Down With The Sickness - David Draiman Isolated Vocal Analysis - Disturbed - Singing & Production

[@octaviosander8898]

I thought david's vocals were caused by genetics, but now I see he is incredibly talented.

[@LiamBriggs18]

I gotta be honest, I was getting a little tired of this song, but your analysis breathed a fresh new perspective into this song for me, particularly that "oh wa-a-a-a-ah" part at the start.

[@chrisliepe]

Nice ;)

[@ericnjoka5362]

You really ain't down with disturbed if you aren't down with the sickness!

[@sugameltpastriescoffee7186]

David and the rest of the band just sound like one single Inseparable unit, very few bands can achieve that, and his command of his voice is unbelievable

[@sinbin_36]

This is an incredible analysis of David. It’s unreal how complex his voice is. David, Ben Burnley, Sully Erna, Adam Gontier, Pete Loeffler, Ivan Moody, all voices on a whole other level.

[@nemesyssss]

I've read somewhere that the "mom abusing the child" part is a metaphor and the "mom" is our society which is like a mother who's abusing her kids (us). Could be wrong but I wanted to point that out for you, still makes me sad everytime I hear this part, sounds so real.

[@chrisliepe]

Thank you for this insight. I actually hope its symbolic and not literal!

[@jonnyink762]

You are correct. David Draiman stated in an interview YEARS ago that it wasn't about child abuse. It's an resplendent depiction of culture in general. The mother referenced is "mother culture", and this song is meant to empower those who are "oppressed" and "awaken the demon" inside.

[@ajagoff]

Lol "sounds so real" 🤣

[@flaviobrahja5363]

Yeah it is. The abussive mom is mentioned in the song "A welcome burden" aswell

[@st.marcin7934]

I think the way you talk about, doing analysis and show how it should sound with your own voice its pretty brilliant ! Keep up a good work ! :D

[@chrisliepe]

Glad you enjoy it!

[@alexhornbeck]

The mother part is about “Mother Culture”, as opposed to Mother Nature, and how it treats its sick/disturbed/unconventional human beings, according to David himself :) I love your videos so much, thank you for helping me evolve 🙏🏼

[@monikavarro2020]

Oh Jesus! His voice sounds like heaven! I LOVE David Draiman's voice!!! 🥰

[@anels9]

Chris this was awesome! I always knew David’s voice was unique but your analysis gives me more appreciation for his voice and vocal range. Excellent job on this!

[@HaydnVitera]

Yes! Been on a serious Disturbed kick the past couple of weeks so this is perfect timing! You’re amazing dude. Thank you for all your knowledge and passion. Your course is amazing!

[@chrisliepe]

Thank you for watching and engaging!

[@chincevideos923]

this idea of teaching us while you are still learning the technique is genius - it really makes a big difference in putting yourself down to our level. thanks chris!

[@EDog]

I love them all but this is one of my favorite Vocal Analysis' that you have done. I also feel you sound the most like this one. You have taught me so much over the last few months since I discovered your channel and lessons. I never though I could sing ... now I have hope. THANK YOU!!!!!

[@MrLuigiFercotti]

Those opening vocalizations are so primeval. And the rhythmic scat of the vocal is spot on.

[@monikavarro2020]

David Draiman's voice sounds so nice! 🥰 His brother Ben also has a super amazing voice!

[@DuchDude]

In a recent interview david said that he can't quite do what he did in the new albums (there is a comparison to the vocalist of the rolling stones but that's beside the poiny) i would love to see you make a reaction and analyses to the new material like 'The Vengful One' or 'Are You Ready' and try to explain the phenomenon of voice degradation over the years and how he deals with it vocals-wise

[@northernninety7]

He also has acid reflux which has caused him to go through throat surgeries.

[@brunavasconcelos8069]

He's one of my favorite singers!

[@arielstruth]

I’m SO “glad/happy” you left in the last, and maybe best part of the song!

[@cojack1287]

I've been waiting for this.... my favorite vocal coach, analyzing one of my favorite songs. Keep doing what you do Chris!

[@chrisliepe]

I'm not slowing down any time soon! Thanks for watching!

[@soundworldmx]

A five finger deathpunch breakdown would be awesome 🙌

[@klyavits]

Hello from Kazakhstan, very cool videos, keep it up)

[@TheBigLilRob]

Fantastic video!! These videos have made such a dramatic improvement on my screaming to the point where I'm finally super confident in it. Which has never happened. Thank you!!!

[@chrisliepe]

I'm so glad!

[@JohnnyRawks]

I'm currently working through this song. Actually, revisiting it. Thanks for the excellent break down.

[@ShadowErazer258]

Hey there Chris. I see you take isolated vocals for David draiman Disturbed. You have my respect for this. I have three favourite songs of it : Decadence , Sons of plunder and Deify. I hope that you will take isolated vocals for those songs. See ya.

