@ Phil : i have indeed to work on resonance indeed. I don't know if you guys noticed but my talking voice is quite shallow and lacks a ringy tone, so i haven't this natural masky voice some people already start with. What you said in your video Phil is very true about resonance and power. When i increase power, my resonance sets in, but i am often losing it when i sing with less level of effort.

PS: Never loose your french accent. Ze girls love it!

In your vid, If you are trying to go light to get the resonance in the head try opening the mouth less - even completely closed - you can do this exercise with the mouth almost closed and the resonance will shoot straight to the head instead of getting caught in the mouth. You should be able to go all the way up in your range with very little mouth movement. It will be light but it will be very smooth and released. Once that is nice you then open the mouth and bring in the weight and since you've trained how to add that weight it will be a piece of cake.
It will help you get that phrase in the song more released and FOCUS the resonance to a POINT. At the moment the resonance is escaping you a little, it isn't focusing. You have strengthened your voice a lot, now it's time to focus your resonance more - you will find it a lot easier to sing the songs that way.
I understand you weren't warmed up though so sorry to nitpick ha ha

By the way, it's so cool now that your accent is disappearing in songs more and more. we worked like crazy on that. you are becoming one of those singers that has a thick ass accent when they speak and then it disappears when they sing LOL! I call that the "singers accent"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5Y2QoeMysM&list=UUc0IfmOTRYLb_pJx-O-FZiw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rALXjSiwPfI&feature=youtu.be

I would like to warn you that this is ot a video about how to speak with a nice English accent... Gosh, i studied one year in the US and my lack of practise has brought up my heavy French accent again.

If anything is confusing, please let me know. I will probably record a new video when i will have time, more focussed on songs, and after a better warmup.

Can I watch it? Please? Pleeeeaaaaaaaaase???

And good job on the song!

what an unbelievably extra time for that little increase in quality!!!

I am also looking to do more videos as well, I just got a GoPro so they will get easier to do as soon as I learn how the camera works and all that. I definitely want to do one on my complete journey of singing training till now and the implications of that

I deleted one vocal line at the end, and i like the result. Thats what i did on Smells like teen spirit and the result sounded cool as well to my ears.

I am uploading a video showing the exercices that really helped me and how i tackle difficult songs. But its on YouTube and it takes aaaaages to upload... Is there a way to share it without having a fifteen hours uploading time?

I understand the pissed off thing but it just didn't come across that way. Personally if I wanted to create that authentic pissed-off vibe, I would just take out the doubled part on the last phrase so it's just one part and then bump up the volume of that. It would create a shift from hiding behind the effect to a very raw personal in your face sound. But I can also imagine that backfiring and sounding corny and pop-music like, I would have to hear it to know for sure. So use your best judgement.

There are like 5-10 other effects you could try there if that doesn't sound right, that is the fun trial and error part of mixing.

Cool to hear about how you practice. I usually don't multi-task practice like you mentioned with the household chores, I have trouble multi-tasking with my singing now because I feel I have to focus so much and put in so much energy, but I need to work on freeing up my singing anyways.

Also sometimes I take day offs when I noticed delay onsets in my falsetto because apparently that means the folds are starting to swell. I try to be very careful about any slight damage as I do sing a lot and not always correctly due to old performing habits

Thanks for the feedback!
I try to sing at least one hour a day, even if it isn't formal practise. I also sing whennever i do something repetitive, like household chores. As my spare time has shorten and my voice progressed, i no longer take one full hour to warm up, and can warm up singing a handful of good songs with a progressive difficulty.

How passagio works for me is i would say twofold.

In the first stage of my training, i have discovered mixed voice. It was an epiphany, but the process of strenghteninng it was a bit slower.
This was about half a year ago :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XKqb0eAZqU

In the meantime, i found myself that the support training for mixed voice unlocked my pure chest voice, and allowed me to push it far beyond what i thought i could. Unfortunately, my belting peaks around C5, and even if i have tried a couple of monthes to extend it higher, the result was systematically that my larynx would go high and my body telling me its wrong.

Somehow, i have trained with Phil a lot of mixed voice but so far, but so far, the quality of my mix was not on par with my usual chestpulling sound.

The "sls" exercice (i will defs do a video, but you also can ask Phil), ie trying to phonate a staccato sequence with a connected chest voice but as light as possible helped me tremendously to avoid vocal tract shifting while belting, which in my opinion is the MAIN problem regarding high, spready belting.

Since two monthes, i have tried to develop a more chiaroscuro type of mix (that you can hear on Journey). I always had difficulty with this sound, because i often find it energy consuming in terms of support while the result is often a heady sound that does not fit with heavy rock singing.

I Skyped ans asked Phil because at that point (two monthes ago), i was feeling a plateau. I either could scream a C5 in pure chest or being left with a light mix that was not wrong for pop (well, not all pop singers actually ^^) but not strong enough for rock.

We have gone to a training process that is quite similar to Bel Canto. He showed me how to have this darker sound while keeping a bright edge and not sounding like an agonizing dog, although you eventually will sound like a dying dog when you train your chest voice that way :-).

I think that i also gained a lot of freedom and consistency through the progressive removal of my French accent. Man, i just listened to my former Nirvana cover, and i really can do it better now, especially on the verses where my accent is still very noticeable. Its crazy how a hint of accent makes the whole thing sound amateurish...

For the editing, i will try what you just say. Although i initially wanted the voices to be not fully adjusted (to imitate the original feeling of Kurt being pissed), i did not expect one vocal line to be THAT long lol. I will try to make it fade before the other line. Maybe i should also decrease the compression ratio so that the voice doesn't disappear in one go?

May I ask, how often do you practice and what have you been focusing on most since your last cover? Your voice has improved so fast it's scary. I feel like my voice takes years to do what you accomplish in months LOL. I don't know what I'm doing wrong or if it's just an individuality thing haha.

I only have one suggestion and it's just an editing/mixing thing:
For those doubled screams on the last note, one of them is longer than the other which doesn't sound polished from a production standpoint especially as noticeably as you had it. The cool thing is you can (drum roll please...) fix it in the mix! (someone on a recording forum is going to kill me for saying that LOL)

Find the track with the longer note, and create a very quick fade out to nothing SLIGHTLY BEFORE the other one ends. (if you do it after you'll hear the manual fade, right around before/during area you can't tell - use your ear and TWEAK) The goal is to create the illusion you sang both notes approximately equal length, by using the quick fade to simulate the sound of stopping the note naturally with your voice, on the track you held out too late.

That technique will get rid of that extra held part without making it sound unnatural. Yes it is illusory work, but done with the right finesse it usually sounds very natural, so if it's easier than doing more takes to line up the note ends right with your own singing, there's no problem with sorting it out in the mix.

I hope that technique makes sense. It's much easier to understand if I were to literally show it you in person but I don't have a way of doing that

I just lost my post and feel lacking the motivation to re-write it from scratch.

Here is the audio

https://app.box.com/s/szcx46bc288yo11v9451kg7oq6ozskwy

Hope you'l enjoy!