jonpall

Very good guitar playing and a cool guitar. Cool show, too and a good band. I need to start doing what you did there in that solo - put your guitar on your thigh and your foot on the monitor when playing difficult parts. My guitar is strung low. It seems that those metal bands have made a big influence on countries outside of the US for the past few decades because it seems that there are lots of good rock bands in India, Japan, etc.

I hesitate saying you ONLY need twang to get full notes, because if you don't add a "cry/hold", the risk of sounding too much like a duck or a witch is too great. Obviously it's more complicated than than, but it's still an inportant point in my opinion. For the record, I'm not taking a stab at you, Ron :)

When you said "dried out your throat", I immedially thought "too much air". I could be wrong, though. It's tough to tell from a recording. At least for me. But you could try that other type of breath support and see if that helps you a bit. Also - a bonus tip that has helped me - try to "feel" the air flow inside your mouth and simply make it less windy by your thoughts along. You might be surprised how well it works if you just pay attention to a small detail like that. It's very subtle, but you should be able to detect your flow of air in your mouth.

Hmm, I kind of take it back with the confidence in the verses, because being slightly fragile there suits the song. But I felt at a point that there was something that sounded "I don't have as much confidence as I should have for such an awesome voice" It'll be no biggie for you to work on. Cheers, man.

Holy hell, perhaps you need to give US lessons That was great. Having an A5 is something most singers don't have. I think it was very well sung - each part. I'd like to hear more stuff from you. You could do with slightly more confidence in the verses, although they still sounded great. If your throat was constricting and hurting afterwards you may have been overdoing the power push. Keep experimenting and remember that you've got a great talent for singing!

Good pitch. Tip: Try singing with a slightly less airy tone. Try singing while holding your breath back ever so slightly. Cheers!

I don't agree with mvrasseli. Sorry man Those comments sounded slightly like they came from someone who simply doesn't like this type of singing - in which case you'd automatically dislike it. No offence. It has light sound colour for the top notes and distortion. Many SLS people f.ex. would not like it. However, I think it ROCKED as heavy metal vocals and one of your best clips I've heard, akarawd! Great job! I also think it's time for us to hear a better mixed song from you where the vocals aren't that loud. I understand that you want us to hear exactly what you're doing and you're right, it does help us. But still it would cool to hear a great metal vocalist such as yourself mixed well with a band. Here's one tip - one of the things I liked about this take is that the LOW parts sounded more confident than some other song I heard from you before (your high notes sound great - man you've got a great range. What's your highest usable note?). But perhaps it could have been 1% more confident, if you know what I mean Like having a very consistant air flow with no wobbling at all, ever (well, an occasional mistake is just cool, but I hope you know what I mean). So my suggestion is to sing like you OWN the room you're in, put your chest forward, think that you're the king of the world and just blow the house down with confidence and general metal-awesomeness. My 5 cents.

Btw. just noticed that you have 10 too few reputation points, analog, so I started to fix that, dude ;)

Some singers with unorthodox timing throughout their careers, even in their prime: Robert Plant, Bono, Sam Cooke, etc. ....

I liked it! Very cool.

Correct, but only if they're using good technique. Some of them are, so because of that, and also because they've been singing like that for so long, it's relatively easy for them. But some singers sing in that style with incorrect technique and really force those sounds and constrict their throats and still keep on going despite their throat hurting all the time. They also usually have shorter careers. I just wanted to point out that some singers that sing in this style ARE in fact thrashing their throats. Keep up the good work, Akarawd! :)

And I agree with Jens. I liked 4 the most. Take number 1, the clean one, was my second favorite. You might want to use both styles alternatively. But most likely in this song, it would make most sense to use method number 4 (distortion) throughout, at least on the high notes. Very cool, man :)

Great singing, dude!!!! :)

Here you go, Fahim: . We plan to record a better version of the song so that link might get removed in the near future.

An interesting point, Martin. You could use the Oh and the Eh vowels from overdrive there and it would fit the vowels of the following words perfectly - "all", "take" and "break". But it wouldn't work as well for "protection" - it would sound slightly like "proTAKEshun" . Anyway, currently I'm at least trying to sing mostly curbing in those big choruses (although I know I tend to fall into overdrive at times), but perhaps it would make sense in some cases to sing some words in overdrive and some in curbing, i.e. not to have the "cry"/"hold" sound quality on every word in a melody in the tenor range? Just thinking out loud.

Thanks, Snax!

Thanks, Puissance!

You have good pitch and feel and good potential! I liked it! I suggest you put more confidence in the verses - you tended to end phrases with a bit of a shy, soft sound. Also I suggest you work on curbing to be able to sing choruses like that one slightly better. If you don't know what that it, just try to use medium volume and use mostly the vowels Uh as in "hungry", Ih as in "sit" and O as in "woman". Also, from the look of your face in the chorus, it seemed like you were using too many external muscles of your neck and face for those high notes like "protection" and "take". Try having a poker face while doing it (even though it might sound worse at first) and use the vowel Uh mostly for all those highest notes, or a vowel VERY close to Uh. The first high note in the chorus was always good - "...and through it AAAAALLL" - that "all" word was very good. But that is an F#4 note, slightly under the passagio. The words "proTECTion" and "TAKE" are where you strain a bit and it could be because you're not modifying those vowels towards Uh enough. Also, try that poker face idea. Just one more thing - watch that your inhale isn't too quick. It sounded at parts that you force the inhale, but you're supposed to just relax on the inhale and LET the air come in and your belly go out. I think you're doing it a bit too fast at some points. Hope this helps (coming from someone who's not really an expert ). Cheers!

Thanks all. I really appreciate it. Martin, I think you're right.

Thanks guys. In case anyone is interested, that song hovers around the infamous B4 note and the highest note is the last scream at E5. It's a great vocal workout, actually.

Me and my new band were practising Whole lotta love by Led Zeppelin a few days ago and made a video recording of it. We had never played it together before and therefore we make a few mistakes, but I hope you guys can look past them and tell me what you think of the vocals. It's live and unedited so I can hear that it's not perfect, f.ex. slightly pitchy in a few spots but mostly I think it's at least in tune and sung with a fair bit of power. What I'm mostly interested to hear is if you guys like the tone of my voice. I'm not trying to sound like Robert Plant - just myself, or the screaming rocker version of myself. I don't know if that's a sound that anyone will find appealing so that's why I'm posting it here. We plan to practise this song enough times to get it right as a band, with all the changes very tight and then take it "on the road", but I wonder if the majority of people will think that this is just a straight out blasphemy towards Led Zeppelin or if it's something enjoyable, because it's been such a short period of time that I've been able to sing songs like this. Here it is (gulp): http://www.speedyshare.com/files/23687033/Whole_Lotta_Love.mpg Edited: The same link on youtube:

It was in curbing but perhaps in "strained curbing", meaning that you perhaps strained in your throat, which was unnecessary :)

It sounded like analog's version was in curbing/mixed voice and Bob's version was in "metal-like-neutral". In other words, analog's version had a slight cry to it, so that the basis of the sound was with medium volume and a bit more body weight to it and Bob's version was sung with a very light feel to it and lower core volume, but with an added twang (which actually raised the volume a bit). I think that analog is right that the original tune is in curbing but a fairly light style of curbing. Bob, if I remember correctly, your version of Hot blooded was in curbing.

ronws's "sneaking up to" a fuller head voice idea is a good one. You could try that.

No problem. Other people might disagree with what I said. But do listen to it again with those points in mind and see if you find them valuable. Have a nice day!