Hey guys welcome back again to Ken Tamplin Vocal Academy where the proof is
in the singing. I'm doing a series and it's called What
Makes This Singer Great and next up is Hall & Oates, Daryl Hall from Hall &
Oates. Before we get started if you guys don't mind, please like and subscribe to
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So with that said, this is also really cool before I get started, this was given
to me. This is gonna be a little piece I want to do it's a Daryl Hall and Smokey
Robinson. So I'm gonna kind of cover both of them since they're in this video, it's
live at Daryl's house. So what do I think of when I think of Daryl Hall. Well of
course I think Hall & Oates. I think of all their hits right but I
think maybe the first thing I think of is blue-eyed soul. He's one of the very
first guys to really hammer that home and kind of be known for, as a blue-eyed
soul singer so if you don't know what that means look it up but so I think of
that. I think of a great songwriting of course and and I'm picking off, I know I
say great songwriting a lot right but I'm picking off guys that are great
songwriters so it's a privilege to promote that and expound on that as we're
going through this. So great songwriting. So what do I think of when I think about,
well "Sara Smile" which we're gonna talk about right now cause we're gonna play it.
I did a version of that myself too by the way. I'll put that in the description
so kind of check out how I did. I'm not as cool, I'm not as laid-back as he is on
it. I may have hit all the notes and stuff but his version in my opinion is a
little cooler than mine but I tried. You know you can check it out see how I did.
I think of "Maneater", (sings) right. I think of (sings),
think of that. "Your Kiss Is On My List", "Private Eyes",
"Out Of Touch", you know out of time. I think of "You Make My Dreams Come True" right I'm
trying to think of whether else and then when I get too Smokey too, think of
"Cruisin" right because we get to Smokey Robinson, "I Second That Emotion"
right. I think of "Being With You" what a beautiful song that is. So we're gonna
get to hear the warmth and roundness of Smokey Robinson,
combined with Daryl and in a really cool song setting of "Sara Smile" so let's
dive into this right now and let's check it out.
So sexy.
Ok now. I gotta say something about Daryl cause when I was recording this I remember how,
what a tough time had
(sings) right. I'm in mixed voice right there.
So he starts out really warm but he has an incredible amount of velocity changes,
of volume in his singing so
(sings)
right. So he's got this like really great ebb and
flow of energy going in and out of his sound. It wasn't that the licks or the
notes or even so much the tone that was hard for me, it was the energy and the
mood that he was in when he sang it. So I know Clarence that actually played
piano on this who just recently passed, was instrumental in setting the tone
and the mood for this for him to sing to. Phenomenal, phenomenal keyword player but
again this, it was more about just copping his, his emotion, his vibe, his
sensitivity, where he was in the moment when he sang the song. That's kind of
what the key is and the trick is to a lot of this so. I'm gonna back this up
again so we can kind of start fresh with it, with a view towards that. I really want
you to get the ebb and flow of the energy and just his sensitivity and going in and
out of the energy of it okay.
And his phrasing, very pocket, strange.
See he's just back and forth.
Smokey.
More mixed voice.
How awesome is that.
So sexy man.
until tomorrow
He's got his own swag.
Okay now how ironic so I started off this thing, by the
way I've never seen this. I saw part of it, I haven't seen this is new for me
too so it's kind of fun I'm just gonna jivin' in with it but we talked about
Daryl having blue-eyed soul and of course we don't have to say anything
about blue-eyed soul for Smokey, he's just got soul
but anyway so it's it's really awesome to hear how they blend together, how they
synergize with each other in this context being a guy that's a blue-eyed
soul guy who writes the song, bringing in another guy that is just a soul singer,
not just, but a soul singer in a different context and again melding this
together is really cool.
You can tell this wasn't that rehearsed cause you can see Smokey looking down at lyrics
right it's kinda interesting.
Little ad libs going on there.
It's great man this is live music wouldn't you like to be at a cafe hearing this stuff.
Oh that's right I forgot. I haven't heard this song in a long time. I remember when I
did my version I chopped it way down, I forgot like there's this breakdown
section and where there's just kind of like this real free-flowing ad-lib stuff.
I just talked about this too about how cool is it it is that back then you know
you could have music where it just, it breathed you know, there was a lot of
breathing in it and in the music and they could be free on it, they could vamp
on it and a lot of times way back when, a lot of artists would do that
deliberately so that when they went out to play live, they had something to chew
on you know as, as the instrumental parts would come up. Everyone could take turns,
they could you know do some ad-libs, they could vamp on stuff and have the freedom
to do that so they would actually put it in the music. Now that became a taboo
thing later on because they wanted the, the chorus to come in quick, they wanted
hit the you know, hit him again and I get in and out of the song in three minutes,
four minutes or whatever for radio stuff but this was different so this is
really cool.
I don't know what you're gonna do with all that information but
it's there. "Stairway To Heaven" was a song like that right. "Green Grass And High
Tides" Lynyrd Skynyrd did that. Lots of bands.
Anyway so yeah I mean it goes on for a bit. So you guys get the vibe of
this so we have like all these amazing songs, that's what I think of when I
think of Daryl Hall and Smokey Robinson. Tell me what you guys think what did I
miss cause I don't want this just to be all about Ken Tamplin though I'm just kind of
sharing my heart and my experiences with you guys but what do you think of when
you think of Daryl Hal,l what makes him great to you. I've seen him, one other
thing. I've seen him perform a few times and I, like I've mentioned this before
I think I did it, if I didn't, I think I did yeah. I'll put this in the
description thing because I did a vocal coach reacts to Daryl Hall. We'll put
that in there you could check it out but I remember like I said hearing him on
the Mark and Brian show at like drive time at 7:00 in the morning and he was
just amazing. I'm like wow, how does he sound that good so early, so that's
another thing, just consummate professional musician/performer so
that's what I think of. Tell me what you think of, put it in the comments sections,
please let me know what you guys would like to hear and definitely check out my
next video.