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I’ve taken so much inspiration from your very generous, complimentary lessons. I’m sooooo glad you are not a Ken Tamplin. And I’m not saying that tongue in cheek. In all seriousness though, dude; you are the real deal and anyone interested in exploring their voice is doing a disservice to themselves by skipping by your vids. 🫡
It's because people don't want to hear the same performance. They'll compare it to the original, which is better obviously. You really have to give people a dancing circus bear routine with fireworks for them to give a damn. 😅
My vocal coach told me to suppose that I'm an actor. Read and analyse the lyrics first. Try to get the feeling of the song just by the lyrics themselves. Then when you start accompanying the music just go for it and don't care about the correct intonation. Try to get the feeling and expression 😊 to sum it up, she has the same philosophy like you in getting there 🤗 I'm 47 and am her student for a year now. I never had a better coach in all those years before. It's so good to see your videos they help me a lot ❤
"Intentionally do NOT hit note for note." This is the 1st time you've given an instruction that I NAILED effortlessly😂 Ok ok seriously, great advice suggesting we play with a song before we play it. This is an eye opening piece of advice😮❤ Also, when you suggested we stop trying to hit a note, but instead picture ourselves "landing on the note." THAT blew my mind & drastically improved my singing mindset. I have developed a little trick that I hope can help others. I no longer think in terms of falsetto, head voice, chest voice, distortion. I view these as nothing more than different characters. My interest in voice acting & the comedian Maria Bamford inspired me to view these different voice categories differently.
a lot of singers would really benefit from improv classes, not only for vocal and self confidence but to explore just how much one person can do with their own voice. ive always loved talking to myself in silly voices. just yesterday i rapped rap god while doing a high pitched british old lady voice. it was glorious. and so much fun lol
When you were demonstrating at the beginning of trying to match the pitches is how I've been doing it and it makes me so frustrated. This is very valuable advice. Thank you!
I remember watching a busker play his guitar and singing, standing on the sidewalk with his hat out to collect money. I learned a valuable lesson with this fellow, because he was singing cover tunes and he was desperately putting off the energy, the vibe of asking people if he's good enough and if they recognize the song. I would much rather have had his vibe be that he was projecting saying that he's having a damn good time, not apologizing for an honest emotion, feeling the beat and the song. I mean, which would you rather listen to?
This method is such a game changer! Focusing on connection and emotion rather than pitch perfection really opens up a new way to learn songs. Thanks for sharing this!
I began quite cynically! But as you explained further and gave those examples of playing around with your voice and the feeling rather than trying to copy, I saw how really useful this lesson is - it's a bit like being inspired by your favourite artists into using the same brushes as them, but adding your own colour. 😃 Many thanks! xx
I've been playing guitar and learning to sing for a year. I was so focused on playing the songs as accurately as possible that I completely forgot what they were actually about. Thank you for opening my eyes to the fact that it's actually about the feeling and the fun, and not about perfection 🙏🏼
Good technique Chris. I learned in the early 90’s that it was pointless trying to recreate the vocal exactly like the original song. I’m not a tribute act. Just feel it and give it your own vibe. It’s worked well for me for over 30 years!
actually didn’t think i would get anything from this, since i generally don’t struggle with melody, but this honestly taught me a lot about emoting while i sing which is something i’ve been looking at improving lately. thanks chris!
Great lesson! I’m definitely guilty focusing too hard on pitch and matching the original recording. It can be helpful to try to learn different techniques, but I think it’s sometimes been at the expense of connecting with the song for me. Looking forward to trying this approach!
Perfect timing, I’m trying to do some vocals and it’s not working out. But your teaching me how to method act but for singing and I appreciate it immensely
Hey Chris, I stop by your channel every once in a while and I remember when you were maybe just around 10k subs and now i see you at half a mil and just want to say congrats and that it's well deserved. I'm happy for your success man. This video came to me at the right time as I just started learning covers and playing them live at paying gigs and this relieves a lot of the pressure and brings back the creative artistry part of the process. I love how you talk about "permission" in this video. Thanks again for sharing your knowledge and advice. Much appreciated.
What you are discussing here is exactly what I tell people to do. Getting into character is how I made my screams sound crazy….because I’m going crazy doing them xD
Your advice is always helpful and not only gives a good starting point but also briefly gives a good sense of which direction to go to reach the end point. I think you should do a full cover of it with vocals accompanied by the guitar.
