hey chris liepe here with another julian casablancas video congratulations all of
you who have asked for lots of julian videos i now have the most videos on a single singer
in julian casablancas the strokes videos even more than chris cornell isn't that weird
well in this song one way trigger julian displays some incredible clean mixed voice and juxtaposes
that with some of his really tender vibrato and falsetto or pure head voice so i'm excited
to get into this with you it's been super fun cherry picking different examples from julian's
long career as a vocalist and seeing that transformation and analyzing what's going on
whether julian's really thinking about some of this stuff or not he really has gone through a
really neat journey with his voice if you'd like to explore more about the flexibility
of your own voice if you'd like to see what it can really do and pull out sounds that
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what we've come to know and love from julian style is he's right on the tip of
his head chest voice and going into his head voice and he's doubling it here so you have this extra
subdued layer the way it's sitting in the mix but if you experiment with that in your
own voice i'm gonna be up here this is the top of my quiet chest voice and then i'm gonna go
up a little bit now i'm in my head voice now i'm in my chest voice chest
and because you're singing quietly enough
it's really easy to bridge that gap between what would otherwise be an ugly break chest
when i'm giving you too much pressure in my chest voice and then going up to my head voice
which in this posture can't take that much pressure you get that crack but he's really
careful about using vibrato and pressure support in a way that helps him blend right
around that what would otherwise be the very ugly break area but it gets better in this
song this song's incredible in terms of how he really pushes higher with more support
so if we're really highlighting that head chest head chest but he masks that or
travels it because of the the pressure and that that tendency to blend at low volumes
you asked he has that wonderful speech level engagement at the beginnings of some of those
notes it's neat in the i love the way he arranges his melodies because he'll be up here and then
the dynamics won't change that much but then he'll go down into his speech level and he'll
scoop up to those notes it creates this really approachable contrast between his muttering
upper chest lower head voice and then his definitive speech level resonance really engaging
here's another flavor we haven't seen as obviously in some of his newer stuff and
it certainly wasn't there in some of his older stuff but there's a million reasons
we've got this sense that he's again on the edge of his chest voice but he's created this squeeze
he's compressing try that there's a million reasons to leave like you're you're holding
back a bunch of air but you're not you're not going gritty you're not going and grunting
you're just holding back enough air to make it sound a bit
squeezed and at the same time you're allowing yourself to be pretty nasal
but there's a million reasons to leave this creates this whiny super hyper nasal sound
that that this posture sets you up for being able to go way higher clean but brash not chest voice
not head voice not this well there's a million reasons but there's a million reasons to leave
now if i have this squeeze i'm holding back air and i'm whining i'm being nasal
my my tongue and my soft palate are kind of close together like that which enforces the resonance
through my nasal cavity now i can whine all the way up here like that which is what we'll hear
him do in a minute this for many people unlocks mixed voice clean mixed voice in their voices
find a job and find a friend are in good well-supported head voice find a job find a friend
he's got really good balance this isn't fine
it's fine now that's different than what he does on the lines to follow listen
well supported head voice and then listen what he does on find a dog fine
very different posture it's not fine find a dog
that's very different it feels different it sounds different and it comes from that
wine high pressure compressed bright brash awareness of pushing the sound through
your nasal passage as you're compressing it gives you that wine ah fine he does it again
find a dream
head voice and shut it down
mixed voice he does a really good job of tricking you into thinking one might be the other but
listen for that brash compressed sheen on the top of it and then as you experiment with your voice
take note of how it feels differently one is ah and one is ah find a dream
find that dream and as you're dialing things in let your voice crack in and out so that you can
get this the difference in sensations your voice won't crack when you're in head voice in a pure
head voice like it does when you're dialing in this clean mix all right let's move on
please
he's got that sound again you'll be unafraid did you hear how it started a little bit darker la
he's got this sort of like upside down triangle thing going on he's darker down here
very key to observe things like this if you can do this kind of thing in your own voice and as you
get higher you get brighter and more compressed and clean and nasal you will be able to do some
of what he's doing and you'll you'll get some of these sensations and feels in your voice as well
is
tell me tell me there it is again this is not tell me tell me which is the posture he has down here
when he's talking like this singing like this tell me tell me no tell me tell me yeah you can you can
start to hear and see in my voice even what's happening when we make those sort of transitions
there's a little bit of noise little bits of distortion you can hear that in his voice as well
you asked me to stay very different character
there's a mill you asked me to stay but there's a million reasons
i'm exaggerating this but not by much this is what makes his voice so compelling
your head
fine that note is way weightier fine than fine
just practice that saying the same note they're saying the same word over those
two different notes find one is head voice fine and then you go up a whole step far and find
and then you're you're bridging it with that extra pressure nasality compression
that is mixed voice and it comes from having this the million reasons
a million reasons not like this down here
how brash that is shut it down
so much energy behind it now because it's back in the mix and because he's using head voice around
and they've got lots of audio compression on him this stuff is really squashed into what we hear
in terms of in terms of the dynamic range of the recording but it's very different
when you are thinking about just the vocal approach in terms of the volume and brashness
same posture as this yeah but different than this
and i want to say that these resonance changes and different approaches and characters that
i'm pulling out of his voice it's not just because he's going higher and then going lower
because he has a million reasons right here and he's got the very tender head voice at
the beginning julian has an incredible way of choosing how he wants to portray himself
emotionally and on a connected level in any area of his range that's what makes his voice
so compelling and this song i have to say out of all the ones i've evaluated so far one way trigger
i think demonstrates these many shifts and many characters the very best thanks again
for continuing to watch julian videos on the channel as long as you keep watching them and
requesting them i'll make i'll keep making them we'll see you for more