Chords for Vocal Coach REACTS TO DIANA Ankudinova Wicked Game

_ Hello, welcome, good morning, good afternoon, good evening, wherever you are.
This is the Vocal Lexicon.
My name is Frank.
I'm a professional [Ab] vocal coach.
So today I have a request and [Db] I'll just read it out. _
_ He says here, you are one of the three vocal coaches with Tara Simon and Rashid Hayek,
who perfectly explains the technique of singing.
[Ab] Thank you.
I beg you to analyze the performance of Diana _ Ankudinova, _ song title is Wicked Game.
This phenomenon, all [B] her [Abm] performances is inaccessible to my understanding.
This must be some special singer.
[Am] Thank you very much for [E] the comments.
And yes, I'm going to [Ab] do it right now.
_ And hoping that I can help you.
At the end of the video, [Gb] I'll be able to maybe [E] answer your [N] question on what kind of
technique she used, what [Gm] kind of things [Ab] she's doing to make her sound the way she does.
All right.
[E] So let's get on with this.
_ [N] I'm sure I have the right video.
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_ _ _ _ You are pretty correct.
Already I can sense or hear some uniqueness in the way she delivers her singing.
_ First off, she started with whispering, just like [E] talking.
You know, so that's like falsetto.
Falsetto is a very airy sound and you can hear her dropping in and out from [Ab] this deep
tone to a lighter tone.
And I'll explain that shortly.
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[Ebm] Okay, _ _ _ [C] I'll explain it now.
When her tone gets deep, she kind of pushes [E] the larynx down to get that tone.
It's sort of the same thing that will happen when you yawn.
_ You can hear it when I go_
_ _ [Eb] So when the larynx goes down, the voice box, that's where you find the vocal cords and
all the muscles that coordinate [C] singing.
So when it goes down, you get that tone.
And then she comes back up neutral to actually get her normal talking tone.
[Gb] So that's why [Ebm] she dips in and out of this deep range and the normal [Fm] range.
[N] Normal tone rather.
And then she uses some style called vocal fry. _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ To add some sort of emotion.
It's very well mastered.
She's mastered it.
So that's why it sounds so [Ebm] smooth and cool. _
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[Fm] Boss!
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_ [N] Wait a minute.
How can a lady have a voice like this?
It's a manufactured voice, no doubt.
Alright?
But how can you maintain that for _ this long?
She's still going on and on.
How can a lady have a voice like that?
Wow!
I can tell you right now, [Em] I've never heard anything like this.
She's the only one that sounds like this right now.
[Ebm] So she's a very unique singer. _
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_ [Bbm] _ _ My goodness!
[C] I'll give you an example of somebody that sounds like this.
[B] Toni Braxton.
Alright?
Especially in their chest voice, they can sing with this kind of deep tone for long.
[C] But how long is the deepest I've ever heard?
I don't know.
I think she's practiced a lot.
[Ab] She's so used to it.
[Db] And that's why she sounds like this.
It's easy for her to do.
A manufactured [E] voice is not something you can sustain for a [Ab] really long time.
But she does it [Db] effortlessly.
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_ _ _ _ I've _ never [E] heard anything like this before.
You are right.
You are right.
I can see where you're coming from.
I can [Ab] see what you mean.
I can hear what you mean.
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_ [Gb] I'm truly amazed.
And then she goes back to the vocal fry.
A kind of mixture of talking and singing.
You know, over here.
Back to her chest voice.
And she has a good pitch.
She's good with her pitch control.
[Db] No one can save [Ab] me but [N] you. _
[Ab] Wow!
Let's keep it there.
[Db] No [Fm] one can save me but you.
Wow!
_ What a phenomenon.
Like you said.
Wow!
Wow!
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_ _ Honestly, I am amazed.
I am amazed.
[A] And I think I've said all I need to say.
Some singers just leave you speechless.
[Ab] So there we are.
We've taken a journey to [Em] Russia.
She's from Russia.
And [Eb] what a voice.
Never heard anything like this before.