Adolph Namlik

I admit that TFPOS can seem rather daunting. Have you gone into the My Account > My Training side of things? "My Course" alone is difficult to build your own routine from without guidance. It's an incredible resource once you know it though. One of the first links under "My Training" ("Training Workflow Guide") will give you several workflows to choose from, so you know how to quickly put the coursework into a training routine. I always thought of the course side of it as the in-depth study, whereas the training side is where you learn how to implement it as training.
Consider online lesons too. It will open up a lot more options for finding someone who really knows there stuff, how to teach it, and meshes well with you. I have private students all over the world, as does Robert.

Advice: Start training. You say you can't afford it, but $20/mo is next to nothing for great training like The Four Pillars of Singing. You're not singing in the above post. You're talking with a bit of rhythm and some different pitches now and then. If you want to sing, then put time, effort, and money into learning how.

I totally agree. What a gorgeous, PERFECT song. I absolutely ADORE this song... the lyrics are so incredibly uplifting and it just rips your heart out. Love the heroism in this song...
... and a great song to learn how to sing if your a student of singing. My compliments to you for choosing to learn this song. It tends to be one of the songs that voice technique students learn. Its a student standard.
Feedback:
- Turn up your vocal sin the mix, your buried a little bit. 
- 2:52
- Pretty good!! ... it is a hair flat, the formant/resonance tuning, not really your ears... Barely enough to notice... But, I want you to Sob more on that part, put more cry into your voice and tune in a touch more /ae/="cats" to the formant tuning. This will lift your soft palate more and amplify brighter harmonics. These details will fix the flat formant tuning.
- 3:10 - "disappear" ... love the vowel on "... pee-uh"... nice modification.
- 4:33 - More of the same.. .Sob harder!!!! its too heavy... thin out your vocal cords with more Sob.
    - 5:04 - "again"... very cool... nice vibrato.
- Really like your passion. You definitely are enjoying this song and are connecting with it, what it means and what its about. You "get it" in regards to this song. That is genuine. Of course, it is hard not to be when you sing this song. What an amazing gift James LeBrie has to be able to sing THIS song, night after night... I would never get tired of it.
... GREAT JOB!
 
I have coached this song several times as well.
Here is Fabricio Fonseca from Brazil. 
 
Shigeki Morimoto from Japan:
 
... damn, this makes me want to finally get around to singing it, and making a video too. Thanks for the inspiration Aravind!

Hi Folks, 
This is one of my favorite songs.  I posted a version earlier, this is after I did some work on my musculature.  Now I am able to retain more of the muscular sound even on my high notes.  The verse as many will attest is one of James La Brie's finest performances. It has taken me several years to reach this level.  For now happy with the outcome.   Thanks to anyone who drops in a sentence or two.. 
 

Are you training with anyone or any particular system? I too have  rhinitis and a deviated septum, but have been singing professionally for 27 years. The problems you describe sound more like lack of proper placement and support. The videos linked below can help, but won't be nearly as effective as having a good coach, solid course of study, or both, like in The Four Pillars of Singing.
Check these out, and let me know if you have questions: http://rocksinginglessons.com/videos/

Until you can afford singing lessons, be careful about simply getting tips from Youtube and the like. However, if that's all you have, then make sure they are reputable teachers. The first video on my Rock Singing Lessons playlist can help, as can any of Robert Lunte's videos:
https://www.youtube.com/user/TheDravenGrey
https://www.youtube.com/user/roblunte

You're very pitchy in general, and your resonant placement is completely incorrect. Look into eartraining for vocals. There are many voice apps that will play a pitch or interval and then let you try to match it. Also, humming into a pitch wheel can help you match pitch as well. Winging in pitch is a listening skill, more than it is  coordination or strength like the rest of singing. 
You head voice sounds off because of resonant placement being in the throat vs being in the soft palate. Hold a finger to your bottom lip and try to sing up and over it. This usually will point your vowels up into the soft palate and get you out of your throat. Also, start humming and buzzing your lips through songs 2/3 the time, instead of just singing them. It will help you get used to a better placement of you voice, among other things good for singing.
Keep taking lessons. Get them to show you how to place your resonance and vowels better for singing, and give you exercises specifically meant for learning to sing in pitch.

If you practice the wrong way, you will definitely develop bad habits. That's not to say that you can't learn good habits too, but trial and error is a very ineffective way to learn. Training is different than practicing.  In training, you follow a training regiment that gets you to the results you want i(using both strength and coordination) with tried and proven routines/exercises.
Two things:
The examples you gave are not complete. The first sample has no voice. But it really doesn't matter because... You're singing from your throat, rather than the soft palate. The following video can help, but a short youtube video will fall drastically short of what training can do for you. If you truly want to learn to sing, The Four Pillars of Singing will be the best purchase you've ever made.  

YES, You Should...
 
 

You can sing in pitch, and that's a big one! You ask if you should continue practicing. Practicing what? If you practice bad habits, you reinformce bad habits. If you practice good techniques, you reinforce good techniques. If you practice guesswork, you reinforce guesswork (which is usually full of bad habits). You need to train if you truly want to get better. Check out The Four Pillars of Singing. It not only gives you a complete and comprehensive course of study, it also explains why you're doing each thing.
Your placement, tension, choice of muscle groups for different things, breath support, and and air pressure balance, are all off. Here's a good start. Just know that it only scratches the surface, give you a basic feel for things, and gets you pointed in the right direction. You won't learn solid technique from short YouTube videos. 
 

