Gsoul82

Hey Cats,
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Hey Cats,
Whenever you post a clip of your singing and ask for it to be critiqued, it becomes a Review my Singing Request. The Review my Singing (RMS) forum is a consultation service that we provide to help you get feedback on your singing and training. As such, it is a paid service because a thorough consultation of your training and singing takes time. We wish to provide you the best feedback and insights regarding your singing that we can.
 
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Hello Kris,
 
Welcome to our community.
 
Your Review:
 
- I like the sort of... "sleepy", down home vibe of your voice and delivery. I mean that as a compliment. The makings of a nice country delivery. Good start with potential.
- Your intonation is good, at least your potential for good intonation. You don't have a pitch problem that is serious. If the singing is slightly out of pitch it is only because there is a lack of musculature engagement , "support" inside your voice to keep the singing from slouching. A metaphor would be, your not sitting up straight in the chair. Your slouching, its a weakened position simply because you are not engaging the musculature and overall voice enough. 
- The good news is that to engage the voice more so that you will "sit up straight" and the singing will sound about 5x better is a very easy thing to do for you.
 
You need more compression on your vocal folds, or what we call vocal twang. You could also use more respiration to support as well. You need to open your mouth more so that you can get better resonance and more color from your voice.   
If you simply do those three things, this singing will be about 5X better!! You are very close to singing better, just need to remove the "lazy" and replace it with more activated, intentional, enabled musculature. Which would also mean you have some basic understanding of what you are doing and need to do, more so then you do now.
How do you do that?
You invest in yourself and your singing. You need to understand what vocal twang is and practice... just reading this advise isn't going to fix it. You have to commit to practicing some basic vocal workouts to strengthen your voice. I actually offer a very popular vocal training, home study program that many people around the world have benefitted from. At the moment, it is for sale for $49. Its a great deal, believe me. If you simply follow the warm-up routines in this program, that alone, will rocket your voice forward radically... guaranteed.
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Hope this helps.
Kind Regards,

You made a good attempt on these song. I commend you on your effort, especially since it sounds like English may not be your first language and English, which often makes English difficult to sing. I've trained a few students from other countries that spoke naturally much further back in the mouth and throat than English. I had to give them speech training as well as singing.
I think what Gsoul was asking is if you were trying to stay quiet. Your breath support and volume sound like you're trying to be as quiet as possible rather than sing out strong and proud.
I have some students who have struggled with the same type of volume and breath support simply because they didn't even think about volume control. Find a volume you think sounds good and fits the song, then try to keep all of your singing at that volume. Sometimes, different parts of a song will call for you changing your volume level, but you still want to stay consistent throughout each part. For instance, a chorus may sound betetr louder, a bridge might work better quieter, but it truly depends on the song and the emotion you want to convey. But volume control and breath support are not the main issue. It's very important, but I heard something else that could hold you back even more.
You seem to be singing a lot of speech mode vowels, rather than well placed singing vowels. Vowel placement is extremely different for singing than it is in speech. Learn to lift the vowels to the soft palate. You feel this happening if you smile when you talk. But unlike talking, you want to try and place all your singing vowels to feel more like they're coming from the soft palate than from the throat. Beside the smile, or embouchure (like the video below), you can also place your finger or mic on your bottom lip and try to sing up and over it. Try keeping all of your vowels there. 
Do you train? Do you have a teacher? I think you would benefit greatly from it. Check out the TVS Training Program linked to in the footer of this page. Even better, train with a teacher who is getting the results in their students taht you want to have yourself. And if you think you can't afford it right now, then at elast watch the video below and Robert's other videos too. He's one of the very few vocal coaches on YouTube who actually explain what they're doing well enough for you to learn from his videos. His course, which I mentioned above, is far more in depth though.
 

Danny,
Go to www.smule.com and use this product to get a basic recording with a bed track. I want to hear you without guitar. 
This is almost impossible to review until  you get a decent accompaniment.  

Yeah, I thought about that. Then there is the whole paying thing. I think you can only do like one song unless you pay.
I recommended it to people here before. If nothing else, it's a nice tool for singing a lot of stuff, improvisation and getting feedback.

Yeah, I just didn't want to bother with anything until I thought I was getting somewhere with my voice.
I've got GarageBand and I think I still have Logic Pro.

Wow, this is gold. You're grooving 

... Ok, I'll play along.
Here is my first Smule... Fun!
http://www.smule.com/p/1022091834_958398408
 

Wow, yeah it was. Every recording I put on here was with that, because it was always easier to do just so people could hear me. One of my resolutions in the resolution thread is to make something with my computer.
No idea I was using that. I remember you mentioned it in the book. Thanks for listening.

Well, I did the thing : D
 

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Welcome Safa1,
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Goofing around about two years ago.
 

Done:
Okay, so it's two years old. Does it still count? I wrote it, and even edited the video. That has to count for something.

Any holiday song, indeed.

Any holiday song, indeed.

It's that time of the year! A number of artists have just put out Holiday-themed albums, such as R. Kelly, The Rascal Flatts and Neil Diamond. Christmas, as well as some other holidays, are now upon us. There are literally tons of songs that can be sung here.
So, who would be up for a Holiday Season challenge?

It's that time of the year! A number of artists have just put out Holiday-themed albums, such as R. Kelly, The Rascal Flatts and Neil Diamond. Christmas, as well as some other holidays, are now upon us. There are literally tons of songs that can be sung here.
So, who would be up for a Holiday Season challenge?

I think I'll do Georgia On My Mind. I want something a little more challenging stylistically, but can't think of anything. 

Smooth octave siren from B3-B4. A little bit of shaky vibrato on top as well. 
http://vocaroo.com/i/s18bevv6u8D0

Here it is: my C#5. It's damn ugly, but it's there and connected with chest voice. 
http://vocaroo.com/i/s1FR95lRdHjI

Another challenge that people wanted to do, The Nationals Challenge! In this challenge, we will sing songs about our countries and songs about the places within. It's great for people to sing their national anthems but lets challenge ourselves and not just select short songs.

Another challenge that people wanted to do, The Nationals Challenge! In this challenge, we will sing songs about our countries and songs about the places within. It's great for people to sing their national anthems but lets challenge ourselves and not just select short songs.

Another challenge that people wanted to do, The Nationals Challenge! In this challenge, we will sing songs about our countries and songs about the places within. It's great for people to sing their national anthems but lets challenge ourselves and not just select short songs.