Hey guys, welcome back again to Ken Tamplin Vocal Academy where the proof is in the singing.
This is an artist that you either love or hate.
Those that love him love him like crazy and those that don’t just really don’t care.
I happen to like him a lot.
He has a crazy passion in his singing.
It’s none other than Jeff Buckley and the song is called Grace.
I thought I’d do a vocal coach reacts to this.
Now, I did a version of this with my student Gabriela Guncikova and I will put that in
the description so that you can check out how we did with the song, but Jeff was just
one of a kind.
Let’s do it first and we'll comment along the way.
Here we go.
Nice.
Now, I
have to say something.
A lot of people don’t like sometimes he gets pitchy, and a lot of people don’t like
sometimes he sounds frenetic when he sings.
A lot of people don’t like his fast vibrato and stuff like that, but it's actually those
things where he leaves it all on the field.
He is just all-in on the song like you could just tell.
He is just sweating great drops of blood.
I don’t want to be blasphemous but, as he is singing everything he did, he did like
that.
He just left it all on the field.
He just gives it his all so let's continue.
Here we go.
Very, very unique sound.
I know Jimmy Page and Robert Plant actually would go in the front row and watch him sing and
play so obviously he has built some credibility.
He left us way too soon.
He goes in and out of head chest head chest.
I know he is kind of yodeling between but he can actually create a really nice mix voice
but as we get towards the end of the song we need to pay special attention to his breath
control because this brother could really hold a note and I mean just kill it.
I know the album version of this is actually more grandiose as far as holding big long
notes and stuff like that, but like I said, pay close attention to how intense he is and
in it he is.
He's just do or die.
Put this song out with all of his heart that he possibly could put into it.
Here we go.
Long note, man.
I know there are some carbuncles here and there, but the passion is way better than perfection
at this point.
This one goes out to my student Felipe.
We’ve been working this song up and he's doing a good job on this.
Do you feel the intensity of it?
Did you guys get that breath control?
And again, it's all about the passion.
It’s all about just being all-in the song.
The lyrics, unfortunately it’s weird because the beginning I’m not afraid to die and
all this stuff.
He died a really young death.
He drowned I guess accidentally singing a Led Zeppelin song of all things.
He had some boots on and he was in the, I forgot the name of the river but I guess there
was one of those river boat things that had gone by and created an undertow.
It pulled him down from what I understand and he left us really early.
I don’t think he was stoned or anything.
It was just kind of a really freak accident.
Somehow he knew he was going to die.
It was kind of creepy and weird.
It was kind of like a guy that looks at his life and says, you know what?
I’m not going to leave any stone unturned.
I’m going to leave it all in the field and I’m going to put it all out there, as hard
and as heavy as I possibly can and immortalize myself, which is what he has done here in Grace.
Awesome... and also I’ve seen a lot of performances.
He never does the song the same way twice.
He’s just phenomenal.
He’s just an enigma and a phenomenal talent.
Again, there’s those that really love him and those that don’t.
He even has his own contest or someone has done it for him where you sing like Jeff Buckley
or do your favorite Jeff Buckley song and you could submit it and go perform it at his
event that he has.
Anyway, Jeff Buckley man, there you have it Grace.
Check out my student Gabriela Guncikova's version.
It’s in the description tag.
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That would be awesome.
Also a couple of things.
I have a singing course.
It’s called How to Sing Better Than Anyone Else.
I walk you through all this breath control.
I walk you through how to get some of this distortion grit.
I walk you through all the intervallic changes that he does with
his voice and from chest into head and back and so forth.
I have a singers’ forum that is free.
I have over 20,000 people in there where we all exchange these ideas and talk about how
we can get to different levels of our favorite artists and also find our own unique sound.
Until next time.
God bless you guys.
Peace, out.
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Peace, out.