I want to emphasize "most of you" because certainly there are a few of you who seem to be getting value of out of the forum. Good for you! I'm going to try to avoid opinion and just deal with the objective. There's only one post written within a week and it's my post about a coach's hilarious take on teaching what compression is. The next most recent post is also by me. Thyat was a serious question about "bleeding air grit" but not good enough to warrant an answer. Fair enough. This is free, so if my posts aren't good enough, they don't deserve help. I can either learn to write better or I can leave. Maybe I will leave since my last couple posts failed to pass muster for what is considered a worthwhile post here, but I'm not claiming my posts are anything special. At least I try though and I've never descended to a point where I enlisted artificial help to try to improve my writing. What you see is what you get. If that's not good enough, fine. I'll sleep like a baby tonight. I haven't seen anyone here whose posts made me think: "Now that came from a truly profound mind." Yet here we are on a forum for people who take air and turn it into art. No other endeavor leaves an individual so vulnerable, so utterly exposed....yet most of you can't summon the fortitude to write a post, lest it be passed over like my last two were. If you don't mind me offering you some constructive criticism: If the thought of posting here frightens you, develop thicker skin! Music is a business that will eat you alive if you don't have skin like alligator hide. Show business (which incudes singing) isn't looking for people who want it for their career; it's looking for people who must have it for their career because they cannot stand the thought of wasting their life doing anything else. There is a phenomenal difference between "want" and "must." The age-old conundrum in show business is: You can't get a part without an agent but you can't get an agent without a part. Why was that conundrum put there?

Hordes of Metallica fans claim that the band's 1989 performance in Seattle was the peak of James Hetfield's vocal ability. Really? It's energetic! I'll give it that, but is "energetic" the sole measure of great rock vocals? I'm going to posit that what a lot of people love about this special type of singing is really the byproduct of Hetfield's failure to understand and apply the basic principles of good breath control. Did you ever wonder why he has no vibrato? Developing a natural vibrato requires a certain consistency of airflow. Do you notice how many of his notes get abruptly chopped off instead of being able to resonate and ring out? How about the habit of ending phrases with a sudden expulsion of air into an "ahh"? Breath control is the common denominator with all these things. Also consider his posture. What do you think that does to his airflow? Do you see how low he has the mic set up? He has to bend his neck down at such an unnatural angle to sing into the microphone. It creates a kink in the pathway of his airflow. You don't want that! He did learn. If you look at Metallica's live performance from Slane Castle in Ireland on June 8th, 2019, you'll see that his posture was far better. Hetfield had stopped slumping forward and tilting his neck down like he did thirty years earlier. It looks better and it works better. Win/win situation. Things like that help explain why he was able to have the long career he's had. He quit drinking too. He developed discipline and used it to improve his vocal hygiene and technique. If only he'd applied the same discipline to his vocal technique that he applied to the mechanics of his guitar playing, and done it from the outset of his singing career, I believe he would have become an exponentially better vocalist. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yHJBDeshPA