Hey everybody welcome back again to Ken Tamplin Vocal Academy where the proof is in the singing.
I'm continuing my series on How To Sing Like. Next up is metal madman Ozzy Osbourne (laughs)
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get to Ozzy. Ozzy's an interesting character because he's been around a long time I mean early
Black Sabbath you know all the way through the Ozzy years and then Oz fest and and beyond
and then of course you know the the tv show The Osbournes and then more Oz fest and beyond right
and I got a chance to briefly meet him backstage at a Monsters Of Rock festival
many, many years ago I want to say it was like 84, 85 something like that and he,
I think he was pretty under the influence. Now some people are saying that he'd stop doing drugs
I mean maybe he did I don't know but he mumbled a lot and he didn't, wasn't that coherent but if you
heard a lot of you know maybe interviews with Ozzy too depending on his state of mind at the time
it's kind of, kind of his thing you know but what I will say is it kind of worked to his
advantage for singing and let me explain. I talk a lot about open throat technique and I first talk a lot
about the opening up of that big ah vowel sound, well Ozzy doesn't do that, Ozzy has much more of a
like I said, a real frontal mask kind of sound, not so much nasality as it is just mask, though it is
somewhat nasally but, and I, and I'm gonna show you, I did a, did "Crazy Train" so we're gonna go
through you know my rendition of that to show you how I did and I'll post that in the description
so you check out the whole song in its entirety but the, I'm gonna sing a little bit of Ken
Tamplin and a little bit of Ozzy because I don't favor that sound like I've told you guys a lot of times.
However if I didn't do it you know it's kind of like you know doing Axl Rose or Klaus Meine or
somebody. You know where you don't do nasality and it just doesn't sound like them at all so
I kind of split the difference when I did this but so let's just get started and we'll go,
oh what is going to say about. So Ozzy doesn't sing heavy at all, he's not a heavy singer. So
I'm going to point that out along the way and he slurs his words like that's what I was going to
reference when I said you know he slurs when he talks and that's what kind of helps him a little
bit he slurs when he sings so that he doesn't over accentuate the vocal tracks. So again (sings). You know you
can hardly, really, not really make out a lot of the words. In fact a lot of people when they've heard
my version of this they said oh is that what they say in that song right. So anyway let's, let's go
on. We'll check it out. Here we go.
Thank you to Gary Shutt for making this track for me.
Okay now let's do it together. So guys got to get your diaphragm together because he does use
a lot of support in his sound believe it or not, he does support his sound. So he goes (sings).
Just do with me real small. Don't go (sings) he doesn't, he's not big and
metal and metallic on theatrical in the sound, he's real small so (sings) just do it with me (sings)
and don't, don't move the mouth around that much
(sings) right (sings). It's small (sings). Again so he's real small.
Now his range is surprisingly the Ozzie stuff is not that easy to do. He's got a lot of decent range
in his upper mid voice so one of the reasons too for that though again is he's not singing that
heavy and he uses some head voice stuff but he's always kind of in that, you know just real
small, very, very compressed sound up in his head as he moves along. So let's continue, here we go.
Now I'm taking more of a you know a manly (sings)
like a Dio, Coverdale approach of it. He goes (sings). He's real small (sings) real (sounds)
in the sound. So he compresses in his throat and you can really hear it. Now for me,
it's a bit of a dangerous sound because I want to get open on the sound and make it big
and there's a tendency to you know to get really tight and tense in the throat
if you do it that way so (sings) I'd rather have a bigger sound on it myself so. So I do that here
and people say that doesn't sound like Ozzy. I know it sounds like Ken
kind of singing like Ozzy but singing like Ken right. So anyway, let's continue.
(sings) I'm way up in here (sings). I'm real high. I didn't go (sings)
right. So on the verses I kind of stayed true to Ozzy because I felt like if I over
sang the verses it would just sound like Ray Gillen or Coverdale or Paul Rodgers or you know
or even Dio in some cases, some ways I hold notes and so just to metallicize the song a little too
much. By the way kudos to Odd, Ozzy too because I mean he always had phenomenal players in his
band, always. I mean from you name it Zack Wilde, you know Brad Gillis from Night Ranger.
I mean I could just go on and on and on and Jakey Lee like tons and tons of great, I think it was Jakey Lee
was in the band but tons of great guys it was, players that was in his band particularly
guitar players so of course Randy Rhodes you know in this tune right here but here we go.
Now he does have when he goes (sings)
right. So he uses some sexy vowels in his sounds. It's not (sings).
He could have done it that way that would be kind of more of like a Vince Neil approach
but anyways (sings) you know he, he does kind of play with the vowels a bit you know and make
it a little more entertaining vocally which is really cool, I appreciate that.
Now the way I approached that was more like Paul Rodgers (sings)
right. I got a much more soul in it. He's a lot more straight on it (sings)
right. So he is a little stiff on some, I don't wanna use the word sterile but that's a bad
word. You know he's real straight on it you know a lot of times so. I like again, I'm much more of a soul
singer guy you know so I, I probably should have gotten somebody maybe that sang straighter than me
to sing on something like this but I like the song so much and I wanted just to do it for fun
and I wanted to use it as a vocal demonstration rather than just using Ozzy singing it
because like I said a lot of times in my my, my videos that demonstration isn't a way
to teach, it's the only way to teach so I've got to show you that I can do it myself first
in order to be able to prove to you I can show you how to do it right. So anyway with that said he,
now if you again if you take songs like "Iron Man" or you just take anything or, or you know,
what was the duet he did with Lita Ford but or yeah I mean just whatever like any of the
songs that you see he's got some really high range stuff and the other thing I want to give kudos to
him for is really melodic songs like I, I don't wanna say I'm surprised because I'm not surprised but
it's unusual to have someone that's on the darker, Black Sabbath side of metal and maybe you know
Black Sabbath could even almost be considered like original goth metal really. Now not necessarily in
the sound but in sort of instigating a lot of kind of what happened you know from then on,
but to have you know something that, that major key melodic, most of that stuff is really dark and minor
key and yet Ozzy has been able to come up with some very haunting melodies, haunting melodies and,
and that's been incredible. Now I think Bob Daley wrote the lyrics on this so I don't think Ozzy
wrote the lyric on that but Ozzy also has some really cool lyrics in a lot of his songs it's
pretty well thought out. So anyway gang if you like what you heard I'm doing a lot of this
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