Felipe Carvalho

Hey Rob!! Thank you. Hahaha that is a great song indeed, I have the impression that on his solo material Bruce used to sink the feet down on the gas much more than with Iron. Wanna hear that one!

I think its sounding very good on most of it gnee. Really tight on the phrasing this one, the verses are sounding really good and natural. The only thing you need to pay some attention here are those higher notes on the chorus... I would find a different voice to do that you know, don´t try to really sing it so much... How much attention have you given to your breathing so far man?

Wonderful song and another killer interpretation line from Bruce Dickinson. A real lot of power and details on the phrasing, in special his use of registration on the chorus and verses. Thanks everyone that listens and drops a few words Update: Fixed version with a little more punch to it, thanks @aravindmadis for the help!

Great song that has been on my to-do list for a while, hope you like it, let me know how it sounds if you can. https://app.box.com/s/63y1ea0bnv3gtxrlicvdbyitu2u56pua Thanks in advance!! Felipe

No problems bro, do listen to what I've mentioned on the snare, his phrasing is really, really tied to that. (clap your hands in 4ths to it and you will understand what I meant right away). I will surely check the Def Lepard song this weekend!

Oh I meant I can't play it properly, as in if you gave me a guitar today, and asked me to play a few songs with your band, I can't even wrap my mind around what I would need to do to prepare for it. I would not even say its being humble, I can see how I am just terribly naive on it. I've mentioned that because if you use this technique with someone that is more experienced on the instrument and can play with a good sense of flow, rhythm, etc, it really sounds great ( I will record something in this setup soon with the help of the guitarrist that works with me). But you know what, mdew said something in the lines of begin from the basics, and I've been doing that , its part of my daily routine now to pick the guitar and study something on it for at least 30 minutes. Let's see what happens a few months from now!

Hi gnee! I think there are many things working well, and some very simple mistakes that are taking away quality. - You are oversinging it. Listen to the original and you will notice there are a lot more pauses, right on the begining, "Here"... "I AM"... , specially on I Am, don't sustain so much. This breakes the rhythm flow of the song. - Your phrasing is in odds with the beat. Listen to the pattern of the snare on the song, right from the start. You will notice there is an accent first on the downbeat, and then the snare accents on the upbeat. Pretty much the whole song goes by this idea. On "I AM" you are close to it, but the accent didnt work so well, when you are on "SHE is sound". You are already drifting. Its a 4/4 but its irregular, common kind of irregular, but still irregular. These two little things make a huge difference, really! Then the points of the higher areas. When you do "high" the Ah is sounding good, perhaps relax more if you can. The higher phrases are on the midway between going into head voice, and belting, and that's the problem. Either you open it and blast it out, or, round more the vowels into UH and use a half volume. You went open with a half volume, that's just too hard and really unnecessary. Open as you did and shout it, and you will go on the same direction of what he did. Or round more and still go strong. Whatever you do don't let the energy fall back from what you are doing on the lower area, go stronger. Not oversinging the lows will also help on giving you more headroom for these notes.

Here is an attempt to bring what you were doing forward so we could actually hear it, compressed the living hell out of it, multiband included to equalize the voice timbre. https://app.box.com/files/0/f/0/1/f_70162063853 Its all squeezed budy, naive copy of a few maneirisms both from Bruce and Phil, you will end up hurting yourself if you continue this way. But it's the last reply, if you don't care, I am not worried either, its not my voice after all. Good luck.

To "not sound good" it would need to improve quite a bit.

I took a listen. Again volume problems. Again basic issues with melody/timing. Again I ask: did you get the program? Are you following it and studying daily?

Another trick that is useful. Shine (Kotzen/Mr Big) is a song that has a VERY powerful chorus on the Mr Big version, it calls out for belting the notes, but you absolutely can´t allow it to become plain shouting out. Besides learning to control the quality so that it still assumes a "heady" quality so to say (covering simply does not work well), you can use doubling and when the sustained notes come together they create an effect that makes the end result a little bit softer on the listener (due to phase cancelation for sure). Its similar to the technique on the guitars: https://app.box.com/s/zkjvizrrgb8xdq96ag4hud9yq7l54h9g Unfortunately, I do not have a instrumental version of this song to do the mix, and these guitars I honestly can´t even understand, let alone play . It works well for bridge/chorus, you must be really tight on the phrasing.

