Gneetapp

Ron...
 
1). Experience as a voice coach. Many years, thousands of students.
2). Published: blogs, books, video productions.
3). Innovation in new vocal ideas and understanding of common ones.
4). Ability to PROPERLY explain what your talking about and demonstrate it. 
5). An understanding of the fundamental physiology and acoustics of singing.
6). Master Class experience and teacher of teachers.
7). A Master's Degree in Music from the University of Miami and over 15 years of private study from renown coaches. 
8). A proven demonstration and ability to sing well.
 
These are a few things that would characterize the resume and experience of someone that could rightfully call themselves an "expert" in the practice of voice technique training and song coaching for singers.

Pssst Ronws, It's Rob who decides who get those pins(i thought you knew)  

Well, Tristan, you said it yourself. If someone posted here, he must be needing critique or help. Therefore, if someone posts here, you have to hunt and search for anything you think needs fixing. And it could be anything. Maybe you did a vowel wrong at only one point. Then the judgement will be sloppy articulation. You went a little flat in one spot only, so, for the whole song, you are pitchy.and that is all.
And evidently you have to be an expert to be a teacher and I don't know who is in charge of handing out the pin or badge that says expert. I don't what the requirements are to have expert status. Live shows, current or past? Professionally released albums? A degree from a university? What about certification from other singing training system? Is that something akin to a diploma mill? What about approval from other voice professionals in the world?
As for paying for lessons as a beginner, yes it is a valid pursuit. Why? Because sometimes paying hard-earned money makes you pay attention. There is already all kinds of free information out there that people are NOT listening to. If they would listen, they would already have the pointers they need. Plus, they need to pay someone to count scales, just as some need to a pay a trainer to count their sit-ups at the gym. Without that external focus of intent and money, some will lose focus and drive to do what it is they say it is they want to do.
Redneck rules of engagement, by ronws.
 

build it up slowly but surely. Keep your throat relaxed and try to add power by using resonance instead of shouting. Doing the boring annoying vocal work outs and warm ups are what will do you the best good. All the nay nay nays mum mum-mums, and sirens  you get so sick of doing are what grows the voice.
In your clip, you are way breathy and don't have any compression. This is one of the reasons it sounds so weak. Try a quack and release onset or crying like a baby but keep the heady placement you have if that makes sense..

Hey man,
 
Most of it is sounding really good, very good approach, you got the phrasing down, the dynamics are good, a bit of care on the key spots, "searching, feeling, etc.", be extra careful to make sure that you time that exactly the same on all the words, and use the same divisions: listen to the first time you do "Searching, Seeking". You will notice that on searching you use a constant flow, almost sliding into the notes, on seeking you made the division more pronounced, like ssseeeUHrching, SEE EE Kehn. In my opinion, it would work much better if you kept both on the "slide" feel, think that the words should sound like a moan, if you listen to Dio you will notice he keeps it quite like that, then on one of them later on you break it and go for the stacatto idea you used here, but just one.
 
Also, observe that on the low range your voice is very ballanced, its relaxed but its open, has brightness, but as you ascend for the notes that are a bit higher, you lose the brightness and round it too much, do you notice that? To avoid doing too much when you sing, I would try singing the higher parts lower in pitch, and just exagerating the brightness AND the roundness to see how it feels like, then do it on the right pitch.
Hope it helps but I really like it, it seems like a simple song but its not easy to deliver this, the interpretation is killer.

