hey chris liepe here territorial pissings nirvana amazing song incredible vocal performance isolated
tracks we get to enjoy the isolated tracks a lot of subtle production that goes into things in
terms of like the sound of the instruments and how it all fits together and they were very everybody
involved was very smart when it came to knowing just how something should fit but there's not a
lot to the arrangement it's a very live in-studio vibe that's the way kurt wanted it he didn't even
like the idea initially of doubling his voice because that didn't seem real or authentic enough
it wasn't until he learned that john lennon did this quite a bit who also didn't like doing it
that he was accepting of the technique but as we go through these tracks i want you to keep
something in mind about kurt's vocal performance kurt's voice was so good because of his attitude
kurt's voice was so good because of his attitude we'll talk about that a little bit more
in the video as we get into these but i wanna i wanna plant that seed now if
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so consistent good organic kick sound
dave just hit those drums and they sound amazing because the way things are being hit
no amount of tuning or sample replacement or punching or gets that kind of drumming
so much pocket too incredible
more on the base here
fun to see and hear chris dig in right here um you know a very very nonchalant i mean there's
really no other way to describe it the that punk rock attitude of just getting in there and playing
but with a degree of precision as well now these guitars in isolation are are just beautiful uh
what's so fun about hearing that progression with
no other instruments coming in is that you can hear the layers that
the sound the the cleaner underpinnings of the of the different performances and different tones i
mean there were lots of doubles going on and everything was very different sounding but
designed to fit together like pieces of a puzzle i mean that is one crazy far out guitar tone
and then putting it in context i mean
it doesn't lend itself to being that screwy sounding in the context
of the mix but if you were to just have the the fizzy sound
you wouldn't you wouldn't get the percussion of the you know that like that the clanking of the
string so there's there's a real clean sound in there with the fizzy sound not a lot of
people today recording guitar think about guitar production in this way i think it's important that
we do that it's the sum of the parts that make a very simple line like there's just strumming
power chords basically but the way it's played the way it's produced the way that the tones
are meticulously blended together so cool now as we get into this vocal performance if you
sing or have ever tried to sing i want you to think about something as you hear kurt crack
as you hear incidental things happen with his voice what do you hear him doing there are all
sorts of things that you're going to hear that you don't even necessarily hear in the same way
in the full mix but you're going to hear all sorts of things that if that sound in isolation
came out of your voice you would go up better do that again all my voice crack oh i didn't do
oh my tone is i did and you would you would clam up you would be afraid of what aggression
abandonment a carefree i don't care what anybody else says i'm going to just let it all out
you probably can't do that like kurt does and like he demonstrates on this
vocal performance because you're too afraid of what might happen
if you are not afraid if you choose it starts with a choice if you choose to not be afraid of what
might happen and lean in to those imperfections that's why i said it's about mindset you will
discover this way of singing yeah there's a lot of technique and a lot of things to consider but
called just one opinion
gotta find a way to find our way when i met
gotta find a way a better way a better way notice how much distortion is present in the recorded
signal we spend so much time oh did i clip oh i want to make sure i get a good clean set nah
don't get a good clean signal get a nice saturated signal full of attitude and if that includes some
clipping or some over modulation great gotta find a way a better way a better way never
there's so much exaggeration here that's happening that his his attitude is coming
out of this exaggerated state is over the top if you were to picture yourself doing this
so how does it work that's too goofy or silly or stupid for most of us to do
but it's not in the in this context when kurt does it because it's it's born out of genuine
aggression and complacency at the same time yeah man i mean it's it's that kind of thing
that's happening when we study kurt's voice we study any nirvana song and we want to put some
of that inspiration in our own music and we should because it's missing from a lot of today's music
we have to realize that it it comes from the opposite of good the good that we like
comes from the opposite of good in this particular way of of working musically
yeah so it's a woman gotta find a way to find our way when i'm there
gotta find a way a better way a better way
now listen there gotta find a way a better way he's his voice is cracking it's right there
and you can you can hear that one a little bit on the um actual recording full mix gotta find a way
a better way a better way this exposes to the discerning ear several things
he is not trying to go for precision at all gotta find a way better way when i'm there
no gotta find a way there's this this aspect of like complete abandon and carelessness
let your voice crack i don't care you hear more of that in older recordings and more
that even towards the end of this song a better way that's where this is coming from
and you can even hear in my own voice there's cracking there's inconsistency
you hear that in kurt's voice too but it's the leaning in that creates this sound
and it's the not shying away from when something unexpected happens that creates the totality
of engagement and attractiveness to this type of singing and performance
gotta find a way find our way
leave it in it's part of the attitude find our way when i'm there gotta find a way a better way
how many of us if we were tracking vocals would go oh we can't keep that
it's right there in fact this kind of approach is what taught me how
to screen because i heard this kind of vulnerability and mistake
a better way a better way
it's a combination of sighing and
letting your voice break and leaning into that vocal break i've talked about this
in a lot of videos but i need to draw the parallel as we're going through this just
listen to all that pitch discrepancy who cares and also listen to his phrasing just because
just because just because how he's bringing the from back to fort just because
this is another thing we always miss because we're too afraid of being good like what's my best tone
or how should i how should i approach he's doing it in lots of different ways at the same time
moving just be now is he thinking about oh i better place that note back and then forward no
but if we take these kinds of things that we hear from his voice and experiment doing them in
our own voice without judging how we sound right away because remember we're going to sound silly
to our own ears when we start doing what he's doing because we don't have the attitude but
if we internalize how some of these things feel and then revisit these sensations when we're in
a particularly spunky or vulnerable mood things start to click don't mean that after you
gotta find a way a better way wow gotta find a way a better way a better way
gotta find a way find our way well
now you may make the argument and it is a good argument that at the end of this recording
his voice was likely completely trashed um and that there were various evidences of him having
problems with his voice sometimes because he just didn't take care of it or maybe he didn't have
good technique i'm going to argue against that yes his voice was probably tired and somewhat trashed
after recording stuff like this and no he didn't have a huge focus on technique but that doesn't
really matter to us if we want to learn how to sing like this and do things with our voice
like this we can do it safely with the right level of moderation and intensity and with the right
technique and still be okay with our voice not damage our voice just because someone did doesn't
mean it's universally bad or wrong it's another thing that common voice education or me really
music education in general education in general does this we have to learn how to do things right
well yes sort of but more you should learn how to do things in cool ways and disregard
write and embrace cool and then figure out ways to use right to support your cool
instead of oh i'm not going to do that that sounds like it might
gotta hurt a way find our way when i'm there gotta find a way a better way a better way
got it by the way far away well
and it totally works it totally works because of the attitude of the band the production and kurt
himself nobody on the planet is judging him for his voice cracking at the end here everybody's
going cool he was into it everybody is and we want more of that we want more of that attitude
if there's anything that you take away from this video take that you hear this i hear this and i'm
inspired by it i'm not turned off by it i'm inspired so when we are singing when we are
performing when we're creating our own music what are is is trying to be to hit everything
cross all the t's and dot all the eyes is that inspiring no being imperfectly you is inspiring