How to Develop YOUR Own Sound (Part ONE) -Tackling the "Original Material Problem"

all right so today we are discussing how to develop really hone your own sound as a vocalist and I've got some insights but I've also got a lot of practical things that we can do with our voice too to put these insights into our voice I know a lot of times it's it's difficult when you know someone talks at you for a while and well you know try this or try this or you know think like this or you know there's all these all these things that that people tell you to do or tell you to try but it's it's hard to put those into actionable steps what does finding your own sound as a vocalist actually look like when someone is experimenting with finding their own sound I think that's really important so hey commander Clyde Mathew Briggs Vincent Matthew Pollock I'm not gonna I'm gonna miss all these names a lot of these names but and we're gonna do Q&A towards the end which I'm really excited about too and I'll glance over here every once in a while so that's really a big part of what today is gonna be about is it's going to be experimenting with the mindset of finding our own sound and I want to say this this is the one of the main points that I'm going to be making throughout this live event when it comes to developing and finding your own sound as a vocalist it is drastically counterintuitive the more we as vocalists hone in on doing a particular thing the less we are able to find our own sound I'm gonna say that again the more we are hone in as vocalists on doing a particular thing the less likely we are to find our own sound so if we're if you know if we've got this goal I've got a I've got to discover my mix and I've got a hit a c5 you know I want to do that in the next few months and you or your laser focused on it you might do that but you're not gonna you're not going to develop your own style your own sound you are pigeon-holed your laser focused which can be good developing skills like that are it is it is a good thing but when we're talking about really wanting to be creative and really wanting to find out what our voice can do accepting what our voice can do and what it can't do and being able to apply that in a musical context we want to think broader we want to think about possibility we want to think about every sound that we make that comes out of our mouth every single one even what I just did every single one that everything is useful everything is useful nothing is bad nothing is nothing sounds bad it is all an opportunity and I'm gonna be making some pretty crazy dumb sounds today as I stumble through creating over this track so I'm gonna check up here on questions and then we'll play the track it's just a track I got from you know Logic Pro it's been one of the one of the jingle ones and I picked it this morning and then I scratch wrote out some lyrics after listening to the track a few times but I have not sum over it at all greetings from Guatemala you're very welcome India yes yes lot is fun live is quite fun Adam Renzo Ricardo hello from Mexico hello I was just in Mexico Germany Oliver awesome ok here is our our paint palette for the day this is called well the the track is called torn jeans [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] that sounds like a fun note okay so this is called the the jingle or this backing track is called torn jeans and the task is to go really walk a line here we are going to find our own sound in the context of this track I this isn't my favorite track in the world I wouldn't write a track like this who cares right every everything is an opportunity so I want to find my own sound in the context of this track and what that's going to do is over time if I do enough of these types of things I am going to find my sound in general and it's by experimenting broadly over lots of different types of music that you do find your own sound you find your own way of doing things that tend to transcend genres they tend to and that's one of the things that you know that the singers that I really like that I've listened to over you know my my years of singing you know the main one being Chris Cornell if you listen to how he evolved as a singer and as an artist and as a writer he's sang over so many - everything from you know blood-curdling Audioslave grit to you know Ave Maria he saw over everything and it sounded amazing and yet he had his own sound you would say about him that he had his own sound he you know he sounded like Chris Cornell whether he was singing Ave Maria or whether he was singing Cochise or show me how to live or Jesus Christ pose he had his own sound and yes it evolved but it was always uniquely his did he get there by saying to himself I've got to do this I want to learn how to scream I wanted out a fright scream I want to learn how to sing and I mixed no he went there by writing music by singing over lots of different things and just having a X I'm at experimenting no matter what this guy from Nashville keeps calling me I'm not quite sure what's going on with that but we're gonna we're gonna move forward okay maybe I forgot about a meeting or something okay so listening again the first thing I'm gonna do is I'm gonna experiment over I'm just gonna speak these words and actually we don't even need everyone hearing it here are the words that so this is called torn jeans and so I just listened through to this and I'm thinking torn jeans and I was thinking work what tears jeans well I suppose play could but I went the work direction so I feel the weight upon my back I'm so tired I've been working all day the blood sweat and tears as time slips away I'm dragging on as the pressure gets greater make a move don't you dare get closer this guy's in a bad mood he's been