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2 | flubbernugget | Chains by flubbernugget https://drive.google.com/file/d/1VHwVRi6KyuZMQo9Tkd6VJaE5hAoC-WA4/view?usp=drivesdk | Okay, first getting the non-singing part out of the way: this song is AWESOME, and I'm so impressed that you wrote this. Anyway, unsurprisingly, since this was written for your voice, this suits you very well, and your rock vocals are in full force. When you get to the louder, more aggressive parts you knock it out of the park, especially the parts where it's less of a harsh straight tone and you add in bit of a growl. (God, I love your growls so much.) Fantastic job as always! | So the one thing with original music is that it's very difficult to compare you or critique you because this song has a special meaning to you. Also it's an incredible original song and outside of this contest, I would love to see you do something with it because it was a very good one. While it's incredible to know we have songwriters in this competition, it's hard for me to constructively criticize this since I don't know what is intentional and what is accidental. What I will say is welcome back to season 2! Strong and powerful as ever. I think if you make smart choices like you did in season 1 you might be able to go all the way this time. You were so close last time and I would love to see you go all the way because you are a class act and such a naturally gifted rocker. I don't really have anything to specifically critique this round and am interested to see how you do in future rounds. I will say this shows me you definitely listened in season 1 because you applied all the critiques you got and it really showed how much progress you have made since last season. | Ooh an original, eh? Nice. Ah, there's that flubbernugget vocal range. I like your use of fry in that upper register, too. Fits your style very well. Good power behind the notes. If I can offer anything, it's that when you're up in those high parts and you hit an "h" sound your voice seems to waver a bit. You can always hit that sound softer and not really pronounce the "h" and it can help make everything smoother and extend your breath. | 8.6 | ||||||||||||||||||||
3 | Haschel Cedricson | Song of the Volga Boatmen - Russian Traditional Folksong https://drive.google.com/file/d/1W5gBhiHNs6KwJ3Ls-_gU5MmgjYGuGnep/view?usp=sharing | Wow. When I saw your name and song choice, I was expecting this to be another creative choral arrangement. Instead you blew me away with your vocal technique alone. You were already a good singer, but this is a huge step up from S1, although I don't know if you've taken lessons since or are just singing something more in your natural range. You have such a powerful and rich vibrato, and I gasped at the sustain on some of those long notes. Honestly, my only criticism here was the harmony, of all things--it felt a bit gratuitous, and it showed that the high notes weren't as comfortable to you as the lower parts. This was such a treat, and I'm super excited to hear more from you in this rich baritone range I didn't know you had. | You never fail to put a smile on my face. I never know just what I'm going to get from you and you constantly surprise me. It was one of the things I loved about you in season 1. I still remember you performing womanizer and I laughed so hard and fell in love with it. You have incredible range and tone to your voice. You also understand the intricacies of voice layering it and use it in such unique ways. Did I come into this season expecting to love a traditional Russian Folk Song? Nope. Did I think you would surprise me? Nope. Did you though? Absolutely. Bringing that beautiful tone and always making my job so interesting. I think you were basically pitch perfect and this was by far the most interesting audition out of the batch. Your really long note I felt wavered a bit on pitch, but that's so nitpicky especially for an audition. Just watch your high/long notes if you have more in the future. Would love to see you do more with a backing track, but for an a capella performance this was a very "Haschel" performance. Well done. Interested to see what else you can do in this contest. | Dayum, I don't know if we ever heard you go this low in the last contest! I love it. Good breath support, you really sustained that long note well. Beautiful. Wish I had more notes to give you...well, I can tell you the same thing I've been saying to everyone else, which is that you can save some breath by not really pronouncing (or barely pronouncing) the "h" sound, but yeah, very good job. | 9.167 | ||||||||||||||||||||
