Hey guys welcome back again to Ken Tamplin Vocal Academy where the proof is
in the singing. I wanted to do a vocal coach reacts to
The Police in particularly Sting and the reason for that is Sting is just a
talent to be reckoned with. I mean I remember when the police first came out
and of course the song "Roxanne" came on and I want to have share a funny story
with you about that in a second and then I heard the lyrics this guy was
writing and everybody at that time was vying for uniqueness and greatness and
you know professionalism and and so forth and Sting and The Police were no
exception I mean when they came out, it was just like whoa like what is this
right. So I'm gonna go ahead and do a vocal coach reacts oh my funny story.
I was at my my son's high school graduation and I was starving and
they went into the bleachers and I had like 45 minutes to spare so I stopped
across the street to get a hamburger at a restaurant and through the intercom
system you know Roxanne comes on and so I was trying to send my wife a note
through Siri which is the thing you talk into and it does dictation, this is kind of
when it first got started getting popular. So I've got this you know you
know all of a sudden it goes Roxanne you don't have to put up the red light and
it's going right into my phone and it's reading it word for word I'm like ah this is
scary and I try instead of trying to try to click it off I made a mistake and
actually hit the send button my wife comes back she goes what are you talking
about I'm like I'll have to explain it later anyway silly story but let's do "Roxanne".
This is Sting and this is The Police here we go.
It's like unique reggae or something right with like a punk sort of new wavy twist
to it.
Okay now I want to say something about this. Now it is really hard
especially on bass, to play funky bass grooves that are kind of you know
off-center of like a normal you know two to four rhythm or whatever but he
does a phenomenal job of being able to sing and play bass. Now I know you
know there's guys like Geddy Lee and a lot of people that play bass and sing too
but I'm just pointing this out along the way so and then he's not missing a note
singing he's not missing a note playing, the band is spot-on tight really
cool.
Why does he look young there. We're all getting older.
Here comes the chorus. You know um if you really listen to like a lot of Sting's lyrics. I
mean he takes on hard you know concepts you know like this um you know I won't
share you to the night, the red-light district, a prostitute.
He takes on Congress talking about you know less Congress and feeding more
people and you know if you go back and forth like really listen to some of his
lyrics SOS you know it has a, all of it has a big meaning behind it so I loved I
love his song writing and got even way even better from this time of course because
this is early on here we go.
I have a funny story about the drummer. Apparently early on in his career he was
looking for endorsements and he wasn't having much success and so I guess there
was a couple of several magazines you know that he submitted fake
reviews too and because he did that and Sting goes wow look at all these
reviews on you. He's like yeah yeah you know because how did you how did you get
those. He goes well I actually submitted them myself but he got the endorsements
that he wanted for doing that. I think that's hilarious let's continue. Here we
go.
His name's Stewart Copeland by the way, the drummer. I should have mentioned that.
Now they're just kind of improving right now you know.
So do you remember me talking about in one of my reaction videos where I said it's
kind of fun to go see a band and then you know sometimes the improvisation can get
along and whatever and it could sometimes get monotonous so if you're
playing the same thing over and over again whatever but but it's nice you
know to hear like a more personality of the band come out than what they can put
on a record because the record you only get so much time. So it's fun to hear
just that you know have a lot of different influences that come out where
you wouldn't necessarily get to hear that on a record.
There's Stew Copeland man he's going for in the background.
I love that (sounds). Do that for a little while man your wrist
gets really tired after a while I'm telling you.
Alright this is kind of coming to the close, they'll probably do another
course and then that's it but anyway Sting again just a fantastic artist.
Again another guy that's spanned decades I encourage you guys to go back though
and listen to some of his lyrics or read some of his lyrics cause you know they're
provoke provocative, they're very erudite which kind of means you know for
smart. He's going after smart lyrics instead of just kind of writing bonehead
stuff boy stuff. Anyway thank you for joining me Ken Tamplin Vocal Academy
where the proof is in the singing and until next time peace out.
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