Hey everybody welcome back again to Ken Tamplin Vocal Academy where the proof
continues to be in the actual singing and I wanted to do a vocal coach reacts
to Rod Stewart and I chose "Maggie Mae". Now Rod has a special place in my heart
cause my older brother used to take me to all these concerts when I was really
young and I mean young young I think I was like 11 when I first saw him at the
Forum and what impressed me so much about Rod Stewart wasn't only that you
know it was a great performance of course the band was killer but I was into soccer
at that time and he had these soccer balls and the Forum is a big arena and he
was kicking these soccer balls from the stage like all the way to the end of the
arena and we were catching these and they're pretty expensive soccer balls
and he's just quite the soccer player so it's that pretty cool. I almost caught
one and it kind of tipped off my hand and some chick behind me got it but
anyway so I want to go and do "Maggie Mae' Rod Stewart and just another icon by the way
he has a lot of really great performances. Some of the more recent
ones were live at Albert Hall and they have a lot of view counts on them which
is super cool but his voice wasn't as robust and as powerful and strong as it
was back in this day and in fact he takes it down a key or two so it takes
away the tension in his voice. So I'm gonna.. I chose an older piece which yeah we're
gonna dive into now, here we go.
One of the original raspy voice guys.
This song is so melancholy and brings back such memories you know.
Great songwriting, great lyrics man. Again talked about this a lot right about a singer that's not just out
there just performing a bunch of licks or showing how high they can sing.
He's telling his story and if you really listen you know you're in the story with
him. I know I've said this up a lot of times but man these are the songs where
you know he takes you for.. he brings you into his world and he showed you his
life in this story in this song that he wrote it's really cool very
interesting.
It's higher than the album.
Now I'm gonna bring this up again. I'm not sure how I'm gonna release all these
videos but I talked about the Traveling Wilburys and we did a video on ELO
and we did a video on you know Paul McCartney just all the kinds of stuff
and then this kind of you know easy strumming thing you know "Take It Easy" by
the Eagles you know and and and it's it's this, it's this simple songwriting
with genius melodies and just haunting lyrics and haunting haunting melodies I
should say that are timeless and they have this real sweet just in the pocket
strumming groove. So I've always said that if you have a song that you could just
get out your acoustic guitar and play it on acoustic, it could be a hit on an
acoustic, it could be hit you know as a pop song, it could be hit a hit as as a
metal song it doesn't matter, a great song is a great song and in this case
there is no exception so let's continue to rock.
Great natural live band sound again guys.
It's surprising.
It's obviously off the BBC it says to be on a TV show and
sound this cool and be live cause a lot of times this stuff's pre-recorded. This is
obviously not but it's just really great engineers that are able to
great job about what do have going on here.
He barely made that one.
You gotta admit it's just a great song man.
Even if you don't admit it, it's still a great song.
It's like the cameraman don't know where to go who to follow.
Follow that guy, looks like he's playing guitar.
Looks king of messy. The videography doesn't look real clean like they know what they're doing.
I love this mandolin part.
In fact..in fact this song inspired me to learn how to play mandolin so I bought a mandolin
when I was like eleven years old and I was like you know noodling on it. It's a
cool instrument man it's really fun, it's it's a very folk instrument but you
could do a lot with it, you can see a lot of unique things with the mandolin that
you can't necessarily say on the guitar.
What kind of dance moves is that. Oh they're playing soccer. Is that what it was. Wait wait wait.
Hold on.
Oh yeah they kicked the soccer ball over there.
Look at that see I told you guys he was good.
That was awesome.
They're just having fun man, that's what's best that's what it's all about is just
having a good time and inspiring people and you know I just want to encourage
you singers out there, by the way thank you for joining me
you know if you like what you heard please like and subscribe to my channel
blah blah blah but I want inspire you singers out there man you know you have
a unique story to tell and everyone has a unique story to tell and believe it or
not you know the world could use really good stories, a good positive influence
right.. especially right now. So you know don't be discouraged, I mean get out
there I a coined a phrase a singer is only a singer because they
have the guts to be one. Let me say that again a little slower a singer is only a
singer because they have the guts to be one. In fact if you guys would do me a
favor I'll put this in the description tag it's called Can Anyone Learn To Sing.
I have a video out on this and I just like you guys to check it out cause I list
all the people like you know Bob Dylan for example, the guy can't really sing to
save his life but he's done more to influence other artists then maybe any
other artist I know of and you wouldn't believe the amount of people that have
covered its music. So don't let the music business or the Internet or people
with their you know lousy, hating attitudes you know bring it down. Just
get out there do what you do and what you love and have fun with it like these
guys and chances are that people are gonna want to come around and hear what
you have to say okay. Again if you like what you heard, please like and subscribe
and until next time peace out.
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