KillerKu

This is good. It's a true live performance. Aure it's not it's not spot on perfection. But you sound poised for more polish naturally at this point. You've had great instruction.
The only thing I'll say, and this isn't a negative, is you remind me a bit of Rob in some of your vocal mannerisms. Now, I've heard quite a few of his students and this is not a post implying you go to Rob and sound like Rob, as a lot of them sound extremely different, but some of the vowel choices (ee to eh, ihyeah) and inflections remind me of him a bit. Maybe some kinship there.
The few parts where pitch isn't dialed in spot on, this is is live and it's training. You aren't going to find many singers who have dialed in perfection every time and you're on more than enough of the time for me to be convinced you're in a position in your training to just keep going and improving at whatever it is you want to achieve. Keep going, good song, good job.

This is good. It's a true live performance. Aure it's not it's not spot on perfection. But you sound poised for more polish naturally at this point. You've had great instruction.
The only thing I'll say, and this isn't a negative, is you remind me a bit of Rob in some of your vocal mannerisms. Now, I've heard quite a few of his students and this is not a post implying you go to Rob and sound like Rob, as a lot of them sound extremely different, but some of the vowel choices (ee to eh, ihyeah) and inflections remind me of him a bit. Maybe some kinship there.
The few parts where pitch isn't dialed in spot on, this is is live and it's training. You aren't going to find many singers who have dialed in perfection every time and you're on more than enough of the time for me to be convinced you're in a position in your training to just keep going and improving at whatever it is you want to achieve. Keep going, good song, good job.

This is just well done. It's very expressive, even in a foreign language I can hear it sounds authentic and heart felt.
I don't really have any technical advice. There is a slight looseness in a few sections (not pitchiness, just a little free sliding) which I personally like as it gave more humanity to the performance. I think even if your goal was like robotic perfection, your voice sounds already placed well, you're expressive, and it's more what you want to do with your voice.
I think you should just keep doing what you're doing. It's working.

Thanks Killer.. yes, I hear nuances too. For example... (Tim) on your offsets, there is the little grunty "uh!"... which is something I hear myself do from time to time when i sing. It is just a hold over from something that Maestro David Kyle used to remind his students to do. From time to time, he would make the point to end your phrases with confidence and "punctuation"... I am quite sure that is the legacy of where that habit came from. I don't mind it, I think it is kind of cool and has become something that might be considered to be a signature "ism" when I sing... HOWEVER, Killer is right, you want to be careful not to copy all my inflections, or better yet, just be aware of it.
The "offsets" on this performance are to heavy Tim. If you wanted to do a little grunty offset like that, I think it is cool... but soften a bit.
Having said all that... (Killer), I think it is a good indication that Tim is listening and trying different things that he has not only learned and trained, but what he has heard. There is not a damn thing wrong with picking up a few licks and riffs from your mentor, just means your an attentive and smart student. But as my story shows above, just be aware of where certain inflections come from. Sometimes they are all yours, but from time to time, it may be something you pick up subliminally. 
Killer, in regards to the vowel mods., I think we would be hard pressed to suggest that such a standard and common vowel modification is all my influence. Maybe its just a smart place to put a modification? 
Anyways, good ears Killer, thanks for chiming in!
 

This is good. It's a true live performance. Aure it's not it's not spot on perfection. But you sound poised for more polish naturally at this point. You've had great instruction.
The only thing I'll say, and this isn't a negative, is you remind me a bit of Rob in some of your vocal mannerisms. Now, I've heard quite a few of his students and this is not a post implying you go to Rob and sound like Rob, as a lot of them sound extremely different, but some of the vowel choices (ee to eh, ihyeah) and inflections remind me of him a bit. Maybe some kinship there.
The few parts where pitch isn't dialed in spot on, this is is live and it's training. You aren't going to find many singers who have dialed in perfection every time and you're on more than enough of the time for me to be convinced you're in a position in your training to just keep going and improving at whatever it is you want to achieve. Keep going, good song, good job.

Ah, I forgot to mention... keep in mind that those excercises where the ones that helped me find the feelings I needed to mix and match muscles inside my throat.  Those helped me discover my "mixed" voice.  I don't train that way now, I train chest and head voice isolated, and then do sirens up and down full out throughout my range.  I just found that doing those for training don't work so well on me, progress was too slow compared to other stuff.

I was groovin. Love this song. Love your timbre on this song. Lots of good moments.
Technique wise, there are a few places where it sounds a bit stuffy to me and the 'Bono' timbre I'm familiar with either scrunches or goes a bit slack. It's like a hypo nasal plugged nose kind of sound.
If you raised your soft palate just a bit more and got a bit more 'height' in the back of your throat. Talller vowels like ahh (operation), or a in apple it might help project the falsetto bits, and ease a little bit of strain around the very top of the bridge. At least this is something I've found with my voice. If you do this gradually as you ascend it doesn't have to be a super noticeable transition.
Overall, I think this is a great song for you to sing. working in and out of the falsetto right in the bridge and your vocal characteristics and the song fit well. I'm gonna take a swing at it with a backing of some kind, next chance I get. I've only ever sung it acapella and would like to throw something better together.

