My Cover of Somebody To Love by Queen (wet lead vocals only)

Mory_Kareen

Hi guys and gals,

just got my first fully produced vocal recording and wanted to share with you guys. I'm wide open for any kind of Feedback! I hope the link works… :-)



Thanks in Advance,
Mory

doc_ramadani

Wow, great control. Kudos.

shining

Very nice and solid... awesome Job! Love it

Mory_Kareen

@doc_ramadani @shining Thank you very much!!!

sjonrokz4u

Damn!!!! Would love to hear it with the rest of the mix but damnnn!!!

bonvie56

That was a CRAZY-GOOD performance! Thanks for posting!

Mory_Kareen

Thanks guys that's really kind! I tried posting it with the rest of the mix but soundcloud deleted it because of copyright reasons...
Man, you should have heard me sing about 2-3 years ago... I didn't even DARE to take on a song like that, my range was limited to a E4/F4 on a good day.. KTVA really had a huge impact on me!
So Kudos to Ken and the team 👍🏻

sjonrokz4u

Change the title of it to something like
Love ktva or something that doesn’t state what it is. You should be able to get it through then. But f’ing awesome

NickW

Very nice!!! I love this song and singing it, but you do it so clear and at such a nice tone and (when desired) power. Very impressive, love it and if you have more i will listen to it and become a fan haha !!

At risk of by now sounding like some lobbyist i can recommend smule, you can turn vid of and share your link w/o anyone deleting it. (At least i havent had any infringing problems). This is not meant to detract from your awesome rendition but just to show you my last weeks (fun) version on smule and the program possibilities:

https://smule.com/p/2189050821_3433121973

Ps. @Mory_Kareen i am not the guy that sounds like freddy who i am joining

shining

NickW said:

At risk of by now sounding like some lobbyist i can recommend smule

Made my day

Here is mine: https://www.smule.com/recording/queen-somebody-to-love/2189050821_3429561676

Mory_Kareen

@NickW I'm flattered that you're about to become a fan 😮 Here's my cover of Watch Over You by Alter Bridge, we did that on the same day:

https://m.soundcloud.com/user-866300381/woy-vocals-wet

If you like I can make a few comments and feedback on your version, I'll listen to it tomorrow 😉

Best regards

Diego

I like it!
Very nice rasp you got there.

Good job! @Mory_Kareen.
This is one of my favorite songs to sing all the time.

Mory_Kareen

@shining Yours too, if you posted it for feedback reasons I'm new to this forum so I don't know if it's all about feedback or not 😉

Mory_Kareen

Thanks @Diego !

shining

Mory_Kareen said:

@shining Yours too, if you posted it for feedback reasons I'm new to this forum so I don't know if it's all about feedback or not 😉

Nono.. this is your thread here .. just wanted to show how bad this can be done

Diego

@Mory_Kareen Have you done other Queen songs?
I'm quite the Queen fan myself.

Mory_Kareen

@Diego No I did not yet, like I mentioned this was my first professional vocal recording ever. I've been experimenting with Love of my life, Bohemian Rhapsody, Breakthru, Don't stop me now and a few others though.. Maybe I'll do something like that in the future 👍🏻

NickW

Mory_Kareen said:

@NickW I'm flattered that you're about to become a fan 😮 Here's my cover of Watch Over You by Alter Bridge, we did that on the same day:

https://m.soundcloud.com/user-866300381/woy-vocals-wet

If you like I can make a few comments and feedback on your version, I'll listen to it tomorrow 😉

Best regards

@Mory_Kareen Yes id love that and yes id become a fan, as @shining can affirm i am a fan of most things queen (not "im in love with my car") and with varying result i sing even the obscurers songs. @Diego may not know but i have listened to his "in my defence" and some others and i am his fan too. We found this queen fan group (#bohemians) a few weeks ago and we do, i believe, cool stuff. Ill give you the coolest example: this group version of no one but you (only the good die young) https://smule.com/p/482426948_3419343908 its not very smooth but 13 people singing with a passion.

Anyways, love all the songs you mentioned and what you did here, was pleased to come accross it and look forward to your other songs. That (and shinings comment) made my day. The other song you posted above i will listen to right after this!

NickW

I listened to Watch Over You, i didnt know it but it was a very pleasing listen. Your range and tone is impressive, actually the whole thing was, too bad it lacks backing, but i guess that is perhaps beside the point of a vocal demo. Good thing i became your fan

Thank you for sharing!
Also, as much as id love your feedback, i wouldnt like to hijack the thread like that, perhaps, if and when you still feel like it, send me a PM?

Edukator99

HOLY MARY!! Great vocal!!! When you go into those falsettosit's amazing and your vocal through the rest of the song are incredible. Whew.

3 years ago... had you much of a singing background?

As for SMULE... I checked it out yesterday and isn't it $14.99 a WEEK? That's $60 a month. Seems crazy expensive.

Wow...I'm listening to you as typing this and that's a masterful performance in my opinion.

Mory_Kareen

@Edukator99 Thanks very much I really appreciate this!!
As for singing background: About 3 and a half years ago I never sang a song in my life, I started fooling around with my voice in the car and still practice 99% in my car. Like I said, I barely hit a F4 back then and worked my way up just by trying to sing songs I liked. Over the last year I had 5 lessons with a voice teacher who helped me mostly with vowels and a bit with range. And guys, I sounded terrible three years ago Except for my head voice I'd like to think, I never really had trouble with that.
It's really just practice, practice and practice again... And of course the right information. Ken's youtube videos were perfect for my understanding of the voice!

Edukator99

Man, I hope I get there in three years. Amazing.

shining

Edukator99 said:

As for SMULE... I checked it out yesterday and isn't it $14.99 a WEEK? That's $60 a month. Seems crazy expensive.

You can join all duets/collabs started by others for free.
And if you are interested in a VIP-Account: after a while smule will show you advertisement for "special offers". I paid around 60$ for a year. Would never ever pay so much money for a month

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@Edukator99 If you haven't already, you can also look at Twitch Sings, which is free and requires a free Twitch account to use it. It has the duets that anyone can save or join, you can stream it online if you want for immediate audience interaction, or play it completely privately offline. At the moment it is for PC only.

doc_ramadani

Oh, Twitch is now available for Mac OS Mojave. I am downloading it right at the moment.

It is still beta but publicly available.

NickW

shining said:

Edukator99 said:

As for SMULE... I checked it out yesterday and isn't it $14.99 a WEEK? That's $60 a month. Seems crazy expensive.

You can join all duets/collabs started by others for free.
And if you are interested in a VIP-Account: after a while smule will show you advertisement for "special offers". I paid around 60$ for a year. Would never ever pay so much money for a month

@Edukator99 pro tip: dont buy the subscription in android or app store, but from their website, it's at least 30% cheapers still and it gives you VIP on all platforms, not just on IOS or Android.

Actually, i just checked and they advertise its 90% cheaper on their own website than via the mobile platforms:

https://smule.com/en/s/billing/pricing/v121

111JLT111

Great job. Tone and vibrato pace very similar in sections. Thanks for sharing. 😎

Mory_Kareen

@111JLT111 Thanks! @shining @NickW @doc_ramadani @Edukator99 @Diego @bonvie56 @sjonrokz4u
Weird question, but guess how old I am based on that vocal?

Edukator99

25?

Diego

24-25?

Mory_Kareen

Almost, I'm 23 Just wondered because I thought I sounded very young at some notes..