I dig it. It kind of has a grunge quality to me a bit. I heard the high note there go flat and then creep up in tune. It was probably a mistake but I prefer rock n roll like that, hanging on by the skin of your teeth.
If you want to get rid of the brick wall you would want to go back to training/strengthening head voice or doing more vowel mods. Your folds will hit the brick wall if either the vowel or the closure level doesn't support it.
The thing is it sounds good, sounds dirty, but not too dirty. Sounds a bit raw, not too rough. Depending on what you're going for genre wise it works aesthetically. Slapback was a bit interesting, but it's going to depend on you and your audience.
Do you want to be a dirty rock n roll singer? It still sells to this day with post grunge acts and all that to the right audience. Or do you want to be a more quasi operatic kind of singer? Cause people who are into that might find it a bit too rough with a more stable bridge and less strain. Would you like to do both? Or would you like to do your own thing, work on your own "Elvis" genre (not that Elvis), right? 
In the long run if folks like Dan are correct then getting rid of the brick wall will be better for your health. But in the meantime it's kind of what sounds cool, what compels you. Where do you want to go? Cause my honest opinion has been that you are likely ready for some dirty rock n roll if you could write songs or form a band. You'd have a whole life time to become Pavarotti or Dio or whoever insert 'super polished guy', but your youth ticks away steadily.
Meanwhile, please don't misunderstand me, I'd rather listen to your voice or your art any day, (not a fan of their their songwriting), but Chad Kroeger sells a ton of albums and the people buying it couldn't care much less that he isn't Dio or Pavorotti or whatever super vocalist you want to compare to. So figure out what you want to do. Stepping out the door today, I would wager you have 'a shot' as much as the rock guy, but a lot of it would boil down to charisma, songwriting, life circumstances (you don't exactly live in the center of the music industry).
So just think about what you want out of this. If you want to be a broadway, opera star, you aren't there yet. If you want to be an a metal band, it might depend on the kind (Metallica maybe so, Symphony X maybe not). A gutter punk band? Might already be too good. Heh. You'll reach a point where you have competence for certain things.
I'm not saying stop training but if you got your youth and health. The best advice I've got is to try to get out there and make things happen if your life circumstances allow it. Do stuff (perform, get in a band, write songs, network). Don't just train. I can sing a comfortable A4, and bridge fine in that area. But I can testify it doesn't go anywhere by itself and I doubt I'd sound much better singing the song.

I quite liked it. I wouldn't worry about whether you just did it quickly. In fact, don't mention that. It is a chance for others to say you could have done better by recording more takes. In my opinion, you either have the song locked in or you don't. It doesn't matter if it took one take or twenty. We only hear the one file. 

Really really good Aravind! Nice timbre and heartfelt performance. I think I told you once that you usually kick some serious arse in this Metal genre. I thought there were only a couple of spots a bit off pitch (steel), but not the highest ones. Maybe it is just my ears or the fact that I don't know the song. But overall it was really good to listen to your cover. Congrats!

yea that A4 in the end...that note is crazy for me...sometimes it just comes out and sometimes its impossible.. G#, no problem...but A4 is like a brick wall
 
Thanks bro

This can only make it harder. Your vocal folds along with your false folds and your glottis regulate both the airflow and airpressure; your lungs (and thus diaphragmatic breathing) is important for the capacity of air and the consistency of flow.
You especially don't need so much airflow on strong, connected sounds, but you do need air pressure. This means that you don't need to take so much air for high notes in a connected setting. Singing in falsetto for instance, requires a lot of air, because the airflow is so high and so you lose air quickly.
I suggest you don't think about your diaphragmatic breathing. For now, only pay attention to keep your voice open:
Retract your false vocal folds: practice inhaling and exhaling WITHOUT making any sound; you might notice that you're opening up your voice in order to stay silent. Then try to sing a scale with the same sensation. Use a more simple scale: C-D-E-D-C and up and up. Use the "Mum-Mum" sound to keep it warm and round. Use the "Nay-Nay" sound to make it sharp and compressed. Go back and forth between the two sounds to find a balance that could work. Good luck.

Welcome back,
I was going to guess that you were Russian. Having worked with enough Russian students, I actually was able to recognize the accent in your singing... I'm kind of proud of that... lol!  Russian does not seem to be an easy language to sing in, do you agree?
Yes, we have to charge for the Reviews... the bottom line is, it is a consultation and it takes time to do it properly. I simply can't hand out free time and advise anymore. It was not doing anything but... draining all my time and energy. Giving free reviews did not result in people investing in training with me or anyone else. All it did was make people want to take more and expect more "free" stuff... There is a certain kind of person out there that will only take "free" and if you offer more free, they will take more free... Most of the time, we never even got a "thank you"... I'm not going to do that, so we had to kill the "free". 
Me and the people that take the time to give reviews deserve better then that.... and at $5/mth, is it really that big of a deal?  If you can't spend $5 on professional advise to help you as a singer, then... forget it... singing in a serious way, is not for you.
So long as you stay on the $5/mth service, yes, you can post more reviews... but please be reasonable.. don't post 20 a week... lol...
Glad to have you here... 
 

