Robert Lunte

Rodrigo,
Much better... !
Your voice sounds a little bit louder and has more "life" and color.
Nice job!

Noriel,
Welcome to the Review My Singing service, happy to help you.
- What language is this? Is this French?
- It's so low... the note at 1:10 was ok.
- Are you singing to the original track? Sounds like you are. Can you get a karaoke track of this?
- It is pitchy and needs to be stronger. I think if you got a better backing track, that might help you on your pitch. It is a bit quiet.
- Generally speaking, you tend to be flat, or below the pitch. A lot of the pitchiness we hear is not due to your inability to hear pitch, but I think more due to the fact that the formant, or the resonance you are amplifying does not have all the necessary frequencies amplified. What I mean to say is the overtones or more accurately, the partials ( individual frequencies in each note ) required to make the not sound in tune with your ear are NOT amplified or tuned properly. This makes the ear hear only some of the frequencies, but not all. When the ear hears only some of the frequencies it needs to hear, but not all... it makes the voice sound flat. Some simple techniques would help you a lot.
1. First and foremost, fix your embouchure... or lift your top lip more when you sing. You need to expose your canine teeth, or smile big when you are singing. You will be surprised at how much that simple tip will help your singing. Notice how that amplifies brighter/higher frequencies in your voice and how it suddenly tunes better... you MUST start by doing this.
2. Work on singing in the "mask" more. Get out of your throat. Resonate more forward, behind the nose and into the forward, hard palate.
Try these two things and then post your song again.

I like Roodris,
He wants to get better and is open to feedback and reviews. 
And when you give him feedback, he goes and works on it and comes back with another try.
I really respect that.
Nice job Roodris.
BTW, I gave you a big review on your other tune...  And your in good hands here with Draven.
Maybe Felipe could chime in... @Felipe Carvalho, Maestro Carvalho, Roodris kicked in for the RMS service. He isn't looking for a handout, which is noteworthy. Would love to get your feedback for him if you have a minute.

 

Cool,
my kind of forum dude!
I knew I was reaching when I suggested French. It some how didn’t sound like French either. 
Get’r done Rodrigo!

Thanks a lot! My name is Rodrigo though, Noriel is the late great samba singer that I admire so much!
It's Portuguese!
But can you tell me the pitch of the note?
I try to remove the original vocals, but some of it always remains... It's always a pain... lol. The track I use as a background is a "semi-karakoke-track", I would say.
 
Mission given, mission accomplished! Gonna do that within the next 24h.

Noriel,
Welcome to the Review My Singing service, happy to help you.
- What language is this? Is this French?
- It's so low... the note at 1:10 was ok.
- Are you singing to the original track? Sounds like you are. Can you get a karaoke track of this?
- It is pitchy and needs to be stronger. I think if you got a better backing track, that might help you on your pitch. It is a bit quiet.
- Generally speaking, you tend to be flat, or below the pitch. A lot of the pitchiness we hear is not due to your inability to hear pitch, but I think more due to the fact that the formant, or the resonance you are amplifying does not have all the necessary frequencies amplified. What I mean to say is the overtones or more accurately, the partials ( individual frequencies in each note ) required to make the not sound in tune with your ear are NOT amplified or tuned properly. This makes the ear hear only some of the frequencies, but not all. When the ear hears only some of the frequencies it needs to hear, but not all... it makes the voice sound flat. Some simple techniques would help you a lot.
1. First and foremost, fix your embouchure... or lift your top lip more when you sing. You need to expose your canine teeth, or smile big when you are singing. You will be surprised at how much that simple tip will help your singing. Notice how that amplifies brighter/higher frequencies in your voice and how it suddenly tunes better... you MUST start by doing this.
2. Work on singing in the "mask" more. Get out of your throat. Resonate more forward, behind the nose and into the forward, hard palate.
Try these two things and then post your song again.

I like Roodris,
He wants to get better and is open to feedback and reviews. 
And when you give him feedback, he goes and works on it and comes back with another try.
I really respect that.
Nice job Roodris.
BTW, I gave you a big review on your other tune...  And your in good hands here with Draven.
Maybe Felipe could chime in... @Felipe Carvalho, Maestro Carvalho, Roodris kicked in for the RMS service. He isn't looking for a handout, which is noteworthy. Would love to get your feedback for him if you have a minute.

