Hey guys welcome back again to Ken Tamplin Vocal Academy where the proof is
in the singing. I'm continuing my series on How To Sing
Like and next up is Chester Bennington from
Linkin Park. Before we get started if you wouldn't
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and I have a singing course it's called How to Sing Better
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where we negotiate talking about how these singers got
great and what they use in their techniques to make them great
and hopes to help make you great at singing. So I want to go ahead and get
started with Chester. Now I'm sorry we lost him so early, a really
weird thing surrounding his suicide and Chris
Cornell's suicide if those of you guys want to talk about
it you can tell what you think really happened, put that in the description
but some pretty creepy stuff surrounding that but with that said let's just get
started in the singing part and I'm going to go ahead and uh
do "Numb", here we go.
Now I'm going to point out a couple of things that are really important. Now
Chester was either on or I should say
hard or mellow and I don't know if that's the best way to describe it but he was
on or off let's say from being full throttle or pulled way back. Maybe that's
the best way to say it and so (sings)
right. He was real small on his sounds and he
definitely wasn't like killing it, leaning into the sound
and then when he would lean into this sound, it's like (sounds)
and then back to that sound again. Now we set, we saw a lot of that with guys like
M Shadows for example from Avenge Sevenfold
where they're, when they sing a clean verse, it's like this real pristine
kind of small little boy, sort of clean verse and then they go
into this full throttle distorted thing and they go back and forth between the
two right. So this is kind of Chester's style and
this is sort of what he does so. Now the interesting thing is is that's
exactly what I talk about in my course is that if you're going to uh sing full
throttle with a lot of distortion, you better be able to know how to come
back and clean up the voice so that you can
sing like this or you will forever sentence yourself to a heavy tone. Now
you see a lot of that with a lot of people that sing with distortion
and I'm not looking to uh you know call out a lot of people but I'll use Maria
Brink for example you know when she screams and screams heavy and
then you listen to her singing something more mellow,
you go oh wow she's kind of really hurt the mellow side of her voice
in the name of and sacrificed it to the altar of singing heavy so to speak right
and we don't want to do that, we want to actually be able to sing clean, sing a
little distorted, add a little bit more, different percentages and shades of
distortion or grit or tone or overdrive, whatever you want to call it
and uh so but in Chester's case we don't really see that, we just really see
either clean or dirty so we're going to continue, here we go.
Now before I go on to this next part um
Chester actually made it in to um our top I think it was 20, I think it was
was top 20, or top 10 I guess forget uh of uh holding the longest notes
and I actually do a video on how to hold the longest notes and I actually use him
also as another example of me doing that in a video that I put out called how
to hold long singing notes.Now why this is interesting is because (sings)
like he's doing these really long, long distorted lines
and his breath capacity his pretty gnarly but
I want to point out to you guys yet again it's because he knows how to
compress the air, again I cover all of this in my
singing course, how to compress the air without pinching
and squeezing in the throat and to get the distortion, the desired
effect of distortion and singing these long long phrases and
in fact um there's one live version of him doing this again it's in the how the
how to sing or the world's longest singing notes I think is what it's called
something like that I'll put that in the description so you
can guys can see it but he's way up towards the front
and he holds these crazy long notes, well it's not
only that he has a lot of lung capacity, it's that he knows how to compress
and control the air. So that's very important as we're going through some of
this stuff. I wanted to mention that along the way because it's not just
light singing, heavy singing, his tone and whatnot,
it's also his ability to control the breath.
One more thing (sings).He's real
small and in the face. He's not (sings),
it's (sings)
right and he kind of uses a lot of air and stays right up here in the nasal
cavity and in the front of the face, he uses a lot
of mask in the sound and again it sounds kind of like little boy voice. I cover
that in my course too so.
See how long I'm holding these phrases, the breath.
Now if you notice I did that really long phrase and I did the next phrase
but i decided to kind of make it a little heavier. I decided to not keep it
so small in the sound because I like a more of a big manly
kind of kind of tone for my own personal preference.
