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♪ Your love ♪
♪ Is just a prayer away ♪
♪ Your love is all I need to face another day ♪
♪ And when someone takes a moment ♪
♪ Just to show they care ♪
♪ I know you are reaching out ♪
♪ To help me from up there ♪
♪ Your love ♪
David your singing is so rich with nuance and detail,
I’d love for you to tell us your favorite stylistic gestures
that you go to.
Yeah.
We all have a bag of tricks don’t we?
Yeah!
I, um, you know, definitely the use of breathiness
versus you know, a fully approximated kind of vocal cords.
Definitely that has been one of my go-to’s.
And then of course there’s runs.
But for me, I try to make the decision not to do them too often.
And I didn’t always do this when I was younger.
But now, I’m like, is this really helping the message of the song?
Because, at the moment they start thinking about that kind of stuff
more than what I’m trying to get across,
then I’ve probably done too much, you know?
So that’s always my goal as far as vocal techniques.
Of course, there’s different times when I might scoop up to a tone.
Or just, maybe try to make it a little raspier.
That’s definitely something in the moment.
And all those things build tension.
Not vocal tension- that’s not what I’m talking about.
Tension in the moment.
Emotional, dramatic.
Yeah, dramatic tension.
Yodels?
I do that a lot.
You know- Um.
♪ Share ♪ is that my key?
♪ Share my life ♪
♪ Take me for what I am ♪
♪ ‘Cause I’ll never change all my colors for you ♪
♪ Take my love I’ll never ask for too much ♪
So, even in all of that there’s a little bit of vocal fry going on,
definitely the yodel thing.
That’s a- more than a stylistic thing for me, that’s a check for me.
Because if I have too much tension and everything is too together
then I’m not going to be able to do that properly.
So it helps me to-
♪ Share my life, take me for what I am ♪
And then when we get to the chorus, so it’s uh-
♪ Don’t make me close one more door ♪
♪ I don’t want to hurt anymore ♪
♪ Stay in my arms if you dare ♪
So yeah.
[Laughter]
So you use all those things.
You know.
There’s the vocal fry when it’s lighter.
And you know, it’s important to use those things judicially,
you’ve got to make a judgment on those.
And the airiness, and then when it gets going
you have more closed vocal cords.
And to me, like I said, the yodel effect I kind of have
that as a check, going okay I’m not closing too much here, you know?
As well as it adds to the excitement of the moment.
So all those things are just great tools.
It builds such a rich canvas there.
So much contrast and life.
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