thethomas

That´s music to my ears, very beautiful

Thank you Pekka!

Thanks Ronws and Simba!

Bravo, Senore.

(I don't know how that translates into Norwegian.)

You can try "bra jobbet mann" if you want to surprise a norwegian with your language skills 

This is a quick acoustic coverversion I made of Way to Fall by Starsailor, beautiful song that takes some work to give justice

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sU-XissDow

Critics, good or bad? Fire away!

Rock solid voice, great tone, if there's anything to comment on I'd say that some of the rythmic/esthetic elements like for example on the "am I wrong/have I gone" part could be closer to what Staley does originally.

But that is nitpicking/personal preference, the overall performance was close to flawless. Good job!

Very nice! You got the attitude of the song down. Your tone is not too far from Chris', with the exception as the poster above mentioned, that you might want a bit more bite on the higher notes. I'm not a teacher, but I'm pretty sure you can develop this. So keep at it.

Thanks Bzean! Yea, it's important to be able to express what the song is about I think, I try to avoid the song becoming flat and emotionless and put alot of work into mixing different expressions into the arrangement. I'll take both of your feedbacks regarding high pitch into consideration, and we'll see where I end up. I know I'm capable of developing way beyond this performance at least

I think you need more adduction on your vocal chords, especially when singing the high notes. Your high notes sound very breathy. You should be aiming for a sharper, brighter sound. Take into account that I'm just someone that's learning to sing as well so take my opinion with a grain of salt. Maybe someone more knowledgable could jump in and help you out too.

The distortion is nice, but I think you'd sound better without. How does your voice feel after singing this song?

Any feedback is good feedback, it widens my perspective, so thanks for putting some time into it I actually try to sound abit breathy at both low and high pitch during this cover, and some of the distortion is abit "much". Going sharper/more bity in the higher registers are in my opinion "easier" than what I do here, so what I try to do is to ad more power, alot of power. Although it's probably noticeable that my voice is abit out of shape these days and I don't pull it off as good as I would like to.

I sing the entire song without experiencing strain/issues, this distortion is all about breathy technique so my voice can take quite a few rounds with this song before becoming fatigued.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62bVGBYG1YI

Critics, input, bad or good, thoughts on what I can do better and to improve vocalwise? Fire away 

https://www.facebook.com/thomashofstadmusic

I was not saying the falsetto was bad. It was fine, I just don't know if that was per original arrangement or your own style. Either way, it was good. And I like your profile page on the media site, too.

Glad to hear you do Ron! I didn't get the impression you thought my falsetto was bad, most of my reply was just me picking on myself and what I think I need to work on, quite a habit, hehe :D

You've got a lovely sustain in your voice, evident in both songs. Of the two, I think Exit is a closer match for your voice but I did like your version of Intended, as well. Although I am not as familiar with Intended and don't know if the switch to falsetto around A4 is the original style of the vocal line or your solution to keeping the volume back. Either way, I thought it was nice.

And I do think that ballads like this are a strong suit, for you. I am sure you can do other styles but you should definitely keep songs like this in your list of songs and/or styles to do.

Big thanks Ron, I don't remember the original in detail, but my version is pretty close to it as far as I remember arrangementwise. Personally I think my version might fall short due to the fact my falsetto is a little subpar at the moment, and my control/softness on the choruses suffers from it. Bellamy makes a brilliant contrast from fullvoice to falsetto during the last chorus that I'm not quite able to reproduce right now.

i'm familiar with exit music so i'll comment on that

Great job with technique, pitch, vibrato and whatnot. I would just suggest trying to get an even softer, lighter, gentler dynamic on all the parts that are supposed to be softer, like the verses and outro. That song thrives on dynamic contrast. It has many different stages of softness and loudness to it, really study the original and try to pick up on that, I think it will really help.

Also your recording quality needs work. Seems like on the vocals you're a bit too close to the mic, over eq'ing the top end, setting the compression to activate too aggressively, you might need a pop filter, your gain might be too loud too...stuff like that - try to make sure you're doing things correctly on the recording front and very much backing off and trying to get the natural raw sound to come through more with less artifacts - I think it will really help the sound quality.

I agree with your points regarding the soundquality, I put together these tracks a little too quick using presets mindlessly and ended up overEQ'ing/overcompressing everything pretty hard. I've removed compression and eq on both tracks and I think it also fixes some of the dynamic range issues since alot of that might've been lost because of overcompression. At least at some rate.

The links have been updated with the changes I've made.

Thanks for the feedback :)

Practicing midrange/falsetto today, the Radiohead song seems fairly easy for me to sing, Unintended on the other hand is extremely challenging and not sure if I really managed to pull it off decently.

Exit Music for a Film (Radiohead cover)

Unintended (Muse cover)

Soundcloud links, constructive critisism is more than welcome!

Rock on!

