Vocal Analysis of Sara Bareilles Covering 'Chandelier' (Voice Teacher Reacts) 

Someone below called you the Bob Ross of Vocal Coaching. SO TRUE! You're positive, informative and extremely supportive. Keep up the great work, you're going places kid!

"Stop judging yourself as much as you are. Every individual pitch isn't important. What's important is the entire song." Sam, thank you for this. I'm a magician and motivational speaker, and in a few days I'm going to be referring to you at a 7th grade leadership conference in reference to this sentiment. It's not just true of singers. It's true of magicians, and writers, and artists, and just humans. Every moment doesn't have to be perfect. What's important is your life's totality: who you are, what you stand for, and the people impacted. Would love to get you on my podcast someday.

A whole video of you gushing over live Sara Bareilles songs would not be unwelcome in the slightest. I love her voice and emotion and personality.

I'm glad you made that little teaching moment on not focusing on the notes/pitches you miss. I'm not a vocalist, I have a disorder that affects speech and swallowing (in turn, makes my singing horrible haha) but I am a cellist!! Everyone can be so fixated on hitting a note correctly when doing competition that they forget that part of being a musician is not the amount of errors you make, but how well you adjust to those errors. Flexibility with notes and pushing and pulling the dynamics/vibrato/technique to accommodate the notes that weren't perfect can actually get you a higher score on your piece because it allows the judges to critique your musical intuition whereas a perfectly played by-the-book piece wont allow the judges to see what you're really capable of engineering in order for you to make it your own. (Holy run on sentence!) You're an amazing musician Sam and I enjoy watching your videos! I've learned so much even as a non vocalist that i have an even deeper appreciation for musicians.

She is an amazing performer and vocalist. Her live version of Goodbye Yellow Brick Road is my favourite.

Golly, you're a solid human being. Cheers for your heart on display in kindness, confidence and enthusiasm, Sam.

Every time I've had a bad day I come to your channel for a boost of positivity and joy. Even the comments section on your videos are enjoyable. Thank you so much for doing what you do.

This is beyond one of my favorite break downs you've done. It's nice to see you focus equally on technique as well as on performance. Well done.

Hi Good-Looking! So glad you’re back... you were missed! I love watching you listen to music that you love. This is an amazing performance... Thank you for explaining it... you make it so easy and even better to listen to❤️

She's so good. A beautiful singer.

This has to be one of my favorite live performances of hers and I just LOVED how you enjoyed it just as much as you explained it. And THANK you for telling singers pitch isn't the only thing to focus on. So true

I have no knowledge and usually no big interest in singing technics but you managed to keep me focused a whole afternoon! I find all your explanations and analysis so fascinating! I'd love to hear you talk about some Sia performance, she has such a unique voice and way of singing. Thanks for sharing your science :)

So glad you covered this particular performance. I’ve always thought this is one of the most remarkable live vocals. It’s amazing !!!

you are so sweet and kind ! i love youre always encouraging and positive and actually give such good advice and feedback :) you are so genuine and that’s really really rare !!!

YESSSSSSSSSSSSS Sara is so good ugh her mind

New Sam!!! Yay!! Missed you and didn't know it.

He lives!

I LOVE Sara Bareilles! Thank you for doing this. Please do more Sara B, like her live versions of “Brave” and “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road” from her Atlanta concert (you can find it on her RU-vid channel). And while you’re at it, I also hope you could someday react to Jessie Mueller.❤️❤️

I love Sara! Fantastic vocals live and in the studio. Many might not know of her but boy do I wish that they did. She's in my top 5 vocalists.

I really appreciate the videos you make!

You're looking so good Sam. Thanks for the video!

Aaand he's back! ❤️ Please please do Florence Welch's Best Vocals too! 😍

You...are...amazing. Thank you for your wonderful videos :)

Great review as usual. It is always heart warming to see the way you give out review as they provide insight for each individual that is singing instead of judging how high they can go or how low. Having said that, I think you should try reviewing a korean singer called Park Hyo Shin. He is quite good. 😁😁

I would love to see you critique performances from the show The Masked Singer. There seems to be a mix of untrained, partially trained, and professionally trained singers with a good range of styles.

Vocals and expression all while playing that stinking uke! So much talent

Are you really tall? I get the impression you're really tall

Good to see you back!

