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Awesome. I think this style of singing really, really suits you. Dare I say even better than the Halford style - and you're great at that! Cheers and have a nice day man! Jon.

Off topic - but speaking of Rob Halford - this is a clip for people who just can't get enough him - the Screaming for vengence album - all songs played at the same time

Speaking of Smeagol - try begging Jens to do his Smeagol and the Charging Holy Knight ™ duet for you. It's hilarious ;)

Exactly, Ron. It's such fun to listen to Black Dog being sung as different artists - without even having to contact those singers (Brian or Rob, etc.) and ask them to do it - they'd never do it, but now we know how it would sound if they did . Listen Snax, would you object doing a version of W. Houston's "Greatest love of all" with your Brian and Rob voices, alternatively, line after line, like they were doing a duet? I think it would sound terrific! p.s. please don't do that... ;)

I really liked all those versions, Snax. Great job! You're such an awesome singer, man. I think for this song, your first version would be most suitable, rather than the Brian Johnson one - even though that was great to hear - it was soooo much like something he would have done with this song. But if you did it that way, people would probably ask why you were singing a Led Zeppelin song like it was an AC/DC song . But you could also sing the song relatively clean (but with an "edgy" sound like you've got) but with very slight distortion on certain key words or phrases.

I'm not talking about distortion. I don't think you HAVE to sing with grit in order to sing rock. Many rock singers have a clean voice. I'm talking about a bit more volume and actually mostly for your LOWER notes F.ex. just in the very first verse. To give it more attitude. Think Mick Jagger, if that helps Except with a technically well produced vocal vibrato at the end of some notes, which he usually doesn't do ;)

And if you're not sure what curbing or mixed voice is, just sing slightly louder But just slightly and keeping your throat relaxed while you do it - that's really the trick.

Hey ronws! I'll give you two tips that I think will help you a lot: 1. You seem to sing a lot in what CVT calls the mode neutral. The problem with that mode in a rock song is that its characteristic is that of a lullaby. If you were to add either a cry sound to your voice (curbing) or a shouty sound (overdrive - just be careful not to go too high with it), then you'd automatically get a more meatier sound. Right now it lacks a bit of punch but a simple adjustment like that will astonish you if you get the hang of it. It's not that tough, especially not on the lower notes. 2. You tend to end notes a bit abruptly. Try to "care" about the notes from start to finish, if that makes sense to you . So make them slightly longer and/or add a slight vibrato at the end. Just note that the best type of vibrato is a balanced one, easily produced, not too fast, not too slow and not too extreme.

That Blues brothers quote is one of the best quotes from that splendid movie. The car chase was also never topped before or after :)

That was fun and well done! :)

Not too shabby, Snax, having been the background music for a moment like that (isn't that a Kelly Clarkson song, btw.? anyway...). I recall a band way back that couldn't sell their music if their life depended on it, because they were simply very bad. But finally they found a farmer who was willing to pay for their music to be played as background music on his farm. It was played pretty loudly through the farmer's speakers outdoors to keep the birds away from the crops - the music was used as a scarecrow :)

Those aren't usable notes for me to sing live with, not unless perhaps if my band is playing very softly ... and I just woke up When I play live I usually don't go lower than B2 (on the guitar, that would be the note on the second fret on the A string), because I find it hard to sing that low with as much volume as I need for rock songs. F.ex. I sing "White wedding", which starts on a B2 and the highest note is F#4 and I often find it hard to make myself heard on the B2, even though on most days I can easily sing at least as low as G1 without vocal fry or even E1 or maybe slightly lower, just with very little volume. So I doubt I would be considered a basso in opera. Maybe not even a baritone. Probably a high baritone or a low tenor or just a tenor or a benor or just a singing dude. I dunno. Cheers!

