Hey guys welcome back again to Ken Tamplin Vocal Academy where the proof is
in the singing. I want to do a vocal coach reaction to a
Stone Temple Pilots, obviously the lead vocalist is Scott Weiland and I chose
the song "Plush" so let's just get right into it. Here we go.
Now before we get started, I have to say I've always loved this Led Zeppelin
influenced intro and so it's been refreshing, way back then in the grunge
days when someone would come in with something really melodic like that
because Nirvana didn't care about that so much I think Nirvana cared more about
you know stepping outside the box and doing chord changes that were not so
typical but this Zeppelin piece was a refreshing
thing for me way back in the day. Here we go
Alright let's see Scott what you got, here we go
Okay now remember we just did a thing about Eddie Vedder and we talked about
him having like marble mouth right, it's through that and we did "Even Flow". I
don't know when I'm gonna release these so I don't know if that's coming out first
with this coming out you know.. first but anyway note that he's also closing
down and (sings) right he's not doing it so much as Eddie
Vedder, but he is still doing it to contemporize and you know sing in the
modern rock vocal sound which is not so modern now because it's been out since
the 90s but anyway, alright let's continue.
Now his distortion is a little bit more safe than Eddie Vedders. We talked about
that again in the Eddie Vedder (sings)
so it's, you're kind of more open in the sound, by the way I did a version of this
song too, I'll put this in the description as well and you can see how
I stacked up to a Stone Temple Pilots as far as the song "Plush" goes I only
did one song and Scott Weiland has a you know pretty wide range of
different sounds that he creates but this is one that really, I think
emphasizes this era a lot, so let's continue
And what I love (sings) you know he's
got a natural tone to him, he's not forcing the sound, so it sounds a lot more
natural to me and not again as contrived or rehearsed so I like that,
that's really cool and I like his tone, he's got a good tone man.
a little like Layne Staley...a little bit
Okay one more thing too - the band is actually pretty tight too, in the
grunge era a lot of the guys didn't, they were almost borderline Punk in the way
they kind of presented their instrumentation and in fact when we did
"Even Flow" even though they're a fairly tight band, there's still a little looser,
this band had a lot more of a tight stuff. In fact all the stuff that Chris
Cornell did too, that stuff was pretty doggone tight as well, so they started to
kind of move from being a little sloppy in the instrumentation to a little bit
you know, more on their game so to speak. Alright
(sings)
Nice break, I like that break
I get the feeling that this is pretty effortless for him, I don't feel like
he's like, you know trying to sell me something as far as just overpowering me
with energy in this that whatever, it's just him singing naturally which is
really nice, I appreciate that.
I love that he opens up (sings) right. Try that, if you guys, rock guys out there go, start clean go
(sings) and then go (sings) push a little bit
(sings) then push a little bit more (sing) you know you can kind of get that tone
and see how he got to that please it's a lot safer than just kind of going right
to it, so start with a cleaner tone first you know, get it..a lay of the land, get your
nice open throat vowels together and then little by little, you can start to lean
into the sound to get this kind of tone. Okay
(sings)
(sings) you can't kind of get on that song One more thing
about this is, as you're going through too, notice there's no background vocals so
it's really hard to create all that energy and not have, you know I mean this
was coming off the 80s right where Bon Jovi and Def Leppard and all these guys
did all these tracks and just a ton of like, you know.. album, you know they lifted
the vocals right off the album they played to a clique and they shot out
these giant background vocals. This is the complete antithesis of that, the
opposite of that. Where it's really stripped down and it's really raw and
that's what people really loved about this era, was it was a lot
more honest than you know someone go, you know it looked at you know Yngwie
Malmsteen on guitar and they said I can never do that, like there's not enough
hours in the day to do that and I don't even know if I'm qualified or if I'm
capable of doing that, so then they went to something a lot more honest which is
this sound here. So that's actually that Nirvana and all the other bands that
came through here, I think was what turned people on about this sound was
going yeah I can relate, yeah you know this makes sense to me. So...
Cool. Alright, well hopefully you guys found this information helpful and I'm
going to continue to do these because I think I've gotten a lot of great
response from you guys. I have a singing course and I will keep talking about
this but again I cover all this stuff in my singing course called How to Sing
Better than Anyone Else and you know what instead of you even getting the
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