Came for the Freddie Mercury reference, and stayed for the insight. I’m not a great singer, however, what a valuable lesson that could easily apply to any instrument! But then when you put it all into final perspective with your performance... Holy Smokes, man!! So, SO good!!!! Thank you!!!
"Not performing _to_ the audience, but _inviting them in_ to what you are doing" "come experience what I am experiencing" "bring people in" are such great points! Thank you, Chris
the fact is just that that was an his song and he put inside that song his feelings.. he feels what he sings because them were the his songs and not songs of someone else...
God damn it, Chris... your performance at the end was lit af!! It really helps having you as a visual and mental inspiration on how to break down certain vocal barriers. Please keep these videos coming, it's always a blast!
Thanks Chris. The one thing I noticed about Freddie having seen Queen live so many times; as great a singer as he absolutely was, he was also one of the more imperfect live singers. But man did he give it.
Great motivating teacher, excellent way of teaching. Learnt one aspect, u have sing with feelings and put ur best emotions up , u need not imitate the singer, that's what different emotions look like. Freddie forever in our ❤️💕❣️
Another Queen song that I feel is very underrated is "Too Much Love will Kill You" , just amazing! Also Freddie is one of the reasons that I'm proud of my Persian heritage.
Too Much Love Will Kill You is the Brian's song. Love Of My Life is Freddie's. 🎶 Have you seen Brian's performance with Pavarotti? It's so beautiful but sad...
Hey Chris... thanks... really enjoyed this video. As a friend once told me, Queen were the "Master Manipulators of Emotion", they could get you to laughing and crying in the same song... I really think that is precisely why their music is so timeless... they add so much feeling and humanity into the song, you cannot help but fall in love with it (and them)... whether it is a romantic ballad, a catchy jazzy tune or an intricate "Bohemian Rhapsody", whether it is a thumping bass like "Under Pressure" or a whacked out drum beat like "Can't Stop Me Now" or "We Will Rock You", it always brings in just the right emotion to make it memorable and likeable... and when SIR Dr. Brian May plays... the entire world stops to listen... as they do when Freddie sings too... Only ONE PERSON I know could have a #1 hit record in 22 countries on the FIRST day of release over 30 years AFTER his death... that would be Freddie Mercury!! We SO LOVE our Queen classics... and you for doing such an amazing analysis... thanks again. blessings.
@@jamesfretwell1511 not true, he took singing lesson in 1976 (the night at the opera era) when he was diagnosed with nodules. He took other lessons between 1977 and 1980, and he took singing lesson with Monserrat Caballe in the late 80s.
You and Freddie would surely be a pair if he were still here. I love seeing his songs/style/voice analyzed, since I’ve loved all of that since 1974!!👵🏻 Your voice is amazing and he would be flattered.
That's really accurate and understandable explanation of delivering emotions, many musicians instrumentalists/vocalists completely forget about it thinking more technique-wise, but the key I think is the balance, and wholesomeness maybe
YES! This is exactly correct!! Even watching his live performances now you FEEL like you want to know him. You see him at Live Aid in the background when Brian May comes out to do a solo, he walks to the side and points twice to the people over there and then claps, like, hey, I see you, come with me. You FEEL like he wants to reach every single person in a stadium and he manages to accomplish that, even the person in the very back row. Even the person watching it all of these years later. It is a gift, he somehow just instinctively knew this and did this. Time and time again. Now I do believe that when he is behind the piano he may be a little bit more intentional with some parts of some songs. But it is still to get that response from you. And he still manages from behind the piano to bring you to him. Spike was brought into the band with intention, so he could do keyboards and Freddie could interact with the audience more. His sweet spot was his live audience and he used that incredible voice to reach them. Even on Live Aid and his little circle dance with the cameraman, he didn’t forget the people at home. In the studio he seems very technical, at least that is the way he comes across in the One Vision documentary. He knew what it should sound like and he pushed for that. Another true gift. Okay more of your video, I just had to stop and say that you have said this with the right words in the right way, not just, I don’t know he is just a legend. So thank you. 💗
When we stop thinking about the notes, and start to feel what they awaken in us, we have an incredible result. Once again, thank you very much for the video Chris!
