Hey guys welcome back again to Ken Tamplin Vocal Academy where the proof is in the singing. I'm
continuing my series on taking these incredible, epic, legendary isolated vocal tracks and I'm doing
an analysis, a tutorial, talking about the artist, the production etc. Next up is Paul McCartney and
the song is "Live And Let Die". Now I have to say the word epic is so overused these days that it's
really lost its meaning, this really is epic. True story straight up wait you're gonna see it in a
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Paul McCartney wow, just wow and you know when he left the Beatles there was sort of this
thought like you know what's going to happen with John Lennon when he leaves the Beatles or what's
going to happen with Paul McCartney so the main songwriters and you know of course George Harrison
had his shtin and you know Ringo Starr did. So they all did some really amazing stuff but
with you know again piggybacked I should say and working in concert with George Martin the producer
who produced this for a James Bond soundtrack as most of you know, was just extraordinary.
So partnering up with, with his previous producer for the Beatles and really it's, majority of this
I'm almost certain is George Martin because I just don't think that Paul McCartney would have
taken this many left turns and, and again this is all going to a movie soundtrack so it's not just
like writing a great song, it's writing a song for a movie so there's a big difference in that but
anyway so I'm going to just fire it up, we're going to take a listen and then we're going to back you
know come, back track a little bit and then talk about the instrument, instrumentation how it plays
in, how it plays in with the vocals, here we go.
So seventies.
Now I know Guns n' Roses did a version of this, I know that people have done versions of this. Maybe
some of you 80s, 90s guys or even millennials out there whatever think that Guns n' Roses
wrote this. No, they did not. Now I want to play the instrumentation up to this point to show how cool
it really is and I'm going to do more of this as we go but check this out.
I hear the Paul McCartney part of this right Baby I'm Amazed right or "Maybe I'm Amazed".
Great change.
By the way super John Lennon, Paul McCartney change.
I don't know why but I just see I think it was Roger Moore. I just see
one of those triple decker buses and like a guy in a rope or something swinging outside
the bus as it's going around the corner and it's Roger Moore and he's trying to get the bad
guy or run away from somebody. I'm sort of, what the picture I get on this exact scene
and I don't, I think I only saw this like once with my family in the 70s like one time but this just
embedded in my mind. I'd never in a million years thought I'd be you know to this day come sitting
here right now doing isolated vocal tracks of this exact thing that I grew up just being wowed
as as a kid and that's true for like almost all these isolated vocal tracks, everyone, the reason
I'm so excited about them is I'm just going wow, I grew up on this, this is the soundtrack of my life
I'm going gosh you know, here's another one. Oh man another epic piece, wow I didn't, had no idea that
this is how they put it all together and this is no exception so hear this fantastic orchestration.
I feel like Garth right now.
I mean I don't want to sit here and play this is supposed to be about vocals and I'm getting off,
getting off on the on the instrumental track. It is that good man it's, you could just be lost in it
it's that good right. Okay let's go. Now here coming up, spoiler alert. In this next section you come
off of this frenetic, wild sort of crazy, a little bit almost psychedelicy kind of 60s boogaloo
you know stuff and then it goes into this like Billy Preston, Funky Rhodes you know, Wurlitzer
kind of breakdown thing out of nowhere. It's the coolest thing ever. Check out this break it's like wow.
Isn't that bad a, that is so badass it's so cool. I'm just sitting here thinking
like the mod squad or something for all you 70s guys out there are just, it's that
cool, that funky and that awesome okay. So then there's a lot of instrumentation because this was
a film score for a movie soundtrack so
you know there's big huge instrumental breaks so you come off of all that you know.
So Beatles back to George Martin.
Oh okay now let me back up just the vocal here so we're only hearing the vocal. Here we go.
Now you wouldn't know that this big (sounds)
and you know that's one of the coolest parts about the Guns n' Roses part is
when the heavy guitars come in so they don't do that here. They probably have guitars in
here but they were kind of orchestrated, pushed back especially in orchestration
and, and by the way you know like Chris Cornell's "Casino Royale". I think that's one of the best
other Bond soundtracks. I know Adele "Skyfall" and stuff and there's some other cool ones too but
man the Cornell "Casino Royale" soundtrack is pretty, I did, I also did, I haven't done this
song but I did do that. I won't put it in the description because just, just because you can
check it out but anyway so but, but really what makes it is this, this part right here.
Here the timpani's.
I mean admit it even though it's orchestration you wanna headbang to it right. I do, it's awesome.
All right I think that's it. I don't remember yeah that was it. So yeah again
songwriting, orchestration, production, playership, all these instruments, what
a 60 piece orchestra whatever I think it was London Phil I'm not sure but
wow where is music gone. All of a sudden we're sampling everything, we're auto-tuning everything,
we're, there's no, there's no great left turns hardly in anything anymore, there's no
creativity and passion and this and that. I want to get back to that I want to hear creativity please.
Anyway I really do, that'd be nice. All right you guys hope you enjoyed this as much as I
did and definitely, definitely please check out my next video.