Some downsides of busking purely acoustic with no amplification equipment are:
- need to sing louder, project more, stresses the voice
- less dynamics because of constantly more volume
- not hearing yourself well
What are your experiences with it?
Some recommend an earplug.
Playing near walls for more resonance.
Singing resonance.
I am aware of the benefits of alternative tunings.
But when I am performing, I find it a pain to retune between the songs.
Because of the neck tension change, all strings must be slightly adjusted.
Then it would be the option to play everything in a certain alternative tuning. For me, this is also a limitation.
How do you handle this topic?
- only one tuning, standard or alternative?
- change it between songs forth and back?
- use two guitars?
Probably everyone heard about the Baritone Curse.
Well, I am not a Baritone, I am worse than that, a Bass 😄.
I reach comfortably E2, even below D2. My passagio starts around A3 and with E4 I am fully on head voice. Can reach A4 but I do that normally just on vocalizing parts.
So, definitely a Bass.
I struggled many years hoping and trying to sing higher, like the 'normal' singers and of course I failed miserably. It took a while to understand and accept where my voice fits and sounds good. It helped when fellow singers apreciated the warmth and the depth of my voice.
I now tranpose and arrange (for guitar) almost every song to sit in the sweet spot of my voice and I am happy how it feels and it sounds. More important, I sing more correctly and I can put in emotion and message to the songs.
I try to find the proper range, so it does not sound muddy and depressing, with enough highs and most of it centered in the sweet spot, in my case G3.
I am curious to learn two things:
\- experiences from other Basses
\- how other (non Bass) people percieve the singing in low voices
Cheers!