So I didn't sing it exactly like Chester all the way through, I took on some Ken
Tamplin and put some Ken Tamplin in it too so you'll see that and I do that often
in my videos so but I also think it's really important
guys that um it's not just that I show you that um hold on sorry,
it's not just that I show you that Ken Tamplin can do this stuff,
it's that i show you that um I can teach other people how to do it too.
So a lot of people say you know this is how you do it, this is how you do it and
if you notice none of these vocal coaches online are doing this,
none of them are singing, it's weird and they're not singing in all these
different styles and they're not singing with a voice
that I would want to sound like and they're not displaying students that
do it either. That is one big red flag. If they can't
do it themselves and they display no students doing it or
a few students doing it, how could they possibly teach you how to
do it. So people that claim to be the number one
vocal coach on the internet which is baloney by the way, I have a lot more
subscribers than those guys that are talking
or they're going to teach you to do this in 30 days, it ain't gonna happen
folks. That's not the way this works. So next up is Kati Cher.
um I've been raising Kati for a while now so Kati's come
a long way. Yeah she's cute and she's eye candy and stuff, that's cool
but Kati is a beast and here we do "Crawling"
and check this out tell me what you think of this.
Ok now before we go on, a lot of people say oh it's easy for her because she's a
girl, it's in her range it's easier for girls.
Now I covered this in the Iron Maiden video that i did just a little bit where
I sang up some pieces and then I got my student Gabriela to sing "Trooper" and
um as I mentioned that girls have a lot tougher time than
guys to sound big and fat and distorted, their voices don't distort the same way
as guys do so they have to actually pay special
attention on how they do it. Now Chester is an uh is a little
different animal and let me explain something.
A lot of times he sings his whole tones, he'll be very monotone
on a note. He won't, it'll be like a flat line if you were to look at you know the
same (sings)
right, he's not using a lot of range and a lot of melody. He stays pretty flatline
on his melodies the way he's singing his whole tones and stuff so um
it's a little easier to lean into a sound if you don't have to shift the
throat to get into different words and vowels that require a lot of range. So
um it's it's easier to do that, to sing a whole tone straight,
than it is to go up and down in different vocal registrations. So Kati
and I have worked on this a lot but she's able to belt into a lot of
different registrations and get that tone that we've been
looking for. Now she didn't start out that way
and we had some pretty serious pitch issues to deal with
and some power and stamina issues. Now Kati is an absolute
beast and is well on her way into that Lzzy Hale,
you know killing it, kind of a voice but for girls it's not that easy to distort
and especially not that easy when they get up into their head voice.
So listen to how Kati continues to approach this tune.
Now I want to add one more thing to this um and that is
at Ken Tamplin Vocal Academy, we have a different approach that
instead of just trying to sound exactly like another singer
in this case Chester Bennington, if you go back and listen to her vowels,
how big and robust and round they are compared to Chester's. I'm gonna say that
I know that's.. people are gonna get pissed off at me. Are you saying
she's better than Chester. That's not what I'm saying, what I'm saying is at
KTVA, I teach big, round, robust vowels so you
can close down those vowels and sound like Chester and squeeze and sound more
tubular on the sound if you want, or she's selling like Gabriela Guncikova,
one of my other students that many of my other students, we're going to showcase a
lot of these students that I have and the vowels are
big and robust and powerful and you can tell she is far from at the
end of her range, while sometimes some of these other
vocalists sound like they're always at the crest,
always at the top, at the zenith or pinnacle of the range just
giving it everything they've got. You can tell in Kati's case,
she's got a lot more range to give and she's singing well within the tessetura
or the sweet spot of her range while she's doing these demonstrations. So
we worked a long time on this, it's called open throat technique. I cover
all of this in my singing course where you can get these sounds so you can
maintain good vocal health and sing a lot of different styles
and have incredible stamina for days. So guys I'm doing a lot of this
requests so if you guys have a request, put it in the description of who it is
that you want me to do, a takedown of how to sing like and
definitely check out my next video.