Hey guys, welcome back again to Ken Tamplin Vocal Academy, where the proof is in the singing.
I got a lot of requests for this one.
It’s Devin Townsend.
It’s live at the Royal Albert Hall and the song is called Deadhead.
There are some pretty extreme vocals going on here and Devin really throws down pretty
hard, so we're going to do it first like we always do and we'll talk about it along the way.
Here we go.
Right up front hooray.
Anyway, it's awesome man, So you can tell the guys got a big voice.
He’s just like "RAAAAR!" right up front.
He’s known for that but he's also a singer too.
He’s got some really nice vocal chops.
Let’s just play it and we'll talk about it.
Here we go.
Big wall of sound.
He’s kind of just going to dig right in here.
I’m looking forward to this one so here we go.
I love how he's able to go in and out of a distorted heavy duty distorted tone into a
lighter tone like this and maintain good pitch in his sound.
He doesn’t sound sore from doing it.
It goes back again to the videos I have out on distortion.
We just did one on Jinjer.
We talked about Lauren Hart and other people that do a lot of this, a lot of growl stuff
so he's a master at this.
He’s just killing it.
Great sound man, too.
All this wall of sound.
It’s like Pink Floyd growl style or something.
It’s cool.
You hear those double overtones that are kind of like whistle overtones.
He’s got like three voices going on there.
The sound man has a got a doubler on this voice with a lot of delay so it like gives
this huge, it almost sounds like three people singing growl because it's got all these harmonic
structures that are really unique.
I love that. That’s awesome.
I love seeing that bottle of water on stage instead of a bottle of Jack Daniels.
That’s nice too.
That’s refreshing.
He’s busting the audience.
I’ve done this so many times.
He’s trying to keep the groove right and they're all just kind of clapping like in
some random beat.
He’s like come on guys.
Pick a tempo, how many times have you guys been?
I got a funny story for you.
Some of you out there know that I’m a Christian and that is who I am.
I have done a lot of big, secular shows but I’ve done some Christian concerts too and
I’ve actually played some churches.
You might laugh at this but one of the funny things was as we pull into this one big church.
It was I think like Assemblies of God or something like a holy roller church.
I’m like oh my gosh, this is going to be interesting.
They had all these tambourines on all of the pews.
I went in and I just collected them all up and I put them in the back room because the
last thing that I needed is (sound) you know.
This off tempo going on with a bunch of people playing tambourines while we're trying to
keep a groove going.
He is busting the audience on that and I think it's pretty funny so all right. Let’s go.
He’s got that kind of Rob Halford showmanship where he doesn’t have to do a lot of moving
around but he commands a great stage presence which is awesome.
Can we hear some more singing?
Come on Devin.
Bring it on dude.
I would have fast-forwarded this so that we didn’t have to wait so long between the
instrumental breaks but hang in there.
In fact let me do that now.
In fact let me just kind of scoot up here so we don’t have to wait a long time for
some more vocals. So here we go.
Right here is about right.
I think so.
Nice.
Yeah.
Yeah man, the guy can throw down.
That's for sure.
His one vowel sounds a lot like .
He has that kind of long AH vowel, it reminds me of that with like some crazy distortion
behind it but good stuff.
These guys are monsters.
They’re really, really tight.
I love how tight the band is.
Like I said, a really great wall of sound.
See how he cuts.
He cuts back the air.
Remember guys, I talked to you a lot about this.
This is what we want to do.
We want to cut back that air using good, open throat technique and not oversing.
He’s not killing us.
Notice he's not like screaming at a football game.
He’s actually cutting back the air and only allowing the vocal folds to kind of rattle
right?
He has like a rattling sound so let's continue.
Awesome.
Okay, something else that is unique about Devin and I’m going to close with this but
I want to leave you with this is that what Devin can do is he can actually growl in tune.
Most of the time when you hear growling it's just growling for growl's sake.
We heard some of that in Jinjer and again Lauren Hart and some of these others but when
Devin does it he can do it actually melodically and do it within notes, note structures, the
scales are different melodic lines or whatever.
That is really interesting because that is a true sign of having total command of growl
and being able to do it at different registrations through a passage or in this case a line in a song.
Anyway guys, thank you for joining me.
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by step how to get to this kind of sound.
Okay, until next time.
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