Hey guys welcome back again to Ken Tamplin Vocal Academy where the proof is
in the singing. I get asked all the time Ken how are you
able to sing like Brian Johnson or or Lou Gramm or Paul Rodgers or David
Coverdale and then turn right around and sing like Bruno Mars or sing like Sam
Cooke or all these different people and different styles. Well I actually have a
singing course it's called How to Sing Better Than Anyone Else and I discuss
and walk you guys through step by step how you too can sing in all these
different styles and today we just happen to be doing a vocal reaction to
AC/DC. It's "You Shook Me All Night Long" and it's on the Howard Stern Show.
Now the Howard Stern Show usually doesn't have a whole band so I haven't
seen this yet so I'm not sure what I'm in for.
So if it's a whole band cool and if it's not we're gonna see because I've never
seen AC/DC.. I don't even know how they could do that without a band. So we're
about to find out. So let's check this out this..oh and I actually I've covered a
medley I put together of AC/DC songs. So if you guys want to check that out I'll put
that in the description so you can see how I did and singing like Brian Johnson.
Now Brian Johnson by the way is very different vocally than Bon Scott. They
had two different approaches to singing but we'll discuss that more as we go.
Here we go.
Yeah just two people.
Like I said right.
It's 8am in the morning.
Like I said
8:00 in the morning That's early.
That's very unusual guitar tone for him. Right there he looks like he's
struggling I'm gonna back this up but yeah that's very unusual guitar playing..
he usually doesn't have a lot of distortion. In fact I had a buddy of mine
that was on the road crew for him used to do Angus Young's guitars and would go
in and soundcheck their stuff and he plays with like tens I think for you
guitar players out there know what I'm talking about, through a Marshall that is..
has a lot of the distortion turned off so you just get the snap of the 220 of
the tubes because they have two compressor that gets you that kind of
European snap hit and nowhere as near as distorted and you can hear it on the
guitars. So let's back this up a little bit because it looks like Brian Johnson
is kind of struggling for some reason. Check it out.
You hear all that noise.
Now again to his credit man it's early in the morning be doing this. Now Brian
Johnson has a very squeezed pinched throat you know
right. He's tapped way up into the face and he's pinching and squeezing
everything he can out of his throat. That's why when you see him
performing live a lot, he gets the audience to do a lot of
stuff and he ducks a lot of notes because of his just constricting in the
throat and constricting the sound. It works for him, it's his sound but it's
very different than Bon Scott. Bon Scott was a lot more relaxed in his sound and
was more naturally gifted to singing this registration but you know it's Bon
it's Brian Johnson AC/DC I mean been doing this for decades so.
You gotta love that face English. Just looked like album cover man. Looks like the same
face. That's awesome.
I don't think I've ever seen. I don't.. I I've never seen them do like an acoustic
performance like this. So pretty cool that it could be done. That's amazing.
See now I love Brian and he's just been a force for a lot of years but listen
how much he's struggling because A. his voice hasn't woken up much. It's funny I
remember one time on the Mark and Brian show in Los Angeles and I think it was
Hall & Oates. Yeah I was Daryl hall and and they just killed it and I and and I
remember Mark saying you know gosh you know it's 7:30 drive time in the morning
you know how in the world did you.. just played at the Forum the night before or
some big performance and you come in and you're able to nail it like this. Waking
up in the morning at 7:30 and how what time did you get up and he goes oh actually
I never went to bed. So he stayed up all night trying to keep his voice up and
whatever or just couldn't sleep whatever but then shows up at 7:00 a.m. or
whatever this time was at their morning drive time for their Los Angeles Mark and
Brian show but listen closely to how much he's struggling right there. Just and
this is only one song.
Wait let me go back. Let me go back here.
See. One more time. I'm gonna go...gonna back farther.
He's struggling.
See he's got nothing left.
That was fun
That was funny. They are and they're funny too I've heard a
lot of interviews of them but gang I want to emphasize this again and I'm not just
reinforcing you know technique, technique, technique but I am reinforcing technique.
We want to take our natural skills or maybe we don't have natural skills and
we're learning how to sing but we want to take our voices and we want to get
them to the point where we have a lot of freedom in the sound and that strictured
sound is a not a lot of freedom. Now it's the sound that's made it AC/DC,
it's made it Brian Johnson. I get that but (sings) you know if you constrict this sound like
that, you're not gonna make it very far and you can just destroy your vocals.
right we can keep the
throat open. So I cover all this in my singing course where you maintain good
open throat technique, then you understand how to compress the air.
That's called glottal compression and when you compress the air in a
relaxation response, between the chest the neck and the throat to keep that
throat open and not allow too much air to pass across the cords to dry them out
and not drag too much of that weight up into the throat and the muscle mass into
the throat to stricture the sound and sound so pinched and squeezed. So any way if
you like what you heard please like and subscribe to my channel gang. God bless
all you gang and until next time peace out.
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