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39 - You Know My Name (Chris Cornell) · Barracuda Breakdowns

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  SPEAKER_00: Okay, let's dive into some Chris Cornell.
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  SPEAKER_00: Here's You Know My Name.
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  SPEAKER_00: Probably my favorite James Bond song.
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  SPEAKER_00: In this episode, I want to talk about the chords and his melody, and I also want to talk about my personal approach to singing.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm not a vocal teacher at all.
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  SPEAKER_00: I hated my voice for years, but we'll we'll talk about that as we go about it.
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  SPEAKER_00: So we're in B minor, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: So that's the that's the key of the song.
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  SPEAKER_00: And right away we're hit with the three chords.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is like a the main motif of the song.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay, so that's that's the minor one.
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  SPEAKER_00: G is the sixth chord, the deep and dark sixth chord I'm always talking about.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now that's the key right there.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's the major four chord.
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  SPEAKER_00: In the key of B minor.
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  SPEAKER_00: One, two, three, four.
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  SPEAKER_00: Right?
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  SPEAKER_00: That should should be, if we're staying true to B minor, it should be E minor.
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  SPEAKER_00: But instead we go We play E major.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's a Dorian move, okay?
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  SPEAKER_00: It's the major four chord.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's a beautiful color.
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  SPEAKER_00: It kind of adds some like lightness, it adds some brightness and lightness to this dark, kind of it feels like a phantom, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: Just I love that.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then we got the cool.
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  SPEAKER_00: It does little like motifs like that with the lead guitar, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: And then it's like and then it's like and that's when the acoustic strumming starts, and this is when the song starts, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: And his melody kicks in.
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  SPEAKER_00: So he's like, I love what he's saying too.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you take a life, do you know what you live?
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  SPEAKER_00: Right away, like you see how we in the beginning we played D minor.
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  SPEAKER_00: Played G major, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: Because that's the sixth chord.
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  SPEAKER_00: One, two, three, four, five, six.
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  SPEAKER_00: But they go to G, Chris Co now plays G, but they play G minor.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's like crazy.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's like it's way dark, and it's like what he's saying too, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: If you take a life, do you know what you give?
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  SPEAKER_00: Odds are you like.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's the relative major.
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  SPEAKER_00: That is D major.
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  SPEAKER_00: Every minor key has a relative major, every major key has a relative minor.
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  SPEAKER_00: We're in the key of B minor, and the key and the relative major of B minor is D major.
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  SPEAKER_00: So it sounds like a really nice, bright, uplifting moment right there.
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  SPEAKER_00: Odds are you like.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's very fleeting though.
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  SPEAKER_00: What is and then he stays in B minor.
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  SPEAKER_00: When the storm arrives, would you be seen with?
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  SPEAKER_00: I love that G minor.
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  SPEAKER_00: Look how dark that is.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let's talk about his melody for a second.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's not that's just the B minor scale, but then it goes.
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  SPEAKER_00: I love that he likes sings G.
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  SPEAKER_00: Opens up the world for G major or G minor, but they play G minor, very bold move, and in the strings, you you kind of hear the major ninth there, too.
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  SPEAKER_00: So it's in the strings I hear like this.
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  SPEAKER_00: Oh my god, I hear that note.
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  SPEAKER_00: Listen to the strings in that moment.
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  SPEAKER_00: When the storm arrives, would you be seen with me?
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  SPEAKER_00: Oh my god, I love that.
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  SPEAKER_00: Great lyrics.
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  SPEAKER_00: By the merciless eyes I've deceived.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay, now here's the B section.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like here's the pre-chorus, okay?
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  SPEAKER_00: We go to Now we go to G major, not G minor, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: Just like the beginning.
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  SPEAKER_00: Alright, we go.
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  SPEAKER_00: G major right here.
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  SPEAKER_00: By the merciless eyes I've deceived.
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  SPEAKER_00: Here's the pre-chorus.
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  SPEAKER_00: I see angels fall from look at that.
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  SPEAKER_00: Six to the major five chord, the dominant five chord, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: Again, in B minor, it should be F sharp minor.
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  SPEAKER_00: One, two, three, four, five.
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  SPEAKER_00: According to the rules of the scale, it should be F sharp minor, but he breaks that rule.
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  SPEAKER_00: Very common to do that in this case.
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  SPEAKER_00: Dominant five chord.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
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  SPEAKER_00: I've seen angels fall.
