Clint Torres

You're doing fine Just keep singing. Don't get too caught up in the details. Keep them in mind, but mostly sing a whole lot!. Experiment and mix things up (techniques). Emotionally: Think about the song. Listen to a few different versions and interpretations. Find your own understanding of the song and maybe connect with it emotionally by something you can identify with. A past experience. Then there is also the beat. Happy? Sad? Blue? mellow? Crying? Then the flow of the melody, the drum and/or bass beat. Yea, it's more than just learning the words and repeating them to a melody. But it isn't rocket science either. Your'e doing good.

as far as the Falsetto part. It's a slow song so although the attack may have slipped, I wouldn't have (didn't) notice and it could have been an artistic choice. Soft and airy! It fit. I heard Eva's version and thought it was a bit more moody and emotional. THAT! Is kind of what I mean by interpretive lines. It's not so much a small mouth thing as it is shaping the mouth to aid in projecting and shaping the tones. Widening the mouth on certain notes or vowels and narrowing or pursing on others. Even a sort of smile for certain pop sounds or EE.

Well, I think you sing well! But I'm not sure about the interpretation. I had to listen twice and the second time without watching. Please don't take this the wrong way, but I was bored by the song. Once again, the interpretation was lacking for me. But. I found it a little bit better just listening and not watching the video. You looked bored. So I felt bored. I started to wonder if you were just singing while washing the dishes. I saw no expression at all and I think it was bleeding over into your song interpretation. The interpretive lines of the song. At first I was confused because I barely even saw your mouth moving or opening. I didn't know how you were going to fill out those notes without opening your mouth! Falsetto!! Ohhh nooo. There was just a whole discussion on this in another thread. If you didn't mention it I wouldn't have listened for it. And even listening I didn't hear anything that would have caused my eyebrows to raise. Stylistic choices. Sounded good. Overall singing wise was pretty good though.

I think your voice sounds nice. When I say I think I mean I think. That's because I can't be sure since you are barely singing If you had a bit more support and put a little more projection into the vocals I think you'd be on to something. Your voice sounds nice now but it is just moving passed the speaking phase and into singing. You need to head further down that singing road. No offense intended here but at times it sounded like you were singing double vocals. Did you record yourself over yourself or did you autotune that?

I liked this. I've heard a couple of your recordings in the last few days and I have to say you have a pleasant voice and sing well. However there is something I noticed in all of your recordings and I can't quite put my finger on what it is. I want to say that the sound is sort of pinched (?). Somehow it isn't full sounding. Maybe bring the note down more? (sorry....I lack the ability to explain it on text). Open the throat? Allow more sound out of the mouth? A rounder note perhaps. I want to hear a fuller more ringing sound. Right now I am forced to think you just got an inhale of helium and are just barely starting to feel the effects. You are bordering on moving to a mickey mouse sound. Does it make sense? It's very little. but to my ears it's there. But the singing is still very good :)

See you then. Sing it like you mean it!!! :cool:

There is no need to give up. Especially if it is something you enjoy. Because then there is no pressure and you have all the time in the world. Someday you look back and see how far you've come and you're happy you didn't give up. It takes practice. Wait, scratch that. It takes correct practice. You just need to be taught. Find a teacher and in one lesson he can better explain what I can in 15 posts. But projecting more is a simple enough concept right? Start there. Practice a song you normally sing and this time sing it louder as if you had no mic and you had to have the people in the back of the room hear you. Of course then your pitch will need to be adjusted as will other things, but that is how you start learning. You may be having a hard time learning because you are starting wrong and trying to make adjustments in the wrong direction. No matter how much you practice maneuvering your car it will never be right if you are doing it with flat tires. Start on the right foot and go from there. Don't give up. Just take the first step, then the next, and the next.

Your voice doesn't sound bad but it isn't singing. It is more like you are talking and adding a bit of rhythm to your voice. I say rhythm because I hesitate to say melody. But you aren't actually singing. If I were standing next to you you would speak to me in that tone. But if I moved across the other side of the room, say a very large room, then you would have to speak louder. You should be singing with at least that intensity, albeit there is more to it than that, but the point is it isn't a speaking tone or intensity. The support is different. The voice needs to project more, have more support and also resonate and have more ringy tone. In your speaking voice notes get lost in pitch as they get lower and sound flat/bad even if the rest of the song is on pitch. There is much more to it but this is a basic critique and as far as the how too's I'm not the guy But what you are doing now isn't singing. It's only like you reading a poem out of a book and deciding to be a bit melodic about it.

I thought it sounded good