working all day it's getting late for me late for me late for me so he gets madder and madder as he realizes that he has worked to the point of tearing his jeans maybe all day and so with that in mind I'm going to speak this with attitude over this track in a minute I want to I want to see what you guys are what you guys are saying - yeah I don't I don't think it you know we'll see I'm sure I'll get a voice message okay Oh Mike Patton yes he is a fantastic yes I'm going to yell I'm gonna yell I'm gonna scream I'm gonna make noises I am just making sure that everybody is cool with where we're going Axl yes I've done Axl he's another guy that just he makes it tonight great noises thank you to kill a giant I'm having a blast making all this content okay let's uh let's go speak over this track I feel the weight upon my back I'm so tired I've been working all day he split sweating tears as time slips away I'm dragging on as the pressure gets greater make a move don't you dare get closer it's getting late for me late for me late for me me okay so you know not rhythmically perfect by any means still figuring out how those words might might go over that the point is though even before I start singing I want to get myself this by by getting into character we are going to stumble upon our own expression if we seek after our own expression we are going to miss it I know this sounds counterintuitive and may be a bit woo but it's true when you look hard for something oftentimes you miss the very thing you're looking for so in all the questions that I get and in all the private lessons that I do and I hear people saying and I want all the private lessons but a lot of the private lessons that I do there is there are vocalists and I was one of these at at one point there are vocalists that are are set on a sound well this is just my sound I'm holding my face this way because this is my sound I am I am singing with a raised larynx and a cup tongue because this is my sound I am you know when those things are those are byproducts of pigeonholing yourself whereas if you go into this with okay where's the attitude this guy is angry he's been working all day and he gets angrier and angrier as the words go on well what does that look like just to speak it I feel the weight on my back I'm so tired I've been working all day [Applause] okay I definitely think that is gonna be part of it at the end some sort of nervous breakdown I think that's gonna be neat okay so at this point I feel the need to stand up and see what happens if I can just vibe it a little bit more I'm gonna start throwing in notes here and there and if you guys have taken my course or are at the point in my course that I show you how to do this there's a little part in the course that's short phrases and note assignments and I'm gonna be applying this to develop some creativity here as well as discover what my voice can do in the context of this track I mean every context is totally different right and so we want to learn what our voice is going to do what our voice wants to do what kind of notes want to stand out and I don't care what you know is that a B is that a C I don't care I care what feels good to my voice and feels good over the track I also don't care about the sound at this point I care about feel it's another thing that I talk about all the time so this is I'm gonna stand up take this with me so I can do my camera switching and you should see me here okay so I'm gonna go ahead and just play the track delay reverb this this sort of sound that you hear that little hiss there to this sort of sound with a little bit of delay a little bit of reverb really helps me get into the vibe of whatever I'm doing so here we go [Music] [Music] okay I'll make some observations here in a minute [Music] okay well there's there's a lot of things happening that I feel will be in a final version and what I'm also noticing is and I believe that feels like a B so this is the songs in the key of E if that is indeed a B I'll test that in a minute and so now I have a consciousness about what my voice might do in the context of this track this this B may be a pretty pretty cool opportunity later in the song I don't know if I want to be up there the whole time because I want to be able to go up to that it's kind of a climactic thing I'll sing over this a few more times and then I'm gonna make I'm gonna try to record something and then listen back to it objectively because I don't I don't want to judge what's coming out of my mouth as it's coming out of my mouth I want to react to it after I sing while it's not coming out of my mouth I can be more productive that way [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] okay let's try to record something [Music] [Music] all right okay test test we're back okay so we have a rough thing an idea and here is where the magic really starts to happen because I have just spent time singing and listening to myself in the context of me actually singing and it always always never sounds like I think it does when I am singing or when I'm when I'm actually singing when I go to listen to it there's all sorts of things that I notice about my performance my voice you know how I'm holding my my face may I am I am I warmed up at doesn't sound like I'm very warmed up man I really strained there I wasn't doing what I need to be doing to get that and you know all those things sort of come into place so as we listen to this as I react my own voice which I think reacting to your own voice is is one of the most productive and amazing things you can ever do if you know reacting to other people's voices mmm learning from other people's voices sure pop in here and say hi a few people [Music] thank you poop muscle gang where you at right we I probably do