There are a lot different styles of singing and vocal techniques we hear from various singers. So, if you are a singer, what’s yours?
If you can produce musical effects by having a regularly pulsating change of pitch, where you can use this style to add articulation, then your technique is what we call vibrato. If you can sing smoothly, transitioning from note to note, where there’s no superseding silence, your method is legato.
If you sing where you can produce strong soaring pitches using your chest voice, then you are a vocal belter baby! Voice created in belting is technically known as chest voice or middle voice, and this kind of voice a powerful one indeed. In the popular music, be it rock or general pop, belting is commonly used to sing higher notes than the normal vocal range.
Moreover, you have clean vocals when you have melodic and clear singing style. It is especially used to label voice of heavy metal singers. This they say, is an alternative to coarse, scratchy screaming vocals or growling vocals, which can be heard from really hardcore metal bands. If you are in a heavy metal band, then you probably have clean vocals. If you are in a solid hardcore metal band, then your technique is almost certainly screaming and growling. Or you can use both techniques, whichever of the two kinds you are into. There can even be an operatic voice in metal music, singing simple melodies then having rough screaming, which they use in what is called melodic death metal.
If you are not a belter but you are not a screamer or growler either, you can have other techniques as well, such as having a breathy chest voice which is different from belting, or a metallic voice. If you don’t scream or growl, there’s even grunted vocals which is nearer to those two.
Whatever style, whatever technique, it’s up to you. Just sing and have a heck of a time doing it.