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We got a lot of requests for this one!
None other than Chester Bennington, the band is Linkin Park, and the song is called “Numb”.
We’ll do it first and talk about it after like we always do.
Let’s rock!
Okay.
There's a LOT of breath control in this tune.
Wait.
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So, let’s talk about Chester.
(cough) excuse me.
A lot of breath control and that one.
I’m going to discuss that part, too, in a sec.
The first thing is, is that he starts out with a really cool lyric tenor approach, kinda
like Paul McCartney, or you know, even M. Shadows did that too, where he kind he gets
really light on the sound, and then he throws down pretty hard in the choruses, but you
know…
“I’m tired of bein’ what you want me to be, feeling so faithless, lost under the
surface, I don’t know what you’re expecting of me, but under the pressure, of walking
in your shoes….”
You know, he’s got a real, like I said a real tender sort of thing, you know “I become
so numb!!!”
You know, and then he just SLAMS into the chorus, which is cool!
He distorts the sound, but…
It’s kind of dangerous for a lyric tenor to do that, because lyric tenors are, they're...
think of the word lyric, as in real gentle or ginger, and then all of a sudden, just
throwing down on this.
Again, like I said, like M shadows does this too.
Just be careful of that, because we want to build up to that sound. That’s really,
really important to grow that first.
The second thing is the breath control in this is INSANE!
I’m sitting here and I’ve worked this tune up and I’m, you know, “I’ve become
so numb, I can feel you there, I become so tired, so much more aware, by becoming this all I
want to do, I” you know, and like this run-on sentences, where you have to like, literally
hold your breath like this: “I become so numb, I can feel you there,
become so tired, so much more aware” you know you give, I have to hold the breath back
the whole entire time, just to be able to make it through these phrases, right?
And I also throw a little bit of an extra Ken Tamplin somethin’ somethin’ at the
end, kind of some Dio and Coverdale, ha!
Cause that’s me!
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