Hey everybody 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. Now
before we get started if you'd please like and subscribe to my channel that would
be awesome. Don't forget to ring that bell so I can keep more videos coming
your way and I have a singing course and the course is called How to Sing Better
Than Anyone Else where we discuss all of these different techniques of what made
these singers great in hopes to make you great so I chose Steven Tyler as
our next vocalist and you know I should've, I should have subtitled this
series what first comes to mind when you think of this singer because it's not
just their singing abilities but it's all of the characteristics that come
along with the singer that helps make them great or helps make them unique and
memorable. So I think of Steven he's pretty flamboyant right. You know he's
doing..almost got this sort of bombastic you know characters about him. He's kind of
mysterious and he's kind of fringy he's um got like a caricature or something
you know you could almost see him like as a doll they would sell in a you know a
toy store or something right. He's just got that vibe about him. He's a rock star
through and through. I mean let's admit it. He's just got confidence for days and
he can walk into any situation and I mean any situation and throw down and
just captivate you right and mesmerize you with his talent. So he's a character
for sure. He's very unique, very unique vocal style. He's got a lot of vocal
range, in fact early on in the early Aerosmith days he was called the
screamin demon. So he definitely has a really high..and I think he got that
from some of the songs like you know "Toys In The Attic", "Dream On" of course
which we're gonna talk about in a minute you have other songs "Cryin", "Love In An
Elevator", "Dude Looks Like A Lady". I mean I've got a lot of hits that we can refer
to for him. So his phrasing, his vocal phrasing was very unique. I like that a
lot um and as much as I talk against singing with a lot of nasality, it works
to his advantage, kind of like it works for Axl Rose and other people like that
that that's just part of this style. So he brings that in a lot and in his sort
of buzzsaw kind of sound with his voice. I like that um he's pretty ubiquitous
and what that means he's kind of like everywhere all at the same time. I
mean we saw him on American Idol for a long time,
we've seen his stuff in movies and you know he's just kind of always around
somewhere. You see him doing something funny or cool right.
Very energetic on stage he was quite the frontman, quite the showman and just
tons of stamina so I put together a little montage. We'll do this first and we'll
talk more about his singing styles as we go. So let's check it out, here we go.
Legendary. That's another thing that comes to mind.
Writing timeless music comes to mind.
It's not a fad.
Now another thing is along with his timelessness and the way he does..
presented his art, he's also very unique in his compositions, he's not just in
old "Dream On" stuff but like a lot of later stuff like "Crazy" and and just you
know different "Love In An Elevator" these different songs we talked about. He's
always got some unique twists where the song will go you, take you go in a completely
different direction before you come back to the hook and a lot of songs don't do
that. They you know either not great songwriters that write those songs or
they just kind of drone along with the same concept or the same idea in a song
and he always kind of goes far left, far right and then comes back to center
of the hook and so he makes it sound very interesting and worth listening to
again and very timeless. So really appreciate that about his songwriting
and he's an instrumentalist also so that's great.
Not just a singer whatever that means right.
Okay now I did "Dream On" myself and that scream is just all completely falsetto
with a little bit of distortion in it and he's pretty notorious for doing that
when he goes up into higher register, he uses that sound a lot. I'm gonna go ahead
and put my version of "Dream On". I'll put it in the description so you guys can
check out and see how I did. I actually doubled up on the end and went even
higher than he did in the song just for fun and did the lick twice, he only does
it once where he hits the one high note I think it's a G or something. I have to look it up
but um and I will go ahead and go a little higher than he does in the song
but let's continue here we go.
"Walk This Way" I mean could you imagine writing a song like that.
This is great.
Looks like at a wedding or something.
He's a really good sport to walk up and do stuff like this
right so he's a character.
I had to put this in here to show his funny side.
See naked he sounds great. Naked vocally I mean.
This is great.
This is more entertaining, I think in some ways then the original.
Still singing the notes man.
See what I mean by the scream.
Ok now he just underwent throat surgery. Steven Zietels whose one of the bigg..
of the greatest otolaryngologists ENTS out of Boston who did his surgery, did
Adele's surgery, Sam Smith's surgery, a lot of different people. He's recovered nicely
from that. He did quite a bit of vocal training to get his voice back and he's
singing better than ever after his surgery so that's super awesome but like
I said, he's just a character, he can walk into any situation like this and this
is like a perfect example. He could be.. see some guy busking one of
his songs and he'll walk up and join in and I love what he's done too like again
outside the characteristics of Steven, you know doing Janie's House, you guys know
about that where he's does a women's shelter for um for uh moms and you know
in need and single moms and also recovery houses. So he's just, he's giving
back. He's just doing a lot of cool stuff. So he's the real deal man, the guy's been
around for forever, just legendary and like I said write.. written some of the
greatest, most timeless stuff and "Walk This Way" is one of my all-time favorite
songs and guitar solos too by the way so. I think of great guitar too and I think of Joe Perry.
Is he saying that to the bride.
You gotta love this guy right.
You gotta love him. So anyway guys so I'm doing this
promote.. predominantly for the most part by request. So if you have a singer you'd
like me to cover please put that in the comments sections and we'll see what
makes that singer great. Also if I've left anything out, what comes to your
mind when you think of Steven Tyler and Aerosmith and I've got a bunch of these
coming your way so stick around because I got my next video coming up right now.