hey Chris Liepe here with something a little new at least new to me wouldn't be the first
time I have been accused of living under a rock I had never heard of one okay rock until
I started getting comments requesting you should review this this guy taka from one
okay rock he's got an incredible voice well let's see how many more comments come in then
I started getting emails and then I got a text from a really good friend of mine Blake
McLean has a fantastic YouTube channel you should check it out if you haven't he texts
me these like these these guys are going on tour with Muse in the U.S soon and they're
huge in Japan and he's got an amazing voice and I would love to hear what you think about
his voice so I was like okay I I've got to do it so I've never heard this guy sing but
I've heard lots of great things about him so I'm sure I'm not going to be let down on
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what an incredible State look at that all those phone lights I forgot to mention that
I tend to start and stop because otherwise I forget what I want to say about the voice
when I do some of these analyzes and reactions so sorry that's kind of the way I roll plus
I have a lot less chance that I'm going to run into copyright problems with YouTube's
algorithm if I'm stopping regularly so thank you for understanding
[Music] [Applause] oh
[Applause] foreign
a while since I've heard a new vocalist and gotten Shivers the first time wow um I I hear
a little bit of Chester Bennington that that Angelic sound and then when he when he got
into that compression on that higher more you know slightly more aggressive note I'm
really excited to see where he goes here but wow what an incredible tone
[Music] do you hear how he's got this on the edge of head voice
he's light enough to where he can make those notes be on the very edge of his break without
being awkward in fact it's like he's so comfortable there he's got his airflow down right to where
he can go
yeah and get that neat gritty compressed sound but where he can also be right on the edge
of his head voice and chest voice and give you that that's where he gets that sweet Angelic
tone [Music]
foreign [Applause]
okay I'm gonna back it up just a little bit so we can get right into that chorus also
notice his use of fry
I realize I sound nothing like him but I'm highlighting some of these techniques so we
can appreciate what he's doing here if we can enter certain notes with uh with that
strategic use of fry it creates this emotional connection with with the listener it's it's
amazing how he's doing this because he's going from fry into a clean sound and then activating
that compression that lifting something heavy that I've talked about on so many other videos
I guess
you notice how he's got he goes back and forth between these wonderfully clean notes and
wonderfully gritty notes this is huge because I think a lot of people who are trying to
sing with distortion I don't think I know that we tend to think about well if I'm going
to sing with Distortion I got to be like in it's an on or off switch but he's clearly
moving in and out of these distorted phrases in in a very free way and this not only saves
your voice and helps you with vocal stamina because you're not always having to go real
hard on your chords but it also helps you be dynamic and interesting so you don't get
trapped in the sort of one voice sound this is why we like his voice so much
[Music] right like right there there are layers in his approach if I can help you unpack a
little bit of what he's doing I don't know the more I know about how certain things work
the greater regard and respect I have for what they do or what this thing does or whatever
it is so that's what I'm trying to do here listen though right here [Music] we could
take this just sing the notes any way we can they they they are the weakest head voice
now let's do chest voice they are the weakest now that's really high if I can harness the
freedom of my head voice and the girthiness of my chest voice and kind of slam them together
they are the weak against it's gonna sound like that because I'm not supporting very
well and I'm singing right around my vocal break is however if I can use a little bit
of compression let's lift lift something heavy hold back a little bit of air as I inject
more support into those notes they they are the weakest they are the weekend you hear
how I get this this [ __ ] slight breakup slight Distortion this is what he's doing
he's taking the clarity of of a head voice and the girthiness of a chest voice and he's
pushing him together with the right amount of support and then adding compression if
you need more help with your support click that link to my free course and I'll show
you how to get good support okay going on I just wanted to to unpack that sound it's
anybody can do it not everybody's gonna sound like this but if we can get a little bit more
understanding about how they're using these tools in their voice oh don't even know [Music]
there's that fry thing again [Applause] [Music] oh
how he went down from that that heated compressed mixed note like I was talking about and then
landed in that tender CH uh head voice note he is blending resonances in of a more artistic
way than I have heard in a long time this guy's amazing
[Applause] oh did you
friends how he how he sighed out of that note this sigh and Fry relationship he has right
crudely demonstrated yeah right I'm sighing into this note signing into this high note
supported mixed note and then to finish it off with the PSI is is just it's a wonderful
way to to bookend a note [Applause] hey it gives you this Edge on the either side of
these notes and and it just reaches into you and be okay to experiment crudely with your
own voice that is the lesson here because though what he's doing does not sound crude
I'll bet there was a lot of crudeness that went into him getting there
[Music] now this is an interesting thing with a crowd this size the the interaction is is
just Priceless right it's amazing this is also giving our lead singer a break so that
he can give it his all in the last part of the song which maybe some of the areas that
he's going to shine the most usually is especially in larger performances like this so it's kind
of me eat to to think about that that that this kind of thing is while awesome and spontaneous
also in a small way planned especially if you're doing you know large tours you're recording
night after night or recording performing light up night after night it's cool to to
give yourself these breaks you can work this concept into smaller performances too [Music]
[Applause] [Music] fish [Music]
pretty days [Music]
it's just the perfect amount of distortion over his uh thin placement and I'm not I'm
not using Finn in a bad way it's perfectly beautifully thin he knows how to sing in these
higher registers not seeming like he's pulling his chest voice up there's no strain whatsoever
there's Freedom there's intensity there's engagement [Music]
[Music] there was there was again that fry We Are Who We Are how many of us who sing
have actually thought about doing that intentionally he's probably not thinking about it in the
moment but that doesn't matter we can [Music]
[Music]
am I glad I took the request seriously wow I'm gonna be listening to more of this guy
and I know who I'm gonna go try to go see when Muse comes to my town in the U.S Thank
You Blake for suggesting this thank you for the lots and lots of commenters who've also
suggested this again if you want more help figuring out what your voice can really do
click the link below and join my free voice course thanks for watching all the way to
the end see you soon