Hey everybody welcome back again to Ken Tamplin Vocal Academy where the proof
is in the singing. I'm continuing my series on How To Sing Like. Next up Sebastian Bach from Skid Row.
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at Ken Tamplin Vocal Academy.com. Now I walk through step by step how these singers got great, in hopes
to help make you great at singing and Sebastian's no exception so. I want to just dive right in and
I'll talk about you know his technique along the way. I haven't done a Sebastian Bach
cover myself yet. I was gonna do "Wasted Time" or "I Remember You"I just, I've been busy doing a lot
of other singers but I did get a chance to do with it, do this with a couple of my students and clients
so I'm gonna kind of dive in with them and make some comments along the way of how I
helped them get to this level. Here we go. Check it out. First one is Alyona.
Now before I get into the next part I want to point a couple things out. The first thing is
is yes Ken I know it's easier for a girl to sing this than a guy because Sebastian Bach's range was so
high. I know that's true so you know we're gonna, we're gonna, and most of the time what I would do
is for the sake of the girls. it's actually kind of harder for the girls to sing because it's so
low it's kind of hard for them to belt in the same register that like someone like Sebastian would do.
So often times I'll take it up a full step or even higher. I didn't do that in this case here
because I just maintained the integrity of the songs but I do want to point out a few things about
Sebastian's abilities. Number one is that he had a fantastic command of his head voice and
he was able really just to bring his head voice down into his belting register and mix up top
and, and just hold these gaudaciously long notes, kind of like, Jeff Buckley was
like that too. He was fabulous at this but anyway so Sebastian could hold these gargantuanly
long notes just sound like iron lungs you know able to do this which is fabulous. The other
thing is he had some really interesting vocal tone too as far as his distortion and how much
he could lean into his sound and just really rock the house with a nice distorted sound
and also too, his lower voice range when he would add like a lot of air to the sound too,
he was able to cut back that air as he went up and really understood how to compress his
air up top, that's how he was able to hold those really long notes so that's also really cool. Now
there's a couple things that bother me a little bit about Sebastian, I know I'm gonna get some
hate mail on this and I don't care because I'm very fair about the things that I talk about is,
he did get a little pitchy at times in some of his stuff so he was kind of like a bull in a
china shop with this you know this hemi engine, this you know big American motor car engine
and his steering wheel, he couldn't quite control that giant engine he had so he'd (sounds)
so he'd kind of bash into some pitch issues along the way so and then one more thing that I would
have loved to have changed a little bit about his voice is, he'd do a lot of fall offs (sings) right. So (sings) right.
I would have been a little straighter (sings) right.
So i would have changed some little nuance about that but again those
are picky uni things, personal preference stuff but let's, let's keep going with Alyona here.
Now let me point something else out again. Alyona, her voice isn't as big
as his is so you know I, I, don't expect girls necessarily, now I'm going to show
you a difference in a minute on this with ,with Gabriela but you know her sound is
nowhere near as big as his because a guy's vocals remember their chords are a lot longer ,
their cords are almost twice the size, not quite twice the size of women's so they
carry a lot more mass in the sound. So for women to be able to do that it's very extraordinary
but she does a fabulous job and she really hits all the fine points of him. Now I'll put these
in the description so you can check out how we did and watch through the whole song but
Alyona did a great job on this and I just commend her for that, she's done a lot of stuff since then
but I want to focus on Gabriela. So we did this with Gabby also. Now Gabby had been developing that
warmth and roundness and bigness to her voice and so Gabby is, is a little farther along the food
chain so to speak of being at that level so if I can use that term so.
This is "Wasted Time".
Cool. Now, if you notice, the bottom was almost too easy for her to sing so maybe we should have taken
it up a bit. I don't even remember if we did or not I'd have to go back and check the original key but
notice though she's worked her vowels in such a way that her voice is a lot more round because
she's a little more mature in doing this sound so and, and we've actually been working a lot,
you're going to be hearing a lot more from Gabby coming out real soon but I bring that up because
it showcases too how easy it is to get into these placements and into these sounds. Now I have
hundreds of YouTube videos of me doing stuff like this where you can see how big and round I am on
the sound but I also want to showcase it with other students at different stages of progress
along the way so you can see it's a process, it's something that we work at. It didn't just
happen, it wasn't you know just rolling the dice and out came this song. No these gals and
guys and everybody we've had to work at this in order to achieve this level of singing so.
(sings) Hear that nice big open throat sound. It's just easy for her to get in those really
nice places. Now guys I know a lot of you said oh man before you started working with Gabby
she was a natural born talent and this and that, blah, blah. Go listen to when she was you
know 16 or 17 or whatever and she did you know Nazareth "Love Hurts" for example. Yeah
I challenge you, go listen to that and check it out. She admittedly was killing herself, she
could barely sing three songs without losing her voice and it was so pinched and squeezed, though
she started to develop a really dangerous kind of distortion in her voice. That was going to kill her
and she admittedly said, says you know that she can only sing a couple songs max and have
to have to take a day off or two days off, to get her voice back. Whereas now when she was singing
at this time here especially, it just was growing like a weed and getting bigger and
bigger with zero vocal issues whatsoever and that's really important to annotate so anyway let's continue.
Great vibrato.
See. Cool. Now that's an example of what I was talking about about Sebastian having just like
lungs for days, well it's really the way he compressed his air
that was extremely impressive so II want to go more towards the end here so it gets more.
I'm gonna go towards the end a little bit more where she's hitting some other notes here.
Ok so anyway but. Now I want you guys to try something (sings) right.
Now you'd say wow is that your chest voice or is that your head voice. It's actually mixed voice
and I'm able to bring a percentage of my chest voice into my head voice and mixed that sound
to have the resonance of my chest voice and a, the tonal qualities I've worked in my head
voice and have them intersect at a place, where no matter where I am in my range, I can bring in
percentages of chest or head or this mixed voice right and so I teach everybody how to
do this. It's a process on how we get there and it's very, very important for singing
stuff like this because that's precisely how Sebastian was able to do this. Now
I know he, his voice has suffered over the years and he's lost some range and stuff but I've also seen, seen
him have some comeback shows too so hopefully you know he'll continue on a good path. Anyway
I'm doing most of this by request guys so if you have a request please put in the description
who you'd like me to do a How To Sing Like so and so and definitely check out my next video.