Voice Teacher Reacts to Disturbed's cover of The Sound of Silence 

I feel this is a very simple way of singing, although the emotion of it is still there. Maybe it's me, but I've practiced this song since it was dropped and to me, it was easy to match and follow.

@@vladdydaddy5197 Oh, it certainly is quite simple from an anatomical standpoint, but it can be tricky to initially figure out how to isolate the false vocal cords, rather than allowing them to dampen the hoarseness in your voice as they typically do, and subsequently use them as a tool in more standard phonation. Good on you if you got it down without much trouble, though! It's always nice to hear when people seem to be able to avoid having to learn the painful way.

@@gengraves8423 my hardest issue with it has simply been my range that low. It's like grabbing dowm to the bottom of a barrel that's only 2 feet tall. It feels deep, but in reality it's not even baritone.

I like cheese puffs

Gummy Bears is where it's at.

Me too ✋

same

Same

DUDE fucking same

Yep

Same lol

Lmao... me too

Lol 😂😂

yup

So me! Lol

yah the studio version was different

he doesn't need auto tune..his voice has range its super powerful

They didn’t force auto tune, Conan producers did it without his knowledge because he was so sick. After the song, David was pissed and apparently stormed off set.

Yes, I heard that too about autotune. Another musical reviewer, he (Fil) said David uses the microphone to his advantage. He also mentioned that David produces music. This dude definitely doesn't need autotune but with being sick, they (producers) as LadyDragonsblood mentioned and yep, David was furious as I mentioned, this is one dude who def. doesn't need that crap. I love David's vocal control. Loved your review Sam!

thanks for this info!!

I guess, he is down with the sickness

I mean I’ve seen a lot of sick or injured rock stars put on great shows I don’t think auto tune is ever the right call it’s super disingenuous

I mean the official track on Spotify has autotune on it

i can tell he was congested a bit...but he was so careful and i'm impressed he sang so beautifully

Yeah this one that everyone keeps using is a bad recording. It's such a great song.

That part was adorable 😁 _giggles_

He's such a sweetheart

My favorite part lol

I started cracking up with him lolol

I was looking for this comment 😂😂😂😂 THE PUN

I died.

So cute

@Charlie Rothwill the fuck is wrong with you? how old are you? 5?

@@miserlou3075 Nah, he's just trying to be edgy like most other idiots online.

I laughed so hard lol. It was cute lol.

Stolen.

And autotune 😂

@@tomasstabilini4309 He doesn't actually need autotune.

Any genuinely honest person has both these traits. A true human being cannot be true to oneself if they try maintain just one ‘side’ The entire range of human emotion must be experienced, understood and controlled. Too much demon and you loose compassion for the people who need it and too much ‘angel’ and you loose the ability to recognise evil around you and protect loved ones, and others, from it... Without which, it will consume all that is good un impeded. Their are sheep, sheep dogs, and wolves. Be the sheep dog.

@@muntee33 Sure, we are half angel half demon. But not all of us can sing (I can't that's for sure). 🤙

The same.

Its awesome

Hahaha, ive been doing the exact same thing, i got on here to look at something totally different and clicked on one over an hour ago and have been watching them non stop since

OMG Me too!!! just cant get enough, and im 53 lol

Same

Well both in one is possible.

Disturbed does have some pretty ballads like Remember and Darkness :)

And he is fucking amazing.

He did triple major in Political Science, Philosophy and something else.... can't recall... with a Bachelor's degree. I've never met him (I envy you) but I can tell when he speaks that he's extremely intelligent and very civilized. I've seen Disturbed 4 times and the time I remember most was in Chicago when their label surprise presented them on stage with an album plaque for 'The Sickness' and he took a shot and said something like [I don't normally drink before a show, but this shot is for you.] It was the single most ABSOLUTE BEST moment I've EVER witnessed in live music. No shit, people were crying in the pit, myself included, maybe-maybe not. From then on, Disturbed became one of the handful of bands of which I always buy their whole album the day it drops whether I've heard or like every song or not... and will be until they don't come out with anything.

If he actually called you "bubby" then that's fucking adorable. David seems like such a sweet guy, I'd love to hug him lol

XLadyFlameX me too

Pls

Yeah. Do Myles Kennedy of Alter Bridge :)

Definitely. I’ve been searching his videos and this is the only one I’ve found so far.