Told you I was gonna top (or bottom) you all: http://www.box.net/shared/ugyht0go4s Well, at least it's ONE of the lowest clips on this thread (if not the lowest). But I cheated a bit because I just got out of bed. In fact, I may have still been sleeping when I recorded this. I also put the mic very close to my mouth. Why not? :)

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Nice, Snax. I especially liked the ending. I'm gonna beat y'all with this low voice thing however, because the other day I had a cold and my voice put Darth Vader to shame, so I recorded it on my mobile phone but then I lost the phone... I'm looking for it like crazy now. Mostly because of the clip...

You just got unlucky. Some posts here get overlooked. No real reason other than luck. I liked the feeling you put in the song and the pitch was mostly very good. I think you would do good to work a bit on breath control, letting your voice be a bit more resonant (google stuff like optimal vowels and twang for more resonace and brilliance in the tone), and also a bit more self confidence. I'm sure that if you keep working on it, it will be better and better. Keep singing, dude! . Just my 5 cents.

Loved it. I'm on the same boat - trying to learn that rock tenor vocal style, sometimes succeeding, sometimes not. I guess it comes with practise. I know what you mean by the lower notes presenting difficulties, but note that Brian Johnson himself often had trouble with them, too.

It's great as always, Snax, but personally, I thought one of your other Halford covers was your best Halford cover ever. Go figure. Perhaps you liked this one the most because you managed to sound the most like Halford on this one and perhaps I liked one of the others because you had more of "your self" in the tone? Just guessing Don't get me wrong - those were world class vocals! Cheers!

akarawd, check this then: http://www.punbb-hosting.com/forums/themodernvocalist/viewtopic.php?id=437

Olem, mostly the chorus, which is the most difficult one. Take a single word and sing it over and over, then do it to another word, then do it to a couple of words, then to some scentence, then another scentence, then the whole chorus over and over, then the whole song, etc. Create your own infinite variations of exercises you can build upon this song, and any song for that matter.

That's just it - you below at a level way above the local karaoke bar The guitar player in the world is probably some guy in China who still lives in his mom's basement and no one will ever hear him. Don't be that guy - get yourself heard I'm suggesting that you need to "get famous" or anything but you could make a lot of people happy by singing for them and I have the feeling you could be performing more and to bigger crowds right now than what you're already doing. In any case, have fun with your voice!

Still awesome. And it doesn't even have reverb. That was actually fun and educational (to me) to listen to, so thanks again.

Your voices are very similar (your's and Halford's). But you still can sound like Tom Waits or just yourself, which is a good thing. Think of it this way - if it had been YOU who joined Judas Priest way back instead of Halford and he was now an unknown singer trying to cover YOU, he'd probably be saying that he's just doing a "pale imitation of Snax the metal god" - and I'm sure some people would even agree with him Personally, I think you're showing a bigger range of emotions and sound colours in your take while he's got distortion on almost every note. F.ex. I like YOUR take on the low vocals in the bridge better than Halford's and you rock on the high notes as well and everything in between. I guess your quest now in terms of vocal techique is being able to sing with this high a standard pretty much every time and also live with a band. I know for a fact that that isn't easy but the journy is worth it. You're a great singer! Rock on! \m/

A pale imitation you're NOT. I'm listening to the original now and switching between it and your take and honestly right now I forgot which one is playing! And I have a pretty good ear. DON'T put those famous singers on a god-like pedestal! You can do it just as well as Robert could!!! I'm not kidding. And he had an army of people in the studio to back him up and you're still learning how to improve these types of vocals.

Just finished listeing to the clip. It's actually something I don't just want to comment on but also to listen to more than once. So I'm putting it on again! F#$k, Snax, you could possibly be the best Judas Priest singer I've heard (besides Halford - IN his prime, note, because you might be even better than him now and pretty equal to him in his prime from what I've heard)! So I want you to yourself a favor (or do it for me if you want to be shy and stubborn, lol) and either contact Judas Priest and send them this song and tell them that if Robert ever steps down - you could fill in ... OR just get yourself a great band if you don't already have one and start hitting the scene, big time, man! Cheers with my beer (imaginary)!