Hey gang welcome back again to Ken Tamplin Vocal Academy where the proof is in the
singing. This is going to be a special video for my singer friends out there
because I've been wanting to do a vocal coach reacts to Luther Vandross for a
really long time and for a very specific reason Luther is a master at mixed voice
and probably a lot of people don't know how much I really like him and
appreciate his talent but let's just go ahead and dive into it and we'll talk
about it along the way here we go. I haven't seen this so I'm hoping
this is gonna be everything I'd hoped it would be. So let's check it out.
A house not a home it's live at the NAACP awards.
I love his charisma. You got Dionne Warwick in the audience.
Okay. Now okay so again talk about mixed
voice. (sings) right. Now is he in chest and just using a lot of
air. Is he in mixed voice down low or is he just still in chest the whole time
or is he entirely in head voice. You kind of never know with him he's that good at
it right. He's actually in mixed (sings)
right he's mixing his sound down really low. Now he's notorious for being
able to mix really low, mix really high, have a percentage of chest head mix
anywhere in his vocal spectrum, his vocal registration and the dude is just
awesome. He's gnarly man but let's continue to go rock here here we go.
See that mix.
Hear that. He's mixing all over the place.
So he's not one just one voice.
He's sure got them in the palm of his hand that's for sure.
(sings) The tone
the warmth of his sound is just off the charts beautiful it's like Barry White but
not quite as no girthy but he's got that beautiful warm airy tone. His pitch is
just spot-on, he's got these sexy notes and I love his charisma. He's - it's a
very unpretentious sound. It's not like you know you're being forced to listen to this
sound and he draws you into his sound instead of you know demanding that you
listen to it. So it's very winsome so I love that about it too. It's just all the
way around man it's really cool.
You can kind of like listen to it all day. You know what I mean.
His vowels (sings). Good vowel placement.
There's that air.
Good note.
Did you (sings). He pulls it back in a really super like a seamless head...chest mix. He
pulls it back in a head. Now like I said he's one of the few guys that I know of in the
R&B world that actually sing a high C you know c5 for male tenor, belt it and
then you know piano it's called you know (piano mezzo Forte) Forte and
piano. You know come piano all the way back into a mixed voice right or a chest resonance
sound and then go back into that full belting sound and that is very difficult
to do so.
So he goes from mezzo piano, mezzo forte from forte backword.
Mixed voice.
I love his confidence too.
He's got this perfect vowel placements. You know guys have this singing course
out and I know I talk about all the time but it's called How to Sing Better Than Anyone
Else and I show you exactly how all this stuff is done, how you can achieve it you
can do this. Takes some time this..he did not just walk in and all of a sudden
start singing like this. You know he had to work at this too. It took him a
while I'm sure to figure some stuff out but he is certainly a master and we
learned from the Masters and he absolutely is one of those guys that we
can learn a lot from so let's continue.
There's that mix pulling back.
I'm gonna go ahead and stop here because it goes on for it looks like another
couple minutes doing the kind of similar stuff but anyway do you guys get that (sings)
that you know mixed voice or all the way back in head voice in a really
low position and bring in chest and pull it back in a max and back forth that is
some singing brothers. So anyway thank you for joining me Ken Tamplin Vocal
Academy where the proof is in the singing. Hope you guys enjoyed it if you like
what you heard please like and subscribe to my channel and until next time
peace out.
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