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Well.. based on my experience, the first step to getting better at singing is... just sing ! And it seems you're enjoying it In time you will develop a better ear, and more freedom with your muscles, so you will be able to reproduce whatever sound you hear. I like that "storytelling" style you talk about It creates very nice atmospheres and it is, in general, very light music... which you can hear while driving, in the supermarket, whatever.. and it is never unpleasant to hear. I liked it ( Even with the cough, hahah ... Nah, that stuff happens heheh )

Well.. I guess I'll leave it for further on and keep looking info about it, just thought it could be an interesting idea, heheh. For now, I'm good with the excercises I've been doing, and have felt an important change.. so I'll stick with it and see how I feel in a month or two. Thanks a lot guys for your help and interest See you around !

Hahah! That's totally correct. It seems you used to have the same issue as me, lol. And for the same reasons! That's funny heheh Thanks a lot, Simon I really appreciate your help I have a small question.. sorry if I'm bothering too much, heheh.. but anyway: I have just started to explore into the world of vocal fry... I swear I had never paid attention to it before, lol I am wandering.. Is it helpful to find cord closure on head voice by playing with fry? Is it bad for your vocal folds' health if you abuse it or play with it for too long?

Thanks again, Jonathan, for your help It's good to know I'm on the right track for now.. It's so good I found this forum. ( I want to actually buy a mic.. but I don't know if I can record on my laptop... maybe the sound card is not good for that kind of use. ) ( How do guys here usually record? )

Thanks Simon! That actually helps a lot. I've been doing those excercises with the tongue out and it feels different. I have to add that I think I have problems with my chest voice. I took some lessons by 2008, when I had no idea how to sing.. and as I was told to "relax" I think I went to the extreme and started to adapt to an airy sound. I have no problems at all with passagio/bridge.. because I tend to sing back, to the pharynx, but I do have problems to produce the sound towards "the mask" and feel vocal folds closure. Since I started a week ago with my program I have felt a big change in my voice. Now I speak "in chest voice".. before, I felt like I was always in head voice. In fact when I had any long conversation, or talking in the bus or something.. I lost my voice in no time. These days that hasn't happened to me, it's awesome, lol. It sounds stupid... but I finally feel like a real man, lmao... being able to talk on my chest voice, and to sing there, when I'm not yet tired. Those lessons I took where very, very helpful.. cus I was trashing my cords pulling chest.. but then I got kind of "obsessed" with tension.. and kinda messed my voice up, lol

Thanks, man! hahah Make it justice is an incredible complement for me, lol Thanks a lot. I'm really working my ass off with my voice to get better, lol \m/

Yes ! Actually it makes a lot of sense to me. If I do it very light I am able to connect up to a C, with an "EE" as I guess it uses less air and tends to compress more. I will keep practicing till I can connect an A or an E and then build up strengh from there to be able to mix it powerful. Funny thing, but maybe worth noting, I record with my old MP4 hehe as my laptops mic is crap, and I am actually singing 2 meters away from it to avoid saturation and that sort thing.

Nice ! Thanks for the input I have some questions, though, lol How does it feel to go higher than a B4 or a C5? I wanna know if I am doing it correctly when I get there.. lol I have felt the vibration.. but to be able to connect your folds that high hasn't happened to me, so it really makes me curious Hahah

I have problems with connecting my folds.. there is a point where my head voice starts blending with my falsetto and loses its body. I am still kinda figuring out what to do to keep that connection and power, heheh But I think with time I will get it. I just started to excersise a week ago, almost daily.. with Mister Crazy LOW Range Dave's program, lol .. ( I wish I had the money for Rob's or Kevin Richards's stuff.. but for now I don't ) and my range went up by a note right now.. A week ago I struggled to hit an A... now I could do the B on the last word of the song. I think time and good, conscious work will do the job :)

I will just tell you... keep working on your voice, because you have incredible talent and a very particular voice I loved the guitar playing, I wish I had time to learn how to play guitar.. because I really don't U.U Keep working on that song, it's awesome right now.. and I don't really know what more you could do, lol. Amazing job, man :)

LMAAAAAO!!! The hat alone kills me!!! Hahahahah You made my day, sir!! xD

I wanted to see how much of this song I could do, it's a tough one. Quality is kind of meh.. but it is clear enough to know what I am doing and what to correct. I use these recordings as a guide to help me fix details and work on major things as colour and tone. I know I may stll not have the range to sing this song as it is meant to be sung, heheh, but I think it was a decent try.. https://soundcloud.com/sebabergmann/experimenting-with-spirit PD: That long silence is because I imagine de music to set my internal mood lol When I sing a capella I always try to keep the tempo the best I can, as if music was playing in the back heheh. Just jump a bit forward for the next part :)

Thanks a lot for your opinion Indeed I like a lot the ballad side of prog metal and power metal bands such as Sonata Arctica, for example. My problem is that although I love the heavy side of it too I don't have the range to access those songs yet. Distortion would be nice to learn and it will certainly add a different feel to some songs I like, but for now it is not my priority As I said, I wanna really improve my range, high and low notes.. as that would give me more freedom. Thanks a lot, again, for posting I will keep working hard ! \m/

Believe it or not it is a very difficult song. It is simple, very simple.. but details are everything. If you listen well to her voice and all of the devices she uses it suddenly changes into a very complicated song. Evidently it is a very high pitched song for a guy, but if you bring it down an octave or 5 notes, whatever.. you must be sure every note is equivalent to the original as much as you can and to maintain the "feel" ( unless you actually change some parts, which is nothing wrong by itself ). Thing here is that you where all around the place, with serious desafinations going on. It is indeed a simple but difficult song :S So don't worry.

I love to sing and would really like to share these recordings I have made over these last months. I haven't uploaded anything for a while to my Soundcloud, but will do eventually,as I have just acquired Brett Manning's programs and started more or less a week ago with the excercises and stuff and would like to wait a month or two before uploading "with the changes" heheh. I'd like to have other more "rock/metal oriented" programs like Rob's or Kevin Richard's approach, but this is what I have for now and I am aware of the pros and cons Brett's method has. That is my channel. I would infinitely appreciate any kind of comment, opinions, advice... Thanks in advance EDIT : I recommend from those recordings... Sailorman's Hymn, War Inside My head, About to Crash, Hollow Years and Vacant To make it a bit easier and don't make you hear everything, lol.