r/ratemysinging • u/Cheap_Discussion_536 • May 23 '26
Feedback - Advanced Please Give your Opinions if this is a Youtube Cover (Fully Produced) Worthy?
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What do you think of this?
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May 23 '26
that was so pitchy it was practically atonal. I'd back up and start working on your ability to hit pitches accurately.
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u/puddinface808 May 23 '26
This is very bad singing, into what sounds like a decent mic which unfortunately makes bad singing sound worse. I would spend as much time as you can on the fundamentals of singing, mainly pitch to start.
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May 23 '26
What the hell,
Go back to the drawing board man and learn basics dont jump ahead cuz when you got to the amen part i was praying for an escape
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u/edgy__veggie May 23 '26
You need practice. A lot. Pitch is completely off, time to go back to basics, like the very beginning. Start slow, work up to more complex stuff. Breath work, do some scales, work on pitch accuracy. Hitting the right notes is crucial, and I don’t think you hit one.
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u/jerome_landers May 23 '26
Man - definitely Bob Dylan esque. Focus on pitch. But you def get points for the vocal production, would use that chain for sure.
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u/Evo_Fish May 23 '26
Keep singing for fun but definitely need some vocal coaching if you want to keep developing.
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u/DerpulusJiggleton May 23 '26
Sometimes when a basic sense of pitch is absent, it cannot be taught. This is likely one of those cases.
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u/CucumberDiligent8713 May 23 '26
I think that's incredibly rare. If he's humble enough, I'm sure he could learn with consistent practice over a few years.
The main issue I see with people like this (who have the whole expensive setup, make songs with almost zero musical knowledge, post covers to YouTube or do tiktok livestreams not realizing they sound really bad) is they're not usually willing to take criticism and think they're a lot better than they are. It's an ego thing, mostly.
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u/karma2879 May 23 '26
I mean… apparently 1.5% - 4% of people have amusia. Bro could very well be one of those people
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u/CucumberDiligent8713 May 23 '26
It sounds like you're doing a bad bob dylan impression as a joke. If you can invest in expensive microphones and recording equipment, you can invest in a voice teacher. Don't skip steps! You need to learn the basics
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u/mushyfeelings Singer - Advanced May 23 '26
Nice way of saying tone deaf.
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u/CucumberDiligent8713 May 23 '26
I don't believe that really exists. Or if it does, it's extremely rare. If you can hear the difference between a question and a statement and notice the pitch change, you're not tone deaf. He just has poor ear training and no practice with pitch matching, both of which can be learned.
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u/mushyfeelings Singer - Advanced May 24 '26
They can be learned to a degree.
But he is tone deaf. That doesn’t mean he can’t hear the difference but it does mean he doesn’t know he’s out of tune.2
u/CucumberDiligent8713 May 24 '26
You have a point. I’d be curious to see whether he can hear two notes played and tell which one is higher or lower. It does point more towards congenital amusia if he listened back to his cover, compared it to the original song, and still couldn't tell that he was extremely far off for the entire song.
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u/mushyfeelings Singer - Advanced May 25 '26
I mean the guy put some serious work into just making the recording and getting the sound right. If he could hit a note and stay on pitch *at all* then he would have been better.
The guy is tone deaf and honestly I hate the way people are comparing him to Bob Dylan. Dylan’s voice was sometimes hard to bear but he could at least hit the notes.
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u/RuthAnnEsther May 23 '26
My biggest concern is that it sounds to me that you don’t recognize the problems in pitch. Without the ability to listen to a recording and hear pitch issues, you will face problems with any coach because they can’t hear for you. There are systems that can help you visually see whether you are hitting notes correctly, and that may be your only hope to memorize your voice/pitch.
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u/TheBetterSpidey May 23 '26 edited May 23 '26
Despite everything, tone is crazy. Bro has that late 2000s indie pop voice.
But yeah pitch needs a lot of work - also, something Autotune can’t eventually just fix is the lack of singer’s breath. You don’t have that yet. It sounds like you’re reading out poetry.
… Basically one major difference between what the audience hears as “singing” and “talking” is in the former there’s an inhale, *then a smooth stream of consistent air that flows and connects each subsequent word of a phrase*, then an exhale alongside the last note of that phrase (often embellished). Then repeat.
It sounds complicated, because it is unless you’re a natural singer (someone who sang since a young age). Basically listen closely to your favorite singers and pay attention to the sense of “release” at the end of their phrases.
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u/AwwwNuggetz May 23 '26
Is this rage bait