Hey guys welcome back again to Ken Tamplin Vocal Academy where the proof is
in the singing. I decided to go and do a vocal coach
reacts to Justin Timberlake featuring Chris Stapleton and of course you guys
know the song's called "Say Something" it's been around for a while. I did a version
of this with my student Tori Mathieu. I would put that in the description and I
also did a version of "Tennessee Whiskey" of the vocal lick where I do a takedown
of the vocal lick in "Tennessee Whiskey" to help you guys break it down and do it
on your own. I'll put that in the description as well but you know
whenever I see big you know huge record companies or whatever entertainment
moguls and media try to combine two artists from two different genres
usually it's really awkward. It's like cutting the.. putting the..stepping a
square peg into a round hole or cutting a piece of the puzzle out to fit the
puzzle. It doesn't ever really work that well but in this case it actually it's
pretty cool. It's an interesting you know chemistry between the two of them and
combination. So with that said let's just dive right in and take a listen to
it. I have not seen this before and we're so we're seeing it together for the
first time. Here we go.
It's a catchy tune man.
Right away man great sound, great song, great production just as slick as it
gets. So yeah I gotta hand it to both of them it's it's a slick tune, slick
production.
Good singing.
Love Chris.
Now I got to say some about the lyric of this song. You know when you really think about it
you know everybody says say something say something you know I want to say
something sometimes you know it's better to say nothing at all. Well if you don't
stand for something you're gonna fall for everything
and my mom used to say something funny God rest her soul. She said stand for
what you believe in, don't believe for what you stand in and so you got this
whole song that's it kind of reminds me of Seinfeld. It's a song about nothing
and what I mean by that is it never actually comes out and says something
other than to say well I want to I want to stand for something but you know you
know about my direction, you know about by this that whatever but maybe sometimes
it's better not to say anything at all and there's truth to that.
I mean sometimes just zip the lip, shut up because maybe you're wrong or maybe
you're just n taking antagonistic or you can't say it in a way that other people
can hear it. I get that but it would have been kind of cool if you actually said
what he's talking about it in the song but the song is still really cool.
Alright let's continue.
You know that's really cool guys if you take like three chords, four chords whatever they're
playing, they play that same thing over and over again but the melody is so
catchy and the rhythm and the phrasing of it is so catchy, they can continue to
mesmerize you with the same thing and really embed this in your head. That's
pretty genius it's hard to find something that interesting to keep
your attention long enough to be able to do that and they certainly have been
able to do that in this tune so thatt's awesome.
Fact it's spot-on.
There's a key change.
Or a lift.
That be a good kind of heavy song to do wouldn't it.
Maybe I should do a heavy version of this.
Hey by the way I want to mention too both these guys are rift monsters and
they could riff all over the place right. Chris and you know actually
Justin's kind of mellowed on some stuff and he's focused a little more on
songwriting like in this case but both of them could
be riffing all over the place kinda destroying the whole vibe of the
simplicity of the song and we've talked about not over riffing and doing too much
melisma and runs and whatnot and they really work.. they constrained themselves
they you know were able to you know not just go nuts with that and ruin
the song with that you know what I mean. So it's been nice to have some
self-restraint.
Just said something said a lick. I did, I just did what I said not to do you know I'm
throwing down these licks in this song. Anyway guys that was fun hope you liked
it. If you like what you heard please like and subscribe to my channel that
would be super awesome. We have a lot more of these coming your way and until
next time God bless all you gang and peace out.
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