Hi guys welcome back again to Ken Tamplin
Vocal Academy where the proof is in the singing.
Hey I got a lot of requests this is a.. I want to do a vocal coach reacts to
Dimash and I'm gonna start calling him D smash cause the guy literally crushes
everything he does. Now I haven't seen this but this is him doing Lionel
Richie's "Hello". Hence my intro hello and I'm not sure
where this is but man let's just rock and roll and dive right into it let's
check it out here we go hello.
Got a heartbeat going on at the beginning.
Nice cool dramatic intro. It's cool.
Nice tone.
Okay I want to make a couple comments. I'd like it.. I'd like to comment. I
haven't got a chance to comment too much on his technical prowess abilities and
so I want to do that along the way. The first thing is so that you guys know
this you seniors out there, when he belts like he does he does a fabulous sort of
tightrope walking act of balance between his chest, his head, his mixed, whistle
flashlight, whistle register. All these different things that he does. When
you're singing softer, especially singing in lower register
and singing live there's several things that are difficult. The first thing is
when you belt a lot there is a kind of a strange effect that happens where your
cords kind of like a rubber band gets stretched really tight okay. So here your
vocal folds, you close them down and you know you have cartilage right, well that literally
pulls the chords back and forth and you know cart
cartilage so when that happens the chords get kind of tight and leathery if
the body doesn't reproduce moisture and flexibility and elasticity to put them
back in the chords and there's all kinds of things there's glutathione that the
body creates on its own, there's mucosa and in the mouth that actually you know
rejuvenates the chords themselves. So as he's singing low if he's been doing any
belting at all, it's hard to get that agility back in the chords and
flexibility. So right away he's got command of that boom straight up so two
thumbs straight up for you D smash, killer job and let's continue.
It helps if you know the song it's an old Lionel
Richie tune so it's pretty easy for an old geezer like me.
That was nice.
I love it when he does.. I love it when he does these harmonic, melodic, minor stuff
so obviously he's from Kazakhstan and you've got Turkemn.. Turkmenistan you
Uzbekistan, Georgia all these different Baltic countries around there but they
have a lot of Arabic influence and so does the Middle East. I mean a lot of
Middle East has similar stuff so you've got you know mixolydian, Lydian, Dorian Phrygian
you know all these different scales that you can draw from and so he actually
does that when he does these cool little licks that he does. Now I grew up playing
guitar you guys know so flamenco guitar is one of my specialties. In fact you
know what I'll do I'll try to remember to do this I'll post a link of me
playing some flamenco guitar so you guys can hear not just the electric guitar
stuff that I played but a lot of acoustic flamenco stuff. I'll post it and
then I'll put it in the description tag so that you guys can check out some of
my you know my acoustic playing and it incorporates a lot of a lot of this
sound so that'll be a little different you know side to Ken Tamplin that you
haven't seen before or heard before.
Ok that's one more thing also that I really appreciate what Dimash does. So um most..
I have a singing course it's called How to Sing Better Than Anyone Else and I
incorporate all these different takedowns of what's.. how singers do this
stuff and whatnot and he uses a lot of bel canto. Bel canto is the old operatic
appoggio style of singing.. operatic style singing and so it's really awesome to
see him use these great open throat vowels and incorporate that and you know
modernize that sound in to contemporary music so he incorporates all these
(sings) and he has these really beautiful, warm, round tones that he brings and contemporizes
which is really awesome so I just want to add a little side note to that
because like I said I want to talk a little bit more about his technical
abilities.
Now if you listen really closely, you guys heard me talk about contiguous
phrase singing which means connecting the words and not breaking them up.
