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That must be a mistake Ron. It's still in my song list on the clickable link in my signature. I'll have to take a look see what the problem is. Edit: Link fixed

I agree with Ron, pitch I have said it before on other recordings you have posted here. Your voice is very good and you can not only hit the notes you can sing them. You definitely have the voice. The only problem, as I have said in the past as well as on this recording, is pitch.

Can you sing? Yes and very nicely. I think your voice is sweet and I believe you have the potential to be very good. I also think the genre you are already singing fits well. However, I also think you can be even better if you tighten up your technique a little. I could say that you need a bit more support to your voice but I'm not sure if that's a good idea. I think you have a distinct style and adding more oomph may change that if you don't do it carefully. But there are a few notes that could benefit from a bit more breath support and legato. A lot of your words become a bit choppy...just a little. I suspect you may be reading the words and this may cause that. Sometimes the phrase looses the emotion and it seems because you may be reading....but I'm not sure. Hey, the bottom line is you can sing and you sing well. And that isn't sugar coating. :)

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Thanks Chavie. Bob Seger? Cool....I don't sing much Seger only because he tends to get a little too high for me. But I love his voice. I do sing "Come To Papa" but that's about it. I have to give credit to mvrasseli for any emotion in my vocals here. I followed his lead. His playing sort of guided or funneled me in that direction. I sing the original a bit different. Thanks Chavie :)

Well I really appreciate your comments Michelle A lot of experience? lol...it depends on what defines experience. Maybe you have more than me because you are closer to actually doing something with your singing or maybe I have more than you only because I'm much older!! I have been singing and practicing for many years but only to myself...I never sang out anywhere until the last year or so. I'm flattered that you like my songs. I am always a bit shy about them because they are what I call practice songs. I don't know how to record well so they don't ever come out all that well. Plus they aren't perfect recordings. There isn't any mixing, just a bare recording. I record myself practicing for my live singing, then save it to that list. By live I only mean karaoke Anyway, back to you! As far as how I make a song my own. Well I can't say I have any real tips. I don't like to sound like the original although that is what seems popular among many singers. To me it is amateurish. I call "that" karaoke. I don't want to sound like someone else. I want to sound like me....but "influenced" by whomever. But for me it is usually a problem because I am singing to karaoke tracks which then locks me into the musical arrangement of the track. I am forced to sing to an original arrangement so I don't have much play in any direction. So I do the best I can....actually I am glad you hear it Now you on the other hand have a good advantage. You play your own music. That is a good start. Alter the rhythm, tempo and phrasing. Also alter the phrasing on your vocals. Shorten a note or word and lengthen others. Find an emotion that you want to express and add a little added feel to a line. Also figure out the musical lines of the song and try to repeat them to get a feel for it, then play with the lines. Breath support helps me here also. It helps me get stronger emphasis on some words that I may sing as a triplet to alter phrasing. You know like change the line "all that I need" to "all that I neeEEEED." (I listen to allot of Ray Charles But this takes support to push that last EE. I try to also add more flow at times and use legato. You have to practice taking liberties with the phrasing. Find the note progression and play with it. Play and learn the Blues. Twelve bar blues progression. That helps you (imo) learn to build and resolve tension and play with phrasing. Start a progression, build tension.....go away ....go farther away and play around....then return home.. Ahhhhh yes! Oh and listen to other versions of songs you want to sing. Versions by other artists. Listen to their interpretations to get ideas. Also listen to the live versions. Artists sometimes play around with the arrangements. Sorry I can't be of more help. Any more questions ask. :)

Yes, very nice :)

I thought all the songs were good. No real critique for any of them. If I had to really dig deep and was forced to find something I'd say this. In Superstar (The carpenters) the first "baby" may have been a little too much ee sounding. Babee as compared to the next ones. But like I said....that's nit picking. And "This is Love." Great song and you did a great job. But it may have been too good of a job Maybe this is personal taste. I really like that song and the backing music was good. Your singing was good too but a bit too nice. Like your other songs. I (again...just personal taste) felt the vocal lost some of the "reggea" feel. Good stuff.

