Hey guys, welcome back again to Ken Tamplin Vocal Academy, where the proof
is in the singing! You know, we’ve talked a lot about belting, and about range, and
distortion. I want to slow things down a little bit and talk about soul and feel, so I chose
Ain’t No Sunshine by Bill Withers. We’ll do it first, we’ll talk about it after,
like we always do. Let’s soul. Here we go…
Okay. All right. So, what’s really cool about this, that it isn’t about the range
and belting. By the way, if you like what you heard, please like and subscribe to my channel.
That would be awesome! I have a singing course called How To Sing Better Than Anyone Else,
and I take every single one of these songs and I break them down step-by-step. Now like
I said, we talk a lot about belting, and a lot about range, and a lot about distortion.
But I want to talk about soul, and how we finesse into the sounds. So, I’m not going
to go “Ain’t no sunshine!” I’m not like, killing it on this, at all. What I’m
doing is, I’m still cutting back the air, like we’ve talked about in other tutorials,
but I’m actually warming up the breath. So, you know “Ain’t no sunshine when she’s
gone, it’s not warm when she’s away, ain’t no sunshine when she’s gone, and this house
just ain’t no home, anytime she goes away…” You you can hear like this whisk of air pass
across the cord. Now, the overuse of air is the enemy to the voice. So, what we do, I
literally am holding my breath. So I hold my breath back, and I only allow enough air
to give me my desired effect. Okay? So, Instead of going “Ain’t no sunshine!”
And cutting back the air entirely, or instead of Flutey – Hootie sound “hhhhain’t
no sunshine…” Letting too much air, I mitigate it, and I go “Ain’t no sunshine
when she’s gone…” And I kind of put a little bit of air to give me that smoky
woodsy feel, but I do it with finesse and I’m really careful.
So, anyway, I cover all of this in my singing course, How To Sing Better Than Anyone Else.
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