Very valuable and original advices here. Really great insight, thanks. I realize that I, more or less, did this instinctively sometimes but you articulated it clearly and methodically. It will benefit many of us artists of all kinds. Thank you again.
Chris, after taking your vocal classes. Yes that's exactly how it is. Feel first and then making it fit. I have to say I experienced this similarly while recording. And now this vid. Thank you for talking it out. However, it's still training to hit it. It's not like not doing anything. It's the training and then starting off with something and emotions first and get the learned in automated. But it's a long way to the automation and also hearing ... Yes nailed it. So it's both sides to take into consideration. Great vid to show it. 🖤
Currently having singing lessons. My teacher said the same and once I connected emotionally with a song I am covering and felt the words the difference in my rendition AND how good it made me feel was immense - for me it is really about letting go and losing my inhibitions. Great vid, thank you.
Yeah, i like working your way around the whole song. Think about how they weote the song, it was probably alot different than playing each note and seeing what fits😭😭 Playing the harmonies and working around the song IN YOUR OWN VOICE are key in my opinon, and I love how you touched those ideas!
Awesome video. I had a bit of a laugh as you were going through the process of sorting out "Creep". At first you sounded like William Shatner doing the song and then transitioned into Bob Dylan. I love how it all comes together. I do this song myself and i let my emotions guide me through it. Once I started doing that, I started getting mind blowing reactions from my audience.
Best video on this topic I've ever seen. I was taught to first learn the technical part an put the feelings aside. But every time I get stuck on the notes and on my technical problems and can't connect to my feelings anymore. I will try this immediately. Thank you so much🙏👍😎
Very inspiring. I get connection, the last few songs we learnt I had a connection and they sound great. But that connection was after learning it and then finding and putting more emotion in it. Need to try reversing that. I loved the word you used at the beginning. Finding the ETHOS of the song ❤
I have never try to learn songs the way you did in the first example. I have just always used my ear and sung what I heard ... However this is interesting what you are doing in the later example. I might even try it with my own songs. To possibly get more expression and interpretation out of the vocals, like you did there with Creep. Super good stuff here.
Yes, I only tend to learn songs I've listened to for many years. I got to sing Holy Diver a few times as guest vocalist for a local band and while to my mind I didn't measure up the passion and power behind my delivery wowed the crowd even though I didn't hit all the classic notes. 14 years with a jam band and droning practice in meditation have freed my voice to soar with whatever. Even if I don't hit the exact notes of cover songs I tend to land on notes that fit the chord easily from years singing along with not just vocalists, but guitar and horn melodies. At 50 years young I have yet to discover the absolute top and bottom of my range. So far it keeps expanding with daily droning and toning rituals and deep belly breath discipline following me all throughout my days. My inhale tones are even getting better controlled, melody power in my higher than soprano inhale squeak range, with and without distortion is dialing in from a few words you put into the information stream. Thank you.
It's also a great exciercise for learning how to sing and play at the same time. If you could make a video dedicated to singing while playing that would be another very helpful tool.
This helped me so much, i just tried it (without skipping steps lol) and it worked instantly. I have a pretty deep voice and people say I sing well but it feels impossible to sing some of my favorite songs without ripping out a vocal chord so I tend not to sing in front of others. I forgot that its okay to have freedom while singing, and that makes my singing sound way better. Thanks a lot!
I’ve been trying so hard to remove my singing from the original songs I try to play beause I can’t sing that well and want it to sound like a cover/ my own version. So thank-you, this video helped a lot and I’m looking forward to practicing more covers.
This approach is GENIUS! I love how you flip things on their head and get us to focus on the emotion and freestyle before worrying about pitch and imitation. Thanks for sharing and so glad i found it! I'll definitely be looking more into your work and courses
Glad you're seeing the value in looking at stuff in new ways. This is what I dive head first into with my programs and courses. Looking forward to possibly working with you in the future!
This video is perfect timing for myself and I'm setting up a mic from home and going to try this with my guitar for which I have been longing for, now my voice is ready to take on such great songs as this. Ive never heard of this teaching how to connect with a song and it is fantastic! Thank you very much Chris and as always I appreciate your videos like this that are jam packed full of gems!
