My 8-Year Singing Journey: Progress from 2011-2019 (Age 15 to 23) | SELF-TAUGHT VOCALIST
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 ธ.ค. 2019
- As the title states, herein lies a compilation of clips from all the uploads I've done to TH-cam, showcasing the progress of my voice. I'd be curious to know at what point in time you found my channel, and/or at what point you think my voice actually starts to be decent! In my opinion it's a very gradual change and I can't pinpoint it myself.
Apart from being fun to go back, see my hair change, and see how far I've come from my (terrible) first singing performances, this also serves a greater purpose: I've always heard of "natural talent" being thrown around, and I know lots of people look up to their favorite vocalists as un-achievable demi-gods. It's easy to look at someone's final product without realizing all the effort that was put in along the way. The best example for this is Spencer Sotelo from Periphery: listen to P1 and P4 and you can hardly tell its the same vocalist. I think it's the same for me. It's all about the INTELLIGENT effort you put in, and you will truly find improvements in your voice over many years.
I hope this serves as inspiration for people who think my voice is a far-away goal that they can never achieve. I think it's clear after seeing this video that it just takes time and dedication, and I believe that as long as you aren't a bass singer, anyone can hit the same notes and do the screams I do.
Thanks for watching! :D
And yes I do shamlessly plug vocal lessons at the end, but I think I'm ready at this point to be able to share my knowledge with singers who are trying to improve their voices. So if you're curious, comment below, or message me on instagram or facebook. Or check out my patreon!
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To see all the videos showcased in this compilation, go through my "All Videos" playlist, including some on other channels
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Jun 2013 you start to lose almost any audible tension in your vocals, that must've given you some great confidence, your cleans start to sound smooth and rich, and by may 2014 your raw talent is close to unleashed, huge throws in your full voice range that are largely on pitch and staggering to the listener, I would have not seen that coming had I been following you from the get go. it was a very profound development, aug 2104....the scream, there it is, your bread and butter, raspy yet buttery, brutal yet delicate, amazing range...beginnings of greatness. Aug 2016 at 20 years old and your breath control is staggering, starting to hit on all cylinders vocally...since then your pitch has just gotten better and better to the point where almost all your vids cause multiple eargasms to the listener. I think covering those periphery songs put your musicianship on another level, they challenged you to master some excruciatingly difficult vocal techniques (false chord, fry etc.) and like I said, any pitchiness in your cleans or screams is largely dissipating at this point. By the time you're 22 I think you've found your niche, your influences like Chester Bennington are present but not defining, enough familiarity to grasp the listeners attention and then the flood them with unique qualities that keep us coming back practically daily. Don't ever stop....
WOW what a comment. I can't thank you enough for sharing this perspective. You picked at some of the key things I worked on at particular times of my development and laid it out so nicely. You've really got me speechless here, thank you so much! I definitely won't be stopping any time soon :D
People keep saying "what a talent" when really I don't think you were talented at singing as a kid, no offense.
You shaped your voice through the years and it took you a long journey to be as good as you are right now.
A lot of respect for you here my dude !
That's precisely correct! It's all a result of hard work! I definitely wasn't born with talent, far from it :D
It's still talent when he was younger. People are used to hearing high end production. Alot of the times if the person isn't a musician they can't see the talent in local music. It's just a clear difference between being on a local music level and then evolving to a professional top notch studio ready vocalist.
that is really a lot better than saying "he is just talented". No, he reached such a high a level through hard work and dedication. He is the saitama of rock covers ahahaha!
Talent as a concept is bullshit
@@drumboarder1 exactly dude. This is the problem I think a lot of non musicians and musicians have. They see someone good, or see someone get good quickly and say "wow, so talented" without realizing the insane amount of work we put into playing our instruments.
I've seen so many musicians say the nonsense "i'm just not that talented" or "i could never get that good" but it's really just because they haven't put in the work and won't. Lately I call people out on it, but I never used to. I'mma start asking next time someone says they're not talented enough how often they practice per day. because most of the time I ask they, they don't even practice LOL maybe once a week. IMO if you wanna become great, 3 hours a day almost every day. Wanna become competent, at LEAST 1 hour per day, and it'll still take a few years no matter what. People get discouraged but they shouldn't. A lot of the people we all look up to as musicians have been doing it their ENTIRE LIVES!!! That's why they're so good. They've been practicing something for 20 or 30 years. They want the quick path to being good and that just isn't how it works.