You were hearing the right things! I'm merely addressing the root of it.

What MDEW is hearing as compression, I'm hearing as singing in the throat too much. Similar results, until you try to lighten compression and then the voice suddenly gets super airy/breathy. What he's hearing as out of control vibrato, I'm hearing as not being able to stablize the notes and overcompensating with more vibrato. You need better resonant placement and proper breath support, so that the voice will resonate better in the soft palate and have the support underneath to better stabilize, cause better cord closure, and add to the resonance. 
To get an understanding and feel for what I mean by better breath support, try to make a loud "hooah" sound while pushing only from your diaphragm. That lock down of your upper abs is what you want to feel when you sing. When singing softly, it's a subtle feeling. As you get louder, it can greatly intensify. This is also the beginnings of a technique called appoggio, which means "to lean" the voice. Think of it as a leaning forward into your diaphragm.
For better resonant placement and getting your voice out of your throat, place a finger on your bottom lip (maybe just under) and try to sing up and over your finger. If you're focused only on the breath support and the pressure caused by that support going up and over your finger, you'll have a much better feel for what I'm trying to say.
Here's a much more in depth explanation:
 

Well now... Iron Maiden, good for you.
You sort of have that Bruce Dickinson color, but it needs some work.
It sounds like your getting tired. Are you getting tired in this configuration?
You are really fighting against yourself a lot in here. I would enjoy giving you specific advice on what to do.
I think  you have a good start and could sing this better. It sounds like you have the strength, but need to work on resonance/vowels, etc... pitch in $20 and I can give you specific instructions.
 

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Respectfully,
Adolph

Hello Sophia,
I look forward to helping you.
 

Yes, it was very cool. Reminded me of Fish from early Marillion.

Hi, I posted this a few days ago, but for technical reasons the post was lost. Robert Lunte already kindly reviewed it, but if anyone else feels like giving me (constructive) feedback on singing, songwriting or recording, that would be great. 
It's a prog rock piece just over 8 minutes long, hopefully you'll stick through to the end (which was the hardest part to sing due to the challenging harmonies).
George
 
 
 

Interesting.
This recording is either one of two things:
1. An attempt to tune the heck out of it with pitch correction software ( which can also be autotune software, same thing sometimes ), in which case, I agree with Draven. This would be WAY too much AT. It should not sound cyborgish.
or
2. This is intended to be an effect, and autotune or vocoder software was used. Consistent with current trends where singers are using gobs of autotune or vocoder and pitch shifting effects to actually create a similar result, but the intentions and the plug-ins used as different. I've also heard it referred to as the "T-Payne" sound? I'm not a big T-Payne fan, but apparently he must of been one of the first to popularize this effect. My God, you hear EVERYONE doing now.
One is designed to help you on a few notes that should not be noticeable. The other is designed to caked on and heard, very noticeable.
I am willing to bet that the trend toward vocoder / autotune effects came from producers that were trying to pitch correct the artist and were getting nowhere and decided to just turn autotuning into an effect. Sort of like when your playing pool and you make an amazing shot and say, "... ya, I meant to do that", to save face. Autotuning and vocoder effects are cool. Its all just art and creativity. If I have a concern it would be that it is way over used these days in my opinion.
So Flor, what was your intention here?  Were you trying to correct your pitch, or were you trying to create an autotune/vocoder effect?

Do you have something with less autotuning on your voice? It's hard to hear your technique for the pitch correction. There are other ways to achieve a similar effect, but many years as a recording engineer, it's rare to hear a voice without very little variation that doesn't have pitch correction or a massive amount of other effects to achieve the same sound. Sadly, it makes it almost impossible to analyze your voice as a coach.

Please give us a proper title. 
What you wrote is what you put in the body of your topic post. 
Also a guaranteed review can be found here.
 

It needs a lot of work. I'll give you more feedback.
 

https://www.smule.com/recording/janis-joplin-mercedes-benz/1088277799_1420463658/ensembles Please excuse the outro. And yes it's me singing with JJ in the background. Thoughts? 

I'm, unsurprisingly, 100% in agreement with Robert. I adore your voice. Absolutely incredible.
For those low notes, it might be worth attempting a few things to stabilize:
Bring the voice more forward, edging, harsher, and then open to more air, which naturally modifies to a more curbing position. Dampen the larynx a bit more to taste, while adding slightly more breath support and locking down on the diaphragm. Do tuning exercises downward. This has been incredbly helpful with my female students who want to sing lower.  Start with tuning slides E4 to A3, working your way down in half steps (D#4 to G#3, D4 to G3, etc). The main point is tuning as your voice and pitch moves. By tuning, I mean paying very close attention to a well balanced placement, musculature, support, and anchoring. For the higher notes, do you feel relaxed or like you're pushing? It sounds great, but I know that sound can be produced by either pushing a LOT of air/volume, or by relaxing completely and adjusting tiny things (like vocal twang and jaw placement) to get the same sound color. I've blown out my voice before from pushing too hard. I would hate to see that happen to you.

1:09 - "and..."  a bit pitchy. sharp.
Elise, pay more attention to the lower notes, "some..."... they tend to feel a bit abandoned. The hard stuff, melisimo sounds good. Don't take your eyes off the road on the low notes as you prepare for the high notes... Your looking down the road, preparing for the big "money" note and taking your eye off the low note that is happening in the moment. Try to be aware of both.
SOUNDS EXCELLENT!!  KEEP GOING!