Hey guys welcome back again to Ken Tamplin Vocal Academy where the proof is
in the singing. I actually ordered this shirt a while
ago online because I was gonna do vocal
coach reactions to World's Best so I thought it'd be kind of appropriate to
have the world on here. It came later and I did one already for TNT, I did a
Damash-athon. In fact one of my students Mary from Lilliac was on World's Best
also and I was gonna probably wear this shirt but I thought you know what hey
what the heck um what about World's Best of people that I like and I actually am
in love with Foreigner. It's one of my all-time favorite bands. Lou Graham is
one of my all-time favorite singers so I want to do a vocal coach reaction to Lou
Gramm of Foreigner and let's rock. Here we go and it's a little, it's a little rough
I mean it's a live thing Farm Aid blah blah blah but let's check it out here we
go.
He's a little out of breath. You can hear it.
You can see he's out of breath too.
He has a lot of pressure on him it's a hard
tune to do man. I did a.. by the way I did a version of this you can check out in
the description "I Want To Know What Love Is" and it's a really tough song to sing
so if he just came off something else that was you know I don't know a lot
more energy and then you're gonna slow it down and take these really long
breaths, legato phrases and stuff, pretty tough to do.
Love his tone.
Good tone.
Now this is probably one of the biggest, next to maybe Journey's "Faithfully" and
some others..rock ballad anthems of all time. I mean
this is like, this wrote the book on if you want to write a great song and you
want to make this thing sell so Lou and Foreigner you I know you guys have
heard the song before. He's throwing down he's all by himself,
there's very little helping him in the background, there's no background
harmonies yet there's gonna be a choir coming up in a minute and I did two
songs I did a medley of this. I did this and "Hot-blooded" I think was after this
so but because I I just don't think one song could do Foreigner justice like you
should do five songs, in this case I did too but let's continue here we go.
Great.
The whole audience should be singing this right now.
He's spent man, he's sweating you can see it.
Louie Grammatiko (sings) He's got that just that tone man. I
like my whole life I was like, how do I get that tone. I want that tone you know
that Dio, Coverdale, Paul Rodgers, the other guys, Mickey Thomas you know I want that
tone that perfect when I can lean into it I want the distortion when I want it. I
don't want it you know when I'm doing my mellow stuff and add air when I
want a sexy air to the sound. The guy's got it all man, he's killing it.
Where's my choir?
Bring the choir up, turn them up man. I wanna hear them.
Great.
This is music guys. This is not auto-tune, this is raw, it is what it is.
He's throwing down as hard as he can, very few missed notes. Everything is just
spot on. Energy's great, like and I'm sure every show is different.
I know I've shared this story before, I'm gonna share it one more time. So we were
I.. we were auditioning choirs. I have, by the way - yes ken Tamplin has 40
records out did I say 40 records right yeah blah blah blah okay. Anyway I got
that out of the way so um and I have a singing course called How To Sing Better
Than Anyone Else and you can get it at Ken Tamplin Vocal Academy and it will
help you sing like this. Now I got that out of way um so we were auditioning
choirs and West Angeles was a choir in LA and my wife and i went down there and
you know i used to think I was like a soul singer. He probably thinks he's a
blue-eyed soul singer just like Hall and Oats. I'm gonna do some other blue-eyed
soul singer guys coming up in a minute but and what I went into this
church and I'm not kidding, I mean like there was like at least four to five
thousand people there, it was packed. We were at the second services, I think they
have three services I don't know but anyway and they were dressed to the tens
like hats and this and that really dudded out, really cool. I show up thinking alright
I'm gonna go - I'm gonna audition these guys to like hire them for you know an
album I did called Magdalene and I go there and there was the main choir that
was there with the main pastor and there was a visiting choir and there were like 40
people each, like all big choirs big and I thought wow you know can't wait for this
one and so okay as I've been watching this whole thing go on, I literally can't
hear them it's so loud the people behind me because I said four thousand people
five thousand people there it's maybe not that many 3,500 people like a lot.
