Members grace_slick Posted January 25, 2011 Members Share Posted January 25, 2011 Just foolin around. I can never find the Dusty Springfield version in karaoke, so I did this one, which is a bit higher than I'd like, but whatever. Would you believe I still have a cough, so please excuse the coughing in the instrumental bit in the middle. I sound like a damn barking dog. I do continue when the singing bit resumes. http://picosong.com/92p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members paulthedube Posted January 25, 2011 Members Share Posted January 25, 2011 Dang Grace! I loved it... your high register is crazzyyyy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members grace_slick Posted January 25, 2011 Author Members Share Posted January 25, 2011 That's not that high. lol. It's too high for how I prefer the song, but it's not too high for me. At least I could do it. Last week I couldn't have cause of the stupid cough/throat/bark disease. lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members jvardon Posted January 25, 2011 Members Share Posted January 25, 2011 My goodness Grace, why are you even here? You don't really need any improvement, and it's not that I want you to go. We'd miss ya!It's really nice grace, light and easy listening. A little jazzy too. Maybe speed up your vibrato a little for this song, it sounds a little lazy at some points. Other than that it was excellent and please! share with me your headvoice tips! I need one as smooth as yours! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members grace_slick Posted January 25, 2011 Author Members Share Posted January 25, 2011 Wellll, I don't know...I dunno what I do...lol. I just sing, and it's my voice so it comes naturally I guess. Thank you! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members jvardon Posted January 25, 2011 Members Share Posted January 25, 2011 Oh well, I'm not sure what kind of answer I expecting. I guess I was grabbing at straws (that is the expression right?) PS. Like the new avi Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members grace_slick Posted January 25, 2011 Author Members Share Posted January 25, 2011 Thank you! All I can think of with head voice singing is it's either stronger and more powerful, or softer and held-back a bit...delicate but not breathy...you need control to do that I suppose. It's as if you're not ever letting your full voice come forward, but it's just the top layer of the voice to produce that sweet, smoother sound...softer sound...you know? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members jvardon Posted January 25, 2011 Members Share Posted January 25, 2011 Yeah, I get you. That's the kind of sound I ultimately want to achieve, something light, sweet and smooth. Right now I'm breathy and I lack control, as if I have to muscle my way up there or something. I'm looking forward to fixing that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members grace_slick Posted January 25, 2011 Author Members Share Posted January 25, 2011 Hmm. I don't know what I'd have to do to BE more breathy...I'd feel I was opening my throat up more or something, and pushing too much air through...to sing how I do in this song, to make it softer, I don't push more air, I just do something with my throat somehow...but what, I don't know. lol. But maybe it depends how high you're trying to go...for me, the softer head notes aren't too high (usually)...when they get too high you can usually tell and I don't sound breathy, but I sound strained...and uncomfortable. I never sound breathy unless it's an effect I'm actually purposefully choosing. Like one of my original songs, Lost Inside (not one of the better ones), I sing the chorus (which is mainly just "ahhhh" and stuff) in a really breathy voice and it was so HARD cause afterwards I'd be so puffed out and exhausted and my chest hurt from forcing the air to get that breathy sound! lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members grace_slick Posted February 22, 2011 Author Members Share Posted February 22, 2011 Thanks. I'm not in America and I'm too old to be on Idol shows. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members jvardon Posted February 22, 2011 Members Share Posted February 22, 2011 You make yourself sound ancient when you say it like that. Just say your over the age limit, much less............(not sure what word to use) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members grace_slick Posted February 22, 2011 Author Members Share Posted February 22, 2011 lol. I'm secure enough in my age to not care if I make myself sound old. I LOOK young. I could pass for under 25. When I was 22 I got into an amusement park AND a dinner cruise for under 13. HAHAHA! *devious* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members jvardon Posted February 22, 2011 Members Share Posted February 22, 2011 Lol, wow. That must have been fun, you could have taken my 9 year-old self with you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members grace_slick Posted February 23, 2011 Author Members Share Posted February 23, 2011 LOL. It would've been even more convincing if I had, heheh. I worked out my "birth date" in my head before we arrived, just in case they asked me and I am crap at adding up so I wouldn't be able to just say it automatically like I do my ACTUAL birth date...and the woman at the gate DID ask me, and I just rattled it off as if I'd known it all my life. HAHAHA! It pays to be paranoid when you're a fraud. lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Bassin' 'Round Posted February 23, 2011 Members Share Posted February 23, 2011 ...very nice...truly nice...enjoyed the phrasing quite a bit...excellent feel... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members jvardon Posted February 23, 2011 Members Share Posted February 23, 2011 Lol. I guess it does. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members jvardon Posted February 23, 2011 Members Share Posted February 23, 2011 I just re-listened to this and it really reminds me of "Close to you" by The Carpenters. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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