[@ChrisM541]

Great video. I love this song! David has a very unique dynamic approach with his vocals. Of course, while his vocal in this track is absolutely stunning - the range of tone, grit, feel, there is that always-present elephant in this room, and that's the level of post processing/engineering that's been applied to this track. What's obvious is that Melodyne has been used extensively, for both it's pitch and phrasing manipulation abilities. Of course, standard approaches would also have been applied - the track wasn't completed in one take - there is the usual comping here, and layering of two vocals i.e. the end of the original vocal where "will you give in to me" starts (particularly the hi take). It would be VERY interesting look at the pitching of this track to see just by how much it has been 'snapped to the line' (a Melodyne analysis, or Autotune's pitch analysis would show that). The 'rapid' section after 13:03 is a result of Melodyne's powerful phrasing editing ability - each word has been' literally' shortened, and time-snapped, so that the vocal rhythm is exaggerated to the benefit of the music - and it's very easy to do that in this software. I've been using it professionally for some years. I'd always be very careful with using anything other than a 'true' live vocal performance to demonstrate to folks interested in singing - almost anything in the last 20 years (particularly nowadays, almost without exception) will have been very heavily processed - excessive pitch and phrasing correction, etc will all lead to a 'sound' literally unobtainable by any human. The problem is, is that finding a 'truly' live take is almost impossible with todays so-called live recordings. Antares Autotune, when used live, is extremely easy to spot, and of course, we're always back to square #1 with the almost certainty of 'post processing'. Today's technology is fantastic but its rapidly increasing abuse is utterly astonishing. The real crime is that young folks have been, and are being, indoctrinated to accept this lie as the default truth.

[@monikavarro2020]

I'm watching this early in the morning! 😃🖐 David Draiman is my favourite singer of all time! I can't get enough of his voice! I've tried to emulate the singing with compression but it doesn't come easily for me. 😅

[@chrisliepe]

Ya, it's a tricky placement! Different than others in the genre for sure!

[@monikavarro2020]

@@chrisliepe When I tried to do it I lost my voice for an entire month singing this very song and was watching your voice recovery videos. 😅 I haven't mastered the technique.

[@mchowdon]

Love this breakdown, best video on his voice. I'm super amateur at singing but your video is inspiring

[@TemperedLion]

My mind was blown when I first heard this song. That intro is so iconic. David took it to the next level on these recordings!

[@Grant_Olsen]

One of my all time favorite vocal performances. Nice breakdown!

[@chrisliepe]

Thank you!

[@powerstation0872]

Lmao when you were practicing the beginning scream, for a sec you sounded like Super Mario screaming 😂 One of my favorite things about your way of teaching is emphasizing how important it is to make ridiculous sounds in order to learn how to make sounds that sound good.

[@tonymoore6622]

Thank you so much for this Chris! Amazing!

[@mikebrando4053]

Thank you Chris for this Analysis, much cool and appreciated!

[@KillerJoeXD]

I remember listening to Disturbed as a teenager and pulling the headphones out of the CD player just enough to split the stereo track on the song "prayer" and found out there was a whole clean singing track playing along with the "grit" track that you could hear the most. It worked out for better and worse for David because the album was amazing, but he was never going to be able to replicate it live, however he does a pretty good job of switching between the 2. I will say if you watch live versions now of the harder stuff it feels like he struggles with it at times and "slurs" quite a bit to mask it

[@PSZEMKI]

I love the moment when Draiman's mother walks into the studio and beats the shit out of him

[@mikejosephofficial2639]

Another awesome video Chris xxx👍👍🇦🇺🇦🇺👌👌

[@jamiegunn]

Great dynamic video in all sorts of ways of using your voice expressively.

[@AlphaDad]

Yes yes yes!! More David!!

[@luigirinaldi4744]

Amazing, you're always the best in what you do 🤘👍

[@dookhynabeelah4897]

Woowww...thank you very much...have been waiting for that one...thanks 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

[@atrax_le_chilihead]

Thanks now with your vocal analysis, im now able to do the scream at the begening

[@ApexofWar_]

OOOHH AHHH AHHH AHHH AHHH...don't think it's supposed to tickle. Maybe one day I'll figure out how to do it right.

[@chrisliepe]

No, I have a video about tickles! :) I'll help you dial it in!

[@HaydenStefano]

As soon as I heard that ahahah part broken down and I heard that uptick at the end. Total game changer! It finally clicked right in my throat! Thank you for sharing this. I’m gonna make karaoke night my betch 🤣🤣 (Also working on a project so this was super helpful haha)

[@murilooliveira6455]

OH WAH AH AH AH

[@LexaTerrestrialx]

oh wow so I am actually screaming properly... starting out as a whisper I do it really softly and add them as vocal accents in some of my tracks... and it's like a yelling whisper that's placed in my face. Haven't done it too much louder than that though. But this is very helpful!