Ok so I don’t know if you've already done this but I NEED you to react to Charice cover of All by myself. She blew my mind with that performance

I've been wondering why I avoid practicing and why I'm so afraid of performing and you finally made it click for me. That whole section around 8:20 got to me. I've always wondered how I'm supposed to get better if I don't criticize myself, but criticizing myself mid-performance removes the whole reason I got into music in the first place. Beating myself up throughout the performance isn't fun and it means I'm in my head the whole time (which means the performance is probably even worse than if I had just let the little flub go), when I should be having fun and expressing myself. I can save the criticisms for afterward. Thank you so much, I'm gonna go have fun with my singing c:

I miss her tours and albums, love that she's doing different things and doing amazing but I love every song she makes/covers. It's been years since we had an album, man can't believe I'm so selfish hehehe

I feel like I’m watching the commentators at the Olympics and I’m here for it!

Dude, please do Sara's cover of Goodbye Yellow Brick Road. It's mind blowing.

And by the way, that shirt? looks FANTASTIC on you, really compliments your eyes! But I kind of miss the "take note!" shirts just because I always like a nice pun.

Shes playing guitar while she's doing this too, which is pretty dope

Thank you so much for your videos, Sam! Can you please react to Szjerdene singing? Maybe "First fires" live performance at KEXP with Bonobo, or "Towers" at Red Bull Session. And please, any song by Hanna Reid from "London Grammar" as well!

She’s really good. I can see why she’s got an A rating from vocal critics.

Omg react to Sara’s Yellow Brick Road!!!! Soooo good!!

I love Sara

Sam, could you please check out and react to "TNT Boys sing Beyoncé's Listen" on Little Big Shots (the video with 6 million views). You've never watched them singing live and IMO that is their best live performance so far- the quality is great. As always, your insight is very interesting and I really appreciate how kind and educational you are. I look forward to every new reaction!

And yuju's highnote compilations.

What about reacting to Sia? (Not necesarily Chandelier, everybody reacts at this one and no one can sing it like her in my opinion, with the same pain and desperation - it's her life story after all) I suggest a live performance from her old indie era - her style was so different back then and this is my all time favorite live performance of hers> Somersault live at KCRW 2008. You will have an huge surprise! Thank you in advance.

react to i can't make you love me by bon iver please

I gotta see your reaction to Trans-Siberian Orchestra 12/27/17: 18 - For the Sake of Our Brother - Albany 8pm TSO Russell Allen. it's Russell Allen from Symphony X (prog metal band) doing a song way different than what he normally does and shows what an amazing vocalist he is.

I am also a voice teacher so this comes from an informed place - I think you mean passagio or, more commonly, the BREAK, not the bridge. It's almost onomatopoeia, right? For women, when we actually employ the break as opposed to easing over it, we feel so out of control and like the voice is going to "break", "crack" or quiver, if we're lucky so I know why she's so careful on the chorus. Whitney Houston did it successfully in "I Will Always Love You", Sia does it in "Chandelier" and it is the essence of yodeling. I do wish she had "gone for it" but that takes a different type of execution and she's such an expressive singer, I really think she was trying to communicate the text in her own unique way instead of delivering a karaoke version of the original. If it were a bridge, it wouldn't be so hard to "cross"- Just sayin'.

You should react to Donna Missal. This woman is insanely talented and her rasp is crazy. Keep Lying is a DAMN GOOD song and the VEVO DSCVR (live) version is the best. Keep up the good work, man.

Hi Sam! please take a look at Anthem Lights' "MercyMe Medley", I'd really like to have your input on their performance !

Review The Staves! I love them and I think they have really interesting voices

Sam, I love you so much.

it would be cool if you reacted to some beatboxers that use alot of singing in their preformance, like" gene, codfish and bigman. i think their unbelievable but i would like to hear your opinion!

Sam could you please react to Roger Daltrey from The Who? I think you will find his voice interesting because it has many imperfections but there's a lovely raspy timbre to it. Great channel BTW, I enjoy watching you very much and have learned a lot!

Angra "Carry on " pls

I haven't been getting your notifications in weeks even with the bell on... 😣 Edit: oh. From the other comments, it looks like you've been away, so... I guess everything is all good then and I perhaps haven't missed anything 😅

You SHOULD react to little mix - love on the brain cover

Can you react to Brown Eyed Girls- Sixth Sense live? I'd love to hear your opinion

Hey Sam could you please react to Chandelier Aitana OT2017 and Arde Aitana OT2017 🙏🏼 it’s from a tv show but she is singing live in both

Please react to Tim Foust in the A Capella group Home Free. In their cover of "Sold" he hit A0 and still can go to A5 in son other songs. In their cover of "Hillbilly Bone" you can hear realy nite bass and beatboxing and in "Mayday" Tim start with Tenor. The whole group with amazing sound like it just one person in "Helplessly Hoping" from Crosby, Stills & Nash. Tim have also done some songs with Peter Hollens, "Misty Mountain", "The sound of silence", "Bridge over troubled water". All realy nice to hear. Just for you own satisfaction, listen to al of Home Free songs! You don't have to react to all of them.

