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We got a lot of requests for this tune.
The song is called Separate Ways, the band is Journey, and obviously the vocalist is
Steve Perry.
Now, it’s kind of interesting, because this is sort of where Steve started to change his
vocal style from sort of a Sam Cooke light R and B thing, into a heavier thing.
So we’ll do it first, we’ll talk about it after like we always do.
Journey. Separate ways. Let’s rock!
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Now, Steve was much more of an R and B soul guy, and he modeled his voice more after guys
like Sam Cooke.
So if you listen to Sam Cooke’s A Change Is Gonna Come, and Google this stuff, check
this out.
And then you listen to Journey's Lovin’, Touchin’, Squeezin’, you’re gonna see
and hear some very, very similar attributes to the voice.
Why is this important?
Well, Steve was much more of an R and B guy, and then he tried to lean into a sound, that
I truly believe he didn’t have the support mechanism to sustain it.
Now, and he wound up kind of losing his voice later on.
Now, he’s Steve Perry…
I’m not dissing Steve Perry, one of the greatest rock vocalists that’s ever lived!
I’m just Ken Tamplin.
But I’m trying to explain some stuff to you guys.
So if you really listen, catch what I’m talking about, because I just did this tune,
and you can see the difference.
Now, what I do is I train a runners body.
I don’t get a weightlifters body with this, you know, big top heavy thing, and I’m not
looking for the old runners bodies in the 70s, where the guy’s so skinny and gaunt
they can hardly move, right?
I’m looking for that cut, buff guy, that you can put him in any style!
I don’t care where it is.
Rock, pop, R and B, country, jazz, you name it, and this guy can perform.
In this case, Steve stepped into a sound “HEEEEEEYYYY!”
Where if you were to try to sustain that kind of sound for a long period of time, he’d
have a tough time.
But if he went “Heeeeeeeeyyyyyyy”, kind of
a groovin’, you know, gentle R and B sound, he could reside in that, in that altitude,
all day long.
But the minute you kind of lean into that sound, you’re kind of in trouble, because
you have to have enough strength to sustain the sound.
So I cover all of this stuff in my singing course, guys, on how you build the stamina
and the strength to do the R&B side of it first, and then if you want to continue your
strength training, and step into heavier stuff, like what Steve was doing here, you can actually
strength train up into that.
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