Gsoul82

He's one of my heroes, but I've never gotten quite that kind of timbre in my falsetto. I know it's twangy but never got it dialed in quite with such a nice texture.

 

 

I did what you commented on as being a quiet version of Al Green by imitating a duck quack or buzzer sound and manipulating it with twang and breath support. I did it in head voice in that ACDC clip, but yeah, just did it in falsetto and it sounds closer to him.

On the ACDC clip your placement almost sounds like an extremely quiet Al Green. If you turned up the volume on that thing, letting it swell in size, I'd be curious where it'd go.

 

This is one of my dream songs to be able to perform it even half as well as Al would really be a thrill:

 

 

I've crashed and burned on many times. But I can hear that slight compression on your falsetto there that sounds similar to what he does but quieter and has a really nice texture to it.

 

 

Wow, I really never knew Al Green did stuff like that. I can see more ways regarding how I could make use of something like that now rather than just using it for powerful exclamations.

Thank you again. I was actually just having a discussion with somebody else about rasp. I can do some of it, but I rarely use it. I think I'll start pushing it a little more.

 

Here's a couple snippets of me experimenting with it. It's a little difficult to sing words clearly when I use it, but that's just because I don't practice it:

 

http://picosong.com/Vinb/

 

http://picosong.com/ViFn/

 

And when I mentioned the progress topic, I meant more of a from-nothing-to-something kind of thing where you can see how I went from having bad pitch and having no type of texture to my voice to having vibrato, this deepness that you seem to like and a nice falsetto.

 

Yeah, you seemed like you had an interesting quality about your voice where it wasn't necessarily something I'd categorize as a "rock" voice or any one specific genre.

 

I slacked for months and months but I've just started to practice everyday again. I never thought I'd be able to do some of the stuff I can do now at this point in my training. My coach gave me a mixture of classical/gospel training for a couple years as well as piano, so that's where I come from.

Your voice is badass, computers vacuuming or not. It sounds effortless as in the timbre is naturally appealing.

 

You probably have a great speaking voice too.

 

Thank you. Actually, believe it or not, I actually had a pretty big speech impediment before I started singing. I had a coach that really stressed diction though. He had a really pleasant speaking voice. He had this really proper way of speaking, and it made you think he was from the south, but he wasn't.

Anyways, I naturally really started to work on pronunciation while singing and it also improved my regular conversational speech. Not sure if I'd say my speaking voice is pleasant though. Jens has heard me talk.

 

I actually just started thinking about making a progress topic. I still have random recordings that I've made over the years since I first started practicing.

Check out my new cover guys, was a lot of fun to make!  It's got some of those damned F4s in it.. they were tough but I pulled them off decent enough. 

 

http://picosong.com/VUVi/

 

edit: I know there are some problems with this cover, it's definitely not to my potential.  I did both the tracks on first take and just rolled with it because it was damn fun.  Feel free to call out any issues you might be able to help with though.  I'm already aware of where all the pitch problems are though.  

 

edited with better version of cover

 

Nice happy song. Not my usual cup of tea, but I can appreciate what is being conveyed here.

 

 

     There are quite a few songs that I thought about recording to post, then changed my mind thinking no one would know them or like them. A few days later I would see them in the list of new Posts here. "You're Sixteen" was one of them.  "Country Roads" was another. Add to that "Sunday Morning Comin" Down" and "Rockin' Robin" from a few years ago...

    They don't call them "Oldies but Goodies" for nothin'.

 

You already know, as an R&B guy, I completely gave up on that, lol. I'll just sing whatever and hope somebody will listen whether, they know it or not.

thanks Ron

 

 

I like how you used slight hints of vibrato throughout.

This is a better example. Pretty much the whole song.

 

 

 

   

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Ah, I see. I'll try to imitate that and upload a sample. If you want to learn how to do what I'm doing, then I'll explain it.

   Ron hit it on the Head...... Blackfoot....Train,Train......Molly Hatchet....."Can't you see"  Pretty Much any southern Rock group does that Growly thing when going to the "Head Voice" area of G4 - C5.   Even John Mellencamp  uses it......

   It is different from the distortion of Metal.   A lot of the old Blues men use it too.

 

I'm sure you're talking about what's being done around 53 seconds in here.

 

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OT8fJzJtxo

 

 

I'll try to figure it out. Mine doesn't quite sound like that, but I don't think it's far off.

Don't be fooled. Gsoul does use rasp.

    Believe me if I could belt I would have. I have noticed that when those southern rock guys sing above G4 they get this cool growl and they are up there.

I never figured out how they do it. Even those on this forum with awesome voices go for the falsetto/headvoice belt not the fat growl. Any one know how it is done?

 

Any examples of that? I may know what you're talking about.

    Thanks GSoul, I liked your version. You have a better voice for this than I do.

   I wasn't going to post this yet because the guitars are too tinny sounding. My neck pickup comes and goes and this time it went.

