How to sing Dashboard Confessional - Vindicated ?

Doohickey · 15 Apr 2008 at 21:25

I know there are good many of you who are rather good singers, so was wondering if anyone could help me out with this? Me and a friend are going to be covering Dashboard Confessional - Vindicated

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WoJV4NLxqg

I'm not singing it, but my friend is having a bit of trouble with the transition from verse to chorus. Can anyone give me some tips on how Chris Carabba is singing this? Is he singing falsetto in the chorus? :confused:

SexyGreyFox · 15 Apr 2008 at 22:54

He's not singing falsetto but putting more power into his voice and gone up 1 octave.

Doohickey · 16 Apr 2008 at 16:23

Ah thanks for that. I didn't think it was falsetto, but certainly neither of us can reach that octave in our normal ranges. We've tried it with the chorus sang powerfully in a do-able octave, but then the verse becomes too low, meh

00bob00 · 16 Apr 2008 at 16:58

i've been practicing this song for absolutely ages (1-2 years), so any tips would be much advised, i think it comes down to the fact i can't actually sing

jonislost · 17 Apr 2008 at 10:48

I used to have trouble with this song, when i started i just used to sing an octive down but it lacked passion, so i spent a few months in my car windows up system up driving around and just breaking into that octive, at the start it was really unstable and i kept dropping notes and my voice kept 'breaking' but eventually i kept at it and got it down. The same with 'Hands Down'. Just time and effort.

00bob00 · 17 Apr 2008 at 12:58

jonislost said:
I used to have trouble with this song, when i started i just used to sing an octive down but it lacked passion, so i spent a few months in my car windows up system up driving around and just breaking into that octive, at the start it was really unstable and i kept dropping notes and my voice kept 'breaking' but eventually i kept at it and got it down. The same with 'Hands Down'. Just time and effort.

i sing it in the car too!