Dam.. im speechless. I love when a teacher can demonstrate with examples.. Singing with emotions is no easy task.. I think being a little bit familiarized with acting helps.
Freddie makes my heart explode every time, just LOVE him. ❤️ Have you reacting tio Nightwish? Please do so (start with Ghost love score, but put The seatbealt on first). It's a band from from Finland, with na Dutch frontsinger (their third singer) Symphonic Metal ❤️
5:10 Inviting the audience in vs presenting 5:40 Experience vs competition 9:15 Technical vs embracing the moment 10:15 Expressing vs related to 13:50 What and how are you communicating?
Inspirational Chris! I think a person must have a very healthy sense of self to deliver such an emotional performance. The confidence you have (and Freddy had) is awesome.
I was just cleaning my house, casually listening to Chris’s videos and I did not prepare for him to go OFF like that. That was so beautiful, Chris. Damn. I learned a lot from this one. My mind has been all technique and theory and I lost sight of why I love singing so much. This was a great reminder to focus on the reason, instead of what’s right and wrong or what we should be doing. Perfection is impossible anyways. There is a lot of power in deciding to leave tips and tricks in the background so focus primarily on the magic of music.
Great analysis, observations and singing! Freddie really had great expression in his voice, he could change his voice to add different colours and nuances to his voice. Montserrat Caballe said the same thing after they worked together on the Barcelona album. "His technique was astonishing. No problem of tempo, he sang with an incisive sense of rhythm, his vocal placement was very good and he was able to glide effortlessly from a register to another. He also had a great musicality. His phrasing was subtle, delicate and sweet or energetic and slamming. He was able to find the right colouring or expressive nuance for each word." Opera singers understand this concept very well, they already have perfect technique and all of them perform the same arias with the same notes. The one place where they can make a bigger difference is though their expression in their performances. There are a lot of great singers out there, but most singers are just concerned with technique, and hitting the right notes at the right time. Or on the other end of the scale you have singers that use autotune and they lose a lot of the human expression within their voices. A singer's first job is always to connect to the audience, a singer's voice is a direct connection between the music and the audience. A singer is there to relay the message and emotion from the song. Being able to sing in a technically proficient way is very good for the singer and his voice, but it really makes no difference to the audience if a singer is using the right amount of head voice or hitting a perfect C5. They just want to feel something from the experience. With all of the singing competitions we have today, I think that the emotional aspects gets lost at times. I think this is somewhat of difference we see with some great singers from the 70's and 80's, they didn't have the internet so they often knew very little about using the correct technique, but they sometimes sang with a lot of emotion. Queen and Freddie actually hated performing studio material directly as it was on the album. He said that if you just perform copies of your studio material, that you might as well have a cardboard cutout on stage. Queen believed that singing in the studio and entertaining people live are two very different parts of music that you don't approach in the same manner. For them live shows was meant to be entertainment. Another thing about Freddie is that he had a great tone of voice, sometimes people just listen to his voice for a few seconds and they instantly love it, There are a few singers like that, who simply had a great tone of voice to start off with. Not everyone has great tone, but everyone can add emotion, expression and an individualistic take. People also need to add what naturally fits into their personality, if you act over dramatic it might come across as cheesy or not genuine enough. One of the nicest examples of Freddie using in expression in his voice, is in The Millionaire Waltz ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-H-P0VznfK_E.html or My Melancholy Blues ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-85gBquP4y3k.html. He sings almost every line or verse differently. A great example live is, You Take My Breath Away ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-UBBne8R66xo.html. Freddie was suffering from a cold at the Wembley 1986 show. A lot of people don't realize that.
