Jarom

this is a song i recorded in my bedroom. a little pitchy as I felt melodyne took away from the vibe. 

I'd love to know your thoughts

First of all you're starting off better than most people I hear. However, work still needs to be done. I'd recommend singing with an instrument or a backing track to help you stay on pitch and singing at a lower volume so it's not as heavy. Those 2 things I think would help you a lot. You're tone is generally good but it does sound a little pushed to my ears. In my opinion the best trained singers sing sort of in between a regular talking volume and a whisper. I don't know if that makes sense but that's how I see it and imagining it like that is what helps me. 

4 hours ago, MDEW said:

Hey Jarom, What's up? Sounds pretty good to me, but I like happy little tunes. Kind of sounds like something from the early 70's. Like John Sebastian or Randy Newman. Cool.

I love love Randy Newman

I really dig it and I'm hoping it has radio potential. What do you think? 

Here's the Spotify link 

Youtube these days favors frequent uploaders. So, I've been posting a lot of quick simple covers and I'd love it if you could share some love.

here's my latest cover of big thief

I'm not really having any vocal issues but I do have issues performing it at live shows due to drummers not knowing how to play the song on the drums and people not able to sing the backing vocals. I've thought about using a minus track but that might seem to cheesy.

Heres a little video my friend shot of me performing in the studio 

My song passengers was a quick filler song for my EP "Blink of an Eye" but has turned into one of my biggest "hits" being extremely popular at live shows. What are your thoughts on it?

On 2/28/2017 at 6:16 PM, Draven Grey said:

Cool song! Your voice reminds me of the more famous male pop singers of the 80's. Your style of music is perfect for getting placement in movies and TV. That's a very viable and potentially very profitable career path and/or income stream.

I'm curious. Your placement is very much on your throat until you make edgier vowels sounds or go up in pitch. For instance, the first word you pulled up and forward in the song was "make". But in general you didn't lift the voice to the soft palate unless you went to higher notes. It gives an interesting and unique sound to your voice, but also a bit inconsistent. Did you do that on purpose? I'm not saying it's bad, just unique. The singer for Disturbed did very similar placements for their cover of The Sound of Silence.

I think working on keeping your vowels lifted more to the soft palate (possibly edged towards the hard palate) and away from speech vowels will make your voice more consistent in sound across the board. It would still go deeper into the soft palate as the pitch raises, but your tone, timbre, and breath support would be more consistent. The quickest way to tell the difference would be to smile (which naturally supports lifting of the voice) and also place a finger on your bottom lip and try to sing up and over it.

 

Thanks for the reply, yea the placement like that was done on purpose i knew what i was doing.  

Ok, how about the title track "blink of an eye"

Anyone?

I thought I'd post an official review my singing thread for my new EP "Blink of an Eye" available on all major music platforms. What are your thoughts? What do you like? what do you not like? whats your favorite song?

iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/blink-of-an-eye-ep/id1208272015

Spotify

I just got back from the studio and just finished another song. The ep is coming together and should be released early next year. I am realy liking the way my voice has developed. When I first started I couldent sing above middle c and didn't know how sing anywhere remotly close to the pitch. 

41 minutes ago, 2 cats in a dust bin said:

I just googled that and it appears to be a song

you dont actually expect me to sing that rubbish do you

 

 

 

You don't have to, but its a good start. The song may sound silly but it has done wonders for many people (at least in my family). If you haven't noticed already, it goes through each note in an octave. Just like Julie Andrews sings in the song "when you know the note to sing you can sing most anything". You could also sing it with numbers such as 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 1 being the bottom note and 8 being the top.

Oh, and its a good movie... watch it if you haven't seen it.

You need to work on pitch. I had the same problem when I started. Doe ray me fa so la te doe. master that

On 7/9/2016 at 6:40 PM, ronws said:

A little slice of life. I like it. Made me think of Talking Heads with a higher range.

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1 hour ago, 2 cats in a dust bin said:

This is becoming to be a bit of a joke now it really is

The link works fine for me as a download when logged out

 

It doesn't matter if you can download it. The policy is that you need to post streamable content. 

2 hours ago, ronws said:

By the way, Jarom, great song. Are you recording or MIDI programming the instruments or do you have some guys with instruments. Those drums are tight.

Its a mix of both. My producer is a drummer so i had him play the drums (electric drums) i just kinda told him what i wanted and he played it. I played the piano and the bass was done with an electric. 

3 hours ago, KillerKu said:

I liked the melody, some of the hi hat/snare interplay on the drum, and the piano hook next to the chorus. I like your vocals have a kind of quirky crying/yelping quality to them. Kind of reminds me of a cross between David Byrne and Matt Bellamy.

The highest portion broke immersion just a tiny bit on first listen. I liked it more on second listen so it might be an ear catching thing which could be good or bad.

The diction is a bit unclear, but I can understand most of it. I think it's overall good.

 

Yea, I like my last song "can you feel it" better but I seem to be liking this one more and more the more I hear it. It is definitely one of those songs that needs to grow on you. Maybe it will be different once it's finished. 

I just got back from the studio. I am currently recording an ep and this is a bit of a song I'm working on. Right now it has a scratch vocal, drums, piano, bass, and some pads. 

http://vocaroo.com/i/s1QnIhYX2w5p

I love Keane. They are one of the biggest influences for my songwriting.