Hey everybody welcome back to Ken Tamplin Vocal Academy where the proof is
in the singing. I'm doing a series called What Makes
This Singer Great and I couldn't have done this series without doing Paul
Rodgers from Bad Company. Now Paul has been one of my greatest influences
myself as a singer and before we get started if you please would like and
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stuff. So with that said I'm gonna do Paul Rogers and Bad Company. Now before I
do this I want to point out that yes I have to wear glasses these days sorry
guys I'm getting older here but um what what's interesting about Paul for me and
maybe it is for you too is, he is probably one of the most influential
rock singers of all time and whether you grew up on him or not you know and you
listen to Chris Cornell, or you listen to maybe a newer singer all of us. Chris and
I, I think Chris is a year younger than me but you know were inspired by guys
like Paul Rogers. Just a phenomenally talented singer. So what do I think of
when I think of Paul Rogers. What makes him great. Well his soul singing for one
thing, just a great soul singer, his choice of notes was phenomenal,
his performance live is just, every time I've seen the guy he's been spot-on and
every time he sings this song different with, with different soul and different
emotion, different energies in that soul. He can speed it up, he could slow it down,
the licks are always different. He's just always doing something cool with his
voice. Absolute perfect intonation in pitch. His distortion in grit it's not, it's
not too much, it's not too little, it's right in the middle so he's always got a
really nice blend of that distorted, gritty, vocal tone.
and then of course I think of you know before Bad Company I think of songs
like "All Right Now" right just that song's still getting played on the radio to
this day. It's over 40 years old or more than that like really old stuff.
I think of "Can't Get Enough Of Your Love", and by the way I've done a few Bad
Company songs so I'm gonna put those in the description and you can see how I
did and how I stack up to Paul and company but "Can't Get Enough Of Your Love",
"Shooting Star" right. Think of that. "Feel Like Making Love", that's one of the songs
I did, "Moving On", " Can't Get Enough Of Your Love", I did that also I'll put that in
the description and I did a vocal coach reaction to Bad Company so I kind of
expand on the band a little bit more and kind of you know talk a little bit more
about the intricacies of the band. So but with that said now I've picked a lot of
other different songs, I've already covered different songs by Bad Company
so chose something a little different today and we're just gonna listen to it and
make some comments along the way. Check it out.
Good notes.
Cool. Okay so again you hear a tone, you can hear him singing a ballad, you can hear
him singing a rock song, got that uh uh uh uh uh kind of froggy sound just at
the right times in his voice, kinda really sexy uh froggy sound but again maybe one
of the most influential rock singers of all time for all of us and I don't care
if you're Ray Gilen in Badlands, I don't care if you're whoever. Even, even Freddie
Mercury said he was influenced by Paul Rodgers and the band used to go and see
Bad Company and go wow, those guys are great and so his influence, his tentacles
are far reaching into soul singing and blue-eyed soul singing. So that's what I
think of when I think of Paul Rodgers so tell me what you think of. Please put it
in the comment sections, I'd love to hear your thoughts and comments because I'm
sure I missed something and if you have a singer that you'd like me to do, a lot
of this is done by request so please put that in the comment sections as well and
check out my new video.