Hey guys welcome back again to Ken Tamplin Vocal Academy where the proof is
in the singing. I got a few requests for Alicia Keys so
I thought I would do a vocal coach reacts to Alicia Keys and I chose the
Alicia Keys John Mayer version that they did live and I also did this with my
student Tori Matthieu so I'll put that in the description tag and you can
see how we did "If I Ain't Got You" but with that said let's just dive right in.
It's outdoors, it's tough to play outside.
Hard to hear yourself outside sometimes
eww little pitchy she's great thought I love Alicia.
Nice tone very sweet very sensitive.
Little pitchy again.
She's singing really light.
Nice.
Like I said I love live music there's no tracks yet. I doubt there will be.
She's got a lot of hair man.
That's a sign of health by the way. I'll have you know.
Cool.
First of all ok few a few things like I said it's hard to sing outside
sometimes you know you can't really hear yourself as well so there could be a
factor in that. Another thing is too, she's standing on a piano and I should have
backed this up but you can back it up and take a look with one leg and it's
really hard to be in a one leg position that whole time where you're standing on
one leg. I'm surprised she's able to do that cause I know a lot of rock guys that
have done that you know with their keyboards and they tell me how
their legs get super cramped even after a couple songs so that's a tough
position to be in standing up and playing like that FYI
Cool.
Nice.
That's cool.
I wonder what time of year it is cause in Times Square I mean it gets freezing
cold and I mean freezing cold in outdoor concerts. In fact I learned a trick I
mentioned this one other time in one of my videos. We used to play a lot of
outdoor venues too like throughout Europe and stuff and sometimes it would
land in this summer or winter excuse me end of summer and then on in to winter
few outdoor festivals though because they know better but there are a
few and what I want to do for you guitar players out there, it'll kind of trip you
out but it really works is um you can take a latex glove on your hands and you
can take that glove get the thin ones don't get the thick ones like the
doctors use and then cut off the fingertips right out you know the you
know the curved line for your your finger just cut them off right there and
it keeps your hands warm as you play so if you're playing an outdoor event. You got to
practice with it first because there is a little bit elasticity in it where you
got to get used to the pull and the tug on the hand but you can actually play
outside and your hands don't get anywheres near as cold as you like
freezing cold out in like Times Square maybe in November/December or some
thing so. Just for a little tip for you to guitar players out there.
That's nice. What a..by the way what an unusual mix John Mayer and
Alicia Keys but it works it's cool huh I really appreciate that. It's neat.
Now by the way John's had some vocal trouble and...cause there's a lot of reasons he's not singing correctly you know.
That's fun, it's so fun to jam with great players man.
I think they make kind of a cute couple don't you. John Mayer and Alicia Keys. It's kind of an interesting chemistry. Just saying.
I see a little twinkle in her eye the way she's looking at him.
See what I mean about her standing on one foot on one leg. Imagine standing on one
leg that long that time. Try it like a stork man it's tough. You know the
interesting thing too is this chemistry this interaction, she's actually singing
to him and she really is singing to him like she's impressed with him or something
and he's singing to her kind of you know with a mutual admiration and respect.
Also so she's not really singing to the audience and singing for the audience.
They truly are singing with the synergy of singing together so it's kind of an
interesting sight you know. It's kind of like the Lady Gaga thing at the Grammys you
know even though I don't think that was their best performance, I thought that
there was a lot of great synergy there too. I even said that way before right when
it first came out and then all of a sudden I guess everyone parroted or you
know felt the same way so let's let's continue.
Tasty. It's nice.
He's a good guitar player.
He looks like Joe Cocker.
Hey play that great you can make any face you want.
Now as he goes on, in his defense too not that
he needs one. You know I've seen Mayer quite a few times and his shows are
always different and whenever they get into their instrumental breaks, they're
always unique you know it's kind of like the Trucks Tedeschi band or Tedeschi
Trucks band. You know they get in these fabulous
you know improvisation and instrumental improvisation and he just throws down
man. It's always different it kind of depends on the mood and it depends on his
mood, audience mood. You know what song they came off of and whatnot but they
always throw together these really coherent awesome ebb and flow instrumental
breaks that are really cool, kind of like he's doing right now or did a minute ago
but let's continue.
It's nice.
By the way is it just me or that new you know hairdo and what kind of looks like
Brad Paisley a little bit am I am I you know. Am I seeing it or what you tell me
you put in the description or you put in the comments and see if he's
kind of like Brad Paisley going on man.
Okay I gotta say one thing about John. I always wanted to hear him do "Brown-Eyed
Girl". I think with his voice type he'd fit that song really well what do you
guys, think you tell me. But anyway alright here's Alicia throwing
down let's check it out.
It's nice.
A little flat.
Yeah little pitchy there. So she makes up for it with charisma.
Twice as much ain't twice as good. Ain't that the truth.
I have to make another comment sorry I'm comment Ken today. Anyway it was funny I had an
engineer his name was Dave Jansen, he just passed not that long ago from
cancer in his leg. A lot of cancer going on these days guys but anyway he had a
phrase about one of my albums, it was a Shout album and he coined this phrase
it was when way too much is only the beginning. I'm guilty as charged
I used to like just man pack my albums and songs with so much stuff it's crazy
so I appreciate that line.
Got tha BB King vibrato.
It's nice.
Tasty.
That's a hard tone to play with because it's so thin there's no distortion and
gain to the sound.
I love the freeness of the sound it's so free and open and nice.
Again what I love about this is everyone's playing for the song there's no
superstars here like it's a pocket for everyone there's a little tasty lick
here, there's no overplaying, there's really not a ton of over-singing.
There is a little bit not too much it fits the song but everyone's playing
for this song they're not playing for themselves and I know I've said that before but it
really makes for mature musicians and a great performance in a great band where
it just creates a lot of space so that when that instrumentalist comes out up with
a solo or something it really highlights it in a beautiful way. I have a term that
I like to say it's like apples of gold in settings of silver so it's like this
perfect little you know touch, life touch you know but anyway you get the
point so here we go.
That was tasty. How fun would that be to you know be
in Times Square and just walk up on Alicia Keys and John Mayer playing that'd be so
cool.
I'm jealous.
Like Larry Carlton there a little bit. His tones even like Larry Carlton
a little bit there.
For you guitar players out there.
Good luck with that one dude.
Very nice. Very nice. Tasty. How cool was that.That was fun. Alright you guys Ken Tamplin
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single one of these big hits or as many as we can get to and we're doing a lot
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