BrunoFortes

Sing vowels, focus on the vowels. If you start focusing on the minutia you could really screw yourself. Most of these others issues can be handled fairly quickly, but the key to resolving them lies in your vowels.

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Overall excellent advice from JustinOthersinger.

I think you might need to clarify, Witti.

Is your desire to sing better? Or, to have a good demo that you can promote, regardless of who is singing?

Multiple award-winning songwriter James Blume can barely hum a note. He can plunk just a few notes on a piano, can't play guitar well enough to save his life. But he can write songs. He keeps a digital recorder with him and hums bits of tunes, speaks bits of lyrics.

Later, he gets with a guy that can play any instrument there is and comes up with an arrangement and transcribes the melody idea therein. Then, they hire a studio singer to sing the demo. And that gets promoted to the various labels and also gets listed with songwriter orgs.

See what I mean? Hit songs written by a guy who finds singing "Happy Birthday" a challenge and can't play an instrument can write a song.

If, on the other hand, you want to sing better, that's another direction entirely. Depends on how much time you have. Blume never made the time for singing lessons. He spent his time writing songs and making money.

Good luck and lots of success for you, whatever you do.

Well said, ronws.

You have great potential. And I'm sure that with a enough persistence you'll be able to nail this song. But for now it seems like you're putting so much pressure on your voice that it becomes uncomfortable to listen. No offense, but it sounds like someone's strangling you or something. Try singing it a major third or fourth lower than you did here. Keep working on your range, take your time and keep in mind that very, very few male vocalists wil ever be able to sing like Michael Jackson did.

Excellent voice! Needs more control, though. Keep it going.

"There is no bad music, only bad listeners."

Haha:D, I love your signature! But what do you do when the majority are "bad listeners"?:/

I don't now exactly what you're trying to achieve here, but It's good enough to enjoy.

Volumes & Compression

I think compression is really necessary here. I would have used a little more in this case, because softer vocal parts occasionally "drown" in the backing track during the chorus. I also think it would allow you to increase the volume of the backing track, so your vocals "sit in the mix" a little better.

About the backing track. Even though you may not be able to correct it, but this may be of use when you start producing your own instrumental tracks. I hear that there's some compression on the bassdrum. The kick softens during the chorus and gets louder during the verse/bridge. As a radio listener I'm personally accustomed to hearing a bass-drum with a steady volume. It gives the listener a certain stability and volume reference. Meaning, you don't have to jump to the volume-knob halfway the song because it turns out to be four times louder.

Reverb

The amount of reverb makes it sound like you're of a concert hall. I'd use a little less reverb for a more "studio" sound. But that really depends on how YOU want it to sound.

Normalizing

I'm not sure if you normalized the track. I think you did, but the vocal track peaks too much.

Vocal Performance

Overall, you rarely sound pitchy and sung confidently. Great!

However, I also noticed that your phrases were behind the beat a lot of times. This could be the result of style. In that case, you can dismiss the following feedback.

If you intended to sing it with the same timing as the original artists, then I have to conclude that there may be something wrong with the recording setup that causes latency. It could also be a matter of timing. I doubt that it's a timing issue, because I didn't have that impression when I listened to your live recorded YouTube-video's.

All in all, keep up the good work! You're very skilled.