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Do another cover, Umesh. I'd love to hear it.

This is hilarious and I'm getting a huge kick out of it. Your voice is badass but it sounds on the verge of laughing with these random kids joining in. I love the depth of your timbre. Anyway, I can't even think of how to critique your voice cause I keep laughing. So while I'm in a good mood, I'll respond on other subjects:

 

Aaron Neville is most famous for this song, he has a great falsetto as do you:

 

 

My favorite song with a reference to children singing (although the choir may or may not include) is this version of Heaven Help Us All

 

 

The most amazingly bad song I've ever heard including children is not yours dude, The Clash actually released it for real on Sandinista covering their own song:

 

 

Ok.... Now that the children are out of my system. I'm going to try to listen and critique again.... 

 

Nope, hahaha, I started laughing again. You're an artist, you got an emotional response from me.

I thought it was adorable. Almost like a chorus class was going on.

Thanks, Ronws, for bringing this guy up. I really like how he tip-toes through his melismas, and thanks Killer, for posting those videos.

I guess if I had to critique myself, it was pitchy here and there. Probably should have warmed up first. It was fun anyways though, so I didn't want to do re-do it.

Not any worse than kids singing along with the Jackson 5, the Osmonds, or the DeFrancos, though you may not have heard of them. But they were popular in southern California, about 50 something years ago.

 

Sounded cool, to me.

 

You had some Neville-esque quality going on there.

Yeah, I've heard of the Osmonds. I just thought it was cute that they were singing along, even though it might be a strange song to sing along to.

Thank you. Tried to put in a few different elements here.

Who's Neville? I've heard that name before.

Hello,I`m Robert from Romania,i have 22 years

For me it’s first time when i do that

If you cant tell me about me voice..it’s not important if are only critics

I don’t know notting about music,but a want to sing in future,never say never:)

Sorry for english

Just listened. I didn't know the song "Story", but I saw that you also recorded "Hero", so I listened to that one too. It's good that you have the "never say never" attitude. You have plenty of time to turn singing into a career. The mistake people make a lot, and I blame the media for this, is that you either make singing into a career immediately, or you don't make it at all. They'll have you believe, if you haven't been singing since you were a kid, you've got no chance. And they'll develop these made-up stories about people to fool you. You can work on developing a different career that will support you while you're getting your voice ready for a career. You've got a lot of time.

As for your voice, there are some things that need to be worked on. You are singing as if you're talking, but the two are different. You likely haven't learned how to use your diaphragm yet. You need to learn that, because, if you keep singing through your throat, you're going to ruin your voice. Work needs to be done on pitch as well. You can fix all of that and still have a career in singing though. If you really want this, you just need to practice everyday and it's going to come. It's just like working out. Like I said up there, you have a lot of time. There's no reason why you can't develop an amazing voice by your mid-20's. Want bigger arms? Do arm exercises. Want a stronger voice? Do voice exercises. If you want to know how to practice, post a thread in the "vocal technique" section saying that you're a beginner who is trying to find out where to start.

Ohhhh I see... yeah I've also noticed that many people don't like James Blunt but anyways I love this song hehe...

And yes you are somehow correct. Many Names in India are like this .. cool seems you know quite a much about India

Well Thanks again bro.. I will try to work on my accent in future.. Let's see...

I don't like James Blunt and I've never heard the song before, but it sounded nice when you did it, so that's cool.

My bad, man. I watched all of the recordings a few days ago, but forgot to reply. I'm probably the only person on this forum who even knows who Drake is, lol. You've got something coming along there. There are people that really like that way of stretching out the phrasing that you use here.  Some work should be done on pitch. Besides that, I don't know what I can really speak on, because I'm not sure what you want to be able to do with your voice. Who are your influences?

As far as Drake goes, that's a low bar to rise above singing-wise, lol.

Very good. You actually do sound like Amy Lee.

I have something a little different this time. I've been working on my improvisation a lot lately. I did this cover with somebody else and tried to fill in some of the silence and add to the song while they were singing. As some people may know, this is a pop song. I'm not really a pop guy, so I put my own spin on it.

http://picosong.com/Xy7m/

Don't get creeped out that some little kids are singing a love song with me, LOL. I sang first and they joined me

Hi Friends,

 

Here's another cover which I performed recently on a song of James Blunt - Bonfire Heart.

 

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I hope you guys will like.

 

Please give a little of your valuable time to check this out and let me know your feedback. Still trying to improve.

 

Thanks a lot,

 

Umesh Kumar

Not bad. Only thing I would say is the music is up too loud.

