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Thanks to you both! I really appreciate it.

Hope you all like it! I feel like it's the best I've done.

Also you will notice getting louder the higher you go and that is from focusing resonance, not from pushing. This is okay. Later, you will get some finesse.

Thanks for the advice!

I think you have the best philosophy here. Share your weaknesses with people who can help you. Share your strengths with the general public.

 

I like your voice, honestly. It has energy. But I like Bob Dylan more than Ronws does too.

 

There are folks with a lot more expertise on C5 in a fuller sounding voice. I have ways of doing it, but most involve lots of moaning, rasp, twanging, weird vowel stuff, super support, I can't sing consistently up there like with my guitar in a real context and all that and even then, I think I might be faking something.

 

I don't know if you could take your punkish tone that high though. Most punkish singers tap out before then. Should be interesting if you can get some really good technical help and hit a punk C5.

I hit it yesterday, I don't know how to describe the tone. It holds a little bit of a punkish tone, but it sounds almost like I sucked helium.xD I've got to get it with more consistency, but hopefully it'll get there. I obviously had to lighten it up a little bit but I think there's a little bit of a punkish thing there. When it comes to the higher notes, I'm going for a blend of Steve Perry, Freddie Mercury, and Jason Lancaster. Hopefully with some practice I can hit it, from what I've read if you bust your butt, mixed voice in some ways eliminates vocal range. Not completely of course, but to an extent.

This is going to fall of the page.

 

I like this performance. There's a great urgency in your performance style and it is truly live. I could pick a couple of notes that are less than pitch perfect, but you're a punk rocker. That's how most of them do it, and that's how Bob does it.

 

You know it, I know it and hardly anyone posts truly live performances. 15/16 people like you. You can count me as another. You've got rebel music on your shirt. Go for it for real. We need real rebels.

 

If you try a song that is outside your range, we can probably help more with technique, imo. I feel like you've got pretty good control in this range in the style you are singing.

 

Thank you so much! I'll try to do something a bit more outside my range and put it on soundcloud, I generally try to only put the best sounding stuff on Youtube. I really want to be able to hit an a5 or C5 and I'm not sure how to go about doing that.:/ 

Count this old guy as a big fan of you. I know Dylan is a "great songwriter" but I have just never liked his voice. So, I had been putting off listening to this but I am glad I did because you do it better than the original. Bravo.

 

Sidenote: is that an MXL mic? The Genesis series?

 

I look around at some reviews and I ordered the v67g, which shipped from NYC yesterday. "New York City?! Get a rope."

Thank you! I agree honestly, although I feel like I'm the same as Dylan. Good songwriter, mediocre singer.  And it is an MXL! It's the 550, it came in a bundle with the 551 on a Musiciansfriend Stupid Deal Of The Day for $60. I love it.

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

 

Hope you all like it! Constructive criticism is welcome as always!

Wow, Youtube comments were finally right for once. It does sound pop punkish. Anyway, it's good. This song is well suited to you and pretty much works with your style and range.

 

Mic proximity is really the most useful for those low notes, but another is you get 'woofy' down there. My voice gets woofy when my larynx is lowered and throat is open, without twang to compensate. Woofy is a cool sound imo, but if you want more clarity to match the top you could try to keep a bit more twang (tip of tongue at bottom row of teeth, arching back,  upward and wide up against the top molars). It usually adds more 'brightness, cut, and clarity.' Once I learned to 'keep' my tongue high, I could still use a low larynx sound without always going woofy. 

 

I guess the question is where you want to go next? If you aren't already bridging, you seem ready to go that direction as your chest voice is already doing pretty well. You might not ultimately even have to bridge for this style, iIf I recall correctly like Green Day's album, "Dookie" had a whole lot of enthusiastic chest voice which had a lot of energy, but bridging is a lot easier with less limitations later on. I think he may have learned how to bridge later on albums I like less than Dookie, but it's probably not the bridging's fault, heh.

 

But yeah, you sound pretty comfortable, cool style, and probably ready to just proceed to whatever your next steps are. Your chops should be improving from regular practice, but a big part of things is just where you want to go. Nice job man. I grew up on some pop punk. Love me The Clash (roots punk) and some Stooges (Raw Power specfiically, proto punk), but it was pop punk that first caught my ears growing up. It can be a cool sound and since it is intuitive for you, it could be a successful direction to go.

Thanks for the advice! I'll try that out with the clarity thing. I've been working on bridging slightly, because I want to be the best I can be. I have a long way to go there for learning how to bridge and all. Thank you! And The Clash rocks btw.

It didn't sound nasal too me. It sounded a lot like the original, down to the brit accent trying to sound american, while you are american, to begin with.

