Cover critique please?
Hey guys, this is gonna be embarrassing and I'm likely going to regret posting it, but I wanted to do a cover of Thinking About You by Frank Ocean and was looking for some advice regarding my singing. A couple things I've noticed is that I have no vibrato and my eyebrows move so much that it's almost comical, lol. Besides that, I messed up the lyrics and had my voice crack twice, among the many things. Please gimme some feedback as to how I can improve, thanks.
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March 6, 2012
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@Germanotta: No problem. There were so many more but it's been a bit since my theater days.
One more fun and useful one:
A big box of biscuits,
A box of mixed biscuits,
And a biscuit mixer.
[quote=Eeveepony]This is a common theater annunciation warmup. It does actually help
Also:
"You know New York. You NEED New York. You know you need unique new york" and my favorite:
I am a mother pheasant plucker,
and I like to pluck mother pheasants.
I am the best mother pheasant plucker,
That ever plucked a mother pheasant!
I agree. Voice wasn't terrible, I just couldn't understand most of it [/quote]
Nice! The one I used in chorus was "Lips, teeth, tip of the tongue."
I was expecting the worst when I posted this, but you've all been very helpful, thanks a lot!
[quote=Germanotta]i think you need to go back to the basics first, like annunciation.
it was a bit hard to understand a few words.
idk if this exercise actually helps that, but i was taught to say 'red leather, yellow leather' at like 100 bpm, then i slowly increased my speed.[/quote]
This is a common theater annunciation warmup. It does actually help
Also:
"You know New York. You NEED New York. You know you need unique new york" and my favorite:
I am a mother pheasant plucker,
and I like to pluck mother pheasants.
I am the best mother pheasant plucker,
That ever plucked a mother pheasant!
I agree. Voice wasn't terrible, I just couldn't understand most of it
The only thing I hear is that you're a little flat or sharp on most of the notes. Work on your tuning. You can do this by pressing a key on a piano and making sure you're singing the same note as the piano. To convert that to your singing, go through the song slowly. Play the song on a low volume and sing so that you can hear yourself. Make sure you're singing the same note as the artist. When you're sure that you have progressed, then you can move on to doing runs and working on pronouncing consonants at the end of words.
Critique me as well? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEymnTFKPhI