My honest opinion.Īnother thing i would like to add is that if all of you singers really search for honest opinions about your work, don´t ask colleges and friends if you don´t really know that they are truly honest. Maybe i am totally wrong about all of this, it is just a subjective feeling, not facts. Sorry if i am one of those nitpicky guys but my intention is to help. More compression there behind the higher notes? I wouldn´t agree with others that you didn´t put emotion behind, the end is very emotional and i adore it.īut TO ME, all in all an impressive performance, Robert, especially if you did it in one take. From the 3 minute mark and onwards i loved the higher notes, when there is more "effort" and distortion/rasp behind. There also, around the 2 minute mark the higher notes sounded a little mickey mouse-ish (breathy), the sound colour i didn´t like so much. That tiny beautiful falsetto in the beginning of the song in the chorus you skipped and started "screaming" right away, I didn´t like that so much.
TO ME, this song is like a crescendo, it builds up slowly. I am no expert of vocal technique i just follow my ears, a funny statement from someone that can´t be on pitch, hahahha. but then i am curious to know, Robert: would this kind of vocal technique and asthetic choice be something you would choose first and foremost if you would make a record and perhaps go on tour? I am asking this because to my ears this performance sounded good, mostly great, but to me it was not totally convincing and know you certainly will think of me being on that burning stake the next time you sing this song Ok, as i understood it this was a demonstration of a certain vocal technique. Also the vocals sounded great for the most part. First i must say that the music video and the production was excellent. This is a great post, very interesting to read. but that was the mission I set out for myself. It is not easy to sing against your dominant attractor state, in my case, a more dampened, theatery color. I guess thats one reason your my student and Im proud of ya. I commend you in your ability to recognize that Owen, good ears and a real smart observation that no one else picked up on. The point of singing "Child in Time" with a higher larynx was intentional and precisely because, I wanted to match the higher harmonic color of Gillan's voice.
You want to talk about critiques? Had I sang "Child in Time" with a darker harmonic color, people would not of understood what was going on, they would of just understood, that "It didn't sound like Ian Gillan at all". but "Child in Time" would not sound appropriate in a strong darker harmonic tuning. The "Rooster" tribute from AIC, was more of a demonstration of dampening and F1/H2 tunings.
did this sound like my larynx was a bit higher then what you are used to hearing? Less "boom" in my voice? Singing with a brighter color was very intentional on this Owen. Thanks Owen, a very cool student of mine. I think that would be more fun for everybody. Rob, just post your stuff in the technique forum.we can chat about what you are doing technically. It is the title of this subforum that brings the comments that it does. It's like, tell me all you want a few months from now when I'm working on new things, but let me keep my confidence for a while, you know? I thought maybe Rob was more open to immediate feedback as he is posting here. Point still remains, this is a critique forum.you know, for instance, I don't post my originals for critique here (yet) because I don't want to feel bad about the work I've put in immediately after I've completed the project. I thought that was an ancient argument.ĮDIT: Didn't see Rob's previous post. But you know, to go into a song thinking, I am going to put my larynx in a position higher than I am used to, and at any moment it could accidentally get a little too quacky, but, I want to express a different sonic color of my voice to my audience, and do something unique artistically here.more than anything, that does take guts.īut criticizing it for not being like the original, forget it. My only critique would be artistic, it's a little too high larynx for my taste at certain points. I haven't even really heard the original much at all, so for an objective opinion against all the " doesn't sound like Ian .you didn't sing the A5 you bastard" banter, it's really good, on it's own. That is awesome! I'm going to have to steal that idea. that may sound a bit 'sick', but that is the imagery I was using at the end to try to get a creepy, horrifying scream. I imagined I was being burned at the stake. I think I captured an adequately creepy vibe at the end.
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