  So I was just playing around trying to get the feel for it. The mixing sucks more than I wanted also. The Voice? Well that's why I am here.

 Any tips are helpful and taken seriously.

   I used Felipe's piano track and added a few Guitars.

 

    

 

Thanks. The only thing about it is I'm not out of my element if I do that song, because I normally do some of the stuff he would do, as a deep-voiced R&B enthusiast.

 

I listened to the one you just did. Not bad. I like what you did at the 3:20 mark. Little changes in the phrasing like that is the kind of stuff I like to hear. Keep thinking like that. My coach would have me sing a song classically and then have me sing something my way. He'd always ask me, "Now, what could you do here differently?" Now, you wouldn't necessarily sing every line in the song differently, unless your goal is to completely rewrite it, lol, but what can you add to it to make it your own? Maybe change up the phrasing here or there, use falsetto in a place John Legend didn't, an inflection here or there: "Oh oh!" or "Yeah! Yeah!" where there's a gap in the lyrics? These are just some things to keep in mind.

 

Question, were you trying to sing over the instrumental? I find it's easier to get thrown off if you do that. Is there a way for you to turn the volume down on that so that you can focus on monitoring your voice throughout the track, and then turn it back up after the vocals are recorded?

Thanks Ronws, I'm just wondering if anyone else will even listen to it.

After all I am a Hillbilly who looks like he escaped from the cast of Duck Dynasty.

I have no buisiness trying an RnB love song. I think I did it justice this time.

One thing I love is when somebody takes a song and makes it their own. Yeah, it's originally sung as an R&B song, but does it have to be that when you do it? I don't think so. I want to hear an MDEW version, not John Legend, if you catch my drift ;)

Nice effort. I heard some good things.

I´ve been fan of metal music all of my life but i always thought my voice is too soft/ falsetto style to sing those songs and i still believe so after this try   i sound like 10y old choir boy and i am almost 45y   what do you think?

 

 

 

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Maybe it's me, but I don't hear that at all from you. Maybe try experimenting with breath support and different things to change your sound (twang,, switching between resonators) and see what happens. 

Your accent goes nicely with that MJ-style softness.

No attempt yet, but check this beast out

 

 

Was a little distracted by the guy in front of the camera picking his nose and eating it. WTF?

I love ben folds especially ben folds five

 

Yeah, they do some interesting harmonies.

I've gotten into the habit of singing songs outside of my preferred genre of singing lately.  Some songs I've never even heard before. What seems to be intriguing me a lot lately is the whole idea of "How would I do this song if I sang it my way?" or "How would I improvise this part?" Even the idea of how a certain singer I listen to might do a certain song that's not by them. I feel it's an interesting way of seeing your identity. Singing a song in the same genre, you may do a lot of the type of stuff the original artist might do, but when you go out of your comfort zone, you end up with something more pure.

 

Always liked Ben Folds though, and this was the first song I ever heard from him. If you like Elton John, and you don't know about this guy, check him out.

 

So, here's a little cover I did while sitting at my desk in the early morning hours. A quick little pause here or threre, because some of the lyrics I was reading off of were wrong.

 

http://picosong.com/Vzr4/

 

Here's also a cover I did of Angel by Sarah Mclachlan. This one isn't acapella. I was doing a duet cover, so I did the first verse and didn't say anything for most of the second, but I sang the rest of it. This recording has just my voice though.

 

http://picosong.com/Vzpt/

This is the type of voice that'll make girls weak in the knees! Dude you have amazing falsetto. I feel like you have the down for the most part.

 

I don't know about all of that, but thank you, lol. I've been using it more lately.

 

If you like high notes, here's another song where I do it from beginning to end. It was actually my first time seeing the lyrics to this song or hearing it in about 15 years, so I was trying to figure out how to sing it as I progressed. That's actually a good exercise for ear training and pitch.

 

http://picosong.com/VtCA/

I'm going to reply to this one since you made an updated topic. It's good that you joined a choir. That's going to give you a commitment to keep singing. What's really going to help you to sing beautifully is daily practice. As I was starting out, I was told one thing that really stuck with me. Voice majors in college are always praticing. When they wake up, they're humming. When they're in the shower, they're singing scales. When they're walking down the street, more scales. They want the best voices they can have, and so they're always practicing so that they will attain that. Now, you shouldn't be doing that much at the start. Your voice will be fatigued in less than an hour of continuous practice, and once you get that fatigued feeling, it's best to stop for the day. Also, if something hurts or feels uncomfortable, stop it immediately. Get in that mindset though. Practice with a sense of purpose. You're going to sing beautifully one day if you continue to practice.

 

Now, like I said, it doesn't have to be one block or practice at one point in the day (example, practicing for a half hour from 8:30 at night to 9:00 at night). It can be done throughout the day. The point is to commit to getting the practice in.

 

Thank you for the compliment, by the way.

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

 

 

Beautiful voice you got but what´s up with the vacuum cleaner sound in the background  

 

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