Hey guys welcome back again to Ken Tamplin Vocal Academy where the proof is
in the singing. I'm doing a series called What Makes
This Singer Great and next up is Bonnie Raitt. In fact I think she's one of the
most underrated female vocalists ever because she's just phenomenal but before
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greatness of these different kinds of singers in hopes to help make you a
better and a great singer as well. So with that said what do I think of when I
think of Bonnie Raitt, what makes her great. Well she's just got a beautiful,
velvety tone love that about her. Her pitch is absolutely spot-on I mean I've
seen her a few times, mostly on TV stuff and just been absolutely great. She's a
good guitarist and a good slide guitar player. That comes to my mind which is
really unusual for a girl to play slide guitar. Anyway her country flavor is
really accessible to me you know it's not too twangy and too over the top for the
country side and it's not too.. like newer country where it's it's all really kind
of poppy sounding and it's not like legit country for me but so I love that.
Again I like I said I love her approach being really approachable, her
songwriting is really cool, catchy melodies, her story tellings great, her
ability to sell a story when she sings is awesome and some of the songs that
come to my mind like "I Can't Make You Love Me", "Let's Give Them Something To Talk
About", "Angel From Montgomery". Check that out it's really cool. Her and Susan
Tedeschi do a really great job on that so it's a John Prine tune. "Thing Called
Love". You know I think of things like that.
I also think of her just being a early on trendsetter, she was one of the few
that was doing what she's done for a really long time and when I say
underrated you know it's a shame like that a lot of people maybe have more
acclaim than her and have gotten more notoriety because she's got a laid-back
approach and she's just very chill in in you know just her music and and as she
is as a person, not super aggressive but that's what we like about her you know is
just her laid-back ness and the feel that you know whenever I listen to her
music, I could listen to it for long periods of time and her voice just
always is very soothing and cool and engaging. Winsome is a good word to use.
I put, I've got a tune here I want to go through and we'll check it out and we'll
discuss a little bit more as we go and here's Bonnie Raitt.
Great bands, she travels with.
Confidence.
talking talking about people
Spot-on her vocals are and how velvety and smooth they are, she's got that
warm sound but she's also got a cool belt in her sound too. So she combines
you know the warmth and the air and all that stuff with the belt in her voice and
again spot-on pitch and great tone and good articulation of her words and
whatnot.
Good using note choices.
Sounds like the record.
See how great this is.
And I like her vibrato. I'm gonna back this up a little bit. I want you to
listen she's got that real kind of cool vibrato
that is just really her. So when you hear her vibrato you know that that's her
signature of her sound. She's not trying to emulate anything it's just comes out
naturally, check this out. Whoops here we go.
Sassy.
You gonna sing along with me.
Good intonation.
Good note choices too.
I mean it's not Derek Trucks so I'm not like going to overstate this but man
it's pretty cool that she's got all that talent working for her. So yeah duh I just always
think about playing guitar and not just singing whatever but I also think
about her being an instrumentalist and coming at singing more from an
instrumental standpoint. So you hear like I said all the intonation, all the pitch
and her vocals, the tone, the warmth, the kind of belt, a little bit of country
twang maybe not too much just just right in the pocket. You know everything's
working man it's really cool.
Nice drummer.
Snappy.
Good backgrounds.
Cool. So yeah I mean you know just a really really talented lady. So um again what
do you think of when you think of Bonnie Raitt, please put that in the comment
sections. I don't want this just to be only Ken Tamplin's opinion though I
feel like I have a lot of musical knowledge and hopefully it was helpful
to you to kind of dissect some of this stuf,f break it down a little bit. So put
whatever you think, whatever Bonnie Rait makes you think of and songs I may have
missed, that be kind of cool. I'm doing this by request for the most part so if
you want to put a reaction you'd like me to do on What Makes This Singer Great,
please put that singer in the comments section as well and check out my next
video.