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Quote Nicogratouille: The jazz guitarist ruins the song in my opinion! Next time tell him to go and practice somewhere else Nick is correct, this is not a jazz song it’s contemporary. Though the guitar playing is good it is in conflict with the lead voice. For example: This is what happens when the listeners hears a song in this fashion. One second they’re listening to the VOX, (lead voice), and the next second they’re listening to the guitar and can’t focus on the very main part of the song which is the melody and lyrics. Never should there be a conflict. If you are a duo and you want guitar interludes within songs they should be within their own sections and in a contemporary song like this I would not put any. I am speaking from a guitar player’s point of view. I’ve played guitar since I was eight years old and started my professional career when I was fifteen. I am now sixty and I never did a guitar solo over the lead voice. All background instruments should complement whatever is taking place in the foreground. For example: If your guitar player was playing in a band, how would he like it if the drummer decided to do a drum solo while he was doing a guitar solo. Jeff

Hello Elizax, It is difficult for me to analyze your voice because I am not hearing it up front enough. In other words, in the first song "Stay" the music is louder than your voice. Could you re-record “Stay” with the music being lower in volume? Also could you write down the lyrics because there is a note in there where I think could already be in your head-voice but just don’t know it. I don’t know the song so this makes it difficult to explain and to point out to you where that note is. Also, when you record the song could you do it without the guitar and just the piano. I know the words to “She will be loved” so you don’t have to write them down. However, could you sing the song the whole way through and take out the male voice throughout the whole song so I can just hear you. By the way, you have a beautiful texture to you voice and I definitely think that you should pursue a singing career. Jeff