1979 - Smashing Pumpkins

Community Recordings Audio-Video Of You Playing
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I’m still working on singing & playing at the same time (and improving my singing in general). This one’s a wee bit tough to sing and play…

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Colin

You’re doing really well with this. One way to help singing and playing is to practice them separately. Record the guitar track and sing over it: record the vocal track and strum over it; then the two will fit more easily together. I never thought I’d enjoy a Smashing Pumpkins piece as much.

Brian

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My first thought was ooh love the song. You have the riff down. I suggest to Work on the dynamics of the song just a bit and it will be a gem.

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Nice job Colin. Vocals and playing is tough, and you did good. Your guitar was on point. So nostalgic also. I mean your intro literally took me right on back to the early 90s. Such good feelings and that decade was an absolut blast. I don’t even know how I survived it.

Have confidence in your vocals. I don’t think you sound bad. We always think we sound worse than we do because we often belive we should sound like the artist. We never will sound like them, we sound like ourselves paying homage to these artists. It’s ok not to mimic them, we all have out own style to add to music we love. I think the original artists usually would encourage that too. For us as vocalists, I think once we allow ourselves to accept that concept, we become better vocalists and artist in our own right. That’s my opinion at least, I had it long before I picked up a guitar. If you want you can try practicing the song more without the guitar andnyou can try and recognize the note and see if theybalsonfollow the notes in the scale or note. Obviously thatnidea ofnmaking it your own might be different in a hard core tribute act.

Great job so stoked you posted that. Keep it up. And keep kicking butt. :sign_of_the_horns:t2:

Edit to make certain things more clear.

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Thanks for listening and huge thanks for the advice @beejay56. I’ll record the guitar part and try to focus on improving the vocals.

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Thanks for the feedback @SDKissFan!

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Thanks for the feedback and advice @Ontime! I really appreciate it. The 90s were indeed peak music!

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There’s surely room for improvement Colin, but I found it already a very enjoyable listening.

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Thanks for listening @Silvia80!

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Well done Colin.
I agree with Brian. Putting the 2 together is just a matter of practice.
It was an enjoyable listen.

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This sounds already pretty good Colin @C_McG! It helps if the guitar part is pretty cool on its own :wink:

Singing over 16-th note strumming while also moving around the neck is a challenge. Even without the moving around the neck, so you are doing great to get through a whole song! I can’t do that (something I’m working on, but it takes time…) so I’m quite jealous!

You have seen my post about simplifying things when learning a song or putting singing + playing together, so I won’t repeat it all here, I’m sure it will help you smooth out the areas that you want to improve further if you take out complexity temporarily. And break it down into sections and work on one section at a time. The part where the strumming switches from 8th note to 16th note strumming are sometimes a bit wobbly - try and get them a bit tighter. Also know where the melody is to the point that you can sing it acapella (or just with very basic strums). Most of it sounds good, there are just a few bars where you sound not in tune - you know which ones they are.

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Hi @MollyT - thank you so much for taking the time to listen and provide feedback - it’s much appreciated!

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That’s a great riff running through the recording Colin. In fact all of the accompaniment is great. I think you’ve got a good base to work with the vocal as well. Good work man.

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Thanks for listening @Willsie !

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Hard song to sing and play!
You struggle with pitch stability and timings are often tricky.

That said, the playing is great and solid, more than solid enough to practice singing over.
Really, the guitar playing triggers enough nostalgia on its own!

Perhaps my Live Club has some useful tips for you?

https://www.justinguitar.com/live-events/180

standing up, singing without guitar, posture, breathing support…
There are a lot of big and small things

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Thanks @LievenDV - I’ll check it out!!

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Hi Colin,

Good tune and performance.
I only really started listening to SP later on - was still a dyed in the wool metal head during the 90s.
Enjoyed this cover.

Digger

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Thanks for listening @Digger72!