Hey guys welcome back again to Ken Tamplin Vocal Academy, where the proof is in the singing!
Today I decided to take on another Foreigner piece.
The song is Juke Box Hero.
Obviously the vocalist is Lou Gramm.
And, it’s kind of a bummer, because he sort of slipped through the cracks of being, you
know, getting to icon status, maybe in Axl Rose or a Sebastian Bach, or whomever, but
this brotha is serious, and this is a tough tune to do.
So, I’m going to do it first like I always do.
We’ll talk about it after.
Lou Gramm, Foreigner, Juke Box Hero. Let's ROCK!
Okay.
That was a lot of information to negotiate.
The first thing is, if you like what you heard, please LIKE and SUBSCRIBE to my channel.
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I have a singing course called How To Sing Better Than Anyone Else.
You can click here to check that out, where I negotiate every aspect of these kinds of songs.
The very first thing is: Lou is a master at pacing himself.
And he uses a lot of sexy air on the bottom, you know, “Standing in the rain, with his
head hung low, couldn’t get a ticket, it was a sold-out show.
Heard the roar of the crowd…”
The minute he gets to the word “crowd”.
If you go back and listen to his original version, and my version here, too...
All of a sudden I shed the weight.
I don’t bring girth, or muscle mass up into the throat.
I make it small, like Michael Jackson voice.
I cover this in my course, how to get a real small sound.
And I pace myself through the whole song, so that it’s kind of like running a marathon.
You know, I don’t just kill it.
It’s not like just running a small sprint or something.
I’m pacing myself.
How much can I sustain?
How much of this have I built up?
How much stamina have I built up to be able to do this?
So, you know, you guys, if you’re willing to do my course, and go through this stuff,
we’ll pace ourselves through a verse and chorus, do that a bunch of times, get the
strength up.
Verse, chorus, next verse, next chorus, build up the strength for that.
Verse, chorus, whatever, pre-chorus, and then the big end…
And we’ll be able to pace ourselves.
Now, for you touring guys out there, or people that do ten songs, or 15 songs a night, or
30 songs, if you’re in a cover band…
You’ll notice that what we do is then, once we pace the song, the song itself is like
pacing your set.
You pace the set based on what songs you do.
And again, I cover all of this in my singing course.
So, if you guys like what you heard, again, like and subscribe to my channel.
Check out my singing course How To Sing Better Than Anyone Else, and I appreciate you guys.
Lou Gramm is the bomb.
Check out everything he’s done.
He’s super awesome.
One of my all-time favorite singers and a great mentor for me, to help me understand
how to do this.
One last quick thing I meant to mention by the way…
Is that not all mask is created equal.
He uses a lot of mask to bring the sound into the front of his face.
There’s a lot of people that use mask.
Obviously, you know, Axl Rose uses a lot of mask, and he’s one of those singers that
wasn’t an unsung hero, he, you know, got icon status, and you know, lots of people have
done this, whatever…
I’m not dissing him at all…
But Klause Meine, Stevie Wonder, pop singers Donna Summers, Celine Dion, Barbra Streisand,
like other people…
But not all mask is created equal.
So, just because I could bring a sound into my nose, you know “Take me down in the Paradise
City where the grass is green and the girls are pretty”…
Just because I can bring that into the front “Hey!
Hey!
Hey!”
I'd rather have a way to bring a warmth and a girth, and a bigness of the sound up front,
or up top, and then use mask as my second line of defense.
You know again, I’ve done this a bunch of times, but Stevie Wonder, you know: “On
New Year’s Day” I would personally sing it like “on New Year’s Day”…
I’d rather have warmth in the sound, and then bring mask into the front of the face.
So I show you guys how to do this in my course.
Hopefully you’re interested.
If not, keep checking out my tutorials.
I’ll be happy to give you information.
I feel like Julian Assange, where I’m like wiki links where I’m dropping the bomb on
like how all of this stuff really happens, for all of you who know what that means, forget it
Anyway, God bless you guys, it’s cool! Peace!
Until next time…
Keep Rockin’, and Ken Tamplin Vocal Academy.
We’re out of here.