and it's so fascinating to see what we're going to learn BL Dr I love the drums in there so much you you real this is real [Music] I love that so there are some really fantastic har vocal teachers and I think there are four things that make up a really solid knowledge base about voice and some of these are lacking at the moment and some of these you can work on by yourself so the first one of

course is the science the knowledge the understanding of how everything works and when you understand that it can really help build up a picture that helps you create those sense the second thing is interception how everything feels in your body that is a fantastic way of learning and it helps you understand when you need to adapt things when you have good interception you know when something is not good for your body and when it is good for your body and when it feels great to sing the third thing is your ear understanding the sounds that

you're hearing maybe recording and listening back and being able to adapt through your ear and the fourth thing is of course your mindset being able to relax and enjoy and express emotions through song and those four things when they're in place magic happens and they all support each other [Music] we don't need to change our way stup be S that's all we want to be watch us [Music] yes I love that [Music] guitar leaving quite a lot of space with this High guitar the low Bas the heavy drums and then his voice slots in the

middle in many styles of music you'll have this interplay with the guitar and the voice where the guitar will kind of go above the voice and then the voice will go above the guitar guitar or maybe even the vo is always above the guitar and the guitar is supporting underneath voice because you've got the harsh vocals just sloting in underneath and that harshness makes it pop through rather than needing a high note to cut through now this band was formed by two brothers in 1984 and in fact they're not in the Band anymore but they

are here and the name of the band means grave in Portuguese and they chose it after listening to motohead singing Dancing On Your [Music] Grave we don't need to change our ways to be save that's all we want to be watch us [Music] [Music] oo I let that break down really like the production on this and the production is by Ross Robinson he is known according to to his Wikipedia as the guy who discovered corn and slip knot so he knows what he's doing oh I love how it's in one ear oh it's ped you

got got to get some headphones on [Music] the [Music] end that's wicked that ending was so heavy I loved that before you go I have released my very own album It's a story of Darkness into light if you're into this you'll probably prefer the dark side most of that is available here on YouTube and on Spotify and the whole album is available on my website bears.com getting a CD really does allow me to do things like this make music review music All Things music all right thank you for watching I hope you enjoyed if you

did please do like and subscribe and I will see you in the next one bye bye