Hey everybody, welcome back again to Ken Tamplin Vocal Academy where the proof
is in the singing. I'm here with my amazing student Joao. Joao is from Brazil and we've
been working together on a few pieces that i think you guys are going to really appreciate
the next piece is one we've already done that's on youtube it's bon jovi's living honor prayer
but what we want to do is we want to do a takedown or literally break it down
a line at a time to show you how it's sung to show you how he did it and then we're
going to reference our own video and i'm going to put this video in the description
for you to see it in in its entirety now we're going to do quite a few of these as
we're coming up so we're going to be about at least a half dozen of these and we're going
to be putting them out doing total breakdowns of every aspect of the song we're performing
them ourselves and you're gonna see exactly how all this stuff is paced and put together so are
you ready yeah okay let's do it all right i'm gonna play go play the song first here we go
is
okay so sing it for me just right on the fly let's do this
and tommy used to work in a dark yellow's been on strike he's down on his lucky stuff
so tough
gina works the daughter all day working for a man she brings home a painful love oh full
love so now explain we've got a little flat on it explain uh explain the very first line now
we have this jersey boy accent you know jesse he's got this jersey accent you know yeah say
everything's kind of like this you know what i'm saying you know what i'm saying so you gotta kind
of have the jersey thing going out like you're singing the song you know so i kind of brings it
to the mask he does he does very masky on himself so go ahead and do it again break down a lot of
time what's the very first line all right tommy is do we're gonna die so let's see if he was a vowel
it's that tommy used to work on the dogs is okay do it again and just kind of on tommy
show off the vowels themselves we can hear
how closely those vowels are related to each other do it again and tommy is to work in a dark
universal strike he's down on his lucky stuff his tone on his left it's tough he's really small on
the sounds he's not very big because if he was much bigger it wasn't sound like bon jovi you
know what i mean so you know you instead tommy used to work on the drugs baby you know it's
we don't have that place it's really small and placed nice and high because this is just the
verse he's gonna go up really high in a minute right okay so let's go to the next section here
give it a shot
cool do the pre-chorus into the course let's see we got here all right she said you gotta hold on
to what we've got it doesn't make a difference if we make it all night
we got each other and that's a lot for love we'll give it a shot whoa we're free then roll
living on the prey or take my hand we'll make it i
good job excellent job okay by the way again folks we are sitting and you lose about 30 of
your support we're sitting we should be standing doing this stuff and shame on us we're doing these
back to back and we didn't warm up before these but he's doing a killer job just right on the
fly going you know this is live folks this is real this is this isn't like i said someone cutting and
pasting with your nine million little cuts of you know phonetics and down to a syllable of people
chopping up words in half just to be able to finish songs we're singing this stuff end to end
so in this in this part i noticed that you sang the pre-chorus pretty light and you really were
really careful on not overseeing that and when you got to the chorus there was nothing shouty
about it there was it wasn't anything where i felt like uh that wasn't attainable for
you we're going to get to the end and the end's going to be tough too can you kind of go ahead
and and do this one more time the pre-chorus and chorus i want i want you guys to really focus
on how understated this is how undersung it is he's not now i know john on the record throws down
really hard on these parts like every line sounds like it was punched every line sounds like he just
gave it everything he had and most of the time a lot of recordings i mean we do that we go in and
we just want to on a regular album recording i'm talking about not a vocal demonstration
we'll go in and we just want to wow the world with the very best we have to offer so we we
we wear our heart on our sleeve and we go for it but in the live setting case
you can't do that you can't sing the whole through the whole song like that you have to
pace yourself so notice how you sing it again notice how understated or how he's holding back
in the pre-chorus and just giving us enough in the chorus to get to those notes so that
he can save himself for the rest of the song all right let's do it again here we go
he said you gotta hold on to what we've got it doesn't make a difference if we make it all night
we got each other and that's a lot for love we'll give it a shot whoa
good job man excellent good intonation good stuff dude really good stuff you mentioned
like when you give it like all you got at once like we're doing in a recording sessions
i mean you can give all you all that you've got because you know they will be editing
there will be like uh the producer can mess with it afterwards yeah you mean on records
on records yeah i do that like a bunch of takes and you take the best parts of this one
and no that's how it works but like i said in live performance you gotta know uh where to hide
and where and where to spend when to step on the gas when to step off the gas exactly all right
oh
me into this because we changed some notes here so throw down see what you got um um where where
are we uh uh um tommy works the tummy he's tommy's guitar yeah tommy got a six-string
dna dreams are running
whispers baby it's okay
someday
good job good job okay now i want to point out one more thing that is a big elephant in the room that
we've overlooked and that is that jean speaks portuguese and so he's not even singing in his
native language so he not only has to modify the vowel sounds from the five latin vowels
but he's also going to translate that into the english language and then also sound like john bon
jovi who also has a dialect that is a jersey diet like you know what i mean there's a lot removed
from this so there's a lot that goes into a lot of layers there's a lot of stuff that goes into
this good job with that by the way all right let's move on so something uh that i i could comment on
this is that uh something that i learned uh from ktv is that uh you shouldn't go for mimicking
the sound you know uh you get the resources to sing like many sorts of different stuff and then
you you print your personality on it so that's why i do some note changes that i feel like uh
you know it's not that i want to change the song just i don't want to make it my own in
a way when i'm covering right right so ktva gives you the tools to sing the tune you can see it just
like him if you want but but he's saying he wants to put his signature or his own personality in
it and you see that clearly here in the song like i said i'll put this in the description
you can listen the whole song back to back and he does an awesome job with that so here we go
just do the last chorus i want to point something out about the vowels themselves all right
we're halfway there
living on a prayer take my
good job we were a tiny bit flat but good job good job okay yeah
wow
cool go to the pre-chorus
it's about how you've developed and i want to really showcase
you know how hard you've worked and and how well you'll do it and if we get it we get it we don't
you know we can give our best shot give it a shot
all right so let's go back to the pre-chorus you have a pitch reference so hold on it's
we gotta hold on ready or not
you live for the fight when that's all that you got whoa we're halfway there
he's really in his head voice he's really negotiating he listens really closely
he comes out of his chest voice and he goes to the high notes he goes into his head voice register
out of his head register back down into chess play so do the second half of the chorus from that part
wow live okay pretty good man i mean you know right so so the point is is that not only did
we negotiate the bottom and not over singing but when he got to the mid in this mid section here
he leaned into the gas a little bit more but he knew he had to go up top
so right at that crest right at the register break when you go shift gears from your chest voice to
your head voice he's able to not only go into that registration match the tonal qualities of
his chest voice but distort it like it as well in order to be able to match that kind of cool
sound we're actually going to do a um uh what was it the um oh skid row song we uh 18 in live
no we're gonna do we're gonna actually record that here yeah this week no what's the other
one we did on for youtube uh i remember i remember you so we're gonna do i remember you also we did
a version of that stay tuned because that's gonna be the probably when the next one's up here on how
we treated that song and we've got a couple more skid row songs coming out the pike because it's
this kind of sound this negotiation of the upper belting chest register on into that bad a you know
but belted distorted head voice register holding long notes as well so anyway gang hopefully you
guys are enjoying this especially singers out there that i think you really benefit from this
and the proof is in the singing you can see joe he's doing it daily he's working his butt off
come from drummer to singer or both actually he also he's multi-instrumentalist also he
plays guitar um but thank you for joining us and stick around for my next video
living on