jco5055

jesus dude, your speaking voice is ridiculous! Talk about being able to tell you are definitely a true bass/baritone and not like the vast majority of guys who subconsciously force their voice lower than it actually is... I can't imagine what you'll sound like when your voice stops changing between ages 25-40:lol:

haha yeah I noticed when I went out a few weeks ago and the next day my voice was shot but I had more powerful low notes then I do when I'm not hungover...

Hey Geno, one thing I've learned about singing low (which may echo what Owen said) is in a sense to think you're singing high once you get to a certain point. What I mean is doing stuff such as singing as bright as possible, thinning out the cords, heck even the vowel modifications you do as you ascend but also do them as you descend. It's definitely helped me, though i don't know if it's possible for a non-bass to sing in the first octave with any kind of power, but it's at least not breathy for me.

jco5055 also haha. I rarely ever post though

Great stuff as usual (I lurk/occasionally post on TRP as well ). One interesting thing I noticed, on your highest notes you definitely (to my ears) resemble Ripper Owens, with maybe Warrel Dane mixed in, which is pretty damn cool :cool:

Dude this is great! My only comment, is sometimes your accent comes through/I can tell you're not a native English speaker, so I'd work on that a little more. Other than that it was nice bro:cool:

Damn, on the verses for the Last in Line, you sound a LOT like Geoff Tate, and I mean that as a huge compliment

https://www.box.com/s/53c48e204f476eb91e45 I practiced like 3 hours ago and I've eaten since then so I'm not cold or warmed up. The lowest there is at least a C2 connected, if I can remember the lowest I've gotten without fry is like a F#1. An okay trade off compared to it sounding like I'm going all "Halford" when most professional rock tenors are in their mediumish voice in the 4th octave

yeah, for some reason the bassist really low, like the input level was. We'll goin to re record him

yeah I'm definitely going to get a cover out soon, I've gotta decide which song to pick. I'm thinking Breaking the Silence, though I'm also leaning toward the Needle Lies...

well admittedly, the guitarist literally practices 9 hours a day and has no life outside of music, so he is quite good. The bass is really hard to hear, he's going to have to re-record his parts because for some reason it just didn't come out too audible. Our drummer is a bit of an interesting case. He can play fast and double-bass no problem, but he just has basic time-keeping and beat problems. The guitarist and I have told him he needs to use a metronome, but he doesn't listen. He also is pretty much only capable of staying in 4/4, no shuffles for him. Both the bassist and drummer actually follow the guitarist and I (we switch off between guitar and vocals) at practice, which we are trying to get them to fix this. Anyways, thanks for the critique! Live I'll definitely be more clownish, I was a bit serious trying to get the song down (this was actually the second time recording this, the first time my vocals weren't up to snuff)

I'll get around to doing one, I'm sure. I do have quite a Tate-ian voice...

https://www.box.com/s/440f301c8b31da383bac Here's a cover of the song, performed by my cover band (I did the vocals). Overall I think it's pretty good, although I feel the high notes might be a little too "clownish" for my taste (though we kept the track because the original version's high notes are also pretty extreme/"falsettoish"). Any critiques or comments would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks for the reply Keith! And yeah I'm saving up some money to get some software and mic; I sure could use it. I think the middle notes being weak are because there in my passagio/ I can belt or use low head voice notes, which I believe is stated by Robert as being the hardest notes to sing; I sure believe him! And also I definitely should have listened to the song a few more times; I couldn't always remember which chorus he would sing the notes higher in compared to the others or lower, and I am quite shaky as a result.

Thanks for the comments I appreciate them! And I definitely understand what you mean by doing this karaoke style, and this definitely was in that style. I think mainly I just wanted to put something out there and get a basic analysis of my singing; in case any one had any comments such as "you're pulling up your chest voice etc". And I had tried to record this multiple times, and a few times I noticed that I had to scrap a few because the backing track was too loud etc, so I was getting a little annoyed and frustrated. And I'm also a 21 year old college student, and hadn't gone out all week so I wanted to socialize a bit and not leave too late in the evening. But I think I'll definitely pick a song to work on all week, and to do a better take. I'm thinking a Queensryche song, that would seem to be a strong point haha. Also thanks for the reply about voice type in Keith's thread! I'd heard of all the italian/classical voicetypes before, but I didn't know anything except that I was definitely in the general range of "baritone." But I'm curious, would low notes mean anything to voice classification? Because looking at lyric baritone on Wikipedia, the lowest note in the range is A2, and I can get down to around a D or C#2 without warming up, and a few notes lower if I am warmed up. Then again I can match the tenor/countertenor listings on the high range so maybe that's not a good judgement lol