Hey guys welcome back again to Ken Tamplin Vocal Academy where the proof is
in the singing. I'm gonna go ahead and do a vocal coach
reacts to Avenged Sevenfold. It's "Critical Acclaim" live in the LBC and
haven't seen it yet so now M. Shadows or Matt Sanders whatever you know him as, we
used to practically be neighbors I lived in Orange County California and most of
the band lived right right up the street in the Newport Beach area so you know
seen him come come and go you know in throughout Orange County quite a bit
and I've seen their stuff quite a bit so let's react to it right now here we go.
Fire.
Nice sounding organ.
Good sound.
Okay there's that the infamous scream. Now I'm gonna go ahead I know I've done
this before but I'm gonna put that same kind of scream, I show you exactly how to
do this safely. I know Matt has been having some vocal
trouble here over the last couple three years and I know his voice has changed a
lot as a direct result which also directly affects your ability to sing in
clean tones and we're gonna talk more and more about this as we go. So this is
for my singer friends out there if you're interested in this. So I'm gonna
go ahead and put in the description how to get growl and fry and I have a couple
three videos in there but you can actually check out me doing a very
similar screen but I'm doing it in a different kind of way than Matt okay. So
let's continue here we go.
Great, tight sound.
Yeah I got to say. Very powerful, very tight, crystal clear, clean tone. He's
singing great. This is actually at the Long Beach Sports Arena really right up the
street from where I used to live. It's a great arena to hear bands cause it's not
too big where you know it's really echoey and boomy and stuff and it's it's big
it's just not like the forum big but anyway let's continue.
So notice the drummer is picking up the slack because you know Matt used to be
able to sing kinda all those high range stuff and he's kind of ducked out of that
because he's been doing a lot of this distortion stuff but the first thing to
go is your softer tones, being able to sing with you know a softer tones and
then your range. So the drummer's you know singing all the high parts right now
and I know he's done that too for a lot of years so it's not nothing new and
they sort of made that arrangement for him but I also want to bring up this
thing about singing in a clean tone and that is that if when we distort our
voice like this, if we don't come back and clean up that sound, we will forever
sentence ourselves to singing into a really heavy distorted tone and having
to really muscle through to get to that sound or to get to any sound really to
sing in any kind of range at all. So with that said let's get keep rocking.
Fire! Fire!
A lot of energy man.
You think the Southern California gas company charged them extra for this
performance. Fire everywhere if are..stage must be really hot because those suckers
are really hot when they go off. I've been in front of a few of them and man
they're just like.
Man they are tight and the sound is incredible.
Now I want to make one more comment about this, these guys are squeaky tight
and man they are like in this at this show they're at the top of their game.
Early on as some of you that have followed the band there's a drummer I
guess. They lost a band member to substance abuse and so the whole band
was you know not doing so hot in the drug department way back when and they
pretty much all have cleaned up their act completely and and it's it's a
business you know it's it's yeah it's music and stuff and they're you know
they they put that first but they run it like a business. So the whole band is
really clean. So they're really sharp you know all their minds are really sharp. So
they're able to pull off this kind of precision because they're not doing
drugs and there not out there you know boozing it up every night and everything.