Awesome! Literally subscribed because of this video alone. Your fearlessness and honesty is hands down what sets you miles apart from other “coaches”. Great stuff!
Top stuff Chris,im going to try this approach on a track im about to do vocals on. I think performance and conncetion outweighs pitch everytime . Inspiring! Thanks.
Chris, just today I went back to the Ultimate Ear course with you and David. I'm good at starting courses and not finishing but trying to get through it. It's a fun course.
It’s a bit funny that your title implies that this method will help you avoid being cringy. I actually made the 😬 face involuntarily a few times during your demonstration 😅
I will definitely try this when learning a new song :) My typical strategy to connect with a song is to stop listening to the original and just play it in my mind where it starts to morph and reshape itself. Only problem then is that I forget how the original is, which might cause a glitch in a jam-session. Anyways, thanks again for great content and for making singing feel more playful and harmless
I really appreciate this lesson Chris. Most the time I'm worried about being on key, in the right pitch, or making it sound close to what the original song is. Thank you for your great lessons.
I love your videos dude. Especially the one that went over Frusciante's backing vocals in Slow Cheetah. I'd love to see more content from chili songs. Especially this song called "Someone" by RHCP.
Great stuff. At 57 I'm just starting to intuit these things. Still more to learn. The song, the human voice is very mysterious. It's not a mechanical process.
I just noticed you also listen to REN! YEESSSSSS! Hi Ren, and the Money Game trilogy are some of the songs I've been working on learning, both on guitar and to sing. He's truly one of the best artists of our time and the way he expresses himself lends perfectly to what you describe in this video. I will be trying to applying some of this to those songs now for sure, maybe trying to unlearn some of my perfectionism about hitting those unreal emotional melodies that I've only heard from Ren. You've given permission to take music and really make a tribute to the original artist by making it our own. At least, that's how I've always thought of artistic respect. I used to sell nature photography, and the greatest compliment i ever received was having a painter do paintings of my photos
Thanks, this is an interesting way to learn a song. I'll try it. I've never really paid attention to how I learn a song. Maybe it's because I've never learned a song consciously. I just listen to my favourite songs and sing along. And I hum them all the time on my own till I end up singing them in my own way. But I think I unconsciously imitate. Your method might help me to break that.
nice video!! it actually helps, and i'll remember it for a while cause of the lyrics of the song lol (waiting for an ado deep dive on the new song "shoka")
Thom Yorke didn't know he could be free and vulnerable with his vocals until watching Jeff Buckley perform live. Radiohead has been my favorite band for decades, after finding out that point about Jeff Buckley, I can and am able to hear his spiritual influence (guidance) in many songs by Radiohead, The Smile, and Thom's solo work. That freedom of Spirit opens our vocal range to new levels of possibilities, new dimensions of frequencies we hadn't even realized were buried deep within.
This is how i always started singing. I mean, at least for me, singing is always super vulnerable when other people can hear you, -- shout out to all the hyper anxious people out there -- so i always feel super cringey when doing it. But i also love it. All that to say, that i always express more than i sing perfectly in key, i sing with my main intention to express. That's what always stood out to me when i hear people sing anyways. I was never a fan of the style of singing where people take themselves too seriously and use wayyy too much vibrato. I know a lot of people might disagree, and it's not like I'm a famous singer making bank on my talent, but i guess the key to sound less cringey is to be a bit silly and cringey and not take yourself too seriously.
Oops, that's me at the beginning of the video, trying to sing to the guitar notes in a weird way. Your approach so makes sense. First you intuitively get the harmony in your head, then you really understand the lyrics, and the exact pitches and timbre come naturally
Learn to freely express with your voice... Without judgement... Without striving for impossible perfection. Learn to sing in the right ways! Join my free course: chrisliepe.com/free-your-voice/
I’ve taken so much inspiration from your very generous, complimentary lessons. I’m sooooo glad you are not a Ken Tamplin. And I’m not saying that tongue in cheek.
In all seriousness though, dude; you are the real deal and anyone interested in exploring their voice is doing a disservice to themselves by skipping by your vids. 🫡
@@chrisliepe I am understanding that my voice is a gift to be shared
Chris I have a question I am 56 years old and have been trying to mimic everyone else’s voice how do I find my true voice
Start by joining my free course linked in the comment you replied to!