Your weakest spot is the low notes. You need to get closer to the mic to get those some prominence.

Yeah, I've been trying to work on making sure I use my own voice but I still struggle at times. I used to do impressions before I learned to sing, and when I learned to sing, in order to stay on key I would impersonate the singer. It was very beneficial I just have to stop taking on the character of the original singer of the song so much when I sing. I'll try to work the mic better on the next one, thank you for all the VERY helpful advice!:)

I like it! nice voice

Thanks!

Yes. I covered 5 Seconds of Summer. They're catchy dangit..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6vnDkLJZGo


Constructive criticism is always appreciated. Vocals are a bit nasally but I think it fits the genre.

Pretty nice man, I love Mayday Parade... I feel like you can do a lot better though I don't know why it's the feeling I get.

Also, it's pretty clear to me that you have the range to do those songs in a higher key!! Try it out higher

Thanks! Me too! I might try it again one day. I've been working on my upper range so you may be right. Sorry for the late reply!:P

Thank you! And yeah I just tuned it down to c# standard so that's very possible. Strings are still adjusting.:/

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Got a bit of emotional investment in these songs so hopefully that worked in my favor. Hope up I all like it.

Awesome song Casen. I love the tone in your voice and that vibrato fits your style.

I have lived so many places that I am not sure what a real Home feels like anymore. But I do still remember how I felt as a child in my first Home. And I still miss that. But I have also Taken my heart with me every where I travel and new people become my family even if only for a few years at a time.

Great job and thanks for helping me remember my first home. To me that is what songs are about. A story and inviting the audience to experience it with you.

Thank you so much! Glad it meant something to you!=]

Casen,

Fixed it for you. All you have to do is click "YouTube", remove the "s" from http://, and place the link between and .

Hope this makes sense.....

Sincere Regards,

Adolph

Thank you! I'll remember that next time.=]

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Recently moved out of the house I've been in for my entire life and I wrote this song about the experience, and recorded it in the empty house. Hope you all like it!

Edit: I apparently don't know how to embed. Here's the link.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=dmPp5va_fXw

I hope you do "Every Rose has it's thorn." It might be a "rock ballad," but it is just as easily a country song, especially with the accent Brett was using in it. if it weren't for the pyrotechnical solo of CC Deville, you would have thought it was country.

I think I should be able to do that one.. Might try something different with it.

ronws: I really like Every Rose Has Its Thorn!

MDEW: Thank you!

Felipe: Thanks for the honesty, I'll work on it.:)

Whoa! Those are really cool! My (extremely conservative) grandparents watch the videos so I'm not sure about Highway to Hell..Any other ideas?:lol:

Thank you all so much! I really appreciate it!

Hope you all like it!

This is fantastic! I don't think I'm an expert or anything so I can't offer much critique. You did really good though, and I really like that song.:)

Me, too. It can be unnerving. But I think there is a difference between acknowledging the presence of the audience through the camera and just winking at it. Look at some of the videos by Overdrive. He knows how to address the camera and put on a show.

I think I get what you're saying. I'll work on it! Thank you again for all the advice and whatnot. I have confidence issues with this stuff sometimes so it really helps a lot. (I've only been singing for two years.)

I really liked it.

You remind me of me. When I was your age. Even now, I am still playing a guitar and singing in whatever room in the house. Except that I own the house, now.

Keep doing what you are doing. I think young ladies still dig the guy that can actually play a guitar like you and sing a song that makes them all romantic, and stuff. They play songs like this all the time on the tv show, "The Practice."

So, what you need to do is write your own songs like this. Get them published, then arrange a synchro-license so that it can be used in a show. Then, make a million dollars.

Seriously, you can already do something that award-winning songwriter James Blume cannot do. And that is play an instrument. Or sing. He can do neither but he owns his own house and car from writing songs. Whereas, you could do that.

And of course, others are going to say, I'm just giving you a "well don" because I am a softie. I am a softie that buys music. And I would buy this. That translates to financial success. Singing well is not about the highest note ever created by a human. It's about bringing something to the audience.

However, your "stage craft" can use a little work. Your eyes wander. Engage the audience. You do that well enough in your prologue. Keep it going while you sing. Singing live is not about perfection so much as it is about moments, memories. One of the best performances I had did not hardly touch the passagio. But it had the audience singing along because we were all caught in memories from when we first heard the song.

Thank you so much! I actually do write my own songs, I guess I just need to publish some of them. Albeit mine are normally about different things. And yeah that's true. I try not to do that when I play live, I just always feel weird when singers look directly at the camera so I try not to do that.:P

Hope you all like it! Any constructive criticism/advice is welcome!