Saitama of vocals
You're a beast!
WAN PAUUUUUUUNCH
Took the words from my fingers
from kid to weeb in 7 years
LOOOL is that an upgrade or an unfortunate fall from grace
Upgrade your so good
@@VictorBorbaMusic For sure an Upgrade man! All hail Weebs
This guy's voice became so powerful he lost all of his hair
I mean tbh I think shaving his head was an upgrade. 10/10 handsome baldie.
Virou o Saitama, mas ao invés de força sobre-humana ele conquistou uma voz com a essência da motivação kkk
So MOTIVATED...
From yungest boi in the game to BEST boi in the game. Amazing to watch the journey man
AYY and it all goes back to your comment on my Lune cover :D
Man, training until you lose hair really works huh.
Aside from One punch man reference, you are amazing.
I feel dumb for being one of those that noticed you beacuse of Bury the Light's boom. Your hard work has created a beautiful and aggressive voice, which I love.
Imagine how frustrated I feel about your 20k followers... I would expect millions. Honestly. Wish I knew about you earlier.
you really are an inspiration for me, Victor. when i first heard bury the light, i thought to myself 'man, this is how i want to sing like', but i felt like it was impossible to achieve something like that without having talent. watching all your journey until 2019 and on really inspires me and make me even more motivated to work on my voice. thanks for the godlike content! may God bless you.
7:41, wow man you really killed that.
What video is it
@@dooflydetailguuy4349 cover on "crush" by periphery
As Vergil he gained more power! Power of voice. Difficulty - “Dante must die”
Absolutely incredible for a self-taught vocalist! I can tell it's been thousands of hours of grinding your vocals just by this video and given your age you're definitely destined for greatness man!
Thank you! Yes it's been a long haul and it's only up from here! Thank you for believing in me :D
I have been running down this channels rabbit hole since Bury the Light. It’s inspiring to see someone go from where you were then to where you are now and have that all be hard work.
You've come a long way man, I'm sure you'll get bigger n bigger in the future!
Hope so! I finally settled on really comfortable technique so I don't see my voice getting damaged in the future, which means its only up from here :D
this is sick dude. i'm trying to improve my vocals as well and seeing your evolution is super inspiring. being able to see your range and tone increase in quality is amazing and i hope to be at your level someday
Thank you that means a lot and is exactly what I wanted to achieve in making this video. Record your voice and really take the time to analyze your work, judge it as if it was someone else's voice, and pick at one aspect of your voice to improve on at a time. Whether it is good pitch, being able to hold a note, singing softly, belting, range, etc.
@@VictorBorbaMusic if you're down, it'd be cool if you made a video going over some of your learning techniques and major takeaways over the years :) sick progress
@@tempname4 I've been thinking about making that! I find it hard to script something and condense it effectively though... maybe i'll figure something out eventually
i see you are a man of culture
I would kill to have lessons from you. Your style is exactly what I want to do. It’s a shame that I live in England tho and not Canada
Adam Cowell ayy well we can make that happen with the magic of video chat! Shoot me a message on Instagram: victoralvesborba or add me on Facebook. Both are linked on my channel
As a fellow brit i am in the same problem i only really discovered you off bury the light. And i was amazed by the song that I had to look you up. Music is a passion for me and listening to your singing just made me a fan
Damn what a transformation. I’ve always thought that singing is not pure talent and almost everyone can learn how to sing properly. I’m not a singer or anything but i do love singing a lot even though i’m not really serious about it, i try to improve lol i just enjoy singing in general. Anyway, you rock dude keep doing what you’re doing🤘🏻🤟🏻
Honestly I thought your vocals really started to shape up in terms of correctly hitting the right notes and holding them well around 17, but then everything after that has been a gradual change in your own sound. I ended up coming across your channel a couple months ago when I was looking for a live version of Here Comes The Winner and I instantly loved it
Shawn Kreuzer makes sense! By the end of high school and entering university I found I could sing easy mid range “normie” stuff and my non-musician peers thought I was a GREAT singer but all along I knew that was just really easy to do, and I wanted to actually challenge myself ie. sing songs that are too difficult for me :D ah so you’re new here! Well I’m glad you found me and I hope you stick around!