4 | InflatablePie | Cabo by Ricky Montgomery https://vocaroo.com/1kJ6BD2xMzkL | I remember falling in love with this song when you submitted it to a song contest, so I was excited to see this was your choice. You've got a very nice voice, and all in all, this was just a lot of fun to listen to. My biggest critique is that I got the vibe you were kind of nervous! Maybe I'm wrong and it was just because the song is so fast, but there were points where it felt like your voice was shaky to the point it was affecting your breath support and pitch control. I know it's really scary to put your voice out there, but you've got a great one, so you have nothing to be afraid of. I'm confident that you're going to grow a lot in this competition once you get more comfortable. | This is a tricky song to do. Lot's of little details to take into consideration. Rhythm, staccato, word placement, pitch. Like wow this is an ambitious choice for your first impression with a bunch of judges. So I very much applaud you for challenging yourself right out of the gate. I think overall, you should be pretty happy with how this turned out. For as difficult of a song as that was to not only record, but layer on top of, most of the following things I have to comment on are probably easily fixed since you took on more difficult stuff right off the bat. So I think because it's such a fast paced song that pitch wasn't the strongest focus. For the most part your words and diction were clear. In future songs I want to see you make sure you focus on making sure you are on pitch in the melody. Thinking about being on top of your pitch when you hit notes is a very good recipe for going far in this contest. I honestly think that was my biggest thing I can attempt to help you with here. I gave a suggestion for someone else on how to fix pitch, so I'd read over that critique as I think it could apply to you here. But overall, kudos for a hard song right off the bat. I'm looking forward to seeing what else you bring to the table in future rounds! | I love the verve you put into this. It was really fun, and I love the low note you hit at the end of each chorus. I think it would be good to try adding some more volume when you sing (you can move farther away from the mic so you don't clip), to really make the most of that energy you bring. | 7.433 | ||||||||||||||||||||
5 | lilith2013 | Colors of the Wind by Judy Kuhn https://soundcloud.com/user-989649182-237388472/colors-of-the-wind | You have an incredible range, and I am so jealous of your gorgeous, pure head voice. During the quieter, lower part in the beginning, there were a couple of notes that were slightly off, but you found your feet once you got to your comfort zone in the high part. A suggestion unrelated to singing: I'm curious to know if standing a bit further from the mic (at least at the louder parts) would help--I'm not an expert in recording, but since your high notes are so powerful, it might sound a bit less harsh at points. All in all, a very lovely performance! <3 | Welcome back Lilith! Glad to have you here. Your upper notes are borderline angelic and you really understand your range and who you are as a singer. I think you took a lot of positive notes from season 1 and have really applied them here. You portrayed some incredible emotion. Especially by the 2nd verse this was just delightful. I actually felt like you had fun singing this which is great. The first verse probably needed a little cleaning up to be honest. You also had a couple very minor pitch issues throughout. I think because you submitted so early that you know you are capable of much more impactful performances than this. But, that being said this was lovely over all. You are probably one of the memorable stand outs from season 1 and it's just so great to have you back. Love you and your incredible voice. Just be sure to stay on top of the pitch and you will knock this out of the park. I noticed considerable more vocal maturity this time around that prior which is awesome! | This is definitely your register -- your voice shines in this range. When you hit that second "paint with all the colors of the wind," your voice kind of became inaudible. That could be a mic thing, or it could be a breathing thing, so pay attention to those moments and if you're having trouble keeping your breath then that would be a good thing to work on, stretching your breath so it lasts longer. But that's really my only critique, you did a good job on this. | 7.833 | ||||||||||||||||||||
