hey chris lippe here
my chemical romance released a new song
yes
you've seen it all over you've probably
heard it all over
i have not heard it yet
i
waited to make this video so i'm gonna
listen through
and you'll see my
first and honest reaction i should say
that i absolutely love gerard way and my
chemical romance the black parade
is in my bag of desert island albums if
i can only it's probably in my top five
i love that album
gerard's voice is so dynamic and
expressive
and there's so many wonderful things to
pull from his singing i'm excited to see
what they're up to what he's up to with
his singing and his writing and if you
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one thing that gerard is really good at
is
creating
the the desire for more out of his voice
the way he starts his songs the way he
phrases and the and you can see this
when he performs live too just his
his almost withdrawn nature in some
points of the song particularly the
beginnings like with this that shows
that there's this pent-up energy waiting
to come i can't wait to
to see what happens here and this sort
of thing is enhanced by the production
to a great degree and i can hear that
already happening here
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face
spoke that word he does a lot of
speaking when he sings
keep that in mind as we go through the
rest of this but if you listen to black
parade it's littered with
vomiting words out and speaking in the
midst of singing that's part of what
makes him so expressive
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hear that very
granular sound that they've put on the
voice not only is there this reverb the
short reverb there's a longer reverb
then there's this granular thing
happening it's interesting sounding
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for dying pain
he still has it he still has this
ability
to
each word comes out with a slightly
different resonance if i die in pain
it is this sort of vomitous
thing where he
let you out
that's happening and i'm really
exaggerating it but
it creates this wonderful contrast
between withdrawn gerard and he doesn't
even have to go up in his range that
much to create such intensity and such
engagement
one thing i'm hearing again in this mix
that i don't care for in the black
parade also
they tend to bury his voice too much
when he's at his intense places in his
arrangements
there's there's more doubling than i'd
like to hear
and there's there's more verb and it's
it's set back too far in the mix i mean
i i really love the instrumentation of
my chemical romance but i'd like a
little bit more
like just in-your-face nature in terms
of the production with his vocals
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look there you couldn't even hardly hear
the word convictions i'm so buried i
realize that's part of the style
maybe i'm just old but i felt that way
when when the original my chemical
romance in the original when the black
parade came out as well
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he is truly a character
he is not afraid to make his voice sound
what most people would be thinking it
sounds weird if they tried to do it
themselves
but that's part of the the character and
energy that he exudes and because he's
fully invested in his own character
he sells it
it would be weird if you were
also self-conscious and worried about
how you sound and doing some of this
stuff
but he's not and we can't as singers
either we can't be worried about that we
can't be afraid to sound dumb likely it
doesn't sound dumb
it will sound dumb if you're
self-conscious
he's not
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i don't mind the way the voice is placed
here i i like that i just wish they'd
opened it up a little bit
for the for the course for the up part
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how he's coming off of the end of those
phrases
very spoken
co-wrote
he might be sort of hitting a pitch
but
it's much more conversational than just
singing the line and we can really take
this away from gerard's style
most of the time when you hear a karaoke
singer go out
co-wrote they're going for pitch
accuracy and that just isn't how we want
to approach especially this style of
music it's not about pitch accuracy it's
about
it's about experiencing emotion as
you're digging in to a particular
vibe of a song and then sharing that
experience with the people who are
listening or watching
don't seek after accuracy or goodness
with your voice
seek engagement and emotions
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anymore
do you hear how he sighed into that
anymore anymore
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this is the sort of off-the-cuff
desperation that you hear out of his
voice
that of course you heard it over and
over you hear it over and over again on
all the songs how he arcs his energy up
and down
that's not an easy thing to do and and
do well it can easily hurt your voice if
you're not doing it with the correct
mechanics and support he's got all that
stuff dialed in so he can truly and
purely emote
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fries
listen to how he it's difficult to hear
because his voice is is so buried
but listen to how he
starts with that with that word more
closed
and then it moves forward in resonance
of course i'm exaggerating it
but try that in your own voice
it's dark and your lyrics is low
and then as you finish the word
open it up and take note of how it feels
and then when you start working this
into lines of your own
i'm gonna fly
see how i'm dynamically moving the
resonance around and the placement of
those vowels it makes my voice way more
interesting than if i just go i'm gonna
fly
i'm gonna fly
explore those extremes
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there's one of those sighs into a scream
again love it
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not whoa
aha hunk
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i always like to hear those blatantly
spoken moments
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okay so in the last demonstration that i
just i just did with the the psy
if we can take that to another level
here
yes
this is what he's doing these are just
big sighs
and as he's sighing
you think psy from high
like that
as soon as you feel your vocal cords
engage
right there
from head voice to chest voice
lean into that sensation of that break
that transition from chest to head or
from head to chest voice
and you get that sound that's what he's
doing here
against gas and it's it's buried and
layered so you don't get much of the
pitchy tone that you hear with what i'm
doing that's part of why they layer
these sections super cool though
and you can hear it there sorry i'm
starving and stopping it so much but
it must be here
you you get a sense that he's like
breaking and cracking
out of pure passion
but you hear that pitch sort of zoned in
right there at the very end
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all that that major ruins oh that's
awesome
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fix your heart
that's how he cut that off he has all
these really drawn out screams and all
these drawn out notes and then he
intentionally reigns it in that's part
of his arranging skills and the beauty
of his
melodic intuition he knows how to work
with timing and tension and a lot of
that is
choosing to cut notes off choosing when
to let things really roast
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there's another one of those awesome
sighs he's known for this
it's one thing to listen to and just go
oh he's got a great voice it's another
thing to like draw from it and
experiment with what happens in your own
voice what kinds of things it awakens
don't try to sound like gerard way try
to take some of his approaches and then
see what happens in your own voice as
you do and you as you implement some of
these approaches
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and there's the swami cow cow
i love it how on certain vowels then as
the swarming cows
that opportunity to purposely throw the
residents back and really honk it quack
quack holes
coals cows
cows
so many opportunities there
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there's one of those more
leave space it would have been very
normal
comforts me much more
to not pay attention to those but that's
part of the ax part of the character
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yes
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oh did you hear the
coward in there
oh the layer that's so awesome he did
that subtly last time too or we've got
this this minor sounding riff and then
he puts that major third in there oh
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wow i'm getting excited to hear more new
stuff this was awesome it met my
expectations
i and i expected the mix to be a little
not what i was hoping it would be but it
doesn't matter i love their their
songwriting i love his voice so much
i will certainly be scouring the
internet for isolated vocal tracks maybe
i can get a little better view of them
at some point thanks for watching thanks
for experiencing this with me
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