Hey guys welcome back again to Ken Tamplin Vocal Academy. I want to do a
vocal reaction to Liam Gallagher from the band Oasis and the song is called
"For What It's Worth". Before I do that I want to talk about vocal coaches
offering these silly tips that just don't work and there's just a simple
question and we founded KTVA on the proof is in the singing.
Just ask them to sing, it's that simple. Anyway with that said I want a rock Liam
Gallagher "For What It's Worth". What a great artist and a great band actually so
here we go.
Okay right out of the gate again guys. It is so John Lennon in a really cool way. I
know the band's from the UK. He's just got a super John Lennon vibe about it and so
far for me it's a really great song so let's continue, here we go.
Okay so again we're gonna continue, not only do I hear some John Lennon I hear
some Robbie Williams influence. I don't know if you guys know who that is. Check
out a song called "Waterfall" some people think it's called "Angel" but
anyway it's called "Waterfall" it's a really great song. So he's got that total
Beatles vibe but he's also got a British vibe that Elton John has had and you
know um George Michael has had and you know a lot of other people that have
delved into this great songwriting. So the lyrics are great, the song's great, the
musicianship's great. I even like the way he sings. He's not my style of singer per
se but it fits the song really well so let's continue.
Very Beatles.
More Beatles.
Very cool. Now the orchestration, it sounds like the Beatles to me but it
also sounds like Electric Light Orchestra and again go back and listen to
ELO. Now I know Jeff who was the leader of a ELO, did some orchestration for
the Beatles so there's that kind of cross-pollination of that along with the
late George Martin but anyway just great crafted song I would love to hear this
kind of songwriting come back in lots of different forms as opposed to a
lot of the pop stuff. Now the chorus itself doesn't sound so much like a
Beatles thing, it sounds like you know a 21st century Beatles thing that has been
revamped and updated to more of a pop sound so let's continue.
Can't you kind of hear Elton John doing this. I could totally hear Elton or I
could even hear George Michaels doing the same thing Michael sorry. It's just
again it's got that really classy songwriting sound to it so um and I love
all the orchestration, the church setting and everything.
There's one thing I hate about songs like this. This thing is gonna be
ringing in my head for three days now because it's so stinkin catchy, I might
have a hard time getting it out of my head.
I'm not kidding seriously straight up alright.
He likes those little...elevated brakes.
There's that 7th, hit the cords.
So I don't know if you can tell. Now there was a lot of bands you know that
were around the 80s time that were from UK that had a similar sound to this too
so he's kind of melding together a lot of the kind of early pop sound, kind of
more of the songwriter Beatles-y pop artists from the 80s from the UK and but
it's really just a class act thing so. Now I've heard a lot of the Oasis stuff
and it's not the same as this, it's definitely more on a pop, in-your-face
kind of thing and this has got a more classy you know done in a big church,
tons of musicians. They say it's live but I can see his mouth and there's some
certain points there where I could tell it's not really live so maybe he just
punched a couple things to fix um whatever but overall I mean it's just a
killer performance so let's continue.
There goes the Jeff Lynne moves.
Love those changes.
So Beatles.
Nice changes man.
So another thing I like about this kind of songwriting is you know you have the
verse that's really catchy and then when you get to the chorus, it kind of takes a
left turn into a pop thing that's also really catchy, then he does the breakdown
and you know then we have all these nuances of 4 extra bars here and four
extra bars there, of these tasty seventh licks and you know again really heavy
Beatles stuff but then when he gets to the bridge and you know he takes you to a
whole other turn so that by the time you want to come back to the chorus you're
like I want to hear the chorus again. So much pop-up today is just kind of
beating on the chorus, beating on the chorus, beating on the chorus and it just
doesn't take you places like this so I really admire and respect that all right
let's continue.
Nice change.
More Beatles, Jeff Lynne, ELO
Wow.
Man good stuff seriously. Alright Ken Tamplin Vocal Academy where
the proof is in the singing and in this case man the proof's in enjoying another great
artist that is just at the top of his game. So thank you for joining me and
until next time peace out.
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