Hey guys welcome back again to Ken
Tamplin Vocal Academy where the proof is
in the singing. I got quite a few requests for this you,
know Ken can you do Tori Kelly featuring
Ariana Grande and I absolutely can. Now
what I like about Tori Kelly is that she
you know incorporates a lot of jazz
chords in her music and her playing. So
she's a real musician. So this will be a
treat for me. I haven't seen this, I know
it's been around for a while.
Shame on me I should have seen it
should have seen it already but I
haven't but so with that said I'm gonna
feature it right now. Let's do it here, we go.
This is obviously another MTV thing
it looks like.
See what I mean. It's real nice major sevens, minor nine.
Now believe it or not you guys are gonna
laugh at me for saying this but she has
kind of an interesting pop version of
kind of like something John Mayer would
do on instrumentally speaking and I know
her voice is very different, she has a
very very different sound and approach
but you know John's just a fabulous
guitar player and just a really talented
guy and uses a lot of.. he doesn't
overuse jazz chords and neither does she
but they're very appropriately placed
for their styles of music so. I want to
say that right up front.
Cool hair.
Spot on.
Now for you singers out there, notice she has a kind of very small sound (sings) right. She has a
very small sound so her instrument is
relatively small but she actually it's
what she does with it that counts. So she
warms it up, she has a nice round sound,
she has a really good command of her mixed
voice and going into her head voice and
back and the pitch is really great her
tone's cool.It's pretty sexy, it's
really cool.
Blues.
Here come's Ariana.
Okay now I want to point something out right
away from Ariana, usually she has a much
brighter tone and it sounds like her
voice right straight up front is a
little tired. I don't know yet but you kinda hear the (sounds). It's kind of hoarse you know
like she's been singing a lot probably
and she's just guesting here, I don't
know if she warmed up a lot before she
came out to stage but let's listen here.
Little out of pitch.
See what I mean (sounds). Now that kind of
dysphonia happens again from over
singing, being dehydrated, not enough
sleep you know singing too long of hours,
you know not giving the voice enough
time to rest and I've seen a lot of
performances by Ariana and she just
kills it every time. So this is one where
she's kind of just a little bit out of
her element, not too much but you know
she's not, I don't think she's matching
Tori's vocals with the same
professionalism in this particular
performance yet.
They harmonize well together.
Okay now one might think too um I was kind of
counting in my head as she was
doing that. Either she's playing to a
clique which I don't think so. I don't know why you would do that for a small acoustic
set or she's got really good timing and
I'm gonna choose she's got really good
timing so she's not speeding up or
slowing down and a lot of times in
acoustic performances they get really
excited and and you know they they kind
of run.. the timing runs away from them. Not in Tory's case man she's keeping a
rock solid groove, laying it in the pocket,
laying it back. She's not getting hyped
out and spazzed out from the audience
and the energy in the audience, she's
holding her own. It's really great so her
timing is really cool.
See what I mean.
Good runs on the last thing while I was making all the drum noises by the way.
Good pitch.
That was great.
That was a great acoustic performance
man, good stuff. Yeah man I love it when
people just are really talented and they
had to work at their craft it's obvious.
She didn't just wake up starting to play
all those chords and playing that
great and singing that great, she had to
work at it so. Kudos both of them had
to work at it long, long hours. This
wasn't just handed to them so. Anyway you
guys thank you for joining me if you
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time peace out.
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