Advice and Critiques welcome!

[MusicMan1994]

Hi, I'm a singer/songwriter, however I'm feeling shaky on the first part. I've never been super confident in my voice but people usually say "yeah sounds great dude." But I'm never sure if they're just saying that. SOOO I thought since this is the internet you can be as kind or as mean as you'd like. I would love some honest opinions so if you say my voice is AMAZING (yeah...right lol) than that's great, but if your reply is more along the lines of "don't quit your day job" or "you suck" than at least I know where I stand and I can focus on improving (maybe get some actual lessons) So like the title says, advice and critiques are welcome!
Thanks!


This is a song I wrote a few days ago called Feel.
I'm playing and singing at the same time in this recording and overdubbed the solo.
I apologize in advance for not being able to mix

View attachment feel 4.mp3

 

[JeffroMixesYou]

First off, make sure you bend all the way up to the note in guitar solos Nothing worse than that aaaaaalmost there bend.


With your singing, I'd say keep on it. Half the battle is learning how to "own" your voice. Your pitch is good. Once you learn that you don't suck and you internalize that, the rest will come.

 

[MusicMan1994]

First off, make sure you bend all the way up to the note in guitar solos Nothing worse than that aaaaaalmost there bend.


With your singing, I'd say keep on it. Half the battle is learning how to "own" your voice. Your pitch is good. Once you learn that you don't suck and you internalize that, the rest will come.

Thanks for the reply. I'll definitely keep working on it! As for the solo...yeah I need to learn how to solo haha, I think self taught has only gotten me so far, time to get some lessons (same with vocals)
You make a very good point about "owning" ones voice, I'm going to really work on that, I think I've found my sound, now I just need to gain confidence in it and practice, practice, practice.

 

[slubbie]

very nice song

 

[JeffroMixesYou]

Exactly. Now go do it big

Thanks for the reply. I'll definitely keep working on it! As for the solo...yeah I need to learn how to solo haha, I think self taught has only gotten me so far, time to get some lessons (same with vocals)
You make a very good point about "owning" ones voice, I'm going to really work on that, I think I've found my sound, now I just need to gain confidence in it and practice, practice, practice.

 

[ido1957]

Good singing/song - what I like is that you stay within your vocal range, so the singing has good feel/tone/pitch. You could use a little more vibrato in your soloing too. The guitar sounds out of tune in spots - not sure if that's intonation though. If you're soloing on an acoustic I can see why your bends are "short" ...

 

[MusicMan1994]

Good singing/song - what I like is that you stay within your vocal range, so the singing has good feel/tone/pitch. You could use a little more vibrato in your soloing too. The guitar sounds out of tune in spots - not sure if that's intonation though. If you're soloing on an acoustic I can see why your bends are "short" ...

Thanks for the reply.

Yes I'm using an acoustic, I talked to my piano teacher (who also plays bass among other things) and basically my problem was I didn't have very good form (working on that) so my fingers weren't firm enough when trying to bend the strings. And I'm glad you pointed out the "out of tune" I think I'll have a shop give the guitar a proper setup and new strings (it's about time for it anyhow.) I'll get that work done, then re-record and post it on this thread.

 

[Illsidgus]

Nice song and you have a nice voice. I would like to hear this song again after you have been performing it for several months. Even though you wrote it, it sounds to me like you don't really know the song yet. What I mean by that is that in your head and heart you don't yet understand what the song is supposed to be or really sound like. You have to live with a song for a while before that happens. I suppose this sounds like a pile of crap, but it really isn't.

 

[MusicMan1994]

Nice song and you have a nice voice. I would like to hear this song again after you have been performing it for several months. Even though you wrote it, it sounds to me like you don't really know the song yet. What I mean by that is that in your head and heart you don't yet understand what the song is supposed to be or really sound like. You have to live with a song for a while before that happens. I suppose this sounds like a pile of crap, but it really isn't.[/QU
Thanks!

I totally get what you mean, yeah I wrote it just a few days before recording and posting. I'll do that, really get used to the song and understand the song, then I'll record it again and post it.