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Weekend Wins! Share Yours!

What’s something you’ve been working on that you’re excited about or proud of?

Share a clip with us!

Raw and unedited, straight from your phone works great—even if you don't see this until after the weekend.

I'm really excited about what recording the attached clips means for me. More on that in a bit.

I got a little too into it and loud by the end of the clip, which made the distortion harsher than I intended, but still totally comfortable.

The song is the second verse of the song "The Weight" that I wrote a while back. It's taken over a year of work to change my voice from The Silent Still’s style into the newer “Hard Rock with a Southern Gothic soul” style. I only recently finally fully relaxed into the new voice. I feels a bit nostalgic too, like I’m going back to a lot of the gospel roots I started in 35 years ago, but with FAR more skill than back then. 150+ songs in, I’m excited about bringing the top songs of this bunch to fruition later this year.

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As the main vocal coach here, I want to note something for any of you still struggling to really nail a new vocal technique or sound. The average timeline to go from learning a completely new technique, sound, or vocal shape, to being able to naturally relax into it seems to be:

Two to six weeks to build a general understanding and feel for it.
Two to three months from start to be able to do it on purpose, but still having to think about it.
Eighteen months from start to do it without thinking much about it.

Some people are more intuitive about certain aspect of the voice and speed up that process greatly. Some haven't built the foundations they need in order to have something solid to build on top of, and end up taking years to get where they want to be. Sometimes it can seem like each new thing requires going back to the foundations and rebuilding one piece at a time into the new thing. But on average, each new thing you add follows the above timeline. That's not to say you can't train multiple things at once.

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