Hey guys, welcome back again to Ken Tamplin Vocal Academy, where the proof continues to
be in the actual singing.
We got a lot of requests for this one. The artist is Morissette, it's Akin Ka Na Lang and
she's a Filipina artist and there's a lot of good talent coming out of the Philippines.
It's really awesome, so we'll do it first and we'll talk about it as we go through it.
Here we go.
Okay, a couple of quick things.
The first thing is, is she's treating this really ginger.
She's not really using a lot of diaphragmatic support at all.
However, her pitch is spot-on, and her tone is really cool.
She actually has some nice breathy tones to it, and she's really spot-on in her runs. Her
melisma, you know, her runs and her licks, so that's awesome.
Now, she's obviously on live radio, she is singing live. So that's also really hard to
do too, to just step in and be pitch perfect and everything being perfect.
Let's continue here we go.
Now, pay close attention to her tongue placement.
Right?
You can see that her tongue is to the base of the jaw.
Now, she's kind of half-mast in the jaw, so I'd like to see a little bit more open space
in the back of the throat, and I'd love to hear a little more strength in the abdomen.
But guys stay in this because I actually have previewed this already, so it's going to be
worth it to stay until the end because she's a monster.
All right, let's continue in a good way.
All right, let's rock.
Not to mention she's cute too
Okay, one more note along the way.
She's also splitting the difference, instead of having contiguous airflow coming out of
the mouth,
She's bringing a lot of split air out of the mouth and in nasality
in here and into the nose.
You know, she's kind of using, not a ton of mask, but enough mask to
brighten up the sound and bring it really far forward into
the front of the face.
Okay, that keeps it really bright. And it's also kind of wearing your laundry out, naked
to be able to do this with a good pitch, because the brighter you make a sound, and the farther
forward you bring a sound, as opposed to covering or darkening his sound, your pitch has to
be spot on.
So it's harder to sing in that tonality and maintain really rock solid pitch.
So, let's continue, here we go.
Cool!
See what I mean?
Right?
The reason I bring this up is she's employing some good opera technique, but she's actually
bringing a pop element into it, too.
So, an opera guy would be:
and it'd be real dark and covered, and really super open throat
in the sound. She used to go:
You know, she's got just a real sensitive, ginger sound and I've
noticed it in throughout the Asian world, they do this a lot, because they have a lot
of pop songs that kind of do this, so it's more of a stylistic thing.
I'm sure. It looks like she can actually sing in both kinds of genres in that sense, so
we'll see as we continue, but I thought I'd point that out.
Nice Open Throat, there.
Look at her tongue, look at her jaw placement.
In the front of the face.
Nice Open Throat.
Good placement.
Nice! Good flageolet whistle register, man!
Good pitch!
Okay, so it's obvious that she can step into two parts of her voice,
I still want to hear some strength in the abdomen, so let's see what she does with that but I'd
like to hear some. If she's going to bring up the sound like that.
I want to hear some kind of belting or upper mid voice, so...
Okay.
Right?
So she's opening up, look at even now, here, I've got the still frame on the screen,
Look closely
See her tongue placement.
Look at how open her jaw is, she's looking straight on.
She's not looking up, she's not looking down, she's faced straight on, and she's belting
some nice notes out.
So that's cool, that's what I was looking for, but I still haven't heard anything in
her upper mid-voice.
This is kind of a just her mid voice register.
Nice, beautiful its great.
Beautiful!
Awesome, awesome command, man that's awesome. You know, like I said, I heard some belting in her mid-voice,
but not in her upper mid voice
I would've loved to have heard her, kind of go up into that.
She went all the way to the flageolet, whistle register, but I never heard her get up.
She probably can, so you guys out there, that are familiar with her music, throw me a bone
and I'd like to hear something that she does where she belts in her upper mid voice rather
than compartmentalizing her low to mid- chest - low to mid-chest register, and then
all the way up in the flageolet whistle register.
Now, in fairness too, she reminds me a lot of an artist that I love a lot, and she's also
a Filipina artist.
That's why I'm bringing her up, because she kind of looks like her and she sounds like
her younger. And that's none other than Lea Salonga. Now Lea is obviously from the Philippines.
I think she was born in Manila, Broadway monster and Lea, if you get a chance to look her up -
Bob, I may have you post in the description via Delarosa. It's one of my favorite pieces
that she does.
Leah has been the lead role in Milan, she did Redwood Curtain, she did Alladin, she
did the voice of the Philippines.
She did a bunch of stuff on Broadway.
She did Annie, Miss Saigon, and Les Miserable, you got to check her out.
So you'll see this young gal here, how she, Morissette, how Morrissette stacks up to Lea
Salonga, because she's kind of gone before her.
So good job, Filipina! Filipinos. From the Philippines! And awesome!
Just keep coming my way, guys, and I'll break it down for you, and until next time! Peace.
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