Gill Appleby

Thank you and yes agreed. I will try very hard to do that given the context of the song.   Yours and Robs comments definitely very helpful and steering me in the right direction. Much appreciated.

14 hours ago, Robert Lunte said:

Gill,

Nice work getting rid of the noise in here... now we can properly hear you.

This is better. 

Do it again and I want you to do two things:

1. watch your timing. You are rushing and jumping in front of your cues. Its rushing... so lay back.

2. Laying back more will also... get you to sing it a little more softer. It is a bit eratic, attacking too hard... soften the vocal mass just a bit.

Stop rushing the cues, get tighter on the timing & lay back more... a touch more "sleepy".

take 3!

Thank you Rob. Duly noted... Take 3 lol  

https://www.smule.com/recording/bette-midler-wind-beneath-my-wings/1088277799_1483226920 This is a warts and all presentation of my singing. I tried a different intro to Bette Midler. Be interested to know whether you guys think that is works. I was going to re-record correcting any vocal errors but i feel to get the best from a review I need to show where I'm actually going wrong as well as the well-executed parts  currently I have quite a poorly chest. Any thoughts on speeding recovery? Thanks guys.

5 hours ago, Gill Appleby said:

https://www.smule.com/recording/janis-joplin-mercedez-benz/1088277799_1481117166

This is the link to the new recording Rob 

33 minutes ago, Robert Lunte said:

Fun Gill. I can sort of hear your country draw... can you do this without the back vocals of JJ so we can hear your voice more clearly. It is masking your voice too much and sort of getting in the way. Let's hear YOU do it alone.

https://www.smule.com/recording/janis-joplin-mercedez-benz/1088277799_1481117166

Just now, Robert Lunte said:

Fun Gill. I can sort of hear your country draw... can you do this without the back vocals of JJ so we can hear your voice more clearly. It is masking your voice too much and sort of getting in the way. Let's hear YOU do it alone.

I'll have to re-record it Rob. Thinking of a way to get around the backing voxs and can see your point

https://www.smule.com/recording/janis-joplin-mercedes-benz/1088277799_1420463658/ensembles Please excuse the outro. And yes it's me singing with JJ in the background. Thoughts? 

30 minutes ago, Robert Lunte said:

Hi Gilly!

I think you get off to a strong start on this more or less... providing insight to what you could do with this. Stronger up to :29.

Very interesting... however,

At :30 you let go of your compression and what TA strength is still there and it leans into the falsetto spectrum.

I think this is a very good opportunity for you to do some A/B testing here. Listen to the color, attack, strength and confidence up to :29. Then notice how that all weakens at :30. Can you fix that by just having it pointed out to you?

Put another smule in here of the same song and pay attention to your support... musculature support; twang, TA "chest pulling/narrowing".. not respiration. I'll bet you can fix this easily if you just pay more attention to what your doing and someone such as I points it out to you.

PS:

Can you please embed the iframe code from your smule so that it is embedded into your post here and plays here, instead of tossing people out to smule. Not a big deal, but its more cool that way.

 

Yes more than happy to take your sound advice Rob lol.. I'll get there. Thank you!!! 

https://www.smule.com/recording/aretha-franklin-respect/257692681_1165069493

1 hour ago, Robert Lunte said:

Gill,

- You need to more musculature behind your singing as a general statement. This IS a falsetto mode you are singing in. It makes the voice sound weak and has a lot of instability to the configuration, which is why falsetto tends to "chirp" and "squirrel" around.

How do you fix it?

- Standard good training that would include building the strength and motor skills to twang, in particular above your bridge.

- Train the TVS onsets, Dampen & Release & Attack & Release to build stronger compression / vocalis strength. This will help give you the twang and stability.

- When you are amplifying your voice with real sound energy, not wind, you will then need to guide/direct that energy to proper resonance. Therefore, you need to understand the fundamentals about singing vowels, modification of those vowels and build enough association on how they feel through kinesthetics to also, build masterly acoustics in your singing. In your TVS system that I gave you.

 

In The Four Pillars of Singing you have to TRAIN! ... 

- Onset Lectures

- Training Onsets

- Acoustic Modes

- Training Integrated Training Routines

- ... and then apply your new strength and motor skills to singing songs, including this one. 

 

You have to build a voice... the apply it to songs and workout the details.

OMG started today and the difference is already very apparent. I can see how I've not been using my voice correctly now. Thank you SO much Robert. 

1 minute ago, Robert Lunte said:

Gill,

- You need to more musculature behind your singing as a general statement. This IS a falsetto mode you are singing in. It makes the voice sound weak and has a lot of instability to the configuration, which is why falsetto tends to "chirp" and "squirrel" around.

How do you fix it?

- Standard good training that would include building the strength and motor skills to twang, in particular above your bridge.

- Train the TVS onsets, Dampen & Release & Attack & Release to build stronger compression / vocalis strength. This will help give you the twang and stability.

- When you are amplifying your voice with real sound energy, not wind, you will then need to guide/direct that energy to proper resonance. Therefore, you need to understand the fundamentals about singing vowels, modification of those vowels and build enough association on how they feel through kinesthetics to also, build masterly acoustics in your singing. In your TVS system that I gave you.

 

In The Four Pillars of Singing you have to TRAIN! ... 

- Onset Lectures

- Training Onsets

- Acoustic Modes

- Training Integrated Training Routines

- ... and then apply your new strength and motor skills to singing songs, including this one. 

 

You have to build a voice... the apply it to songs and workout the details.

Thank you so much for your wonderful advice Robert. I'm onto it right now my dear friend. 

Man In The Box Robert.... Superb performance   Still finding my way around the forum so hope I post in the correct place. Put up a collab (with just my part) of Dancing Queen Abba. Hoping I'm posting in the right place 

https://www.smule.com/recording/abba-dancing-queen/1088277799_1226555039/ensembles Confidence issues and weak attack on lower register/ stronger upper register?  Advice  please folks?

Superb Robert. I adore your performance. So much drive and passion. Wonderful!!! 

Hi Robert

Having had a bad virus recently my voice is likely not at it's best but hope that this will suffice : 

https://www.smule.com/recording/oliver-where-is-love-piano/1088277799_1203689035

or this?

https://www.smule.com/recording/ajengakih-lobo-id-love-you-to-want-me/1088277799_1217128751

Thank you for making me feel so welcome into the community 

This was quite a challenge 

https://www.smule.com/recording/eva-cassidy-wade-in-the-water/830708093_1214803719