@@VictorBorbaMusic I can see what you mean by it being easier to sing mid range stuff easy, there is no real need to force out a note since that's the same range people use everyday to talk. I really enjoy your highs and the grittyness that your voice has, that's mainly what kept me interested. I'm glad I found the channel and I'll definitely be keeping an eye out for any more DGD covers man!
@@tiaraguy7705 Exactly! It's the most comfortable range by far. Thanks so much, I'm glad you've been enjoying the DGD. As you could hear from the last clip in this video, I have a full band cover of Son of Robot coming out soon... everyone else is waiting for me to get my video filmed which I'm doing this coming weekend. And with that it should be ready to be released :D I also plan on covering more from mothership
@@VictorBorbaMusic See I thought you had already released the Son of Robot song because I heard the bit of it at the end of the video and I spent a solid 10 minutes searching before I realized you are probably doing what you said.
This inspires me so much, thank you for this!
dude, this is the most inspiring vocal journeys i've ever seen so far. i've been practicing and trying to hone in my tone and range. you are one of the greats in my eyes victor
Thanks so much! That's what I hoped to accomplish with this video, glad I've inspired you!
Hitting notes from Dream Theater's James Labrie at that age, man, no wonder why you became one of the best voices on TH-cam 👏🏻🎉
huge inspiration right here. love what you do man
One of the broadest range of vocals I've ever heard... Absolute GIANT of a vocalist!
Speechless... Glad I discovered you now. Hope you bring us even more power with your amazing singing. Right now this is what I need! Can't wait for you to make some new content!
Absolute talent! Can't find talent come up like this in such an honest and raw way. Im a fan man, keep it up!
This is a fantastic journey, thanks for letting us be a part of it
Awesome Voice man, thanks for sharing all your journey, many years of trying, of working hard and perfecting your craft. (Those high notes :O) 🤘❤🤘
Come along way. Good job!
Really amazing to see the progress you made in the first 4 years.
You can really see the moment you found your mixed voice and started to control your vocal break,
Was listening to my first singing attempts back then and it's so cringe but still encouraging to see the progress.
Keep up the good work hope your channel will grow even more
Holy fk dude. This is quite the road map you've laid out for us all to study. Thank you for this and bravo to you sir.
You must have a million subscribers) You are definitely deserve it))
So humbling. What an incredible journey Victor. Onwards and upwards!
Thanks for inspiring me! Im not a singer but it motivates me to practice more on my instrument(bass).Your bigger picture one man band cover brings me here by the way! Keep on rockin dude!
Thank you very much for sharing. It really does motivate me (as someone who fell in love with singing a couple of months ago and has similar taste in music), to see that such imense progress is possible. But it is also good to be reminded that it takes time.
Have a nice day :)
Btw your Architects cover is so awesome!
This is the kind of progress I needed to see to reAssure me. I want that voice at the end and my journey is currently at around your 2013, 2014. I hope to be able to sing like that too!
This is just amazing and inspiring. Thanks 4 charing your journey. Mine started today, wish me luck.
I randomly stumbled into your channel thanks to YT recommendations and HOLY. As a long time Periphery fan with the utmost love for Spencer, your covers are absolutely SICK. I don't think I have once seen someone with such a close tune to his, with your own twist on top.
Your transformation is truly inspiring. As someone that has never sung but really wants to try despite a crippling fear of being terrible, this videos shows that time and practice can solve anything.
You certainly gained a new fan!
i feel happy for you dude
yesssss thank you! Yup there's nowhere but up and i still have certain things I know I can improve on in my voice, which I've been working it steadily
It was good to watch/listen to this. I've been learning to sing & recently come up against a wall & am trying to push past it. To see your progression gives me hope that I will be able to reach the standard I'm looking for...with time & effort.
Your Jetpacks Was Yes & Nocturne clips were excellent.
