Hey Glennny - sorry to hear about your dad - hope you and your family are doing ok... Thanks for the nice words! Just on this point: I’m not getting the call and response challenge. The call and responses are in the interplay between lead and backing vocals in the verses - BVs asking questions, lead...

In for my first SongFight, with a kinda sad song about being young and misunderstood. Or what I remember of it, anyway.

A Grand Parade The Dutch Widows A grand parade of geeks and freaks and goons Getting high on patchouli and cheap perfume Getting high cos there’s nothing here to do Something soothing in the way we choose to move Little steps slowly spinning to confuse Little steps holding hands is what we do Every...

Thanks for the reviews Glennny! Mine have somewhat stalled about half way through - I will try and finish them this week if I get a spare hour or two.... On this point: I guess I wish there was some backing vocals in the chorus. Don’t worry, I’ve written them, they’re in my head now. If you had 5 mi...

I think Tim (Pannacotta Army) commented elsewhere that he thought that with one or two exceptions, this was a weaker set of songs than Round 2, and I think he’s right on that, though I’m not sure why that should be. Perhaps because Round 2 was exceptionally strong rather than the Round 3 songs being...

Reviews seem a bit thin on the ground for this round, so as I started some earlier in the week, I thought I should finish them. As a general comment before I waffle on, I just wanted to say that one evening this week I was wandering round my little town listening on headphones and I was struck by ju...

Here are some reviews. It’s taken a while to do them because life gets in the way, but these are my thoughts for what they’re worth. For some reason, I’ve got it into my head that the amount of time it takes to get to the first vocal (TtFV) and the amount of time it takes to get to first chorus (TtF...

And so it goes. Thanks to all those running, judging and competing this Nur Ein - I enjoyed my first crack at it - and good luck to those left. My quest will no doubt continue for a happy intersection between the sounds my mouth and hands can make, that my brain likes, and that anyone judging a comp...

Firstly: Partly Fiction by glennny Dutch Uncle, Dutch Widows , James Gang Very much here for this lyric! Already my favourite this round without hearing it! 8-) The Dutch Widows' song is DW's 'advice guy' mode - a song of life advice for my son as he leaves university next week. Good luck mate! Part...

the vocals which have a kind of phasy / metallic reverb quality that doesn't blend terribly well with the rest of the song to me Fair comment. The EarGoggle had sent me both an un-effected raw vocal and a version with a phase effect for an early draft of the lyric, but for the final version he acci...

Just your everyday tale of a serial philanderer that thinks that every new relationship is going to be ‘the one’ but they never are and every time he comes back to his wife hoping to go back to ‘normal’, but this time she kills him with a fruit knife. Based on something true, except the murder bit, ...

Thanks for all of the reviews above - always appreciated! I'm hoping to do some myself in the near future if I can. The comments on the vocals in my Round 0 song - all totally fair! I had to rush to finish it off to go to an unexpected thing so I knew when I sent it that the vocal was on the wrong s...

Challenge: Use of the Royal Road chord progression I misread that as 'Use of Royal Blood chord progression' and thought we were being asked to be petulant (see here as to why: https://twitter.com/TheRockRevival_/status/1663220061715169282?s=20). The actual challenge is better than my imagined one!

A song built around a couple of cabasas, with a wood block and some shaker action for good measure! The Dutch Widows - Blind Spot Do you think I have a blind spot, a weakness in my brain? An inability to hear what other people have to say It’s not disinterest just a lack of bandwidth, I’m sure they’...

Hey all - my first crack at Nur Ein. Having broken my arm during SpinTunes, I'm hankering after some songwriting now it's (mostly) functional again! Changing of seasons got me thinking about a relative with dementia who has little concept of time other than the passing seasons and whose spouse is fi...

To Dutch Widows: Thanks for your comments on the Mandibles and Cavedwellers entries. I agree that Mankading *with a warning* is fine. But it’s a crummy way to end a game and I still feel rotten for Charlie Dean. And the eponymous Duckworth Lewis Method record is SO SO GOOD. Gentlemen And Players is...

Some Round 2 reviews as I quite liked doing them for Round 1. Feels a bit lame when I didn’t get anything in that could be critiqued for this round, but thems the breaks I guess. Literally so in my case. I’m still smarting from Micah calling out that I rhymed ‘midnight’ with ‘night’ in Round 1, not ...

The Dutch Widows - There’s a missed opportunity here in the vocals. The soft low register is great, but I kept yearning for you to start belting it out in the chorus. The mix is great! Lots of good sounds to enjoy. I just wish the lead vocals took another approach for half of the song. Note: what I...

Despite this being my fourth crack at SpinTunes, I’ve not done reviews before and thought it was about time. So why not start with the largest ever Round 1..? I probably lean more towards a FAWM-style of commenting – trying to focus on positives as I figure that the point of all of this is to encour...

So, if you were wondering what you were going to listen to next - maybe try this . Excellent version - loved the sung chords. I've really enjoyed the bonus covers round, both recording and listening. It's so interesting to hear what people do with the songs and it feels like a mini collaboration wh...

Cybronica wrote: ↑

Fri Nov 05, 2021 7:51 pm

Here are some breathing exercises...

Thanks Cybronica - that’s such a helpful reply! I shall give that a go!

So, as trained singer and former voice teacher, I would l o v e to talk to you about your approach to singing. This is actually a very common thing to happen (even among opera singers!), and almost always it comes down to breath and breath support. If the breath is under supported, the tone will co...