Hey everybody welcome back again to Ken Tamplin Vocal Academy where the proof is
in the singing. I'm Ken Tamplin and I'm doing a series
and the series is called What Makes This Singer Great and stepping up to the plate
next is Axl Rose from Guns N Roses. Before we get started if you guys
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a singing course and the course is called How to Sing Better Than Anyone
Else and I cover all this information in my singing course on how we can get to
these great places like Axl's. So with that said I want to dive right into what makes
Axl Rose a great singer or what kind of first comes to mind when I think of Axl.
Like I've said many times it's not always just their singing or their
artistry, it could be things outside their singing etc. So one of the things
that first comes to mind is his vocal range. You know he's got a very high
vocal range. He's very intense, very intense singer, very intense performer.
Within his vocal sound itself his tone is kind of a real buzz saw nasally
buzzsaw kind of sound so that's definitely a signature for him. Let me
see ..I his endurance and his stamina, he had a lot of really great endurance and
stamina I guess still does. I think of him as being kind of a wild card you know
you kind of never really know what's gonna happen with Axl right. He's you
know he could go off at any minute right. I think of that dance that he does
you guys know what I'm talking about. (sings)
right and of course you know songs right "Paradise City",
you've got "November Rain", "Sweet Child of Mine" you know and then by the way I've
done some Axl, some Guns N Roses stuff. I'll put that into the description tag so you
can hear how I did with Axl and so forth but other songs that he's got "Welcome To
The Jungle", you know "Patience" and I'm sorry I forgot
to turn my phone off. That's probably Axl correcting me on some stuff here right
now but anyway so you know buzzsaw vocals, intense. He'd like to use a lot of
lyric you know (sings). Lots
of lyrics in his.. in an especially in the faster rock stuff. in the early 80s stuff.
His distortion you know he had a very unique distortion. Now it wasn't
necessarily a healthy distortion and he lost his voice quite often when he used
it but it was a very unique sounding distortion
and then you know he's got sort of a biker vibe to him right. I mean I think
of you know with a headband and you know kind of Street, LA bikery
kind of guy. A tough guy right so to speak. So I put together a little montage,
let's check it out and I'll make some comments along the way, here we go.
There's that buzzsaw vocals.
I waiting for the dance where's the dance man. Here it is. ah.
Pretty good intonation too.
Good songwriter.
Ok see where he'd go (sings) right. So it's very (sings) he pitches everything kind of right up
here into the nose. So he uses a lot of nasality in the sound with that
buzzsaw thing and it really projects really bright timbral tone as he pushes
that sound really far forward so.
Sometimes his distortion is so distorted, we go into another song here. It's so distorted it
almost sounds like three voices going all kind of like neumann throat singing
or something where there's three different harmonic sounds going on with
with one voice because of the way he distorts his sound. So this is an another
performance here we go.
Wow look at the stage.
See those lyrics.
(sings) right. Okay now again he's using a lot of diaphragmatic support and the
only way to do this is to pull in on the diaphragm, spit out that you know a bunch
of lyrics that he's written right and then relax again to give that diaphragm
a chance to relax to reset and rejuvenate before you know taking on the
next phrase and he's pretty good at that because he's sure had a lot of stamina
and sang a lot of really high great notes so.
His infamous screams is another one. That comes to mind right.
His shorts that comes to mind.
Running around on stage that comes to mind.
Alright. So again so again we talked about you know his tone, his range, that buzzsaw
kind of sound, a lot of the distortion, his screams. Those are the things that
come to my mind. So if I've missed some stuff please put in the comment sections
what comes to your mind when you think of Axl what makes him great. Like I said
I'm doing a series on this so if you've got someone that you'd like me to
discuss what makes them great, please put that in the comment sections because I'm
doing most of this by request. Some of them I'm sneaking in a couple of my own
because I want you guys to introduce you to some people you may or may not know
about and yeah I've got more videos coming your way so stick around. Let's
hit up the next one here we go.