It's because people don't want to hear the same performance. They'll compare it to the original, which is better obviously. You really have to give people a dancing circus bear routine with fireworks for them to give a damn. 😅
It’s like you’re unwriting the song and then writing it again with your voice! Brilliant
Yesssss
Can we call that personalizing a song?
@@denismorissette7318This is called a good cover 💅🏻
My vocal coach told me to suppose that I'm an actor. Read and analyse the lyrics first. Try to get the feeling of the song just by the lyrics themselves. Then when you start accompanying the music just go for it and don't care about the correct intonation. Try to get the feeling and expression 😊 to sum it up, she has the same philosophy like you in getting there 🤗 I'm 47 and am her student for a year now. I never had a better coach in all those years before. It's so good to see your videos they help me a lot ❤
Yesss
Chris there is not one vocal coach out there like you, the fact that you're giving us all this content for free is amazing! Keep it up!
What about Ken? Ken is awesome, just ask him 😂😂
lol! @ the Ken comment
@@Trevcreative1 😂😂
Even chuck Norris can't be coexist on this Earth if he didn't shake hand with Tampon oh sorry I mean Tamplin@@officialWWM
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"Intentionally do NOT hit note for note."
This is the 1st time you've given an instruction that I NAILED effortlessly😂
Ok ok seriously, great advice suggesting we play with a song before we play it. This is an eye opening piece of advice😮❤ Also, when you suggested we stop trying to hit a note, but instead picture ourselves "landing on the note." THAT blew my mind & drastically improved my singing mindset.
I have developed a little trick that I hope can help others. I no longer think in terms of falsetto, head voice, chest voice, distortion. I view these as nothing more than different characters. My interest in voice acting & the comedian Maria Bamford inspired me to view these different voice categories differently.
a lot of singers would really benefit from improv classes, not only for vocal and self confidence but to explore just how much one person can do with their own voice. ive always loved talking to myself in silly voices. just yesterday i rapped rap god while doing a high pitched british old lady voice. it was glorious. and so much fun lol
Oh, i like that last bit of information. "Pitch will come as you connect"
04:35 Come on Chris, don't be so hard on yourself, just because you make weird noises doesn't make you a weirdo
Hahaha I’m glad you see the parallel here in my song choice.
@@chrisliepe Radiohead is my favorite band so whenever you cover any of their stuff I'm happy :) keep up the good content!
This is possibly the most important lesson I’ve learned in my singing / guitar playing of 6 years. Thank you!
This is BRILLIANT. Turning covers into more of a creative exercise. Love it
When you were demonstrating at the beginning of trying to match the pitches is how I've been doing it and it makes me so frustrated. This is very valuable advice. Thank you!
It's totally what I used to do too.. until I found out how awkward it made me feel and sound! So glad you found value in the 'new' approach!
I remember watching a busker play his guitar and singing, standing on the sidewalk with his hat out to collect money. I learned a valuable lesson with this fellow, because he was singing cover tunes and he was desperately putting off the energy, the vibe of asking people if he's good enough and if they recognize the song. I would much rather have had his vibe be that he was projecting saying that he's having a damn good time, not apologizing for an honest emotion, feeling the beat and the song.
I mean, which would you rather listen to?
This method is such a game changer! Focusing on connection and emotion rather than pitch perfection really opens up a new way to learn songs. Thanks for sharing this!
Becoming the character is part of the musical acting!😁
I began quite cynically! But as you explained further and gave those examples of playing around with your voice and the feeling rather than trying to copy, I saw how really useful this lesson is - it's a bit like being inspired by your favourite artists into using the same brushes as them, but adding your own colour. 😃 Many thanks! xx
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I've been playing guitar and learning to sing for a year. I was so focused on playing the songs as accurately as possible that I completely forgot what they were actually about. Thank you for opening my eyes to the fact that it's actually about the feeling and the fun, and not about perfection 🙏🏼
Good technique Chris. I learned in the early 90’s that it was pointless trying to recreate the vocal exactly like the original song. I’m not a tribute act. Just feel it and give it your own vibe. It’s worked well for me for over 30 years!
I completely agree with this, I enjoyed the video bro , I’ve always used my body’s reaction to gauge what works and what doesn’t .
actually didn’t think i would get anything from this, since i generally don’t struggle with melody, but this honestly taught me a lot about emoting while i sing which is something i’ve been looking at improving lately. thanks chris!
