Hey guys! Welcome back again to Ken Tamplin Vocal Academy, where the PROOF is
in the SINGING! We got a lot of requests for this. Panic!
At the Disco, Brendon Urie, and I want to just kind of walk through some stuff.
Before I do this, though, Vocal Coach Reacts stuff, you know, a lot of this
kind of makes it look like, you know, we've never seen these videos before, and
we're just wowed by them, you know...
get all these faces and the thumbnails and stuff like this. I just want to be
transparent and straight, and I want to give credit where credit's due I want to
you know talk about things that might help you as far as technical aspects of
different people's voices. Brendan's a great guy I mean his music
is great or his singing is great, and there's some things I'd change about it
too, for myself, you know and it's a personal thing...
but I also want to say that he's certainly touted now as you know the the
modern-day Freddie Mercury in a lot of forums and things that I've seen and
then he's also got a crooner side to him, too, and he's got a lot of really unique
styles that he goes through. So, without much further ado, I want to go ahead play
The Voice 2018 Live Finale first and we'll just kind of comment as we go so
let's get started, here we go...
I gotta just say one thing right out the gate first of all he's got that crooner
side to him right but he's talking about you know that he's a hooker and his pimp
is the record label. So he's obviously gone through some stuff here so it's not
just the technical aspect that makes up a singer. It's what they have to go
through that makes them great and the pressure that's applied to them that
makes them great so he's and by the way also know too
that he was a Mormon, and you know his family grew up in Utah, and you know they
moved elsewhere. But there's a, it's a bummer, because there's like a certain
vendetta against his own, let's call it religion. Now I'm not Mormon at all, but
there's an angst to this, and he's, you know, alluding to that. When I was on Tosh
point-o by the way, the same thing. Daniel Tosh's, I think his dad was a pastor, and
he said, you know, as far as the five siblings, you know, he strayed the
farthest So there's a whole pressure system that
goes into singing like this, and so let's... I want to put that here, because I don't
want to just make this all about technical this, and whew he did that.
Let's talk about, you know, the whole artistry of all this as we move along
here we go.
The world is full of demon stocks and Bible traders. So like like read the lyrics on this and you guys might not
even care about this you might Ken, just show me the singing! Okay, and I am, and I
wil,l but I want to show you also, too, what drives people. Freddie Mercury was a very
spiritual guy. I mean yeah. Listen him. A lot of his songs, you know, he talked
about God all the time in his music. So this is a big speaking point
for me, at least, when I think about what drives people for greatness,
okay?
Okay. Now, Brendon, I love you, dude. You're an awesome singer, but it's awesome. It's
also obvious unless this is just a music video that was played on here and you
just came in and sang it, you're not singing that part of these things live,
because you can see when you take your hand away from the microphone, you're not
syncing with it. That - so, and I know you tout yourself on doing this live, and I
get that, and you do, and I've seen a lot of really good stuff of yours. This
particular part - so I'm not dissing you on this, but this particular part, it's
it's in, you know, I was gonna say it's like MTV in the same kind of way, but in
this case it happens to be The Voice. So let's continue...
Now when you go "Don't wake me" you're you're covering your sound. "Don't wake me" it'd be cooler
to kind of shoot some mask into the sound, so it's not covering the sound so
much. You do do a really good job of that, Brendan, when you're going - by the way and
I'm not trying to talk directly to you. I should be talking to my audience here. But you do a
good job of that and I've heard you do some falsetto stuff that's pretty
cool, I've heard some stuff not so cool, some great head voice stuff, or
reinforced falsetto that's great. Good belting chest register. Sometimes you
close down the larynx a little bit too much and you pharyngeally don't spread the
sound as much as I'd like as I'm going up. And check me out, if you want to, go
look at my stuff too. You'll see what I'm talking about. And I,
I'm a heavier singer, so I have to rely on... it's sort of like being a muscle car,
and for me, you know, I have to rely on things where I have to open up the sound
a lot more as I'm going through this, but let's continue.
Okay. So, I know again, we're talking about artistry here for a
second. So guys. Humor me for two seconds. So good some of this should be satire. It
doesn't have to all just be about technical stuff, right?
You know, these lyrics. He's a great songwriter, man. His lyrics are killer and
he's talking about, you know, all of his friends, you know, want to take away his
trophies, and this and that, and then he's talking about "trust me" you know, you're
gonna be lonely when you find out when you get to this level you know what it's
really, truly like. So I'm not trying to, you know, discourage anyone in the
music business that wants to get into that, that way, but you have to know when
you get into it, what is the reality and the truth of this, you know. Your label is
your pimp. You're the hooker, selling songs. Your friends all want to steal it
away from you once you get it, and, and, and, and, so there's that, there's a dark
side to this, you know. As you're going through it. So I should probably be
talking more about the singing. Let's just discuss this. So, the singing part. In
the singing part what's really cool is, he has this crooner side to him. And
I'm gonna do another tune of his here in a minute, but he's got like somewhere
between... and again I'm not trying to stereotype anything because, everyone has
their own style. He has a very unique style. But, you know, you have with Frank
Sinatra, first of all, who started this movement, right? And in fact I'm, you know,
what? I'm gonna save this for the next video. But I'm gonna talk about different
crooners that it's obvious that he's been influenced by, whether it's Michael
Buble, you know, and what's his name Junior, I'll think of his name in a second, but anyway
you can hear all these influences. But then he's got the Freddie Mercury side,
too, where I could see where people could see or think that he is more of a
modern-day Freddie Mercury in that sense. So, let's continue, here we go
By the way, I loved that when he goes" I'm gonna be the greatest." He went "greatest" he flipped kind of in a quick
head voice. He didn't go "greatest". He didn't kill it. He just went "greatest".
He dropped into his head voice or raised into his head voice, and he
didn't try to pull up a bunch of muscle mass up in into the throat when
he did that, which was awesome!
okay. Something else I want to point out. Okay, so if this was really live, all of
it, and maybe some of it was. Some of it wasn't, maybe all of it is, and maybe I'm
wrong, and I'm totally down for that. You know I've got 40 records out. And I've
toured the world for 30 years, and I know when you move around that much you don't
have that kind of air, unless you are anaerobic and you can live within
the absence of oxygen. Which is, that's what anaerobic means. So you can tell
he's a good dancer, he's got a lot of groove and stuff, but it's pretty
stinkin' hard to have that kind of groove. In fact, Bob, if you can, when you
get a chance, I have an assistant. And it's gonna be way different than his stuff,
guys, and you may or may not even like it. But Bob, post the SHOUT video on the
description of me running around a stage and, you know, how much energy is required,
and how much you have to get, you know, the control of the breath, to a point
where you literally are feeling like you're just holding your breath the
whole time as you're going through singing this stuff. So either he's just
got unbelievable breath control, or, you know, he's able to dance, and then you
know pantomime, or just, you know lip-synch this song here. So here we go.
I wish I could dance like him! Ha, ha, ha!
And then, you know, something told me he's sang the last line. I don't know. It's
kind of weird. It's like, you know, it's weird. There's certain parts where I say
yeah he did, and other parts I'm kind of going in and out. But regardless of that
he's still a killer amazing talented artist. Get back to the Freddie Mercury
thing for a second. We need a lot more Freddie Mercury's out there and we need
a lot more talent like this out there and Brendan, kudos, man. Good job. And light
the torch. I'm sorry if there's, you know, spiritual things that happen in your
life where you write songs that you feel have to reflect, you know, your past in
ways that you know isn't as positive. But but it's satirical, too - I can tell you're
you know. And by the way, it's not just spiritual, it's, everybody goes through
this, you know, writes that you know the Eagles were selling their albums on
their own website you know towards the end there, when they're like one of the
greatest rock bands in the world. So anyway, let's continue. So
I feel like I'm watching the Super Bowl! Ha, ha, ha!
Good! Haha! Haha! Like he gets into those little pockets right there where he's... he
doesn't have to, you know, pull a bunch of muscle mass up at the top end. He's able
to flip into his head voice, or at least a mixed voice, and he's able to kill it.
It's pretty stinkin cool. Good job, dude!
Haaaah, Haaaah, Haaaaah!
So he's like he can kill the high-end, too. Great reinforced falsetto up top! Love
that, for sure!
Okay. I don't need to go to the end of this. So. Overall, you know, just a talented
guy, man. What can I say? You know, one of the very few out there that are just
instead of doing just, you know, tons of growl, or this or that, or the, you know, rap
stuff, or whatever. The guy wants to sing, and I could see why people could refer
to him now as modern-day Freddie Mercury. Because I it was funny, because you know
I love Harry Connick jr. I was gonna refer to him later and we're gonna do
the next video of his, here in a minute. Or I'm going to do that, but he's got
the crooner side, he's got a warmth to it. I haven't really heard a
lot in the mid voice. And that doesn't mean he can't do it, but I just haven't heard
him connect between chest and head in a way. Heeeeeeeeeeeey!
Seamlessly through the passaggio
right there, where he can actually do that. He might be able to, I, you know, I
shouldn't say "he might". He probably can. I just need to get to the those pieces of
his to see how he does that. So, but anyway, kudos! Good job, man! Ken Tamplin Vocal
Academy, where the proof is in the singing!
And I'm gonna, I think I'm gonna probably try to find a track for these things and
do some of the stuff myself a little bit. I'm probably gonna treat it a little
heavier than him because I like a little more girth in the sound, and I like it be
a little more rock and roll, you know, and that's more on the, he's more on the
pop side than me. But anyway! Ken Tamplin Vocal Academy, where the proof's in the
singing. Until next time. Peace. Out.
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