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  SPEAKER_00: It adds a lot of tension.
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  SPEAKER_00: Adds that major seventh.
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  SPEAKER_00: I've seen angels fall from and I love that he like falls with the chords.
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  SPEAKER_00: Fall.
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  SPEAKER_00: I've seen angels fall from binding heights.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay, that's B minor and then B minor over A.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then I love this.
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  SPEAKER_00: So this is E major, but it's first inversion.
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  SPEAKER_00: It sounds complicated, but first inversion just means that the third, that's the third of E.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's on the bottom, that's on the bass.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's just first inversion.
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  SPEAKER_00: Second inversion is when the fifth is on the bottom.
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  SPEAKER_00: So it changes the color.
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  SPEAKER_00: So instead of blind dingh, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: It's blind ding.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it fits the sequence of the bass notes.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like they didn't want to go.
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  SPEAKER_00: Right?
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  SPEAKER_00: They wanted So it's like blind, blind, blind.
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  SPEAKER_00: And they wanted that chromaticism too.
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  SPEAKER_00: Chromaticism is when we just go down half steps.
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  SPEAKER_00: Watch.
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  SPEAKER_00: Look at that.
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  SPEAKER_00: They go to G.
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  SPEAKER_00: But you yourself are nothing.
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  SPEAKER_00: So divine.
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  SPEAKER_00: Just repeating it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Back to the five chord.
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  SPEAKER_00: Just next to line.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then we go to the chorus, okay?
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  SPEAKER_00: And these are just the intro chords.
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  SPEAKER_00: The B mud Right?
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  SPEAKER_00: But they hold it a little bit longer.
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  SPEAKER_00: On yourself because no one else here will save you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay, let's take a moment to talk about singing for a second.
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  SPEAKER_00: So, like I said, I'm not a vocal teacher, but all I'm thinking about when I'm going higher is I'm thinking about less.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like you want to push less.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's like counterintuitive.
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  SPEAKER_00: You think you want to push more, but it's like less air you want to push.
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  SPEAKER_00: The higher you go, the less air.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm thinking about like distortion, like save you! I'm not like really pushing it with my chest.
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  SPEAKER_00: Save! Save! Hey, hey, hey! I'm thinking about the sound that I want.
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  SPEAKER_00: Less air, but when I'm really locked in, I'm thinking about the emotion.
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  SPEAKER_00: I think it's important if you want to be a good singer to work on vocalizing, practicing your scales and like strengthening that muscle.
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  SPEAKER_00: But at some point you gotta abandon that a bit and then just focus on the emotion because that's what's really gonna move people.
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  SPEAKER_00: So less air, tone, and emotion.
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  SPEAKER_00: Arm yourself because no one else here will save you.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the way he says save is like pushing it out there, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: Arm yourself because no one else here will save you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Save you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Oh my god, again, that major four chord is just gorgeous there.
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  SPEAKER_00: He's like he's outlining the major third of E and then going to the root of E.
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  SPEAKER_00: Major third, root, save you.
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  SPEAKER_00: And this like E major is like a departure from like B minor, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: So it's like save you.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's like a new world when they play that.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's so beautiful.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'll see you inside.
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  SPEAKER_00: But Chris Cornell ever rising with his melodies, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: Look at that.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's the fifth.
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  SPEAKER_00: Minor six.
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  SPEAKER_00: Major six.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's so colorful when you do that.
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  SPEAKER_00: You make those notes work over the chords.
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  SPEAKER_00: Harm yourself because no one else here will save you.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then B minor skill.
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  SPEAKER_00: Right?
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  SPEAKER_00: The odds will betray you.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I will replace you.
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  SPEAKER_00: And when when I'm going, you I'm thinking less.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay, I'm thinking less and the sound.
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  SPEAKER_00: But again, when I'm really locked in, I'm thinking about the emotion.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I will replace you.
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  SPEAKER_00: You can't deny the prize, it may never fulfill you.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then what's the lyric?
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  SPEAKER_00: It longs to kill you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Are you willing to die?
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  SPEAKER_00: That E major is like such a relief.
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  SPEAKER_00: Stays there, the coldest blood runs through my veins.
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  SPEAKER_00: You know my name.
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  SPEAKER_00: Gorgeous man.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then back to the next verse.
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  SPEAKER_00: And he's just crooning like a phantom, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: I love just Chris Cornell's voice is just incredible.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you come inside, things will not be the same when you return to the night.