6 | ManateeDude | Skyfall by Adele https://drive.google.com/file/d/1--WFBcGRO9UcxEcnIfNakfinRITz0WFI/view?usp=sharing | Your voice has such a low, relaxing tone that I really like. My main issue is that Skyfall is a very intense song that's supposed to build in power at the end. I'm a big proponent of making songs your own, and you don't have to sound like Adele, but it felt like the second half sort of lost its energy and also went off pitch a few times. (It's also a famous enough song that I recognized when you skipped some of the lyrics.) I would really love to hear what you do with a very chill, mellow song in a lower range, because I think you could shine with that. | This is one of my go to songs that I haven't performed in quite awhile. I think it's really cool when a guy nails this song. There were moments in this that you absolutely hit the mark. There were also moments that I felt you tried to push your voice to do things that I'm not sure it can do. There were a couple riffs throughout that I know Adele does that when you did it just was almost out of key. 1:04-1:06 and again at 2:08-2:10. It just felt like you were pushing yourself to make those riffs work. It's okay if you can't do riffs or cool things with your voice and instead go for nice clean tones, but if you try and it doesn't work it makes it sound almost out of tune at points and we want to be sure that doesn't happen in future rounds. I think there were times where words were dropped or had odd placements, so just be sure to really think about the words and make sure to keep a good rhythm. This song has a very fluid and sort of almost smokey quality to it which is what Adele nails so beautifully in her original take. It's one of those things that is so hard to replicate especially when you are thinking of nailing your notes and words all at once. There were a couple times where I noticed you ended on a hard consonant "t" especially in the second verse where I was like, hmmm it might have been better if you sort of let that t be a throwaway sound and let the words sort of stretch like honey a bit more. I would consider thinking about what you are singing and how you are singing it and what emotion you want to portray. I think that will help you sell the package overall better. What I ABSOLUTELY LOVED about this was in the choruses you did what you didn't do in the verses and let the words sort of flow together without it being jarring and just let the whole thing swirl around like a cloud of smoke. I know that's a bit of a "feel good" way to describe it but you weren't so inhibited by the ends of words that you let them elongate to give an emotion of inner turmoil and confusion which is haunting and beautiful. You absolutely nailed some of the notes especially in your upper range. I think next round you should think about focusing on the emotion of the words and what imagery you want to portray because you absolutely painted a picture in your chorus lines that intrigued me and made me want more. I think you are an excellent singer and your quality is good, but just think about the critiques I gave you and push yourself to incorporate them as best as possible. Best of luck in this contest! | You're singing fairly quietly here, and I think this is a song that calls for some volume. I know not everybody is in a living situation where they can get loud, but if you can, it can make a big difference because the breath support strengthens other aspects of the singing. But I'm not saying this wasn't good, it was. You have a charming huskiness in this quiet, low-register part of your voice. You ran into a little trouble supporting some of those slides, but again, that's usually a breath support thing | 6.4 | ||||||||||||||||||||
7 | PrivateI | Castle On The Hill by Ed Sheeran https://soundcloud.app.goo.gl/EoBMg | This was just so much FUN. You sang with a lot of oomph and enthusiasm. Even though there were some points where your pitch was off, you're a good enough performer that I didn't care, because you sold the song with your energy. Just be careful with some of the yelled high notes, because you can damage your voice that way. Please go drink some tea with honey! <3 I'm really excited to hear more from you, because I can tell your performances are going to be a treat. | I honestly thought this was pretty good over all! Was it perfect? Nah, but you had so much fun with it. I think you kept good rhythm, had very clear diction, and showed some passion, especially in the larger parts. My challenge for you this next round is to stay on top of your pitch especially in the higher notes. Something a prior mentor taught me was to put my pointer finger on top of my head while I sang so I remembered not to close my mouth. Ultimately I don't want you straining your lovely voice going for notes that push you too hard. If you do choose to repeat this, be sure to try to keep your mouth a little more open especially when you go higher. You have tones that remind me of someone who did well in season 1 and I think you are going to surprise a lot of people. Overall, very well done, great song choice! Can't wait to see what you do next. | Ooh, I like this timbre in your voice. I hope I'm not offending your sensibilities but it's very pop-punk/emo (that's my background). Good range demonstrated in this song. I hear you losing some breath when you get louder, which is natural, but something you can work on to beef up that chorus. I keep saying this in my notes but it's common and important -- try not to pronounce the "h" sound as much, for example you threw that sound in at the beginning of "watching" during the chorus so it was like "ha-watching." Without the "ha" you'll have more breath to pump up everything that comes after. | 7.5 | ||||||||||||||||||||
