Hey guys, welcome back again to Ken Tamplin Vocal Academy, where the PROOF really is in
the singing!
We got a lot of requests for this one.
None other than Alice Cooper.
The song is called schools out.
Now, Alice was the original shock rock guy.
I mean way before Ozzy was biting heads off of Bats, or Marilyn Manson was doing crazy
stuff.
Alice was doing a lot of crazy stuff, but he’s come full circle, so I want you to
check out his whole story, because he’s got a really great testimony.
At any rate, by the way I’m going to release this before summer, so it’s really appropriate.
But I want to talk to you guys, you know, thank you for the requests coming in, because
this is all done by requests.
So, sometimes I can find a cool track, and in this case I have to create my own track
from scratch, so sometimes they take me a little longer to get to certain stuff.
But I am listening, and I’m giving you guys what you’re asking for, so anyway, keep
the requests coming in!
Schools out, Alice Cooper, let’s rock!
Ha ha.
Well, some of us didn’t wish that that were true when we were going to school!
Anyway, I want to talk about Alex…
Alex?
Alice’s Voice!
Alex?
Alice’s voice and, you know he’s a really really throaty singer, a lot like Lemmie from
motorhead.
So, let’s do a couple of verses here and I’ll show you what I mean.
So, You know, “Well, we got no choice!”
You know, this grindy…
“All the Girls and Boys! Makin’ all the noise!
Cause they found new toys!
Well they can’t salute ya, can’t find a flag, If that don’t suit cha, Well that’s
a drag!”
Right?
Really, really throaty on the sound.
By the way, notice.
I haven’t lost my voice.
Even though I’m singing this throaty… and Lemmie from Motorhead was really good
at this, too.
He had his own unique thing, you know, “He ain’t the rich-a, he ain’t the rich!”
In fact, I’m gonna do a Lemmie thing real soon.
And I’m just kinda trying to do these things by request, as I find cool tracks and stuff.
But what I want to encourage you guys to do, is if you’re going to do a sound like this,
you cannot use a lot of air.
If you do, it will destroy your vocal folds.
So I like to think of, let’s pretend you and I are friends, and we’re underwater,
and we’re talking to each other, and we know we have to keep a certain amount of oxygen
in the lung.
So I say: “Hey, Joey, how’s it goin’? Bloop!
Not bad, Dude! What’re you doin’?
Well, I’m doin’ alright!
Bloop!”
Right?
I’m literally constricting or cutting back my air.
Now.
What I teach in my course, by the way, if you like what you heard, please like and subscribe
to my channel, that would be awesome!
I have a singing course, called How To Sing Better Than Anyone Else, and we discuss
all kinds of stuff like this.
And I have a singer’s forums now at Ken Tamplin Vocal Academy dot com, that have over
10,000 gnarly singers and they’re discussing all of these different techniques and approaches
and whatnot.
Go check it out.
It’s free.
You can join it for free.
It’s awesome!
But anyway, getting back to this.
What we want to do is we don’t want to have the same feeling as when were straining going
up to that ehhhhhh!
We want to first develop good open throat technique, “HEEEEEY!” you know!
Well we can’t salute, you can’t find a flag!
Right?
It’s almost like a certain amount of fry, but there’s also an element of Open Throat
technique that really dominates the throat, first, to help you cut air back at the glottis,
which is the vocal folds themselves, so that you don’t overuse air to destroy the voice.
So, anyway, I cover all of this in my singing course.
If you guys like what you heard, please like and subscribe!
We’ve got more coming your way.
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Peace.
Out.