I really couldn't resist doing a first time reaction slash vocal analysis of Ren's murderer
because his live performances always catch me off guard for being so incredibly good
in very unique ways like per song like I know they're going to be good but the way he adapts
the studio version for a live setting is always so incredibly interesting so I haven't watched
this yet I'm excited to get into it with you and please say hi to my napping dog Miska
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in the streets foreign
[Music] he's so playful he lets all these incidental things happen with his voice and
then he makes them feel or sound intentional listen to that that exit on that note
let's go like
[Music] was he running out of breath I don't know the note sounded great then he allowed
himself to exit into fry and then playfully puts you in a good mood to hear what's coming
next there is absolutely zero I better I better set people up to make like this performance
and I better be good I better do things that that are right there's freedom in his performances
really interested to hear how this comes out if you catch me alone you better get on my
zone because I'm ready to kill I'll sit on my Throne maybe about these and Bones because
I'm mentally ill I'm feeling alive I got the will to survive so never test my skill for
goodness sake man I'm ready to break mine murderer homies
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murderer
homie do you see how much he gets his face involved if you weren't watching him you you
wouldn't like picture his face being the way it is but it brings out an extra level of
expression and engagement let's go back particularly during the Scott sections he really is manipulating
his face some might say oh wow he's this is a lot of tension he's really tense not at
all completely the opposite he's bringing out the character in his voice and the character
in his character that he's portraying by using his face it also shapes the tone and adds
an extra bit of expressiveness this is apparent in in all of Ren's songs but it's especially
apparent in these RAW live performances and we best not label it tension we best label
it engagement and intensity
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he's not doing that because he has to or because he's tense he entered into that moment and
in that moment he's just this over the word kill right
kill he's ready to kill this is an expressiveness you catch me alone you better get on my zone
because I'm ready to kill I'll sit on my phone maybe buddies and Bones because I'm mentally
ill love is Will to survive so never test my skill for goodness sake man I'm ready to
break my murderer homie it's the way that I get down
[Music] my mother swing for your join the first round we're talking [Music] down wrong
I was born Shameless fighting out and Brighton with the neighbors brother I should murder
what my name is I was born famous trends at the heart step by greatest shocking like a
finger in the anus I was born wasted stoned out my brains but the faded writing couch
he said that boost contagious I was born courageous naked and [ __ ] outrageous with the microphone
I broke stages I jump upon the rhythm of rhyme Miss Cyclone I pull it scalloped right out
the stone King Punk the Precision that hits like Stallone Rocky keep it cocky I'll be
Al Capone I Walk Alone sit upon the office Throne if you want it I'll deny it like a
mortgage loan your door is home we'll be staying home alone condone the bone eat it like a
Toblerone [ __ ] if you catch me ah one of my favorite artists of all time Chris Cornell
said of his last album that he recorded if the song couldn't work with really simple
acoustic guitar played in the bathroom it wasn't going to go on the album I'm paraphrasing
a little bit the fact that we can get lost in the Simplicity that's present in this video
there's nothing fancy going on with the guitar there's nothing that difficult about what's
going on with the vocals although rapping scouting singing being engaged like he's doing
it you know it's it's definitely a practiced skill and you know that could be a whole other
video but my point is we can get lost in this song and totally drawn in even though and
because of the simplicity it works in this setting so well and it works in the fully
produced setting we saw a little bit ago I feel like it works equally well that is the
mark of a great song the position that hits like Stallone Rocky keep it cocky I'll be
out component I Walk Alone sit upon the office I love that line and I love it how he's I
love how he says it I mentioned this in the original how he's going in and out of his
different registers Rocky keep it cocky being really playful he's not locked into this sort
of monotone thing I think a lot of us may be wrongfully so associate with typical rap
because with the microphone I block stages I don't want the Rhythm my rhyme Miss Cyclone
I pull it scallop right out the stone King Punk the Precision that hits like Stallone
Rocky keep it cocky I'll be out component I Walk Alone sit up on the office Throne if
you want it I'll deny it like a mortgage loan your door is home we'll be staying home alone
