Hey, guys, welcome back again to Ken Tamplin Vocal Academy, and I’m continuing
on a series on artists and music that has inspired me, and helps to be able to
inspire you, and I’ve chosen Al Green’s Here I Am Baby. Now I have a huge love
for early Motown and Old Soul R and B.
Al has a real sensitive voice, so I’m going to bring some of that sensitivity,
but I’m always going to make it my own unique sound, with some Ken Tamplin in it too, so:
Al Green Here I Am Baby, do it first, talk about it after, here we go…
Alright, so, again, “I can’t believe that it’s real, the way that you make me feel” there’s a lot of sensitivitity,
in fact he even sings it more gently, like “I can’t believe that it’s real, the way that you make me feel…”
He’s real easy on the sound: “Ha, ah, ah, ah, Ha, ah, ah, ah, ah” and he’s got like all that real kinda cool head
voice stuff going on. Now, I chose to take his genteelness in the sound, and then I leaned into it a
bunch of times when I felt like I wanted to kind of bring it home, so I kinda brought a little David Coverdale in
there, and then I brought some old school soul stuff. I did some Otis Redding, a little bit of Otis in there.
I put in a little bit of Wilson Pickett, for some of the distorted sounds in there.
So I combined some of my old Motown influences, a little heavier side of that, into an Al Green tune to
make it my own. So the point of this was, again, to reach back, to take something really cool that I’m
inspired by, but not necessarily do it exactly like it, and have something that
is my own unique sound. So thank you for joining me,
Ken Tamplin Vocal Academy,
where the proof is in the singing. Until next time.