@@toratora9994 he only started doing reactions a few weeks ago and so far there's a huge number of kpop recommendations, but I suggested _female metal singers: expectation vs reality_ video yesterday and he liked the comment, so here's hoping 😁😁

I have loved this song forever too. He told this through the composition and his wonderful voice

I first heard it on that 9/11 memorial video. So, of course, it brought in a whole bunch of other emotions.

@@catchic0000000000000 they also do a pandemic version which is so stunning.

I am old enough to remember the original. Simon and Garfunkle never made me cry. This version did, and not just one tear. I truly believe that (while David Draimen was not born yet) Simon and Garfunkel wrote this song for him. Of course they did not know it either.

Just so you know Paul Simon sent David an e-mail saying that was the best cover of his song he had ever heard and that he loved it.

I didnt hear/see the autotune. I even think its bullcrap that there is autotune.. Besides that. Even IF there was autotune.... He can do this easily

I guess that its a kind of a struggle for a audio-responsible dude to make the venue work in a perfectly A- game, however, I too think this distrbd guy could easily rip that part into shreds without the easy-leveled autotune working there in the background, but, it was the warranty, that the sound guy needed, to healthy get through another day at work, and we shall give it to him. offcourse. BTW: Sam Johnson I like yer channel wery much, its nice to hear professional points regarding singing, whilst listening to familiar sounds I grew up with, seems you do it quite easily, as yourself, and I'd like to encourage you to do the same furthermore! It's allways a mystery for us semi-shower-singers how people do these things they do with their mouths :) Greetings from Finland!

I've seen disturbed in concert 7 times. I wasnt even a Disturbed fan for most of them. (At the time I was skeptical of their commercial success.) Any way after several shows of crystal clear, well-balanced music I became a fan. If you've never seen Disturbed live I highly recommend it. Best show overall I've ever seen. And like I said I wasnt even a fan and wanted to not like them and they still blew me away.

you can definitely hear the artifacts glides made by the autotune throughout the whole song. And I disagree about the fact he can nail the song without it. If the sound guy needed a warranty he would set it up very mild. But it was set up at trap-singer, Cher-in-the-90es, levels. Also, since you can hear the autotune correction throughout the whole song it means the autotune was working A LOT, not just to adjust some notes.

it is also in the studio track, more transparent than this one but you can notice it several times. P.s. in the studio track you can edit 50 takes

Morgan YES!

Yes, likeable as can be. And obviously, Brilliant.

100% support your opinion here🙂

Atleast he isnt as faux as "The Producer" guy that does nothing but pretend.

Totally agree!!

that’s the most accurate description for it ever 🥺

That's a really wholesome analogy

It's clickbait... *_b u t t h e o t h e r w a y_*

I paused it to pull the kettle off the stove. He does have a somewhat horrified look at precisely 2:19. Didn't notice it until I was walking back in the room. My voice does need help, so I'm following this guy.

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👏👏👏

..."ooo ahahaha"...😏

STAAAAHP 😅

good catch! 😁

pair it with Floor Jensen :)

Sam actually reminds me of Raoul from the movie adaptation😂

Oh my gawwwwd YOU ARE SO RIGHT I NEED HIM AS THE PHANTOM RIGHT NOW IN MY LIFE

That would be amazing.

THIS!

click my name to watch unnatural dewsasters. spread. the elite are attacking us

Yeah! This video popped up in my recommendations and I'm so pleased. Maybe because I've been watching Dr. Hope's Sick Notes. If you think you might like the doctor-version of this genre, check him out.

*funk singer. Actually. Weirder

System of a Down always blows me away.

You..seem to think that "heavy rock" (whatever that is) singers arent talented. That's.. crazy. As a comparison... some of the most talented guitarists alive play heavy metal...... just because they dont pluck clean simple shit.. doesnt mean they dont have mindblowing talent

@@cdreid99999 Love the positivity man. Theres differences in rock, or does Disturbed sound exactly like Kings of Leon? I never said he was bad, Its a funny detail that classical training, which is very different from what he does now. I love both the band, and this song.

In Disturbed's first documentary David explains he sought classical training as he had severely damaged his vocal abilities through a mixture of in-proper singing technique, alcohol abuse and smoking.

You nailed man.

Perfect description of this man's obvious talent.

E X A C T L Y!!!!!!

Woah.

