Hey guys welcome back again to Ken Tamplin Vocal Academy where the proof is
in the singing. I'm doing a series called What Makes
This Singer Great and next up is Jessie J. If you wouldn't mind, please like and
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good at singing so. I chose Jessie J and when I think of Jessie J you know, of
course I think of (sings) you of course I think of that
video right but I think of her as being really an unsung hero and she's put out
a lot of really good stuff and for some reason she stayed kind of in the you
know the the eastern as in Far Eastern world. I know you know the Australia and
New Zealand and then in the Far East for some reason she's found a fair amount of
success there but that success hasn't translated back stateside into the
Americas and so forth and Western Europe which really surprises me because
she's one of those singers that has sort of slipped through the cracks a bit,
she's just a force, she's a powerful singer, great diction, she's sexy, she's
smart, she's funny, a lot of character, a lot of great energy and I would have
thought that song you know "Bang, Bang", I think that's the name of it, forgot it but you
know would have just put her over the top cause that was a cool tune, very catchy
song and it you know and then and then you've got, but you've got like the
Ariana Grande's and you've got you know the Christina Aguilera's and then whatever
and they become like super popular and Jesse really never got her shot in that
same kind of way for some reason maybe it'll still happen for her but I'm
very surprised at the little, you know notoriety that
she's gotten and the little bit of publication that she's gotten so. With
that said I chose "I Will Always Love You". There's a lot of pieces I could do from
her and I did do a vocal coach reaction to her, I'll put that in the description.
I've also done a couple versions of "I Will Always Love You" and I just recently
did it with my students Sara Loera and if we have this release in time
depending on when these release, I'll put that in the description and if it's not
in there yet please keep any eye out for it cause Sara did a phenomenal job on it
but let's kind of dive into this and check it out. This is one difficult song
to do. It's not just about singing the song, there's only one Whitney and I've
heard nobody really matched Whitney but variations that come closer to at least
differed enough to go all right that's you know palatable, that's acceptable so
here we go.
Good pitch.
Good tone, good mixed voice.
Licks are spot on.
Little pitchy there.
Good coming out of mixed, bringing some chest into the sound.
She's owning it though.
Little sharp.
Beautiful.
Right okay I'm gonna pick some things apart not cause I'm picking on Jessie but
I just want to point some things out. So the difference that happens with Whitney,
is Whitney (sings) you know (sings) she was much, she was much longer in her vowels and when, a lot
of times what I see is (sings) right .I see a lot of people doing this and Jesse's an example
of this where she's not really big and round and beautiful and warm and open on
the vowel itself. Now in my singing course I say all vowel sounds stem from
its La ah and I'm telling you guys straight up as simple as that sounds if
you master the AH vowel, master the AH vowel and all other vowels come along
for the ride. I kid you not. So I want to go back and I want you to
listen closely to (sings)
she's really closed on the vowel and then she opens (sings) and then she's real tubular on the oh
but Whitney wouldn't have done that. Whitney would have been (sings) right. So she's
got this AH vowel and everything's just kind of pinged on the AH vowel, she
just kind of gently massaging that AH vowel to keep it open and round and warm
and big beautiful. In Bel Canto there's a term chiaroscuro which means, there's
this bright ping in the center with the warmth around it and it is the holy
grail to learning how to sing good Bel Canto, good opera and apply opera to
anything pop, rock you know country, I don't care but get that AH vowel first.
So let's go back and let's take a listen to this real quick. You'll see what I'm
talking about, check it out.
She did it on (sings). She's there on I.
That's a good, that E is great.
She starts to open it up there.
There it is.
It's open there.
That's too closed. That's too (sings) right. So on an Oh vowel, like I cover all this stuff in
my course and I'm not, I'm not picking on Jesse I just, cause she's such a great
singer it's good to kind of hear, well you wouldn't even know you go wow that's
just great. Well it is great but there's some things
we can make it even better. So well we never pure, sing pure uh like hook in that
sound there, we sing oh ooh, so we're gonna go (sings) we go oh (sings)
and we close down the vowel from oh to ooh we didn't go we go (sings) we go (sings)
and it has a much more robust round sound so you get the ping that she's
looking for in uh like hook but, but instead you would get the Oh Ooh, you would get
the ping of Ooh with the roundness and the warmth of Oh around it okay. We cover,
I cover all this stuff in my singing course but I thought I'd make these
notations along the way.
Like I said this is a tough tune I mean it's like, it doesn't get much better
than Whitney singing this song. It's why it's lasted so long you know,
timeless and why it's the go to song for the song to beat in music singing
competitions.
That guy looked like he was waiting for the wrestling match.
Now that's cool too and Whitney did do the (sings) right. She has this raised
laryngeal position. You can get caught on that folks really easy and you can't
release and let the larynx drop down into a neutral position as you go up. Now
she's trained enough and I'm sure she's worked it out enough where she can
do that but she really over accentuates that. So Whitney didn't go (sings, she'd go (sings). There's a
difference between (sings) and (sings)
to get the cool sexy beauty out of you know, and we see Rihanna and I like a lot
of other people using that sound but, but Whitney did it in a way where it was
just a little bit of a, it wasn't her go-to for a sexy sound in the throat, it
was just a real little you know nuance of it and here this is an
over-exaggeration of it. Let me just show you again real quick and to me this part
of it, doing this way, gosh I'm. Poor, poor Jessie. I'm, here I'm touting how great
she is and I'm picking her stuff apart but I'm doing it because she's so great that
I can and that I could get away with saying that she's awesome and then we can
learn from you know maybe taking it up a notch so check it out.
See it could be (sings) rather then (sings) right. It's the difference.
Good out.
Very, very melodramatic.
Go to the key change, here we go.
I've never heard this before this is new to
me so. I just picked it up.
Good ah vowel.
Great power.
Good ping.
She's killing it.
Now this end piece is a lot closer to Whitney's tone like she's really nailing
the end which is the harder part to do. She's killing it at the end so maybe
just the other stuff was her own little inflections and things she wanted to
bring in for her own character and you know the different tonal qualities that
she wanted bring it for herself and that's fine. Like I said man's she's
Jessie, she's killing it, she's awesome. I've heard so many things of her live and
she's great almost every time I've seen her and in this case she's killing it
too but I just thought I'd make those points along the way for my singing
friends out there that want to know some you know technical things about it so.
Let's hear it.
Cool. That was awesome.
And then you know she does the little rap thing at the end.
Now again, the reason I bring this up guys is this is the bar right and if you listen to
Whitney doing it live herself, there was some pitchy things here and there,
fantastic performance absolutely but again just to be really picky and
pedantic and petty about this. Why I say there's only one Whitney is Whitney was
just freaking spot-on all the time, every time and she just never missed a note.
She was never pitchy. I don't know, go figure she's just an alien from another
planet like Dimash you know Dimash is just like, the guy just doesn't miss a
note right. So it's just that level, that league. So that's the bar that we, that
was set for us to see how we can get to it. We got, I think we got there with Sara.
Wait till you hear how we did this with Sara Loera when we actually record this. Very
different singers you know whatever but one of my students, KTVA vocalists, Sara
Loera but thank you guys for joining me you know if you've got some comments
you want to make about Jessie, put some of your favorite songs in the comments
section. I didn't really talk about other songs that she's done so please
enlighten us to some of your favorite performances and music, that'd be great. Doing
this by request gang so if you've got a request, bring it on, keep it coming and
check out my next video.