This is my first attempt to this song!
https://app.box.com/s/uypc4p70g6la5gxab0pnh5eok2def69c
 

I think it might be because there's already a Silent Lucidity thread from yesteryear a few entries below.  The more variety in song selection, the more choices we'll have. Probably a similar but more extreme situation with All of Me being re-suggested in the RnB section.
I voted for Purple Rain as stylistically I suspect it would be the most challenging for me as I've never really sung a Prince style song which is almost a genre in itself. As for My Hero, I used to listen to the Color and the Shape as a young teen, but I can still remember the melodies and some of the guitar hooks in my head so that's a catchy song. Should be something people can latch onto. A custom guitar lead bed track might be easier to create than something with orchestral elements as well for a simpler song.

This was great. You managed to keep your smooth crying timbre, without squishing it on the high notes, which I believe is good progress. I wouldn't be able to sing this song as smoothly, imo and would need more twang, brightness, and harshness in some of the upper regions. You've really expanded your core timbre since coming here.
Overall, it's just a great performance. I kind of like the occasionally odd vowel due to your native language. I'd personally get frustrated if everyone sounded the same on every vowel. I hope you keep a bit of it, for flavor as a singer. Maybe split the difference. It's part of what makes you refreshing to hear. You sound great, but not like a nameless, faceless American Idol contestant and little quirks are part of it.

This was great. You managed to keep your smooth crying timbre, without squishing it on the high notes, which I believe is good progress. I wouldn't be able to sing this song as smoothly, imo and would need more twang, brightness, and harshness in some of the upper regions. You've really expanded your core timbre since coming here.
Overall, it's just a great performance. I kind of like the occasionally odd vowel due to your native language. I'd personally get frustrated if everyone sounded the same on every vowel. I hope you keep a bit of it, for flavor as a singer. Maybe split the difference. It's part of what makes you refreshing to hear. You sound great, but not like a nameless, faceless American Idol contestant and little quirks are part of it.

Thanks Killer... ya I think its pretty good. 
All my life I never cared what other people thought of me. It is a character trait I have never had to be burdened with. Thank God for that... I am aware that there will be some people that may feel out of their comfort zones hearing me sing a love song,... Sorry, thats your issue, not mine... 
Precisely... I am proud to sing a sensitive, love song... and a country song and this and that... I am a professional, this is what I should do... and I have clients from all styles that want to hear more then just metal. Hats off to anyone that steps out of their comfort zones and spits in the face of what the limited expectations the world sets for them. 

Hey guys, this is my first try:
https://app.box.com/s/3oxb0pxnirh2fvl65utmi9je2e4exq60
Let me know what do you think!
Thanks

​OMG! What a coincidence! I just learned that song in my singing class, and I have an upload on youtube of me doing it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROv9w6K8JIk

I thought I would give Autumn Leaves a shot. I tried Jazz for a while and that was just not happening. My internal rhythm is out of phase with Jazz.
 So here it is If Bob Dylan or maybe Arlo Guthrie had written it.........
     Just call me Nat King Coalminer.
     https://soundcloud.com/mdew-4/autumn-leaves-practice
   

Ok I guess I found the right spot for the jazz challenge....finally! Well here's my version of the challenge song..hope you will like it!
https://soundcloud.com/magika-classics/les-feuilles-mortes-autumn

Here's my attempt, hope you like it! It was a lot of fun to record!
 
 

I haven't been singing much the past few weeks, but this is a great song I and definitely love the genre so I started working on it figured it would at least get the ball rolling:
 
https://app.box.com/s/ss28tjygcma0ivrtx096ygcdzbafykmg
 
Never sung this one before. I kind of like the idea of randomly picking the songs, that way we have to learn new songs rather than going back to old favorites. It's better for me to to learn something new. I know it took me a few listens to absorb the song into my head, and  more time to figure out how I might sing it. It helped me also to Listen to Miles Davis doing one.  Even though it's a semi famous song I wasn't particularly familiar with it.
 
The problem with that, of course, is participation will likely be lower the more people have to learn, where as if you pick All of Me, or Don't Stop Believing, something recent or everyone already knows, it lowers the bar of entry.

I've had a pretty rough day so I wasn't sure if I'd be able to review today, but I really enjoyed that and it actually improved my day.
 
It starts off fairly controlled and polished, you've got a refined timbre/pitch and are expressing a bit more sullenly, and the last little section just lets loose. Technically it may be less polished, but sounds emotionally released, raw, vulnerable, and just awesome. It gave me chills when you cut into that belting section and this is the best I've heard your belting.
 
