Hey guys welcome back again to Ken Tamplin Vocal Academy where the proof is
in the singing. I'm continuing my series on How To Sing
Like and next up is Klaus Meine from the Scorpions. If you don't mind, please like
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Tamplin Vocal Academy.com where we actually walk you through, I
walk you through, step by step, how these singers got great, in hopes to help make
you great at singing. So Klaus is no exception, one of my favorite metal
singers. As you know they hail from Germany and I got a chance to work
briefly with their producer Dieter Dierks way back in the day and also a
little brief stint and very little I mean by that singing his songs like
"Balls To The Walls" anyway and when Dirk Schneider left,
left the band early on, another German band Dieter was working with so.
With that said I'm gonna get started with "Still Loving You". Now "Still Loving You
is to me one of the most epic Scorpions songs, though it's the lighter side of
the Scorpions so you know they have it like "Rock You Like A Hurricane" and all
these other "Love Drive", a lot of other really great rock songs,
this is more on the ballad side but it's still a very difficult piece to sing
especially all the way to the end. Now I treated it a little differently than
Klaus cause you know again I, like I said I have a little more girth in my voice and
I try, I chose not to use as much nasality as Klaus does cause he uses a lot
a nasality but we'll do it first and we'll talk about it as we go. So let's
fire it up, here we go.
Okay now. At the beginning of this what he does is he uses a lot of air, you know
(sings) right he's only love, only love, so I'm
not kidding I really want you to try this, I want you to go only love, only love
and get really really high up into the front of your face and then add
a bunch of air to this and sing it (sings). Can you do that
and then (sings) and then you can kinda go, you can lean up into the sound.
Now he uses a lot of air to give a lot of emotion in the zone and I think I
actually even use more intensity than he did in the original and I'm gonna put
these songs in the description. I'll put them so you can hear the full versions
because I'm not gonna do the full version but I'll hit the main points of
it to show you kind of where his approach is. So anyway so he adds a lot
of air like this to the sound and then the second he goes up to hit the rock
voice, BAM he just slams you with you know the Klause Meine you know, some people called
him what the German Dio or something. He kind of might be actually a little bit
when you think about it so anyways let's get the next part, here we go.
What a great song man.
So in this first you know (sings) right. He's starting to add a little more
voice to the sound so he starts out real gentle on it with a lot of air and
then he's not quite as nasally on it I suspect because it's harder to sing with
that much air up high, maybe not the case for him but is for me and I know I would
do this, is that so as as you're singing up high you, you add all that air, it's
harder to get, to sing up that high with that much air and add any voice to it at
all, any actual resonance. So in mixed voice a percentage of chest voice. It's
harder to do that so. Here he steps up a little bit, kind of 50/50. You know 50
percent you know airy sound with a kind of little head voice mixed sound
and then he starts to lean and add some some of the chest resonant sound to it also.
Now one of the things I like about this part sorry for stopping and, starting
stopping so many times as he goes (sings) bam he just (sings) you know he just, he just kills you so he
starts out real light, real light and then (sings) right. It's very dramatic and very emotional but
it's very effective too so that's really cool so I love that about them and Dio is
very you know dramatic too let's not forget so yeah maybe he is the German Dio
that's a great, great way for someone. I forget who did that it was like in one of
the descriptions of the songs someone said this but anyway so we're gonna
continue and then I'm gonna show you some stuff here at the end of this song.
I have more to show you after this.
Now if you notice I stayed you know, I used you know (sings) right. I'm still staying in the spirit
of Klaus and normally I wouldn't sing like that, I wouldn't you know, but I
found that if I didn't do that it didn't sound like Klaus at all, it
sounded like you know again somebody from Deep Purple singing a Scorpions song
so I chose to go ahead and add that you know (sings) it's ah a right.
All those kind of ways that a person that English is not their first language
would say very correctly so to speak and then you know move on and if, I found out
that if I didn't do that it sounded kind of cheesy so I just stayed in the spirit
of the song so, hey I want to move towards the end here because I want to, I
want to show you, let's see here. I think it's right about here.
I decided to kind of ramp it up (sings) you know ramp it up a little bit more than Klaus
did because I like, in my demonstrations to not just demonstrate the artists
themselves but to say hey what can I contribute to this to take it up a
little bit, at least or at least take some personality of myself and put it in
the song to you know make it a little fresher and more interesting for me. I'm
not saying I'm more awesome than Klaus whatsoever, I'm just saying how can I you
know contribute to this to make it worth listening to again. So now I bring this
up because I know I've said this a million times I'll say it a million and one. I'm gonna
keep hammering this home is that Einstein said it best. He didn't say, he
said that um the demonstration isn't a way to teach, it's the only way to teach.
Let me say it again. Demonstration by way of demonstration, isn't a way to teach, it's
the only way to teach, it's the only way to really show you how to do something
so I chose to do these demonstrations to physically demonstrate them myself with
me and my students so that you could see how this technique works very
intricately. Now I see other vocal coaches on the internet claiming that
they're gonna teach you how to do something in 30 days. (bleep) singer and or some other
guy claims to be you know the most popular vocal coach on the Internet and
I'm not seeing them sing certainly not like this and certainly not the stuff I
want to sing. So remember in the words of one of my students that a mentor can
only take you as far as they have gone themselves so these guys can't
demonstrate it themselves and they don't show other students demonstrating it,
they cannot teach you how to do it. It's smoke and mirrors. I want to move on to
to to Sara now. Now Sara is kind of cool because, Sara's very cool
actually, she's really, really neat gal but in this specific case because she
has a really unique story. You know she started out really tending bar, she was a
really good bartender and she wanted to get out of that, she wanted to sing for a
living and she has a natural talent you know, nothing crazy though but she had
some natural talent and she was singing for a punk band at the time and not even
that often, just to, kind of like for fun, you know once a
month or whatever it was and she came to me and she said hey you know can you
teach me how to sing and her actual real singing style is a lot more like you
know I'd say Karen Carpenter meets you know and again I'm saying this, that
that's how she originally kind of came to me as a singer and then we developed
a lot since then but Stevie Nicks, very lighter, kind of smaller sounds and
whatnot but she has a love for you know 60s, 70s, 80s stuff you know as well so
she said hey I want to, she's sang a Dio a song which came out awesome you know
we did that, I'll put that in the description just for fun
so you can see other stuff that she's done. Just look her up, Sara Loara, she's killer
anyway and very diverse now because she's really applied herself to a lot of
different styles. Folks this didn't just happen by accident,
it didn't just drop in her lap. She had to work at this and this is no exception
here so we did, like I said we did a Black Sabbath tune on the same day
actually and that we did the Scorpions song so check this out.
Now I want to say, she doesn't have Klaus' distortion yet but she's got a lot of
the nuance (sings)
right. She's got all the nuance of
Klaus when taking on this song and then when we did "Neon Knights", she sound,
takes on some of the persona of Ronnie James Dio right but her background like
I said it's more Stevie Nicks, you know even some Linda Ronstadt you know, much
more of a laid-back vocal sound but she can step up to, step to, up to the
plate and also engage in some of these kinds of things too. Now I don't expect
her to be as you know awesome or me as awesome as Klaus whatever, the point
though is is that as you work this method and you understand how to get to
these big places, these big vocal sounds, your voice will grow and grow and grow
and you can step into all these really cool styles so. Anyway guys I'm doing
most all of this by request so if you put whatever you want me to do a take down
of you know your favorite vocalist or whatever, I'm happy to do what I can and
check out my next video.