I would love to see you react and analys Adam Lambert - Believe by Cher or his best live vocals videos :) Have a good day always enjoy your content!

Sara Bareilles is seriously one of the best female vocalists I've heard in my generation. She is INSANELY talented and often overlooked! Don't sleep on her people - buy her music!

You could read the phone book and I wouldn’t even be mad. Yet another great video! Thank you for all the likes, and OMG SAM LIKED MY COMMENT! HE KNOWS I EXIST! I need oxygen

Can you react to P!nk Live Performances? Like to see your take on her ability to sing while doing acrobats

Thank you for permission to be off pitch (at times). Sincerely.

He’s back!! Wooooo

Can we please please PLEASE have some more videos of YOU singing?? I love your voice 🙏😍

Would you ever think of analysing more broadway stars? People like Ben platt, Barrett wilbert weed and such?

Welcome to Sam Jhonson's channel, were we learn about vocal technique, interpretation and accepting and loving yourself just the way you are. It's fucking awesome.

She is such a great singer! Please react to her cover of Goodbye, Yellow Brick Road. It is magnificent.

Love your new background! It's interesting!

literally who the hell is out here disliking these videos?

I was a huge Sara Bareilles fan years ago then just stopped keeping up with her for some reason. Thank you so much for covering this and reminding me how great of a musician she is!

Looks like you've been keeping this reaction for a big style return. Well, it worked. We missed your spontaneous emotions!

Hooray! Missed you Sam! Love the new setup as well. Edit: also just discovered my love for Sara this past year. She is talented, hilarious, and she wrote a musical. If I was straight she’d be my type of woman. 😂

I'm huge Sara Bareilles fan and this is one of my favorite covers ever. I got so excited when I saw this in my feed, great video :)

OMG I love you Sam! Sara Bareilles is one of my all time favorite singer-songwriter musician. By your reaction, I think she's one of yours too. She is super talented. Thank you so much for this. You're the best!

She just makes it look so effortless, even knowing how difficult that song can be.

She gave me so many goosebumps. I do wonder if she has a little tension at the front of her neck, though... sometimes it looked like there was some, but I also don't know the anatomy of that part of the throat exceptionally well.

A checkered shirt? In this economy?

Great video! Could you maybe react to a live performance from Muse? I want to see what you think of Matt’s vocals :)

I would love to watch you react to some past artists - The Cranberries ‘Zombie’ (this song in particular would make a fascinating vocal analysis), Sinead O’Connor, Simple Minds, George Michael, Journey etc etc.......... that would be AMAZING, there are so many amazing vocal technicians from the past 😁

Ahhhh, the Bob Ross of vocal coaches is back! Great analysis as usual...if you have a chance look for Paulo Nutini's "Iron Sky" Abbey Road Live Session :)

I love your videos! You definitely have a contagious smile! I don't know how you would feel about it, but I think it would be cool for you to do a video that we could get to know you more. I know not all people like doing those types of videos though so no pressure 😊

One of the most underrated artist 😭😭❤️❤️❤️

My favorite live performance of hers! She's such a vocal goddess

Sara has a really nice range

You've changed the background. I like it. Great video again!

If you likes how Sara is so expressive, you should definitely react to Lara Fabian singing "Je suis malade" or "Broken Vow". Her performances are really emotional but her technique is still close to being perfect.

You are so awesome! I have watched other vocal coaches "reacts" videos. They have nothing, NOTHING on you. I have never had lessons, I love to sing and I didn't realize how much help vocal lessons could be. I would love to have lessons with you or with someone in my area who is as amazing as you!

P!nk P!nk P!nk - anything by P!nk

Lady Gaga "I'll never Love Again" ... Speechless when it comes to her voice on this particular song too!!!! PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE.... LMAO

Please react to Lara Fabian - Adagio (live)

*unrelated* is that master roshi in the background??

She's really badass, was nice to see you excited as well watching this.

Yay! My favorite channel and favorite voice teacher is back. You look very well rested, which is nice to see. Great song!

I misss ur long hair! Ok now Im just being weird.

Had a dream about getting vocal coaching from you, though I couldn't afford it. Might be a sign of addiction....haha

It's weird that watching Sam so passionate about singing makes me excited. Would love to see your reaction on Keaton henson

"That's all that this is. We just want to be expressive!" Thanks once again for sharing your vocal wisdom, Sam. Wishing you an epic New Year and may your dreams continue to manifest!

You should DEFINITELY react to her singing "Saint Honesty" live...soooo breathtaking

Please react to Dave Matthews! I'd love to hear your opinion on his voice, especially on That Girl Is You

The world needs more teachers like Sam. Passionate, knowledgeable and kind.