Well, now I want to sit around a fire getting drunk with Dave, listening to him sing until I fall asleep...

I agree!

It’s not tho

Massive goosebumps every time I hear this cover, its just beautiful

Land of Confusion is also pretty good.

I much prefer the original. It was perfect. Now no one plays it anymore because this cover exists.

He's a trained cantor. Not exactly opera. None the less, yes, he's had extensive vocal training.

Actually he's a trained cantor (Jewish), not opera, but still takes amazing control. He even mention that when he was first figuring out how he was going to do this song, he had to dig deep and go back to that very training.

very interesting! Love that!

I'm loving your bravado all the time. So I think I'll watch some more videos!

Disturbed isn't heavy metal

It made sense to me! The overwhelming emotions ugh. We were blessed by this song/cover.

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Exactly you get goosebumps but you're warm from the inside and you're singing every word without realizing you're crying until you open your eyes and everything is blurry and you're shaking from your core because how absolutely powerful it is

This reply though 🖤 ... Very well said.

Very well said. Cry every time I listen to it.

Something ive learned as ive gotten older is that almost every thing in life is FAR more complex than it seems on the surface. There is a professional for almost everything and i love hearing professionals explain their trade. Its humbling to know just how much you don't know about things that seem so mundane.

Skeptic there is so much truth to your comment. Well said, friend.

This is just scratching the surface 😂 I don't know a lot but I know more than the average person since this past winter I got my associates in music as a voice major

@@dalepr69 I feel the same way

Likewise. 😂

That's amazing ! I'm so glad you're noticing change in your own instrument !

Hexx Bombastus Interesting

He actually still has acid problems but he has to keep to a strict lifestyle to keep his vocal cords safe

he was singing so incorrectly he was giving himself acid reflux. You're doing something wrong if you're damaging yourself.

Ectoplasmic36 That is true of damn near anything that people do, from sex to extreme sports. If it hurts, you're doing it wrong.

Was also going to comment about the training. He's said in interviews early on that his screaming at performances was wearing down his voice and that he was taking a break to learn how to do it properly

Same. This guy is really watchable and impossible to hate.

Same here, I really enjoyed it and it was actually just a random click.. Glad I found it :)

same.. very good video

Me too. I just clicked because I love the song and Disturbed's version.

I enjoyed it throughly. The reaction. the pointers. The break down. The performance. ALL great

justsomeone862 exactly!

I subbed at 2k like 2 weeks ago, its crazy how fast hes growing

It's thanks to his reaction to kpop performers. Kpop fans are obsessed with everything related to kpop.

dicemarta i want to disagree but that's literally the reason I found this channel 😂

It’s also how I found this channel, I don’t think it’s a bad thing to watch videos about something you like I mean we’ve found the most likeable voice teacher on youtube thanks to it :)

Agree. Corey is underestimated.

I agree. Metal singer reviews would be excellent...gothic metal has a lot of strong vocalists. Also, I'm a new sub! I very much enjoyed the videos I've seen after doing a mini binge.

A Led Zeppelin or The Doors reaction would be amazing.

For a rock/metal vocalist, you cannot get better than Devin Townsend. His song "Kingdom" would be a good one. There's a live version where the female back up vocalist is singing live with him, which is cool since she's not actually in the band, she is just on the record and occasionally does a show or two. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-2jZjziohaPc.html

i think u can, probs just coz i dont like growls

Agree! Your reaction videos are more informal then just a reaction. Would be awesome to watch Metallica - Sad but true Ghost - He is Static X - Cold Slipknot - Psychosocial Gojira - Ocean Planet

On my 6th video lol

Well put. He’s authentic.

Ikr I know shit about singing but I love these videos for this reason. The channel is real

He did a good job vocal coach wise, My only problems he was so focused on his pitch and tone that he didn’t take IN the song. So we got zero reaction emotion wise, like in so many others. And the constant pausing doesn’t help for him to actually listen to the song. He’s also the first person to stop it before it was over, because he wasn’t actually listening to the lyrics. By far not the best reaction video, IMO anyway

Melissa is a fantastic teacher and top of the field with distortion.

Actually if I remember right in the two DVDs she was teaching some of the famous screemers/rockers on them. She is just so cool and it's funny to her teaching these guys the right techniques. She is not at all what you would expect.

