Man In The Box (Cover)
ChiefMouse
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Hello everyone!
I'm new here. 22 years old from Latvia, been singing (or trying to) since 2015, surprised I didn't get nodules that year because I did everything I probably shouldn't have because I had no voice (oh, I have a handful recordings from then and you better not hear them to avoid having your ears explode) and thought there's nothing to lose Skipped most of the 2016 and 2017 because I thought it was pointless. Picked up again last year and went fairly consistently at it. My practice (and training at the same time) is usually about 20 minutes of singalong in a car driving home, I do sing a lot of Elton John and have taken quite a bit of inspiration from there. Queen is my favourite band of all time but not quite there to do their songs justice. As for singing, I have never really done exercises because I find it too boring. I realise it's a bad thing to say but hey, at least I'm being honest. I do know some do's and don'ts as far as technique but overall it's an intuitive thing for me, I may have no particular technique that I know of, as far as I'm concerned. My training consists of imitation, recording and evaluating.
Anyway, this year is the first year I am feeling fairly good about where I am and where I am going, pitch is getting much more consistent and slowly gaining brightness in sound. That being said, still feeling as though at the bottom of the Dunning–Kruger graph. Long ways to go yet.
Here's a cover of Man In The Box I did a couple months ago. It's not one take, parts taken from a few takes (comped). I experimented with darker sound in the verses, not my usual approach to singing but I thought it fits the song.
I can do the gritty sound you hear in the choruses but it feels slightly like squeezing. Not like Ken when he opens his mouth and it just roars of wide succulent distortion I also can't really distort the middle range just yet.
I'm new here. 22 years old from Latvia, been singing (or trying to) since 2015, surprised I didn't get nodules that year because I did everything I probably shouldn't have because I had no voice (oh, I have a handful recordings from then and you better not hear them to avoid having your ears explode) and thought there's nothing to lose Skipped most of the 2016 and 2017 because I thought it was pointless. Picked up again last year and went fairly consistently at it. My practice (and training at the same time) is usually about 20 minutes of singalong in a car driving home, I do sing a lot of Elton John and have taken quite a bit of inspiration from there. Queen is my favourite band of all time but not quite there to do their songs justice. As for singing, I have never really done exercises because I find it too boring. I realise it's a bad thing to say but hey, at least I'm being honest. I do know some do's and don'ts as far as technique but overall it's an intuitive thing for me, I may have no particular technique that I know of, as far as I'm concerned. My training consists of imitation, recording and evaluating.
Anyway, this year is the first year I am feeling fairly good about where I am and where I am going, pitch is getting much more consistent and slowly gaining brightness in sound. That being said, still feeling as though at the bottom of the Dunning–Kruger graph. Long ways to go yet.
Here's a cover of Man In The Box I did a couple months ago. It's not one take, parts taken from a few takes (comped). I experimented with darker sound in the verses, not my usual approach to singing but I thought it fits the song.
I can do the gritty sound you hear in the choruses but it feels slightly like squeezing. Not like Ken when he opens his mouth and it just roars of wide succulent distortion I also can't really distort the middle range just yet.
Comments
I think you might be closing on the vowel too much, which might be what is making that rasp happen. I don't think that is safe distortion and might hurt your voice. I might be wrong. @Gaston_Jauregui .
hope i was of help
P.S. I wonder if you can hear what vocal type I am? I can't go very low if we don't count fry (A2 is the comfortable lowest
note) and I don't really have problems with high notes. So perhaps a tenor? I don't really need to know in order to put a box on myself, my mindset is actually the opposite but it would help understand myself better.
Nice timber and great interpretation!
Awesome job