Hey guys welcome back again to Ken Tamplin Vocal Academy where the proof is
in the singing. I decided to go ahead and do a vocal
coach reacts to Mariah Carey and the song I chose was "Hero" because I sort of
felt it was a pretty quintessential example of a lot of her ballad type
stuff and she does a really fantastic job on it. So without any further
hesitation, let's rock or let's pop.
Now listen to that command, she walks right out on the stage
perfect pitch just so sensitive so sweet and ginger on it um, she's just really in
the moment for it for this piece here. That's awesome.
Good job, excellent. Maybe we should do two thumbs up. No really is it that good.
Okay now again, a couple things. If you notice she doesn't use her vibrato
gratuitously, she's really sparse and careful with it. She doesn't you know hit
you with vibrato. You know one of the things.. I love Kelly Clarkson for example
great, talented, young lady but a lot of times she hits the vibrato really hard
and again she has a very..... vibrato and there's a lot of people, I
mean everybody way back from Ella Fitzgerald up until you know whomever a
lot of people do that. Jessie J does it a lot she also uses a very fast vibrato
but I like how she's able to be you know very conservative with it and kind of
drops into it whenever and remember in my singing course I have a singing course
called How to Sing Better than Anyone Else and we talk about what vibrato is
used for and it's a final resting place of a strongly supported diaphragmaticly
supported, whole tone that relaxes into a state of oscillation, oscillation
so
(sings)
right and that's precisely what she's doing here, in addition to her very
sensitive, sweet vocals that she's got and her melisma, her vocal runs and riffs
and licks are also spot-on as far as their intonation so that's awesome.
So she goes from piano to Forte.. pianos like kind of small and forte is big so
she's going from small to big, small to big, she has this really nice exchange
back and forth to create a lot of emotion out of it but she doesn't again
she doesn't over sing she's not overdoing it she's just that right
amount back and forth, it's very tasty.
Good mic control there. Nice.
Good vowel placement. (sings)
Now if you notice, she's picking up the
pace a little bit, she's starting to get a little bit more energy out of the
sound, so she's going from piano, she's kind of moving a little more to Forte
and that's also really cool because it adds really great tension as you start
to go, so I want to point that out. Here we go.
I love that change, that break's cool.
Spot-on, did you hear that intonation, all those licks and stuff she's got going on?
I don't hear anything out of pitch, anything that is out of the ordinary for
just consummate perfection. That's awesome.
And I love this gospel break that's coming up here next. One of the things
that she's known for and even back to "Visions of Love" I remember when I first
heard that song, I went wow, that chick is going places. There's
just no two ways about it. She's always had a really cool gospel side to her, a
lot like Whitney. Whitney's um you know in that same camp and she really showcases
that here in this next part, check it out.
Can't you hear the choir?
I can
Great breath control and you know the other thing I like about this tune is,
it's kind of sparse, the instrumentation is kind of sparse, so it's not overwhelming
her vocal so she's able to really find a lot of color in the music and come in
and out again with the sensitivity and just you know the passion and whatnot
that she's got so and then she crescendos it makes it nice and bigger
at the end, so we're gonna enjoy that part. Here we go.
Now did you notice again on that word (sings) when she hit that "ah", did you
see how open the throat was? The tongue was dropped to the base of the jaw, we
just talked about this about the Whitney Houston video we just did, "All the Man I
Need", Mariah has got it going on too with good open throat technique guys, I'm
telling you man some of the greatest singers in the world that really
understand this concept, that's how they're able to get to this place and I
cover all of this in my singing course: How to Sing Better than Anyone Else,
where I walk you through all the vowels step by step how to maintain that good
open throat technique and good vocal tract shape.. shaping with vowel correct
vowel modifications. Alright let's continue.
See that command, mixed voice coming back.
(sings)
Flawless, flawless performance man. Straight up. You know, top of the game,
again there's a few people that come by in our lifetime that have this kind of
instrument and absolutely phenomenal. So anyway thank you guys for joining me Ken
Tamplin Vocal Academy where the proof is in the singing. Come by my singing forums
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and different vocal technique. Okay and until next time God bless.
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