Hey everybody! Welcome back again to Ken Tamplin Vocal Academy, where the Proof is in the Singing!
You know, I just came off from doing Spotify's Top 25 Year End 2021 songs, and I'm ready to dive into
Dimash by request. I got a lot of requests to do another demonstration so i'm getting ready
to do that now and i'm not sure when i'm going to release this stuff but i have to tell you
these could not be more polar opposites of spotify's top 25 best songs for 2021
comparing that to dimash i mean this over here couldn't be more shallow and benign and bereft of
i've got to just say talent or musicality or composition or melody
passion you name it and we're going to dive into one of the most passionate virtuosos that i think
is maybe out in the world today so i just want to dive right in we're going to do um adagio now i
did a version of lara fabian's adagio and you can check it out uh dimash took this on himself and
it is spectacular i haven't seen all of it i just kind of spot checked a few things here but i want
to show you this man you won't believe this check this out here we go don't know where to find you
i don't know how to reach you
okay now i want to point out a couple technical things i i should just let this play because
it's just so crazy beautiful passionate but there's more coming so hang in there i do
want to make some technical comments along the way it's obvious that he warmed his voice up
for a higher registration because when he's going uh i don't know how to love you right
it sounds really low for him but i know he can sing a lot lower than that so his placement is up
high now for you guys out there doing my singing course and as i cover this with all of my students
that's what we want we call it little boy voice especially if we're gonna take it up a lot
so um he does and he shoots up the octave and boom he's already heading towards the uh
alto contrato and then on into the coloratura soprano range so um let's take it from here
my soul
now what's also really cool is he's a multi-instrumentalist
so he's playing piano he's singing that beautifully that sensitive
um and he's connecting like one one instrument the piano with his voice
is just like one thing going on just fantastic the guy is just so gifted just amazingly gifted
so he's gonna take off the microphone now and this is what we get next check it out
foreign
lost my eyes
no okay i know when to let it play it's just so emotional so passionate so just amazing
uh like i said the complete antithesis of what i just you know put myself through for the you know
spotify's top 25 a few things i want to note the first thing is again i'm going to say this and i'm
going to defend this guy i hear so many people banging on the fact he doesn't sing he tries to
sing in english and i can't understand a word he said shut up that's what i'm going to say to
you guys just shut the blank up the guy is one of the greatest singers that this world has ever seen
maybe ever will see or he's going to be a tough guy to beat i'll tell you that but
also i've seen a few aria in my day i don't speak italian i know this is in english and
i'll sit there through an aria and i won't i don't speak italian i don't know what these guys i know
the story line so i know when this scene happens or that scene happens i know what's going on but
a lot of people that go to the opera they go with the intent of kind of already knowing the story
maybe they're in italy and they speak italian that's great or they already speak italian
outside italy whatever um but you literally you literally kind of get what he's saying
emotively just by the way he's singing it whether you understand the lyric or not
that's how good he is right crazy so i don't care i'm just enjoying him for him he is awesome
and i get kind of destroying i'm feeling the passion it's a i could tell it's lovers i could
tell he's you know he's he's missing somebody i could tell you know they want to get back
together again there's there's you know intrigue there's there's yeah yeah i mean you just there's
pain there's suffering and you hear all that in his voice just bam then he throws down so i want
to show you the transition i'm going to back it up from the sensitivity to throwing down you know the
pedal to the metal and hitting the floorboard of just immediate awesomeness here we go
you'll be my heart
mixed voice now i want to point some elsa that's kind of interesting i'm going to do six of these
i think at least right and i got a chance to just like i said spot check a few of them
he's using a different timbre in his voice for you dimash fans out there he's kind of
contemporizing the sound a little bit and he's not throwing the sound so far back in his throat he's
employing a little mask and he's bringing it into the front let me show you what i'm talking about
he's not going to cover the sound watch this
in the face he's contemporizing the sound
me
he's bringing a lot into the face he's bringing the front now something else his voice timbre
changes a lot and i can't quite figure out because he uses the same microphone a lot sometimes and
we're going to get into this so if you guys are dimash fans and you want to go the distance with
me i'm going to make some comments and some other stuff some of this stuff sounds kind of heavily
processed i don't mean auto-tune process i don't mean affected like a lot of effects per se though
they did use a you know a fair amount of reverb and um and delay uh but there is um some different
maybe tube processing for the preamps and stuff because his voice sounds a little thinner here
than on some of his other recordings so who knows like when you're walking into a situation what
you're getting that doesn't mean he's not singing awesome doesn't mean it doesn't sound great i'm
just saying it's a thinner sound than what he's used to from some of his other recordings that
i've heard okay not a bad thing just happens to be the case in this song here we go very
dry to him
so he's using a very so brave very light agile a young kind of sound for him normally you go
and he'd use that timbre here he's going hey
and he's got a really bright tone on the sound which is not like him for a song
like this he does it sometimes but not so he's toggling back and forth between
a lot of his operatic um you know roots and that bag of tricks and then he's contemporizing the
sound a lot now i noticed too he's pacing himself a lot in the lower registration
and i want to shut up right now because i want to let some of this play out instead
of kind of destroying the momentum and the the contiguous energy of it
but so let me back this up a little bit more and let's play here we go
he's really dark on the sound and then
is
to believe me
good stuff
wow
absolutely crushed it lara fabian's probably going
you're like yikes you know i just really want to do another version by now um that's probably
the best version of a dodgy i've ever heard lara's is great she doesn't kill her job but
he just was leaving it all in the field man he just threw down really hard but
you know he has all that really heavy mask that he doesn't normally use is and he usually covers
the sound a lot more kind of like a color return soprano but he doesn't do that here so
and i've noticed that he's been taking some chances you know kind of stepping into different
tonalities probably looking to contemporize the sound depending on the song and so forth
but just an absolutely stellar job dimash you are the man dude you you just crush it you're just
paving the way to greatness like i said i just came off of a really disappointing 2021 spotify
going through the top so if you go to spotify you look at spotify year's end year's end 2021 and you
see the listen to the songs listed then you do the rock thing i listen to the top 50 rocks i stayed
up all night listening to stuff and then you turn around and listen to this he's like there's no
possible way to compare any of it and it doesn't even matter if you like his music or not i'm just
talking about greatness versus not greatness so anyway thank you dimash uh for uh holding
the torch for us and i got a lot more dimash coming your way so stick around for my next video
wow