Hey guys welcome back again to Ken Tamplin Vocal Academy where the proof is
in the singing. I'm doing a series and the series is
called What Makes This Singer Great and before we get started if you guys
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can keep cool videos coming your way and I have a singing course and the course
is called How To Sing Better Than Anyone Else and we discuss and negotiate all
these different styles and how to get to these different places of greatness for
singing. So I decided to go ahead and take on Dimash. Now Dimash is just wow
enigma. I mean this guy came out of nowhere. I think with this title called
what makes this singer great, it's really what comes to mind when you think of
this singer so it's not just only his singing but it could be a plethora of
other different things surrounding this artist and in Dimash's case there's a lot
of things that come to mind. Of course first it's incredible range and dynamics,
just powerful voice excellence and I want to talk about that in a second but
first the coolest thing ever is that Dimash came from Kazakhstan as you guys
probably know. He didn't come from LA he didn't come from New York or Nashville
or Canada or the UK or Australia or you know whatever. He came from a pretty
fairly remote place and I was gonna say something about excellence. What's cool about
excellence is, excellence is revered around the world so if you're excellent
at something it doesn't matter where you come from, you're just excellent at it and
the whole world has to acknowledge that. So that's really cool. That's one thing.
The other thing that's really cool about Dimash is.. that comes to mind is he's an
instrumentalist and I think that says a lot about why he took his singing so
seriously because you instrumentalists out there know what it really takes to
get good at an instrument, well this your voice is an instrument and so what it's
going to take also to make you great as an instrumentalist with your voice. Do
there's that. So let's get back to what do I think about when I think about
Dimash. Well of course I think about incredible range. I think about his
unbelievable stamina, that's awesome, his intonation and pitch is off the
charts great. I think that you know he's young, that's amazing.
He's able to incorporate the old Bel Canto appoggio operatic
style of singing into a lot of contemporary art which is really really
cool. He's very versatile which is really really awesome and he's humble you know
I've seen some interviews on this guy and he's not full of himself so I love
that but I put together a little montage and I want to discuss his actual vocal
techniques along the way and his vocal athleticism. So with that said I chose a
piece that starts with him.. with him playing an instrument first to show you
that he's an instrumentalist and then move on to his singing so here we go.
Okay now I wanna point out a couple things long way. Now I haven't actually
seen this video other than just cursorily going through it. The first
thing is is that he's got a real sweet sensitivity so he's kind of able to be
real smooth and velvet like on his vocals in his low end, though he can also
get a really bright timbral sound too. So right now he's choosing to stay really
smooth and he's able to kind of go in and out of almost like a mixed voice, way
down low so you can't quite tell if it's all chest, there's some head in it, how
much mixed is involved. You can actually hear some mixed in it. That's one thing. I
noticed too he messes with his earpiece a lot so he must always have to kind of
adjust and this is a really cool professional aspect of him he's very
professional. So if I were to add that to the list the professional aspect of when
when to..you know when the compression is too much with his in-ear, when he takes it
out, when he puts it back in. So he's constantly working that part of the
stage and you know where he is in the stage, how much compression's built up
into the head for how hard he's singing or how soft he's singing and so forth so.
That's certainly a some very big aspects of this so he's quite the performer in
front of a lot of people and does very well at it.
See what I mean about the brightness.
Okay now like I said so he's obviously in different language. I don't know you know
what language this is specifically but um I assume it's his native tongue maybe
but within most of you know the Latin world and you know a lot of the
Indo-European world, the Baltics obviously Italy, Spain you know any
Spanish whatever, they get five vowel sounds so what I mean by that is he
singing in bel canto and bel canto gives you ah, eh, ee, oh and oo. So (sings) and you really
have to negotiate all of your words and all your other sounds or you know all the
other um word phrases around those five vowels because those are the five
Italian or Latin vowels that are in bel canto in opera. So he is staying pretty
close to that and I noticed that he does that even within his pop stuff which
keeps it a little bit on the operatic side so maybe some people don't like
that as much. I happen to like opera a lot so I have a deep appreciation for
that but the vowels stay pretty covered and dark too so it's not like (sings) it's
pretty covered or dark. So (sings).
So you can really be listening for that as you listen to his technique along the
way because he relies on it almost a hundred percent.