Great analysis of Freddies voice and style. His power, range, dynamics, tonality, and inflections were second to none...easily could have been an operatic vocalist. Theres been a lot of great singers in rock but none of them could hang with Freddy.
It makes me sad knowing, that in my lifetime, there won't ever be another performer like Freddie Mercury, what amazing talent he was, one of a kind genius. Artists today have technology that helps massively to enhance their voices, that wasn't even thought of in the 80s etc, and I'm not just talking about auto tune, there's loads of things they can do now to help their singing.
I always had a thing for that gesture not knowing that it actually meant he was reaching out and grabbing someone in a loving way by their neck that's mindblowing if you think about it really
Haven’t heard that Queen song before but you really drove the words home with your performance. Also haven’t seen any coaches giving stage performance tips before. Lived my younger years TRYING to hit the pitch on computer games and hiding behind gameplay footage. About as detached from people as you can get and sometimes I add autotune on top = robot.
Wow, so true what you say about Freddie’s style of singing. The only contemporary singer I can think of who comes close is Matt Bellamy of Muse, but Freddie is in a league of his own.
In an interview , Freddie said he was a great fan of Judy Garland and ultimately Liza Minelli because he learned to use gestures like a sign language to the words. It automatically pulls in your attention. Combined with his English boarding school taught enunciation of the English language, everyone knew every word to every song so audiences around the world ,no matter their native language, could sing along in confidence and full enjoyment. The ultimate choir master.
You're talking about emoting. Technical singers don't emote as much as emotional singers. Freddie is the one technical singer who can emote just as well.
👍 I’ve learned how mindsets of singers effect music and audience. It creates an unique world. It’s not begging audience for something, but invite them and let them involved in the world. Thank you, Chris for this eyes opened advice. 🙏
Oop, maybe you should do a Video on jonathan davis from Korn, I've allways wandered how a someone who teaches music would talk about what he does(saw Korn in concert{never heard of a bad Korn concert}) he's also pretty amazing at what he does.
I've found that since I'm sorta empathic, after watching a great live performance of a song that shows the emotional aspect, i can put myself in their shoes in a way, and it does sound better when i try to sing it. And thats why AI can't be better at making music now that i think about it
I agree with everything you said. Its total Audience participation. Total engagement. Thanks for posting!!Really dig the grit you throw in on some of those consonants.
What you are talking about is basically called "musicality". A lot of singers are lack of this ability. By concentrating on the emotions of the song you bring out dynamics and variated tones. Seen a lot of Queen covers on youtube, only a few had this. It's hard in itself to cover a Queen song because of the voice, but even they succeed in that they usually miss the emotions, many singers are just empty vessels of clear notes.
There is one thing that even the movie missed-his spontaneous sense of fun, which is there right thro the music,in his lyrics,in the song constructs also. Incidentally,pl listen to the song Good Company from A night at the Opera album of Queen which is sung by Brian May. He's got a great sense of expression as well. Both of them hv it in their cong compositions as well. And of course, Freddie absolutely unique. Just listen to the track Brighton Rock, how the song is constructed from a falsetto to the mid to the ultimate attack on a paragraph.
Sharing those kinds of experiments with your voice is such an incredibly vulnerable thing to do and provides us such a powerful experience. Thank you so much sharing this kind of content. Imperfection with heart, that's what makes us humans and connect
Freddie loved to engage the Whole crowd ...even those at the back.. so those at the back felt just as much a part of the concert as those at the front. Queen did songs that particularly got the crowd involved...
Chris... What a performance in the end! Just want to say that you've been helping me enjoy songwriting again, as I'm starting to be able to sing. Before I could write good instrumental songs, but now I'm writing better lyrics and feeling passionate as I sing them. Thank you so much!
