Jabroni

Awesome cover of an awesome modern Maiden song. Great job Felipe. 

Awesome cover of an awesome modern Maiden song. Great job Felipe. 

The Shadow of the Wicker Man is rising up again!!
 

Richards is a damn good voice coach and knows what he is doing and taking about... and a trustworthy fellow... And yes, we have all had our moments. 
 

Points to Jeremy for trying to lighten the mood

Points to Jeremy for trying to lighten the mood

Points to Jeremy for trying to lighten the mood

Points to Jeremy for trying to lighten the mood

Points to Jeremy for trying to lighten the mood

Reverse Summer of '96' and what do you get?  Bryan Adams you aren't fooling anyone, welcome to TMV.

I thought it was awesome so I posted it here to brag. Anyways.... is there anything you guys recommend me doing to make it better? 
http://vocaroo.com/i/s0fyCH3oqtVe
 

This has always been the holy grail to me vocally. This version is a bit old and I would like to have remixed it but could only find the background track and this 2 track master. I was just getting a grip on this tune here and I can hear myself getting fatigued towards the end of the song. I am going to do an updated version soon since I found the background track. This is for you Jabroni
https://app.box.com/s/qwgcoghu7tudz9bmvrgk728nocarpnqt
 

Jabroni, I listened to a great deal of your SoundCloud samples and you remind me of myself when I started singing, I never went for the "Pussy" singers lol. Just kidding I was always, always reaching to sing like Tate, Dickinson, Kiske, Midnight etc even when I had poor connection and strength I always wanted to emulate those styles. Listening to you sing these songs you really gotta get the fold closure happening and lower the back of the tongue, of course I can see you are working with fantastic exercises to get this happening. I don't have any bad critiques you are passionate and putting the time in it takes as the many samples would suggest to me. I guess if anything I would just say to stay positive and DO the work, you have the heart and the right method to sing these kinds of songs. I noticed you had a clip of Queensryche Take hold of the Flame or as I like to call it THE HOLY GRAIL!!!! that song has such allure for singers haha. I will post a version of that song up as soon as I can locate my old disc with it on. That song has got to be one of the single hardest songs to do justice to that I can think of and I am sure I spent YEARS working on my voice to get even close to getting in the neighborhood. Everything Robert teaches will be needed for that mofo strong closure, support, dampening, belting and ENDURANCE that's a rough 5 min haha

1. track.. is this suppose to be a M&R onsets?  Not bad... work on that isolated quack compression Jabroni.
2. Good "Acoustic Mode Onsets"!... Im impressed to see that you are working these... stay with it! Leverage the tongue, work on isolated quack compression and don't forget to work your belt onsets! You need the adductor strength in here bud... 
3. Yeahs & yahs - remove the vibrato from your onsets here.. they are getting in your way and weakening your musculature ... for the moment, steady the voice , no vibrato... focus on compression and voice dampening.
4. Bleeding Heart... pretty.. nice sounding voice.
5. Jabroni, you need to work on your belting onsets... are you?  You need more adductor strength... start training D&R and A&R onsets... 

Here's my attempt, hope you like it! It was a lot of fun to record!
 
 

Dickinson does a lot of that. He pulls a lot of lyrics from movies or history. The guy isn't a stupid heavy metal singer... he is actually quite an intellectual. He is a licensed airline pilot for Quantus Airlines, a competition fencer, and historian. 
Here is another one, "Alexander The Great", tells the story of Alexander The Great... these lyrics are real people, real events, real history.
This is an Epic tune... it comes from the lesser known album, "Somewhere In Time"... it doesn't get as much press as the other albums, but I think it is one of their best albums because it experimented with a softer mix, less guitar and more textures. Fist and only album they did with keyboards. Killer vocals!!!
World Class Belting!... Dampened Larynx + Strong Adductors & Amplified Narrowed Vowels
Lyrics:

"My son ask for thyself another
Kingdom, for that which I leave
is too small for thee"
(King Philip of Macedonia - 339 B.C.)

