New cover! Please help me criticize my voice!! :)

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I still think the guitars need to be tuned.

Also you need to do something with the S sounds. Use a DeEsser and learn how to sing them cleaner. Tone sounds good to me but you need to work on your breath so you can hold your notes cleaner.
 
Getting really good. Seems you are pushing too much to get an effect (I don't want to sound mean, but is sounds like you are trying to push one out), you might want to do it with less strain on your voice and try another approach. I think the results would be better.
 
DM60 said:
Getting really good. Seems you are pushing too much to get an effect (I don't want to sound mean, but is sounds like you are trying to push one out), you might want to do it with less strain on your voice and try another approach. I think the results would be better.
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I agree with this. When you breathe normally, you feel your throat is open for the air to flow. When you sing, it should still feel open like when you breathe. Right now it is squeezing shut because the larynx is raising up and also other muscles are constricting the vocal tract. This reduces the resonance space you have to work with and makes singing a whole lot harder than it should be.

Here's a test: if you put your fingers lightly on your Adam's apple (that's the lump in the front of your throat, the larynx) and swallow, you can feel it goes way up. Your airflow of course also stops when you swallow. Now feel your larynx when you sing. You will feel it also goes up from resting position. Ideally, this should not go up and go slightly down when you sing.

The danger is that you can obsess about this and still wind up with a crazy sound. A good voice teacher can guide to to a more healthy/freer sound that will be more pleasant.

As far as the guitar, maybe it's time for new strings?
 
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