 

I think I got what you meant. I think that this speech-like singing is a comfort zone that I got into, thinking that it would make my singing more stable or something along these lines.
Is this really such a bad idiosincrasy, may I ask?
 

It's extremely limiting for range, sound color, stability, control, sound colors/timbre, and just about anything else about singing, and can be more harsh on your vocal cords as you try to bring different pitches into it. Something as simple as smlining or sneering can help lift your voice. In the vide, I mention also using a finger on your bottom lip and singing up and over it, you have a similar mental tool and result when singing "up and over" the microphone. Resonating in the soft palate and forward is what makes the voice ring out and be what's considered beautiful about singing. Start Tracking (humming while buzzing the lips) all the time, if you want to get more used to proper resonant placement.

You're resonating a bit better, but it almost seems as if there's not enough support for you to stay in pitch. That could be partly the air support, but also from singing too low of a pitch. You might try an octave higher. You should be able to get just above a middle-C from good resonant placement alone. From there, the voice shifts a bit, but it's still only a matter of knowing how to build the strength and coordination to take it further.

Weird enough, that pitch (D2-G3) is pretty much my comfort zone... If I go an octave higher, I get lost. Actually, if I start to hit middle-Cs and beyond, things start to go bad...
If you browse through my Soundcloud, you can see that all my songs are sung in the Arnaldo Antunes / Leonard Cohen range (these 2 dudes are my biggest inspirations to sing).
I'm gonna definitely purchase a membership or some reviews to try and investigate the origin of this problem further.

I think of what you just described as a "cancer" in my singing technique. Yeah... it took me off guard. I'd just like to know if it has "metastasized" too much (how far has it impregnated my technique)... if you know what I mean.
If you could just listen to one more song and tell me if I'm making these sames mistakes I'd be really grateful.
 

I will jump in, since I have a bit of time. I used to have a Brasilian (Portuguese) student who sounded just like you.
To note, you're not singing in the above example, rather you're speaking the lyrics - sometimes in pitch, but still speaking. Arnaldo sings the song in the same octave range, but lifts his voice to the soft palate and forward. Singing vowels don't resonate in the same placement that speech vowels do. Here's a good place to start:
You need to be training. Whether with The Four Pillars of Singing, online lessons with me, one of the other voice coaches here, or, depending on where you're at in Brasil, get in touch with my friend Dan Vasc for in-person lessons.

Hey guys. The thing is, as I have said in other threads here, I barely sing high at all.
I'm very inspired by Leonard Cohen and my voice is pretty limited in the high register, so I transpose most songs to the bass region (even Avril Lavigne songs!)
This Brazilian song (Portuguese is my mother tongue) represents my singing style very well. I'd like to hear opinions about my technique and what I could do to improve it!
(EDIT.: I'd also like to know what is the last note of the song, please!)
 
 

Hello "r00dris" ,
 
The opportunity to request a review of your singing is FREE. 
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OR, choose one of our Membership Plans at the following link :
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Respectfully,
Adolph

The pitch of this song is like a rollercoaster (for me, at least), and this has caused me serious problems all the times I've tried to sing it.
I finally managed to get an overall grasp of it, but I don't know if it's acceptable or not. I would like to hear what I am doing right and what I am doing wrong.
(Also, PLEASE someone tell me the note at 1:10 minutes!)
Cheers!!
 

There are many reasons people may not have taken you up on your $4.99 offer, Robert.  Sounds like a good deal but maybe they are looking for a different singing style, classical, jazz, pop, etc) and they look for that on YouTube. And of course, they may find what they want on YouTube for free   Example: I play guitar.  I find free tutorials for almost any song I want to learn to play!  When I was younger I spent many hours transcribing solos.  The tutorials are quick and free.  There are many things good and bad about the digital computer age.  I think you know what I mean.  Things change and we have to figure out how to evolve to stay relevant, if that is even possible.  

