hey chris liepe here with the studio multitracks for slipknot psychosocial corey taylor
these things sound amazing it is so fun to get to pick apart the different sonic layers in the
band and of course in cory's vocal performance there's a lot going on here now i've done lots
of videos on corey taylor how to sing like corey taylor other isolated vocal analyses but it's the
first time i have approached psychosocial and i'm able to do these kind of breakdowns because
this is an education channel i teach people how to use their voices how to sing how to draw
inspiration from other singers so as we're going through this i'm not going to talk a
lot i'm not going to spend a lot of time breaking things down but i will some and i need to because
corey taylor's copyright owners will let me use these tracks as long as there is
use of frequent stops and nothing is played in whole i have to play short parts so enjoy this
exploration with me also i have a free course where i teach you how to get the foundations
to do with your voice what we hear corey taylor doing with his voice so make sure
before the end of the video that you click that link in the video description and join
my free course as has become the norm let's dig into a little bit of the instrumental first
tone
oh i mean there's obviously some triggering going on but the consistency
and the space they have around these drums is is immaculate let's listen to just the snare
there's so much resonance and space around it kick
i like listening to just the like the overheads and symbols too
this is where you really get the the idea of of how the drums sounded in the rooms
because they generally don't use triggers off of overhead sometimes they do but
really neat now this really floored me listen to this bass sound
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i'll tell you before i heard this base in isolation i did not think that as much grit
and grime was coming from that low end i love that there's a lot of presence and kind of
going on but you still have a lot of clean tone it it reminds me of a low voice
a lot of bass when they try to distort it they'll try to distort
one signal and and it ends up sounding wumpy and and it loses all the clarity but this has both
and it sounds like it's being played with it with a pick and so it's it's
more more percussive in nature but i hear two signals the and the defined clean one
think about this when it comes to your voice too the raw guitar layers here
did you hear that the center panned guitar that was that was just sitting below the threshold
with the with the outer pan guitars this is the kind of stuff you really don't hear when
you're listening to the the studio mix you that you are surprised by and and elated by
when you get to hear these things in isolation this is the other thing that and i love the way
these are laid out we have a backing sum which includes i'll just let you hear it
oh wait what's this beginning oh yeah
right okay
beating on those drums sporting the broken glass
some hooves i mean there's some just some fun sounds and these are things
again you hear them but you don't really experience them yeah yeah
sounds like there's a nice combination of things that have been like looped and
sampled and stuff and and then it feels like those those toms are being performed
oh some guitar in the stem as well
cool
neat do that with the drums
you really appreciate all the layers for what they are when you get to isolate them out let's listen
a little bit more i love this section of the song in full and so it's fun to to break this part down
oh yeah
oh those are some deep guitars so cool let's work through the journey of these vocals the vocal
production is so fun to draw on and make sure i've left a link to a playlist of corey taylor videos
in the description make sure you check out some of my other videos on cory because
i do go more in depth into the production of not only vocals but some other goodnesses
with effects and all that stuff here we're just mainly going to be appreciating what these are
that transition is awesome from that low guttural up to the yell i did my time and i went out so if
you say halfway it doesn't cut the soul is not so vibrant the reckoning the second egg backhand
shakes the version pseudo sacrifice perversion go drill your deserts go dig your graves then
fill your mouth with all the money you will save seeking again smaller again i'm done it has been
good i'm not the only one now i've talked about this in other videos but i have to mention it here
this is not a scream as much as this is a false court engaged yell and this is corey taylor's
trademark sound all the money you will save and you hear it more and less in different eras
but we have to point out his mo serve soon he's got a thick thick neck and a deeper voice than
i do ooh so i sound a little bit funny but i'm not going to sound like him i'm going for
just learning from his posture very open throat dropped larynx serve serve like that
but what he's allowing himself to do is yell and then engages false chords and the best way to do
that safely is to bridge this gap with your own voice in your mind between yelling and sighing
ah do you hear a little bit of that false chord
i did my time and as you're dialing it in let yourself crack a little bit
i mean listen i did my time and i went out you know and if i do the same thing
i did my time and i went out that is a combination of
embracing those vocal breaks and and imperfections with the yell
and the vocal posture oh like this so keep that in mind there's a lot going on here even if he's not
thinking about it if we want to embrace this style more on that in other videos let's keep listening
and the rain will kill us all we throw ourselves against the wall but no one else can see
the preservation of the martyr in me psychosocial uh psychotherapy psychosocial now i've seen other
commentaries on this which which are awesome which say that he uses or the producers use this sort of
pitch adjustments as with the layers that that corey delivers here and you can hear that
really really neat now here the preservation of the modern me love his tone really forward
and bright and he's he's drawing contrast from where he is here god
it has been good i mean the same guy but if he was just and then brain will kill us
right it's brighter and almost a little bit whiny
although it doesn't come across as whiny with cory's vocal disposition
really low section there cool there are quacks in the rubbing line
but where the temple fell the secrets have gone mad i love this when he goes from low to high
so cool this is nothing new but when we killed it all there was always do you hear the the
it's not a melody per se but do you hear how he's taking his pitch up and down
just like he's talking this is nothing new this is nothing new
but when we killed it all oh going up there was always and then that false court engagement that
vulnerable false court engagement is layered over the top of his engaged primary chords
who needs another mess we could start over just look me in the eyes and say i'm wrong
now there's no late this but i'm messing the bud i think we're good i'm not the only one it's
interesting how clean they sound i i i'll probably get something thrown at me virtually by saying
that but when you have them in isolation like this and they're not covered up with everything
you tend to the the pitch of the voice tends to get lost a bit with all the other layers so
it's it's neat he's not pushing maybe as hard as we might initially think based on the whole mix
that's good news for us and the rain will kill us all we throw ourselves against the wall
great harmonies but no one else can see the preservation of the mother in me
that dragon voice back there it's so cool now this section oh it's just just nuts i
love it let's listen in isolation with the vocals i might bring some other things in
do you hear all the different layers and tonalities he's using he's got
that the higher textures he's got and i love the the the breaths
stuff you never ever hear but these these gang vocals the other participants right
and they don't like stop and start at the same time
that's cool
yeah revolving delay with that with a high feedback there that's really cool or high
repeat rate fight get that fascist fly i tried to tell you but your purple lights are giving out
guess not but yeah like ideas if it's something seasoned is this what you want i'm not the only
one this is really fun to hear the difference and you can in headphones in the regular mix hear this
kind of thing but to hear the the the difference in placement and performance he's got the real
higher uh textures out in the in the wings and then he's got his his yelly false chord engaged
voice here listen again to the way that the the panning accentuates the different characters that
are coming out get somebody like ideas if it's something seasoned is this what you want i'm not
the only one does anyone sound a little hoarse there the only one and the rain will kill us all
we throw ourselves against the wall but no one else can see the preservation of the mother and me
and the rain will kill us all i'll love that we throw ourselves against the wall but no one
else can say the preservation of the modern me hey how he kind of slides out there that's neat
dog
the preparation
the preservation of the modern name
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