Gsoul82

I did an acapella cover of All of Me a couple of months ago. I'm not really posting it to enter the contest, but you can accept it as an entry if you just want to put sombody else in.   http://www.smule.com/recording/all-of-me/299988988_100691364    

  Lol. I was at work. That's networking equipment.

Figured I would post this. Really worked on imitating his falsetto for this.   http://www.smule.com/recording/soulcurls-whenever-wherever-whatever-maxwell/299988988_115883672    

Yeah, Ronws, I agree.   Thank you, Jeremy.   It's interesting how people keep mentioning Marvin Gaye. I've never listened to him at all.   I've just tried to imitate this guy more than anyone else:   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjaB2j2dPY0

You forgot the link, lol

  Sometimes that can be tricky because something will be pitched properly, but it doesn't sound good, because of the placement of it. Here, it doesn't sound to me that you were flat, just the fact that you belted into it. I can tell that you could have easily applied the a more fitting technique there though, because you do it other places in the song.

Quite good. Even have his accent just about on point. Only thing I would've wanted to hear is you cry it out more, like at "stay with me".

  Thanks. If you click on the album cover next to the picture of the black guy (me), you'll hear me without the two girls singing.

  I just haven't bought a mic yet because I didn't think I had a good enough voice for that yet. Rob recommended me something that's supposedly the best USB mic there is, and it's in the $100-$200 range. I'm willing to go for that.

Everytime I listen to one of Beast's recordings, I want to sing

Makes me want to jump on the keys myself.

I thought it was nice for the most part.

  Thank you very much for writing all of that, Killer.Yeah, the lady was just somebody who joined the song I was singing. I don't even know her. I feel the exact same way about old school soul. I'm 23, but if I was born back then, I'd feel right at home. I can't say I feel the same way about a lot of the stuff that's being put out right now.   I really just sing as a hobby, but I'm honored you think I'm good enough to actually try and go somewhere with it. A few months ago, I actually considered creating a mixtape just so I could say I did it. I play the piano decently, and I just picked back up the guitar, so I just may do that.   In those recordings, I wasn't even singing right into a mic. I was using an app that uses plugged in headphones to block out background noise and I just had my phone sitting on a counter while I was standing up and singing. The phone's microphone was picking my voice up from a short distance. I've been thinking about a USB mic lately, but I'm not sure where to look. Any suggestions there?   I see. Yeah, I do know what twang is. One of my sub-hobbies with this is I like to listen to a bunch of singers and pick up on their techniques their using. Lately, I've stumbled into Joe's sound where he kind of rolls the sound up against the top of the hard palatte and backwards, and I've been imitating D'angelo a lot lately. I find I have an easy time of getting into his whole twangy setup that he often does up high. I'm trying to figure out what to do with my head voice, because it sounds a little plain for me. I also did start trying to learn rasp a few months ago, and I found that place that Fantasia and many gospel singers get into, so I'm trying to figure out a way to start using that.   Thank you again for the detailed response.

Well, you could always learn to sing whatever genre you want, but on these recordings, some of your inflections sound country-esque. I'd say, based on what you posted, I could hear you singing country, folk or pop just by continuing to do what you did here.

Thanks a lot, MDEW. Appreciate it.

I LOVE that song.  Very nicely done. I'm not too technical with things, so somebody else might have a better answer than me. What I did to help this is take songs, sing slowly and make a conscious effort of incorporating my whole range into them.

I'm not much if a Rock kind of guy, bur this is very well done. Sounds professional.

Been coming to this forum for a few months and figured I'd post something in here. Already recorded something and got feedback from one member on here and a few people elsewhere, so having recorded already, I figured I'd put it in here too. I started singing 3 years ago. I had no sense of pitch, and I really couldn't even carry a melody to a song like "Mary had a Little Lamb" All of Me by John Legend (Acapella) http://picosong.com/EdtU/ Ooh Baby Baby by Smokey Robinson and The Miracles Play the one near the top of the page that just says SoulCurls under it. http://picosong.com/Edtv/