Phoenix, sorry to keep you waiting. When I saw that you were a previous member and have taken the time to learn how to make recordings and such... I felt compelled to give you some free time.
- Nice Song! Did you write this?
- Nice Mic, nice preamp. Focusrite stuff is awesome.
Pretty singing... your intonation is ok-good. Could be a little better, but mostly on.
Question, are you singing sort of soft and windy on purpose? Is this a stylistic choice? If so, you then its working fine. If you are not, then i would be concerned as your coach if this windy position is how you sing most of the time. This is very common btw, so I'm not singling you out by any means. Especially ladies... 
My advise would be for you to take up some aggressive training and build the motor skills and strength to get more compression on your vocal folds so that you can make sounds that are not always windy, but have compression. Then you will amplify more color, be louder and have more strength. If you want to be a better singer and you don't have a lot of compression ( vocal twang ) in your singing, it would be very good for you to train to add it to your voice. There's some free advise. Great job practicing and making your recording!
Contact me offline, I'll offer you a great deal on my training program so you can begin training if you like.
 

Ok. thanks for the clarity. It sort of sounded like you were making a case for "you don't have to, because you can get it for free" which is just a lame point to make on so many levels. Glad that isn't what your saying.
Back to my original point then Rich... More and more people are lazy and don't want to work.  I believe that YouTube has done a lot to create a new virtual culture and expectation with people. Its free on YouTube and you can sort of get some tips, so when people are really ready to get better and stop watching videos for tips,... they seek programs and teachers and become put off when someone informs them that it isn't going to be free.
 
And "is too expensive" just doesn't hold up as an argument.... I have tried numerous times to offer services for $4.99. As a matter of fact, for the last 8 months anyone that signed up here was routed to a page out at my web site where they could get the entire TVS warm up package for $4.99... a deal so good, it is almost offense. NOT one person took my offer. $4.99... ?!  

Yes. If you have nothing vested in it, you don't appreciate it and you don't do the work. PERIOD.

Its just delusional or more likely, just completely out of touch of what serious singers are doing and what they value.
They would never make posts like that. 
Fortunately, there are some serious students and singers out there, Draven & and I work with them. Nobody I train on a regular basis or who has purchased my program and actually did the work would leave a post like that.

I don't think that is true. Most lessons are one hour. In my opinion, half hour lessons are just not productive. It isn't enough time to get warmed up, strengthened and have enough time to get some meantingfull progress on a song. I only do one hour lessons and when possible, actually recommend 2 hour sessions. The fact is, voice lessons that are 2 hours are the most productive.
My program offers; video demonstrations to train along with, very clear instructions on what modules to begin and complete first in the lessons and the training page is divided into 4 phases which give a sense of sequence and progress in your training.
I also offer training workflow guides found at the MY Training page, below is what one of them looks like. These are used to show students what to read, what to study and what to train... AGAIN, more direction on what to do and when.
Anyone that completes TFPOS gets a certificate.
So, your not talking about my program...
Seriously? This has to be explained?
To suggest that personal instruction for singing is not needed to sing well, is to demonstrate naivety and pretty much little clue about training voice. Respectfully, just saying...
Completely ridiculous. 
I perused the rest of your post, it doesn't really make a point other then, "people can learn to sing great for free" and "to give it away for free makes you "nice"...
 

My point isn’t to stress about my operational expense, that’s my choice. 
I even had a “donation” button up for about a year and received not one dollar.
My bigger point is that I just can’t get my head around this certain large  % of people that seemingly .... only want to sing better, achieve their dreams, pursue their life’s passion and all this profoundly poetic motivations for being interested in singing .... ONLY if they can have it all for free.  They want all of that, but it has to be for free. 

Hi all
Not been on here for a good couple of years but decided to bite the bullet again with singing and learning how to home record using Logic Pro X following training for several months and finding my own voice and not trying to copy others. My artist name is Phoenix Ren and she's only just come out to play this last summer!
I'm pleased so far and know I have to more to give in terms of the voice. I also need some lessons to learn with editing the vocal to avoid 'essing' and 'popping' still being too close to the mic, but I'm keen for feedback on the overall track, balancing etc. I used 2 mixes together for the vocal -  one wet  with some reverb, and one dry with only compression.
I use an SE220a mic and  Focusrite Solo preamp/interface...and a load of mattresses!
 

Ok, so what is the business model Rich? They offer it for free, but... what? How do they make money, because I can assure you, they are not in business to not make any money because they just want to be "nice". Offered it for free initially and then made 600 mil... ok, I'm all ears. How do they do that? With advertising? Licensing? Merchandise? Paying for upgrades to the game? 
My son asked me to fork out $150 for his birthday that was essentially a fee that gave him access to new pokemon environments, powers, features in the game or something like that.