如何找到自己独特的声音 How to find your own unique voice.
这真的是一个很酷的主题 因为我收到很多人的电子邮件或信息说 你知道 好像每当我唱歌 This is actually a really cool subject, because I get a lot of people that email or message me and say, you know, it seems like whenever I sing,
另一首艺术家的歌 我总是扮演那个艺术家的角色 或者 你知道的 那个艺术家的风格 我似乎无法摆脱它 我想要有自己独特的声音 Another artist song, I always take on the persona, or, you know, the style of that artist, and I can't seem to get away from it. I want to have my own unique voice.
男人们真的很想思考一些事情 好吧 这叫做影响 Well, guys are really wanting to think about something, okay, it's called influences.
没有影响 我们都有它们 我们不能扩展我们的视野 我们没有一个深度和呼吸的工具箱或武器库 We all have them without influences, we can't expand our horizons and we don't have a depth and breath to the toolbox or arsenal.
不同的风格 木材 我们喜欢的不同的东西 声音 歌曲 唱歌 乐队等等 Of the different styles and timber and and and the different things that we like about, voice or songs or singing or bands or whatever.
所以我和大家一起去思考这个问题 我觉得最酷的事情是如果你去摇滚名人堂 那里有个小亭子 So I went and guys to think about this, I thought the coolest thing ever if you go down to the Rock hall of fame, there's a kiosk there.
你可以打它 走到它前面 你可以按一个按钮 上面写着 And you can punch, walk up to it, and you can punch a button that says.
富兰克林的算术 Arith of Franklin.
然后沿着这条链往上 然后是比利·霍利迪 然后点击比利·霍利迪按钮就会显示出她的影响力 And it'll go up this chain of who her influences are, and like it'll go to Billy Holiday in blah, blah, blah, and then you can click the Billy Holiday button and it'll show who her influences are.
它会播放所有受其影响的艺术家或艺术家的片段 And it'll play all the different artists or snippets of the artists that were their influence.
我记得在我职业生涯的早期 我的表弟塞米哈格 你们可能知道 我已经提过几次了 不是点名 我只是分享一些信息 So I remember early on in my career, whatever, my cousin Semihagger, which you probably know, I've mentioned a couple of times, not to name drop, I'm just sharing information.
当我还是个孩子的时候 我想听起来像萨米 事实上 在那之前 我想听起来像卢格兰姆 所以在七十年代早期 我想听起来像Lugram And you know, I wanted to sound like Sammy when I was a kid, you know, in fact, before that, I actually wanted to sound like Lugram. So early in the seventies, you know, I wanted to sound just like Lugram.
然后我想让自己的声音听起来像萨米·黑格和大卫·科弗代尔的结合体 当然 还有保罗·罗杰斯和其他很多有影响的人 Then I wanted to sound like a cross between Sammy Hagar and David Coverdale, you know. And then there was, of course, paul Rogers and a lot of the other influences that Have.
帮助我创造了我自己独特的声音 引用 不引用 但这很有趣 因为我学到了更多的风格 Helped create and help me create my own unique voice, quote, unquote, but it's fascinating because the more styles that I learned.
我能在军火库里放的东西越多 And the more things that I could put in my arsenal.
我越能借鉴他们的音乐 而不仅仅是一种风格 摇滚或其他 因为事实上 我最喜欢的音乐是R-B The more I could draw on them for later, and not just in one style, rock or whatever, because fact, some of my favorite music is R-B.
我喜欢威尔逊·皮克特 奥森 奥蒂斯·雷丁 事实上 你会听到的 So I love Wilson Picket, I love Oson, otis Redding. In fact, you'll hear.
比如大卫·科弗代尔 他是白蛇 彩虹和深紫乐队的著名摇滚巨星 原谅我 Guys like David Coverdale, big, famous rock singer from bands like White Snake and Rainbow or Deep Purple. Excuse me.
他会说 是的 来自山姆和戴夫的山姆是对他影响最大的人之一 或者你会听到 And he'll say, yes, sam from Sam and Dave was one of his greatest influences, or you'll hear.
像野马 威尔森·皮克特的萨莉 你会说 哦哇 听起来像大卫·科弗德尔 这对他影响很大 现在他把它内在化了 Songs like Mustang, sally by Wilson Picket, and you go, oh wow, that sounds like David Coverdell. Well, that was a big influence of his. Now he internalized it.
并表示它 And represented it.
在那里它成了他自己的东西 现在我推出了这个系列 如何像这个人一样唱歌 如何像那个人一样唱歌 To where it became his own thing. Now I have this series out, you know, how to sing like this person and how to sing like that person.
这些系列的目标 The goal of those those that series.
不是去模仿或模仿任何人 再一次 给你们很多启发 Isn't to mimic or impersonate anyone. It's again, just to give you guys a lot to draw from.
能够将你的声音扩展成许多不同的风格 现在让我从一个乐器演奏家的角度来做另一个解释 想想这个 伙计们 让我们看看 你是吉他手 我也是吉他手 To be able to expand your voice into many different styles. Now let me take another, put another spin on this from an instrumentalist standpoint, so think about this, guys, let's see, you're guitar player, which I'm a guitar player.
我很想成为吉米·佩奇 对吧 我有个有趣的故事 事实上 我很想成为吉米·佩奇 You know, I wanted to be Jimmy Page really bad, right? I got a funny story about that. In fact, I wanted to be Jimmy Page so bad.
70年代有一部叫 宋 的电影一直没变 当时在 That in the seventies there was this movie called the Song remains the same, and it was playing at the.