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  SPEAKER_00: And if you think you've won, you never saw me change.
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  SPEAKER_00: I love this line.
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  SPEAKER_00: The game that we've all been playing.
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  SPEAKER_00: Another great line.
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  SPEAKER_00: I've seen diamonds cut through harder.
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  SPEAKER_00: Than you yourself, but if you must breathe he does like a cool bluesy thing there.
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  SPEAKER_00: You may meet your man.
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  SPEAKER_00: Back to the chorus.
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  SPEAKER_00: Arm yourself because no one else here will save you.
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  SPEAKER_00: The odds will replace you.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I will replace you.
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  SPEAKER_00: You can't deny the prize.
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  SPEAKER_00: It may never fill you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like it sounds like you're like really pushing, but I I just think of it as like squeezing, you know?
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  SPEAKER_00: It's just like less air.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like focus on the tone a lot as you're singing.
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  SPEAKER_00: When you're practicing singing, especially too.
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  SPEAKER_00: The tone is like so important.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's like what they're hearing, but the emotion is what they're feeling.
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  SPEAKER_00: And pitch will come.
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  SPEAKER_00: Keep practicing scales.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's so much out there on YouTube.
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  SPEAKER_00: I know some great vocal teachers too.
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  SPEAKER_00: Hit me up if you need one.
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  SPEAKER_00: Continuing on, it longs to kill you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Are you willing?
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  SPEAKER_00: Aw man.
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  SPEAKER_00: Look at the way he just climbs down the minor scale.
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  SPEAKER_00: Die.
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  SPEAKER_00: The cold is runs through my veins.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's a silence there, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: As we go to the bridge.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is really cool.
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  SPEAKER_00: They go straight to the sixth chord, the G, but G major, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: Try to hide your hand, forget out of feel.
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  SPEAKER_00: In the background, you got Chris going, forget out of feel.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's that's kind of like hinting at the end of the song when he's like, You know my name.
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  SPEAKER_00: He's like, That's the root note, forget out of feel.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then life is gone with just the spin of the wheel.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then spin on the wheel! Oh my god, I love that.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I'm doing that because it's like kind of muffled and it's in the background.
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  SPEAKER_00: Back to the chorus.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I will replace you.
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  SPEAKER_00: That note right there, the that's so nice.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like he's going.
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  SPEAKER_00: He's singing like these notes over E major.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's like, so we what do we got here?
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  SPEAKER_00: We're like, we're like, we're like crazy.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like the like over E major there, that moment is so nice.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like singing an F sharp, it's like a major ninth, and then he dares to sing a G when the chord has a G sharp in it.
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  SPEAKER_00: So it's like the chord is a major chord, but he's singing the minor third first.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like a quick moment there.
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  SPEAKER_00: Love that.
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  SPEAKER_00: That it's such a beautiful clash.
• 12:42
  SPEAKER_00: It's moments like that, like dissonance, even if it's like subtle, like those little things like really make songs.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then he does a variation here.
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  SPEAKER_00: Are you ready?
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  SPEAKER_00: The cold rung to my face.
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  SPEAKER_01: You know my this is when he goes.
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  SPEAKER_00: So that's a super high note.
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  SPEAKER_00: So when I'm approaching this vocal, I'm thinking less, I'm thinking sound.
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  SPEAKER_00: I know I want the I want that sound, and he's saying, you know my name.
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  SPEAKER_00: So it's like, I'm thinking less.
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  SPEAKER_00: You know my name! You know my name! You know my name.
• 13:38
  SPEAKER_00: Oh my god, like what a banger.
• 13:41
  SPEAKER_00: Such an incredible song.
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  SPEAKER_00: I hope that was helpful talking about the vocals.
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  SPEAKER_00: I don't want to sit here and claim to say that I can sing like this for like an hour or two hours straight, right?
• 13:49
  SPEAKER_00: I just try to get the best vocal performance for every recording that I'm doing or any video that I'm doing.
• 13:54
  SPEAKER_00: I'm not trying to sing like two or three hours straight, you know what I mean?
• 13:56
  SPEAKER_00: But yeah, contact me if you're looking for a vocal instructor, and I can definitely point you in the right direction.
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  SPEAKER_00: I hope this episode was valuable and I really appreciate you guys tuning in to the breakdowns.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'll see you in the next episode.