Dum Maro Dum (Hare Rama Hare Krishna - Cover)

Rahul Soman said

Smitha,

You are one of my favourite singers in muziboo….but for this song can you add a more punch. I felt it initially….then in middle you become more open….its a tough song ….you did well….

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Arvind R said

Smitha … evergreen hit song and good pick.
Track in my opinion was not that great. Your singing was blunt in places too and didn’t have the necessary sharp line-ending extensions that are the life blood of this song.
It was a good attempt nevertheless but on another day you could possibly do better.
Thanks for presenting a timeless classic and sorry to sound a bit damp … intention is to give you my genuine feedback. Cheers.

Srividya Kasturi said

Very good attempt, Smitha…Loved the way u sang tururu…parapara.Antaras were sung so beautifully:)

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Radhakrishnan Nair said

Smitha, Kya baat hai … Ashaji of Muziboo :)

Excellent rendition. Anataras were sung very well… nice modulations! Keep it up!

regards
RK

Theagaraj Dhanapalan said

Thanks for presenting ever hit super song.

Your modulations very much enjoyed.

good voice.

D.Theagaraj

Janhavee said

Hey!Smitha,

Great attempt and voice modulation. Personally i thought the b/g could be little bit louder.

Yes! the K-track quality is not good. Let me see if the my K-track is better, i will share it with you. Scribble me your email :-)

This is my favorite song and hope to cover it sometime soon :-)

Cheers

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Its the Journey itself that I Enjoy "

Rakesh Baro said

Hi Smitha,
Badhiya Gaya, Duniye se humne liya “Kya” , kya could be better….

" Aa Aa " harqats at the end of the Antaras were welldone:)….
wellsung….I still feel you could be better

Cheers

Shampak Chakravorty said

Hello Smitha!!!
Thats what I call a performance…. Its a very difficult specially with three octaves to maintain…. Great great singing…. My God I am having a great time here…. Magnificent effort keep it up….

Regards,
Shampak.

S.C.

Rajesh Raman said

No one can beat you on AshajI’s songs…Great energy…. well sung smitha…

I am sure you could have got a better track from internet…try esnips

Keep Singing!
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Harshan (away) Nambiar said

This is one of my favourites ….the foot print of this song ….is nothing but voice modulations and voice throw ….

Smitha, you sang this very well. I loved the anthra’s ….it had the desired effect with a lot of punch ….the mukhda could have been better ….but singing wise I didnt hear any offnotes ….these are some finer points. I guess it becomes very easy to comment on others performance ….lol

Mixing wise …. compress the ktrack …it would create a lot of energy.

5/5 from me and thanks for covering this song.

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Arvind R said

Hi Smitha,

Thanks for asking and I will point out a few areas so that you will get my drift and hopefully take them on board.

0:30 – “Dum Maro Dummm” – In the ending DuMmm the Mmmm is not prounounced well. There should be more sustain in the Mmmm. In your rendition the Aaaaa takes off without resting on Mmmm. Similarly in “Mitujaye HUmmm”, the Mmmm in the Humm is not heard. In short, your MMmmmms are blunt and hardly heard.

1:15 – “Thooo….Turuturu etc” – For more impact you should start with “Thaaaa!….and then…TuruTuru”. The entry of “Thaaa….” is more dramatic as it is a more open syllable than Thoo. That whole humming part needs a more ’don’t care attitude’ expression. For me that was lacking.

1:30 – “duniyaa ne hum KO diyaa kyaa?” – The KO there should be straight up with more vocal volume. Similarly in “duniyaa se hum Ne liyaa kyaa?” the NE should be straight up with snappy expression. These are the high points of these short lines. Without them it sounds weak and blunt. That is what I felt.

1:35 – “hum sab kee pawraa kare kyon?” – For “Kyon” you are giving a push from down to up which loses its impact. Instead “…kare Kyon” should be said in one straight flow with dramatic high note in Kyon. Please note that in Asha’s rendition.

I won’t go into other places as I think by now you would have got my drift hopefully.

These may appear to be minor things, but when you put all these together in repetition, it certainly blunts it and that is what I meant. With these kind of impact songs, the approach of notes is more often straight and dramatic rather than a sliding approach.

At the end of the day, we work with our given voices and we may have limitations. However, the approach and attitude should be seen to be present and thriving.

Hope you took this constructively. Cheers.

Anup said

aah….one of my favorites….very nicely done Smitha….i’m not good at technicalities….but here is a suggestion (just a personal point of view)….i would say reduce vocal level and blend it more with the track….nevertheless enjoyed this oneee

Kumar Srinivasan said

Smitha,
Not a big fan of this song :-). This was a very good effort from you. Mood of the song was well captured.
-Kumar.

