Jazz Singer, The
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IMDB rating: 5.00 Plot: Neil Diamond stars as Yussel in this tale of a young Jewish cantor who strives to make a career in music. Against the wishes of his rigid father and his loving wife, Yussel travels to California to play his music. Swept up by the excitement, he meets a woman who shares his dream. He grows apart from his family, and becomes confused about what he should ultimately do with his life. |
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How can I get a non-rock singer comfortable singing rock?
My friend is a female (low alto) that sings mainly jazz and R&B, and sings it very well. Her tone is well built for those genres, such as very soft and mellow lows, a smooth and thick-sounding midrange, but her high end is too mellow and lacks power and presence to cut through the mix like a "rock voice" should be able to. Because of this, I’m guessing, she’s afraid to venture out of her genre and/or not motivated to. She sounds a LOT like Brooke Fraser. (Youtube her for her solo work..)
Now I’m a guitar player, and I can go from a smooth jazz tone to a lead rock tone with a twist of a knob and the press of a button, so I may be biased. I believe that no one’s voice can be built solely for rock and rock alone. R&B singers, country singers, and pop singers just need to learn vocal techniques used in rock, and that there is no "ideal" rock vocal tone. All this is just my opinion.
I was in her shoes a few years back. On guitar I started out playing jazz, moved to blues-rock and pop-rock, then to hard rock, and finally metal. If I didn’t venture out of my genre, I wouldn’t be the useful guitarist/musician that I am now. I hope you all can see how strongly I feel about this.
Is there anything I can tell her to get her to get her more comfortable singing rock?
Or anywhere outside her genre for that matter.
Any artists that trained in another genre that later moved to rock?
Let her listen to a few simple songs and have her play around with them until she gets comfortable. I went from Gospel to Choral style and it worked for me.
ATrU BeAuTy | Feb 03, 2010
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