Great lesson! I’m definitely guilty focusing too hard on pitch and matching the original recording. It can be helpful to try to learn different techniques, but I think it’s sometimes been at the expense of connecting with the song for me. Looking forward to trying this approach!
very helpful and inspiring, thank you! Will certainly be saving this vid and remembering to do this for my next cover
Perfect timing, I’m trying to do some vocals and it’s not working out. But your teaching me how to method act but for singing and I appreciate it immensely
Excellent advice and demonstration
Thank you @AndrewMasters. LOVE your channel! Would be fun to chat sometime!
Hey Chris, I stop by your channel every once in a while and I remember when you were maybe just around 10k subs and now i see you at half a mil and just want to say congrats and that it's well deserved. I'm happy for your success man. This video came to me at the right time as I just started learning covers and playing them live at paying gigs and this relieves a lot of the pressure and brings back the creative artistry part of the process. I love how you talk about "permission" in this video. Thanks again for sharing your knowledge and advice. Much appreciated.
Fascinating approach to singing. I enjoyed your video
What you are discussing here is exactly what I tell people to do. Getting into character is how I made my screams sound crazy….because I’m going crazy doing them xD
Your advice is always helpful and not only gives a good starting point but also briefly gives a good sense of which direction to go to reach the end point.
I think you should do a full cover of it with vocals accompanied by the guitar.
Very valuable and original advices here. Really great insight, thanks. I realize that I, more or less, did this instinctively sometimes but you articulated it clearly and methodically. It will benefit many of us artists of all kinds. Thank you again.
Chris, after taking your vocal classes. Yes that's exactly how it is. Feel first and then making it fit. I have to say I experienced this similarly while recording. And now this vid. Thank you for talking it out. However, it's still training to hit it. It's not like not doing anything. It's the training and then starting off with something and emotions first and get the learned in automated. But it's a long way to the automation and also hearing ... Yes nailed it. So it's both sides to take into consideration. Great vid to show it. 🖤
Currently having singing lessons. My teacher said the same and once I connected emotionally with a song I am covering and felt the words the difference in my rendition AND how good it made me feel was immense - for me it is really about letting go and losing my inhibitions. Great vid, thank you.
Yeah, i like working your way around the whole song. Think about how they weote the song, it was probably alot different than playing each note and seeing what fits😭😭
Playing the harmonies and working around the song IN YOUR OWN VOICE are key in my opinon, and I love how you touched those ideas!
Awesome video. I had a bit of a laugh as you were going through the process of sorting out "Creep". At first you sounded like William Shatner doing the song and then transitioned into Bob Dylan. I love how it all comes together. I do this song myself and i let my emotions guide me through it. Once I started doing that, I started getting mind blowing reactions from my audience.
Best video on this topic I've ever seen. I was taught to first learn the technical part an put the feelings aside. But every time I get stuck on the notes and on my technical problems and can't connect to my feelings anymore. I will try this immediately. Thank you so much🙏👍😎
Very inspiring. I get connection, the last few songs we learnt I had a connection and they sound great. But that connection was after learning it and then finding and putting more emotion in it. Need to try reversing that.
I loved the word you used at the beginning. Finding the ETHOS of the song ❤
I have never try to learn songs the way you did in the first example. I have just always used my ear and sung what I heard ... However this is interesting what you are doing in the later example. I might even try it with my own songs. To possibly get more expression and interpretation out of the vocals, like you did there with Creep. Super good stuff here.
8:54 Couldn't have said it better. Connecting with a song is like a spiritual adventure. You really need to internalize it in a deep meaningful way.
Yes, I only tend to learn songs I've listened to for many years. I got to sing Holy Diver a few times as guest vocalist for a local band and while to my mind I didn't measure up the passion and power behind my delivery wowed the crowd even though I didn't hit all the classic notes. 14 years with a jam band and droning practice in meditation have freed my voice to soar with whatever. Even if I don't hit the exact notes of cover songs I tend to land on notes that fit the chord easily from years singing along with not just vocalists, but guitar and horn melodies. At 50 years young I have yet to discover the absolute top and bottom of my range. So far it keeps expanding with daily droning and toning rituals and deep belly breath discipline following me all throughout my days. My inhale tones are even getting better controlled, melody power in my higher than soprano inhale squeak range, with and without distortion is dialing in from a few words you put into the information stream. Thank you.
