Hey guys welcome back again to Ken Tamplin Vocal Academy where the proof is
in the singing. I decided to do a vocal reaction to
Christina Aguilera and the song I chose was hurt, and I actually love this song
I love the picture I..you know the video is actually very heartbreaking, a story
about her dad and you know I have some similar you know things that my dad my
dad left home when I was really young and it was a very tough situation
growing up but anyway so I'm gonna go and do that song. Now I've done two
versions of this. I want you guys to check out, I'll put it in the description
that I did a version with my student Gabriela Gunčíková which is more in
line and true to Christina's version and then I did a metal version where I just
kind of manned up to it and sang a real heavy doodly version of it too - so I'll put
both URLs in the description so you guys can check them out and let's rock. Here
we go: Christina Aguilera "Hurt"
Nice
Nice velvety tone
Beautiful
Ok now right away, she does something Rihanna does and some of the newer pop
singers (sings) she uses a raised laryngeal position so it kind of sounds
froggy. I know it's a stylistic thing and it can be sexy and you know some of my
favorite singers Paul Rogers from Bad Company, Paul Carrack from Squeeze other
you know.. singers, use it in the lower register but they're gonna have to drop
that laryngeal position as they go up, or they're gonna get caught in the throat
and it's gonna reseat underneath. The backside of the digastric muscle, which
is that muscle right directly under the chin so you're gonna hear her go in and
out of it, it's her style and it's her signature so to speak but I just want to
point that out if you're trying to do this sound drop that laryngeal but the
larynx drop it as you go up or you're gonna get caught.
See if she goes (sings) I want it (sings). I want to get that mouth open. I don't
wanna (sings) right I want to hear the pharynx
the mouth spread open more to get a little bit wider of a sound. We
just did a Jennifer Hudson video here and I'm not sure how I'm gonna release
these. Now Jennifer goes really wide (sings) real wide on it and she's (sings) and she's
real narrow on the sound. I'd like to open it up just a little bit more and I
know she says um that's she's kind of modeled her voice out of after people like
Etta James but you know (sings) you know you're Etta, Etta is really open on the
sound and so Christine is not quite as open. I could see where she'd say that it's
for some of her distortion and how she gets some of her grit and whatnot that
does sound a little bit like Etta but not in the vowel placement okay.
Now I want to point out one more thing. Guys remember me talking about the "ah" vowel?
She goes (sings) right we keep the "ah" vowel open and we just make minor
adjustments to that "ah" vowel, very subtly to get other words out, even though she's
singing a lot of other words, she's still maintaining the "ah" vowel and slightly
shifting those vowels to get the words out that she wants you to hear while
maintaining good open throat "ah" vowel technique. Okay
(sings) there's that froggy thing. Notice it (sings) she had to drop it .
Flawless performance
Cool and again, great mix voice back and forth, we just did this with Mariah, we
just did this with Whitney Houston, we've talked all about crazy you know amazing
challenges between chest, head and mix and all these gals are pretty spot-on
and the way they're pulling this off, so that's awesome.
Very emotional. I don't know if you guys can think about that but if you lose a
loved one especially your parents and it's really hard to sing something like
that on stage. I know I wrote a song for my kids and it's called "Cherish the
Moments" and you could look that up it's a really pretty song but I remember even
seeing that song I had to hold back the tears it was just so hard and I can't
imagine singing a song about losing your father and wishing you could see him
again and that whole thing and not getting all choked up and having a
really tough time finishing the piece so kudos to her for that because that's a
tough one, way up for that one man, in fact I could go a step farther with that.
When she.. one of the things that I have not loved about her, so all you Christina
fans out there, please don't hate me for saying this but it seems like most of
the time, songs like beautiful and some others are exceptions to that, but most
of the time she sings to show off her voice a lot, Mariah does that too. Whitney
didn't do that so much and I don't think Jennifer Hudson does that so much so in
other singers like that. Jessie J kind of splits the difference, she's got you
know some show-off and some soul in it but I get back to her. Most of the stuff
that Christina has done for me has been like just showing off, melisma, vocal
licks and tricks and you know runs and whatnot and it's in these kinds of songs,
I find her true passion and her true I don't know sensitivity and just
artistry straight up being able to present a
story without messing it up with so many licks over even though there's a lot of
licks here. I don't feel its convoluting the
storyline which is great. Okay, here we go
I miss (sings)
I missed that she's kind of ducking that line there. Oh well, anyway
nice break, nice change
good song
Ew, got off there a little bit, that's okay. Hey, one other thing I want to point out,
when we did Mariah Carey and we did ...what was that.."Hero" excuse me. Notice that
Mariah was able to maintain really good breath control and she didn't get off of
her game at any time, she always was in total command at how much breath she had
left, how much she could use, how much she just came off of, you know and and and
whereas I see Christina just a little bit struggling with the breath as far as
maybe, I know she might be nervous or some other things could be going on but
you can actually hear that she loses control of the breath, just a little bit
here and there. That's one example.
(sings)
Okay and by the way, it's really easy to sit here and critique some of the greatest
singers in the world. You know I try to showcase some stuff with you guys to
and again that's why I put all these you know different versions that I've done
and my students have done in my description so you can see how my
technique works and how it stacks up to some of these great singers because it's
it's really easy just to sit here and make comments and chomp on this and talk
about that and technicality and so forth but it's another thing to actually prove
it by singing so I would love to see some of these other reaction coaches
sing some of this stuff and show on their channels how they sing and you
know, to authenticate that what they're teaching and what they're espousing as
they make these comments and critiques, that they really know what they're
talking about and they know how to walk you guys through the process, so by the
way I have a singing course called How to Sing Better than Anyone Else and I do
walk you through this stuff step by step, it's a huge course, it's like 80 hours of
material, both video and audio, different stages on walking you through the
process and I even put together a singing forum that is over 20,000 people
in there where I pay for it out of my pocket it's not part of the course
itself. I do it so that when people are doing the course and they can't take
personal lessons or that's too expensive or they're on the road or whatever, they
can get actually firsthand attention in the forums by posting songs, they can
post what they're doing in the course, asking questions on if they're
doing vowels right or diaphragmatic support or glottal compression,
distortion, all kinds of different things that's in the forum so anyway I'm going
to close out with this, and we'll finish up here.
Alright. Very nice, very very nice, yeah exceptional performance, so anyway guys
thank you so much for joining me, Ken Tamplin Vocal Academy where the proof is
in the singing and until next time. Peace out.
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