Great singing - that smooth high voice an the vibrato. Many people out there

are gonna like this falsetto of yours.

Thanks a lot. Really pleased to see a lot of people appreciate this. It never was my goal to do anything other than sing for fun, but it's nice to know there's potential for something more.

    I would like a third opinion on this. I can definitely be wrong and if I am it could explain some of my own problems but I do believe the first attempt of mrno1324 is the proper pitch only using a lighter phonation. The second attempt is an octave lower.

    Any else want to chime in?  Please if I am mistaken explain why so myself and mrno1324 can understand the difference.

I thought the Soundcloud recording was higher than the guy singing in the YouTube video.

Thank you, . You should try it, playing an instrument at the same time really makes the song feel more real to me when I record.   

I know exactly what you mean. I play the piano while I sing sometimes. I just haven't recorded it. Very nice playing, by the way.

I'm not a folk guy, but well done. Seeing everybody recording stuff while playing instruments makes me want to do the same.

Smooth voice G. Sorry it took so long for me to realize you posted this. That falsetto is awesome.

It's cool. Always nice to have someone check something you did out. Thank you.

Couldn't help... love the song and love the idea! And I can't stop singing ))

sorry for the short version, but I had to do it in a higher key and the minus track I found turned out to be a short one...

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Wow, never thought I'd see a gospel cover in here. Nice one.

This is my cover of Ailee and 2LSON's I'm In love from the Re:Code OST.

This song is really hard to sing and I tried my best >.< I hope you like it and all feedback/advice is welcome.

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Are you sure you didn't accidentally post the original song? Sounds professional. That's a hard song for you? O.o

Very nice. Solid!

And I thought the falsetto was a nice touch. Sometimes you need something light to get the panties wet

Yeah, I think we can all get something out of doing that.

Looks like I forgot to reply to this one for some reason. I just played it and I know I heard this one already. Smooth. This is cool. Maybe we should get into the habit of choosing one song each month and everybody will try to sing it. Not necessarily a monthly contest where a winner is chosen, but something where everybody just does their own take on the song. And it should change genres every month. Like, this is considered an R&B song. Maybe next month it could be a rock song. Or maybe a country song? Maybe I'll make a topic about it.

Nice and smoothe my man, butter with the lows. I can definitely hear the inner Maxwell when you go up in the False.

 

I see you representing for the Grown Folks' side of R&B. Keep it up.

Thanks a lot. It's always nice to hear something from somebody who recognizes the artist. I guess the grown folks side is right. Every artist that I think of as a major influence was singing during the 90's.

Please don't be harsh or mean or anything, just an average guy trying his hand at something new! Feedback would be appreciated and thanks for taking the time to listen!!

 

cheers

Lol, this isn't really the place where you have to worry about somebody being mean. Everybody is working towards something here. I could barely hear you in this, so I wish you would do something with a bit more volume.  I hear certain qualities that will sound nice a little later on. Some work needs to be done on pitch. I couldn't really here what you were saying, but I won't comment on diction because there's just a little background noise here.

Bit of a weird question, but I'm quite confused with this. When I try to cover songs that the artist seems to be singing in a range around their spoken voice it's much harder for me and I'm straining to hit relatively low notes like g1. I'm attaching a little sample, just two lines from a Rolling Stones song. g1 is actually the highest note I'm trying to sing there, and as you can probably hear I'm straining and I'm on the verge of going into falsetto. But when Mick Jagger does is it seems natural and around his spoken frequency. Not that I'm trying to be Mick Jagger, it's just bugging me why this is the case and it sounds so much different although I'm singing the same notes as him.

At this point I'm not even 100% sure I was singing in the same octave, maybe I was singing an octave higher, so in my recording I did it first in an octave I believe Jagger's singing in and then an octave lower, for comparison. So I guess I'm trying to ask which one of those two little two line performances is in the octave of the original. 

It also happens with other songs. I tried to do the Jeff Buckley version of Hallelujah and again during the highest notes he seems to be comfortable but when I try it I feel like I'm trying to sing an opera aria (it's on the same soundcloud account if you're interested). Pleas help me suss out what's happening, it's really annoying that I can't.

 

here's me: 

here's the original (the link is to the line I'm singing):  

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Thanks a bunch guys

Well, you may not be able to sing every song just like the original artist sings it. At least not right away. This is why we work on range. I have a singing voice that's on the deeper end, and when I cover a song by someone with a naturally higher voice, I may not be able to hit the same notes using the same part of the voice that they do, but I can hit the same notes 99.9% of the time

Nice one, Elvis. I think this is the first I heard from you.