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1:28 pm
September 3, 2014
OfflineHey guys!
Here comes another cover in progress. Once more I picked a song way above my level, maybe I think I will learn something by doing it.
Alright, so this time I seperated the song into some segments since I can't sing it in one piece yet. All the segments are first take however, I wanted to let you guys in on the process earlier this time.
Please let me know what can be improved (which is ALOT on this one I tell you). If you have any idea on HOW it can be improved it's also SUPER helpful.
Also, there is some quite embarrassing parts in this one so for the people who likes to hear fails.... check it out 😛
Cheers guys and thanks!
2:25 am
August 19, 2014
OfflineHey Mivke,
I'm just gonna say it...heavy metal and songs like this are holding you back bro. I see this time and time again...
Why is this? Because heavy metal consists mainly of sustained notes with very little dynamic change in intensity. straight stiff notes. People who only sing this style tend to lack agility, dynamic control, tonal colour variation, agility in the voice etc. The guys who are really good tend to have influences in other styles.
Check this out:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbO2_077ixs
hear the nuances in the voice? Some of the greatest rock singers were influenced by Sam Cooke
It may not be your style but listen to the fades in and fades out on certain notes, the embellishments, the vowels themselves. These are the things we can all study and hone in our voices, and I think it's just what you need to do.
Notice on the first line "I was borrnnnnnnn" how he swells the note? He doesn't hit it straight on, listen to the whole song and notice how he never hits anything STRAIGHT it always has a push or pull on the sound.
I seriously recommend spending some time in some of the rnb/soul genres. What I'm saying is likely to be met with resistance but I stand by it. When you come back to metal you will be better off for it.
You want to find truly great singers and STUDY their voices. The way you do this is by RECORDING like you are right now. But you need to do more than just record, you need to compare it to a reference. So you gotta find great singers and record and listen and compare so you can figure out why things don't work or do work in your sound.
You have a lot of range and power, now it's time for you to start the lifelong process of HONING your SOUND.
You most certainly do have the range for this, but you don't have the cord closure for the range! I recommend spending some time with some of the SLS exercises using consonants in full voice. They will help your voice WANT to stay together and you can get rid of that squeeze in the sound.
My advice for you is to seriously forget about the high songs and just learn how to carry a tune in your comfortable range. You're neglecting the low range. work it so much that you can truly sell it. If you seriously get good at that and learn the nuances I'm talking about then those high notes are really going to count.
I hope you find this helpful in some way!
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3:48 am
September 3, 2014
OfflineHey Phil!
Thanks alot for listening and for the great feedback. I will try to find some songs in more agile genres and study them, it's true what you say about the really good metal guys aswell. Alot of them have some really sweet bluesy influences.
I will keep working on this song though, just cause it's so fun to sing 😀
This range is still decently new to me, I feel sometimes like a kid with a new fast car. There have been so many years where I could never travel above the g#4. Maybe time will help me mature 😛
Anyways, thanks again for the listen and the words man, really appreciate it!
4:54 am
September 2, 2014
OfflineGood response from Phil.
Right off the bat your low range needs more pizazz. You need to capture the listener's interest right from the first second and you're barely giving us any sound at the beginning. Now my tessitura naturally goes this low, so I'm not sure whether this applies to a higher lighter voice like yours, but what you could try to develop to get more of an exciting tone down there is work on building more cord closure and bright timbre down in that range as part of your regular vocal routine, and make the goal to take out the airiness as you go lower and actually get progressively more compressed and fry-like the lower you go. But aim for a neutral larynx and relaxation, not using force to jam the larynx down. So you're developing this neutral larynx setup with firm closure and just getting the low pitch from really slack and thick folds, and then as your cord closure strengthens you can lean into that strong compression with more and more subglottal pressure and then eventually you'll have a loud dynamic AVAILABLE down there so that you actually have the technique to start adding what I would call "micro-dynamics" (the swells and stuff those soul singers do). I think a lot of light singers just don't have any other volume other than "light and airy" available down there and that is their issue, as soon as you train some thickness you gain the flexibility to apply contrast for stylistic interpretation and it will sound more inviting to "listen to" rather than just "hear" it kinda pass by.
Also lyric interpretation, lyric interpretation, lyric interpretation. This is a musical theater song, you are expected to go very intense on the lyric interpretation. Whether you do a rock or pop spinoff or not, it is still the same song and the composition demands a theatrical delivery in the way you sing it. And no it doesn't mean being all fake, it means being a heightened emotional state of YOU, connecting with the meaning of the song, that we can hear through your voice. And also both a big picture emotion to the song (strength, independence, soul-searching) as well as mapping out key details, e.g. on the word "cold" in a certain verse you want to use a breathiness...mark it, memorize it, do it every time and just keep working on making it sound authentic
This goes hand in hand with what Phil is talking about with soul & R&B singers because the actual tangible result of lyric interpretation is these little volume swells and variations of textures and tone and stuff, and perhaps some planned and some spontaneous. Take some time to listen closely to some great contemporary musical theater singers and you will learn from them too, the two styles approach it a similar way just kind of different applications/perspectives
Don't be afraid to let a tiny bit of nasality come through in the middle range (around F3-Eb4 maybe?) just to give a more natural and speech like sound.
Work on your legato as well, you disconnected a lot of phrases
I noticed you scooped up to the high note at the end, you definitely can't get away with that, I think you'll have to learn how to cry into it from above...something I'm also trying to figure out myself, but I hear all the masters do it.
I actually think that LAST "cold never bothered me anyway" at the tail end sounded a little bit better than the other low parts for some reason.
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12:14 pm
September 3, 2014
OfflineOwen, thanks for the listen and for the words man!
Yeah, I have a really hard time finding something to like about my lower part of the range, which is probably why I don't sing as much down there. This creates a bad spiral since it's the low range's perfection that will help me progress I believe, I will try to find some way to fix this 😛
Another version will come on this one, not sure when. Hopefully it will sound better and you guys can tell me the next course of action 🙂
Also, regarding your respronse Phil.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcQGXZ8Da40
That's the dude from my last cover, delivering old stuff awsomely.
9:32 am
August 19, 2014
OfflineYeah Russell Allen is great! thanks for posting
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