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Brian Wilson/Carl Wilson Techniques
wabba_treads
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So I've REALLY gotten into the Beach Boys this past year starting with the groundbreaking Pet Sounds album. Brian Wilson has a really unique style/ technique that seems to implements really high soaring falsetto with seamless mixed voice textures like here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gikGLzkKElw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyOYQ8qfFng
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lW0YGC68qP4
Carl Wilson is another vastly underrated singer from the Beach Boys that sort of took lead in the late 60s early 70s. He seemed to have a uncannily similar tone and approach to Brian (I know they're brothers, but still lol) that can mix seamlessly with Brians but with a more developed chest voice and blue-eyed soul feel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qqyx4TW4Ptw
I don't know how Carl managed to have such a light tone for "I Can hear Music" when he was in his chest voice like in "This is the Way" type phrases. Is it the narrowed vowels he did?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uAK0Ws6TwY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkPy18xW1j8
The question is, if I wanted to sing in the style of the Wilson brothers, should I focus on developing my chest voice/heady mix for KTVA?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gikGLzkKElwhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyOYQ8qfFnghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lW0YGC68qP4Carl Wilson is another vastly underrated singer from the Beach Boys that sort of took lead in the late 60s early 70s. He seemed to have a uncannily similar tone and approach to Brian (I know they're brothers, but still lol) that can mix seamlessly with Brians but with a more developed chest voice and blue-eyed soul feel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qqyx4TW4PtwI don't know how Carl managed to have such a light tone for "I Can hear Music" when he was in his chest voice like in "This is the Way" type phrases. Is it the narrowed vowels he did?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uAK0Ws6TwYhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkPy18xW1j8The question is, if I wanted to sing in the style of the Wilson brothers, should I focus on developing my chest voice/heady mix for KTVA?