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Never having met you, I can not comment on this.
Jeff Buckley had several unfair advantages. It can not have harmed his career to be a good-looking man whom numerous women found attractive.
I slightly disagree with this statement.
It is worth considering what an audience thinks in the sense that your material needs to be something to which they can relate. Adele, Amy Winehouse and Ed Sheeran have large followings because plenty of people can relate to the narrative content of their lyrics.
Fifty plus years previously, people related to Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell and Leonard Cohen. To some extent, their songs reflected the times. Likewise, the young Van Morrison - particularly on his album Astral Weeks.
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You might find it easier or more natural to try for poignancy maybe, although that relies on a certain type of audience to get a strong reaction. If you check out Peter Bruntnell live solo he seems to manage this well, although I can find it a bit boring if I'm honest!
Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.
Your cheque is in the post. I'll be honest I've never heard of him but put his name into Spotify just now and with this particular song I can see what you mean. I was actually aping the guitar from a version of a Stevie Wonder song and added a bit of "Summer Breeze" in there with the solo. So probably would sound a bit familiar if you're into that style of thing...
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https://open.spotify.com/album/2zbrGDAGfwMhDVkeg1CGl5?si=V8iio0wQTgyT_kyYX0Rs4A
I agree reed I should ideally stick to the music I like but unfortunately that's something I can't see changing as my voice just won't work for the styles I like. And I couldn't do those styles solo either as they need rhythm.
But the focus and certainty of what I am doing I think is spot on, so it's technique practice I think, or give up singing completely and go back to piano
Arghhhhhh no acoustic!!!! Hehe
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If you can learn to sing in your upper register using mix voice, as well as head voice which you use just now, it will allow you to become much more expressive. Singing in the same register can become, dare I say it, a little "boring" even if it's not unpleasant to start with.
Belting out high notes with emotion is a bit of a cliché but for good reason. Thom Yorke uses it a lot and it gives great contrast the whiny nature of his head voice - Paranoid Android being a good example
It's silly really but I've tried to give up loads of times but I just can't find anything else to put in the gap left by giving up playing.
But realistically, whilst I can improve within the kind of MoR stuff like that that neither I nor anybody else really likes (too MoR to be interesting but not MoR enough to appeal to MoR fans) there's ultimately very little point as neither I now people I play it to will like it.
Not sure I've got the skillset to go all out weird/alternative etc
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You say you keep coming back to music, so there must be something you enjoy in all the hard work involved in creating it. I wouldn't worry about gathering a following or doing something people want to hear. Treat it as a cool hobby that is something for you and it will feel more rewarding.
And just so you know, my family & friends also hate it when I play them one of my tracks - although my mum did raise half a smile at the "Hot Stuff" cover - I never offer to play them anything or even raise the subject when I see people, but if they are going to ask....
Stick with what you want to do and if you don't feel what you have produced is good enough, do another version or can it and work on something else. If the song "If" is the kind if thing you want to do, I think you should go ahead and do it, trying to be something you're not will never scratch your itch.
It is a bit saddening to think I should give it up but as I can't do the stuff I like I'll only ever be making stuff neither I nor even anybody else can enjoy so feel there's little point.
Might see if I can be inspired by the Radiohead stuff I've been spacing out to on the train recently instead although like the lofi indie garage stuff that's only going to do me for private noodling at home and not getting out there and playing stuff
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Bandcamp
Spotify, Apple et al
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If it's vocals related, get some singing lessons with a good teacher who knows the genre you're roughly aiming at. If it's hard-rock, don't get classical lessons. If it's classical... don't get screaming lessons... etc.
Even though there are biological limitations of the vocal system, the voice itself is pliable and can be made to do things you wouldn't naturally do.
(Edit: Reference point being the earlier White Stripes albums, first Yeah Yeah Yeahs album, Velvet Underground. I can do Strokes ok but that won't work with unaccompanied set up)
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I would try making something more raw, get a single hook riff that even if its gnarly as fuck makes you feel something then put the bare minimum instrumentation around it to make it a song. Spend the time on the initial inspiration first and get that right before polishing and see if you end up with something that resonates better with you artistically.