Lucca

Nice tone! Nothing that is really wrong here, just a few small things: Your general tone seems to be a bit closed at times, a Eddie Vedder-kind of singing that needs a little more energy and support if you want to do it like that cause like this it sometimes seems like you are not reaching the notes fully. For example you sing something like "daag" for "dark" and dont open the vowel fully. You could play around with opening it more and with that the notes could come even easier. Try to make your tongue flatter because for me that closed sound often comes when my tongue is blocking my air path. As for the bridge where Ed does his wolf-howling-thing if you want to reach the note better and move closer to Ed´s sound then you are letting to much air escape through your vocals folds. He as a fuller sound that is not so falsetto-ish. He is singing a tight "uh" there. And that is all, nice rendition!

Awesome sound!!! The jazz part was really good and I also like the metal part. Interesting to hear a prog song without high vocals once in a while. But for my taste there could have been a little scream in there, maybe at 00:52. How did you mix your vocals? They sound really good.

Wow! Really good. I didnt like the original because of the autotune and muddy vocals but I really love your version.

Sounds dope! Gives the song a new quality for me.

Errr, Sleeper, you do realise that the recording is not Geoff? @Metallic, It sounds dope to me. But make sure those notes are not strained. I cant really tell with some of those notes if you had to strain to get them or if it is just an effect. For example at 2:38.

Nice Cover. Like your tone, like the feeling. My tip for you: Take it slow! You rush in the chorus and in some parts of the verses. A song like this lives of the honest feeling. With a slower pace you can achieve that even more. Also maybe cut back the riffs and runs a little bit. They are really cool but to my ears you use them so often that it loses its effect. Range wise and general vocal technique wise this song is really easy. So the most important part here was the tone and the feeling. You nailed both. So maybe next time try something that challenges your range a little bit more?

The Jared Leto thing was just in case. I think you sounded stronger than him and not so screamy. I just listend to their new album and was a bit stunned by his really fryish sound.

Dont worry Neko your english is fine. I mean, it also just my second language so who am I to judge? But, yeah, I can understand everything you wrote ( I think the thing that is the hardest about this language is the tenses, all this stuff with going to, will, and so on. I try to stay away from that even though I understand it). So back to topic. Now I can give you a bit more detail about your performance. It sounds really cool. So on "Kings and Queens" you are straining and that is also were I have a problem with the pronunciation. You are singing "We are the kIngs and QueIns". The "I" is killing you there a bit. It closes of the sound and gives you also that unhealthy distortion that comes from the throat. In the original Jared sings more of "We are the kAngs and QueAns". My advice is to listen to this part in the original and to exagerated this pronunciation becouse if you close the sound so hard it will damage your voice in the long run and fatigue it in the short run. Try to sing more on an really open "Ah". Also I would help you to throw a short "h" in before you start with the "we". Take the background chorus (the hohos). Listen when you start those. You start with what is called an wind and release onset. You first let a litte bit air trough (that is what you will use the "h" for) and then "release" the sound. Try that. It will give you more freedom. (More such techniques you will find in the Four Pillars of Singing, which is a great product by the way) The other thing i didnt understand was "we are the phantoms of ourselves". I didnt understand that right because what I hear in the original lyrics is "we are the victims of ourselves". Next thing is "Maybe the children of a lesser god." You kind of swallow the "d" in "god". Try to make a very short but audible "d" at the end there so that it doesnt sound like you would sing "gou". The short d will create the illusion to the listener that you are indeed singing a real word. I heard also a few more lyric mistakes ("Into your lies" instead of "Into your eyes"). Take a look at this: http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/30secondstomars/kingsandqueens.html At 2:17 you are swallowing the last "se" from "defense". You are singing "defe". At 3:14 you are swallowing the "s" from "the darkness comeS at dawn". At 3:22 you are swallowing the "s" from "lessons". You are singing "lesson". At 3:24 the lyrics are "we´ve learned here" and not "we learned here". Also on "here" make sure not to only sing "heaaaaaaare" but also throw a very short "hieaaaar" in so that it sounds more like the actual word. Make the "i" really really short so that you dont close up your cords but it should be there so that we can understand the word better. So all in all a great performance but try to open the sound more and avoid to sing long "ihs". Make them very short. In "maybe" when you would sing "maybiiiie" sing more like "maaaaaaaaybie". Try that out. If you work on the ending of the english words it will sound more natural and your accent will not become so apparent in the singing. The endings can be short. Escpecially if they are something like an "ih". But the endings have to be there. Otherwise your accent will shine through. You will gain a kind of "singers" accent if you train that. For example when I talk you know that english is not my first language but when I sing - not so much. Also a word of warning: Dont imitate Jared Leto on the way he belts. If you listen closly he is slamming his vocal cords together really hard on some notes and he is using an "ih" sound often. His voice is really crackly fryish in high notes now which to me seems like vocal damage. So work that open sound so you can really continue to sing amazing.

Cool singing here! Doesnt sound strained to me. Or is it? Nice tone, you caputred the spirit of the original while also giving it your own mark. Try to work a bit on the pronunciation of the words. Sometimes it is not possible for me to unserstand what you are singing. Also, I know that in the original there is the same level of effects but purly for feedback purposes it would be nice to hear your voice a capella.