Anyway there's a lot of people, the volume from behind me was so loud I
couldn't even hear the big visiting choir and the original choir that was
there and as I'm trying to sing I sound so white and yes racist are you racist
Ken. No of course I'm not racist silly stupid moronic people ask that question.
No I'm just going I sound white they sound different I'm different but what I
did notice is I stuck out like a sore thumb and they're all kind of dancing
chucking, jiving, dancing and I'm going alright I think I
found my choir and we did hire them for uh two albums one called Magdalene and
another one that we did it was a project that I worked on early gosh
early 2000s it was what was going on in Sudan where they were massacring a bunch
of black Africans you know the Muslim government was taking over the black
Africans blah blah blah this is political I'll make it quick
for the oil and just in Sudan so this is 2002 2003 look it up you can see it
online and George Bush if you hate him, love him whatever he did some funky
stuff but he signed a really big peace act to help us stop that that
what's going on. Took two years off of my life to do that anyway so choirs I've
used them for an album I did called Make Me Your Voice and you can check it out,
some of the largest churches in the country actually covered it. It was Willow
Creek, Saddleback, Calvary Chapel Costa Mesa blah blah blah we actually put
together a record that helps stop the carnage that was going on over there.
Anyway getting back to this choir here so that was the same choir. They hired one I
think was from Jersey and forget but they hired a similar choir to do the
song and ever since then I got I got to do a choir like that right I know I'm
rambling but whatever life of Ken Tamplin here we go.
He's having fun with it.
(sings) Hit it Lou.
It's great man.
I wanna hear that note. It's coming up right. Hopefully.
Awesome. Now I can go on but I'm gonna
move I'm gonna move forward a little bit here I'm gonna do I'm gonna do "Hot Blooded".
I think it is right. It's at the end of this here.
End of this.
Now "Hot blooded" is different this is this was earlier in his career so it's a
different more popular Jetix sort of vibe.
Good job Lou.
Good job man.
How could you not love this? I don't know for me.
Guys-singer friends out there, try this it's really hard to do. This is not like
just walk up and step up to the microphone, karaoke night and do this. He
is spot-on, the energy's great. He's got. his breathes are..
hey hey hey hey he's got the crazy great breathes going on in between the phrases.
We've talked about that before in other videos but Lou Gramm man four thumbs
straight up like you know what I mean right.
Lou Gramm is like the bomb. He's one of my favorite all-time favorite singers.
Here we go.
it's all live folks. No tracks.
It's raw.
Great.
He's killing it man, he's killing it.
So okay I also forgot I did a version of "Jukebox Hero". Talk about a tough tune to do. I
did a version of that, I'll put that in the description also but Lou Gramm I am not worthy.
Like dude man. like you set the precedent, you raise the bar really high to make
this thing work and you're doing it live, there's no tracks, there's no auto-tune.
There's no nothing and you're just killing it so and I could list other
bands that are out there that are using a lot of tracks and auto-tune and stuff.
Foreigner's not one of them so anyway you guys if you want to check out these
videos I'm sure you could find them online to see the rest of the performances
whatever but Foreigner Lou Gramm two thumbs, three thumbs, four thumbs, five
thumbs. I mean straight up, excellent performance so Ken Tamplin Vocal Academy
where the proof is in the singing. Thank you for joining me, yes I'm excited. These
are bands I grew up on and I'm just like where did the music go, like what
happened like you know what happened I saw the Bruno Mars of course everyone
saw it ..performance at Super Bowl and
there's there are guys out there doing it, like him that are just super uber
talented guys just doing it but man can we get some more of that stuff. I'd
really like to see it okay. Alright Ken Tamplin two thumbs, four thumbs, six
thumbs, 12 thumbs straight up and God bless all you guys straight up.. out peace.
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