Drewb

Heya Kevin, Thanks for that! Glad to hear at least technically I'm doing alright, still a bit of a worry there! The song cuts off because it's the beginning of a looooonnnnggg instrumental post-rock/post-metal type of song. Here it is instrumentally when we played it live last year, if you're interested: So I didn't want to bore anyone with the whole thing (I'm the guy with the black left handed Les Paul btw) Vocally I wanted to do something pretty low-key, this is pretty much the first time I've ever put vocals in a song, save a few experiments previously. But as you can hear from the song, it's a builder.... and I think doing anything too up front and impressive would most likely detract from the atmosphere in the song. It's also only the 3rd time I've ever recorded it, so it'll get better with time. Small baby steps for me - confidence issues and all that... it took me a bit of courage to even sign up and post this here! But I do value feedback, because I want to get better and try to get some more songs under my belt. The sort of bands I really like and that inspire me: A Perfect Circle, Tool, Karnivool, Lesser Key, Circa Survive, Radiohead, and Deftones. So I'm heading roughly in that direction! I've been watching your videos on Youtube for a good while as well Kevin, really helpful stuff, so just wanted to say thanks very much for those!

Do I just massively suck, or am I too much of a n00b to be given advice right now? I'm reading lots of stuff here and on the Reddit singing subreddit, as well as taking lessons. I just ordered the CVT book as well, which should arrive next week!

​Cool, thanks and done!

Heya, This is the first time I've posted anything here, so apologies if I'm breaking protocol. I'm just really looking for some feedback on this track: I've been taking lessons for just over a year now, and I'm slowly starting to be able to listen to and record my voice without cringing! I'm in a band and this is one of our songs. I've wanted to put vocals to it for a while, and this is the third attempt I've ever made at recording this idea. I didn't take long, perhaps an hour or so one evening two weeks ago after a lesson - consequently it is a bit rough. But I think the idea is quite good. I'm going for a sort of Thom Yorke/Maynard James Keenan type of thing. Trying to use more head voice and get a good mix, but I sometimes feel a bit constricting when I do this. I'm going for a mixed voice, but held back in terms of volume until the very end. I want to be able to add a bit of extra press to certain notes, which I think I've got down fairly well, certainly on the long held notes where I sing the word "sigh" - I quite like the tone on those notes, pitchiness aside. I don't really like my tone on the first word, which is 'grief' - it sounds constricted and muffled, and I don't quite know how to fix it. I think it might be vowel choice, but not sure. Would appreciate a bit of help on that. The only clue I really have for myself is that when I'm doing low notes, I find it fairly easy to find frontal resonance. When I'm doing mid or high notes, I find it much more difficult. I think this might be my issue with some of these parts. Any tips you can give me would be great!