My own vibrato story (haha, he said vibrato) is also training two different things. First I did the scales where you alternate between the notes faster and faster and therefore stretch your cords or something like that. Classic SLS. But I gave up after two weeks. And the month and years after that a natural vibrato came thru because I was just singing more than I had in my whole life. Now I am better than ever with my technique and I have to take control of my vibrato if I dont want it to just happen. In rock songs its a bit annoying. :D

Hey, nice one! I really like the english version. You certainly have the feeling and the tone down I think. But everything is a bit shaky to my ears there. Xamedhis advice holds true to this version also. Work the support, try entering the call "register" with the exercise Xamedhi wrote down and incorporate that feeling in your song. It also will help your vibrato. (Here is a cool video about that also )

Sorry to say but it is still really breathy the first 50% of the time. And to me it sounds as if you are holding back. Are you afraid to get loud? You have a nice tone so dont worry too much. You sang this song so low that you reached the bottom end of your range. Try to aim the sound more forward in the low end also. I think somewere below your nose in the roof of your nose is the best spot to aim it. That will help also a bit with the breathyness on the low end. Do you know the orginal Ryan Tedder demo of this song? That is for example a man singing the song. Maybe try something that lays really really super comfortable and also not too low? For me (and to me your voice sounds a little bit like mine) that would be for example Sunrise Avenue "Farytale Gone Bad". With a comfortable song you can really pratice to close your cords more and lessen the breathyness. Also it will improve your resonance. There are a few parts were you had a little bit of more resonant singing in this cover. For example at 0:23 "haloHOU". With the "h" you activate your breath support more. Work on that feeling. Keep going. :)

Maybe it has to do with the mixing of your voice but the chorus sounds to me in the original much bigger purly in terms of volume of the voice. Of course the singer is making the sound smaller after a few seconds but the beginning of the chorus to me is relativly strong. So if you practice the heys and huhs (literally singing "hey" and "huh"/ and TVS aka the four pillars of singing is the singing programm from Robert, the owner of this forum, its great ) it will help you get more into calling mode and therefore get more volume and tone in your voice. In the verses the singer is really relaxed but also has a bit more volume than you and in the choruses he has a bit more power than you there. I hear several backing vocals in the choruses and your chorus version sounds to me like one of those backing vocals, not bad, but also not lead vocal. Try to be a bit fuller in your sound. Thats what I hear in the song at least.

I liked it! Especially in the falsetto parts you sounded almost like Roy Khan. Its really challenging to change modes in such a quick time. Sometimes Roy uses light headvoice and sometimes falsetto. To my ears for example at 0:45 in your cover Roy would use more of an headvoice there. You might want to work on that. Other times in the song you did go into this direction. At 1:00 you sounded more connected to me (at the "ah"). This is what I mean with light headvoice. But in the original Roy uses more of an falsetto at this part. Of course this diffrence in vocal modes is in the range of your interpretation and I think your version also sounds good but I just wanted to point this little difference out to you. Hope this helps.

Painful? Not at all. Nice tone but a bit quite. Mak sure to feel the air in your stomach and to breath deeply there. Train that. First advice: dont stop singing and having fun with it while staying tension free in the throat (gotta watch out for tensions while singing the harmonies, too easy to strain there in my experience). Second Advice: Learn to sing high notes with a good teacher or a good vocal programm. If you want to eventually sing lead you most certainly will sing high notes also. And also if lead is your dream dont be afraid to go for it. It took two years for me to build up the confidence to say: Yeah, I wanna sing lead! Now! I could have learned so much in these years.

Has a really cool tone to it! If you feel little to nothing wrong in your throat after singing that then I think you could train with that to build resistance.

Just a fast note: Yeah, you sound really good! Just to give you also an opinion from someone who does not normally listen to this kind of music. In general terms of qualitiy you really sound beautiful! You could just go to a bar around the corner and perform this song there. The thing with hearing your voice is really weird but I think after a few recordings you should begin to like yourself. At least you should admire the certain qualities your voice can produce. Listen to it often, thats how I got used to the idea of "that is me". All the best, Lucca

Interesting Song. Didnt know the artist before. For your cover: Nice tone, you captured the sadness for me quit good in the slow verses. In the choruses there is a odd thing going on: and the moon will raise. For me you lack a lot of fullness. Like you said your support is lacking there. Try singing it with the voice from when you see someone across the street and when you "shout" "heeeeehhhy!" to them to make them notice. What do you mean with speech volume? It seems odd to me to keep quiet in a song like that. To me it feels like your are more talking then singing on the "raise". The funny thing is on "roar" you have a much fuller sound and it begins to sound more like the sound of the original. Also the last scream seems also much fuller to me but also kind of strained. Work on that feeling of fullness. The reason it gets harder on E is because the sound wants to get louder. Not in a shouting manner or pushed or anything. Its just the harmonics that would make your sound flow through the room (maybe there is a better more technical explanation. But the point is: Dont be afraid to go louder than speak but also stay relaxed down in the throat). To me you seemed kind of too restrained there. My feedback would then be to pratice your support. Try the wind and release onset from TVS. Its windy "heys" and "huhs" and really feel your breathing mechanism down in your belly come alive. I think the points I noted would be resolved if you would let go of the idea of speak-singing in terms of loudness and volume (of course it should be as tension free as speak but not the same in total) and would work on your support. Just my 2 cents. :)

Dont stop singing if it brings joy to you! I have been telling myself often enough that I cant sing but the cool thing is: It gets better with time. Your voice will grow. The main issue here is that you are not really singing (thats how it sounds to me). You are speaking on a note. The tone was 95% pleasant, so that is not a real problem. But you might be holding back your voice and not supporting well enough. Try to experiment with your breathing (practice DEEP breathing in your belly) and feel your voice "ringing" more, get it to a point were you can feel resonance and dont try to be extra silent because that will inhibit your growth immensly (at least it has stunned my growth). And also: If you didnt sing for a long time your voice may need a phase of stretching to really settle in a singing configuration. So dont give up and dont stop. :)

Yey, some K-Pop. Great version of the song! Liked your power and control though some notes sounded a bit heavy (Like Aspiring said). All those kpop songs are so stupidly high. But you did it! Kind of gives me the idea to cover something from BAP or BVQX. But it is kinda insane. ;)