That's one thing you hear him doing but you also don't hear a lot of vocal track
shifting and again we've talked about this before for my singer friends out
there and that's what you know all vowel sounds this is in my course, all vowels sounds
stem from it's the lah ah. It's a big open ah sound except E and Ew and I don't have
time to talk about those other vowels right now. Again I cover this in my
singing course and I have a lot of free tutorials on YouTube where you can check
some of this stuff out to wet your feet a little bit or wet your feet, wet your
lips. Yeah dip your feet in something like
that a colloquialism gone awry. Sorry but anyway so you have this vocal track
and basically your throat and so within each vowel exchange or transition from
vowel to vowel you want the least path of least resistance from vowel to vowel. So (sings)
let's let's go through the vowels, let me show you what I mean. Let's say I go
ah eh a e o ew. My a is gonna sound more like ah but if I go
(sings)
right. That's how the throat looks and in the back of the throat I'm at my
exchange for the vowels. Listen how subtle they are, they're not big, it's not
(sings)
right. It's real subtle so that the throat can stay open and I can move from
vowel to vowel with the least amount of shifting
(sings)
right. That's how the throat
looks. That's why I'm showing you this sort of you know picture of this diagram
of my throat. Anyway and that's exactly, precisely what he's doing is he's going
through these um you know phrases and whatnot and passages that he's singing
he's using the least path of resistance to get to those vowels, to maximize the
most ease in the throat and the warmth and largeness of the vowel while
maintaining chiaro-scuro which is a warmth with brightness in the center. So
the sound around it is warm but he's got that really nice, bright ping and tone in
the center okay all right let's continue.
Cool now he's in mixed (sings) right. He's mixing the sound so he's got like about 50%
chest and 50% head mix or head tone and he's come down and he's sort of
mixing. Now he's also a master at coming in and out of chest head mix. Now I did a
video with Luther Vandross and we talked quite a bit about mixed voice in that
video. I'm not sure when I'm gonna release all of these but please be sure
to check out that video. If it already gets released before this one I'm doing
quite a few of these, I'll try to remember to put it in the description. If
not wait for it and watch for it because I talked a lot about the genius of that
and how hard it is but how masterful it is once you once you master it so let's
continue.
That flute is a little sharp so it's kind of
kind of grades on you a little bit.
Little sharp, hear that.
Here he goes with the harmonic minor.
I love that.
It's great.
It's kind of like, it's kinda like when a guitar player.. I'm gonna walk, I'm gonna walk
this back a little bit because you
(sings).
right all those beautiful tones. It's like a guitar player when he's gonna do
at lead solo. He goes (sounds) and he waits for the audience.
And everybody goes wah right. So he's kind of doing that with his voice which is really cool,
great entertainer man I love this guy. D smash I'm gonna start up a campaign for
him and we're gonna call him D smash instead of instead of Dimash cause he
crushes everything he comes in contact with. The bone crusher. Ok we're back to
this again. I wanna hear this again.
For myself, I like it.
I wonder if and when Lionel Richie gets to see this, he's probably like who's that kid
that's like destroying me right now. So anyway so he took the sensitivity of the
piece the original piece "Hellos" by Lionel Richie and so he gave us all of that
part of the song and then he gave us some D Smash on top of it which is
really cool I love that, that's great. He just personalized it. It's killer and
no one could touch this guy man he's awesome.
Hey wait a minute, hold on. I don't know who this is let's see here. Should
have turned this up but uh hello yeah is this Lionel. Hey Lionel
oh no I'm not bashing you dude no no no man no you're great in your own right
it's just this kid crushed you. I'm sorry yeah no he did he crushed you. Anyway
all right well good luck with that but I say you do a one-on-one and see who
could do the song better I think he just destroyed you yeah next time. Hey keep
your daughter in check too by the way okay she's doing some crazy stuff in LA.
We'll talk about that later anyway alright guys let's continue, here we go.
I can't do that. I think I can. I think i's a C. I have to warm up for that.
That was killer. Wow.
Yep D Smash always delivers man. He always brings home the goods. Well again
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you guys again so much for over 90 million views and over 700,000
subscribers I'm uber grateful for that. Thank you yes uber is a word anyway and
by the way I will say I have I have a sweet little grandson and he says to me he says
papa, he says you know can you what's the highest number you can count to you know
and I said googolplex and he goes, he's only four. Googolplex
what is Googleplex cause that's where Google got you know Google from and it's it's
like google times Google. It's one of the biggest numbers we have so I say uber
meaning the most or the greatest so we get the ride uber and this guy is
Googleplex and uber wrapped up into one. So anyway again thank you for joining me
God bless tell you guys and until next time peace out.
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