Hey guys, welcome back again to Ken Tamplin Vocal Academy, where the proof is in the singing!
Today we’re going to take on another epic, classic piece. The band is The Scorpions,
and the song is called Still Loving You, and the lead vocalist's name is Klaus Meine. Now,
Klaus is German, and he uses a lot of German language re-translated into English, so there’s
some vowel stuff there. I’m going to sing it like Ken Tamplin, with some of his influence.
We’ll do it first, talk about it after. Here we go.
Okay. So… Great, by the way, awesome song. These guys turn out a lot of hits.
Klaus Meine is still out there killing it, to this day, so he’s one of the few people that have
escaped that whole 80s-90s thing where a lot of those guys lost his voice. No, Clouse is
still out there killing it to this day, so kudos to him, man! So, I’m not claiming
to be awesome as Klaus. I just want to kind of break down some of this stuff that
he’s done, so… When I go “Time, it needs time” I’m
being real bright on the sound. I’m using a real bright timbre. I would say
“Time, it needs time, baby!” I like more girthy, kind of lower register stuff, but he’s not.
He’s real pointed in the sound. Now, other people that use that sound would be guys like
Don Dokken, or even Lou Gramm, or Stevie Wonder. Like there’s a lot of people that use a
lot of nasality and a lot of frontal mask in the sound, but you know: “To win back
your love again” he uses, like a “Wehn back yah love” you know, or a “Love. Our
lahv. Surely be thrown aweh” and again, remember I said I was going to talk about
the translation from German into English. So, you know, here’s a guy… Kudos to him, man.
He’s German, and he’s had a lot of success in music that he’s re-presented his German
language into English. So, he’s trying to negotiate these vowel sounds.
I wouldn’t be so harsh, on the vowels, or hard on them. I’d be, instead of “And surely be thrown
aweey” I’d be “surely be thrown away”… I’d mellow out the sounds themselves.
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I have. But, I wouldn’t have been able to do the last note, you know... "Need Your Love..."
I wouldn’t havebeen able to do that, because when you use too much nasality, or the Velonasal port
in the sound, and mask in the sound. What happens is you inhibit range. And when you
do that, you can’t go up beyond certain notes. So, I like to keep the sound more open.
I come in from behind the note, and I drop down on the note, and if I want to bring mask
into the sound I can do that. Now, I cover all of this in my singing course,
How To Sing Better Than Anyone Else, you can go to Ken Tamplin Vocal Academy dot com, you can click
here and get the information, which is awesome, and you can also check out my other stuff
I have on YouTube, because as I walk you through this step-by-step you’ll see there’s a
training process. I don’t just walk up and sing this stuff. No, I have to train my vowels,
and I have to train the timbre of the sound, and all that stuff, and diaphragmatic support...
This takes a LOT of diaphragmatic support, in order to be able to do this stuff effectively,
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