It's also a great exciercise for learning how to sing and play at the same time. If you could make a video dedicated to singing while playing that would be another very helpful tool.
Chris you are such an inspiration. You always come up with exactly the right video when I need it. Thank you!
This is 100 percent the opposite way I've been trying to learn songs. ...which has been getting me nowhere.
Going to give this a try. Thanks.
This video is golden. It's exactly what ive been trying to explain to myself, but couldnt quite find the words. 👍
I swear you always post these videos right as I start noticing the same issues in my own singing. Thank you again!
This helped me so much, i just tried it (without skipping steps lol) and it worked instantly. I have a pretty deep voice and people say I sing well but it feels impossible to sing some of my favorite songs without ripping out a vocal chord so I tend not to sing in front of others. I forgot that its okay to have freedom while singing, and that makes my singing sound way better. Thanks a lot!
I’ve been trying so hard to remove my singing from the original songs I try to play beause I can’t sing that well and want it to sound like a cover/ my own version. So thank-you, this video helped a lot and I’m looking forward to practicing more covers.
This is great insight and super helpful! Thanks for demonstrating such a compelling process!
This video has taught me one of the most important lessons ever about singing. Ever. ❤
This approach is GENIUS!
I love how you flip things on their head and get us to focus on the emotion and freestyle before worrying about pitch and imitation.
Thanks for sharing and so glad i found it!
I'll definitely be looking more into your work and courses
Glad you're seeing the value in looking at stuff in new ways. This is what I dive head first into with my programs and courses. Looking forward to possibly working with you in the future!
Chris i just appreciate all that you do and are so much. Thank you
Chris, you are one of the only youtubers that i can say, without out a doubt, is in it for the love the game
Wow! I sort of do a light version of this. I always thought I was doing everything wrong. Subbed!
Beautifully done!! Very helpful advice! 👏
I will apply this to my classical singing and bring it to a new level. Thank you ❤
This video is perfect timing for myself and I'm setting up a mic from home and going to try this with my guitar for which I have been longing for, now my voice is ready to take on such great songs as this. Ive never heard of this teaching how to connect with a song and it is fantastic! Thank you very much Chris and as always I appreciate your videos like this that are jam packed full of gems!
Awesome! Literally subscribed because of this video alone. Your fearlessness and honesty is hands down what sets you miles apart from other “coaches”. Great stuff!
You might be a weirdo Chris, but your weirdness makes you special, haha.
such a great mindset to learning music as a whole, or anything creative really!
The most creepy way to learn a song I have ever seen... 😅
Hehe
So the creepies will be past to history... Machines won't
This is FANTASTIC, another one I'll come back and reference long term
Thanks brother. I’m thinking your onto it and your talking my language. Cheers
3:46 - sounded like Jeff Buckley for a bit!
Top stuff Chris,im going to try this approach on a track im about to do vocals on. I think performance and conncetion outweighs pitch everytime . Inspiring! Thanks.
This is exceptional advice on how to learn a song. Thank you!
Great video Chris. It's all about the transfer of emotion!
This seems very useful man! Im gonna give it a try, thanks a lot
that was the most inspiring video i have seen in a long time. that is how it is done!
Love that you take the time to ❤ all your comments. That takes a caring person, thank you
thank you Chris for another life lesson 🙏🏼✨
Chris, just today I went back to the Ultimate Ear course with you and David. I'm good at starting courses and not finishing but trying to get through it. It's a fun course.
THIS IS AWSOME!
Best advice I've had in years. Thank you.
It’s a bit funny that your title implies that this method will help you avoid being cringy. I actually made the 😬 face involuntarily a few times during your demonstration 😅
Hehe. Irony :)
I will definitely try this when learning a new song :) My typical strategy to connect with a song is to stop listening to the original and just play it in my mind where it starts to morph and reshape itself. Only problem then is that I forget how the original is, which might cause a glitch in a jam-session. Anyways, thanks again for great content and for making singing feel more playful and harmless
I really appreciate this lesson Chris. Most the time I'm worried about being on key, in the right pitch, or making it sound close to what the original song is. Thank you for your great lessons.
