hey Chris Liepe here it's about time we talk about Louis Capaldi this is my first time
hearing wish you the best and we're gonna do a vocal analysis along with my first time
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my free voice course here we go Louis Capaldi wish you the best knowing what you're thinking
and hearing how your day has been do you think you can tell me everything
though let's go back and let's listen specifically for the quality of Lewis's rasp this is one
of the qualities about his voice that is just magnetic and and so beautiful there's a way
that we can put this in our voices as well
and here and how your day has been do you think you can tell me everything darling let's
just work with that one note darling darling that's nowhere close because there isn't this
presence to it it's flat it's dead not flat in Pitch but darling but if we think about
holding back just a little bit of air As we sing that note talk like an old man say darling
darling well that doesn't sound that doesn't sound like what Lewis is doing however it
does a little bit did you hear that Sheen that presence that came that air darling
ah so if we start by bringing the old man voice in but then we direct that sensation
higher in our throat so no down here like this like that da da and then put the note
back in darling darling it works do you think you can tell me everything darling but leave
out every part about him he's doing it very subtly because he's worked with the balance
in a neat way we'll talk more about how to balance it as we go on here
but leave out every part about him right now you're probably by the ocean
while I'm still out here in
the looking system to that line it's rasped while I'm still out here in the rain with
every day that passes by since we've spoken it's like Glasgow gets farther from me maybe
now listen to LA this kind of gives away a bit of his approach because the air that gives
us that Sheen is just as important as the note in the way he sings It's like Glasgow
gets farther from me did you hear L.A
and again I'm really exaggerating it but there was the sense that the note was then removed
and he was just relying on that
La it's like this compressed Psy where we're thinking about holding back air like an old
man
directing it higher and then removing the note
when I start doing it more subtly it really starts to make sense
like Glasgow gets farther from me
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I gotta hear that eruption in the chorus again that was amazing [Music]
listen here first of all he goes into that beautiful head voice and keeps that Sheen
that we are talking about
maybe it's supposed to be this way it's really it's supposed to be this way into this sizzly
[ __ ] chest voice it's so powerful maybe it's supposed to be this way foreign
[Music]
again just like the beginning it doesn't really work but oh my love no I'm hitting the notes
okay there's some things that he's doing whether he's fully aware of it or not we can pull
from his voice and make our voice a little bit more interesting but oh my love no however
do you notice how he's he there's this little chirp or almost sigh out of that let's start
there maybe used to be
this part of my life my love my love
so he really leans into that but oh but oh my love ah by really get leaning into it like
that and then releasing out of it we prevent tension from creeping in because we're fully
investing and then we're going it's like a little Sprint of intensity rather than mentally
trying to get ready for oh now I got to be really loud and powerful and present the whole
song now there's this Dynamics even within this little line listen one more time
[Music] and there it's not quite the Sigh like I just did where I chirped up
it's more of an abandon to fry uh
so it's almost like he's cutting it off like uh
but then abandoning into fraud frog
really great singers have these nuances in their entrances and exits to their notes because
it keeps them free Dynamic and their performance arced one of the main problems that struggling
singers have is that they try to go at one dynamic or sing with one tone but there's
all these little quirks in his voice that's both making it interesting and keeping him
free to explore his full range of sound and notes
I want I wanna say I miss the Green in your eyes and when I said we could be friends [Music]
who wish me you never left little side he's got these little sides all over the place
so he's he's compressing into that that old man compression placed high was like you never
left wish like you never left I wanna say I was left
[Music]
alone [Music] he really leaned into that there's a little bit of a stop at the listen wrong
again
wrong he followed fell off wrong and then
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you can't unhear those the best best you can't unhear that stuff once you really get into
it again this is a this is a technique for vocal freedom and not just a cool sound I
can't stress that enough [Music] sorry and I guess that I should tell you I'm sorry sorry
notice the longer sorry lower larynx longer Vocal Track presentation as opposed to sorry
sorry
it's cool it seems I was the problem somehow
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that way that he leans in right before he exits to his head voice that's a really cool
Dynamic idea but all my life
[Music] I like that never never left never left I wanna say that I wish you never left
by injecting lots of different ways try it yourself don't necessarily try to keep up
with him or the lyrics or even his notes but take this idea of leaning in and abandoning
out sighing out of certain notes As you move around see what happens
[Music]
[Music] you never left oh but instead I only wish you the best I love how only instead
I only
that holding back air is helping him get that wonderful like gritty sound it takes on more
of a grit than a rasp when he gets higher uh I think that's cool that's a normal thing
to happen is you add more air intensity sometimes your rasp can turn into more of a just a sizzling
sounding distortion
[Music] I gotta hear that again
[Applause] [Music] [Applause] he is sighing out of every single one of those notes [Applause]
[Music]
but I want you happy with the Lord is with me I wanna see I wish that you never left
now some people have sort of a natural rest without thinking about it because of the way
they've trained themselves to speak maybe because of the way that their their voice
box naturally works or is built some people have more rasp than others but don't let that
keep you from experimenting with some of these things this can become natural as we Infuse
it into our voice and as we practice [Applause]
into everything I need that's a cool chord change [Music]
it's super fun to pick up on some of those subtleties that Lewis is doing with his voice
I haven't listened to a lot of Lewis Capaldi but I plan on listening to more again if you'd
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and put them in your own voice and know how to experiment safely and confidently click
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