Hey my YouTube family how you guys doing. It's Ken Tamplin from Ken Tamplin Vocal
Academy where the proof is in the singing.
I want to go ahead and do a vocal coach reacts to the band Tesla and the song is
called "Love Song". The singer's Jeff Keith and he has a very
very unique, vocal sound. Kind of like Bryan Adams where he has a lot of dirt and
grit and you know distortion in his sound and a lot of people ask me Ken I want to
get this sound. How do I get it. How do I sound distorted and gritty. Well I have a
singing course it's called How to Sing Better Than Anyone Else and I walk you
through step by step how to do this kind of stuff safely because if you don't do
it safely there's a strong chance you'll get a node or a polyp and eventually could
lose your voice altogether okay. So that that said let's go ahead and rea..react to
"Love Song." Now I want you guys to check out Tesla they have a lot of hits out
there and they've been doing this a long time and he's just an amazing singer,
amazing band oh and a buddy of mine Scott Van Zen. He's a fabulous guitar
player. I recommend you look him up. Scott Van Zen who's played on a lot of my
records. His cousin is Troy Luccketta whose the drummer of the band as well. So
little side note. You're kind of always in the family of some musician somewhere
along the way but so here we go.
Almost sounds like "House of the Rising Sun."
Does it. It is.
It is "House of the Rising Sun".
Nice.
Well I thought I was gonna react to "Love Song." So I I haven't seen this yet so I'm hoping
it's gonna come in soon but it's good guitar playing, it's fun.
That's a lot like Heart's just before "Barracuda".
Any minute now. I think.
It says Tesla "Love Song" so.
Here we go.
You know as I'm listening to this, it reminds me a lot of I used to see like the
band Extreme and Nuno Bettencourt and they had a duet version that they
did acoustically to "More Than Words". You probably remember that so he's kind of
like setting it up for that a little bit. You guys out there that remember that
kind of get that same vibe right. Nuno Bettencourt is a killer guitar player
too.
I mean it's kind of nice to have an acoustic solo thing like that where he's ripping
on acoustic and stuff. I used to do that with another guitar player friend of
mine live a lot and it's it's a lot more personal and special than the big amp.
You know it's fun to have the big amp stuff too and do big fat solos like
that without the band. I mean real true solos by yourself but it's also really
tasty to do this as well so. I like that it's cool.
Now if I'd known this was gonna be this long I would have butted it up to the vocals
but we're already here right
now so hopefully you can hang with me and hopefully we're gonna get some vocals in here
soon.
Here we go.
I was hoping it was coming. I was like.
See that real distorted.
Got his cigarette.
Kind of like a male Janis Joplin right if you kind of hear that same kind of tone
going on there.
They got their own MTV unplugged version going on around here right I'm waiting
for the (sings)
waiting for that to come in with that same kind of vocal tone right. You know
what I'm talking about.
Yeah with that vocal tone I'd like to hear some cross-pollination. I'd love to
hear him sing uh "She Talks To Angels "and stuff like that because I think they
both could have some really cool exchange in their in their music together.
He's got that Paul McCartney bass going on there. That's pretty cool. I love that 12-string,
that thing is beautiful.
Looks like a Guild.
It's really hard to sound good acoustically like that.
That broken down.
Here we go.
Do you guys hear kind of some of the Black Crowes influence you know or not
influence but similarities in there. I think that's really unique and
interesting so.
There's a lot of cool hair on that stage what do you guys think.
If you listen to the reverb, the reverb actually sounds like it's a fairly small
room. Like I'm gonna say probably maybe five to eight hundred people. I'm not
sure but the venue doesn't sound that big so they're in a pretty intimate
setting which is cool. I love to see bands like this up close and personal and it's
really also great to hear his lead playing nice and loud without missing
notes and there's still enough of the band there to hold it together but the
guitar is nice but not up front. I really happen to like that a lot rather
than it's sounding so clouded with just barely
you know straining to hear the solo so.
He sounds like struggling vocally a bit but he's got a great vocal tone.
So like there's a few people like that whether it's Bryan Adams or it's him
whether it's Kim Carnes whether it's you know whomever with that kind of like
overly naturally distorted sound. I hear I'm kind of struggling a little bit. In
fact if you go back and you want to go back to the very beginning when the
first chorus hit, he kind of struggled a little bit and he let the audience sing so
his voice could recuperate quickly and you know a lot of people do that but the
way he sings is not a really healthy way to sing. It's just sou...the tone sounds
great so. You know again like I don't care if it's Janis Joplin or whomever has
that naturally gifted distorted sound, you still want to keep good open throat
technique and have good diaphragmatic support and good relaxation response. So
you're not like you know Bryan Johnson you know just constantly like pinching
and squeezing to get every note out distorted like that so.
A lot of girls in that audience. It's suprising.
Cool. That was fun.
Alright you guys yeah like I said you know reminded me of some Black Crowes and some
other you know middle America bands like that that just pulled off and it's
interesting you know when a certain sound sells at a certain era and time in
time capsule of you know different eras of music. A lot of bands have kind of a
lot of the same flavors as they go through it and Tesla is certainly no
exception to that so. Anyway if you like what you heard please like and subscribe
to my channel that would be awesome. I like I said I have a singing course it's
called How to Sing Better Than Anyone Else. You can go to Ken Tamplin Vocal
Academy.com check it out. For you guys that want to just kind of
dab your toe in the water and and check out what other kind of things like that
I do, I have like hundreds of video tutorials on YouTube and also stop by my
free singing forums with thousands of singers all going through talking about
this kind of stuff and how to get to these places vocally so. Alright again
till next time God bless you gang peace out.
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