Hey guys welcome back again to Ken Tamplin Vocal Academy where the proof is
in the singing. I wanted to go and do a vocal coach
reacts to REO Speedwagon. I always just loved the band it was a big fun party
band growing up and really bummed me out that Gary Richrath the guitar player died
here just recently but anyways just big influence on my life and with that said let's
just rock. Here we go.
This song is called "Keep On Rolling".
I think you know this one. I hope you do.
Great guitars tone.
Now it's funny I used to make fun of Kevin the lead singer
(sings)
and throws these extra consonants at the end. So listen for that as you go and you'll kinda
get a chuckle out of it alright but great songwriting man, great song.
You gotta love that hair right. By the way guys you know that I don't really
have long hair right you all know that I wear extensions check it out
no I'm kidding I don't but I like his hair. Here we go.
Ahh a little sloppy.
Is that cameraman gonna get that close. It's like he's coming the cameraman's coming in it's
coming in.
(sings)
How close can you get. Alright here we go. Yes I can see his nostrils a
little hair hanging out and his pupils are starting to dilate, here we go.
Good tone, good pitch man. He's spot on on his pitch.
Good live band.
Ok now again guitar was my first instrument so I started out as a guitar player. I
learned to sing. I.. guitar I started playing guitar when I was six years old
and well I didn't really even start taking my voice seriously until I
was about 19 and so I just grew up on the guitar part so I picked guitar.. heavily
guitar influenced music so yes there's these sagaciously long
guitar solos but I like that so let's keep going here.
Now just an observation it's kind of funny the cameraman like he only goes to
Richrath and to Cronin back and forth, back and forth but there is
another part of the band here. I'd like to see maybe the drummer and the bass
player and some other you know instruments going on here maybe not
maybe we'll get to see them, maybe we won't here we go.
Alright. Saw some singers.
By the way me, this is back when everything was live, there were real background singers
not tape, not everything on track you know tracks, no auto-tune, no nothing, just good old
great rock and roll and there was a lot of these really cool TV shows back then
Don Kirshner's rock concert I think this came from The Midnight Special.
There was all these really great shows it was kind of what MTV used to be like
a long time ago when it first started out where you could go on a Saturday night
and from like 7:00 to 9:00 or 8 to 9 or 9 to 10 or whatever there was these great
shows and everybody from Queen to Yes to REO Speedwagon you name it. All these
bands would be on these shows live and it was just killer man you know
it's like kinda being at the concert without you know if you couldn't go and
you got to see this, it was killer man awesome.
I like it when his eyes move like this he went to the other camera like that
obviously they're directing mmk look over here now.
Ok now look over there right. So anyway very directed.
Where's the organist. I don't see the organ.
There we go.
You know this stuff like the back of your mind...your head.
You guys remember these parts right.
Big, long instrumental breaks. Yes I'm a sucker for them.
I remember learning all these solos note for note as a kid.
In fact speaking of guitar again for my guitar player friends out there, when he did
this harmonics again I learned from him, I've definitely learned from you know
like Comfortably Numb stuff like that and then ZZ Top. Those guys actually really
helped me understand how to get really great harmonics and where to place those
harmonics, not just gratuitous harmonics but the tone and the pitch of where you
wanted the harmonics to happen and Richrath was certainly no exception to that
in helping me as a young guitar player so it was awesome.
He kinda looks like Peter Frampton a little bit you know.
Good energy man.
Brings back a lot of memories.
We're gonna end here in a sec.
Probably got one more in him.
Told you.
Good job man. Alright yeah it's the stuff I grew up on guys. So this is a big inspiration
for me even him as a singer man definitely inspired me to go. Good pitch, good tone,
great songs, good energy. Anyway guys I have a singing course called How to Sing
Better Than Anyone Else and we get a chance to go through a lot of fun stuff
like this and and see how these guys did it and dissect it, do takedowns of it
and then reproduce this stuff for young singers so and older singers too but
anyway. Thank you for joining me Ken Tamplin Vocal Academy again where the
proof is in the singing and until next time peace out.
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