hey chris liepe here with guest and massive youtuber colby brock nine months ago or something
your team reached out to me you were in need of a vocal coach i've sang like my entire life
like in the car in the shower but i really like wanted to like figure out how to actually train
my voice like an instrument you'd never done a song before you'd never really sung before
um done all these videos but it was this idea that you were going to from start to finish
write and sing and perform yeah but yeah that was that was the whole purpose of the video is just
like trying it out yeah seeing it and it worked it worked out yeah actually this morning it just uh
hit a million views on youtube so it's pretty crazy that's so nuts she kind of fast-tracked
through the course and we met for two private lessons and between your rigorous journaling
and practicing and the stuff that we did together and your ability to throw off
fear and self-consciousness you were able to make this this great recording having never sung before
pretty much i mean yeah like i again i always knew i could like uh like sing but i didn't
just know how to use my voice so like you were the help that i needed of like okay this is what
you're supposed to feel right here right here like in your stomach yeah and like once i was
able to like learn that and really practice it i was like oh i'm like i understand it
now we're gonna have a chance to react to the song that colby did she said you don't know me
that i just can't believe fake friends are one of these we smile and lie behind our teeth
believe it or not i don't know why but this was the hardest part of the song
it's like i could not figure out how to like to to be that character in this part so i like
really struggled and actually recorded this first verse like 10 times i wonder if it's because it's
harder to exaggerate the character aspect of it right you're kind of just being yourself
here yeah yeah i think i think that's it for sure and then later on when you're really able
to shout and stuff you can abandon into that character more and so that you're not trying
to be accurate as much as you're just trying to be big right yeah yeah exactly cool just wait until
you're not gonna get a turn
i know we worked on that line uh under my skin quite a bit yes yeah this sounds higher
than the than the demo that that we worked with it sounds like because it's interesting when we first
started working together and we would go for like a certain pitch on that original demo you wouldn't
be able to hit it but but when you really let go and almost just yelled for the sake of yelling
you you got into being able to to hit the pitch almost accidentally
right yeah yeah exactly they captured that really really well when they recorded this with
you which is which is super awesome but even your tone the skin you know that that gritty
sound when when we were working through parts of the course and i was you know talking about you
know lifting something heavy you know did that stuff help you in in your character yeah yeah so
actually like the the biggest thing that helped is actually like talking about using the lower
abdomen like as as you're like pushing muscles and i just kept that like top of mind
and uh yeah just like push with everything that i got and again it's all about just like
breaking down like that nervous barrier yeah and once you're like really able to do that
then you can project as loud as you want you found that you were able to do less takes of
this stuff than you were the verse like this actually came easier for you 100 yeah no i i
went to the studio only one time to like knock out this like that pre-chorus in the chorus and
also the breakdown which we'll get to like uh in the future but yeah i had to go back to the studio
like once or twice for that first verse because i just kept like i just like it didn't feel right
cool okay you like the show well i'm done pretending
i want to go back because i really like how you sang that one
okay you like the show well i'm done pretending it almost like you sighed into it
like that was a really cool character aspect of what you did there is that something you
tried multiple times or you just kind of fell into it i we took like so many takes of this
uh that like yeah i i was just like trying like different things that like
sound good in my opinion yeah now that you nailed that i like you you don't
really do that in the other in the main chorus sections and so right here you being able to
it's almost a different character a slight detachment you're desperate here
as opposed to uh just aggressive in the choruses even though you're singing the same range
yeah yeah and this was just so you know like my favorite part to like record i don't know why but
that pre-chorus right there whatever you call that like it was my absolute favorite cool well i'm
myself
you'll never know
how did that feel it seemed like it felt great yeah it was awesome i was like i was like shirt
off in the studio sweating like bullets and just screaming like my head off and it was just fun
yeah that's awesome so and you are doubling yourself too i hear multiple instantiations
of you how is that experience um so i i obviously have like never done that before but um i think
i think it made the song sound like 10 times better just putting like all the layers on it
i think there was like even two or three yeah like layers to it yeah so did you have trouble
sticking with your other doubles did he have you double uh yourself while you were listening to
yourself and was that a bit weird or did you just sing it a bunch of times and he doubled
