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aarondale

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  1. Michael Bolton? I don't know how I would live without him...
  2. When they had that CAMO event, of course. I stay in Dallas, you know, model city of America and whatever else. Featured in RoboCop. The place with an entire tv series based on it. Yeah, THAT Dallas. What ego?
  3. Wanna talk about raw?! How is having Amy Grant, Vince Gil, and his daughter doing mic check just 30 feet away from you? I took a gig for the Cowboys stadium, not realizing that it wasn't a football game, and there they are setting up and rehearsing. Before the music...meh. But once the band came together it was a show. I don't like the music at all, but I got to hear a big recording artist making all the mistakes I make, warming up the same way, and producing the same results... Mission accomplished... sorta. I was really banking on getting a response from David Coverdale =\
  4. I could sit here and say two or ten, what difference would it make? I couldn't prove I have a few or even zero and it has nothing to do with my personal singing ability nor any aspect of singing.
  5. Gimme a break, it's not THAT kind of pop music. Again I learned by listening to Blue October, which I consider to be a more pop sound. It's easy to teach that particular form of resonance because it's the easiest to describe. I just say, "try to talk through your mouth and nose at the same time". Besides pitch, it yields a good sound very quickly.
  6. As much as I dislike Mraz, I like his technique. The sort of trumpet-like resonance (overblown nasality) is how I focus my pop voice. Can really fill a room without being overpowering. Also, it's extremely easy to teach, even to my ditzy girlfriends. If anybody wants to begin singing seriously, singers like this are a great start just to understand the concepts.
  7. Woops! Take that back. I figured it out and am on the road to developing this female voice. I watched his appearance on the Ellen Degenerous show. For a moment he loses structure and sort of reveals the architecture behind it. With this I put it all together and I'm somewhat in a neighborhood of achieving something similar. I can't wait to freak people out with a voice that can be classical, heavy metal, poppy, has strength in all ranges, can deathcore shriek, change on a snap, sound like a woman and do anything except country. So, who has some completely raw Dwight Yoakam? Muahaha!
  8. I don't care how well I sing, my soul will never feel at rest until I can achieve this. Any idea how it's done? Normally I'd just do it but this...this does not compute... I can sing a woman-like pure headvoice, but it can only stay in pure head voice, which means stuck in mock-opera city.
  9. Like David Bowie, who quite sounds like DYLAAAAN...IN...SPAAAAAAACE!
  10. Sadly, I'm relegated to a 2nd Gen iPod Touch with cracked screen and broken audio jack. Yeah, a new low. The point of this whole thread was just an interesting new look at some well known artists. Personally, however, it's a way for me to absorb more sounds and techniques. I do impressions. Anything from sound effects to celebrities, I hear a sound and reproduce it. When it comes to singing, it's extremely easy to match somebody's technique IF I can hear them without all of the noise (instruments and effects) in the way. To me, matching a technique is like matching a foreign accent. I don't SOUND LIKE the person I'm imitating, but the pronunciation is the same. That's why it's hard for me to say I sound like Halford but I don't actually sound LIKE Halford. The way I learned to sing was that I heard a raw sample from a Blue October song. I thought, "I can do that" and so I did. It's really that easy. When I wanted to hit the high pitch shrieks that Halford often uses, I was thinking about it in a singing aspect. That mistake cost me several days of whoops and sirens, until I finally just said to myself "here's my Halford impression" and just did it. If anybody still doesn't get it, imagine doing impressions of cartoon characters, as I do. Anybody can do their own rendition of Mickey Mouse. They think "how does that mouse sound?" then just DO IT. The same is true for dramatic voices like Cookie Monster and Bugs Bunny, except that I've done it so long that I can match less exaggerated sounds. And I absolutely can't wait to share something with these forums.
  11. You still aren't getting it. The point of sharing these examples of singing is to understand what a person can achieve in the real world. People ask this a thousand times; "why don't I sound like people on the radio?" The fact is, nobody really does. So trying to sound like Motley Crüe is unachievable, even for Vince Niel.