I've been learning Nocturne, but stuggle with the chorus!
Great motivation video. not only on vocals. we all started somewhere and not always successfully. the main thing is to love what you do and not give up. one day you yourself will not notice how smoothly you will come to the very level that you once dreamed of.
hard work awakens talents
Keep up the good work man. Holyyy progress!!!
Thanks so much, will do :D
came back to this after your collaboration with andromida (the rumbling) where you sound absolutely incredible!
this video really shows how much work goes into practice, and how it pays off. so very inspiring!
Such an inspiring journey! I will never get over you nailing Spencer's parts, and pretty much anything you do in general.
Thank you!! Yeah Spencer was a great inspiration to me so I'm glad you thought I nailed em :D
Dude, you're the man!
lot of hard work Vic, props to ya. Not alot can do what you did on your own. You should be bigger than you are. you really started to come into your own around 18-19 with all the practice and just kept growing from there. A few of your collab folks where i found you did the same. I believe at least halocene, and violet. Not to sure about Lauren. Love all you guys though! Need to tour through the east coast sometime around KY, love to see you all! Best of luck in your endevours!
Really nailing TesseracT and Periphery, no wonder your later DGD covers are fire as well
Insane ! This is what hard work sounds like !!!
Thank you so much! Exactly :D
You was always good man but now you're killing it, congratz from Brazil!
Obrigado! I'm glad you enjoyed :D
he lost his hair for power,so cool hope to see you do a cover on one of the songs from sleeping with sirens
found you back in 2015 when i was HELLAAA into periphery, happy to see you've progressed a ton let alone over the decade. you're an absolute beast bro ! (-:
yeahhh thanks for sticking around! It's been quite the journey and there's still more to improve on :D
I only discovered your channel this year when you covered satellites, my favorite song of the year! Watching this compilation you've clearly come a loooong way.. Keep up bro!
Yes! My big satellites video. I looked back and I actually gained half my subscribers since I posted that video! Thanks for coming along for the ride, I'll keep it going for sure :D
It's inspiring how much progress you made in 2 years
Good to see this man! Keep it up
Thank you so much, will do!
That Fear, and Loathing cover! 😍
That's very impressive, 7 years is quite a short amount of time to get that good.
This deserves more views and all of your videos. You rarely see someone posting how they started and this showed absolute hardork. Hoping you reach 100k subs this year. You deserve way more subscribers.
This! Exactly this! What a journey 👏👏
That was great to see Victor. You have covered some of my favorite songs, some are hard to tell from the original. Your progress is amazing, honestly I did not think that you could develop singing skills and talent but clearly you did. Way to go, great of you to put it out there for others to see your journey.
I'm gona check right now but have you ever covered any Devin Townsend Project songs - that would be awesome to see and hear! And man would that be a vocal challenge as Devin is one of the absolute best there is out there in the prog rock world.
How about something easy like Kingdom! You know I bet you can do it and i think it would be cool to hear your vocal colors and tones bringing a unique sound to Kingdom. Or pick another DTP song, he has tons of awesome songs! Cheers.
This is fantastic
I think this man likes Periphery just a little bit :)
In all seriousness though, your progress is absolutely insane. The fact that you weren't really born with a talent for singing but you built your vocals over the years through hard work and a lot of effort is really inspiring. Keep killing it :)
what song was he covering at 5:29
You are growing as spencer growing
I applaud your determination!!! I would love to know what kind of vocal training you've been doing!
Love those Kamelot covers!!
I'm so happy for you
Been following you since I saw your cover of Stranger Things. You have improved so much it’s crazy and I had no idea you were self-taught! Keep up the hard work.
That's been a while then! Thank you for sticking around! Yeah self-taught, I did my own research and mentored myself, I guess :D
OMG! I recognize you now! That seventh wonder cover, I saw years ago I can't believe it's the same person! Congratulations!
incredible progression
Muito bom meu irmão, te acompanho desde 2014 e tu vem melhorado cada vez mais. Sucesso!!
¿[M]àtteüSZ? Wow! Faz tempo então. Feels good que você estava aqui ese tempo enterro, muito obrigado!