Great job Anthony! Oh, how I miss performing, now that I broke up with my band. You are in a good path, but try not to neglect training or else you won't be able to raise the pitch of the songs back to the original. Cheers!

Great job Anthony! Oh, how I miss performing, now that I broke up with my band. You are in a good path, but try not to neglect training or else you won't be able to raise the pitch of the songs back to the original. Cheers!

Thanx Gneetapp and Ronws, The guitar used "woody" was given to me when I sold an old amplifier to a collecter. It is a 1970s Fender Strat. Someone got the bright Idea to try and make a Stevie Ray Vaughan Copy out of it. It is a righthanded guitar but Stevie's is Left handed so they bought a Left handed bridge/tremelo and Cut the original pocket to fit it in there........ Stevie Rays' hardware is "Gold plated" so this guy bought Cheap imitation Gold plated hardware. Then preceded to cut, gouge, scatch, sand and a mulitude of different types of destruction to "Copy" Stevie Rays guitar, which pretty much looks that way becuse Stevie played the Hell out of it. I am not sure how the collector got a hold of it but I told him that I had been finding old guitars to practice "Fixing" them. He went to the back of his trailer and brought out this guitar which was in several pieces, the hardware in a plastic bag, the neck seperated from the body. He said it had been under his bed for more than 20 years.
    I was going to repaint the guitar, but after sanding off the original paint and putting on a coat of sealer, with all of the former distruction, Burn Marks, gouges, discoloration from years of exposed wood and such, The guitar just had too much character to cover up again. I am still using the same cheap hardware and the tuners are so loose that even if you get it in tune to start playing, by the middle of the song you are out again. I put the "Good" guitars away because I am working from my home now and ran out of room to keep them whithin reach. The plan is still to buy new tuners for it but the money has not manifested as yet.

Hi Kaidan29, You do have a nice tone, One thing that is a popular misconception is that soft singing takes a low volume and less effort. It actully takes as much or more effort because you are controlling the voice to sound soft. Singing generally takes an air flow and energy similar to scolding someone........... Picture this............You walk into a room and find your son, daughter or younger sibling coloring in your favorite book  or school report. Without thinking you say (with emotion)  "Stop! What do you think you are doing? I needed that."        That would be the same kind of energy needed in singing ..... Your voice needs air and energy to be efficent.
   It is also easier to control pitch with this type of energy.

Nice presentation Rob.
@Gallant, as Robert said, CVT and TVS can work perfectly fine together.
To get another view on onsets which is a big part of TVS.
I can help you, if there's something you don't quite understand.

No, you don't "try hard", you "WORK HARD" ! Major difference !!!

I agree with Robert about the time thing. Years or even months is not the thing. Proper training from that start, that will always accelerate learning and provide the proper learning. And I can truly say, having been in this forum over 5 years, there is no lack of explanation of elucidation of Robert's concepts, especially in his program. And yes, a good thing about his program, something that keeps him working all the time, is to imagine every way to explain something. And then find yet another way. That is cool.

Ok, I listened to your track and here is the situation as I hear it.
1). Ok, for starters this is not belting. It isn't even close to belting. You couldn't even stretch the imagination and call this belting. For the most part, this is the physical mode call "sob". It sounds very Sobbing to me, or cry like. Now that is not a bummer on you, it is just an observation. I think you are confused about what belting is. Belting would be a sound that is a lot more "heavy" in its attack and sound color. It would have more chest voice qualities and is, not a soft sob approach, but a stronger, tougher sound color. Watch my new video on Belting. You can hear that the sounds you are making are not belting.
This doesn't mean you can't belt or can't learn to belt at all... it only means, the tis not belting and that you may be confused as to what belting actually is.
2). Your voice is very under utilized. That means a lack of respiration and intrinsic musculature is making your voice a very weak system that is barely holding on. There are some pretty bad pitch/intonation issues here but I suspect most of that is due to the simple lack of support and infrastructure to your voice. The result is a sort of, sob like tone or vibe. This could actually play to your advantage if again, you had more respiratory and muscular support in the voice.
I have heard samples like this before in the "Review My Singing" and it is a fairly common situation. When you are not training your voice and working it out, it gets lazy. It even sounds lazy. Are you training your voice? Do you have a vocal training program that you are working on by chance? Are you taking voice lessons? I suspect the answer is no. This would be the first thing I would recommend for you. You need to learn about the singing voice, how it works, what it is about and how to train it. The singing voice is not the speaking voice. They are two very different things... and only through some study and hands on training will you REALLY begin to understand and get that.
3). What elements of your voice that we do hear that are nice is the tone. You do have a lovely tone in that sob like style and that could be used to your advantage on a song like this, but without the support, you'll never be able to make it work for you. You have potential for sure. It just comes down to getting to work and making a commitment to vocal training. I offer a vocal training program that is pretty popular called, "The Four Pillars of Singing" that, ... if you commit to it, will help you to sing a lot better. This review and pointing you to my program is the best I can do for you, the rest is up to you.

