Felipe Carvalho

Its kinda the same that I say on the blabbering on the technique section... I could say, keep it bright, find more space and go stronger as soon as you get to the higher sections (for example, on "believe" it changes already). The reason is that you are getting too narrow and a bit airy/almost breaking already.

Perhaps, you could use that video I did for middle voice to map down every single vowel that goes above F4 and make sure you are articulating it with a more or less appropriate position (and that will help with the "bright/space" part), but then again, its no magic recipe.

I also had an idea for some other weird stuff that may be helpful to "go strong" and I will throw on the technique section as soon as I find a way to explain it well.

But then again, these are band aids that might help a bit and give a idea of how it goes like but won't be really solving the problem at its core. To solve it with technique you would need to... train technique... train support slowly and piece by piece, adjust emission based on it, adjust the EE vowel, adjust all the other vowels using it, start working on the positions for passagio, adjust one vowel using the position, train going in and out of the covered position, train the EE vowel on the covered position, train passaggio on EE, adjust all other vowels for head voice using EE, train the passagio on them all, and so forth.

Usually, alone, this fails big time on the "support" part, and many of these aspects are done on parallel constantly refining everything.

How did you train support and attack of sounds so far? How did you assert the exercises and which songs did you use to apply it?

Redid this one with video, cool song, always fun to sing it!  

Folks I could a little help here if possible

It was called to my attention some pronounciation issues in this song,I could really use some help and well, it's about time I took a closer look to it, what do you think I could do to improve?

@Mivke lame!  Hahaha not! Very nice man. It was a impressive progress you did since last time, not in Technique, but in musicianship and expressiveness.  This is the kind of quality you should always strive for! Good work man.

Thank you guys!

@aaravin its possible I believe, althought I try to base my studies on his live delivery (its one of the songs on the rep).

Also at the time of this recording he was probably at his best condition on his whole carreer, he was simply much better than I am

The Shadow of the Wicker Man is rising up again!!

Very fun indeed thank you guys  

Thank you gsoul and ellise, really appreciate it

My favorite song from this great band, has a certain "epic" feel to it, some nice technical details with dynamics on head voice and some more aggressive content on the high range.

Everyone that can listen and/or drop me a line about it, thank you!

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Took a listen to the last sample (mix) and in my opinion you sound really good... The only part you were a bit more nasal to me sounded more like an intentional part of your interpretation, am I wrong in that regard?

Anyways, lets be rational, you sing well, maybe someone can say that its not their cup of tea because of their personal taste, but you sing well and this is undeniable. If someone within a group of singers, someone  that is supposed to be an expert, went out of his/her way to say this rather useless piece of information to you while the other folks can't sing in key (and therefore for all practical purposes don't yet know how to sing), I would say its most likely that the problem is really not you.

Keep working with your current teacher, and congrats for the work done so far btw. Send more songs when you can

@aaravin this is what I mean:

https://app.box.com/s/8k1pvrn1h544eggheypvlzi8orxc09n3

First more on the direction of what you did on the song, then how I would try to go if I was trying to emulate Bruce and how I believe will help you (get the quality of the low range on All the Young dudes and dont hold back the energy), and then how I normally sing it which sounds best in my voice in my opinion.

The higher area of the chorus you have to round, but, it sounds really cool if you open on "run" and it will make the phrasing easier too. First sample of the chorus is all rounded, second sample opens on run and rounds on the rest. To get that narrow sound Bruce does I would aim the sound directly up (its what I do normally), to go for a more centered approach just lift the placement a little bit but keep it forward, will sound different but more natural.

Hope it helps!

This needs a strong support to work well though, or else you will end up flipping when you enter head voice which does not sound so nice on these songs.

Lovely voice and very pleasant on most of it Ellise, the only moment I found you kinda broke the mood was on "somethings arent meant to be", a little care with the phrasing there and it will be very solid.

Congrats!

Really, really nice Javastorm.

I did not like Jon. There is potential but its very raw for now. Main thing to work would be finding more relaxation, and explore more the vowels. More attention to the rhythm would also be important.

The chorus sounds as if you were singing another music on top of the harmony, I could not understand what you tried to do there exactly

Great song by Paul Rodgers and CIA (like everything the guy did )

Enjoy!

NP. The sensation will be of lifting the placement, the sound is a vowel a bit modified towards Ih.

That's also possible to identify on All The Young Dudes chorus.

Hi man. I think this needs some work.

In order of importance, these are the main aspects that I believe you would need to change for this particular song, and other songs that Bruce did with similar interpretation:

1 - On the lows, more energy and more open. Take a listen to the song "All the Young Dudes" from his solo work, and notice how he phrases the verses. In my opinion he overdone it there but that's helpful to wrap your mind around what you would have to do. "Well Billy rapped all night 'bout his, suicide..." etc. If you have trouble to identify that on your voice, think of loud italian guy speaking, exagerate the accent, its fun and it really helps. And relax, perhaps you tried a bit too hard, but you were really squeezing on a lot of places and your tone was compromised.

2 - Rhythm. On this song, specially on the verses, you need to be on the beat, or else no matter how much power you try to apply it will be wasted. The verses in particular do not require an absurd ammount of energy to work like the chorus of "fear of the dark" does, but it must be tight. Listen to it as much as you need to get the accents and timings right.

3 - Through the whole song and into the chorus, go for the more open quality, and ONLY when pitch rises, let the placement lift and the vowel round more, the position is similar to what you are doing on the chorus now but you can't back off the energy, if you change the vowel and place it higher like you are used to, the quality will adjust, don't do anything else. I would practice this on All the Young Dudes too, he does it on the chorus, going from open to narrow back to open.

@ellise thank you!

@jon haha should be flood, I will check it! Indeed he says something in the lines of ehnto.Thanks for the words!!

Hi folks, this is a song that the last time I was not quite happy on how it was sounding, new version with some differences on the approach:

Thanks everyone that can take a listen

Thank you guys

@Jon I call it "shouting"  

RIP Lemmy...

https://app.box.com/s/zalbo07na1x54fkwlyr0s9pfdufdzdy1

Thank you Joe!

The words are so familiar, all the same greats... the same mistakes, it doesnt have to be like this hehehhe

Thank you guys

Thank you so much folks, much appreciated

I took a listen and honestly I did not like it.

In my opinion, you did not just change the song, it seems more you had a vague notion of how it went and then just did whatever in top of it. The two major problems are in regards to rhythm and the mix itself, vocals are dry on top of the track.

I don't know if you are not used to the style, but my suggestion would be, before changing the song, learning it. And if you want to make big changes, you have to make it your own (as in, you will learn the whole thing, drums, bass, guitars, keys, backing vocals, everything that is in there, you should be able to recall and know how it goes). Its a hell of a lot of work, in my opinion too much just to cover a song.

Now, in regards to comments made, in special by user KevinRichards, don't take it so seriously, the guy had a video a few years ago which I don't know if he took down from his acc (and should) where he was doing something like 90+ takes on his own song and it still sounded awful.

Even the demonstrations that you can find from him on youtube are full of tensions that totally messes up tonal quality, problems with melody and intonation, confusion in regards to falsetto and head voice, etc.

But do aim to set the bar higher, and be honest about what you can teach, if you don't control the quality you deliver, who will? Its way easier than having to defend yourself. If you need help with this style add me on skype, lets chat sometime.