Near to the east
In a part of ancient Greece
In an ancient land called Macedonia
Was born a son
To Philip of Macedon
The legend his name was Alexander

At the age of nineteen
He became the Macedon King
And he swore to free all of Asia Minor
By the Aegean Sea
In 334 B.C.
He utterly beat the armies of Persia

[Chorus:]
Alexander the Great
His name struck fear into hearts of men
Alexander the Great
Became a legend 'mongst mortal men

King Darius the third
Defeated fled Persia
The Scythians fell by the river Jaxartes
Then Egypt fell to the Macedon King as well
And he founded the city called Alexandria

By the Tigris river
He met King Darius again
And crushed him again in the battle of Arbela
Entering Babylon
And Susa, treasures he found
Took Persepolis the capital of Persia

[Chorus:]
Alexander the Great
His name struck fear into hearts of men
Alexander the Great
Became a God amongst mortal men

A Phrygian King had bound a chariot yoke
And Alexander cut the 'Gordian knot'
And legend said that who untied the knot
He would become the master of Asia

Hellenism he spread far and wide
The Macedonian learned mind
Their culture was a western way of life
He paved the way for Christianity

Marching on, marching on
The battle weary marching side by side
Alexander's army line by line
They wouldn't follow him to India
Tired of the combat, pain and the glory

Alexander the Great
His name struck fear into hearts of men
Alexander the Great
He died of fever in Babylon 

Hey!
Cool song, was recording some original material and did a take on it to give it a break, I liked it so here it goes:

How come there's no rock or metal choice?

I gave 1 vote to each except country. I was thinking if we go with pop, the song Wuthering Heights by Kate Bush would be a great head voice test for all. 
Maybe a Journey or Steve Perry song would be cool too. 
For Gospel, the only songs I know are "Michael row the boat ashore" and "Movin on up" from the Jeffersons theme. Those could be cool as well. 

If I can ask, how are you monitoring while recording the vocal track? Through the software or with a zero latency interface?

​I  agree, you ´re out of pitch in most parts of the song, it´s like the backing track is in one pitch and you in other, you have to feel the pitch in the music or do the exercises. Just work on it.
 

What he is saying is that pitch has to be more accurate and crisp. You touch the note then go flat whereas you should stay on it during the word or a phrase so it goes abit all over the place.
Btw really nice performance. Only thing that is a lil problematic is pitch and im sure youll get that in no time

Dude you're blasting at this in chest. My honest advice, if you want to sing this style, I'd do some extensive pitching exercises. Forget about high notes, forget about a lot of stuff. Just super hard work on intervals, drone notes, ear training, scales, and singing really slow, every note on the piano or whatever instrument you have access to, on all vowels (including things that use R like world, her, mars, etc).
 
You see I like a lot of singers whose aren't pitch aren't perfect, I'm biggest Lou Reed fan of the forum, and if you do a more talk singing style then some of the pitching issues are more forgivable. But Dickenson/Tate these guys with their operatic metal kind of thing, it's very sustained notes, and it doesn't just glance or bend around them, it hovers and it stays. 
 
Maybe rehearse the song with the piano or something. If you don't have a real instrument you can use something this:
 
http://virtualpiano.net/
 
As slow as it possibly needs to be. Pick out the entire melody of the song and match it one by one.  I think you can get it, but to my ears, the notes are just too sustained for it to hold together for me. If you glance on a flat note, and pull up or glance on a sharp note and pull down. It's different than if you hover on one and just hold it. That's my 2 cents. I saw you've been working your sirens. And that's good, it will train a lot of things. But I think you'll get better progress on the other direction. The slower the better if you want to sing in this style. The bar has been placed high on this style. I'm not an expert, but it's tough. You're gonna have to keep training hard. It's one thing to be able to make a high pitch sounded physiologically. It's another to sing a whole song with the control that might be expected in this genre.
 
One things for sure, you put a lot into. Sounds like you're blasting and really in the moment and passionately performing and I don't want t be harsh, but these are your heroes, so put all you got into it. I think for most people, it will have to be closer, unless you're working on a different style.

Ok thanks guys! Yes, I am definitely out of pitch, that should be my main focus. I am kind of up and down like Killer said. Need to train my ears better. 

Round 2, different takes and I think it's a better mix too. I'm still using mostly presets since I don't know what the knobs do  : https://soundcloud.com/jabroni-1/highway-star-take-2
 
By the way, here's the original vocals for the song as well as the organ track... I noticed there are a nice chain of effects there. I think it helps to hear the vocals without the other instruments to hear what effects are used.