Hey guys, welcome back again to Ken Tamplin
Vocal Academy, where the proof is in the singing! Today we’re going to take on another epic,
classic piece. The band is The Scorpions, and the song is called Still Loving You, and
the lead vocalist's name is Klaus Meine. Now, Klaus is German, and he uses a lot of German
language re-translated into English, so there’s some vowel stuff there. I’m going to sing
it like Ken Tamplin, with some of his influence. We’ll do it first, talk about it after.
Here we go. Okay. So… Great, by the way, awesome
song. These guys turn out a lot of hits. Klaus Meine is still out there killing it, to this
day, so he’s one of the few people that have escaped that whole 80s-90s thing where a lot
of those guys lost his voice. No, Clouse is still out there killing it to this day, so
kudos to him, man! So, I’m not claiming to be awesome as Klaus. I just want to
kind of break down some of this stuff that he’s done, so…
When I go “Time, it needs time” I’m being real bright on the sound. I’m using
a real bright timbre. I would say “Time, it needs time, baby!” I like more girthy,
kind of lower register stuff, but he’s not. He’s real pointed in the sound. Now, other
people that use that sound would be guys like Don Dokken, or even Lou Gramm, or Stevie Wonder.
Like there’s a lot of people that use a lot of nasality and a lot of frontal mask
in the sound, but you know: “To win back your love again” he uses, like a “Wehn
back yah love” you know, or a “Love. Our lahv. Surely be thrown aweh” and again,
remember I said I was going to talk about the translation from German into English.
So, you know, here’s a guy… Kudos to him, man. He’s German, and he’s had a lot of success
in music that he’s re-presented his German language into English. So, he’s trying to
negotiate these vowel sounds. I wouldn’t be so harsh, on the vowels, or hard on them.
I’d be, instead of “And surely be thrown aweey” I’d be “surely be thrown away”…
I’d mellow out the sounds themselves. Now, one real important thing about this…
By the way, if you like this video, please Subscribe to My Channel. That would be awesome, so you can hear more of the tutorials that I have. But, I wouldn’t have been able to
do the last note, you know... "Need Your Love..." I wouldn’t havebeen able to do that, because when you use too much nasality, or the Velonasal port in the sound, and mask in the sound. What
happens is you inhibit range. And when you do that, you can’t go up beyond certain
notes. So, I like to keep the sound more open. I come in from behind the note, and I drop
down on the note, and if I want to bring mask into the sound I can do that. Now, I cover
all of this in my singing course, How To Sing Better Than Anyone Else, you can go to Ken Tamplin Vocal Academy dot com, you can click here and get the information, which is awesome,
and you can also check out my other stuff I have on YouTube, because as I walk you through
this step-by-step you’ll see there’s a training process. I don’t just walk up and
sing this stuff. No, I have to train my vowels, and I have to train the timbre of the sound,
and all that stuff, and diaphragmatic support... This takes a LOT of diaphragmatic support,
in order to be able to do this stuff effectively, Okay guys?
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