I do not think that any training you have done is a waste. Any training is going to build some form of coordination and build strengths. One of the big differences in Roberts program is that he walks you through coordinations in what he calls work flows. It makes a big difference when some one guides you to a proper coordination for an exercise .......... And in Roberts program it is really meant as an exercise NOT just a vocalise.. 
   Roberts passion for training singers and their progress is also an inspiration. It makes a difference when some one seems to be genuinely interested in your progress.
   CVT is good product also ........ I don't think that it explains the different coordinations for their Modes too well ............. But after you train with Roberts program if you revisit CVT it will make a lot more sense and be a better resource for you.

Sorry for the wait...
The sound color of your voice gives me the impression that you have a good, strong instrument with a lot of potential. But you are correct, you need training.
Look, you can't just shout at singing forever and expect to really get better in any meaningful way. Shouting at notes can get some people down the road to some extent, but eventually you will max out what you can do with the issues that are not being addressed.
This kind of singing has probably had the benefit of growing your belt capabilities, which is great, but again,... you are not harnessing this strength, nor are you aware what so ever of your vowels, the mass of your phonation and I hear constriction in these sounds as well, which will only grow worse in time.
You need to get out of the body and really start thinking about your voices as an instrument that produces acoustic colors, that amplifies formants, that "rings' when you modify in and out of different singing vowels. And in order to build your sensitivities and skills in the acoustics of singing, you will have to start by lowering the "acoustic mass"... too much pushy and shouting. You are "slapping the water", the physics of sound in the voice for singing are not going to respond the way you want them to no matter how hard you slap it... it will push back on you, like slapping water. You need balance and get out of the physiology and into the acoustics of singing.
Lead with the acoustics and the physiology will follow.
I offer a vocal training program titled, "The Four Pillars of Singing" that will provide for you everything you need to really get put on a path that is not wasting your time, but moving forward with quick results. I really think, after listening to you, that it would gel really well for you.

sincerity is an illusion. What will give you more control is let your voice resonate so that you are more easily able to learn to manage breath. From your description, and it does sound like it, anything about E4 or D4 sounds like a shout to you, like going full blast, pedal to the floor? Which, yes, is okay or thrash metal or something hard-driven and loud all the time.
You are wanting finesse. Not much I can tell you through words. I think if you can learn to manage the breath and take half a load of the folds, they will eventually become a little more flexible. It may take a while.
I am not a teacher of singing but I have been singing a while.

Welcome Gallant, it is great to have you here!
A few things before we begin your review.
1. Please embed the youtube videos you want to show. You do this by pasting the link into "insert link and video images", at the "embed videos & images" drop down menu in the bottom right. We don't want to toss people out of the site, we want to keep them here and embedded videos are more fun anyways.
2. I tried to listen to your file, but it is prompting a download... that doesn't work. Please embed a soundcloud widget or provide a NONE download box.net link.. or anything that isn't a download... basically a streaming solution.
Then I and others will give you feedback.

Great job Felipe! I think it's cool that you emphasize the two syllables on the words power and hour.
I love the fact that all members of Queen made great hits (which is very very rare by the way). This number was written by the drummer Roger Taylor.
Freddie Mercury: We are the champions etc.
Brian May: We will rock you
John Deacon: Another one bites the dust

You're right, It is the worst cover ever. I can hardly hear your voice. Interesting choice to use distortion all the way through. Maybe you could try another mix where the vocal is as loud as the guitar, instead of under it.