Hey guys welcome back again to Ken Tamplin Vocal Academy where the proof is
in the singing. I am seeing a lot of really silly ads of
you know and vocal licks and tricks and five easy tips to stuff that is just a
bunch of baloney guys, it doesn't work. Remember the slogan here at KTVA, the
proof is in the singing. There's a simple question to ask these
guys putting the stuff out. Ask them to sing and ask them to show students
singing we've got like 600 videos out now of doing just that so I want to do a
vocal coach reaction to Toto "Hold The Line" and we'll just do it we'll talk
about it as we go. Here we go.
This is not live by the way, this is the studio
version but a performance video.
Okay before we get too far into this, I have to say this is one of my all-time
favorite bands. Now a lot of the heavy rock guys would say they're a wussy
band whatever. Man these guys are as serious as they get as far as
musicianship. Now Bobby Campbell is a friend of mine and we go way back.
He's one of my all-time favorite singers is was a great inspiration to me so I
went ahead and did Africa I'll put it in the description tag you can hear how I
did Africa actually my student Gabriela did "Hold The Line" and then I also did
"Rosanna". So I'll put all of those in the description so you can see how we fared
out and we didn't go (sounds) we actually sang so anyway um I can't.. just humored
by that but and all these ads that are going back and forth to try to woo
people over and just just sing pal anyway but so and then Steve Lukather
was also a phenomenal inspiration to me, one of my top five, just one of the greatest
guitar players in the world and I have seen these guys so many times and every
single time it was different and they freaking rocked the house and it was
just amazing and all the hits they've had you know going through the process of
that so and David Paich, everybody else in the
band was great I'm sorry that we lost but Porcaro early on to you know probably
a drug incident but anyway killer band.
Okay now at this time when because I think this song was actually
from the 70s late 70s and then you go and kinda into the early 80s, they were
probably one of the only bands adding a really cool jazz influence without being
so jazzy that it became kind of sappy. So somehow they were able to meld you know
a lot of jazz influence in their music and not lose sight of the rock aspect as
well. I just wanted to annotate that as we go here we go.
Sing it with me.
Okay now when Steve Lukather came out too as a guitar player, you guitar players
would probably really appreciate this. Kind of everybody with Jimmy Page, you
know um you know AC/DC, Angus Young all these different guys
even BB King, had a really fast vibrato. They go (sounds) so I modeled my
guitar playing after that fast vibrato and when I first heard this, I'm like (sounds)
and he had this huge wide wide vibrato and then all of a sudden I just went
I want to sound like that guy so I completely changed my style of playing
as a direct result of this guitar solo and his subsequent stuff so..
Neal Schon did have a wider vibrato too, there were a couple guys out there. He
wasn't the only guy but..
And yes I learned this note-for-note as a kid
As well as "Rosanna" and other songs.
Again there's all those kind of halftone jazz-influenced things so they go from
one interlude to another interlude and they were able to bring it back again
into verse into kind of a more of a rock format but you didn't get the sense that
you lost the song in a jazz movement just for the sake of jazz, it was like
it's in their soul and so they were able to incorporate that in the song so I know
I tried to overemphasize that but I just think it's really cool.
Okay it's coming up to the end here.
Again phenomenal band, if you guys ever get the chance to see them live
I know Bobby's no longer with the band but the new singer's really awesome they
actually have had quite a few over the years but everybody in the band was
great, the grooves were sick. In fact I remember trying to sing to "Rosanna"
and I was having a tough time singing to the groove because it was so back behind
the pocket and you wouldn't even know it, you know boom boom boom boom you know
it had this like real cool backbeat groove and you couldn't sing on top of it
you had to sit back in the song so you'll find that out with a lot of these
guys. Now this was at an era when a lot of great bands were coming out so we're
gonna try to hit on a few of them so for those of you that have not had a chance
to hear these kind of groups or maybe re-familiarize those that have, I'd
like to make some comments along the way okay. Anyway you guys Ken Tamplin Vocal
Academy where the proof and now the commenting is in the singing and
playing and reacting so with that said until next time peace out.
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