Hey guys welcome back again to Ken Tamplin Vocal Academy where the proof is
in the singing. I wanted to go ahead and do a vocal
coach reacts to Eric Clapton. Now Eric Clapton was a big influence in my life
my older brother used to blast you know "Sunshine Of Your Love" and I was just a
little kid through these big speakers and it would wake me up every Saturday morning
and a lot of songs like that I mean he's known for "Layla", he's known for oh my
gosh "I Shot The Sheriff". I mean I could go on and on and on. Some of you guys
probably remember him way back when for bands like The Yardbirds, Jimmy Page from
Led Zeppelin came out of that band. Of course there's Blind Faith, there's Cream
there's a lot of other groups but I wanted to react to this song "Tears In
Heaven. Now this song has a special place in my heart because my heart goes out to
him. He's a three-time Hall of Fame inductee and Grammy award-winning guy
whatever but in this particular case this song was about his son who actually
fell out of a balcony window I think it was in New York City around the age of
four and that's pretty significant so he he had this song kind of percolating in
his mind and he wound he wound up writing it for a movie soundtrack later
and it became one of his biggest quote-unquote hits and some of the songs
some of the lyrics in the song are so prescient and so painful you know
because he said you know talking about his son tears in heaven I hope you
haven't do it okay up there but you know I'm not good enough to go to heaven so I
guess I'll never see you again and it just gut-wrenching lyric. Now later in
life I heard that he became a Christian and that he said you know that he really
does feel like he is gonna get to see his son again so but anyway but there's a
lot of backdrop to this story and to the song so I want to go and do a reaction
to it but I also want to point out, let me grab my guitar over here. This kind of
progression that he's doing though he adds a lot of extra flavor to it, is a
pretty typical like that's a bad of choice of words but a progression that's
used a lot for songwriting for ballads and emotive ballads and the progression
is just.
Like right right and the reason I bring this up is because there's a lot of
groups that have used this same progression an example of this is David
Gates for example in a band called Bread and he had a song called "Everything I
Own". It goes
Right so now that's a David Gates song. Now notice the similarities of that song and
"Tears In Heaven" and ironically that song was a song David Gates wrote about his
dad who died I think he died the year I was born like 1963 or something. Long time ago.
Anyway um and it was a song that his heart was just broken because his dad
never got to see his success in the band Bread and then later gosh he went on to
Bread.. let me see I think I wrote a couple things down here. David Gates you
probably that was "Everything I Own". He had a song called "Diary" you probably
remember "Goodbye Girl", "The Guitar Man". I mean it was just a plethora of
absolutely amazing songs but so let's go ahead and react to Eric Clapton and I
chose like I said "Tears In Heaven". It's the acoustic version and let's just go ahead and
rock on this sucker. Let's see here it is.
So beautiful and now that you know what the lyrics about, it's even more moving I think.
So beautiful.
See the similarity in the progression I just played.
That's another well known progression here.
Cause I know I don't belong here in heaven. Gosh could you imagine losing a
loved one. I you know I've lost a few especially your son to such a tragic
event like that and feeling like that's it and I think that was what was
interesting it that maybe drove him to his faith in Christ and then becoming a
Christian and believing that he is gonna see his son again. So I wanted to put
that in there because I think it's important to songwriting that a lot of
things that go beyond just this life seem to have a much longer life in this
life. Talking about things in another life if that makes sense. So a lot of
life's going on there but anyway let's continue.
What a beautiful piece man.
Beautiful man.
Cause I know I just can't stay here in heaven gosh you almost get weepy
thinking about that. Um anyway I do want to point out something else too you know
guys like this are so talented and they're such great songwriters. He's one
of the few guys that were able to like "Layla" is a good example of this, where he
was able to write a song that he did way back when and then cover his own song
and it become a hit again doing it in a different more slow in a slower motif
and style and he.. what he did was, he didn't you know do something so outrageously
different about his own song "Layla" other then his audience grew up and so he
wrote it sort of in the context of the mood and motif of the age of his
audience. So I think that's genius but anyway let's continue.
Tasty, tasty guitar player man.
What a great line because that's the truth I believe and I
know there'll be no more tears in heaven that's actually a scripture. So I just I
love good songwriting guys I'm one of these guys that is is a sucker for just
a great lyric and just a beautiful haunting melody, a timeless melody like
that. Now if you look at a lot of music today and I'm not gonna bag on it but
it's pretty thin when it comes to really prescient lyrics and really deep thought
out you know I don't know just like I said beautiful, legendary lyrics like
that and then the playership of it too. You know there is no samples going on
and it's just an acoustic and just a band around him and it really drives
home the story well I believe so let's continue.
Great little Beatles motif there.
Truth is none of us belong in heaven but there is grace.
Um he makes it available to us so it's awesome.
Good stuff.
Anyway guys well I hope you appreciated that and liked it as much as I did.
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through all these different little tasty things. So a lot of people say you know
Ken you just belt it and I say no I actually love (sings)
I love singing sweet tasty acoustic things like that by the way that was the same
progression as the David Gates Bread song and then you know um I know
He has this really beautiful Beatles progression so I actually in my course too
by the way I have a whole tutorial on how to write songs and I I walk you
through all the steps of those really cool progressions so in the event you
want to reuse them or or do like you don't use them exactly the same you
obviously embellish them the way you would do it but anyway you can come up
with some beautiful lyrics and melodies over the top of those that will help a
lot alright thanks for joining me and akin again until next time peace out.
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