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ronws

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  1. Vocal fach is more than just range or passagio point. It is also the quality or timbre of the voice. I have seen a number of young guys such as yourself come in here thinking they are baritone only because the have trouble going past D4 or E4 with usable volume and solid timbre and then google and decide they are this or that fach. Most do not have the weight in their voices to actually be classed as baritone. I think they, and probably you, are just untrained tenors. And even that is not important.
  2. Good luck defining belting. To me, some broadway belters sounded brassy and nasal, as well as loud.
  3. And it's on and on and on. Heaven and Hell, I can tell.
  4. Really, dude, you should be contacting admins Robert Lunte or Adolph Namlik before you just start advertising services for fees. They might even get you a banner ad or clickable icon.
  5. Also well done. I think you have the right voice for these romantic ballads and adult contemporary. You should keep this one in your ready to go set list.
  6. I had to listen, it is a song from my childhood. Pacific Ocean. Naval shipyard at the Port of Los Angeles. My first step-father, a boiler tech, seaman 2c aboard the USS Ogden. He had a Mercury Zephyr with the electric back window. His brother had a 69 Shovelhead built like "Captain America" with a diamond-shaped tank instead of teardrop. Anyway, hearing you sing this in your soft voice, you sounded a lot like Peter Cetera. That was cool.
  7. Yeah but you are talking like thin, bratty, and wimpy is a bad thing. So, go ahead and prove those are bad. And no, you can't compare to one favorite singer while disregarding other singers who are successful using whiny, bratty sounds.
  8. I like Daniel's response. And I can make it even more redneck. Want to sing lighter? Then sing lighter. If you think you are singing too heavy, then quit singing so heavy. Now for the PSA (public service announcement): Remember, most redneck fatalities start with the phrase, "hold my beer and watch this ..."
  9. What is most important is that it works for you. My visualization has changed over time. At one time, imagining low and letting the jaw drop helped. Later, it was about keeping the sound in a ball and letting the body adjust to keep my "eye on the ball" became better. That way, it was not so much about getting locked into one physical mechanism but being flexible enough to adjust and serve the needs of the note. So, for me, the note lives at that juncture of hard and soft palate. What is actually happening is that various muscles and tissues are aligning to create and keep the resonance and I don't even think about those physical processes. In fact, I start to dread threads about belting because it becomes a thing about worrying about one or two physical processes, which is a distraction. The note is important, uber alles, regardless of how you get there. Let the next 10 pages of endless debate begin ....
  10. Or, could have had a bit part on "The Sopranos." Or a walk-on roll on "Sons of Anarchy," which I liked to call Sopranos on two wheels.
  11. What is abnormally heavy? How do you know it is? What are you comparing it to?
  12. He even looks "high" when stone, cold sober and drinking tea and having his ever-present ciggie in hand. God bless Keith Richards. Because of him, we have Johnny Depp's inspired characterization of Captain Jack Sparrow.
  13. Countertenor is not the highest. Tenore leggiero, now those guys are high.
  14. I think you misunderstood Draven. What he means is that you are the greatest obstacle to what you want to achieve. I have found that improving on singing mainly involved getting out of my own way, to learn how to walk without stepping on my own feet, so to speak. You said if you had that range nothing will stop you. He said, you will. That means that you can often hinder yourself with preconceptions about what you can or cannot do, what you think is happening to make a sound, which may be different from reality. But can you sing that range? Yes, you will.
  15. I really liked it. And I want to say that the folky rock and southern fried rock and assorted outlaw country and stuff is really good in your voice. side note: my wife and I know a guy in Austin who has been singing all over the state for decades. A guy named "Shake" Russell. He actually helped Clint Black craft "Nothing but the taillights" when Clint was unknown. Anyway. so Shake sounds just like Harry Chapin. I have expected him to sing this song. Another side note: I have been working on an original song for quite some time. And even have entertained the notion of making it a three-way singing thing between myself, you, and MDEW. We may not be able to get together for brisket but we can sing about it if I ever get it finished. Kind of medium shuffle with a ZZ Top kind of turn-around in the riff. And another side note: back in the 90's, I auditioned for as a singer for a band called XLR8, headed by a guy named George Chapin, one of Harry's nephews. I ended up not getting the gig. They took back their old singer because he coughed up some recording eqiupment they were needing. That band didn't go as far as the previous band George was in, which was called Silverado, a locally known band that was big around here for a while.
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