Singing Guide: Atoms for Peace
Vocal technique, exercises, tips and relevant resources
Atoms for Peace is a supergroup formed by Radiohead’s lead singer, Thom Yorke. Yorke is known for his unique singing style, which features a wide vocal range and the ability to effortlessly transition between falsetto and chest voice.
To sing like Thom Yorke, it is important to first analyze and understand your own voice. Singing Carrots offers a great article on how to do this, which you can read here.
Once you have a good understanding of your voice, it's essential to know the voice types, as different vocal types require different practical tips. You can learn more about voice types here.
Next, it's important to master breathing techniques and breath support, as this is key to developing vocal control and stamina. Read this great article about breathing basics here, and this article about breath support here.
When singing like Thom Yorke, you'll notice that he uses different voice registers, falsetto and chest voices. In this article on voice registers and vocal break, you will learn about the different registers of your voice, and chest and head voice here.
Singing Carrots offers great exercises and game-like features that can help with learning and warming up. In addition, Singing Carrots provides vocal monitoring tools, pitch accuracy tests and even songbooks that help choose songs that are best suited for your vocal range.
For anyone who wants to learn how to sing like Thom Yorke, it's important to experiment with different singing styles, including classical and jazz. In this article on pop/jazz vs classical singing here you will learn about the differences of each form and how each one has its own unique way of phrasing.
A good exercise for learning Thom Yorke's falsetto technique is the Twang exercise. You can learn how to perform the twang exercise here.
To develop your vibrato, a great technique used by Thom Yorke, you can learn how to perform exercises like Beggars Bounce, and Diaphragm Bounce here.
If you want to learn how to perform Growling, you can follow this exercise here.
It’s important to train your voice to avoid constrictions, such as tensing your muscles, or lack of breath support, as this can lead to vocal damage over time. Read more about constriction and breath support here.
Thom Yorke's singing style involves a lot of emotion and intuition. Singing Carrots offers some exercises and tips on singing with emotions here.
It's important to keep in shape and look after your voice as you would your body. This article on vocal health here provides great advice on keeping your voice healthy.
Practice your breathing exercises with good posture to improve your singing. This article on how posture affects your singing here can be read for more tips.
When performing on stage, it's important to overcome stage fright and anxiety. This article on how to overcome stage fright here provides helpful tips.
To improve your singing performance on stage, read this article on tips for performing on stage here.