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-spZWQwxNKHg.html

Yeah almost everything I've learned about distortion has been from Melissa's videos

@@SamJohnsonVoice yeah she is awesome, I'm actually a Metal fan but got into Kpop through Big Bang and they're so good. G Dragon has such a unique voice. I just love all diff. Kinds of music and I like your video's and how you explain some of the reasons why they chose to sing their songs or parts that way.

Indeed, it takes a lot of voice to be able to both sing and do the heavy metal screaming, and David is amazing at both!

Ya and those people are just ignorant when it comes to the genre thats all

He was classically trained and many people dont understand that the classical training and everything he has done before really helps with heavy metal and rock singing. People always wonder how bands like Disturbed and Five Finger Death Punch and Slipknot can do those low graspy sounds and not hurt their voice and be able to continue doing it for a 2 hour show, it's because of their training as well as them knowing how to distort their voice without putting pressure in their vocal chords and causing stress in them. Anybody who tries to do those heavy sounds without training can tell you it's hard as hell to maintain

Danny Worsnop is a good example of this. When he was in his earlier days getting proper vocal coaching his swigging voice, range and distortion were to die for (whether you like Asking Alexandra or not you can't deny his voice was incredible) when he started to party more, care less about himself and the band he tore a vocal chord and is now unable to ever sound like he did because of lack of technique and care.

Singing now swigging.

lol i wouldnt go that far geez he's mediocre at best. Real artists such as Robert Plant, Roger Daltrey, Roger Waters, David Gilmore, Hendrix, Beatles etc. Do not need help from a computer, and Simon and Garfunkel did that song also without autotune and sound so much better.

+Larry L L

@@larryl3706 You're so uneducated. You do realize that autotune on this performance was given without his consent because he was ill, right? Of course not, cause if you did, you wouldn't be spewing hot trash on your keyboard. See the guy live, he's a classically trained singer, and can easily do this same performance without autotune.

Disturbed = Band. David = lead singer

Larry L thats why we don't need an expert to analyze or teach or us about singing.. we either like it or we don't. The guy entitled to his opinion, and you are too but i dont agree with u because there is no science to this. This is such bs

Same. I just binged on his videos lol

Agree 💯💯

@@Cypresssina whoa! You sing like me???

Same. 4th video today

That would be really cool!

Yesssss that would be awesome

yess

Speaking of which, can you analyze Mikael Åkerfeldt's voice from Opeth? I found it really interesting how you compared David Draiman's clean and distorted voices, and Åkerfeldt's probably has many of the same strengths, except he goes (at least he used to) more to the far end of distortion.

I wondered this very thing when I first saw how good he was.

Shouldn't it bother him as a voice teacher though? If a computer does half the singing, what's the point in analysing his voice?

because the whole song isnt auto tuned,

Part of his point was that the computer isn't doing half the singing in this case. Just a little smoothing.

If autotune is as obvious as it is in this performance, then it's doing more than it should. His voice sounds robotic at times. Try listening from 0:48 to 0:58 (listen multiple times, you'll feel sick). I suspect the vibrato in "silenceeee" is also computed - apart from sounding very robotic it's also shitfting at a pace of 1/16 (same as the vibrato at the end). It's just too much.

Jonas Charif I take it you’ve never heard David sing unplugged. His vibrato sounds exactly like it does in this song. You cannot add vibrato in that way, instead the “autotune” he talks about here is in fact note smoothing. If David knows he can’t hold a certain note before another, he’ll opt for autotune to help transition smoothly from one note to another. Nice try, though.

It was hilarious

"That's the joke" "You suck McBain!"

you should be a comedy teacher bud! put sum vidyas on the youtoobers.

exactly..

I love how he was just sitting there laughing

grr ummmpee exactly!

Draiman is the Eddie Van Halen of Metal vocalist .

I am no pro. My opinion is therefore that of someone who only consumes music. But I can't listen to Disturbed version of Sound of Silence. To me, it sounds forced and like a voice version of overacting. Pressuring to sound "metal" or something like that. Suum cuique. This is not my kind of music.

grr ummmpee Thanks, I agree with every word..

I have seen distrubed in concert one time, and i really wasn't impressed by their live sound. I still enjoy them now and again.

That's a hell of a compliment. Elves are the best :)

he kinda does lmfao

lotta serious comments down here. Then this gem.

Are we really at a time we can't just say Lord of the Rings??

Oh man I was wondering if I wasn't the only one thinking that! :D

He also put a lot of time into opera.