condone the bone eating like a Toblerone [ __ ] I love the rhythmic interplay
he's doing so many things that are so in interesting if you catch me alone you better stay on my
zone because I'm ready I'll sit on my phone make the buddies and Bones because I'm meant
to live I'm feeling alive I got mentalism
the playfulness it just it puts you at ease it makes you feel like you're right there
with him on this little Hill about these and Bones because I'm meant to live I got the
will to survive so never test my skill you know what it gives you permission to be yourself
even when you're just listening but certainly when you're when you're performing by seeing
how how good yet intentionally free and laid back he is I'm playful
I'll sit on my phone made the buddies and Bones because I'm meant to live I'm feeling
alive I got the will to survive so never test my skill for goodness sake my homebody to
break mine murder homie it's the way to I get down [Music] fat and the rhythmic interplayer
it's this triplet thing that's happening over a very plotting sort of straight beat Ren's
setting up a whole Rhythm Section and there aren't that many instruments there for goodness
sake man I'm ready to break [Music] it down [Music] if you see me on the corner by my
town get back back [Music] that was cool I like that little improv there [Music] it's
not a murderer
really lengthen the end of murderer
he's playing his voice like it's an instrument he's not just singing and these are the kinds
of things most vocalists are afraid to play with because they think they'll sound dumb
he sounds way better because he's not afraid of sounding dumb but you could argue there's
a lot of taken out of context dumb things going on with his voice
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thank you
foreign
I don't want to stop but I want to hear the guitar solo again
and then how he goes into that section afterward it's 2023 I'm sitting here next to my computer
listening to a guitar solo thanks Ryan
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thank you
[Music] anymore I line them up against the wall and I don't mean lyrical bullets I mean
I actually [ __ ] kill him squeeze the trigger and pull it there's just so many different
like I think about myself sitting in my room when I was 16 experimenting with with these
bluesy lines over my buddy who's jamming in the corner like I've got that going through
my head and then he he shifts out of that like it's just me right back into this context
with how he with what he does with his voice right after the guitar solo
bullets on me I actually [ __ ] kill him squeeze the trigger and Pull It blood Splat
how's it going live Rhymes are flowing my trust I'm a pro with that seats are sewing
bad boy I'm an addict volcanic Twisted than mine the Rhymes breathe I seize the land sky
in the Seas it sees he's seeing me freestyle freely what man yeah I can't no rock man Drop
it like it's off huh where we're close from Oxford God damn I am a blood sucking Titan
from my streets of Brighton hit you with my right hand soccer if you catch me alone you
better get on my zone because I'm ready
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[Music] but the road homie is the way to I get down addiction really matters how you
shape words in the musical context really can make or break a hook
is the way to get down
see me on the corner of my town and get back back
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that was awesome
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I love the staccato see that's the kind of thing that I will like lift and use as a vocal
exercise for me to just experiment and get more in touch with my voice and how it works
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that's staccato that's really hard to do especially that tempo
oh hold me it's the way that I get down [Music]
and then on an e vowel
goes from a high thin chest to a mixed note and then goes down into his falsetto but it's
even cooler listen to how he exits out of his falsetto on that lower note
changes the vowel there's all these little subtleties that make this so intriguing staccato
open like a vowel and then he goes to e which is he went to this vowel because when you're
up there
it's actually more natural when you when you go to a more closed vowel like an e vowel
to want to transition to your head voice but I love how he puts his chest voice back in
as he exits from that note [Music]
I
oh
beautiful when was the last time you lifted an inspiring little snippet from one of your
favorite vocalists Ren has fastly become one of my favorite vocalists and it's so fun to
take those little things out and see what my voice does with it I never would have sung
like that or tried anything like that had not heard him do it try it yourself pick your
favorite moment out of this song Try singing it try experimenting with it except the fact
that it won't sound anything like Ren but that it'll be uniquely you and you were inspired
by music that you love thanks again Ren for another great performance of a great track
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