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Re: Dire Straits - Walk of Life Rendition
Nice work, George.
I do have some feedback for you.
A brighter sound with more PING in it will make it sparkle. This sounds a little bit "covered", by which I mean your lips are probably covering your teeth, which darkens the sound. We want it brighter. Along with that, it sounds just a touch "congested", kind of like a person who has a cold. To counteract that, we need to push the sound more into the front of the face, being sure that at least some sound is exiting from the nose like it does when you do the tongue exercises. Although nobody want to sound "nasal" we do want part of the sound to exit the face through the nose. This gets some of the Mask resonators coming into play to help with our overall tone and brightness. Not too much, but just enough.
So back to the Covered topic. Most of us tend to sing without really opening up our mouth (jaw and lips) and that makes for a darker sound. Go for the brighter sound. This also applies to the "Woo-hoo-hoo's". Although we tend to do those falsetto sounds with a closed "ooh" the fact that our lips are in a small WOO configuration makes hooty resonance predominant. It will sound better if you remember to smile and expose the teeth more and let the "woo-hoo" actually be formed more at the back of the throat and much less at the lips. That will help reduce the hooty part of the sound. It will be more head voice than falsetto, although the terms are somewhat interchangeable.
Remember that the teeth and lips are also part of the Vocal Tract, and vocal tract shaping matters. That's where the sound hits the outside world.
Do try to reduce the consonants and put more emphasis on contiguous singing of the vowels.
You have improved a lot. If you will apply the above suggestions, you will take yet another step forward in your journey of applying what you are learning in the course to singing real songs.
All the Best!
Bob
I do have some feedback for you.
A brighter sound with more PING in it will make it sparkle. This sounds a little bit "covered", by which I mean your lips are probably covering your teeth, which darkens the sound. We want it brighter. Along with that, it sounds just a touch "congested", kind of like a person who has a cold. To counteract that, we need to push the sound more into the front of the face, being sure that at least some sound is exiting from the nose like it does when you do the tongue exercises. Although nobody want to sound "nasal" we do want part of the sound to exit the face through the nose. This gets some of the Mask resonators coming into play to help with our overall tone and brightness. Not too much, but just enough.
So back to the Covered topic. Most of us tend to sing without really opening up our mouth (jaw and lips) and that makes for a darker sound. Go for the brighter sound. This also applies to the "Woo-hoo-hoo's". Although we tend to do those falsetto sounds with a closed "ooh" the fact that our lips are in a small WOO configuration makes hooty resonance predominant. It will sound better if you remember to smile and expose the teeth more and let the "woo-hoo" actually be formed more at the back of the throat and much less at the lips. That will help reduce the hooty part of the sound. It will be more head voice than falsetto, although the terms are somewhat interchangeable.
Remember that the teeth and lips are also part of the Vocal Tract, and vocal tract shaping matters. That's where the sound hits the outside world.
Do try to reduce the consonants and put more emphasis on contiguous singing of the vowels.
You have improved a lot. If you will apply the above suggestions, you will take yet another step forward in your journey of applying what you are learning in the course to singing real songs.
All the Best!
Bob
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2 Brothers have a go at singing Bodies by Drowning Pool with growl and scream.
My brother has been singing growl and scream for some time, he doesn't follow the course and has just figured it out by himself. From what I understand the technique we use is safe enough, of course there is room for improvement but I would never have been able to do this without KTVA. I dont quite have the same tone as him but we give it a go anyway. This is 3 full takes each mashing up our best bits except for the end where we couldn't do it justice. The track I used has some background vocals I couldn't get rid of but what you hear is us for the most part.
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Wigs
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