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That is cool! One thing I have a hard time grasping is what kind of energy/volume you are doing this at. This is a problem I have with many youtube-singing-videos, especially when amplification is used. Hard to relate to, especially in headvoice. I'm sure you discuss this in the pillars material, just wanted to give the feedback!

More like too much happens so hard to choose! My wife leaves on friday so though someone had a tip! Seems like I'm going to hip delaware!

I will! Currently I'm in new york, but once I'm back! Anything fun happens on saturday in new york?!

jonpall: Thanks for the compliments on musicality! Felipe did have some very good points, I'm trying to start working on that. I actually already do have a proper chest voice. At least I think I do! I sang for many years below my passagio. Not until some year ago I breached it at all (except for falsetto). So it is just know I'm starting with that, and I'm a bit confused For this recording I tried to sing with a high placement all the time which, I now realize, came out wrong I do think I'm ready to start the work on blending chest/head Possibly I need to develop head voice first. Changing between high/low placement is also something I can't do very well or at all. A2-D4 I can sing with one voice sortof, then I have to change placement and I have a hard time doing it gradually. Typical low-tenor stuff, I'm not at all unique at all in this department. I'm not defensive - I need to improve - but I've sung in chest voice actually. I promise! I'll try to do a recording of that the next time as a contrast! Thanks for commenting! Always nice to read what you write as I have the CVT-book and you usually talks about CVT!

Thanks! You seems to be in the minority, but I guess that if I sorted out all the technical issues that kind of tone could be cool!

Hadn't heard hot chip before but I kinda like it. Not what I was going after right here but still! I've analyzed the comments and myself I think the reasons why it came out as it did was: * I used high placement on too low notes (inner smile, singing in the mask) * I have a high larynx tendency which was exxagerated as I went up without raising the soft palate * I did make multiple takes. After a while I knew that the high parts were hard so perhaps I was anxious of them. I also have a condenser microphone and I didn't add any base in mix (which most of the dynamic microphones do in the microphone) so that made it even brighter in sound I guess. I got some compliments of lower passagio behaviour. I think I use some twang and actually hold it together somewhat. There were some notes where my placement was correct and my larynx not too high. I'm gonna keep praciticing, hopefully that will make perfect someday ;)

Jawning actually seem to help a bit. Could going above E4 with a high larynx give birth to the voice of Mickey? :)

Right. I actually have a vocal coach and I will work on this song with her. Hopefully I can nail down a better recording soon. I notice that when I try the first part of: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8zroG9QWNc I naturally end up in headvoice at G#4 rather than E4. Perhaps that is my problem; late bridging. I've also been belting around A4/Bb4 before so I have that in my baggage, being used to that. Thanks for all the pointers!

Hm okey that sounds like a good tip. Slowly going in and out of the area. Somehow I feel that my sound becomes to shrill/tight before I break though, like I loose resonance and then I fail like you say. Not having enough energy. Should I do this on the very tone where I break, or where I think I loose the good sound? About the forward placement. It almost feels like I'm having a cold with a heavy presence above my nose. When I pinch it no sound is in the nose. But when I go higher I kindof loose that feeling. Should I hold on to that feeling or has the resonance moved away? Thanks so much for the help! I agree I'm not "there" yet!

Thanks for taking the time to commenting, and for being honest. As I wrote this is work in progress so I'm more asking for critique than anything else! I try this singing in the mask thing so I tried to stay there most of the time, mostly to be ready for whenever high notes arise. It is quite new to me. I've done my fair share of belting so I'm trying to adapt new passagio behaviour. Listening back I can agree that I shouldn't use that for the lower tones. I'm asking myself the same thing. I think I'm tensing somewhere, possibly releated to breathing. Sometimes I manage to postpone the mickey-thing for a later note, but it's like I don't have a non-mickey-headvoice from B4 and upwards. I just can't get it to work. When I sing it feels like the sound becomes more and more shrill until it is at a singular point above my nose. At that the sound is very pinched I guess, and shrill. I talked a bit about in this thread http://themodernvocalist.punbb-hosting.com/viewtopic.php?id=5038. Feel free to share any insights. As I'm said I'm working on this song. Hopefully I can make a better version some time! Cheers!

Thanks! I will keep working on this song, it is good because it is quite high but not impossible (down the road that is!). I think I managed to sing some quite high notes without falsetto, but in some verses almost all of them sound very falsettoish. Funny the last verse didn't feel like that singing it but it came out that way. Never could get it right! Thanks for the comments!

Hi everyone! This is a song that I've just started working on. Hopefully I can do it more justice shortly. If so I upload a new recording so you can follow my progress (should anyone be interested). I'm mostly interested if there are some trained ears that can give me any pointers. Am I on the right way, or should I do something drastically different? I try to do inner smile and sing in the mask, above the nose. Pinching nose doesn't change anything. I don't think I've properly managed to incorporate the crying sensation, at least not consicously. The last verse was done in a separate recording (I never could get that one good ever). Some things I've noted myself: * Perhaps my onsets are too hard? * I'm off with the timing at some points. I also miss some words because I don't know the lyrics well enough. * I slide into micke-mouse-falsetto/headvoice at two points. Is this totally wrong or should I just mask it better? * When I go into mickey-mode there is a sound like the "flanger" effect in a sound program. I've not added any effects however. Why is this? Here is the link: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/19750082/recordings/steviewonder-foronceinmylife-oops.mp3 I can take some heavey critique on this one, I'm not 100% happy with it but I did several takes. I'm aware of timing problems and missing a word here and there, let's not focus on that for now! NOTE: If I stop singing and you wait for me to start again, welll.... waiting won't help. I didn't record anything at the end!

I found it very hard to hear the actual singing over the guitar. Don't be shy! No need for acapella but make the song hearable! Thiis is a safe place so unless you ask for harsh critique, people are very nice!