Hey guys welcome 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 David Coverdale from Whitesnake and Deep
Purple. Before we get started if you wouldn't mind please like and subscribe
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where we negotiate all these different techniques and styles of these great
singers in hopes to help make you a great singer. So now I should have
probably titled this you know what comes to mind when you think of this singer
not just what makes this singer great because often times it's a lot of the
other things not just their singing artistry, that makes them, their
personality and the artists that they are. So I think one of the first things
that comes to my mind with David is his like a Hemi car, like an American
muscle car from the 70s, kind of vocal approach. Everthing's just rahhh you know balls
out singing. That would be certainly one of them.
His tone and his distortion you know and his phrasing, his pocket phrasing was
very very cool. Very bluesy singer, that certainly comes to my mind. His note
choices we're also really cool, kind of like Glenn Hughes and I know they're in
Deep Purple together but and I think of you know of course Whitesnake, I think of
Deep Purple. Songs I think of are like "Still Of The Night" of course. I think of
"Here I Go Again", I think of "Is This Love" and by the way I've covered a couple of
these pieces I want you to check out, they're in the description so you can see
how I did on some of this stuff with Whitesnake with David because he's one
of my all-time favorite singers by the way and I mean all-time favorite. I got a
few, I've got Lou Gramm, Paul Rodgers, David Coverdale, Mickey Thomas, Dio you
know there's a handful of guys. Ian Gillan some other guests Glenn Hughes that really
were inspirations to me growing up in a big big way and David is at the top top,
my cousin Sammy Hagar, very top of the heap. So that's it. Now there's other
other things like I liked earlier crotch rock stuff like "Slide It In" or
"Love Ain't No Stranger" those things come to mind. "Burn Mistreated", I know is a
shared vocal with Glenn Hughes but that comes to mind. Tawny..
Tawny Kitaen comes to mind, of course he doesn't ballet on a
Jaguar. I wish I could do that probably hurt myself maybe tear something in the
process. I know, you know his stage presence just Rockstar stage presence. He
didn't run around a lot but he didn't need to
cause his confidence was just right there, it's like it's just David doing his
thing you know. I think of his diaphragmatic support. Now
it was interesting because early on he had said something pretty fascinating, he
said that when he was younger trying to learn how to sing, he realized that he
had to sing from his stomach and that at one point in some, I wanna say choir or
something, he felt like he hurt his voice really bad and that he said well
he knows it isn't broken and he just wanted to learn how to fix it and how he
fixed it was learning how to sing from his stomach.
Well I cover this exact same thing in my singing course How to Sing Better
Than Anyone Else, how to sing from your stomach to maintain good vocal health, a
lot, a lot of good power, a lot of good range, good tone, pitch, endurance, all
those things because without this, this is the engine that drives your car and
without it you're like Fred Flintstone in the Flintstone mobile going (sounds) without an
engine okay. Very, very, very important so open throat technique. He's got that big
growly open throat kind of sound which is really cool and yeah just an overall
um timeless sound, like everything they did, he did was very timeless and then of
course I think of fantastic guitar players, great musicians all around but
he always drew in some of the greatest talent in guitar playing. So I'm gonna do
a little a montage I put together and we'll talk a little bit more about this
as we go along, here we go.
Good tone.
Catchy, good melodies.
I see Doug Aldrich on guitar. Doug played on one of my records Wake The Nations.
Love that tone. Unmistakable tone.
So do you here all of the things that I just said. Everything I just said, open throat
technique aha, the distortion, he's able to kind of lean into that distortion
when he wants, you can hear all of the growl, the the roaring Tiger from his
stomach as he's going to sing, his range. I know we're gonna hear this so probably
there's no kind up here in a minute, the phrasing, the pocket phrasing, catchy
melodies, big anthemic catchy melodies, great musicianship, spot-on playing, you
know just all those things are what make him great and what I think of when I
think of David Coverdale and Whitesnake.
Tommy Alridge on drums.
Rock star.
It's a pretty low voice for a guy that sings that high right.
I did a version of this, I'll put that in the description also.
So if I missed anything, what comes to your mind guys when you think
of David Coverdale. Please put that in the description so again we have a
better balanced view, it's not just me you know shooting stuff at you guys. You
can interact with me and tell me what what turns you on about David. Now
also don't forget I'm doing a lot of this by request so if there's someone
that you want me to cover and who you think is great and what makes that
singer great, please put that in the comment section too so I can get to that
as well and we have another really cool vide..video coming your way, check this out.