Hey guys welcome back again to Ken Tamplin Vocal Academy. I'm Ken Tamplin
and I'm doing a series and the series is called What Makes This Singer Great and
before we get started if you please like and subscribe to my channel that would
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coming your way. I have a singing course and the course is called How to Sing
Better Than Anyone Else you can find it right here at Ken Tamplin Vocal
Academy.com where we discuss all these different ways of getting to these
awesome places of these awesome singers. So next up is Ozzy Osbourne. So I guess
the real question is not only what makes this singer great but what first comes
to mind when you think of this singer because often times it's not just their
their musical ability or their artistry or their calisthenics as a singer or
whatever. Oftentimes its eccentricities that makes them great too. So for me and
I'm just gonna say for me, biting off a bats head comes to mind or spooky, dark
lyrics you know bestial things, things that go bump in the night. That comes to
mind. Ozzy also surrounded himself with incredible musicians particularly guitar
players I mean you know Zakk Wylde and Jake E. Lee and Brad Gillis who actually
you know the what's his name Jeff Watson from Night Ranger played on one of my
records called Wake The Nation's. Anyway catchy melodies, big, anthemic, catchy
melodies. Ozzy was very good at that. He also wandered back and forth on stage
a lot so you always see Ozzy kind of like going like this, kind of (sings) that's what I think of when
I think of Ozzy,. I think of the show The Osbournes. Like I said it may not be
necessarily the one thing that made him great in his singing and Black Sabbath
you think of Black Sabbath but it could also mean you know what made him great
from like Steven Tyler, a lot of people think of him from American Idol not just
Aerosmith right. So the show The Osbournes. Sharon Osbourne I mean she's
in the media a lot so she's very vocal outspoken person and good manager,
very tough, tough businesswoman. So that that for me and then then the
other thing too is I think of Ozzfest you know right, all the different people
that are playing on Ozzfest. I think of kind of a trance-like state
like Ozzy's always in kind of a you know a trance or something right but anyway
songs would be "Crazy Train", we've got gosh what do we have Randy Rhoads by
the way I forgot that's another person comes to mind when I think of Ozzy. We've
got" Ironman", we've got "War Pigs", we've got "Paranoid", we've got a lot of different
songs that Ozzy's done. So I've told, I've chosen a couple of live pieces that I want
to focus on of Ozzy so we can get a flavor for that and we'll talk more
about his actual vocals and singing artistry now, here we go.
See there he goes.
Now he's gonna go back.
That's Brad Gillis on guitar right there from Night Ranger.
There he goes back and forth.
There's those eyes.
Yeah that's right I forgot the makeup
around the eyes is something else. Right.
Okay so he's (sings)
he's got that real kind of droney sort of sound but he also has a really cool
unique very identifiable tone. So the minute Ozzy comes on you know it's Ozzy
right and it doesn't matter if it's all the way back in Black Sabbath with "War
Pigs" or you know stuff like this. So there's that and he also has a very
focusedness about him, he's very focused in what he does and he he's very one,
I don't wanna say one-dimensional but um very focused, there's Ozzy right there trying to
get a hold of me. Should have turned my ringer off anyway very focused guy and
the other thing too is when he chose, chooses, chose his musicians, they're very
hand picked like he chose people like Brad that could actually pull off the
solo of "Randy Rhoads" in a song like this or maybe Sharon probably helped out
with that. So he's very deliberate in who he surrounds himself with his musicians
and whatnot. Bob Daly, other people like that so.
And by the way these songs are pretty high, they're pretty hard to sing, it's not as low as you might think.
See back and forth.
I learned this song when I was a kid on guitar, every note. Looks like Sarzo on bass.
Good lyrics. I think Bob Daly wrote this lyric here.
Now let's remember man these guys are up there in their years and they're still
out there kicking butt. It's amazing that you know Ozzy's back and forth just doing
his thing and still rocking a free world. That's pretty amazing.
You know he's had some health issues lately so.
Ok by the way I did this song too so you can check out my version, I'll put it in
the description tag but I did my own cover version of this and I think I got
it pretty close. I sing it like me, I didn't try to sing it like him cause he
doesn't annunciate his words very well and I like to understand a little bit
more what I'm singing when I sing. Not too much because I actually in my course
I talk about the vocal tract shaping and how not to over shape the vocal tract
too much when you sing because it's easier to sing especially in the higher
register. So I cover that in my singing course.
Amazing. 3 instrumentalists, drums, bass and guitar making all that sound.
Brad Gills is an exceptional guitar player.
and he's gonna do the solo so if you guys want to check that out you can see
how well they did but anyway I think there's keyboards up there somewhere
up in the rafters up in the top left. So maybe it was four instrumentalists
excuse me but anyway guys I'm doing a whole series on this so if you have a
suggestion for me on who you want to hear what makes this singer great, please
put it in the comment sections. That would be awesome. Also if I missed
something, it was something else that comes to your mind when you think of
Ozzy, please put that in the comment sections as well so it'd be a
well-rounded explanation and/or a fun time that we can have sharing what we
think of when we think of Ozzy. So I've got a slew of these coming your way gang
so stay tuned for the next video because it'll be another great vocal
demonstration here we go.