Chasing The EffSee

Expert Vocal FC #70 + #71 (Gives You Hell, Just For Tonight)

lentini — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 21:12:33 +0000

I passed the 70th Expert FC mark tonight with a sightread FC of All American Rejects’ GIVES YOU HELL. Also got JUST FOR TONIGHT by One Night Only that was released today.

Expert Vocal FC #63 – #69 (Garden, Down at the Whisky plus some easy ones…)

lentini — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 21:02:18 +0000

Took one step closer to the TEN FC Club tonight by finally getting GARDEN. Also got a bunch of easy ones as well.

Expert Vocal FC #61 + #62 ((Sittin’ On The) Dock of the Bay, Love Man)

lentini — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 22:12:07 +0000

Got the only two Otis Redding tracks that interested me today and was surprised at the vocal tiering (Tier 5 for DOCK OF THE BAY and Tier 6 for LOVE MAN). After singing both of them, they are definitely over-tiered IMHO. DOCK OF THE BAY is pretty easy with one or two slightly tricky phrases and LOVE MAN is pretty challenging but can be done with a lot of practise. Took me a good hour to get it.

Expert Vocal FC #59 + #60 ((Don’t Fear) The Reaper, Go With The Flow)

lentini — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 20:54:47 +0000

Two easy FCs tonight, both sightreads, (DON’T FEAR) THE REAPER was probably the easiest I’ve ever done.

Expert Vocal FC #57 + #58 (Carry On Wayward Son, Little Sister)

lentini — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 21:05:49 +0000

A surprise FC tonight in the form of Kansas’ CARRY ON WAYWARD SON. My last attempt at singing this I couldn’t even 5-star it and now I FC’d it after 2 attempts. The other is Queen of the Stone Age’s LITTLE SISTER.

Expert Vocal FC #54 – #56 (Release, Why Go, Hangar 18)

lentini — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 20:43:52 +0000

Spurred on by my fellow vocalist Paul Shotton’s (the legendary PlexShaw!) recent accomplishment, I decided to attempt a full album vocal FC of Pearl Jam’s TEN. Having already FC’d five of the songs, I had a bash on Sunday but didn’t really get far and only got another two FCs – RELEASE and WHY GO. I tried for about 3 hours to get the final four songs done but I kept stumbling. It will be mine…oh yes….it will be mine!!

I also FC’d HANGAR 18 twice today. Yes, twice! First time I missed the only activation window for starpower that’ll get you Gold Stars so I had to re-FC. For some reason I couldn’t redo it and took me about half an hour to get it in the end.

Expert Vocal FC #51 – #53 (BLACK!!!! ALIVE!! TOM SAWYER!!!!)

lentini — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 20:06:52 +0000

After about 3 months trying, I FINALLY got the FCs of Pearl Jam’s BLACK and ALIVE. There are quite a few tricky phrases in both those songs that tripped me up on every runthrough but today I finally nailed them….and what a bloody relief it was!

Also got the FC for TOM SAWYER (Original Version). The final word of the final phrase always got me.

Expert Vocal FC #45 – #50

lentini — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 19:55:53 +0000

Got a bunch of vocal FCs today, including two I’m most proud of so far (more about that in the next post!). These six are DON’T STOP BELIVING, CRUSHCRUSHCRUSH, I MISS YOU, WHEELS, DANI CALIFORNIA and OCEANS.

My 3rd Expert One-Man-Band FC! (includes Vocal FC #44 – ‘Who Knew?’)

lentini — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 19:30:51 +0000

Got my 3rd OMB FC tonight on Pink’s WHO KNEW?. Some of the vocal parts are tricky, especially the annoying final phrase. Took me a few goes to get that right.

EDIT: Just checked and I’m 15th on the Leaderboards

Expert Vocal FC #43 – Girls & Boys

lentini — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 19:25:30 +0000

Forgot to add this FC #43, got it the other night when I was messing about. Good Charlotte’s GIRLS & BOYS: