hey everybody welcome back again to ken tamplin vocal academy where the proof
is in the singing uh i'm here with my student joe and uh he's actually from brazil as you guys know
we worked up a few pieces of music on youtube already and our next song up is going to be
skid row um i remember you obviously the singer is sebastian bach we're going to work
off the video that we already have out we will put that in the description so you can see how we did
but we wanted just to do kind of a fireside chat of how we got here and uh we're gonna
actually demonstrate it live so it'll be on the fly and we're just gonna talk about it
as we go so you ready ready all right let's do it here we go fire up here's here's you and uh
before we get to that i want to just so so let's talk a little bit now
sebastian has a really unique approach to singing i mean he's kind of his lower stuff he's usually
kind of pretty soft and gentle and then he starts kicking butt in his mid voice and he
can hold these notes forever you know right so he's got this really great distorted tone but
why don't you just sing the opening line acapella right now right up to the sound of pouring rain
the wind would whisper and i think of you and all the tears you cry they call my name
cool before we go okay so what what what is it about that that you feel um if you were to try
to teach this to somebody what would you suggest for them i know what i would suggest and i know
what i suggested to you when we did it so uh first of all i think you know uh sebastian when
i'm trying to you know take a sebastian song i i always think up front right a mask very in a mask
uh wide smile on my face to keep it nice and open because you know it does sound a little whiny
if i up top especially yeah up top yeah and so woke up to the sound of the pouring rain really
really small okay and that's what you know i would go for uh not too much so you don't you don't need
to mimic or you don't need to sound exactly like him but you know that that's something to keep in
mind right like welcome to the sound but it's small the it's small walk up to the sound real
small right and make it like intimate you know uh he it's kind of it's very heartfelt i think it's
very heartfelt this this part of the music right i agree totally agree okay let's continue here we go
down into your
now i want to stop here now i'm going to put you on the spot i want you to sing the
very first verse all the way to this point totally acapella right now okay please from
the beginning from the beginning all the way to here okay look up to the sound of
pouring rain the wind would whisper and i think of you and all the tears you cry they call my name
and when he needed me i came through i paid a picture of the days gone by
my louvre went blind and you make me see and i steer a lifetime into your
eyes so that i knew that you were not for me time after time you were there for me
good job good job okay look a couple of carpets yeah a little bit we actually just sang for an
hour and a half before this started um now what do you think of uh groninville what's
the other guy that took uh sebastian's place in um yeah eric grown grown wall yeah yeah
yeah i mean you know he's actually doing some really cool stuff but we maybe we should at
some point you know do like a little takedown of him uh because he's been able to find those
same similar pockets and um reproduce them whereas you know sebastian these days isn't
isn't doing it in the same kind of way so let's grab go ahead and move on to the chorus here
i want to stop here because i want to talk about contiguous phrase singing this is really important
go ahead and sing the chorus and let's talk a little bit about it all right
remember yesterday walking hand in hand love let us in to say and remember
you through the sleepless nights through every endless day i don't wanna hear her remember you
we're a little flat on it um remember yesterday
he's not going remember yesterday walking hand and head right he's keeping his sentences connected
remember yesterday walking in and in i want to hear you saying you know i wanna use no i wanna
if you can keep all those phrases connected and not add all those extra unnecessary consonant
sounds you can afloat at an altitude of some pretty high range singing
without losing it and without having to have too much uh stamina you have stamina but it's not
going to overtake you from being too arduous to sing so all right let's move on good job
remember yesterday he's going right in here right
i remember you know something funny about sebastian there's
i think he uh when you think he's going to finish the sentence or the or the line he just goes on
and there's kind of a similarity in an axle rose kind of way as far as that real
ironically they toured with guns and roses on their very first start so
it made it popular or helped him get popular but
okay so give me the verse all the way through this pre-chorus here
um okay we spit a summary the top row down wished ever after would be like
live for your smile and die
if you connected that sound it would be quite as arduous in the throat as you're going to remember
connecting because i heard a little chirp going away but that's actually because of having to
reseat or reopen up that off vowel over and over again and it's hard to reopen it up to
that specific vowel mod that it's got to be in that phrase okay here's the next chorus
day
wait before we get to this part give me all the way to this chorus and then we're gonna hit these
nice long notes at the end too in the chorus right yeah remember yesterday walking hand in hand
love let us see the stay and don't remember you go flat bring it up to sleepless nights
through every day i don't wanna hear you say oh i remember you
cool all right good job all right yeah just sort of go flat because we have a reference
for the music but now towards the end this is one of the quintessential things i think that was um
uh exemplified or showed off i should say sebastian box range
right because he's coming up with he's got dangerous
just sing this part first i want to get every line the promise that we make
and all that so here we go i wish we had a share of her times but then surprise we paid and threw
good job now i want to point a couple things that you guys probably didn't notice sing the
first line again and i'm going to stop you where i want to stop you go ahead lift hannah share i have
okay did you did you notice on the word times he's starting to shift into his head voice
he's leaving chest and he's written he's not pulling up all the weight of chess voice
chad he's not doing his time he's pulling or you know he's relying on going into that
head voice and then promise that we made it it almost sounds like um an iron man
but it has that kind of head voicing tone do it again and really identify this guy so as
you're practicing this you're not going to pull up all that chest you're going to rely
more on your head voice check it out again with hannah sharon toys times hear that right there
good job now who else we've seen do this is jeff tate from queensrec we've seen a lot of people
um you know uh james labrie like we've seen a lot of people that rely on this
and you'll be able to jump up in this and it and it just makes they sound like these
this monstrous range and there is monstrous range but it's not all chest resonant range
it's going through the passaggio and in the headboard so i wanted to point that out because
really tricky stuff especially on this next section coming up here we go
i speak
now
but nothing else could ever take you away
okay now do you have to sing the verse
sing from there up to this point here we go
all right because you will always be my dream come true
it's almost pure head voice right do it again just do that screen
do me a favor hold down that screen for a second so they can
really hear the head voice and he's bringing in kind of a little fry too
but some of the distortion to the sound so just just hold on that note for a second
right you hear that there's a lot it's almost 100 head voice
but he's he's distorted it but he's matching again the tonal qualities of his chest voice
to make it sound like he's heaving up all of this you know mass from the throat at the bottom he's
not he's just rolling in head voice distorting the sound and then he kind of finishes off with
like a more of a mix of chess mix at the end to complete the phrase but here we go next
we'll play it first let me back it up a skosh and then uh we're gonna hear it from here
my
everybody
all right let's go go from that that whole second half of the chorus
all right remember yesterday walking
remember you and through the sleepless nights
through every endless day i don't wanna hear you say oh remember i'll remember
by the way we're sitting down i should make him stand up to do this do just the end phrase for me
just so we can pull that end phrase off and get it a little bit closer so the head voice is a
little cleaner and not quite overly overdriven because his isn't quite that overdriven just
i remember
so i mean you know like i said we're human we're just working this stuff and to do this on the fly
by the way i just i'm sort of embarrassing him because i at the last minute had said hey i want
to dig into some of these old tunes that we do and i just want to like have a fireside chat about it
you know you can see how these building blocks are put together what's the foundation how we kind of
have some voodoo and some magic in the mid voice and you know what what kind of tricks we pull out
of that rabbits that we pull out of the hat in order to get to some of these places so a song
like this in fairness we didn't actually work this up at all before we started just now we should
have like spent an hour just only working up the song and then getting on camera but the honesty
of it is better for me because you get to see how this is done you know we're all human we're all
just trying it we're kind of all hacks no matter who thinks they're great or not you know we're
all just you know really trying to figure some stuff out but there is a very specific technique
there are very specific things you need to do there's very specific ways to control your air um
when to distort when not to distort how much to distort how much mass to carry up into the throat
when to cross over to head voice and back you know having that passagio where you don't hear going
back and forth between chest and head through the passaggio lots of factors to negotiate here so
i think he did an awesome job we've got a lot more coming your way we're going to do
uh we're going to do a steelheart song in fact we're going to do two steelheart songs
right yeah she's gone and we're going to do um we all die we all die young
and then we've got a couple more couple more skid rows tunes coming up right we're going to do
yeah we got some some cool stuff heading your way brand new stuff i'm going to be doing with
you it's his first time in my studio he was doing this at his his room in brazil and so now we're
going to get a chance to have some better gear and and work on it in person together a little
bit more so thank you guys for joining us and it's my buddy jude stick around because we've
got some rock and roll headed your way and definitely stick around for my next video