Singeroo thread

Hey guys, I was wondering if you can give me any feedback on my singing, I'm not that great and have no idea where to go besides repeating the same songs over and over again with no direction.

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im practicing my singing
im not very good at it
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You sound pretty bad to be honest, like a drunken middle aged man stumbling home from the pub. I know you can definitely do better. Maybe rather than crooning try an easier song like Blowin’ in the Wind, Folsom Prison Blues etc.

Work on clearly pronouncing the words, try it as close to your speaking voice as possible while still holding the melody.

i mean it's got some character to it, but your voice is still somewhat flat -- i don't think necessarily it's because you're singing out of register (not that i'd know anything about like training singers) but you seem to just bellow out one nooooooooooote heres another nooooooooooote without really moving your voice around.

what i noticed helped me the most when i started to try to improve my voice was after i found a register that i felt i had an easier time controlling my pitch and then i looked up songs in that register and i just practiced the same one over and over again: i'd listen to a phrase from the the original and then i'd try to imitate it, then i'd move on to another phrase. kind of like learning a lead melody on the guitar by ear.

it can be tricky because finding "your register" isn't easy when you don't know how to sing because you can feel like you suck in every range. i'm not sure i've found mine yet, (i feel like) my voice is kind of yappy (i have no gravitas, no weight, i just sound like a skinny 27 year old who's never worked with his hands) but i feel more comfortable singing in a baritone.

if anything, your singing voice already has quite a lot of character.

Okay thanks for the advice man, is this any better?

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Not really to be honest, you’ve also picked a harder song than last time.

If you can play guitar or another instrument I urge you to sing with that, it will naturally keep you in better tune and pitch for a start as you have the instrument for reference. Focus on easy three or four chord songs to start.

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sounds great, only thing I notice is that you aren't enunciating all your consonants consistently, which I think if you did it would sound better. You could also use more compression to achieve to achieve a similar thing.

You sound just like the decemberists!

thanks for the reply!
im aware that i start slurring my words pretty often when i sing. part of it is forgetting lyrics, part of it is having of do three things at once (play, sing, remember the song) and part of it i think has to do with just poor technique.

i agree it would sound less wishy-washy if i worked on it.

Thanks for the brutal honesty, I needed to hear it, here's one last try, even if I'm bad now I'm going to continue and get better, even get lessons.

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Half the battle is the weird accent you are putting on, it sounds like you are puffing your cheeks out or something?

Honestly man, best advice I can give is to sing as close to your speaking voice as possible, don’t attempt to sound like the original singer.

you're welcome user

i only noticed because I do it so much worse, and my voice is shakey and nasally at the same time, though i'm getting better at holding notes, and yeah a lot of it for me is forgetting stuff or when i'm just making shit up and not sure of myself, going in on a verse half-cocked

hmu w/your feedback if you dont mind:

Okay I can get rid of it for sure it's a crutch

Can anyone guess the song?
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i actually checked out the song. to be frank your voice is mixed pretty well in there so it sounds like a great vocal track for the song. you got a good amount of sincerity to your voice, doesn't sound like it'll fall apart at any moment but you do a good job of reaching for higher notes (something that i personally struggle with, it always feels like my voice just hits a ceiling).

you've got good pitch control and good intonation. if you want more i'd maybe record a more vocal song where the singing is more of a focal point.

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OP again, this is a song I wrote ages ago and stopped performing live but thinking of bringing it back with this new arrangement. Apologies for buggering up at the end.

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i did another song.
how do i work on my "performance"? it feels like no matter how i twist my voice it still always sounds like someone with 0 life experience singing.

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R8 my hm2 tone.

aaaand i forgot the link
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user that's beautiful. great guitar playing, great singing. what i could make out of the lyrics were very good. is the song just you and a guitar or have you considered other arrangements?
(if you want my honest opinion i think you need a fair amount of "star power" before anyone's gonna get into just a voice+guitar song, so some minimal other arrangements might not be a bad idea. nothing enormous, like L Cohen's first album).

Thanks. I still think my voice is cringe, but it may be partly because i was improvising --harder to sing random numbers off top than I thought

>how do i work on my "performance"?
Not sure what you mean. Lets hear that other song?

heres another one of mine done a long time ago
soundcloud.com/user-228363675/erotico-psychotico

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Honestly, your register sounds similar to that of Julian Casablancas (the strokes, the voidz) and I'd be curious to see if you have similar sound when you jump octaves. You remind me of him but when he sings lower.

If you've never heard him, I'd suggest you listen to him and try to sing his vocal parts, maybe it will give you an idea as to how to climb up and also how to belch it out with a little more grit (in a tasteful way)

>user that's beautiful. great guitar playing, great singing.

Thanks very much man. I don't know jack shit about music production but my friend overdubbed some instruments on the same song for me a while ago (with me on mandolin).

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You've got a good deep voice, would try and sing a bit louder though.

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I am the other user btw, (not op, who has great voice)

>I still think my voice is cringe
im pretty sure i've heard every vocalist every say some version of that

here im a little less into your voice because of the affectation your singing with, that sort of post-hardcore yelp and the growling parts sound kind of put-on

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If anyone's interested here's another of my own songs with instrumentation added by my friend, I think he did a fucking cracking job on this one. This is one I'll be putting on my first Spotify album soon enough.

>Honestly, your register sounds similar to that of Julian Casablancas
oh boy i used to get this a lot. it makes 14 year old me veeeery happy.

