Hey guys welcome back again to Ken Tamplin Vocal Academy where the proof is
in the singing. I wanted to do a vocal coach reaction to
Duran Duran and the song that I chose is called "Ordinary World". I actually did a
version of this, I sung it myself too and I'll put that in the description tag so
you can check out and see how well we did I did whatever but let's go ahead
and dive into it and Simon Simon is the singer and I want to also mention they
have just a phenomenal array of hits they did throughout the 80s. So they were
they were probably one of the biggest British pop bands of all of the 80s or
most of the 80s so let's check them out. Here we go
this is "Ordinary World".
Beautiful song.
Now before I go on the singer Simon Le Bon, he's sporting like a whole beard
right now he was actually a pretty boy face you know back in the 80s or
whatever so obviously this guy's are grown up. There.. they've not missed a lick
in their talent but the thing I love about this song the most for my own
personal consumption is that the song is actually about.. they were this huge band
in the 80s and then all of a sudden it.. their careers just stopped and so he
went quite a while without you know any commercial success. So he writes a song
about it and then gets commercial success again how ironic is that right.
So I wanted to give you a little backstory to the song as you're
listening to it and let's continue, here we go.
Beautiful piece of music man.
Okay so again I..I challenge you and encourage you I mean you know they
had some of my favorite songs are like "Rio" and whatnot but go listen to some of
their commercial successful songs. They had some pretty rockin very very very
catchy stuff so and this is but like I said epitomizes for me ..now this song
didn't get as popular as some of their stuff in the 80s and the reason that I
sang it myself was it just moved me and I could really appreciate the melodic
value of it so let's continue here we go.
Try to listen to the original version of this too, you'll really like it I promise.
He's hitting all the notes man.
So I love you know all the just minor key changes and just you know I could
grab my guitar, hold on a second. I forget what key this is in.
Man, it's just all this really beautiful progressions right got to cut my
fingernails sorry about that. Anyway just gorgeous stuff right. Now I want to
point out some other thing too when bands are known for like their really power
pop stuff, it's really hard for them to have their fans I should say. Have their
fans come and appreciate a ballad you know what I'm saying. So in other words
like if a band's known for doing something really heavy and they come out
and put a ballad or whatever a band's known for being really poppy and dancey it's
really hard for they come out and and enjoy a ballad. This is one this band is
one band that's an exception to that so as we hear stuff like this I really
really appreciate the fact that they could come up with something this
melodic and have still have other songs, well Rio is pretty melodic too but some
of their you know photograph stuff and whatever what was it I forget the name
of that song but I would look it up alright here we go.
Anyway that's basically the tune.
So yeah I would encourage you to check out more..some Duran Duran's stuff
because they were actually really great. Now the rock guys if you admitted that
you like Duran Duran it'd be like (sounds) you like Duran Duran.
It's like yeah I do, they're great songwriters you know why not. It's like I
like you know 70s disco too I mean "Celebration" like Kool and the Gang and
stuff you know man if you told a rock guy that you like Kool and the Gang phew
man. They'd ostracize you exercise you out of their
community but anyway I hope you enjoy this Ken Tamplin Vocal Academy where the
proof's in the singing apparently not the guitar playing that was terrible but
actually I do play really good guitar and I just want to say invite you to my
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