before I watch this I want to just say really quickly why this title got me
when I was in my mid and early teens I experienced nerve damage in my arm I experienced tendonitis
all over my body I even had shoulder surgery to see if we could fix it maybe it was more
localized was told I had a connective tissue disorder that they didn't fully understand
and that I could keep having surgeries on various places but I I had to give up playing
guitar I couldn't really even lift things anything that well it would it would hurt
everywhere because I had tendonitis all over the place went to various types of doctors
and received all sorts of other diagnoses and was eventually told by one of the last
ones that I saw that it was all in my head and I was just I was just mentally ill and
I didn't want to grow up and so I was making all of this up because uh that was an excuse
not to grow up and I was in a very similar place to that video that Ren made in 2016
where I was just watching all my friends and family grow up and do the things they wanted
to do and be healthy and I couldn't do any of it I couldn't do the very things that I
wanted to do and I was being told by this doctor that I didn't really want to do the
things that I wanted to do and that I was mentally ill and and that we needed to to
uh treat me as a as a mental patient and not not look any further
I was already losing faith in myself I was losing faith in the medical professionals
I was losing faith in really anything that anybody said like I didn't trust anything
or anybody and when I got that last thing from that one doctor I had I had lost all
faith maybe a better way to say it is that I'd lost all hope and the objects of my faith
had let me down all of them I wouldn't necessarily say that I have since healed but rather that
I am still healing and learning how to promote an ongoing process of healing and I also wouldn't
say that since that time in my life that I have regained my faith rather that things
like Faith and Hope are not necessarily lost or found but rather pursued and in that Pursuit
giving myself and my desires and my goals away and sort of releasing that promotes a
degree of healing at least up here for me please
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[Music] I lift up my eyes to the hills pain is my shepherd my sword and my shoe I find
my refuge and patience and pills a patient that's patiently waiting for help ever seem
to feel well can anybody Save Me From Myself that's blood on my leaves
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my face oh that was awesome love the melody love the high mixed sound he's got up there
it's oh wow I gotta hear that again right as your body turns on you you turn on you
your head turns on you and you feel like other things are turning on you what is there to
have faith in [Music]
how he feathers out of those nose it's not like he just stops the note there's a oh there's
a release after every note so it's a neat lyrical way to sing but it's also he's not
tense that is what enables him to be so Nimble with his voice
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[Music] I love the Distortion sound he's got over his voice it softens the sound of the
voice a little bit and it makes it makes him going up into these higher notes uh even more
consistent sounding and just puts it right in the front of the mix it's great
[Music] this ways
there's some digital manipulation of the pitch there this is not Pitch correcting for pitch
problem's sake this isn't this is a Artful use of that effect where it almost sounds
played rather than sung but you still because it's not too you know cranked or ratcheted
down on his voice you still get a wonderful sense of how he's navigating his vocal ranges
ah choosing where to go from chest voice to head voice to mixed voice I've talked a lot
about mixed voice in a lot of other videos not based on going into your head voice because
you need to go to head voice to hit that note because you can't hit it in chest voice because
you're too tense or because your range isn't good enough but if you notice he'll go into
head voice a little bit and then as he goes higher he'll give it a little bit more he'll
go into a mixed voice and then he'll go more into a head voice he's constantly playing
with that head voice range and going in and out of different mixed resonances and placements
that's why he sounds so powerful up there even though he's clean it's not all head voice
head voice
oh
[Music] faith faith had a bit more weight to it had a bit more weight than lost faith
it's a very well supported head voice and a mixed coordination [Music]
[Music] postures vocal posture here he was just he was just there and now he's here this
playfulness gives him Freedom with his voice it's not the other way around you don't have
freedom and then you can play with your voice and have this great range and do all these
cool things it's that he chooses to be playful and free he chooses that and then you find
all these ways that you can express freely
please [Music]
with psychosis and Potions do they change characters with his voice through this guy
and then then and then the the more you know standard Ren voice that we hear but he's being
different characters he's so good at this just listen to his the vocal change in his
tonality as someone's talking to him and then he's then he's responding ah all right
[Music] how much money foreign [Music]
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right there that's like the doctor talking to me
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with God is my witness I walk through the valley of the shadow of sickness I fear no
evil I need no forgiveness deliver me from Temptation he never listens
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coming down
[Music] foreign
[Music] there a little bit of grit
it's not clean right there listen to that again [Music]
oh what a cool sigh I love the different Melody he chose there
[Music] praise
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my face
[Music] love that vocal texture [Music] I want to talk about that sigh really quick
though at the end of faith nothing
desperate sound it's also a really neat vocal technique to keep in mind sighing I don't
know it's releasing out of notes [Music] try it see how much it opens up for you
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Julia
thanks Ren for another Journey back into myself and thank you also for the great singing it
was really fun to analyze and and internalize looking forward to many more if you would
like help exploring your own voice and your own mental disposition in light of your voice
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