stuff later that was it yeah it was okay it was only the instrumental i was listening to and so
i was just screaming at the same each time and again uh i think it was like just easier for me
to hit those higher notes so like i didn't have to worry about like hearing like a melody in my head
i definitely hear on the line like that especially when it's soloed out
your your higher notes are in a different character than you i can't forgive myself
i hear that sort of envelope happening and that's really neat because i remember when
we first started working there there wasn't any of that finesse
there there you're you're just you're not just yelling here you've got a sense of of tone and
an attentiveness to character here that that's really neat to hear hear uh in light of the
journey the very short journey you've been on as a vocalist uh when i say like i can't forgive myself
before like the instrumentals come back in again yeah uh we actually opened the studio door and
put the mic way out in the hallway and i screamed like down the hallway oh nice yeah yeah so like
it gave it like more of like an echoey like feel i guess i don't know how to describe it myself
so what did you feel like after listening back to it the first time uh after after it all been done
like you had this energy going on in the studio and shirt off and sweating bullets and all that
stuff yeah i know a lot of people when they go into record uh they might even get that certain
energy about them and then they listen back and they're like oh that's not what i'd hoped
yeah yeah like dang it yeah yeah what was your reaction when you heard the the finished product
so believe it or not uh it was like the first maybe like hour after i was like out of the booth
or whatever we were actually like sitting in the studio and uh they were layering like my vocals
like in front of me just like show me the chorus and what i just did and i loved it like ever since
i first like heard it i was like whoa i like like this is awesome it was only the first verse that i
was like oh man like that's probably not the best but right no that's awesome that you could get
back into the into the control room and be like oh this is really awesome did you did you watch
any of the pitch correcting or any of that stuff yeah a little bit um obviously like i've never
used like any of those uh softwares or whatever you call it so like i didn't really know exactly
like what knobs they were like doing and stuff but they definitely did do some pitch i know that but
uh i don't know how many or how much and that didn't what was your thought of them pitch
correcting your vocals did that sit okay with you yeah yeah i didn't mind um and honestly like i
don't think they had to do it like that much it doesn't sound like they did no it doesn't yeah
so like it like they kept it raw which is the most important thing to me was just like sounding like
myself so like the fact that it didn't have like any auto-tuning sort of robotic sound right like i
said mission accomplished like i was happy with it and how did the writing process go for you
because not only had you never sung before you you hadn't written before i know you you hired help
for for writing but you had a good hand in that as well right right yeah yeah so shout out uh talker
this like artist uh her name celeste she like helped me write the song but pretty much like
it was it was really cool because we were we were complete strangers and uh ended up having like
this like very therapeutic like talk and stuff like that and just like um like you know like put
down our walls and stuff like that and i told her like everything that i was going through in life
and she was like she needed to hear that stuff to kind of like put pieces together of um like how to
make the song like super emotional so yeah it was cool it was awesome will you do more songs i think
so yeah so like right now um we're so focused and busy with like our main channel and doing all that
and just traveling every single month that i haven't had time to get back in the booth but
um everybody keeps asking me uh when's the next song coming out and stuff like that and
i've gotten like record deals or record labels like trying to give me deals and stuff like that
that i've had to you know talk with the team about and stuff and really figure out the next steps but
nothing like signed or anything that's crazy one one song having never done it before and
you already have record labels asking you if you can it's because you have a sizable following and
you can put something out like that and get a million views in a couple months exactly
we already have the the audience for us so that's why yeah your advice of uh having like a journal
where you write like down what you're learning and write down like what where you're like feeling
like uh you need more improvement with some of like the character inflections and stuff like
that like really helped me and i i took that seriously uh where i was every single day like
writing down like taking notes and stuff of what i can like improve um but yeah i think like the main
takeaway from like this whole experience was that like confidence is key yeah and
like the nerves are like the nerves are a huge block so again like if as soon as like you can
chill a little bit and maybe you know loosen up in the studio like you're good or at least
that's how it was for me well thanks so much colby for for watching your song with me and
giving me some insights into how the process went and it was fun coaching you if you
need help with the next ones let me know oh yeah thanks man yeah we'll do talk soon bye