Hey guys welcome back again to Ken Tamplin Vocal Academy where the proof is
in the singing. I decided to go ahead and do a vocal
coach reaction to Jennifer Hudson and the song that I chose is Hallelujah so a
lot of people have covered this tune and we'll just dive right in and see how
Jennifer does with it. Here we go.
Okay so up front
velvety texture and tone. So nice and sweet. So her own interpretation a lot of her
own, you know the way she phrases it and comes in with the rhythms of it and
whatnot but I just.. exceptional really really, tasty right off the front of the gate
so let's continue, here we go
NIce. Good power.
Cool. Did you guys hear that strength in the sound? Now she actually
kind of gets a little brassy up top and has a really wide vibrato some people do
I mean some people have a tremolo some people have you know abdominal vibrato
there's different types. Hers actually seems more natural to her whereas some
people that's more contrived if you know you have a diaphragmatic vibrato it's (singing)
you know real wide. In her case she's able to control it pretty well or actually she
controls it very well and it's part of her, it's part of the way you know she
she approaches her singing so but just beautiful very sensitive and also right on
pitch, you know, good tone
Nice background vocals.
Beautiful.
Like the pentatonic singing gospel or something.
Okay so yeah she's able to kind of squeeze right in and blend with those guys too a lot of
times, lead vocalists have a tough time blending because they're so used to
having it pop out or punch out of a mix that that's what they want, but in her
case she's able to set back and blend with the other choir which is really nice.
Good job Jennifer
Now if you notice that background vocals stop blending and then they kind of
stepped into more of a lead vocal mode so she's able to kind of go in that with
her with them and kind of step up the energy, so the, all of a sudden the choir
I got a funny story for ya. I just , I was trying to determine what song to do
of Jennifers and I saw her doing the tribute to Aretha Franklin's funeral and
also very sensitive, amazing you know very moving thing. I didn't care for her
vocals that much on when she sang Amazing Grace but I want to tell you my
story. So anyway way back in a band that I was
in called Magdalene, we were auditioning choirs to sing background vocals kind of
like Foreigners: "I want to know what Love is" and so we went from different place
to place and one of the churches that I went to in Los Angeles is called West
Angeles and you know I used to think of myself as a soul singer or at least
having some soul in my voice you know whatnot but when we got there
it seated about 2,500 to 3,000 people and there were two services and they were
dressed to the tens. I'm straight up, you know middle of Los Angeles and I got in
there and I think I was the only Caucasian person in the entire building.
I kid you not and what was funny was we were about my
wife and I we were about half way back and there was a visiting choir there
also so there's two choirs onstage and they're very very loud and what was the
cool thing is you know you have this (singing) and the bass goes (singing)
(singing) this is the pastor and the choir goes (singing)
(singing)
You know they're going through this whole thing and these guys dancing in the aisle and stuff
right and so I'm trying to sing along with
this stuff and I realized how white I really sounded I was just like it was
terrible. Right. But the funny thing was is if
you've ever been in a church service and especially a gospel church service,
usually you know the choirs are really loud, the music is kind of coming up from
the front and it kind of kind of rests on you from the front backwards right.
The people in the audience and the congregation sang so loud behind me
because there were so many people behind me, I can hardly hear anyone up in the
front with two choirs: A visiting choir and their normal choir and the band
because the congregation sang so loud. Really cool experience guys if you can
get get yourself down to checking out a good gospel service, I couldn't recommend
it more, so anyway a little sidebar a little side note but let's continue with
Jennifer. Here we go.
Man what a set of pipes, talk about good breath control. So did you hear that guys
we've talked about this a lot about the concept of holding back the breath and
she's able to hold back the breath like this and get through those phrases
without being out of breath or without you know, you've kind of asked yourself
man how far can she go, how long can she go and she could pretty much sing
whatever she wants it with that kind of breath control, it's killer.
Fantastic
I can see why she's revered
yeah and again, you know just great control she spreads her vowels pretty
wide sometimes (singing) you know kind of but a lot of people, Aretha did that. I love
Aretha she's...Aretha is one of my all-time favorite singers. Fact I got to do a
vocal reaction to Aretha, I just gotta find the right track cause she's done so
much stuff. But anyway guys, thank you for joining me. I have a singing course
called How to Sing Better than Anyone Else and I walk you through step by step
how to get to these cool little nuance and places like Jennifer and many others.
So until next time God bless and peace out.
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