Fav Vocal Styles

[sage]

What's your fav?

I'm leaning more towards trip-hop, pop and classical, although I'd love to learn throat-singing and metal vocals.

What's yours?

edit: also, where the hell is yodeling in that list?

Not enough space lah... There's a limit of options you can vote on.


And just keep it to vocal styles k please? Cos in that case, I like female vocalists also.

Styles may be overrated, but they are one of the key components that influence a singer's overall unique voice. Like say, Mariah Carey's strongest style is soul. If you want to know how to sound best like her, you can track back her roots to soul and get top notch soul songs that help to train your voice, such as Aretha Franklin and such, to get to the Original style before it's been fused. Or if you wanna sing power metal, there's a lot of classical / powerhouse training gone into it, something that your average pop vocal teacher might not be able to cover completely.

This style-tracking is a good habit to understand vocals in general, and cultivate to strengthen your own vocal style.
Especially since different styles use different techniques..

Other than that, I'm just curious to know so that I can gauge what kinda lesson / tips we can prepare for future Vocal Hangouts.

 

[Aki S. Ian]

not sure, but ill just give band names.

1- Edguy,
2- Sonata Arctica
3- Linking Park
4- Saosin
5- Circa Survive
6- Alexisonfire

 

[dir]

styles are overrated, i'd say it's all about who's singing it!

beth gibbons
joanna newsom
bjork
niko
tori amos
edith piaf
lisa ono
miss kittin

yes, I prefer female singers!

edit: also, where the hell is yodeling in that list?

 

[sage]

I gather you're leaning towards growl / screamo... except for sonata arctica, which is power metal using powerhouse vocals

 

[Aki S. Ian]

yeah, i already voted.. wahaahaha

 

[theunknown]

i dont know really. coz i like singing different types of songs. cant growl on RnB songs right? i'll list my influences in singing.

jon bon jovi - bon jovi - high pitch but like want to come out shit type of coarse
bruce dickonson - iron maiden - very high pitch. i rikes.
james hetfield - metallica - the old voice. coarse.
craig david - the RnB side of me.

basically im more towards high pitch kinda styles. though sometimes its kinda hard to control while playing guitar. imma vocal/guitar in my band.

 

[sage]

i dont know really. coz i like singing different types of songs. cant growl on RnB songs right? i'll list my influences in singing.

I'd list your influences under rock for bon jovi, powerhouse for bruce, metallica... i'd say rock, although they're a metal band they don't growl as much..

Blues for craig david :} We have a couple of RnB singers over here as well.

You can vote for more than one style, no worries.

 

[btherl]

I have a dislike of theatre singing.. it just doesn't do anything for me.

There's also a lot of terrible opera singers out there that put me off opera. I think a lot of singers in those styles abuse their voices so they can sing loud, and as a result they sound terrible.

 

[sage]

^ I'm definitely not one of them, I have a problem singing loud.
It's like another taboo on the line of the classical vocalists, just like how some people think it's the in-thing to sing high.

Whose classical vocal performances put you off?

 

[fuzztremecho]

Im a fan of this fellas

YouTube - James Brown - Sunny

YouTube - Marvin Gaye Sexual healing (Grammy Awards 1983)

YouTube - R.L. Burnside

 

[fgl]

william hung anybody? :mrgreen:

 

[btherl]

I can't tell you whose performances unfortunately.. I just have these horrible memories from when I was young, of opera singers using ridiculous sounding high voices. I'm scarred for life

Luckily I saw a movie version of phantom of the opera where the singers could actually sing, and that restored my faith. And a movie version of pirates of penzance also had good singers.

I don't like Pavarotti's style either .. I haven't got a clue what he's saying, and all his notes sound the same. Maybe it's an acquired taste.

 

[kdash]

oh i'm surprised that i'm the 1st to choose jazz. and not many people chose classical/choral too. i'm heavily choral-influenced, being in the choir for some time.

 

[sage]

Yup we don't get many jazz enthusiasts in here, you're pretty much the first..

 

[Tetragrammaton]

Opera and classical music can be very nice though I can't sing it. Well, many good opera singers are Italian. Like for instance Pavarotti is one himself. They don't speak English well hence their pronounciation are normally misunderstood. I can understand Pavarotti's singing well when he's singing in Italian but not English.

Living in(Italy) a culture that's into Opera(when I was doing my internship), I tend to like them after sometimes. But have never wanted to sing the way they do but just appreciate it as it is.

For someone(myself) who's always trap in time, I'm still backwards in the singing of the good ol' eighties rock/pop tunes.

Saluti!
Tetragrammaton

 

[sage]

For someone(myself) who's always trap in time, I'm still backwards in the singing of the good ol' eighties rock/pop tunes.

80s-90s had AWESOME songs.... Anyone remembers Nik Kershaw? He had one of the most unique vocal melody lines, it's like something you'd hear from a synthesizer rather than as a melody..

 

[taufiq_rocker]

for me...

i'm into power metal and heavy metal...so here's my 10 fav vocalist

1)Fabio Lione - Rhapsody and Vision divine
2)Michael Kiske - Ex Helloween
3)Kai Hansen - Gamma Ray & Ex Helloween
4)Bruce Dickinson - Iron Maiden
5)Michele Luppi - Ex Vision Divine
6)Eric Adams - Manowar
7)Tobias Sammet - EdGuy
8)Andrea Matos - Ex Angra & Ex Shaaman
9)Toshi - X japan
last but not least
10)Henning Basse - Metalium

 

[Dime]

BAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

no love for rap.thats funny.

i mean really.

 

[marlonmm]

this poll is funny. it's more that 100% if you sum up all the percentage.LOL!!!

 

[Plastic]

This just takes the cake! :mrgreen:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=ip1zsUIosoA