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Cover Song Gaston

Hi guys, i did this cover a couple of months ago, let me know what you think 

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Nothing to critique. It was amazing plain, and simple.
Really good work.
Peace
Peace
If you are interested in hearing me sing live here is an entire show of me singing
The live performance sounds great!
wow, the recordings are amazing. So many details. Great.
Doc
I'm new around here and I'm very impressed by your voice, especially the control and tone. Fantastic job!
Btw, thanks for exposing your practicing routine. It's very motivational to understand the hard work that supports the performance.
Best wishes,
RIcardo
i do take a day off or two it depends on how hard my week was, also if i have to sing saturdays or not
I usually do volume 3 and 4 or either some parts of 4 and vol 5 and combine them, take a couple of exercises from each, it depends on what my voice needs to get ready that specific day, or if i want to train everything but what I will always do is vol 3 soft and the I pull as much as I can
Btw when I sing live I tend to use more mask and I thin the sound more because my voice naturally is more nasal when I speak, and my first influences are Axl rose type of voices so this is not my natural placement, in this song I made it different because the original singer sings that way and I wanted to replicate how he sings, plus I thought it would be a kind of cool to try a coverdale/ ken tamplin type of singing, (not that frontal per say) since the original singers approach is more on that direction but If I would have to sing this live, I would not aporoach it this way, I would place it more in the front and maybe not pull so much, because this is more challenging, to me at least, so im not gonna play superman, hahahaha this is a really hard song to sing even for the original singer, this is a recording, if you want to hear me sing live i posted a concert so michael could get an idea, of how I normally approach signing though the video i posted live, is about 3 or 4 years old and ive improved since my understanding is getting better
You have a unique sound to your voice, professional performance Great rock vocals there.
Vocality (George)
What a great powerful voice!
I had seen a few of your things on youtube before, really, really good.
Also, thanks for the personal insights you have given here!
All the best,
Ben
edit: found it. You got a follower https://www.youtube.com/user/chatclap
Would love to hear this with some raw rock guitar.
Please record some more
Still digging your voice over he's
Tried to record this myself, and it really boosted the respect for your performance
Take your time and keep up the good attitude.
The piano is horrendous. I love a big growly piano, but it's stepping all over the vocals. You've gotta do something to get that piano to stop stepping all over the vocals. My first suggestion is to get a better piano. It sounds to me like a sampled piano and not very natural. Maybe compression/limiting to pull it back and get it out of the vocals, but really I would consider just going for a piano that complements your voice better. Compressing it might keep it level where you can then pull it back in volume and still feel like it supports you well, even then I feel like you can find a better and more natural piano sound.
Edit: Actually in a second listen, it's not really just the piano, there are other instruments stepping on the vocal. I think it's kind of a pad sound without really digging deep into the analysis. Maybe just more compression on the vocals to bring them forward and get them on top of the other instruments might do the trick.
But those vocals. O-M-G You're Jon Bon Jovi. I only wish my voice sounded that beautiful! Amazing! I just want that piano to get out of my way so that I can hear that beautiful voice. I think the fry is what really sells it for me. More compression on the vocals to pull it forward. And keep at it!
And It sounds like English is not your first language, not based on Caroline (because that was spot on perfect) here but based on you sing quite a bit in Spanish. As a native English speaker, I didn't even pick up on that until I heard you sing in Spanish. Perfect English. I may have to post the Spanish song I'm working on just to get some feedback on how well my Spanish singing is coming along. But absolutely flawless English on your part. I would have thought English is your first language.
Edit: I read further down in the posts and that I was right that English is not your first language. So let me reiterate. PERFECT English in Caroline; I didn't even suspect until I went further into the posts and saw you singing in Spanish. I try to speak a hand full of other languages besides my native English; so I understand how difficult it can be to get an accent right. I never even suspected that you were not a native English speaker listening to Caroline. Awesome job! Again, it makes me want to post one of my Spanish covers to get some feedback as to how I am doing with the accent.
Thanks again for the analysis!
Gaston