we tend to fall in love with our favorite vocalists based on how they sing and perform and
the songs they write but i can tell you i've never been more surprised and mind blown than the first
time i heard an interview with freddie mercury if i'm seen to be having fun on stage i think it kind
of comes across which is good there was this huge disconnect in my mind how could he sing like this
and talk like that i don't really take myself
that seriously not anymore there was a time when the early days where
our music was very pompous and very serious and people thought oh girl what a load of balls
you know and they didn't even seem like the same person and then i thought he can't be the only one
that has this massive disparity between singing and speaking what does that mean for my voice
from my speaking versus my singing so i went scouring for other contrasts like this cornell
and speaking the way he does this is the outdoorsman they don't know
anything about anything it wasn't like we completely rearranged our
approach to recording or writing records or anything we didn't really i think it's just a
matter of being bored with like one method of writing a song whether it was individuals or
as a whole and just like doing something else it's not only massively different in terms of
tambour and tone but also in emotion and engagement and axel rose you know where you are
you in the jungle baby
and this interview there'll be some songs that are acoustic going into electric back
to acoustic and stuff like that i actually play guitar in a couple songs for the first time
song called coma that is like 11 minutes and 45 seconds long with no chorus
okay it slashes baby it's his monster song used to be called girth
you hear how low and deep axel's voice is and how thin and nasally and high and
whiny he can make it when he sings and performs particularly in the studio in his younger days
and then in a completely different way michael jackson i'm two different people on and off stage
but i found a personality that's uh that's me i can't get away from that and then what
you could only label as his true meant to be self as he's vocalizing and performing
going down this rabbit hole exploring how my favorite singers talked and sung and
the differences between the two opened up a whole world for me as a singer you see
the best vocalists are not themselves when they're singing and performing i'm a big hand really i
just get on that stage and do it they are an alter ego they are an alternate version of themselves
i found a personality and with that comes all sorts of character manifestations that
plug into this alter ego and you can see it in their performances
but you don't really get a sense for how different and almost disconnected it is from what you see
when they're just communicating by speaking you depend on our protection
so i took this idea and started to explore what that meant for me as a vocalist let's just throw
what notes i'm hitting and what songs i'm singing completely out the window and decide well what
character do i want to be right now i'm not alone is it someone standing on a mountaintop gazing at
the glory of what they see or am i someone cowering in the corner after a brutal defeat
is it an excited kid on their eighth birthday i can't believe it i can't believe i got it it's
here or is it the troll that eight-year-old kid is afraid of hiding under his bed
and you will die there are lots of ways and methods that are great for exploring how
our voice works from a technique perspective best practices and a lot of those best ways
are available in my free voice course that you can click the link below in the
video description and join but i can speak from experience both bad failures and fun victories
nothing technique-wise nothing method wise or exercise wise ever worked until i got this
character mindset about the way i thought about my voice it changed everything and these singers my
favorite singers and what they have in common with how they approach their voice
is what got me started for more information on developing voice character try this video
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