hey Chris Leipe here with Sleep Token the summoning and this is the one that everybody
said I ought to watch having already done a review and analysis of Vore really excited
to see what everybody's talking about with this song and to continue to discover what
the hype is around sleep token I really enjoyed the overall sound and the vocal approach both
singing and screaming in the last song so let's see what we've got here this is a singing
Channel I get to teach people how to sing largely by pulling inspiration from my favorite
singers or new singers I'm discovering so as I react to this it's not only going to
be my experiencing this song for the first time but I'm going to be analyzing his voice
and pulling things out of it and trying things with my own voice that's what I love to do
I love to experiment and learn and hopefully inspire you to do the same if you'd like more
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of alright let's let's do this
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heart and see I've got a blood trails
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what a cool tone so now he attacks this note here
I've got he's got that compressed stage whisper as I call it and he goes right into that note
what a cool entrance you [Music] also his use of breath blue it's not just about the
notes it's what happens in between the notes as my good friend Spencer satello will also
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listen to how he pulls that note around resonance wise divide foreign
[Applause] starts forward and pulls it back almost crows that note but he's not changing
his his pitch a whole lot and so you get this neat sort of Sheen Journey as he slides up
on that note super cool [Music]
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I was hoping there'd be another lift like he did in the last song
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interrupt it
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the reason that this works is because he he Blends those resonances so well take me
and he has a wonderful power up there even in the midst of those high notes this is a
head voice but it's a really well supported head voice [Music]
and right there they Edge that's a mixed voice he's blending these three ways to sing really
well he's seamlessly going up into his head voice on past and it grounds in this wonderful
mellow maynard-esque sort of chest sound that he's got going on what a wonderful blend of
tones [Music]
the side he manipulated that that tonal variance there as well great singers do this they don't
they're not static foreign
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there's compression going on he's compressing his whisper what I mean by that is he's holding
back air as he whispers this is the basis for a lot more aggressive sounds if you can
and then transfer this energy up to the your upper throat below yeah you can really manipulate
the Timbre of that sound as you learn to hold back more air without engaging your primary
chords this can really get you into some neat screams which is what he's been able to do
expand his his pitch center of his screams like crazy because he knows how to moderate
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[Music] the way those harmonies are Tastefully layered in and around that primary line is
just so pleasant and comforting sounding and again the way he goes from that that darker
mournful somber chest voice sound to that bright free engaged head voice
won't you change
now did you hear the difference between that lift and then when he said the past note when
he kisses that high note earlier
it's very heady and then this last note listen again he goes higher but it's more engaged
yeah
yeah that's a mix this is head voice is and you hear him accessing both ways to get to
those notes and he does so dynamically as the song and as the performance calls for
it this guy is an agile vocalist he can draw on tools and different resonances at will
which is what makes him so expressive and so fun to listen to
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ooh from the depths I love those background vocal layers going on in the midst of the
instrumental what textures
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ordinarily instrumental sections don't compel me as much but the way that they've layered
the vocal so subtly in there with all the other rhythmic sequences that are going on
it's really intriguing I'm really enjoying this
Soul did I mistake
or maybe just to turn me on now you get this sort of like
Kenny Wayne Shepherd Vibe almost there's this bluesy Soul his voice is more up front what
a cool transition
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so listen to the way he he shapes that phrase oh you real oh dark or are you really here
too you've got this sense that it's it's gross it's like it's V going oh I'm exaggerated
or are you really here too borrowing from that somberness that he had earlier but as
he he's he grows the tone and and makes it a little bit more nasal and bright it takes
the energy and just amps it up exponentially yeah
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great vocalists know how to do this Tastefully this guy's a great vocalist
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I love those size out of notes you have this pent up
this release of energy oh
you're something you do
I knew there was going to be a slide there Divine and then that sigh out
also his vibrato is super awesome say he has this very straight voice most of the time
but then listen listen to this last phrase here oof
nothing to say and then at the end of those phrases it comes in but it's not the whole
time you know you listen to a lot of singers like like Josh Groban for example I realize
totally different genre uh but has this this sort of constant vibrato which can be soothing
and mellowing in and of itself but I love when you have this very straight instrument
quality almost Centrelink quality to the voice and then this natural vibrato comes in at
the end of the phrases it's so pleasant
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it's like this this flavoring the hint the sprinkling of the flavoring instead of like
here's all the vibrato flavor right oh I gotta go listen to that that ending again that was
so cool
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or something you do
[Music] can't get over that that the way that faster vibrato comes in at the ends of those
words he has such perfect control over that so cool
and Bone flesh and Bone foreign
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I think I'm developing a new favorite these guys are great I can't wait to dive into more
of what they do thank you YouTube Community for recommending I get into these guys thank
you Spencer Sotelo for pushing me over the edge we'll see you for more