as you'll see from this intimate truly unplugged performance from Chester he had a real connection
with his fans and he was vulnerable and completely open with how he felt and also this comes
across a lot in how he performs and it allows him to be much more free than I think a lot
of people are on on stage or or in a in a group even here and I like to think that he
would have enjoyed hearing about how people have pulled inspiration from his singing from
how he approaches his voice and there's something extra special listening to Chester in these
very raw and intimate settings because you really get to see and hear what he's doing
so enjoy this lesson this voice lesson from Chester Bennington as we go into this unplugged
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so we're talking about being on the edge of our clean voice summoning our our Distortion
and Nobody Does it Better Than Chester listen to this section again right here he has this
this belty quality on some notes versus
and then listen to the way he says angel voices on the word Angel nonetheless [Music] heart
those angel voices so intentional and you can tell because he's he's bellish right afterward
it's not like he's burning out his voice if he was he wouldn't be able to go back into
such a beautiful Angelic clean you'll see more as we go on in his facial expression
and how he changes the shape of his vocal track to get into some of that Grit there's
some major giveaways so I'm going to hold off on on doing any more analyzing until we
get to that part [Music]
that's not back home that's a very belted bellish sound so great [Music] listen to that
again that's the giveaway foreign
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such incredible Dynamics believe it or not this freedom and Dynamics is what helps him
get into that beautiful sizzly heated grit now listen [Music]
all right
you can see him sort of curl his lips right before he's anticipating this change and then
he elongates and there is this sense if we're really gonna exaggerate it there's this I
like to think about it this dog bark moment watch again and then I'll I'll dog barkify
it [Music]
okay not love love
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a husky husky big dog right you can see on he he approaches the pitch love love of love
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he's made it so seamless and he's done it so many times that he's putting those two
approaches together if he was just going harder on his Co harder and harder on his chords
like I said earlier he couldn't clean it up because of that posture and shape change love
see how I'm going in between the two postures and finding the right balance he's already
found it a million times we can't find it right away so we have to experiment start
with both extremes love
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you're gonna get all sorts of interesting balances that you can use later and listen
how it bleeds over onto keeps we'll play the whole section without an eruption so great
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I love that tone just love lips [Music] how he
turns his lips up there a little bit kind to bring out that brighter sound but you heard
it again on listen here
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Keeps Us kind Keeps Us Keeps Us play with those balances he's going to that dog bark
again there caves very very sizzly bright caves that's more like the the Somewhere I
Belong sort of distortion Keeps Us kind
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man I just I love hearing his voice in this context without any effects that any doubling
when you suffered enough and your spirit is breaking the growing desperate from the fights
remember your love and you always will be it's Melody
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that slide blind [Applause] [Music] as he Bears his teeth let's hear how he approaches
this last part here [Music]
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Jesus Christ the contrast there is even greater right you can hear you can see him drop open
up his throat and summon that love gives us kind all those different ways of approaching
each note oh [Music] Jesus Bloods
now Jesus Christ he cleans it up so well
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Jesus Christ the consistency of the quality of his Distortion is something I've always
loved about his voice and you even hear it here it's it's broken up but it's it's also
very together and tight send that again
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the best sing screamer ever
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listen to some of those belts again so that's that's the that's where he was just like gritting
it up that same note but here it's clean bellish and belted it's uh
so same notes completely different approach and you can tell that what he was doing before
the gritty different place stuff hasn't fried his chords because you cannot belt bellishly
like that if you have swollen your chords you're going to get all sorts of unintentional
breakup lesson one in this series of voice lessons from Chester Bennington how to find
the edge of your clean voice and work over into that sizzly heated tight-sounding distortion
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It's a Wonderful setting wonderful performance we missed the Chester