Hey guys, welcome back again to Ken Tamplin Vocal Academy, where the proof is in the singing!
We got a lot of requests for this one. It’s none other than Kansas, the song is called
Wayward Son, and the vocalist is Steven Walsh. We’ll do it first, talk about it after like
we always do. Let’s rock!
Okay. One of the
things I love the most about Steve Walsh was his precision in his intonation. You know,
“Once I rose above the noise and confusion, just to get a glimpse beyond this illusion,
I was soaring ever higher, but I flew to high…” You know, he kind of reminds me a little bit
of Dennis DeYoung, though Dennis had a lot more mask in his sound from the band Styx…
In this instance… But what was really cool too, and guys, I cover this in my singing course,
so remember, by the way, if you like what you heard, please like and subscribe to my
channel, that would be awesome. I have a singing course called How To Sing Better Than Anyone
Else, at Ken Tamplin Vocal Academy dot com. You can check that out, where I do takedowns
and break down all this stuff to show you exactly how this was done.
So anyway, as I cover in my course, I tell you guys if you want to sing heavy or distorted,
it’s really important to work up your songs clean first. Well, Steve, he pretty predominantly
sang clean almost all the time, and when he leaned into the sound, just kind of a cool
smoky–woodsy sort of sound. So I encourage you to start there first, and get your range,
and your ping, and the intonation, and then you can start “HEEEYYYY!” You can lean
into the sound, get more distortion out of the sound, or whatever desired effect that
you’re looking for. So, anyway you guys, thank you for joining
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