Hey everybody welcome back again to Ken Tamplin Vocal Academy where the proof is
in the singing. I'm continuing my series on How to Sing
Like and next up is Stevie Nicks from Fleetwood Mac. Now Stevie's kind of
interesting cause I think she's the only female artist if I'm not mistaken, to be
inducted into the Rock Hall of Fame twice, once as a solo artist and once in
Fleetwood Mac. So anyway before we get started, if you wouldn't mind, please like
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Bell so I can keep cool videos and notifications coming your way and I have
a singing course and the course is called How to Sing Better Than Anyone
Else where I instruct you how to get to all these amazing places from all these
amazing singers, in hopes to help make you amazing at singing. So with I said I
chose Sara Loera, she's one of my students and she's just a phenomenally
gifted, actually she worked out at it, she wasn't just handed on a silver platter
her voice, she worked very very hard at it but gifted at many styles now because
she's worked hard at it and Stevie Nicks is definitely a forte of hers and I want
to discuss how she got to these places, how we got there together and we're just,
dive right in. Let's do it.
Now if you notice Stevie stays kind of in her zone, she stays in her lane as
far as not trying to sing too high or too low, she's, I don't wanna to say one
dimensional but she's very kind of monotone, very monotone in the way she
presents it but, but she also though has kind of a really gypsy sort of approach
to the way she sings even though she's kind of nasally on the sound and she
uses caparino which is a really fast vibrato and I've used her as an example
of you know this, this goats wiggle vibrato, caparino vibrato but (sings)
you know (sounds). You know she spits out this you know really fast vibrato but and she
has a lot of fall offs (sings) right but that's
part of her style too and so one of the things that I think is important about
hers is not so much the technical aspect of her singing
but her storytelling. You're really sucked into her, mesmerised and sucked
into her storytelling because she is very, I don't wanna say witchy about it but maybe
that's true cause she has a song about a Welsh witch but, but she, but in Fleetwood
Mac she's got this just mesmerizing character about her that you kind of like
go wow I don't know there's something about this person I just want to keep
watching right and that's part of her shtick so it's not just the technical
aspects of her singing so let's continue.
Now let's just stop that line like, that's not like a singer's line (sings)
like she's really thinking about (sings) right and it makes you think
about oh wow she's talking about you know a 17 year old, edge of 17 right an
affair I guess with a young kid, young guy but it's kind of interesting because
the way she presents and has her phrasing, is her phrasing is not like a
singer you know (sings) you know like it's, it's not you know consistent with like
pocket phrase singing of like a soul singer or a rock singer, a blues singer. She
beats to her own drum when it comes to that but that's what makes her Stevie too
and that's another very unique thing about her voice.
Okay and again too, the other thing is the passion and we always talk about ah passion this,
passion that. No I mean really she has a lot of passion in the way she's singing
so it's almost like she's seeing the story on a movie screen and she's
internalizing this story and then she's representing that story as she's singing,
it's kind of interesting so you can kind of peer into watching the movie screen
with her with the stories that she's telling. Not a lot of singers can do that
so it's an art, just true artistry and her ability to sell the story. Now
we've talked a lot about other artists that have done this and she's def,
definitely way up at the top of the food chain for being able to do that.
See what I mean, it's like (sings) right.
It's like she's talking to you, it's really interesting it's not like I said,
not like a typical pocket in the phrase here's where I fit in all my phrases, nah
she just kind of spits it out and just says it like poetry or something, it's
ge.. it's really fascinating and again you take songs like Rihanna you know
which is "Rhiannon" excuse me that you know we all know is a song about a
witch but like you know she makes you, she makes you entice like, wanting to
love a witch it's kind of creepy right but that's just again she's bringing you in.
I remember when I saw the movie Gladiator, this is way off topic but
humor me for a second and I thought how amazing that whoever wrote this script
and of course you know we love the actor and actresses you know whatever but, but
whoever wrote this and the acting in it, made you fall in love with the commander
of the armies of the north of the Roman Empire and when you know what the
stories are of the brutal atrocities of that army by the way that was the
biggest army because if you think of Rome, they're in the south right so
anything north of Rome was big news right so and you think about that and
you think of Russell Crowe and his ability to suck you into feeling sorry
for him as a valiant guy you know and of course you could say oh that's patriotic, he
was doing it on behalf of Rome and this and that and he was the true you know, patriot of
Rome but Rome was a bunch of bad guys doing a lot of bad stuff but he made you
you know, so in the same way, in a similar context you know here you have Rhiannon
and her you know, you know wouldn't you like to love her you know
and you're like yeah I would wait a minute she's a witch
are you sure about this right but anyway so that that's, that's
another component to Stevie Nicks is that it's not just about the technical
aspect. One other thing too is she has these mesmerizing phrases she repeats
over and over and over again so you walk away you can't help but repeat the
phrase so it's a catchy tune and the phrase it repeats over and over again so
you can't help but just you know walk away kinda you know
(sings)
and it keeps going on that song you want to get out of your brain you just can't cause of
her. Okay I'm gonna move on. So we get that, that's kind of you know really her
makeup and how she does it but then she does some lighter stuff too which is
really cool like this. Check it out.
