these two singers have always had it to my ears and I know to a lot of other people's ears as
well for the longest time I wasn't sure what it was was it just that they were really talented or
that's just the way they sounded or did they have something or know something that I simply didn't
know but could also be a part of if I just looked in the right place or did the right thing it
seemed like a secret and it was bigger than just Charisma or Showmanship their voices were so much
more interesting than mine it wasn't necessarily that they could hit notes that I couldn't hit
it wasn't necessarily that they were singing songs that I couldn't sing
but there was these two singers and me boring striving trying to be something I wasn't they were
Larger than Life to me and their voices reflected that in a way I couldn't quite comprehend
and then I heard the album love from a band called The Juliana Theory singer Brett detar
love was an interesting album they had transitioned from sort of an indie presence
Indie label into major label and the production was was quite a bit different on love than it
was on their previous albums When Love came out and I heard Brett's vocal Transformations
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and then equated that to what I was hearing in My Chemical Romance and queen
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he was pretty much hitting all the same notes but there was this Arc to the way he sang it's
like each note at a completion and an expression and a character of Their Own each note mattered
each note had its own little world that was what I noticed about Freddie Mercury and Gerard Way that
was it in terms of what their voices did that mine didn't I began to see that my voice was more like
pre-love the Juliana Theory and their voices was way more like love you see Freddie Mercury
and Gerard Way aren't simply singing lines they aren't simply singing Melodies they aren't simply
singing songs and they aren't simply just being characters those are all part of what they're
doing but there's this sense that each note they sing matters and carries this weight with it
that a lot of other singers don't have attached to each note so I started taking one word one note
and just seeing how many different ways I could attach meaning and weight to that one note with
that one word no other context EX cept for what I was doing with my voice it was so cool and so free
and then I started taking short phrases and assigning meaning and weight and character
to each word in the phrase nothing long three words Maybe sticking with the same notes and just
experimenting with how I could place things how I could deliver what sort of different
techniques what sort of different emotions I could convey over each word in the phrase
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after a little bit of practice and a little bit of non-judgmental experimentation I begin to
sense that same sort of Engagement and interest and pull out of my own voice that I was hearing
in my favorite singers Gerard Way and Freddie Mercury each note that I would sing would have
its own little world to be explored its own little meaning its own little journey that I
could take the listener on and as I started to sing melody lines with this approach that each
note counts it's not just not just part of a bigger picture but it's it's a unique being
in the big picture of the melody my singing and my expressiveness took off it became like this
wildfire and I became so expressive and so excited to do new recordings and create new
Melodies but sometimes I'd get frustrated with myself because I'd sink back into old
habits of simply trying to learn a melody and deliver it or write a melody and deliver it
and that's why I developed these sort of mindsets and exercises that you can watch in this video
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