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  1. ronws
    You're right, It is the worst cover ever. I can hardly hear your voice. Interesting choice to use distortion all the way through. Maybe you could try another mix where the vocal is as loud as the guitar, instead of under it.
  2. ronws
    Sorry but the choir teacher needs to step up his or her game and do the job.
  3. ronws
    What does the choir teacher at your school say? Have you talked to him or her and has he or she listened to you sing? In addition, what voice type you is hard to define at the beginning of training. Better to learn some things and see where your voice leads you. I remember a story of a singer who was classified as a baritone but he could never get the right ring. Well, he was typed as a baritone by a teacher who though men should be baritones. Until he went to another teacher who had him try some different things and turns out that he was actually a lyric tenor. So, don't worry about your voice until you have been evaluated and learn where you strengths will lead you.
  4. ronws
    I have to agree with Robert. "Opera" mode is different than what the sound requirements for opera are. And those definitions can change depending on coach or what role you are cast in. I have read the memoirs of Russell Watson, Debra Lynn, and Renee Fleming and they have led interesting paths in their career to the top of the opera field.
  5. ronws
    What is that you wish to discuss? Classical singing method?
  6. ronws
    Except that this should be in the review my singing section, I think.
  7. ronws
    Listen to Adolph and Robert. For nodules, it takes repeated abuse for a while to actually develope those. They are calluses. Just like it took some time to get calluses on your fingertips if you play guitar or on your feet, especially if you walk barefoot a lot. Drink the stuff Adolph said and give your voice a rest. And what you need to do is light descending slides or sirens, almost falsetto, a few times a day for a few days to a week. Then, get a training program.
  8. ronws
    I did not hear any pitch issues with "Have You ..." And I think it was your strongest recording and performance, it is right "in your wheelhouse," as we say around here. I think part of it has to do with the tempo and rhythm style, which may be a closer match to music you grew up with. Your timing is spot-on. "Iris" was also good but something sound slight out of kilter on the first chorus. Later choruses were okay. I can't tell if it is actual pitchinesss or just a matter of how your voice sounds on the eh sound, which you are using for the word "am." You are singing "eh-m" which is fine and I wonder how it would sound with "ah-m." Don't worry about which is the proper vowel sound. Listeners will hear the word, am, in context. And I like how your recording and mixes have gotten better. The one thing you might want to try is when you think a spot might be pitchy, patch that section in. Not the whole song, just that one part. For example, the chorus. It sounded funny once but okay the other times, so, I know you know how to do it.
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    I agree with musikman and could not have said it any better.
  10. ronws
    I think you did great. And if you want to make changes to sound in your midrange, you definitely want to heed Robert's advice.
  11. ronws
    Nicely done.
  12. ronws
    You can also put covers on an album. Your lawyer can help you with business advice, such as paying a blanket fee to ASCAP to cover anything in their catalog. If you plan to sell outside of the US, you may have to look into SESAC.
  13. ronws
    Improving the voice is the same as getting to Carnegie Hall. Practice, practice, practice. And Gneetapp has already given the advice I would offer. As for gender confusion, oh well, shrug it off and start covering songs by k. d. lang.
  14. ronws
    Bravo, Mivke. As good as the original, in my opinion.
  15. ronws
    Everything you have posted has been good, whether anyone replies or not. Seems like you are already pro and you need an album and distribution. In which case, you need a lawyer.
  16. ronws
    Sounds like you are doing all the right things. And you are not the only one to drink coffee and have the world NOT end. It is my opinion that, absent some odd food allergy that I have never heard of, drinking coffee or tea is not going to adversely affect you. Tea can sometimes dry me out but I don't tea as often as I drink Diet Coke. The preservatives keep me looking younger than I am.
  17. ronws
    I think you did really well. Different from Gneetapp, I think you had the right sound for the lower notes. You were basically staying in a configuration that worked throughout.
  18. ronws
    Each person is different and if what you are doing is helping and not wearing you out, then stay with that. Too many people, even those with healthy voices, go too far. I am not saying that you won't ever strain or want to get a strained sound. Just saying that it sounds like you are doing the right things. Have you been tested for allergies? Especially ones that might cause you to create phlegm or excess mucus?
  19. ronws
    Well, your doctors are right and you need to revisit what it is that you do to sing or to speak at an elevated volume, like you do in a loud club. Manage the breath, don't push it all out. goog will help to increase cord closure to counter-act the bowing of your folds. Resonate. Don't speak from the throat. Imagine the sound at the roof of your mouth.
  20. ronws
    What Robert is saying is do NOT link in his files for how to train. Only link in the practices you record of yourself singing.
  21. ronws
    Charlie, it looks like you are sharing proprietary information against the direct wish of the author and this is twice, now. You need to stop, just stop.
  22. ronws
    Tres bon, mon Ami.
  23. ronws
    I agree with Musikman.
  24. ronws
    I also liked this, too. And, confession, I did not listen to the backing track version, only the acoustic version. I like it like that and don't want to hear it another way. Bravo, Java. You have a lot of soul in your voice. Like you wrote this song.
  25. ronws
    I liked it, too. And was struck by the interesting notion that on this song, you kind of sound like Dennis DeYoung. Kudos for NOT trying to sounding dusty, like Don does. As for his original phrasing, it might help to know that he is from, and still lives mostly in Dallas, Texas. I know because the company I work for worked on a project for his newest house (he has four, here.)
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