So immediately again here I get the hippie vibe right. She's like a hippie
and she's great at what she does. She's hip..gypsy or maybe bohemian would
be a better way to say it. She's got this really bohemian vibe to her and you're
like well that's cool because it's very unique and it's it's not cookie cutter
like everybody else she just, like I said beats to her own drum and does her own
thing. Now I also did, I'm not going to take the time to play it now but we did
do a version of "Rihannon", I'll put all these in the description so you can hear
how we stacked up to get as close as we could to Fleetwood Mac and in this song
"Gypsy" and the other one was "Rihannon" and wait I thought we did, oh "Leather And Lace",
that's what it was, that's what I was gonna say. So let's do this right now. Stevie
Nicks "Leather And Lace". I did this with Sara and let me find it here, yeah there we go
and so now again this was a duet that she did so the other interesting thing
about this is, is that when you hear her sing her parts and then Don Henley comes
in with his parts, you are literally inside the house with
her, bringing you in, having you, wanting you to come in like right and then the,
and the, and then it's almost like they're having a love affair in a cool kind of
way like a real innocent, innocent whatever that supposed to mean, in a, in a very
organic kind of way through the song. It's really interesting, watch this. So
here's Sara and me doing this, replicating this and again folks, if
you're looking for a vocal coach to really teach you how to do this, make
sure the vocal coach themselves could sing, make sure they're showcasing
students that sing. It's the only way you're gonna learn how to sing okay so
check this out.
Now let me point something out about
this okay. This is one example where I know she
collaborated in the songwriting of this but you could tell it's not totally her
own thing because she is singing more to a meter, she is kind of rhyming her words
more, she is singing more as a collective in something rather than a free spirit.
Though when she does it, her lyric content and her execution of that, is, is
so again storytelling and so compelling within the story itself, that
you're sucked in because of Stevie and you're just go boom okay now she's got
her charisma working for her even in a corporate environment, a corporate song
that was written collectively. Do you know I'm saying so that's really hard to
do guys I'm telling you. So again you, probably was hoping that this was gonna
be all about you know how do I sing like Stevie Nicks, we do cover like this kind
of stuff in the course so I have all this in the course but I wanted to point
out some of the aspects about her singing that makes her extra special so here we go.
And Sara does a phenomenal job with this as well.
Great lyric.
Leather and lace what a great idea for a song.
Cool now before we go on and I'm doing the Don Henley part of course. I want to
point out that Don Henley is also the flip side of that and the Eagles, think
about the storytelling Don Henley did in the Eagles. Wow. Wow. Did I say wow, I
should have said wow. I mean so good so this match as though it might have even
kind of been a little awkward thinking what Stevie Nicks and Don Henley, what a
strange thing you know I forget the name of the brooder or hopefully his
name will come to my mind but Rick Rubin. You know when Rick Rubin put stuff
together like he was the unification when he did Aerosmith with Run DMC it's
like what but wait a minute when you stopped and thought about it you know
Steven Tyler was kind of the original rapper of rock but he was (sings)
right. All of a sudden you could see
him doing a run DMC thing and Aerosmith was on their way out I mean they were
done. Aerosmith was over and when, when Rick Rubin put him with, with, with
Run DMC boom they exploded with success now and I, and let's say Johnny Cash when
he did this song "Hurt". Talk about a wow piece of music, that is holy cow, if you
haven't seen Johnny Cash "Hurt". Now he takes a Trent Reznor song
oh I'm sorry if I'm on a tangent here but I'm bringing this up because of Don
Henley whoever put this together so but you know he takes a Trent Reznor song from
Nine Inch Nails and gets Johnny Cash to sing it but Johnny sings it like it's
his own and it kind of really is I mean it's weird with this you know, last
supper scene you know of his life going by him and he's, and he died shortly
thereafter. Man and so Rick's done a lot of stuff like that so it wouldn't surprise
me if he even put this together but to pair Don Henley up with Stevie Nicks was
just an incredible thing and it's just a timeless piece so here comes Ken Henley.
Now the interesting thing again, it's
interesting, interesting, interesting is that all of a sudden when Don sings his
parts or I sing his parts for him, you are in this relationship with them. It's
not like you're watching it from afar you know what I'm saying, it's really
cool. It's not like you're hearing a story about someone else, you're going
yeah that could be me. Isn't that crazy. I don't know maybe it's
just me that does this but I'm like wow so, so she set me up for it, this, this
bringing me into the house thing right and seeing her life and you could just
see you know. I can almost see the dishes, I can almost smell the food cooking,
really I'm not kidding and then Don comes in and he goes yeah
you know here I am and this is the kind of man I am and I'm just aw shucks kind
of guy and you know and this love relationship, all of a sudden you're just
intrigued so that's what makes these guys amazing and that's what made Stevie
Nicks amazing is her ability to do this and then when they come together
you're like oh come on now you really giving me the one-two punch right check this out
Anyway I didn't mean to ramble and go on guys but I like to bring in something
more than just like I said, I always try to contribute something a little bit
more and in this case it's, it's the storytelling, in this case it's the
emotion, it's the passion, it's the intrigue, it's the charisma, it's the you
know just being mesmerized by bringing, being brought into the story so
anyway thank you guys for listening and definitely check out my next video.