Robert Lunte

Balls to you Olem for working on this bud... I listened to the 2nd take... Its good... I would try leveraging your tongue more in an effort to get your larynx dampened... we need for 2nd formant in the overtones... make the vocal tract a big fatter so we can get some rounder overtones in the color... make it less quacky and add more beef... also, adding overlay distortion will also add "weight" the phonation. I think its good... if you can add more aesthetic weight to the phonation, it could be great... do that by lowering your larynx and/or adding some distortion like Halford did.

Wow, thank you... so nice to get something classical and lovely like this on our forum... please post more. Classical coaching is not where I put most of my time, but I have trained it myself and know a thing or two... my only suggestion would be to experiment with removing the windy tone unless you are doing that for an effect. Don't misread me, it sounds pretty... but too often, women sing with an open glottis and blow a lot of "hot air" if they are not trained to activate some vocal compression (vocal twang)... it is a common thing that most women deal with when they walk into my studio... but again, maybe its appropriate for this piece... by tradition, is this suppose to be whispery?... if that is not a strict requirement, I'll bet there are some dynamic points here where you could compress the vocal cords more and get more tone and less wind and it would liven up the dynamics more... and I believe, make you sound more pro. And its an easy thing to do.. someone at your level only needs to just think about it, be aware of it and your voice will response... put a little more twangy compression into the singing... not too much!!... just a little dash... Just a coaching suggestion. Here is a version in German, but it doesn't matter the language... she is getting more vocal closure and its less "choral girl windy" and sounds more mature. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pqi6KG9ZhDw&feature=related

Nice voice... you need more musculature in those head tones... more twang, more tongue leveraging and a dampened larynx... if you don't do that, your phonations will sound either windy or quacky. I don't get the connection to Adam Lambert? He didn't write this song or perform it did he?

Hi George, welcome to TMV World Forum btw... I enjoyed this song... its amusing. Love the "lizard man" back ups... When your singing, it seems to be grinding a little bit.. in other words.. you phonation has too much weight... I think if you kept singing like this, you could run into vocal problems and hurt your voice. There is something about it that is grinding that concerning... even though it may sound cool. I would recommend lightening the mass on your phonation and practice getting distortion with vocal distortion techniques that teach you how to make noise in the vocal tract, not by grinding tissue.

thx Keith... its not perfect. A couple pitchy moments, but overall, I think it has merit.

Here is a tune I am working on to possibly record and perform with a popular band, but will remain unnamed for the monument. Here is the original tune: https://thevocaliststudio.box.com/s/711015121834fbbcf3ff Here is Rob singing the same song in 1 live take. I apologize ahead of time for the shitty sound quality, just recording in my studio/open room... perhaps a nice mixed recording will come soon... this is just a beta test. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xV6nUPvlK7A What do you think?

Oh, Ok... Johnny Gioeli – vocals Alessandro Del Vecchio - keyboards and backing vocals Thorsten Koehne - guitars Anna Portalupi - bass Francesco Jovino - drums

Im embarrassed to say, but who is the singer? Agreed, He is great... I know Ale explained it all to me, but I forget...

Hi Nick!

Alessandro del Vecchio on keyboards and producer... also TVS Master Certified Instructor of Italy.

Nick is a new student and TVS CI teacher in training from Germany... enjoy his proggy tune. Sounds a bit like Mars Volta... bad ass... and Im proud to have him on the TVS team.

Look at the "critique your singing" forum and notice how many entries we are getting? We do our best to get to everyone we can. I think your vocals sound gritty... from a pure arty perspective, I like it. I would say you are singing with mostly a vocal effect. I don't mean processesing, I mean organic effect which is distorted in nature and has a lot of character... these are good things. What it needs is the ability to sing outside of the vocal effect of "gritty distorted man" and into some range, melodic movements, vibrato, vowels, overtones, etc... all things you get when you get serious about training. Hope this helps.

Seriously? No one comments on Mike Reno? Where are the old school guys?! Where's Bob?

and some good vowel modifications into low head tones... "THE KEHD IZ HOT TUHNITE, SUH HOT TUHNITE, TELL MEH WHERE WELL EHT BEH TUH-MAH-RUH-oo"!

Mike Reno, Cool. Good Singer. Nice "covered" Db5 at the end. Good dampened larynx.

Hi Jaimie, got your VM finally after a long 10 hour day, still up answering emails. Hop I'm not embarrassing myself here, but is that an original tune? Regardless, I think it sounds good considering that its your first gig. Sincerely. I can hear that you have a good instrument for singing and you have some natural 'mojo'-soul peeking in that would grow and become more profound if you train your voice and keep going. i would recommend that you get some compression on your mix, look into getting some TC-Helicon pedals... or a Lampifier microphone that has built in compression on it. Both are partner companies of The Modern Vocalist World. You begin your internet lessons with me this weekend I believe, we will launch your understanding and capabilities forward in a massive way starting this weekend. Get ready for rapid progress through drilling the TVS Work Flows. New clients of "The Four Pillars of Singing 2.0" get this video as well. It helps orient students to get off to a strong start and train smart. I want to share it with you. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbHqGWFY17A

Some people can hear the file, others cannot? I don't get it... nothing special here.

Here is a recording of my student, Pearl Fletcher, singing the very difficult and iconic Streisand song, "Woman In The Moon"... Enjoy! https://thevocaliststudio.box.com/shared/static/q89pqd1tqcy995985hfd.mp3

I like this song, its raunchy and a pedal to the metal chunck chunk'r! Cool dude! LOVE the guitar solo! :cool:

Nice work Ernest!

Did you write this tune? if you did, nice work! I think this performance is tasty and sounds great. My suggestion would be around interpretation and composition of the melody, at approx. 1:51 when you transition to your hook... I would develop your hook melody to sing a little higher... increase the intensity by increasing the pitch. Its the oldest trick in the world of singing. People have been singing with higher pitch in their melodies to create more intensity and drama in singing since we were barking mating calls from the trees. It is embedded in our collective genetic make-up to enjoy hearing high notes from singers. Lay into the melody the last 45 seconds. Now, if your going to begin to sing like that, you will need to lean on more technique, things such as dropping your jaw, biting into the sound with your top teeth and blowing more air to support this new dramatic expression at the end of your song to increase the intensity of the interpretation, will be needed. Nice work, great tune... can be even better with work on developing this already tasty melody. Nice sounding voice, bluesy, layed back and genuine... heartfelt. Hope this helps...

Ya, Ray's music is a resurrection of the "Art Rock" movement of the 70s in my opinion. Reminds me of the old "Gentle Giant" stuff... very cool Ray.

Stan, this is my student, Randy Loran singing "Take Hold of the Flame"... thought you might like it... Let me know when your ready to get after it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YzfVBXnWCk

Hey guys... here is one of my internet students from Italy. He also trained with my Master CI, Alessandro del Vecchio. Thought you might enjoy.

... ya, ya... I know guys... there are a few notes that seem to be a big #... ... but in my defense, this was for a live TV performance. One take, one shot at it, no "do-overs"...