Nice job man, I think you got most of the song down pretty decently, and this isn't exactly an easy song to sing properly. It's also a very good song for your voice.

Constructive critisism:

Phil Collins is also a drummer, and I think that fact becomes very clear when you listen to how he times/places phrases perfectly along with the ryhtmsection throughout a song. This song is a great example where the vocals play a huge role in the rythmical expression of the song, meaning: if you miss out on some of the vocalist "beats" the song will lose some energy. I'm also a drummer so I guess those things are very important/noticeable for me.

Either way, good job, keep on rocking!

Great song that seems to be just perfect for your voice, good job man. Karaoke for lief

Good job, love the sound of your vibrato on the verses, and I don't think you sound too Cornell'ish. Keep on screaming

Big thanks for the feedback guys! Glad to hear you like the song as well, this particular song actually gave my band a supportgig for Toto and Mannfred Manns a few years ago, great fun.

Does someone like our original poster, Thomas, need years and years more lessons, more words, my technical ideas about chest and head voice?

I don't think anyone will ever be in a place where they won't have anything more to learn, I think we just have to continue exploring, and for my case, maybe a little more awareness/focus on technical details won't hurt, and it could be my next step. Especially considering I've been singing on "feel&flow" 95% of the time so far, so I do appreciate your feedback and the information here on this site. Also a very interesting discussion going on here in general right now.

As dumb as karaoke might be

Karaoke, dumb? Does not compute. Karaoke with pride man, like you mean it :cool:

As I can hear your higher notes (e.g., A4, B4) lack head resonance a bit. But this might be because of the production issues

I agree, this might depend on my shape at the time/day I press record, but I generally need to keep practicing more to gain more strength and stability around the bridge and above. I've been very on and off regarding singing the last few years, but I got at least 2 months of steady practice again before I did this recording. Can't wait till I get some more time on my back, going to be some great fun

Excellent song and singing. You've got more than enough range style and passion. Keep on keeping' on man. Great work.

Big thanks!

Big thanks man! This is a sing I wrote yes Also: I got huge respect for Aguilera as a singer, she got a great voice with great technical qualities so I defineately take that as a compliment.

This is very interesting to me. I am used to thinking in terms of expression as a vocalist and don't have alot of technical insight/knowledge, so when I say I'm not using headvoice there's a chance I don't have any idea what I'm talking about, haha.

I suppose that what I consider fullvoice twang alot of places in this song might actually be a thick headvoice?

I'd love some feedback and honest critisism on my vocals on this song, the song was written over 10 years ago while I was inspired by vocalists like Cornell/Fogerty and I wanted to create something that forced me to pull off alot of high pitch "drive". I've never been much of a headvoice vocalist, not been too fond of the sound of it for my kind of music, so fullvoice-related techniques have been my main focus so far.

Hope you like it! Regardless - all feedback is good feedback!

I'd love some criticism on my performance in this song:

This is a unfinished studiorecording from my band Painting Pathways, there's no autotune or anything similar used on the vocals here.

The song got abit of a blue feel/expression to it that I try to make the best out of.

Rock on!

Thank you Keith :)

Hi!

I'd love some feedback and critisism on this recording:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPAVl-Dghvg

One of my favourite songs, did this recording today, played and programmed all instruments in addition to singing. Hope I was able to do this song some justice.

He also goes for C#5 with "Aaall" on Limo Wreck, The highest pitch I've reached while practicing was F5 with the word "lie". Seems like an amazing word for reaching new heights with, haha Anyways, I'll look into what you've said about vowels, seems like a great tip.

And thanks, I love that song!

Really good job, you seem to have nailed Fogerty's technique. I'm no vocalist coach but if I was supposed to input on something I think you're straining a little in some places. If you manage to attack the notes just slightly more relaxed I think that you might be able to open your voice up for more power and finish notes that you seem to be cutting off early.

I really enjoyed that cover. Fogerty is a vocalist legend in my eyes, and you sound alot like him!

You might have a strong point here, I'm a self thaught vocalist and never got any theory/technical tutoring, so making use of particular vowels is unfamiliar ground to me. I felt really relaxed and unstrained when I recorded the Man in the Box cover, but maybe I get a little stronger on those top notes if I try to emphasis a Eh sound?

Thanks for the tip, I'll certainly look into it!

Glad to hear you liked my cover!

Repeat, you mean like this?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yzo84_xzzEo

Not that I feel close to M Shadows here but it was fun giving it a try. Quite a challenging chorus to sing, especially since my bridging is out of shape at the moment. I even managed to get the lyrics slightly wrong, tough luck.

A7X have defineately turned a little more mainstream on their new album, I've only listened to a couple of songs but it sounds good so far.

Now that's a great vocalist that really developed over the years, actually it's been awhile since I've listened to A7X, gonna have to check them out again now - thanks for the reminder, hehe :)