Draiman

Oh wow - i totally thought it was autotune. That is amazing to know.

I listened several times to that bit and didn't think it sounded like autotune. Thanks for the confirmation.

I was gonna say the same thing. David is known to be absolutely, completely natural.

or GAY

Was hoping to see this comment. I would love to see some heavier vocals analyzed.

I’d love to see some real metal bands reviewed. Pretty much nothing played in the radio.

Yesssssssss

I love you seem him critique Maynard. I absolutely adore his voice it would be so interesting to hear a professional view point on it.

I second, or 7th? this!

I just with my music teacher didn’t tell me to lip sing in the back behind the curtain.

Wow! They didn't tell you that even though they were real voice teachers? Or 'just' music teachers? 🤔 It's like the easiest way to achieve notes that don't come that easily to you. I wonder if they didn't know themselves? 🤷🏼‍♀️

He’s a wonderful soul ♥️

Greg Schmidt so did I but found my self listening to him 😂

Right, he's such a likable spirit. You actually wanna listen. He's pretty awesome.

I'm not a singer either but i love these videos. My favorite reaction videos on RU-vid for sure.

Same! On my 8th video in a row now. I’m compelled.

I did the same thing today!!

Ive been binge watching off and on for several days...hes so pure about his feedback...he appeals even to those of us who dont sing...he reminds me of the glow of a campfire..it just makes a happy bubble

Same! I'm somehow a hour and a half in lol

Lilly Of the North same... I can not stop watching

Same

Same. I can not sing to save my life (I will do it anyway) but I've learned to play the keyboard when I was younger. His videos made me wanting to start again.. Been binge watching all his videos and just realised he started a month ago. What's happening? :D

Same here! I'm hooked and happily entranced :-)

Haha. Me too! I had no interest in singing technique before I saw these! :)

I love Dave he can hold on to that title

you may be right

+Beyond the Radio aw that is sad :(

Don't do drugs, kids!! Cocaine + being 6' 7" = heart attack :(

I’d love to see Sam analyze Peter Steele’s voice.

rip pete :(

@@beyondtheradio I thought he was taller than 6ft 7!

Mike Blanchard real talk

Same here man. Really well made videos that just spark an interest in the subject matter.

@@erloriel Yep, I ended up subbing because his other vids were good too.

That damn youtube vortex

Black hole? You were curious, following the White rabbit down the rabbit hole. Welcome.

Ace and juicy .

LOL, exact same here....

Exactly how i feel 😂😂

god damn i feel exactly the same, i watched the whole vídeo and i was like "finally a reacting vídeo that it´s Worth watching" lol

The reason you you didn't understand everything was that there was nothing _to_ understand. It's just a jumble of words strung together, conveying no meaning at all. You can take a random set of nouns, verbs and adjectives that he used, replace them with totally different nouns, verbs and adjectives, and they'll convey exactly the same amount of meaning: zero. Example: 2:21 "feeling of roundness". What the hell does that even mean?! You can replace that with "feeling of softness", "feeling of heaviness", "feeling of warmth", "feeling of darkness", "feeling of smoothness", "feeling of loneliness", "feeling of emptiness", and they would all be equally -meaningful- meaningless even though they are completely different words. THAT is how you know a description of something is total bullshit. It's good enough to impress teenage girls and sell singing lessons, but to any remotely rational person it's just a pile of manure.

Morpheus buddy shut the fuck up

I was kind of thinking along the lines of those monks that make that unusual sound (in their nose?) But being a cantor is a totally great explanation!

Whoa! I had no idea he was Jewish or that he had a background as a cantor! That's really cool.

What if I told you the Star of David is actually right there on the Believe album?

The band contains members of many religions and their logo is actually a combination of the religious symbols for all of them.

@@eskimoprime09 I mean so is a cross, crescent Moon and pentacle though.

Honestly same.

YES to NightWish! Ghost Love Score is epic! I also wish to see him to react to NightWish's cover of "Phantom of the Opera" during their End of an Era tour and "While Your Lips Are Still Red". For starters, since I'm not sure if this is a genre he listens to, so let's ease him into it. :)

Thank you for this comment! Agreed!

Disturbed ain't metal tho.

Don't forget metal bands with growls.

The live version (End of an Era) of Ghost Love Score is incredible. I would love to see him react to that.