  12. The part of the making of Hear n Aide that I was pointing out are the outtakes that have NO audible backing tracks. It's captured right inside the booth, so it is the artists voice with no noise such as echoes or studio effects. This gives us a more realistic goal, not like the "airbrushed" vocals of Taylor Swift or (I suspect) Maroon 5. Geoff Tate was my absolute favorite part of the track, though his takes are probably the worst, hahaha. It's too bad that some great singers often have awful writing. Then there's me. I don't mind people criticizing me, especially since it's normally constructive and can make me reconsider some aspects of my voice. However, I am absolutely a cocky a******. Any of my former band mates will gladly tell ya; my voice gets me hired and my mouth gets me fired XD
  13. My heart has been utterly fondled and crushed. You can tell that my band mates have all loved me. XD Well, thread-jacked. Anybody have more acapella or unprocessed samples? Celine Dion really shocked me. I expected that a classically trained singer would sound just a bit better =\
  14. It's not hard to sound better than people from non-English-speaking nations. Generally speaking, their standards are uh... remember "Turkish Star Wars?" What about Gangnam Style? Numa Numa? Hahahahahahahahaha, look who you're defending.
  15. I just can't differentiate Jack Black from that Norse metal guy. Dio made some music similar to black metal and his vocals sound like a natural unmatchable gift from god. The other guy...well if he was all that great I'm sure he'd be more popular here. The point of mentioning Falco is that he is NOT popular. So you not having any clue who he was before I mentioned him only proves my point. He's the greatest selling artist in Austria and the punch-line to an unfunny joke in America.
  16. I let my singing determine my cockiness Keeping on track though, I've NEVER heard Klaus Meine singing without any reverb and such. Anybody have an example?!
  17. I'm not completely new to this. I had a lot recorded and cut for no better purpose than my personal collection of covers, but my laptop AND phone have been stolen. I need a new device just to capture ANY audio at all. I didn't say I was better than any of the artists that collaborated for hear n aide, just that they're not pure gold that their finished work makes them out to be. People like Klaus Meine, Steve Perry and Michael Jackson are perhaps the best that any person could ever dream to sound like without Taylor Swift-magnitude magic switches. I am as good, though, as the artists that were featured in that 0101011001 making of video. If Jack Black can do it, it can't be hard for anyone, really. America has always been a difficult audience. You may be #1 in Norway with every album you've ever released, but in this country you will at most be remembered as a one-hit-wonder with a "trippy music video". Right, A-Ha? If Falco can be successful in ANY nation, well I'm confident with at least such an audience that I can do the same. You can hear the raw vocals for Money in a rare clip somewhere on YouTube. That is IN THE STUDIO. As good as a raw clip gets.
  18. Really? Wow, I am going to SMASH euro charts. I can't wait to get a new computer and start recording. Really.
  19. Oh no, I don't compare to R.J.D, but just about ALL of the other artists without processing are meh. Also, I take back what I said about my volume. Yeah I put as much breath into it as a good yawn, but I was just told that I could be heard outside, downstairs, in a car with the doors closed... Hahaha.
  20. I find that when I'm not practicing and just enjoying myself, I like to sustain some notes that sometimes absolutely shock me. Usually songs by Judas Priest. Genocide, Victim of Changes, and Bloodstone for instance.
  21. I've recorded myself singing with about as much effort as a yawn, and it sounds like an 80's power ballad. It's actually REALLY easy and doesn't require much breath at all. I find the most difficult part of my singing is technique. Rembering EXACTLY where to place it, where the tension should and shouldn't be, how much resistance or chord closure. To me, it's more a science than a talent.
  22. Wow, after seeing that, I know I could DEFINITELY impress somebody in the studio singing metal. But I'm a little more intrigued by space rock and post-grunge (like Blue October) right now. My songs have a sort of space rock foundation (Muse, Roger Waters) but I then embellish with a VERY CONSERVATIVE helping of deathcore screaches and dark heavy metal themes of despair, violence, death and in fact the death of the entire universe. In the style of Rob Halford (who I very much sound alike) I focus on classical methods and use more guttural and harsh techniques in balance and only when appropriate. Like Halford and Matt Bellamy, I also tend to perhaps over-use falsetto, pure head voice, and sudden harsh transitions in tone, volume, and register. I take pride in sort of fooling people into believing there is more than one singer, haha. I'd be interested to see more big-name artists, but my search terms always return some putrid Glee crap...
  23. It's unrealistic to try to sound exactly like artists sound on studio albums. Producers have heaps of tools to compress, filter, distort, pitch-shift, and duplicate voices to add resonance and harmonizing effects. I heard the making of "Hearing Aide" and could not believe that my own singing was almost AS developed and polished as some of the artists in studio, completely raw. So where can I find more 100% raw recordings of popular artists to compare to?
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