So, not unlike guitar or playing drums tension is the enemy?
Dude! WTF? Not sure what to write to here. First listen as I am typing now,
and this hits me with all of that space and suspense of a Mark Lanegan
track in the beginning..... but with Chester Bennington jumping in on the chorus.
Dig it. A lot.
Impressive.
My coach describes it a lot like playing guitar - guys like Via are super animated, but from a technique perspective, they're not picking or fretting hard. Emotion doesn't mean force."Just stay relaxed, but give it your all."
That's some Zen-level shit there.
I am wondering if aeorbic/lung capacity helps with singing--since you are essentially just moving air.
Do I need to start running, or better yet..... power-walking with the middle-aged ladies??
Oh I didn't even see this earlier; thanks man, that made my day!
That song was one of those "It wrote itself" things. The first day I got my Classic 50's Strat, I set it up and sat down on the couch with it, the first thing you hear in that song is the first thing I ever played on that guitar once it was setup. I recorded it in a video on my phone and then started recording it in Logic the next day. All the parts were just waiting in my head. I think I spent maybe a half hour arranging it then just started layering stuff and by the first night, most of that was there.
Wish I could make that happen all the time!
Man, I didn't even think of Lanegan, but I can totally see that! For the verses I was trying to rip off Gilmour more than I already did on the guitar parts, but that dude's got the voice of an angel and mine is more like an alcoholic demon. The bridge part I just sang off the top of my head cuz I wasn't sure what'd work and while I really, really want to do it over, there's something so raw about it that I love, so it'll prolly stay.
Thanks again, man. I haven't been sharing much of my music lately because I wanted to wait until I was closer to finishing an album. I tend to forget that I plan on showing people this music some day!
The heavy stuff you posted is really good, but that 1st clip you did with your Strat is WOW! Just dig that
vibe you created with the tasty wobble-warble on the guitar and the dubbed slide. So cool!
I hope to hear more.
Yeah, it takes a special kind of person to be a lead vocalist in a rock band. And more often then not they tend to be prima donnas. And prima donnas make life hell for everyone. So I get the rants. Boy do I get the rants.Edit: The only threads I found on singing were rants about "lead singers." This is not that.
Yeah, it takes a special kind of person to be a lead vocalist in a rock band. And more often then not they tend to be prima donnas. And prima donnas make life hell for everyone. So I get the rants. Boy do I get the rants.
I don't think I will ever be the world's greatest lead vocalist. I always say I can do everything with music, except sing. I'd settle for being a decent backing vocalist but I was scarred for life as a teen when my family made fun of me singing along to music in my room. These days my experience of singing along in my car have at least taught me the limitations of my voice, and I think I might sound decent if I took some lessons, but the old trauma of being mocked as a teen and just not liking how my voice sounds when recorded have kept me from doing that.
I hope someday you take the leap of faith and decide to start working on this. The echoes of old familial discouragement and disparagement are the hardest to stop hearing....Yeah, it takes a special kind of person to be a lead vocalist in a rock band. And more often then not they tend to be prima donnas. And prima donnas make life hell for everyone. So I get the rants. Boy do I get the rants.
I don't think I will ever be the world's greatest lead vocalist. I always say I can do everything with music, except sing. I'd settle for being a decent backing vocalist but I was scarred for life as a teen when my family made fun of me singing along to music in my room. These days my experience of singing along in my car have at least taught me the limitations of my voice, and I think I might sound decent if I took some lessons, but the old trauma of being mocked as a teen and just not liking how my voice sounds when recorded have kept me from doing that.
I was late to singing. Wish I started earlier. I‘ve done some lessons, various practice techniques, and then just sung songs. One of the best, simplest tools I’ve found is an app called Voice Master. The ui hasn’t been updated and there are things that irritate me about it, but if I just run through maybe .5 hour of the exercises 3x a week, even in the car, it makes a huge difference in my resonance and pitch stability. Suddenly I find myself singing things easily and decently that were hard a couple of weeks before. It’s deceptively simple, but it seriously helps build vocal strength. Hard to lose as it’s cheaper than a single lesson.
This is IOS link. Don’t know if it’s on Android. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/voice-builder/id537753638