Yes, true coach. You rock Chris!
Incredible! You are a great teacher and artist
As a songwriter and performer Chris, it’s an excellent lesson.
This is so valuable !
This can actually be really useful in a songwriting process 🙏🏼🎶
One of the most important videos that I have seen of you.
mind blown. Super helpful. and my inspiration for putting emotion before pitch is Courtney Love. ty !!
I love your videos dude. Especially the one that went over Frusciante's backing vocals in Slow Cheetah. I'd love to see more content from chili songs. Especially this song called "Someone" by RHCP.
great video! find your own voice and phrasing, can even slow down the tempo and speed it up to really explore your own voice.
Love the inviting curiosity and play with my voice FIRST! Yep. Love this. 🎉🎉❤❤
Thank you so much Chris!!
Great stuff. At 57 I'm just starting to intuit these things. Still more to learn. The song, the human voice is very mysterious. It's not a mechanical process.
Love your vids and your way to teach people
"Genuine involvement and connection with a piece of music BEFORE you fully learn it" 🙏
This is a very Meisner ( acting) Technique approach to singing. Really good to remember.
Great demonstration, thanks
I just noticed you also listen to REN!
YEESSSSSS!
Hi Ren, and the Money Game trilogy are some of the songs I've been working on learning, both on guitar and to sing.
He's truly one of the best artists of our time and the way he expresses himself lends perfectly to what you describe in this video.
I will be trying to applying some of this to those songs now for sure, maybe trying to unlearn some of my perfectionism about hitting those unreal emotional melodies that I've only heard from Ren.
You've given permission to take music and really make a tribute to the original artist by making it our own.
At least, that's how I've always thought of artistic respect.
I used to sell nature photography, and the greatest compliment i ever received was having a painter do paintings of my photos
oh ya, that's awesome! Having someone else be inspired and iterating on YOUR work and YOUR inspiration is a gift and truly goes round and round!
Thanks, this is an interesting way to learn a song. I'll try it. I've never really paid attention to how I learn a song. Maybe it's because I've never learned a song consciously. I just listen to my favourite songs and sing along. And I hum them all the time on my own till I end up singing them in my own way.
But I think I unconsciously imitate. Your method might help me to break that.
I haven’t seen any of your videos in a long time. Nice to see you kiddo. I wish I had a place to sing without annoying my family to practice.
nice video!!
it actually helps, and i'll remember it for a while cause of the lyrics of the song lol
(waiting for an ado deep dive on the new song "shoka")
Singing should fall out of the mouth, not be forced out!
Thom Yorke didn't know he could be free and vulnerable with his vocals until watching Jeff Buckley perform live. Radiohead has been my favorite band for decades, after finding out that point about Jeff Buckley, I can and am able to hear his spiritual influence (guidance) in many songs by Radiohead, The Smile, and Thom's solo work. That freedom of Spirit opens our vocal range to new levels of possibilities, new dimensions of frequencies we hadn't even realized were buried deep within.
DONT BE FOOLED! This is an actimg class desgiused as a singing class!
hehe... you caught me :) !!
Singing is just emoting in key 🤙
And the key to acting is a paradox. It's being yourself.
This is how i always started singing. I mean, at least for me, singing is always super vulnerable when other people can hear you, -- shout out to all the hyper anxious people out there -- so i always feel super cringey when doing it. But i also love it. All that to say, that i always express more than i sing perfectly in key, i sing with my main intention to express. That's what always stood out to me when i hear people sing anyways. I was never a fan of the style of singing where people take themselves too seriously and use wayyy too much vibrato.
I know a lot of people might disagree, and it's not like I'm a famous singer making bank on my talent, but i guess the key to sound less cringey is to be a bit silly and cringey and not take yourself too seriously.
Oops, that's me at the beginning of the video, trying to sing to the guitar notes in a weird way. Your approach so makes sense. First you intuitively get the harmony in your head, then you really understand the lyrics, and the exact pitches and timbre come naturally
"Don't worry about hitting note for note" is definitely not advice I'd ever hear in the classical sphere when learning to sing a vocal line! 😂
This is good. To me it’s all about owing the song and making it yours.
For sure, IA can’t touch that human progression ! Good lesson thanks!!
Thank you Sensei, I'll work on it