Hey guys welcome back again to Ken Tamplin Vocal Academy where the proof is
in the singing. Got a lot of requests for this one, it's
Bruno Mars, would you do a reaction to a Bruno Mars tune and you know the
tendency would be to go do "Uptown Funk", which have been a lot of fun. It's kind
of overdone a bit. I decided to go ahead and do "When I was your Man" because I
thought that was a little more naked for him and a little more vulnerable um I
actually did a version of this, I'll put it in the description so you can check
out my version and you know what I'd love to see, is I've seen a lot of these
vocal coach reacts to things right, I'd love to see some of these other vocal
coaches post them singing some of these songs so that we could see how their
methods actually play out within the context of the music. I'm doing that on
almost every video, where I actually sing this song so you can see what my method
does and how it relates to the songs and different styles and in different ways
so with that said let's go ahead and do Bruno Mars "When I was your Man" and well
let's pop, let's pop in soul, he's got both going on. Here here we go.
Ok so (sings)
He's got all this really cool, sexy air going on.
Now one of the things, that is kind of interesting to me and I'm sure a lot of
people would agree with this and especially with the "Uptown Funk" and some
of the even more recent stuff, you know he's kind of like the reincarnation of
Michael Jackson and in some ways as far as his upper belting register maybe even
a little better. Did I say that? Yeah actually did, Michael Jackson kinda
had a thinner you know (sings), you know (sings), you know much thinner tone and he's got
a nice big fat warm tone. Now I'm not saying that everything he does, he's
singing correctly. He's got just a fantastic, phenomenal, natural gift.
In fact if I'm not mistaken, he's from Hawaii originally and used to be an
Elvis impersonator so that's kind of funny. I could be wrong on that double
check me but I'm pretty sure I'm right. Anyway but just again, just sweet,
tender, spot-on pitch, good soul. He doesn't over sing, he doesn't overdo his
licks, you know his runs and stuff. He uses them appropriately, which is cool and
he's not afraid to write with a lot of great songwriters too instead of you
know just trying to do everything on his own which is awesome.
Good song writing. You hear kind of the
Michael Jackson (sings). You know, he's got that same kind of
tonality, kind of the same kind of swag, some of the phrasing very similar. One of
the other things that I think is really cool about this, is that it's just him and
the piano. I mean it's.. you know, it's not some big band and I know there were a
couple other artists that came along after him and did the single piano thing
too which is cool, you inspired a lot of people to just you know pare it down and..
let's get, let's get real with the music which is awesome, so let's continue.
Here we go
(sings)
Here's the bridge.
Good tone
(sings)
Nice.
Tasty.
Good emotion, good passion.
(sings)
Nice what a great tune man. You know this is no wonder the guys got what 767 million views on that.
He deserves it, that's awesome. Like I said you know there are guys like John
Legend that came in after him and did a solo piano thing and some other stuff.
Fact I did a version of the John Legend tune too so you can just google, fact
I'll go ahead and post that in the description tag too, the other John Legend
piece I did. It's very similar as far as a solo vocal in piano, but anyway guys
like I said it'd be awesome to hear some of these other vocal coaches kind of
showcase you know how they sing and how their methods work in the context of all
the different styles we're doing but anyway until next time, God bless you
guys. Ken Tamplin Vocal Academy where the
proof is in the singing. Hey check out my singing forums by the way, we've got gosh
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do all this stuff, so until next time peace out.
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