Hey guys welcome back again to Ken Tamplin Vocal Academy where the proof is
in the singing. I'm doing a series called What Makes
This Singer Great and next up we have Sebastian Bach from Skid Row. Before we
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So what comes to mind when I think of Sebastian Bach. Well I think of range for
sure, high range vocals, some cool distortion, the cutesy factor, he's kind of
a cute guy right, eighties metal guy. Maybe one of the quintessential
examples of 80s metal hair band. I would put them way up at the top. Stamina. You
know he was able to hold these high notes for really long periods of long
long ranges, long periods of time. I think of him having a little bit of an ego
right. How about you. I think of you know great songs "18 and Life", I think
"I Remember You", "Youth Gone Wild", we did.. in fact I did, I
did what was it " I Remember You" with Gabriela Guncikova. I'll put that..
I think that was right. I'll put whatever I've done with him because I actually do,
I don't just talk about singing, I actually do with me and my students so
when I can I put demonstrations we've done in the description. so I'll put what
we've done in the description for you to check out and see how well we did but
then you know he's again a great example of what came out of LA metal also. There
was a lot of bands that came out of a LA Guns N'Roses and all these bands
and so there was a conglomerate. Now I'm not saying all the members necessarily
came from there but it certainly associated with that metal scene in Los
Angeles. So let's just dive right in and hear old Sebastian, see how he's doing
these days.
Now his screams are epic. I should admit I.. admit. I admit that. You know
add to that also but the other thing too that was kind of interesting is he used
a lot of mixed in his voice and he brought a lot of his head voice down into his
sound. Kinda like Robert Plant did a lot of that too where it sounds like he's
belting up really high and sometimes he is but for the most part he's either
mixing or he's using a lot of head voice so like a reinforced falsetto. He's
matched the tonal qualities to get into his chest voice. Now there are a lot of
people that have done that from Jeff Tate you know of Queensryche and other
people, where they brought their head voice all the way down into their chest
voice. The problem with that as I cover in my singing course is if you only focus
and rely on that it atrophies your chest voice, which means to weaken your chest
voice, your belting range and over time there becomes a continental drift where
it starts to split and tear apart between your chest and head voice and
then you find yourself losing range in your chest voice and then losing you
know your head voice all together or losing the power that you had especially
in the lower parts of your head voice, you might still get some high screams
and you know some whistle notes and stuff but um we saw that happen to a lot
of high range 80s metal bands where they didn't know how to take care of their
voices and they didn't know how to continually work them out effectively
and have good technique for that. So I cover all that in my singing course and
that's kind of what's happened with a lot of these singers over time so let's
continue.
My phones out.
Little pitchy sometimes. He was known for being a little pitchy from time to time
but it's because he took some chances you know.
Everybody.
Now in that case that's one of the times I don't think he couldn't sing the
chorus so he's trying to get the audience to do it for him, he was
actually really looking for audience participation. We see that a lot with
performers when they're kind of spent and they go ok bail me out here guys. They do that
in the name of let's hear you sing, when in fact they've just kind of like used up
what they had and they tried to cover up for it by getting you to sing. That's not the
case here, he could actually sing that with these through that part right there
so side note.
That's the head voice I'm talking about.
Little pitchy.
Cool scream though.
Cool so yeah I mean like I said you know he was just a raw talent and a lot of
those guys you know I mean whether it was drugs or you know just kind of
abusing your voice or whatever, you know struggled with that over time. I know
he's still out doing it to this day but hopefully some of these guys will be
able to get back on track if they want to and if they are willing to put in the
time. A lot of them can. So now again guys I'm doing this by request for the most
part so if you have somebody that you want me to do a What Makes This Singer
Great, please put that in the comments sections. If I missed anything about
Sebastian Bach that I think should have included that makes him great,
please put that in the comment sections and check this out, I got another great
video headed your way. Here it is.