8 | Save The Dragons | Love the Way You Lie Pt 2 by Rihanna https://voca.ro/19HT1XW9v6wT | You've got such a rich, warm tone that I find very pleasant to listen to, and your pitch is great. With some of the higher notes, I could tell you were straining a bit, but you still hit them all. For next round, I think adding a backing track would help make your entry pop a bit more, although I know that's unrelated to vocal ability. I'm really excited to hear more of your singing! | For an a capella performance this was great. I think you were under pitch a little bit in some of the choruses, which I think could be fixed by taking some time to think about the pitch before getting there in the future. I gave a similar critique to try to pointing to the top of your head while singing. That might help with that. I think the other thing I want to say before getting to the good stuff is that I think a backing track going forward is going to help you significantly because it was hard to hear you keeping in time since you took some liberities with the rhythm. In the future I recommend submitting with a backing track. Okay now for the good. Wow you have an amazing tone quality to your voice. I can tell you have some experience singing prior because you just have this naturally strong presence when you sing. It's very great to hear and I hope you channel more of that because it's very natural. I also can hear you starting to almost do the rock thing in your upper notes when you belt and I would LOVE to hear you do a rock song at some point because I think you just have a very nice tone for that genre. I hope to hear more of what you can do with a backing track because I think you have what it takes to do well in this competition. | I like what your voice is doing on these sharp turns upward and downard in the middle of words on this song. You're hitting those climbs and descents very well. It sounds like you're expending your breath quickly, and I have a small piece of advice on how to work on that: Hit those hard consonant sounds (like the "r" in "hurt") and especially the "h" sound as softly as you can. The "h" sound can be a breath killer. The word "hurt," for example, can be pronounced more like "uhhrt" and nobody listening will bat an eye. | 7.067 | ||||||||||||||||||||
9 | Skelda | It Takes Two from Hairspray https://voca.ro/16JvzvXg4mKp | I really loved this. You have such an interesting and unique tone--it's high-pitched, but also really warm and resonant. Some of those low, rich ohs and oohs gave me chills. This is a really challenging song, but most of the time the pitch is dead-on. Above all, the emotion and drama in this are so intense, and make my theatre nerd heart sing with joy. Honestly, I'm not sure I have anything constructive to say that isn't very nitpicky, other than for partly selfish reasons, I hope you get a better mic so I can hear you better (I feel like some of the power isn't translating in the recording). I am so, so excited to hear more of you this competition. | Okay you are my surprise hit of the auditions. I did not know you could sing this well. You have a lot of control and perfectly placed vibrato in this song. You fill your song with a lot of passion and it's really refreshing. Very clear and you did this on vocaroo, brave lad! There are a couple times where I think you fell ever so slightly off pitch "twist the night away" was a little high and I think that affected your ability to hold the note. I also think there were a couple moments you sounded "nasally" where it's clear you sing with your soft palette a bit. I think making sure to keep your mouth open a bit will help with this going forward. I recommend checking out youtube videos on the topic. I used to have this issue when I sang and making sure to open up your mouth will just make you that much better. Overall though this was a joy to listen to and you are quite talented. I can't wait to see what you put forth in future rounds and I anticipate you are going to do very very well. Best of luck. | I really enjoy hearing this particular mix of vocal stylings -- reserved strength in the quieter moments turning to very solid climbs during the bigger moments, with frequent subtle vibrato. I can offer two little critiques. One, there was a flourish just after the 2 minute mark ("night awaaaaay") that you could work on. Can't offer much more specifically than that, just, vocal flourishes are hard and they can benefit from you practicing them specifically before you record so you know exactly how you want to hit it when you get there. Two, I loved the falsetto at the end but you lost breath during it and it petered out. If you prepare for that you can find ways to conserve your breath so it's there when you need it. But yeah, I really liked this, good job | 8.867 | ||||||||||||||||||||