That's the direction of "" UNCHAINED MELODY "" NECESSITIES OF SMOOTH TRANSITION TO THE HIGH TONES/ CHORDS/ NOTES "" THANK YOU CHRIS?? 🙌🙌🙃🙃🥂 I'M FEELING BETTER AFTER 30 DAYS OF KIDNEY STONES LOL Pain and singing DON'T MIX 🤪🤪
I Will tell you why Back then, the Musician's who have taken kno short cuts. Are the One's who can do it all write, produce, Sing & 90% of the Time give a smashing performance! These are Artist who love to always show all emotions. With " ❤ in Hand"
So, less worrying about technicalities like being in tune, time, the cost of the mic, soundproofing...and more telling your Story. Whoda thunk! I have been saying this to deaf ears for 20+ years and watching those acts fail when they could have achieved something.
Do Bowie, "Win" Golden Years" "Young Americans'. Bowie had greatest range, effortless cooing, falsetto, to way down to a whisper again. "China Girl" another show case on vocals worth study. Love your tutorials dude.
The perfect intersection of bringing studio sound and emotionally drawing in the audience together: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-eXCvz614Iiw.html
You are dead right. When you breath out the music that is in you, you invite others to see you, feel you, hear you, to take a journey where you are guiding them. It isn’t a door to door vacuum cleaner salesman who knows he needs to sell a couple more pairs to make bonus. The other question is what journey exactly are you asking me to take? The wise choose their tour guides carefully.
Awesome video, Freddie’s ability to connect with the audience and bring a song to life was second to none. Listening to you sing reminded me a lot of why I love Jeff Buckley. He had a way of pulling the audience into his performance, just fearless and 100% raw emotion.
Yes! I try to imagine how Freddie channeled emotion in the studio, and then extend that to being on stage and connecting with the audience. This mental picture makes rehearsing fun.
Hey Chris. Yes good observation about Freddie. He was wonderful so involved with his lyrics & emotionally free. 👍 Are you sure your a baritone ? I've just been told I'm a tenor, perhaps in my estimation on the low/mid range scale it's changed the way I approach scales. I notice you fairly easily sing high C do you have any tips for approaching these notes mentally ?
Again thanks for this video , for the emotional support in what we all should do when singing . It's not easy but a long path. Maybe this Is the beauty in the discover of our voice
OMG Chris, this is so beautiful and full of emotion! I absolutely LOVE Freddie's vocals and performance, but what you did was truly inspiring. Thank you!
The mindset of any performer should simply be to convey to the audience “I’m getting ready to take a ride and I’m inviting all of you to come along”. That sounds cliché and over simplifying but it’s not. It’s so powerful. And your performance at the end was a perfect example of that. You had my undivided attention to see where we were going and any imperfections didn’t matter. It was all part of the journey.
Underrated lesson/philosophy on performance! I’ve had epiphanies similar to this and said “I have to love everyone here and give them everything I have” but I think this sums it up really well. Also great performance.
I've always wanted to learn to sing and ever since I found your channel Mr. Liepe it has helped me tremendously and I feel like I sound better than I ever have and still improving. I'm so thankful for your channel!
Hi Chris, i want to tell you how you absolutely captured the essence of Freddie Mercury's style and appeal. I have become a Queen fan the past many months and immediately recognized the incredible musical talents of the entire group; however could not quite figure out why I could not take my eyes off of Freddie (other than the allure of his amazing voice). After listening to your opinion regarding his innate ability to bring you INTO his songs rather than sing his songs outwardly TO his audience I have been paying close attention to his body language, as well as the different tones he brings to his songs. I agree with your opinion that he may not even be aware he's doing this. I want to thank you for your great insight, I think you're a very talented and intuitive musician. Thank you very much, it's added a new layer to my appreciation of Freddie's gifts! Sincerely, Anne Craycroft
Wow the interpretation at 12:22 and on was really beautiful. Seems to me you got this music ingrained in you and you have your own ability to communicate a lovely performance. I say I would've loved to hear you do The Show must go on, unleash all your power in a modern way.
