Hey kids welcome back again to Ken Tamplin Vocal Academy where the proof
continues to be in the actual singing. I got quite a few requests for this one it
was Ken can you please do Richard Marx so I tried to find pieces that are
allowable on YouTube and I found "Hold On To The Nights". Now I know the song well
cause he was huge in the 80s and I loved the you know like "Don't Mean Nothing" and he
had actually a lot of hits. He was started out as a songwriter I
think in Nashville or I think he grew up in Illinois but did a lot of writing for
Kenny Rogers and just all kinds of people and then came into his own. This
song here "Hold On To The Nights" is the one I'm gonna do "Hold On To The Nights"
and "Right Here Waiting For You". I mean the guy's just got a ton of hits so look
him up, he really just has a huge repertoire but I'm gonna..I chose this song.
Good songwriter, good performer, good singer and let's just open it up see
what it says.
Very emotive songwriter.
I love that (sings) he's got all that air you know like I said very emotive
singer, really great songwriter. Let's continue oh and by the way I love his
mullet. Mullet really is like back in the 80s we all knew it was like you know
business in the front and party in the back baby. So he's got a cool mullet
going on here here we go.
Pretty beautiful melody.
Nice pitch.
Okay now for my singing friends out there you know um (sings) right. I like
a big open sound but there are certain singers John Anderson from Yes and many
others that actually have a smaller vocal tract so they they don't open up
to a big sound necessarily or they can they can make their song their voice
sound bigger. In his case he takes it, it's very tubular in the sound (sings)
so he kind of closes down and he plays off that tubular sound that he has
adds a lot of really cool air to the sound and then he's got that great (sounds) kind
of you know singers voice you know from maturity, the maturation of singing for
quite a while but I want to point that out that it's not that his vowels are
small, it's that he has a smaller vocal tract than the way he sings and so his
tone sounds a little smaller but it's open for him and so within a small sound
he can still make it big but just in a different context. I hope that makes
sense so let's continue.
And he's very frontal (sings). He's real frontal in the sound sorry my
first one was a little out of pitch so I had to redo that. Anyway but yeah he's very
frontal and very uses a lot of mask in the sound as he goes up a little bit
kinda like Lou Gramm from Foreigner right. Alright let's continue.
That's nice.
Spot on it's cool.
Nice.
See what I mean about keeping the vocal tract nice and narrow.
Great pitch man.
Sing it with me.
Now I love that transition. How cool is that
right. This is really good songwriting. You know who was really good at this is a
Dan Huff if you look at.. listen to his song "In My Dreams" you know
(sings) right he does the same exact kind of
transition with this like key change that's really cool left-field so.
Not left field but you know it takes you a whole other different place. So then when
you come back for the chorus you want to hear it again. So I have a singing course
it's called How To Sing Better Than Anyone Else and I talk.. I have a whole,
huge section on songwriting and I talk about these, how you do these
transitions so you take this left turn so that by the time you're done with
this bridge or you know this break over here you know pre-chorus or whatever it
is and you come back to the chorus the verse, it makes you want to hear it again
rather than it being so redundant you're like okay I've heard that let's get on
with this. So let's listen to this break again and then I want you guys to go
back. In fact I'm gonna put it in here it's.. the band is called Giant. It's not it's
not the same as Richard Marx but I want you to listen for that same exact kind
of change that happens in "In My Dreams" I think the name of the song is so. Also
fabulous guitar player, great songwriter, great producer. I think he
went on to produce just a bunch of great country artists. Talk about that later
anyway let's get back to Richard here we go. So listen to this change.
It's nice huh.
Kinda like Chicago did that too right..the band.
Another mullet on the bass.
Kind of very Chicago right. You're waiting for Peter Cetera to come in any minute.
Great songwriting man.
Nicely produced.
Like we talked a lot about Dimash right. So Dimash (sings)
he would've been really open on the sound but Richards vocal tract is
sm.. so (sings) so he's closing down the sound quite a bit in his throat.
He's not structuring the sound it's just a smaller vocal tract.
Bravo.
Awesome. You know like I said I encourage you to check out anything by Richard Marx he's
just a great songwriter, obviously great performer, been spot-on just excellent
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