Hey guys, welcome back again to Ken Tamplin Vocal Academy, where the proof is in the singing.
I want to do a vocal coach reacts to Chris Cornell, and I chose Audioslave "Cochise" because
I think that's one of his toughest tunes to do.
I think Say Hello to Heaven, there's a couple other ones.
In fact, I did on YouTube this song as well, as like a medley, and I also did a Casino
Royale, so if you get a chance, I'll have my associate Bob put that in the description
so you guys can just click on it and see my versions of it, but I wanted to do this and
talk about Chris because, you know, what an incredibly talented dude, man. And what a great
loss to all of us in the rock world, and the whole on the whole world actually. But so
anyway, I want to do a takedown of what he did here in Cochise and we'll just do it first.
I'll try to stop it a step at a time and we can discuss it as we go.
Here we go; I moved it all the way up to just before the vocals.
So, here we go.
Right out of the gate.
I mean, he just goes full bore, you know?
Right?
He just Bam, right out the gates! Just gettin' it!
Now, what's really important about this, by the way, if you notice, I'm not hoarse and
I've been singing a lot today already.
I did three vocal lessons and an hour warm up before I did this. And the Disturbed video
just before this one, but if you notice he has a certain kind of compression that he
uses. And he uses what I was teaching you guys.
By the way, I was singing course called how to sing better than anyone else and I walk
you through, step by step, how to get this kind of distortion, but it's not something you
can do right away.
It's something you have to build up to.
Okay? So anyway, you use open throat techniques, so AH, AH, AH, you build up that AH vowel first
Right?
It's kind of like Dio did the same thing.
Dio had a very similar distortion, so as you go through, you're going to hear that
he's able to control this distortion, and it's not shredding his vocal folds, okay?
That's really important! So, let's continue.
Here we go.
Okay, now there's an illusion that he's just
blood curdling, just shouting at you, right?
That's not really what's happening.
He's actually compressing there
he's compressing the air.
He's not like screaming at a baseball game, he's pulling back the air and compressing
the air. And I'm going to bet that he did an hour's worth of vocals before this and he
worked up with a clean tone first, and then add the clean tone.
He started leaning in the sound a little bit more, a little bit more, a little bit more
until he was able to achieve this kind of distortion safely, okay?
This is really important.
Excellent, man.
Okay, Now, one other thing that we discussed in the last
video the disturbed video, how most modern singers covered the sound, and he was from
that era, right? So -
Right? So he's covering the sound, and in order for him to get up top like say
hello to heaven, and some of the other songs where he goes higher, you've got to be able to open
up that sound.
It's just too covered, it's too dark, so I would sing it:
I would open up that sound.
I wouldn't cover that sound because the more you cover the sound the less range
you're going to get out of it, so let's continue.
Here we go.
Nice.
Okay, now...
I got to remind you guys, this requires
a tremendous amount of abdominal strength, okay?
Because if it didn't, it would be
You'd have a real weak, anemic, weak sort of sound.
So you've got to get that roaring lion out of the sound.
and then you've got to relax and release
between the phrase.
You can't keep the stomach tense, you've got to release between, you know:
you know, whatever the
other lyric is, sorry about the miss quote on the lyric, but so you've got to release
and relax between each phrase.
Otherwise, you're not going to have the strength to finish the song, okay?
Very, very important.
Again, I cover all this in my singing course.
Here we go.
Now, I love that
All that use of air...
So he's kind of really setting you up for something, right?
So we're going to come into the famous scream here and I do this... Bob, I'm going to, again,
as I said, I'm in the description tag, I'm going to put my version of this.
So you can hear it and then, Bob, if you could also put my version of Casino Royale, so because
I do another scream at the end of that, where it's very similar in nature in how you achieve
this scream.
He's going to give us the famous scream, right?
I want you to listen to my version, because I'm going to tell you about how to achieve
this in a minute. Here we go.
Killer!
Great. So...
And then it goes on to the end of the chorus, right?
Okay, so when you hear my scream, I want you guys to understand something.
It's not like you think. It's actually relaxing the vocal folds and the false folds,
and then you're going to like
allow them to relax and vibrate even more as you get into the sound.
He's not killing it and blood-curdling screaming, he's actually getting into a state where once
that distortion has started, he starts to relax into that sound and then the distortion
just takes over, kind of like the Roger Daltrey scream and some of the other ones.
So check out in the description tag my version of this so you can see how I walk through
this or how I sing this, because I add Show Me How To Live and some other stuff in a medley.
But then also check at the end scream of Casino Royale that I did have Chris's version as well.
All right you guys, thank you for joining me, Ken Tamplin Vocal Academy, where the proof
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