need to more poop muscles this is great well I save this live stream live stream yes I am saving it they do it will be up and the air conditioner just went off okay well cool I'm glad everybody's still enjoying it let's go back we'll do some do some listening and we're gonna add background vocals and stuff to this as well so let's uh here's where I tripped over the so I tripped over the cord got wrapped around the mic stand that the courtroom I might yeah okay actually that was kind of neat actually I sort of on beat I wonder if that I wonder if that would work to keep that in there somehow [Music] [Music] [Music] okay so remember everything is useful nothing is bad you want to get in the habit of listening to yourself and don't go when you when you hear something or see something that it's an opportunity there's an idea there somewhere even in the what you would traditionally have said is a screw up so I'm gonna I'm gonna listen to this again and I'm going to point out what I think is really working and what if I expand upon it or try to do something slightly differently may work better notice the verbage that I'm using notice how I'm talking about my voice I am NOT saying I'm gonna figure out where I screwed up and then I'm going to fix it we're not gonna say that we're gonna say everything is an opportunity everything is useful and I realize that there's different stages that everybody is at in in their singing and confidence levels range and all this stuff but even in that this mindset this mindset of everything is useful nothing is bad is what's going to get you to the next level I think I said this in one of the write-ups this is the difference between a vocal student and a vocal performer a vocal amateur and a vocal professional it's not who can sing better sing higher notes saying you know none of that this is so evident by lots of singers out there throughout time that don't have incredible voices but they they exude wonderful confidence they figured out their sound yeah I've done a video on this Tom Petty Jimi Hendrix Neil Young these guys they don't have great voices but they have their sound how it's this mindset everything they do is useful everything they do presents an opportunity that's it yes technical working on technical things training your ears learning how to use your support all that is very important and it enables you to do what I'm talking about with greater confidence but without this mindset you will never find your voice with this mindset you will find your voice so all that let's stop talking we're gonna listen some more okay so so that I I think I realized this as I was playing with my with the speech but there's that syncopated snare thing and that worked really well listen it's kick workout all day and then the the kick hits and I hit that with my with my vocals with the rhythm now had I not approached this speech wise first I might have missed to that when I went to record so right here that's dragging that time a little bit with that drum fill those are things that I wasn't thinking about that when I was singing specifically like oh that fills coming up but I had spoken over it enough times where I felt how those words should should work over that and of course that's a that's a moving target right you know if I change the words a little bit or you know but it's all it's a matter of combining these things and then expressing with them that's right on the beat [Music] works so that I think what I tried to do I was reaching for that note instead of thinking down on that note I've talked about that in other videos that's what happens when you do that my opportunity is I'm gonna I'm gonna work on that I like going up to the Dragon so I'm gonna do a lot of what I've talked about on this channel and I'm going to slow that down I'm gonna isolate that phrase and I'm gonna get there clean first so when I go to actually Reaper form this I will have gotten the feel in my body and I'll be able to execute it this is why this works you're gonna see this in process okay clean how's my pitch my pitch is good I'm clean I'm not trying to over compress I'm not trying to add grit I'm just worrying about the pitch and the feel pressure feels weird I'm I'm tensing great pressure I need to release that pressure that's better that's the pressure gets greater gets gets get I'm gonna brighten that make get get get instead of gets gets better I don't want to be too I don't I don't want this going on where it's all sort of the same vowel I want as I get more aggressive and as I get higher I want there to be this greater sense of digging into the mic and that means more vowel variance right and more water I like that you can hear that okay that's the pressure pressure gets greater the pressure gets square-dance greater get get get okay [Music] [Music] okay so this was I like that except I like it and I like it there's there's a bit of there's a bit of speech in there make a move so you can see make a move yeah I'm under then ahead of the beat which is good I can do that and I I want to I think I'd like to I said I just said it's late for me [Music] please I think I want another opportunity at this end but I liked what I did so I'm going to I'm going to duplicate this playlist here and we're gonna try some things so the first thing I'm gonna do is we're gonna we're gonna try that again yeah that's what we're going to do [Music] and we'll go ahead and record that and pre-roll pressure against greater [Music]

Channel: Chris Liepe

Views: 4,931

Keywords: How to scream, Beginner Voice Lessons, Singing Lessons, Ken Tamplin Vocal Academy, Produce Like a Pro, Songwriting, Audio Engineering

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Length: 30min 42sec (1842 seconds)

Published: Thu Jun 18 2020