hey chris liepe here with crawling lincoln park chester bennington with special guest
chris cornell this is live i would imagine that many of you have seen this video multiple
times i've seen it multiple times i thought it only fitting to watch this video with you guys
during this time of year two of my favorite vocalists and i've done lots of videos on
both of these guys on the channel talking about their techniques their approach how to get there
with your own voices be sure to check those videos out in this video oh and i'm going to leave links
to some of those videos in the description so you can go further with your own voice and with their
approaches but in this video i really want to hone in on the interaction between these two friends
yeah we'll talk a little bit about their voices but let's observe their their body language
the roles and postures that each vocalist takes both with and without cornell
on stage i think it's important and we can learn from this kind of thing just as much
as we can learn from studying ways to place what they do in our own voice which is usually what
i'm talking about but here we're going to be looking at performance posture delivery
emotional connection on stage these guys are two of the greatest singers of our time and it's
just amazing i never get tired of this and the hunger strike appearance that they made together
so let's dive in just a different brand of war like it doesn't cater to rich and abandoned
and notice how the chord progression keeps going up and up and up
with those strings that's part of the anticipation that we feel
is the intensity in the wrap goes up but the arrangement behind it don't discount the
the tank these arrangement are laughing the way to the bank cashing a check asking you to have the
passion have some respect for a leader so nervous in an obvious way stuttering and mumbling for 90
news replay throughout the world watching at the end of the day in the living room laughing what
i've got to stop the video every so often especially with linkin park stuff
otherwise the uh the copyright takedown notices start so if i'm stopping a lot or i've cut
sections out of the song that's why i'm trying to keep the video up
chester live unlayered raw is a lot different than chester in the studio
where he's got the ability to go in behind his cleans he's very clean he's there's this smallness
and this boyish nature to his voice that i i can't get part of it is being very forward part of it is
that he's a he's a high tenor and he's got that boyish quality to his voice but in the studio
he layers a lot of grit behind that and you can see that in some of the other videos that i've
done layering those approaches together but you don't really hear it much live you hear every
once in a while a little bit of crap crap that kind of coming into his voice not much though
that's a sweet delay lube there
pulls beneath the surface he's singing so quietly surface almost whisper singing there
generally chester is very accurate and very on even
when he's quiet like this he pegs those pitches
but on this section there's a laziness to him live which really brings you in
there's a nice grit
i still wonder every time i watch this did the audience know he was coming i don't think that
they did it's also just amazing to hear the boyish quality of chester and then chris coming
in with that beautiful silky baritone that loose vibrato ah it's it's like getting a hug
i also want to rewind this real quick and notice cornell's entrance again here
such class right he walks on acknowledges the audience waves to each member of the band and goes
goes and gives his buddy a hug the eye contact and you can see this in other cornell performances as
well he is very humble you know when he gets on stage with eddie vetter when he gets on
he's acknowledging people in a way that's not just like hey you're here to see me okay it's
he invests in those people and you can see this again if you have the the uh desire to you can
go out and check out his interviews on youtube uh where he's we're there with jimmy page and
the respect and reverence that he gives not only jimmy but the audience that's always something
i've noticed about the way cornell performs and he brings it into this performance as well
i also just love how chester's singing off mike in this part you know he's involved they're already
interacting and then of course he he gets into it but i love how it becomes this community thing
even though it's obviously all about cornell they they don't make it that
so a couple things when cornell goes up to so sick
he is you can tell he's relaxed he leans back a little bit gets into the mic a little bit but
he's not doing what chester does when he goes up there he leans back into his mix so insecure
not that he he lays back he's giving chester that ground so insecure
is more like what cornell does i think that's important in the relationship that they're
establishing on stage then you notice cornell takes the lower he's known for his soaring
high melodies he gives that to chester and he creates this beautiful baritone underpinnings
that that go over they go underneath chester's aggression and you can see it and hear it chester
becomes more aggressive and engaged simply by having cornell underneath
he's a lot more gritty and emotional here than he was at the beginning good reason
i love how he he lets his vibrato go and doesn't really try to blend tonally or even really
phrasing wise this is about the diversity between the two voices and it works because we both love
these voices typically in this kind of setting you wouldn't as a background vocalist like chris
cornell is is assuming here you wouldn't use vibrato you'd make sure that you're
locked in with the phrasing of the other singer but here this is more about them getting in and
doing what they do well and letting it be what it is this fusion of two very different voices
i love that part of it how they arrange that
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i think it's neat you know this is a really small thing but when cornell says lincoln
park at the end that is up in the range that he would have been singing the higher section
the melody line that chester was singing it's neat to hear his texture even though that's just
a spoken sort of a side i i know chris cornell thinks about that stuff thought about that stuff
uh in live and in the recording situations he was so intentional um and it's just neat to see
all of these subtle things that he adds here that are very intentional
that connect this performance together and and make it what it is
it is such an honor to be able to share the stage with him every night
thanks for watching this with me and enjoying it with me and picking out some details about
the performance and the relationship between the two voices that maybe
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