Hey guys welcome back again to Ken Tamplin Vocal Academy where the proof is
in the singing. I decided to go ahead and do a vocal
coach reacts to Pearl Jam obviously the vocalist is Eddie Vedder and Eddie sort
of wrote the book on Modern Rock singing. I know we've talked about this before I
decided to do Even Flow and in fact I have a version of mine that I'm gonna
put in the description where you can see how I stack up to Eddie's version here
and.. but I want to talk about you know marble mouth. Now it's the idea of
closing down (sounds) and so for some reason after Eddie did this
in Pearl Jam, it seemed that it was the only way people felt, that it was the new
way to sound like a modern rock singer Now I know it's not so modern now cause
it's been a lot of years since then but people still do it to this day where
they'll roll their "R"s and they'll close their "R"s down really hard which
inhibits range and inhibits your ability to go up. Now I know it it makes it sound
more modern etc and there was somebody that did it before this by the way it
was Tom Petty was sort of the originator of what I call marble mouth but as far
as rock and sounding you know like a new rock singer, Eddie was certainly.. set the
precedent and wrote the book on it. So let's go ahead and do Even Flow. I'll make some
comments along the way. Here we go.
Crowd surfing right out of front
Just had to do that, I still have hair left to do that.
see right (singing) right it's just
everything's real closed down and that's gonna inhibit range but you know you
might not even care about range cause it's more about tone and energy and stuff and
he's not looking to you know be like Chris Cornell or something like that
someone from that era okay. Let's continue
(singing)
and by the way, it actually is hard to kind of understand the lyrics when you
closed down the "R"s that far. I remember what song was I doing
oh I was doing Axl Rose it was Paradise City and I was trying to like get
through the lyrics I'm trying to go, well do I want them to hear the lyrics do I
not want them to hear the lyrics do I want to split the difference and I
remember singing the verses to Paradise City. I never knew what that song ever
even meant, same thing with this. I just (singing) you know I
kind of got like one word here and there but it does it kind of sloshes and you
know slurs the words together where you can't really make them out so anyway but
again this is Eddie Vedder, the guy wrote the book on you know modern rock singing
a lot of the grunge stuff that came through and I think the video's got like
80 million views so yeah he's doing something right right? Alright let's
continue.
Great energy.
Now look at this strain (singing) right. The type
of compression that he's using is (sounds) and he's really pinching and squeezing
in the throat and he's really kind of clamping down and closing off the throat.
Guys think of this again and I know I say this over and over again and I
cover this in my singing course. It's so important. There's a really strong
chance you'll lose your voice if you close down the vowels that hard and have
that kind of distortion. We want (singing) we really want to get that sound nice and
open so we have more of a healthy, distorted, if you can call that healthy
in the world of distortion, yes we're distressing the chords but it's a whole
lot better than squeezing and pinching and closing down this way and this also
inhibits range and after a while you can't even get anything out, in fact if
you've seen and I'll shut up in a minute, but if you've seen like a lot of AC/DC
concerts live and and you watch some of the lead vocals that's going on, you'll
notice that it literally after three four or five songs, poor Johnson, Brian
Johnson, his voice starts to hunker down and he gets less and less and less range
as he goes until he can relax kind of massage the larynx pull the larynx down
away from the up and getting tucked up into the throat, so that he can come back
out and do another song because he actually also distorts in a very similar
kind of way as far as pinching and squeezing to close the sound down. Okay
let's continue.
you hear that (sounds), you hear that (sounds) right. You want (sings)
We want to open up that sound. Okay so here we go.
Did you understand what he just said? I didn't
(singing) it was cool, whatever it's kind of..
it's funny um you know in a lot of the Motown era I remember (sounds)
you know, a lot of those guys would say stuff you go I have no idea what he said it but
it was cool right. Oh man that's funny. Here we go.
something about halls of shame
So let's do this again, now instead of closing down (sounds) that sound, I want you guys
to think of the word "eight" think of a "eight" (sings), think of (sounds)
in the sound don't go (sings), it's (sings) right? So we're gonna go "eight" instead of (sounds)
that chirpy sort of sound, we want to get to "eight" (sings) right? And if you want you can
also throw a little "H" in that sound so it doesn't shock the chords and just
gonna really just freak him out, where you can kind of get into the in and out
of the sound, more safely than this sound here, and again killer stuff
king of grunge. You know I'm not dissing anyway, I'm just trying to give you guys
quality information on how to be safe on this sound so you can have more
longevity and more range for your voice. Okay.
He did that to me so I'm doing it to you
And again it takes an incredible amount of breath to do this, these guys are like
thrashing around on stage, jumping up and down, mosh pitting, Chris you know crowd
surfing and and and and, so it also takes a lot of effort and energy just to be
able to pull something like this off, an incredible amount of adrenaline. Now they
do a big long instrumental break and then they close out with the chorus which is
basically the same thing over and over again but anyway you guys, hopefully this
information was beneficial to you. Again the king of kings of grunge Pearl Jam
song Even Flow and I have a singing course called How to Sing Better than
Anyone Else and I will walk you through this stuff, step by step if you're
interested, especially the distortion stuff. We actually have a lot that we
cover on that subject alone so.. in the course. So until next time, God bless
Peace out.
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