So hats off to Matt and the gang for doing that because it's hard in the
business and let me explain like you know a lot of people think all of these
guys are just out there doing drugs because it's fun and yes there is that
of course and then you know womenizing and this thing and whatever but there's
also this element where and if you guys could put yourself in their shoes for a
minute because I've done this a lot and I've toured a lot over the years. You go
do the show right and you're all amped up and let's say the show ends at 10:30
11 o'clock at night or whatever it is, twelve if it's a really late show in
this environment. I used to do shows at three o'clock in the morning at the
Troubadour but in the pay-to-play days when I was a
kid. So I mean depending on the how late you went to bed and then you know you
get up at like 9:00 right or 9:00 9:30 maybe earlier depending on your your
travel time. Usually you travel about 400 miles between shows right 600 kilometers
somewhere in there with you're not doing a plane date and and so you're up at you
know 9:00 you're at breakfast by 9:30 you're on the bus by 10:00 10:30
whatever it is and then you're traveling for I don't know six hours or longer. You
get you know if you're if you have a really nice bus and you're sleeping on
your bus then that is your hotel but if you get to a hotel you check in, you get
your gear, you slup it up or you're you know if you're lucky enough to have a
road crew do it for you they do it and then you know you change your guitar
strings, you're already kind of warming up, you may need to do an album signing
thing, you may need to hit a radio station to promote the show or give away
tickets or whatever it is. Before you know it your your time is gone, the
opening band is on already and you're warming up just to
get ready to go out boom do it again, meet fans, meet record company after the
show or what or public relations whatever it is, magazines, radio and you
just do this night after night after night after night. So you're.. you want
something to get you up to get on the show and then you want something to
bring you down when you go to bed because you're not going to go to sleep
at 11:00 11:30 at night, you're all amped up. So you stay up till 2:00 or 3:00 in
the morning or whatever that is and you do this over and over and over again. So
your body's in this bio rhythmical you know loop that's just freaking out or I
should say spiraling out of control. So you find yourself doing things. Now I
never did that. I did drink little wine before I went to bed to try to chill
myself out and I stopped even drinking coffee in my early 30s but I could see
how guys end up in this way. So you know if you're really professional about it
what you'll do is you protect yourself and you set limits on what you can or can't
do and don't just try to grab everything and you pace yourself in a way that is
sustainable okay. I had to do a backdrop on that because I wanted to talk about
their sobriety and how clean they are and how other artists have gone to sobriety. I
myself have gone to sobriety and I think it's really awesome. So anyway with that said
let's continue.
Torturing the whammy bar.
Cool. That sounds good. He's doing a good job there.
And I noticed this stuff (sings). He's in a lower registration. So he's not reaching for
any range. So way down here he does have his voice and and this is kind of a
little earlier on so you know now again he's struggling a little bit more than that.
You know it's kind of a sad story I'm pretty sure was it was the Long Beach
sports arena it might have been the LA forum but I think it was the Long Long
Beach sports arena. There was a security guy and he was you know trying to get
everybody out after the show and it was kind of I think I was on a Sunday and
the the venue was closed and this guy was out there you know cleaning and you
know had a crew but he was cleaning you know the venue and the security said to
this guy he goes wow you know did anyone ever tell you you look a lot like Bobby
Blotter the drummer for Rat and he goes yeah I've heard that before. He says you
know I used to fill these arenas and now I'm cleaning them. It's like oh. Now I know
Bobby's back up and Rat's doing some other stuff but if you don't manage your
affairs well and you don't take care of your money and make sure your manager
doesn't steal it or the record company doesn't steal it, it's pretty tough to
hold on and make some good investments to stay in the game. So again these guys
are running this like a business and that's a really smart move so here we go.
It's a odd change.
Perfect. Sounds good.
Well they certainly have loyal sounding fans that's for sure.
They're killing it.
Since they're from this area does that give them a home team advantage. I'm just saying.
They play well as a team man.
Whew man could you imagine being the band and doing 15 songs of that kind of
energy. You better be doing your cardio workouts during the day in between those
400 mile drives I'll tell you. That was just a fantastic performance, squeaky
tight, the sound was flawless. I mean what could you say, you could hear everything,
the drums were just thumping, pumping. Bass was great, both guitars were spot-on ,the
tones were good. You could hear all the vocals crystal-clear. What can I say man
two thumbs straight up that was really awesome. Anyway guys if you like what you
heard please like and subscribe to my channel that'd be great. I have a singing
course it's called How to Sing Better Than Anyone Else and we discuss all
these different tones and textures and how to distort and when not to distort
how to sing clean and powerful and not lose your voice and get longevity and
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a lot of requests for this one and sorry it took so long guys but Matt Sanders..M.
Shadow and company throwing down. So until next time God bless and peace out.
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