What are you talking about? I thought 'Murcia was Urth.
Woah! Never before have I read such intelligent detail.

No really, that's an epic sum up... Mainly because I read it in Dexter's voice.
At school, I stayed in an extra hour recording my composition, and finding out that I have improved my vocals massively in the last 6 months. I remember someone pointing it out to me, but at the time I didn't believe him. But now there's more power, more accuracy, and a little closer to getting the vocal voice I'm aiming to have. I spent my study spell recording too, so in two hours I recorded placeholders for the entire song, added some fun D sharp 5 to C sharp 5 notes in the final chorus, which surprised me when it actually sounded just how I wanted it too. Now I'm struggling with the final note. Which is a hard to nail F5. I can get there, but it's not to what I would consider good enough... And after 10 takes it wasn't sounding any better... So I decided to quit and try next time, after I've practiced it more.
I also got to a A4 in chest voice, which is impressive considering my voice isn't a very chest focused voice. It's more middle and head where I can nail notes. I think once I got somewhere from C5 + but I wasn't paying enough attention to notice if I actually did do it in chest voice.

I'm nowhere near being an ideal vocalist, I'm still far from it. But I'm just getting better, which is all I need to keep me going (and the knowledge that I'm better than my brother at it

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Anyway, today my copy of the new Avantasia album arrived. My sister had taped the small package in an interesting and amusing way on the top of my computer monitor, the tape is still on the monitor. But nonetheless, I finally have the CD to fill that gap that I opened up for it about a month ago. And even better, unlike some of my other Avantasia or Edguy CD's, the case isn't cracked (though cracked cases aren't annoying, I just swap the innards of the case into a better one). Didn't end up with the thin papery "special edition" case I was hoping not to get, so that's another plus. But yeah, I've already listened to the album a few times via the internet while waiting for my one to arrive, and I can say it's probably the best release yet. I think the use of a real orchestra rather than keyboards really makes it sound so much more powerful, and emotional. Hats off to Tobi for his newest work. 👍
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I need to start writing proper orchestral pieces... Then my music would be complete. I've only used string ensembles, and they're nowhere near in depth as a full orchestra.