Duuuude. That TesseracT cover is amazing! Love the Periphery Covers as well! Very good man. You made crazy good improvements.
Thank you so much! I've been thinking of revisiting a Tesseract cover, not sure which though... any suggestion?
@@VictorBorbaMusic I'm not sure. I'm not super familiar with their stuff. Have you ever heard of monuments? If you were to ever do a cover of one of their songs I would recommend "Leviathan" or "Mirror Image". Chris barreto is the vocalist for them and actually used to be the vocalist for periphery a long time ago.
I wanted to post some not so generic comment about your skills and how those have evolved, but honestly I'm speechless. Keep up the good work dude!
Thank you very much! Thanks for sticking around
MAKE MY MAN A SINGER ALREADY!!!! YOU DESERVE SO MUCH MOREEE SO FUCKING UNDERRATED!!!!🙏🙌❤️
Thank you for this! I used to let people tell me I was a bad singer, and looking at my older singing recordings I can see why. They told me you're either a good singer or you're not, and they told me I just wasn't. Yeah right. I got way better by not listening to those people, and just keeping at it. Taught myself to scream too (only lost my voice a few times doing it the wrong way, lol but it came back.) You're an incredible singer, and who would have guessed you could get that good looking at the old stuff? I'm not as good as you right now, but I hope I'll get there someday. Cheers.
Very cool!
Your Progress goes in line with your hair.... wow
This is a little inspiring. Truly takes time to develop skills (besides the gifted ones ofc). Your style is actually one of what I'm really after. We're almost the same age, just a year younger, and I just started vocals. I just hope it's not that late to get started ...because responsibilities as you get older and less time for hobbies. I guess 12 more years to go to put out a banger like you did for Bury The Light.
Respect for not giving up
Good shit man, i came from the Lauren Babic colab you did because i love periphery. when you sang i thought you may have been the singer from Periphery at first haha. surprised to see you're only at ~12k subs. You've really progressed over the years man. Keep it up! Hope to see you in a band some day spitting out some music like LP and Periphery!
Zigryous thank you, that really means a lot!
amazing😮
Dude! No wonder you sound a bit like Spencer, you've done so many songs from Periphery! Great job, really inspiring.
Virgil would be proud of the storm you've become
Fun to see! with I had videos for all my stages. I'm 32 so the whole youtube thing (and phones or video cams) weren't a big deal when I started signing (18yo) as in the past 8 years..
Oh and also, it's like one day you were like "oh, wait, I'm a counter tenor, I can reach those..."
insane dude! your clean vocals are insanely well, and you even nailed it on architects! very good job mate! sam carters voice is proably one of the most unique ones in the world, and you made it pretty pretty close dude, im impressed!
Thank you! Funnily enough I look back and kinda cringe at those architects covers because I can pull it off better now, I may do another Architects cover shortly :D
@@VictorBorbaMusic i would love to hear that dude!
Much respect Victor!
Thank you!
Wow amazing man!
Thank you!
Keep going dude, you're on the way to great vocalist
Thanks so much! I'll keep improving :D
You're very talented!
BaumXmedia thank you so much!
Hi sir I'm 15 yrs old teenager and dreaming to become a rockstar and goodsinger like you! someday : ) but sometimes there are times when I give up singing because of my voice but now that I have seen this video I am even more inspired to work harder at singing thank yousir!! this video is my inspiration in my singing journey!!!!!
The change of Microphone really helped, Shure is really good Victor.
I'm watching this when I'm giving up in my singing voice thanks sir
This makes me super happy, so cool to see your progression. 😀
Me, my girlfriend and a couple of friends were hanging out the other night and I decided to show them your members only cover. After it finished they were all extremely blown away by how amazing you are, the video ended and began an auto play queue. Long story short we let auto play do its thing and we ended up bingeing your videos all night haha 😂
They couldn’t stop talking about how under rated you are for the amount of talent you have and I’d readily agree, please never stop doing music man, you’re killing it 💕
Wow this was a really great comment to read, thank you so much, I'm glad you all enjoyed my content! I'll keep at it for sure :D
Victor Borba hell yes! 😀
Also side note, have you ever listened to Erra? I think you’d love them if not, Jesse is a beast singer and I think you would do a kick ass cover of them 🙂
Actually i don't do vocals but i enjoy listening them (like many others), my true interest now is photography and seeing this "evolution" gave me a lot of hope and willpower to do better and better, i am not good at the moment but i know i can be better, partly thanks to you!