一个购物中心影院 那是电影播放很长一段时间的地方 就像 A mall theater, and that's back when movies played for a really long time. It was like.
三四个星期的电影进进出出 可以连续播放几个月 所以歌曲和演奏是一样的 Three or four weeks of movies in and out, it would play for months on end. So song remains the same as playing.
我可以在周六早上起床看日场 然后一路带着我的吉他去电影院 And I can get up on a Saturday morning matinee, and I bring my guitar all the way to the movie theater.
他们不让我把吉他带进电影里 所以我会去售票处检查然后进去看 你知道吗 Now they wouldn't let me bring my guitar inside the movie here, so I would check it at the ticket counter and I'd go in and I'd watch, you know?
现场版的雨之歌 或者现场版的歌 你知道的 还是一样的歌 或者类固醇天堂之类的 我看了一些片段然后就没了 The live version of the rain song, or the live version of, you know song remains the same, or, or steroid heaven or whatever, I'd watch snippets And then it'd run out.
拿起我的吉他 我努力回忆简·佩吉做过的事 然后不管怎样我都会回忆 这个周末一个周末又一个周末 Get my guitar, I try to remember really hard what Jane Page did, and I'd go through it whatever, and I'd do this weekend after weekend after weekend.
因为那是对我的影响之一 对吧 杰夫·贝克影响了我 阿尔迪·尼洛影响了我 卡拉·桑塔纳影响了我 迈克尔·尚克影响了我 Because that was one of my influences, right? So was Jeff Beck was an influence, aldi Nello was an influence, carla Santana was an influence, michael Shanker was an influence for me on guitar.
很多人都是这样的 史蒂夫·卢彻斯和我 你知道 我们会拿着这些唱片 今天就开始回放 So lots of guys like that, steve Lucather and so, I, you know, we, we would take these records and we play them back today.
你不需要去电影院看几个小时的电影 但是 你知道 你有Youtube 你有特权拥有 You don't have to go down to the movie theater for hours and hours on in and check your, but, you know, you got Youtube, you get the privilege of having.
像大师一样的人还有他们的废话比如我唱歌之类的 Someone like a master and their crap like me for singing or whatever.
直接送到你家门口 Brought right to your doorstep.
这是一个多么疯狂的优势啊 所以当有人告诉我 哦 但这太难了 我喜欢这样那样 你知道 就像 So what a crazy, great advantage is that. So when someone tells me, oh, but it's just so hard, and I like this like that, you know, it's like.
这没有开车去拉玛罗托购物中心几个小时带着你的吉他 试着学习一些 你知道的 一些东西 到处看看 那么 It's not as hard as driving down to the Lamaroto Mall for hours on end with your guitar, trying to learn a few, you know, a few things, looks here and there, So.
我只是想鼓励你们 你们有非常好的机会 如果你们真的愿意再花时间来研究一下我说的这些东西 那么 I would just encourage you guys, you have incredible opportunity, and if you really are willing again to take the time and go through this stuff that I'm talking about, so.
你把这些影响的总和 You take the total sum of these influences.
你自己来代表他们 这可能需要一些时间 但一个很好的建议 我不知道你能不能做到 两个建议 And you represent them for yourself, it may take some time, but a good suggestion, and I don't know if you can do this or not, two suggestions.
第一个是试着写自己的歌 The first is try to write your own song.
试着写一首曲子 即使你不擅长写歌 试着写一些能让你在自己的音乐中找到自我的东西 Try to write a piece, even if you're not good at songwriting, try to write something where you kind of find yourself in your own music.
这样你就不是在模仿 或者 你知道 再一次 模仿别人 这对你自己写素材很有帮助 So that you're not impersonating, or, you know, again, mimicking someone else. That'll really help a lot, writing your own material.
因为你可以开始发现自己喜欢音乐的什么 事实上 你甚至可能受到 比如说 爵士音乐的影响 但你并不打算成为爵士歌手 Tremendous because you can start to find yourself what you like about music. In fact, you might even have influences that are, let's say, jazz based, but you're not planning on being a jazz singer.
然而 爵士乐中也有一些你喜欢的元素可以用你自己的艺术和工艺表现出来 好吗 However, there are elements of something, maybe in something in jazz that you like that you can represent in your own art and craft. OK?
最后一件事是 Now one of the last things is, is that.
你不能自己写歌 随便写首歌 You can't write your own music or whatever, take a song.
这对你来说是不寻常的 比如说 你会用摇滚眼 你想唱歌 你会唱流行歌曲 That is unusual for you to sing, let's say, you know, you would your rock eye and you want to sing, you would sing a pop song.
嗯 你可以唱你的摇滚歌曲 或者流行歌曲已经有摇滚风格了 Well, you can sing your rock song or the pop song is already in a rock style.
然后你就会发现 哇 好吗 And then you start to find out, wow, OK?
我不会模仿迈克尔·杰克逊 因为我只是听起来不像他 但我可以唱一首像肮脏的戴安娜之类的歌 并以我自己的方式去做 它变成了我自己的 I'm not going to emulate Michael Jackson, because I just don't sound like him, but I can sing a song like Dirty Diana or whatever, and do it in my own way. And it becomes my own.
我自己的诠释 我自己的艺术 我自己的工匠 找到我自己独特的声音 好吧 希望这对你有帮助 让我们继续 My own interpretation, my own artistry, my own crafter, finding my own unique voice. All right, hope this is helpful. Let's continue.