Actually I liked that best after 2:26 (I think that was the time) where you sang higher and with more flow. Your version was good but I thought the vocal was a little cut off/choppy on some of the notes. It kind of lacked flow or ups and downs until you rocked it out later. I would have liked to see how it sounded if you extended some of the notes/words earlier. But you did your own thing....good job. And We all can't sing like Paul Rogers I'm working on one at the moment. Will be awhile though. Again.....nice job George.

I thought it sounded good.

It isn't actually a collaboration. He posted a cover of the song here and it was to his own backing track that he played guitar. I commented that i liked it and would like to attempt singing to his track. Soon after I got an email with the track. So I just used it as any other backing track and sang to it. No mixing....my usual. I sang to it saved it and posted it. He had no involvement and although I sent him a link to the track I haven't heard from him so I'm not sure he even knows I did it. Thanks for the listen Ron :)

Thanks MD. I was thinking it may be a little strained. His version felt just a hair higher than the original which I normally sing very easily. I can sing these notes but who knows, maybe it was just the day. The song felt a little tight while singing it. Just a bit strained first half of the song. Thanks for the listen. :)

Well, I'll say this. Late in the song close to the 3 minute mark and then after 3:00. There you started to add a little volume. That sounded much better than the low talking you were doing in your other videos and the beginning of this song. I still hold to my post above but I will say this. When you started to sing louder after 3 minutes I heard a nice voice buried in there somewhere and even a little natural vibrato. I say natural because I am assuming you don't know how to add your own. So you definitely have the potential and something to work with. Still very nasal. That is going to take work and I won't get into it because I said what I had to say above in my last post. But somewhere inside you is a singer. Please let him out. Stop hiding. ;)

Chavie, I see the date that you posted this but I can't say that I saw this post until just now! Slipped right under the radar. Great stuff man. I honestly think this is this is one of the best sounds vocally and tone wise that I have heard from you. Whatever working your butt off means it did good. not that you sang bad before, far from it. but I like the tone here allot. Pitch was good also. Nice job man. :)

Yea, good job At around 1:50 when you sang the word "damn." Well all I can say is Damn!! :D

Igor, I hear progress in a few areas of technique but overall it is hard to really be honest for me. Only because the latest example is much better then the first. "BUT" so has your recording ability improved. I hear better resonance especially in the lowest tones but can't be sure if it is you or better recording. Also less strain on the higher tones. I say yes you have improved but the diference in recording makes it difficult to pinpoint specific areas. At least for me. But listening to the first one I did wonder if you had training already because that was also very good singing man.

Hi Cody, I'm going to give it to you straight although you may not like it. But the only way for you to learn is by knowing the truth and that is what this is about "learning." There are no shortcuts. Others here have been nice and stroked your ego a bit but in the meantime all that has done was cause you to waste more time. Do you think that is good? Productive? Listen to me. If you wanted to be a baseball pitcher and the coach said ok, show me your stuff. You want to learn how to throw a proper fastball right? Ok...let's see what you've got. If you're going to tell him that "well, I'm shy and I don't want anyone to see me throw hard so I'll just toss it underhand for now....howz that?" He will say no, I need to see a fastball. "How about this,,,this one was a little harder" Again.....NO, if you want to learn how to pitch and throw a good fastball then you are going to have to unleash a pitch as hard as you can, now either throw the ball or go home. How can anyone help you without seeing what you've got and where the mistakes are? The things that go into singing low as you are are more related to speech than singing and those are two different things so no one here will be able to help you with the examples you have provided thus far. You're getting nowhere. If you want help you need to sing and sing with all you've got...loud and clear. "That is the only way" Period. Singing requires support. Do you know what that is? If you say no then it is because you didn't heed my advice a few weeks back to get out of this section of the forum and go read the techniques section. Support is about breath control and it is one of the first steps to singing. Without it you can't sing. At the level you are singing it is too low to use support properly or to even judge if your support is good or bad. Without that simple thing no one can tell what your voice is like. So in essence no one here can help you because you aren't singing. Therefore no one has any clue what mistakes you are making or what you are doing good or bad. You aren't throwing the ball. So you may hate me for this but so be it. Either sing loud and clear and I mean really project. I mean sing as if your mom was in another room and she had the TV on and you wanted her to bring you something and were calling for her. Sing as if you were singing in a huger theater and had to reach the back row with your sound and no mic. If not then stop asking for advice. At the volume you are singing "NO ONE" here can help. No matter what they say. Sorry kid but that is just the way it is. I want you to succeed. So far all you have done was begin on the wrong path and are strengthening the seeds of failure. And just as a side bar. As a parant and granparent, I'm not sure if, at 13 years of age, you should be sneaking around on a basically adult forum without your parents knowledge. "IF" you are serious about singing, then your parents will help. No different then wanting to play guitar or join the little league team. Get lessons. Ask your parents. If your serious and you really want this. Then you'll do it.

