Hey, Guys! Welcome back to Ken Tamplin Vocal Academy! We got a lot of requests for
this one, it’s Whole Lotta Love by Led Zeppelin.
Now, I want to talk to you guys about something that’s very important, and that is this:
I’m seeing a LOT of very fancy advertising from some vocal coaches here on the internet,
where they’re still displaying absolutely NO SINGING.
The coaches aren’t singing, and their “students” aren’t singing.
Guys… RUN FROM THAT.
If they can’t PROVE what they say they can do, they can’t do it.
We're going to do it here, Whole Lotta Love. Do it first, talk about it after,
like we always do, and it goes like this, let’s rock!
Whooh! OK. Now, again there’s a lot to this.
I chose to sing it a little heavier, and I’d sing : “You Need Coolin’, Baby, I’m not…”
I took more of a Coverdale approach to this, you know… “Ahh HAAAAAOW”
The things at the end. I didn’t get a chance to do all of those, but the bulk of it is:
Isn’t so much to sing it exactly like Robert Plant, but to sing it in your own style
and how a song like this can be sung from a baritone like myself.
There’s a lot of pacing in this, so if you notice, on the bottoms,
I’m kind of in the face like “You need coolin’ , baby I’m not foolin’”
so I’m really in the face, instead of (deeper) (YOU NEED COOLIN’)
I’m not real hunkered-down on the sound.
I put a lot of this into mask and I put a lot of it into the front of the face,
and I pace my breaths, to where I’m holding contiguous whole-tone phrases.
So I’m not going: You | Need | Coolin’ | Baby | I’m | not | Foolin’,
where I’m keeping the “h” of the “AH” in the back of the throat OPEN the whole time,
so I can have contiguous phrases. Otherwise, if I sing it real staccato and real punchy, it would really be hard to
get through a piece like this, especially up this high.
Anyway, I’ve got this whole tutorial in my course, and I’ve got a new Singers’ Forum
that’s actually grown a lot. It’s over 6,000 members now, so come join us.
Ken Tamplin Vocal Academy, where the PROOF is in the SINGING!
Thank you for joining… until next time…