I think you're achieving a timbre that will appeal to more western audiences, the nasality has been reduced, but it's still you. You still have that voice print that sounds like you and no one else on the forum. I give this Queen cover the thumbs up. You've made huge progress. Keep going man.

​cuz we did highway star as a rock piece so it would be bland to repeat rock rock rock

Readers of my posts know that Freddie Mercury is my favorite singer.  I have always wanted to sing Queen songs(even if I don't do a great job of them :))  
I have done a couple of takes of this very song with mixed, mostly average results.  I am confident enough in my singing and my technique to post an update.  Please comment specifically if possible on the belting/aggressive portions of the song.  Also to me the chorus sounds a bit too sharp(piercing to listen to and not in a good way).  Not sure if this is a singing technique issue or an error in mixing(or both).  
https://app.box.com/s/59r4g7q8tptndur6odplhf4layn69exc

There is some neat push/pull in some of the slower verses. In the faster sections you're falling behind the beat. I feel like it would have more energy if you pushed the beat.
 
My biggest suggest is that you are mono - volume. In order to get a stronger rhythmic flow you should emphasis various syllables with more or less volume. Part of it is, Fergie isn't really a reknowned rapper, she's known more a singer. You might want to listen to more advanced rappers. 
 
With rhythm in general, I like to think of it as a way of creating motion and providing tension and relief. If you're late on a beat it can drag, if you're early it can rush. If you delay someone's expectations and resolve it, it can be satisfying. If you emphasize a louder note it can surprise, playing something softer it can lull or add texture to a stronger rhythmic structure. Think of syllables as percussive elements that can be at various volumes to create motions and moods.
 
Obviously rap still has pitch variation as well. You're already speaking somewhat melodically, without sustaining enough pitch to be seen as singing, so that is good. But think of your movement up and down on each word, conversationally how it expresses the subject matter.
 
Overall, you're on your way, just keep training and working on the skills.

I did like the groove there, GSoul, and dig your falsetto, but watch when you transition to chest voice. It sounded a bit squeezed or pinched on the "I love it. I need it." . Even if you're going to go for like a  DeAngelo interpretation or whatnot you should work on that bridging area to keep it smooth.
 
For a quick fix you could give a slight yawn and let that note relax. But Rob is right, if you want to sing more in the original style you're gonna need to start with chest and keep some of the closure. I also think your rasp might be vocal fry in falsetto. I'm not sure about that. I'd work on the chest and try to keep strength in head voice if you want to go this route. I am an Eddie Kendricks fan, and I feel like your current path if refined could go down that route:
 
 
 
 

Dude you're blasting at this in chest. My honest advice, if you want to sing this style, I'd do some extensive pitching exercises. Forget about high notes, forget about a lot of stuff. Just super hard work on intervals, drone notes, ear training, scales, and singing really slow, every note on the piano or whatever instrument you have access to, on all vowels (including things that use R like world, her, mars, etc).
 
You see I like a lot of singers whose aren't pitch aren't perfect, I'm biggest Lou Reed fan of the forum, and if you do a more talk singing style then some of the pitching issues are more forgivable. But Dickenson/Tate these guys with their operatic metal kind of thing, it's very sustained notes, and it doesn't just glance or bend around them, it hovers and it stays. 
 
Maybe rehearse the song with the piano or something. If you don't have a real instrument you can use something this:
 
http://virtualpiano.net/
 
As slow as it possibly needs to be. Pick out the entire melody of the song and match it one by one.  I think you can get it, but to my ears, the notes are just too sustained for it to hold together for me. If you glance on a flat note, and pull up or glance on a sharp note and pull down. It's different than if you hover on one and just hold it. That's my 2 cents. I saw you've been working your sirens. And that's good, it will train a lot of things. But I think you'll get better progress on the other direction. The slower the better if you want to sing in this style. The bar has been placed high on this style. I'm not an expert, but it's tough. You're gonna have to keep training hard. It's one thing to be able to make a high pitch sounded physiologically. It's another to sing a whole song with the control that might be expected in this genre.
 
One things for sure, you put a lot into. Sounds like you're blasting and really in the moment and passionately performing and I don't want t be harsh, but these are your heroes, so put all you got into it. I think for most people, it will have to be closer, unless you're working on a different style.

I'm really digging this. Your voice sounds great. Retains your personality but has a warmth. It has strength and affection. You made it your own and I honestly don't have critique. I could point out things that are different from the original, but to me that's good.
 
I will say if you lean from this position into a belt on your heavier songs, I think that might help you retain some warmth in the timbre and prevent some of the nasality from overwhelming the tone the next time you try one of the beltier songs.
 
This is just good progress and a great song to choose at this point.