Hey guys welcome back again to Ken Tamplin Vocal Academy where the proof is
in the singing. I want to go ahead and do a vocal coach reacts
to the Scorpions and I chose "Rock You Like A Hurricane". I know I've done
another reaction on them and I also have sung a couple of Scorpions tunes not the
least of which is "Still Loving You" and I'll put that in the description tag so
you can hear me sing a Scorpions tune. I think I did "Wind Of
Change" excuse me with the sing it to win it winner which is Giusy Ferrigno and
I'll put that in there too. She's a young gal from Italy and you'll probably be
seeing more from her coming up pretty soon anyway and again Matthias Jabs is
a phenomenal guitar player. In fact Rudolf Schenker the other guitar player
and the main songwriter of the band his brother Michael Schenker was in a band
called UFO and he's one of my all-time favorite guitar players. I think I've
shared that before and then of course Klaus Meine is the vocalist and so forth.
So let's dive right in and take a listen to "Rock You Like A Hurricane".
Love that Flying V.
Very distinct guitar tone.
And then Gibson Explorer. I used to have both those guitar when I was younger.
That's cool he's doing really quickly and probably before the days of having
tuners everywhere where you could see something. You had to actually tune your
guitar you know in the middle of a song like that and or he didn't run up
to the front of the stage to be really distracting to check his tuner and he's
quick enough at it you know to tune his guitar. I want to back that up so you
could watch him tune I'm gonna go back to like 38 seconds or so and we'll check it out
again check it out again. Check it out. Watch this.
There he goes.
You hear (sounds)
His E string.
Klaus is always such a powerful vocalist.
Now Klaus uses a lot of nasality when he sings. I discuss this in my other video
I have so if you want to give chance of seeing me talk about him and his voice
and "Still Loving You" that's in the description, you can click on that but
it's also helped him a lot with a lot of frontal facial resonance. So it's got him
through a lot of singing a lot of high stuff and bringing the mask right to
the front of the face. Now Don Dokken and there's a lot of people that are you
know heavy rock singers I've.. we've talked about Lou Gramm, we talked about
others. They use a fair amount of nasality when they sing especially Don
Dokken is very similar in his vocal style and the way he presents his voice
like that so anyway I love Klaus powerful singer, always spot-on, sings for
hours on end. In fact I was signed to Dieter Dierks who's the producer of the
Scorpions back in the day and he used to have stories about Klaus you know they'd
start at 7 8 9 10 o'clock at night and Klaus would sing until 2 3 4 o'clock in
the morning, all night long, all morning long without issue night after night
when they were recording so that says a lot about the power and strength. Now I
know he also went through a throat surgery as well so again there's lots of
reasons for that. Some of it is support issues and some of it is just doing it a
lot night after night not knowing or not
taking care of your voice or not knowing how and so forth but let's continue here
we go.
Matthais looks so young there.
You know what's interesting about this video obviously they're playing a big
arena. I don't know where it is. Oakland Coliseum. Sorry the Oakland
Coliseum Stadium and normally when you hear a band that's playing in an arena
like that, the sound is massive. I mean just this wall of sound. So it sounds like
they're using a lot of a direct board mix and mixing that some of that in with
the sound so that they don't get that sound but I actually kind of like it. I
miss that you know here I am (sings) you know and this big wall is sound with
the guitars and drums and stuff. So I wish there's a little bit better of that
kind of mix though the mix is cool it's good it's just I missed the Coliseum
sound myself.
Nice guitar tone.
Some of those notes are a little iffy for my guitar player friends up there.
Usually you know Matthias is a lot more spot-on in some of his playing and like
I said his tone is a little bit like Michael Schenker. So I have a little
favoritism towards that sound and I used to own an explorer like that too and it
does sound kind of just like that you're playing through a Marshall it sounds
great.
See what I mean. So the drums (sings). You should hear this massive wall of drum
sound. So it's like it's really heavily gated or something so kinda trippy.
He's really sharp.
Little pitchy there.
Makes me wonder if he can hear himself
because I noticed throughout the whole song he was a little sharp and I didn't
want to say anything cause he wasn't so sharp that it's worth busting him on but
you could hear like he's really sharp throughout a lot of it so I really makes..
me wonder if he just can't hear himself that well because he's usually
pretty spot-on so.
See what I mean you can't even really hear the audience that much but anyway the
Scorpions just a phenomenal band and they've been around forever and they've
written some amazing songs. I mean like I said "Still Loving You" and "Wind Of Change".
Those two songs alone just owned all of Europe for a really long time and maybe
two the of the biggest rock ballads just ever written you know next to
Foreigners "I Want To Know What Love Is" and some other pieces like that but it
really spoke to the heart of a lot of Europe and they're an amazing group and
by the way and in meeting these guys too I've got to meet them several times in
fact I was backstage you know in a Monsters of Rock thing that I got a
chance to do way back when and they were just really cordial, kind, easygoing, easy
to talk to, humble guys you know that we're just happened to be the Scorpions so.
Anyway if you like what you heard please like and subscribe to my channel. I have
a singing course it's called How To Sing Better Than Anyone Else and we discuss
all these different things on how to you know not necessarily sing like Klaus
because Klaus is only Klaus, he's one in a million but how we can aspire towards
greatness. So with that said again please please like and subscribe and until
next time peace out.
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