A sample of the idea I said: Dry guitar + dry vocals: https://app.box.com/s/gnkla8qx0blwxbc42y5rvfdjvrwdo3er Mid-side processing on the guitar (same track from before was used for center), same vocals: https://app.box.com/s/evu7b83rs41mi8hvtoatmb5sxtdzpx93 Of course if you do multiple layers of guitars it can sound better, but, this is way faster. There is no reverb here, and was just thrown together. If you do it more carefully, play it better, use reverb to glue it up, etc, it can give a rather nice result.

Simon, about why it does not sound good, besides the two aspects I told you before, which you could correct working on the verses as I also told you, you just don't have the technique to handle the higher sections. It ends up sounding like a very naive attempt, plain lack of experience. Now, you say you trained for a year, how did you do that? With a year of training rhythm articulation should be working fine, no matter if you have affinity with singing or not. Did you get the program like I told you on the Kiske thread? Or are you just trying to use ideas you pick on the internet on your own? The later won't lead you nowhere... The way I see it is simple, if you like singing, you have two choices, you can train it, and as time goes by you will improve. Or not, and as time goes by you will NOT improve. But time won't stop either way.

Oh yes, this technique is good but works best with guitar+vocals content, perhaps a soft percursion setting at most. It really will fill up the mix. Delay could be used too but it would not be so organized, some plugins automate this process and offer a mid+side processing, but its so straightforward this way that I don't see why bothering. If you play around with the attack and release of the compressors on the "side" channels, it can give great results too.

Reaper here. I noticed some folks record acoustic guitars to sing along. I have a tip that works wonderfully with any 2 channels interface. - Record the guitar using two channels, one with a mic in level with your ears, and close to you, pointing to the fretboard, another with the line out (if the guitar has some sort of pickup, if not, another mic pointing to the bridge). - On the first mic (fretboard), apply some compression, not more than 3:1, with a very short attack, perhaps even 0 attack. This will be the "center" channel, and will carry body and warmth. - On the line out/bridge mic, apply a high pass filter, cutting everything bellow 100Hz, or even higher if you can get away with it, experiment. Also apply compression, but now, leave a decent attack time, something between 5 and 15ms should work nicely. This will be your "side" channel. Now for the trick, duplicate the second channel (line out/bridge), pan the original hard left, and the copy hard right. Then on either of them, this is up to you, unlock the "snap to grid" feature of your DAW and DRAG manually the whole track so that it gets out of sync by a few miliseconds. The offset should be visible with a good amount of zoom but it should be quite gentle, don't overdo. And that's it, a simple technique that can be done with almost any DAW default tools. It will sound rather good, provided that you play it properly (something I can't do )

Hello there. I am a big fan of Rainbow on the Dio era, in special Rising... Been studying this song for... who knows how long now haha... Great choice Now, its not sounding good bro, overall I believe its not the wisest choice for you right now. But, I also believe if you focus on the verses you could improve it quite a bit. Listen to your recording and notice two things: 1 - You are pressing your voice/squeezing it to sing, try to relax more/open the sound more; 2 - Pay attention to the rhythm, notice how you rush and fall behind the band on a number of points. Stay tight with the drums and the bass line. The higher sections, for now, I believe you should not worry about. If you manage to get this going, pick something else from Rising, for example, Catch the Rainbow, and do the same. Its not the easiest song out there to start with but its way simpler than Stargazer

Thank you so much for the words guys, Bruce is one major influence for me, and singing this stuff is pretty much why I began studying technique to begin with .

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RIP David Bowie: Great idea gsoul, keep em comming folks!

Tasty man. This is a great song and the interpretation the old man does here... Its just awesome! I really liked it all, sounds solid and some of his details you captured on the phrasing like on "all its said and done" sounded really nice. The distortions, specially on the ending "Sailing ships will pass you!", sound nice too (and powerful!). Great work and keep it up

@aravindmadis The old man is insane! Thanks again man

@mdew thank you for the help! hehe yes, THAT mistake I actually noticed as soon as I sang it, but so far only you mentioned it. Perhaps its that, or perhaps the name itself "Felipe" can lead to people hearing more than they actually do, got some good pointers on some aspects of pronounciation that I may work but are not soooo off as far as I understood. @Collin thank you for the words and for listening!!

Thank you Jeremy, sorry for that haha.