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Honest opinion follows, please take as constructive criticism :) (btw I have been a musician for 28 years or so but I am a TERRIBLE singer lol! But I know a bit of general music and technique so here goes...) First things first. PRACTICE REGULARLY. I will probably say this three or four times. Pablo Casals when in his 60s was once asked how he had become such a great 'cellist and he replied he had "practiced for four hours a day every day since I was around 6 or 7 but it is only in the last few weeks I have felt I am getting anywhere." I think your general timbre is good. The quality of your voice seems nice. Your rhythm needs work though. I know it is a pain but count in your head. Get a metronome and practice with that. Took me YEARS to get a good sense of rhythm. Try music with a strong rhythmic pulse to help, avoid tracks that overly rely upon rubato phrases. You can get that later. Pitch is generally OK, I would work on a few things though. Firstly know you range. Notes should be as strong at the extremity of your range as they are in your "comfort zone". If you can't hit a note don't go for it. You are jumping around alot. Don't believe the nonsense about people like Mariah Carey having 7 Octave ranges, it is total balony. 3 octaves is an incredible range, 2 is most common. TO improve your pitch practice scales and arpeggios. Scales will help with runs and arpeggios will help with those leaps. Work on your relative or perfect pitch. Start with say a C and pick an interval, say a minor sixth. Get the note in you head and then sing it. Check the result on a keyboard or whatnot. It is a good exercise if a bit boring. Vibrato is nice actually but that should come later get the notes first and then work on colouring them. Breath control - you cough a fair bit in between phrases and seem a bit breathless (which is good for some music but make it a style you control not the other way around!). Work on your breath control. A good speaking technique is to say the alphabet with only one breath, steadily with no wheezing at the XYZ bit. THen try your scales and arpeggios with this principle. ALso sing from the diaphragm not the throat. You will have more power and control and get fewer problems later in life. Little bit on your mouth - try not to stretch your lips 'outwards' (like you do when you go "eeeeeeeee!") and instead try dropping you jaw to form the shape. The note will not suffer from 'breaking' as much then. Obviously sometimes you will want this effect but again control it, not the otehr way around. Watch opera singers, mouth shape is very important. I dunno if you do already but learn another instrument. It all comes together quicker I have found. Helps vizualising those intervals I mentioned earlier. And just practice practice practice! Don't get put off. It took me 6 months to learn a bass part by Jaco Pastorius once (and I still have my suspicions I am doing it wrong) so time is something you will have to put in. If you can't do a certain thing practice that. I know SO many musicians that sit and practice the things they can do. Why? What's the point of that, you can DO that lol! Work on the bits you CAN'T do. please don't be offended at all, you have the most important thing which is a nice timbre and willing. THe rest is just work work work. It will frustrate you at times but keep going. Oh and when you are confident, sing live. No substitute. :) Good luck!
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