Ok...I gave it a new link...thanks

mvrasseli did a version of this Pink Floyd song here a few weeks ago. He made his own backing track playing acoustic guitar himself. I commented how I liked the track (as well as his vocal rendition of the song) and he was kind enough to send me the backing track. I wanted to steal some of his vocal ideas but didn't have much time to record today and couldn't re-listen to his version. So I just did me Thank you mvrasseli. I hope I did your track justice. Here we are. mvrasseli and Tommy doing Pink Floyd http://www.soundclick.com/player/single_player.cfm?songid=11993996&q=hi

That's why I never sing out of the book. I bring my own CD's (CDG's) and only sing songs I know well and have practiced. I don't do the unknown. Yea...I may be a little too serious for karaoke I go up there to do a good job!!!

Yea that was cool. It usually is a lot of fun and actually that was nothing compared to my last cruise. As I posted after I came back from my last cruise it was something you'd have to have been there to believe. I sang Mustang Sally with the band that time. Wow! I usually get a good following and people asking me when I'm singing again and what time to be there etc. I tend to get a big African American following. After I sang "Running On Faith" which I posted below in this thread, I ran into an old black man and his wife. He was from down south by his voice. He stopped me in the restaurant and called me to his table complimenting me. The best thing for me was that he said "Man...for a white boy you can really sing that blues....you got some soul man." The three songs/videos I posted this week were from a short weekend cruise I had taken and didn't prepare to sing. I sang Mustang Sally because my wife said i should, but I didn't want to. I was unprepared to sing it and not warmed up either (it's hard on my voice). I hadn't practiced in awhile. (I tend to forget lyrics ). I sang Running on faith because as I said in the post it was impromptu and I didn't have my CD's with me and no song prepared so I knew they had that in their song book. It's my go to song when I have nothing. And I sang Georgia on my Mind because again, I was unprepared and that song usually gets a good response and it's a good song for me to sing and easy since I sing it so much. (also posted below this week). And to think, for the guys who remember here. I learned that song(Georgia on my Mind) as a member here and posted my learning along the way. I started before I had recording equipment and just stood in my living room with a video camera and sang with all the echo of the room. And I didn't know the words and the song was wobbly. Then I posted new versions as I learned it and how to sing it. Then i said I was going to work on my own take on the song. One day Quincy (remember him) posted "hey I'm still waiting for Georgia." Which forced me back to it... Now it's my main song! Thanks for the patience guys :cool:

Ok, one more video...last one, I promise. I have no more anyway! This was fun. The singing isn't so good....off night....no big deal, we all have em.' I don't think anyone noticed though, we had a good time anyway. The backing singers came up there after I did (or at least I think they did). I had no idea they were there until I heard them. They weren't with me or planned, they just decided to come up. I must have been in another world...even the last one to walk up there, you will see in the video, I didn't realize until she started to sing. Even though she walks right by me....strange. :/ She sang a few songs that night and is freakin' incredible. I have no idea who the woman dancing was. https://www.dropbox.com/s/n6js2a74sgjpia0/Mustang%20Sally.AVI

Definitely not my genre but I can still tell it's good. Your vocals are always good man.

I'm speechless, as I suspect you will be also someday Just kidding. This isn't my style of music so I have no input sorry. I just couldn't pass up that joke. I have no knowledge of this technique and like I said, not my thing man. But whatever it is you do it good!!! Maybe someone else can help you. But really, I can't see how that could be good for any ones voice over time. There seems to be little room for error in technique.

I think that you would be wise to work on your breathing before attempting to access headvoice. I don't hear the breath to support a headvoice in your singing...it's too weak.