Hi, Guys. Welcome back again to Ken Tamplin Vocal Academy, where the proof is in the singing.
What do I mean by that? I mean that I’m seeing a lot of slick advertising from some
vocal coaches, but guys, get past the smoke and mirrors of this. They’re not singing anything,
and they’re not displaying any students singing, either.
Run like your hair is on fire.
If THEY can’t do it, or Demonstrate it Themselves,
They cannot teach YOU how to do it. I’m going to do a full version of a Bad
Company tune, Paul Rodgers, one of my all-time favorite singers, and we’ll do it first,
talk about it after. It goes like this, here we go.
OK. So, Paul has got to be one of the greatest Rock and Roll Singers of All Time, and certainly
one of my favorites. One of the things I love most about him is his ability to sing sweet,
spot-on pitch, and his sensitivity when he wants to be sensitive, and he sounds like
a roaring lion when he wants to be a roaring lion. But - in the verses, he actually uses a raised laryngeal
position, so he says: “Baby, when I think about you, I think about love… Darlin, don’t
wanna live without you…” he’s just got that real sweet “oo, oo, oo, oo” A little
bit of froggy sound, not too much. But then, when he goes up to “Feel like makin’ love!
Yeah, yeah, yeah!” He opens up like a lion, he has to drop the larynx into a lowered position,
not even neutral, but it's lowered. You can hear him drop it. Because “Feel like makin’ love” would
be too hard to carry that raised laryngeal position up top.
So that’s one thing. The other thing, too, it like I said, he has this innate ability
to sing really tubular, so it’s not real thick on the bottom. It’s real sweet and
sensitive, and can juxtapose or can go back and forth between a real sweet sound and a
real heavy sound, so… That’s been one of my favorite singers of
all time. I’m going to continue showing you guys what has inspired me, in hopes that
it will inspire you, too. So anyway, thank you for joining me, Ken Tamplin Vocal Academy
dot com, we have more on your way.