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Sounds great. Nothing to add here. Sounds like you're pretty much ready for prime time on this one. I like the drop C tuning on the guitar - nice tune. I guess a next step could be working on the stage act? Work on singing to the camera or to the audience - maybe some moves - some drama? Doesn't really need it, but if you're looking for something else to work on. You've got it together musically and technically.

Well that style is maybe not for everyone. It's not "pretty" singing. I happen to like that stuff, and you are doing that style well. Would sound better if you recorded it with a whole band. Maybe if your friend heard the whole thing they would like it? Either that or they just don't like the genre?

Sounds really good to me. I like the distortion on your voice, and rhythmical phrasing and you are very accurate with pitch. The tone is good - nothing "cringe-worthy" at all.

Great job Robert! Nice production / recording / video. Your vocals are in control all the way through the range. Nice distortion control. When 99% of the song is under total vocal control, the little pitch parts are nothing. I have little pitch issues all the time - so does every singer here, as well as all the pro's. We're so used to hearing modern recordings where every phrase is pitch corrected that it sometimes affects our judgement. We're comparing human singing to "computer assisted" singing. If you go and listen to a live version of Ian from 1972 it won't take you long to count up a dozen pitch issues - he's all over the map on pitch. But I love Ian's voice and he is a master of this song - so I don't hold it against him at all. It really doesn't matter at this point. It is about the whole package - style, delivery, interpretation, etc. It is not about being as perfect as we are used to on pitch corrected recordings that have been prevalent for the last couple decades. That's how I see it anyway. As for the "to copy or not to copy" question - I think it is great to copy when you are young and finding your own voice. A very useful step. But a gradual shift toward developing your own voice and your own interpretation will take over. At that point you make every song your own.

Wow. Nice job. I couldn't do that.

Beautiful singing. On the first one you are overloading something which is creating some distortion. Performances are very good.

Sounds excellent! I like your fast vibrato. Lots of energy in your performance.

That's interesting. I wouldn't have known how loud LaBrie or Dio really are. Someday I'd like to take a couple lessons from a CVT instructor. There are a lot of singers who sound like they are singing loud but are not, like Steven Tyler. Or like Gino Vannelli who sings with a lot of power, but you wouldn't know from the studio recordings. I'd like to master Metal Like Neutral some day. I think it gives more freedom on vowels up high (curbing and overdrive are vowel specific up high).

Manolito - thanks for the comments. I made a lot of progress but it's not perfect yet. You're right I go into curbing easily because that's what I've done all my life. But in some of these phrases they are Neutral - curbing was just too heavy. But Neutral is new to me - still working at it. It is so easy to fall right back into curbing. Following Faithfully I immediately started working on Open Arms and this song was much easier due to the work I put into Faithfully. I feel even better about this one - I'll be posting it shortly. From your avatar I thought you were a 13 year old boy! (just kidding). Yeah it's funny how we all gravitate to our favorite / habitual mode especially when out of normal speaking range.

Great job and great vocals. So a hair brush as a mic? I like the drummer's drum set. Some creative thinking took place to dream that up. Any behind the scenes stories about the making of?

Sounds good. You're doing a nice job bridging into your head voice on the chorus.

Elwin - Thanks for taking the time to listen and comment!

Great stuff David. It would be interesting to learn more about what kinds of exercises and time you devote in your routine practicing. And how much time devoted to singing songs verses exercises.

David - Welcome to the forum! The performance was excellent. You've got a great voice and that is a tough song. You mentioned you've been singing all your life. Question: Did you always have that upper range? Or did a coach help you to sing in that higher range at some point in your development?

Excellent!! What I really appreciate is the feel and rhythmic phrasing. It goes way beyond tone and technique. We can all learn technique and tone and soft pallet this and twang that. But the kind of rhythm and feel you've got on this is kind of hard to teach. It is style. How do you teach that? You've done it very very well. Nice falsetto too!

Validar - Thank you! Olem - Thanks for the kind words.

manolito - you sound much older than you look on your avatar! Nice work! That's got to be a fatiguing song to sing. You held it together and were able to produce that nice vibrato even on the highest notes, which is a good sign. Sometimes the high notes sounded a little squeezed where if you backed off a little it may help reduce fatigue.

Nice Vocals especially for one take! Verb never bothers me. I like the different things you did with the melody - and nice harmonies as well.

Great stuff D. Really nice. The guitar is not out on Sunshine. At the beginning the guitarist is fretting the C# with some strength and it is stretching the string a little making it sharp. It is an important note in the intro so it sticks out a little making it seem that the guitar is out of tune. But after the intro he doesn't fret it hard and it is perfectly in tune. The guitar is perfectly in tune.

Great job on a classic. I like your phrasing. Way, way back in time I use to play a jazz rendition of that song on piano while my (now) wife sang.

Nice job on a great song from the past.

Sounds good to me. Nice job. If anything I think it will become better and more consistent with time. Would be nice to hear it over some backing tracks.

Olem - Nice job. It's hard to say.. The parts don't sound all that different to me. But I bet they feel different to you? You seem like you are using quite a bit of energy and compression up high. I think that can be very fatiguing to sustain for the entire time. So I would guess that it is a bit of fatigue. But I certainly don't hear it.

Jeff - Thanks for the kind words. Felipe - Glad you liked it! That means a lot. Chavie - Thank you for listening.

Ron - I listened again - on the notes that count the pitch is pretty good the whole way through. There are just some "pick up" notes here and there that are not "in the pocket" pitch wise. But this is common with pop singing and a lot of that is accepted - especially with a live version. My opinion is that it is up to the artist to determine how perfect those notes need to be as it is sort of a stylistic choice. In Opera pitchiness wouldn't be tolerated, but this isn't opera. That said, a couple things could be tightened up if you want - one example I found was at 00:17 - I think the word is "sorry"? It sounded like the note should have been a B3 but it was more of a C4? Don't know the tune so I may be wrong. Other times it seemed that the onsets of some notes were off a bit, then you tuned them in quickly. That again is kind of a stylistic choice depending on how "perfect" you want your performance to be. Some of us want a tighter performance and others have more tolerance.