>I'd be curious to see if you have similar sound when you jump octaves. You remind me of him but when he sings lower.
hahhaha well i tried this one he does in falsetto (and i dont think i did a very good job)
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wow, see already with the mandolin it sounds really, really tight. it's a great fucking track user.

user why are you posting in a vocaroo thread i'd buy your fucking album
every track you've posted has been stellar.

Lol thanks very much, extremely kind of you. If you like my stuff follow my Facebook fan page (Neil Matthew Fox) and once I'm up on Spotify you'll get notified.

Yeah I didn't quite hit what I was aiming for with that one, but it was a fun experiment nonetheless. Thanks for the feedback my man

Do you think I have talent?
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You can falsetto...but I'm more interested in what you sound like just below your falsetto, kind of close to where your voice cracks. And can you control that area well? Like can you go in and out (this is sounding gay) good?

Lol you son of a bitch I was quite looking forward to it starting after the bleepy bits.

>And can you control that area well? Like can you go in and out (this is sounding gay) good?
im just gonna let you know i absolutely cannot control my voice at a higher register. or at least i don't think so.

so i did a strokes cover where at the end i realized i didnt remember the lyrics but i did my best
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OP again, one more from my upcoming album before I head to a gig. This is one of my favourites, hope you like.

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See, I hear you get up there in the higher notes, and thats when I'm like "yeah, NOW he's singing". Not that your lower notes aren't singing either, but they are just too mellow. You're like a way better version of my brother, who just doesn't let loose when he sings and all of his vocals end up sounding like they are too delicate and low energy and breathy. Albeit you have a phenomenal vibrato at all the right places (trailing the words/phrases) and I think the overall timbre of your voice is very versatile.

I think you need to just let loose and practice going higher and staying there... even if it sounds raspy or gritty. I like that grit, which is precisely why I enjoy Julian Casablancas' style. I hear it, and you almost get me there, but it sounds like you're afraid to commit and you back out.

> but it sounds like you're afraid to commit and you back out.
im afraid of my neighbors hearing me

thanks for all the kind words. it's really helped me hone in on what i have to work on. it's true that, very typical of an amateur singer, i sort of pussy out of volume and range (which is what makes my voice sometimes sound too low energy and delicate -- which works sometimes but not all the time). im gonna go ahead and practice letting loose a little bit and trying to reach without getting embarrassed and backing out, because i want that grit you mentioned.

thanks a lot for the help.

now you're just showing off. film your gig and post it, i'd love to see how it all comes together live.

wrote this one last week
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the songs good but im just not into the "sensitive guy w/ a guitar" voice you're singing in. don't get me wrong, sounds great, you've got good great pitch control and you're gonna get all that 2006 pussy but if i was at your show i'd roll my eyes.

i still luv u tho :D

how to sing?

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lol, fair play my friend

You should try singing drunk on the way home from the bar it always works for me

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based another Strokes singer. I no joke, would recommend trying to sing the song, "twist and shout" to practice grit.

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>now you're just showing off. film your gig and post it, i'd love to see how it all comes together live.

Thanks man, people on here usually tell me I have a good voice but it’s really nice to hear someone likes my songs, I put a lot of work into them.

Tonight I am just doing a few songs to support a friend’s gig but last night the sound guy filmed me doing an original and it’s on my page (Neil Matthew Fox Music).

if you listen to my song idea i will personally venmo you a hundred dollars

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add some more yellow.

i'm not following you

Pretty good. Very nice singing, particularly the lows like “the one that you deserved”.

It’s really nice, well done.

>Keep
Fingerpicking pattern and chords
Vocal melody, very pretty high notes

>Change
That key change and “one day I’ll drive so far”, sounds a bit dodgy

*key change at that point I mean, the other key change was fine and so are the lyrics

I like it. Maybe add some more dynamics and dynamics to your vocal phrasing and guitar playing by strumming hard and louder rather than playing soft arpeggios in certain bits while retaining the softer singing and arpeggios in other parts. Maybe add some more melodic variation such as higher and belted notes in certain parts. I don't know what you're going for. Keep it up, brah.

Could you guys tell me which one of these is better?

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thanks friends i appreciate it
also i agree that the "one day i'll drive so far" part of the song is a bit lazy melody and lyrics-wise
can i share more? or is this thread a one-per-customer sort of deal

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When singing you have to realize there is a distinction between pitch, your tone, volume and many other qualities that affect the overall sound. You need to work on rudiments: your muscle coordination, enunciation, relaxing more (less straining), breath support, rhythm and pitch.
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Go for it.

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yikes... these people blow

The feedback is the point.

sorry the vocals are kinda quiet:
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hope u like!

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howdy

howdy

what a nice fucking thread you guys

cute!

Yeah, it’s good to get a lot of replies for a change, keep on posting folks. :)

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My pal did a nice album cover for me! What do you think?

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Yeah your voice sounds good, however you absolutely need to work on your pitch.

This is in case you guys wanted to hear me with autotune lol, I'm a lot better over a beat than I am acapella.

soundcloud.com/hwitenoice/summer

bumpu

rip my vocal chords

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Bloody hell your voice is high pitched, you should sing the original “been the ruin of many a poor girl”.

Pretty good though.

lmao Dylan's version is my favorite so I always used to sing the "poor girl" line but people would always tell me that I'm singing it wrong so I stopped. Guess you can never win.

thanks though

Fell in "love" again and recorded a shitty song, here's a version that made me laugh
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