Concordo contigo desse lance de talento natural, se a pessoa se esforçar como você fez tem resultados, em tudo é assim, muito legal o vídeo, ficou da hora ver sua evolução, continue sempre cantando! abraços!
Douglas Rivitti muito obrigado Douglas! Aprecio o apoio :D
I discovered your channel from one of the p3 covers I'm pretty sure. Its definitely cool to see where you started. Currently my singing is pretty bad, but I have a low/mid false cord scream that I'm fairly happy with, just gotta keep working at it.
Sick! Yeah I'm pretty sure I remember your very odd pikachu profile picture back from my Marigold / Lune cover era. I'm happy you've stuck around since! With regards to your singing/screams, I hope this videos serves as inspiration that you can improve if you put the work in.
Same lol Only thing I do good so far is Mids/Lows. I haven't figured out how to do a good high scream yet
Lucid Tickle interestingly enough I find high screams the most comfortable! It’s pretty simple to explain face to face but not over text
But essentially it involves nasal fry / soft palate fry
I love that you did so many Dream Theater songs. Amazing to see the progress and how you learned so many different styles. Outstanding
Yeah for me my favorite band progression went from Metallica -> Dream Theater -> Periphery, so my singing started during my Dream Theater phase. Especially as a keyboardist, it truly was THE band to idolize.
@@VictorBorbaMusic For me in my early 20s I kinda learned to sing from bands like Opeth and Riverside
You've made amazing progress congrats. Would you mind uploading any cover but without so many effects? I feel like most of the time, so many notes are just hidden because of loud sound effects. (GREAT SCREAMS BTW!) Oh and I love that you included a parasyte let me hear cover just gotta love your musical taste ;)
Thanks so much! At least nowadays I really don't over do it with effects, just the general compressor, eq, reverb, etc. that is totally standard. Without effects vocals don't sit well in a mix
Well, I just want you to teach me please man haha that's awesome to see that type of progress and to see that with hard work you did it ! I'm 16 and to sing is one of my biggest dreams but I never really put myself into it because I don't know from where I should begin my practice program 😅
Daniel Naji thank you! Yeah I was in your position at one point! If you’d like to talk lessons, send me a message on Instagram: VictorAlvesBorba
Just............................WOW!!!
Victor's vocal level has gone up so much it pushed the hairline all the way back🤪
JK lol, theres so much more confidence and versatility in your vocals compared to the earliest days, Keep it up!
19 is when it starts kicking in. Man I'm 19 now I gotta step up my game
Amazing progress my dude! I noticed that as time went on, your high notes started sounding more full and powerful and not "squeezed out" for the lack of a better term. Was that a result of refining your technique or just muscle strengthening over time? Or just age?
Thank you! Yeah that's a good way to describe it, it's easy to want to SQUEEZE out high notes when you're starting off because you really just don't have the vocal strength for it yet. I don't know if its actually muscle but your voice is LIKE a muscle in that you have to develop its strength over time. But in terms of what you're asking, I think it's a mix of all of the above. I was refining my technique at the same time that my voice "muscles" were strengthening, and all while I was coming out of puberty and settling into my adult voice. In the last year though it was definitely from a change in my technique though (2018 -> 2019)
@@VictorBorbaMusic thanks bro. I like periphery and wanna start sing like this. But my range is lower
Man you are such an inspiration! As a 15 year old I could almost see myself going through a journey like yours if I had the talent (which I dont lmao)
Thank you! But you do realize I didn't have "the talent" when I was 15. Believe it or not that first cover of Wait for Sleep was the result of multiple takes and taking the best lines of each take, which means that it turned out better than I would have actually been able to sing it live.
@@VictorBorbaMusic hmmm... well I guess now I'll have to follow in your footsteps 🔥😁
@@kjaro5401 That's what I like to hear!