a special thank you to all of you who make requests and interact and say such wonderful
things about my videos every time I release thank you so much this particular one goes
out to a regular viewer and supporter of mine Sean Murphy who left this comment on the chalk
outlines reaction that I did about Ren here is the live version Ren chinchilla how to
be me one two one two one [Music] oh [Music]
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I don't feel safe in this bag all right we have to go back and listen to the way that
they interact I have a few things I want to say here their harmonies the way they blend
the way they make eye contact uh the way they interact is just so incredibly priceless listen
for this one slide up that chinchilla does where initially I thought oh what note is
she gonna go for and then it just kept going and going and going and hitting this beautifully
released note after building tension in the slide wow [Music] oh
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is that the right node
I thought it was gonna gonna end lower which would have been fine it would have been a
neat dissonance in light of what else they're doing here but there's already this wonderful
payoff right at the very beginning and it's live so you know it wasn't 100 on purpose
I mean she's probably going for that note but just the way it happened was you can't
you can't replicate there will never be another moment like that that's why I love live interactive
performances like this
see that one was lower
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I don't feel safe in this bed that our voices in my head I've been talking to the dead end
of fear but ties me my kingdom turn to dust listen to how quiet and narrative he is not
quite whispering but you get some fry in there some incidental textures out of the voice
not these saying I'm going to insert vocal fry right here it's that his posture his his
creative outlook on what's happening right now enables these sorts of nuances to come
out in his voice how some of the notes some of the words are more staccato than others
how his vibrato creates a contrast between the staccato and the uh and and that's that
soft subdued sound all wonderful things there's so many things going on in his voice right
now subconsciously to him but that make the experience already so engaging in me you want
to hear more I've been talking to the dead he's so quiet talking to the dead how he even
made his mouth do tall that's that's a tonal decision at some point in your practicing
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[Music] hear how she backed off on touch she she grows over him in Dynamics at some points
in how she how she works through these harmonies and then she just sort of almost mouthed that
that word creating this this prominence in his line for that moment it's a conversation
it's not a co-performance that is a co-performance but it's first and foremost this this conversation
this back and forth and even when they're both singing they're passing the Baton back
and forth my riches rust have I lost touch oh she doesn't phone it at all have I lost
touch [Music]
oh and it follows me follows me home [Music]
[Music] I said oh I can't breathe all I know
is I forgot how to be me oh I gotta go just experience that again that was I kept wanting
to say something and and just decided that I was going to keep going and it just kept
getting better and better and better [Music] I can't breathe I said oh I can't breathe
all I know
is I forgot how to be me hear how her tone gets gets uh it's it's breathier lower and
then it gets more bellish and and simple as it goes higher this happens naturally to some
singers without them thinking about it but some singers they they sort of accidentally
or unconsciously get raspier as they get higher she's able to clean it up and be more more
bellish foreign
as opposed to
this is largely due to the Mastery particularly in this section from chinchilla Ren's great
at it too but the Mastery of placement she has practiced singing notes and placing notes
not just singing them not just making them notes but thinking about how they resonate
how they feel and you can be so in tune with how your note needs to be placed when you're
singing with another singer if you have attentiveness to placement while you're singing by yourself
big big stuff here for singers [Music]
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I don't feel safe in these holes [Music]
watch wren's face here he's done this in other videos but watch how he he brings out sound
walls he's so quiet but this sounds a lot different when I'm doing this than when I'm
doing this
so much more to deliver it to vocal delivery than just what we do with our vocal cords
watch his face again
I don't feel safe in these holes you can't do that you can't get that sound any other
way
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you have about your own voice and to sort of start over in a way that helps you to be
free like these singers [Music]
are closed there his mouth is wide open and he's Whispering this sort of stage whisper
there are buddies
[Music] so loudly I wish I could move and they breathe so loudly oh what a h
it's tough to like take in the lyrics and the performance and the video all at once
on first listen but you every once in a while you get these lines uh
all right just his facial expressions I'm captivated by Ren's continual acting these
characters that come out and how he looks and what ends up happening to his sound as
he Embraces these characters that overtake him loudly I wish
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around me over and over we go
oh Gates me let's go back and listen to that I love the the passing back and forth that
it's not quite a round it's this Echo he's these two Melodies countering each other and
dancing with each other brilliant
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me
[Music] [Applause] I can't breathe [Applause] [Music]
wow
oh okay we gotta go back notice that the closed mouth um allow for further eruption into that
section [Music]
if you don't have those sorts of things built into your uh bag of tricks or or experiences
with singers with singing if you can't go from [Music] and sort of bottle up the energy
that's caused by by the resonance that's formed by having a closed mouth and singing through
your nose and then letting it in addition to creating that Dynamic shift letting the
resonance change
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brilliant and brilliantly executed let's enjoy that again
[Applause] listen again now I also want you to notice here that this is not perfectly
on Pitch correction is not being used expressiveness Dynamics interaction all so much more important
if they had been thinking about oh gotta mail those pitches gotta get those notes right
this moment would have been ruined [Music] [Applause]
and then that that part on Chinchillas where she's breaking ah she goes up and it's too
high for me right there but she she creates this gritty eye and then can't breathe she
goes up into her head voice so this this articulation again this Dynamics oh oh I can't breathe
like that in octave lower would be a version in my range think about how much more expressive
and and drawing you in that is than just oh I can't breathe there I hit the notes sort
of but [Music] I can't breathe worlds of difference
thank you [Applause] [Music]
head voice there again
oh desperation Hallelujah
she doesn't have to go into head voice neither of them have to do what they're doing their
head voice isn't being used because they can't hit the notes it's being used as an artistic
release
nothing is wrong
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on that desperation there on the how to be me almost this Bob of vibrato which you don't
hear him do all the time A lot of times it's this very wavering pitch thing but this in
this case is more of a tremolo how to be me oh it's even more desperate sounding and this
is one of those tools that he has at his disposal because he's practiced practice practice both
of these people are where they're at because of practice passion and patience not to be
totally corny but those three p's practice passion and patience exude from anything that
that Ren does patience to be able to have this long view of the making of Art and to
to practice with patience in mind that I'm not just trying to get really good so I can
say I'm really good you're patient with yourself patient with the experiences that you're having
and because you're passionate about it you can see this all over anything that Ren does
and this song extra extra heaps of that
Hallelujah
I forgot how to be me broken how to be me when he gave up the fight a quick decision
late in the night but stayed with me for all of my life I miss you so
um wow late in the night looking they stayed with me for all of my life I miss you so
this is difficult for me to say but this may be my favorite track I've heard so far from
Ren and his relatability and vulnerability that comes out in his performances and in
his lyrics it's really unmatched right now there's this transparency about Ren's art
that that is happening on all facets of his of his Creations that that is it's just so
incredibly Pleasant and refreshing I mean who who not who has not felt safe in their
in their bed and who has cried out where are you I don't understand what's happening to
me these are him like in certain ways Thank You Ren for being you thank you for being
a model of how to be yourself and to express that struggle at the same time wonderfully
brilliant relatable comforting wow again if you'd like more help exploring your own voice
learning how to bring out what's in your head what's in your ears and put it in your voice
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