10 | T-Bone | Looks Who's Inside Again by Bo Burham https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ml4yjU7_LiA | First of all, you win the universe for choosing a Bo Burnham song. Anyway, this was very pleasant to listen to, and you have a nice, lovely tone, although there were a few parts that went off-pitch. I'm really torn on the backing vocals; on the one hand, they created a really cool, soothing effect, but on the other, since it was all singing the same melody, it felt more like they were obscuring your natural singing voice rather than adding something new. Also, I was disappointed it ended so quickly! This felt like a very brief taste of your singing voice, so I'm looking forward to hearing more of it. | I think this is the best thing I've heard from you thus far. You have a very distinct tone to your voice and it carried a melody very strong. You handled all of the harmonies well too, although I noted that they were a little roughly placed, sometimes your upper or lower would be off a bit and it would almost be like one of those echoes you might hear in a bathroom. I think if you choose to add harmonies again, that they need to be added exactly where they should be so that it doesn't come across as jarring. Your tone reminds me of some awesome singer/songwriter combos and I think you have a very naturally "cool" vibe to your voice that people will be drawn to. Since this is a contest about judging voices and not how well you can do cool stuff like layering, I can only judge your main voice, but I had a hard time finding anything wrong. You just had a cool vibe in this song and I dug it a lot. I think in future weeks I'd like to see maybe some risks here or there because I can see this competition heating up faster than season 1 did. All in all, very impressed, just keep making smart song choices and make sure not to become someone who always chooses the same song type. Just a suggestion, best of luck. Nice work! | Ahahah that "blebleble" cracked me up. This was very solid! The main thing I can say is that the best parts of this are when you slide up or down in the middle of a word, like at the very end of the song during "surrounded." | 7.667 | ||||||||||||||||||||
11 | tris | Marika Hackman - Claude's Girl https://vocaroo.com/1fBFIsT8OdAJ | I love Marika Hackman, but I've never heard this song, so I'm definitely going to check it out now. Anyway, I really enjoyed this. It was just a very unique (in a good way!) and musically interesting choice, and I found it very haunting and soothing to listen to. Those high oohs are really challenging and take a LOT of vocal control, but you mostly nailed them, except for the very end where it seemed like they were getting away from you just a bit (but tbh, you pulled them off better than I would have!). All in all, I just really like listening to your voice, and I'm excited to hear more of it! | That was different than anything we have heard so far. I think you have a very unique voice and a very unique styling. I think this was a very very hard song to do a capella, and in the future I would be interested to hear you do songs with a backing track. My biggest gripe at this moment is your microphone which has almost nothing to do with the singing. I think it distorts how your voice comes through and creates some echo-y reverb sounds that makes it difficult to hear your voice. I think you have an incredible upper range full of emotion and rich depth, but your lower range I think you could make sure to keep your jaw/tongue dropped at times to make sure we hear the full vowel. O's for example would benefit from this a lot. Having a nice round tone will just make those vowels pop that much more. It's going to be hard going forward, if you have a microphone with issues and don't have a backing track, so I would keep those things in mind in future rounds if you want some of those higher scores. Overall though you have a lovely tone to your voice, and I very much enjoyed this audition and look forward to seeing how you handle themed rounds. | Mic quality is unfortunately getting in the way a bit here, and I say unfortunate because it sounds kind of lovely behind those issues. Those long falsetto "oohs" especially (there were some moments where you drifted out of key I think the second time, but overall they were quite good). Aside from that, the only other thing is I can hear you straining to reach some of the highest notes in this song, and my only advice for that is really to warm up thoroughly before recording and be cognizant of your range -- you can drop down an octave if needed, it can just take a little planning to make it sound natural. | 7.267 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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