Neha ........ said

Hi Smitha,
Very well sung… Just that I felt the singing was too controlled, and the kick was lacking a bit… You are no doubt one of the best singers on muziboo, but I felt this particular song didn’t suit ur voice that much… Its really great that you try singing in different genres though… :) With all due respect, that’s my personal opinion, hope you wouldn’t take offence :) Cheers…!

Vijay (away...) Iyer said

very nicely done Smitha! Loved your vocals….lacked little punch however. No offnotes atleast for my ears (comes as no surprise) :D

Mixing can be much much better….soundtrack is horrible.

Keep up the good work!
-Vijay

Harshan (away) Nambiar said

Hi Smitha ….now it sounds less energetic than before….btw ….traditional Indian vocals are mixed with more presence in the vocals….its never balanced even with the music….thats true for western music….just my 2 cents worth.

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Adwait Ranade (busy, away) said

Hey Smitha….
You have done a terriffic job here….What a performance!
I have no techno-savvy in recording/mixing and just enjoyed your singing and the overall package….
Keep posting more……
5/5 straight-a-way
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Krishnan N v said

Smitha….Sorry for being late here….

Your attempt was very commendable. Great voice as usual and loved your expressions too . Slight improvements needed have already been said upstairs…

Keep them coming…

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Pradip somasundaran said

Smitha, was good in your own style. Just one point. You could have sung it more openly, esp at the parts with higher notes. The strain in the obvious effort to try to reach the higher notes is evident.

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Arvind R said

Smitha … just felt like saying that you have more than the basics going fine, but try to work on the impact areas like mentioned above. When you open up more with a sharper attack (in these type of songs) you will sound awesome!. There is often a fighting re-birth out of all these reviews!. Your effort in this song is very much to be appreciated.

On mixing, afterall we are only mixing the track with the vocals (2 to three elements maximum!), unlike professional studio mixing which can involve even more than 100 tracks!. I think in our case, all we need to understand is comparative volume levels, some vocal compression and effects and finally having a good set of ears to make the right selections for our voices and for the song in question. With some decent hardware and software and some reading up, we should all be coming up with better sounding songs. Have to invest some time there for long-term benefit, but it is not mind blowingly difficult to address these basics. I agree it can be a bit confusing for beginners … best thing I would say is read up read up read up!.

Keep it up!.

Soumitra Sarkar said

Smitha,
I really liked your voice in this one……energy front could have been better…thoda sa ganja pi leti to baat ban jata ;) ok just kidding !!!!!! expressions were good for most part…thoda sa high notes pe aur dhyan do :) keep singing :)

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Radhika Nair (away) said

Smitha – i thought you did a good job with this song…i liked the vibrato in your voice and also the rendition overall. Suited your voice very well!

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Shailender (trying to be regular) said

Smitha,

Lovely rendition of a difficult Asha’s number…….the antaras were nice and punchy, thought few words in the mukhda were not audible on the landing……

Keep them coming…….

Shailender
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Ramya Harish said

Nice expressions, strain was felt at higher notes., Overall Good one Smitha!

Cheers:)
Ramya

Rahul (getting back to routine) said

Smit’s

Ssup girl? How is it going? Just got a chance to log onto Muziboo and u r the first one whose songs
I am checking out (the missed ones from the time i left for India)….

Neways, great work as usual….track is very bad but ur singing is very good in this one……some fine tuning of the high notes needs to be done which is adequately covered in some of the feedbacks as above……for me, ur rendition works and glad u could do this one……loved it….

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Meera Manohar said

Nice song pick Smitha. Agree with Pradip on the openness and a little huskiness may have brought a better feel, but then that’s just a personal preference :)

Good job overall….

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Dhiraj Barla said

Smitha,

sorry it took a while to get here, agree with Rajesh’s opinion about you with Ashaji’s songs…. expressions were good, open throated singing would have made a lot of difference. Overall a pretty good job by you. Keep them coming.

Rashmi Nair said

I loved it, Smitha. Theres nothing like listening to Ashaji’s songs covered by you. Keep up the great job!

~Rashmi~

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Srini S (bye bye friends) said

beautiful pick asha.loved it in ur voice,great expre
ssions.Asusual loved dat turu turu line.keep them co
ming.all the best.if possible please sing jaaiye aa
p kaha jaayenge sung by the legend n music S.D.B,th
anku.

srinivasan.s

Srini S (bye bye friends) said

thanku

srinivasan.s

George Kuruvilla said

I really liked this Smitha…I agree about this being a more mellow/refined version and not totally like the original. But it was very good. I thought the mix made you sound a lil nasaly though. Loved the taratara mambo jambo :-) 5/5

-George

Sheba said

Smitha….great rendition…

Hema said

WOWW Smi, well done!

Hari Bhaskar said

Smitha, enjoyed your rendition. Very impressive. Thanks for sharing. regards, Hari.
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Pradeepa said

SUPER YA