Hi everyone! My sons had a spring concert at school tonight so I had to miss the show AGAIN.
Gonna watch it on DVR but it sounds like a stinker.
Here’s my 2 cents worth about voice/vibrato. I think vibrato is something that can’t be taught. You either have the ability or you don’t. If you do, you can abuse it or learn to use it in a pleasing way.
The trouble with a lot of these younger folks is they use it waaay too much along with runs and it’s serious overkill.
It doesn’t have to be used over and over again in a song. Maybe just in a place or two or not at all.
Either way, forcing it if you don’t have it naturally makes you sound like Casey. It’s absolutely awful.
Casey got poor mentoring. Harry coulda shoulda told Casey to kill the vibrato and Harry shoulda sped up Blue Skies which has been covered by Willie Nelson, Michael Buble, Frank, Tony Bennett, Rod Stewart, etc. Blue Skies is not a difficult song. I tried to sing it slowly today. A song about the days hurrying by is not supposed to be done slow. Anyway, vibrato should be planted strategically or else pitch suffers and so does the melody.