Okay one more thing. So he goes from the center lyric tenor, real gentle, almost Paul
McCartney you know kind of lighter sort of sounding lower range stuff and now
he's breaking out his his true tenor bel canto you know big sound so to speak so
here we go.
Ok so now I'm gonna back this up, we're breaking into another piece. I put
together a few little pieces there. So if you guys follow along the way. So again
his vowel modifications, the way he shapes his vowels within vocal tract
shaping is just awesome. Again it's very operatic and then also
his command of being able to have a lot of dynamic in his sound at any range of
his voice. So why that's important is most tenors and belting tenors, they can
belt out the high you know the B in asundorma let's say or the C, high C or
whatever, tenor high C but what's kind of interesting is they don't necessarily
have the command of coming back and being really gentle and genteel and
light on the sound like Dimash does. He can actually add any spectrum of his
voice, he can get louder or softer so the brother is just a phenomenally gifted
guy and has worked very hard in his craft obviously so that's just fantastic.
Here we go.
Alright the soprano range.
He's able to go on up into the soprano range and what he does, is he takes his
tenor you know abilities and then he's able to switch between tenor, soprano,
tenor, soprano right kind of like "The Prayer" by you know Pomoy so uh anyway
Marcelito and what's interesting about that is is that he's also able to
sing not just in the tenor range but in different types of tenor, he could be you
know a big theatrical tenor, he could be a lyric cantor, he can go in and out of
different tenor styles but he can also do that in soprano styles as wel. So
right now you're gonna hear him kind of go back and forth into the tessitura or
his range as a testator, as a soprano and and tenor and soprano and tenor. Check
this out. I'm gonna back this up just a tiny bit, we're gonna check it out.
Right.
Awesome.
See now that's.. that takes on more of the flavor of like a coloratura soprano that
can sing really fast notes kind of you know (sings). He can do that too so he can kind
of lay into you know a big, long, fat, huge sound, big sound for a soprano and then
he can also back it off with a little nua.. a lot of the nuances of a coloratura
so here we go.
Now do you hear those vowels (sings). He's really keeping with that Bel Canto style so he's really
focusing on again on the very operatic style of singing. Now that's gonna be kind
of interesting to see what happens when he tries to contemporize that sound as
he starts to maturate in his singing styles and wants to sing more in English
because in English we have at least 16 different vowel sounds and that doesn't
even include diphthongs and all the different ways that we get two different
vowels so it'll be fascinating to watch how he matures over time to incorporate
and include more contemporary vowels in the English language. Now I cover all of
this in my singing course called How To Sing Better Than Anyone Else and we
negotiate how to go from Bel Canto and take that as the basis, basic tenets
of what it is I teach and then we migrate that on into more contemporary
English sounds so let's continue.
Something else that I think that makes him great is his mystery. The guy's just kind
of shrouded in mystery like we don't really know much other than it's this kid
from this kind of small I guess it's not small but he's from Kazakhstan.. smaller
area village whatever, and just out of nowhere this guy explodes on the world
scene is just dominating planet Earth with his voice, that's number one and
number two, he's always got those kind of like you know I don't know..stage
like mystery eyes is the best way I can describe it. So he's very mysterious
which is also really cool.
Now what's interesting, right there he broke away from the Bel Canto mode, he went
(sings) and he stayed really bright on the sound. That's not a Bel Canto thing,
that's actually something to get up in a mask which is a contemporary way to get
up in a mask. So if you notice because he sang the bottom heavy, it would have been
very hard for him to get up into a covered Bel Canto sound. Now I know he
can do it because I've heard him do it before but in this case he chose to stay
really bright on the sound, that leads me to believe that when he does move into
singing a lot more English speaking pieces, I know he's done a few already
but that he will easily be able to transition from predominantly using
appoggio, bel canto and then move on into other vowel sounds in the English
language so.
Beautiful.
That was awesome so those are the clips I prepared. I've got a lot of these
coming your way guys so um if you want to help me out and you want to tell me
who you think that I should prepare to do What Makes This Singer Great, please
list the singers that you'd like in the comments section number, one number two
if you have something you'd like to contribute to what you think makes
Dimash great, I'd love to hear it and again it doesn't have to be you know
just about his incredible singing prowess, it could be in calisthenics, it
can be what what cool things he does in life, what it is that you love about him or
what comes to your mind, when you think of Dimash. So stay tuned guys we got
another video coming your way check this out.