[@melaok]

Awesome!!!! Please do voices some day!!!! Thanks for the content :)

[@LexaTerrestrialx]

I had a BLAST! ... seriously... And it'll help with what I'm adding to my new music as well. Thank you! 👽🤘

[@BitWrecker]

This was fantastic and you have a sick voice

[@chrisliepe]

Thank you Kenneth!

[@joshua.merrill]

Hearing how rhythmically David is singing reminds me of how Michael Jackson sings. Pretty cool

[@mosquedadavid]

Keep these vids coming Chris! 🤘🏼

[@sodamnboredv3460]

When chris was doing the ow ah a a a , all i could think about was mario falling owAaAaAa

[@AmishMutantPower]

Amazing Chris!!! Your videos are awesome!!! 💪💪💪💪💪

[@nicolascage5323]

o wah ah ah ah

[@antonsidelnikov]

Just got yelled at at 1 am laying in my bed. But I like it. OHHH AH AH AH AH!

[@monikavarro2020]

My neighbours thought some weird bird escaped when you were doing the intro part! 🤣🤣🤣 I love this song!!!

[@monikavarro2020]

Chris, your singing is really waking me up! 🤣

[@chrisliepe]

Oh good :)

[@RSVOCALWORKS]

Cool analysis my colleague! 🙂

[@alessandroolding969]

Hey Chris, I guess you're already full of requests, but I'd really like you to analyze Sebastian Bach and Patrick Stump. You're great, keep going!

[@chrisliepe]

I've done Patrick Stump! kzbin.info/www/bejne/q6XXqXatib-iY8U Sebastian Bach is on the list :)

[@alessandroolding969]

@@chrisliepe Oh, I missed that one, thank you so much

[@hammerfalldigger07]

love your videos they are so helpful! could you do a breakdown of sebastian bach and some of his craziest notes from the 80s?

[@willharmonicawilde]

Hi Chris, should I be feeling ANY kind of 'heat' in the back of my throat when doing the 'Oo' (false chord) part of the Oowah-ah-ah-ah?

[@wildefirecontent191]

I remember hearing in an interview from another musician who knew David and said the high “ah ah ah ah” was actually done on an in inhale. Idk why but it’s much easier to do this way.

[@OctavianGray]

The shouted voice is not produced by the chest voice but rather by the compressed mixed voice. It is a change of register, but the sung voice must not be used. You have to imagine them as if they were sounds on notes in reality, not screams.

[@han36solo]

Awesome stuff Chris!

[@obi-kenkenobi4346]

Would LOVE to see you do something on Fit for a King. Engraved is one of the most incredible songs I’ve ever heard. I truly take the message to heart, and I think Kirby is an incredible artist. Vocally and lyrically

[@johnmcminn9455]

Haha! Right on, the lowered dynamic range leaning into the mic, i can't watch this though. The piece on DIO Holy Diver was so great, i'm going to watch that again !

[@LotharLive]

Very high quality analysis! Loved it! I don't suppose anyone knows the high pitch of the Owahaha? Trying to practice that at the moment

[@LotharLive]

I suspect it's a D#5 but not sure

[@usosbrutalino7646]

David and chester's voice have similar grits who agrees?👇

[@juego414]

Wow you the master ❤

[@brendanfisher1005]

Were all gonna pretend this dude isn't David Draimans little brother?

[@chrisliepe]

haha... I might be related... probably not

[@marianoazcurra]

Hi Chris! Thanks for your content. I were looking for a video about how to keep safe your voice in a loud noise environment as a party and I could not found it ¿can you help me?

[@monikavarro2020]

I would love to see you doing a cover of this song with the swear words included! 😄 I remember practicing this song for karaoke!! I love how I can let out my anger in the middle part! 😅

[@descendingdarkangel]

Ty. These tutorials are helpful or if they're hard to do they're fun to watch. I legit want to see him try christina auguleria or lady gaga or something.

[@baltesers]

You really got this one down very closely!

[@deinestimmerockt-OL]

Dear Chris, thanks for sending me here after my question on Till Lindemann! Listening to the bridge without the instrumental was rough to the point where it completely took me out of my day and left me emotionally drained. Lindemann does this too for me in Songs like "Puppe". I have to skip that song unless i'm prepared to spend a couple of minutes recovering. The idea of sharing my feelings on a recording for theoretically anyone to hear is immensely scary. How do I go about ilearning how to emote more? Again, thank you for this experience.

[@chrisliepe]

I need to do a video on Till

[@chrisliepe]

I’ve done a few videos on emoting. Check out my video on how to sing better instantly :)

[@SilverBack2169]

I don't know if you'll ever see this, but if you do- could you do an isolated analysis on Revolution Smile's Bonethrower? The yells are just really unique to me-

[@chrisliepe]

I’ll check this out! Not familiar with this.

[@SilverBack2169]

@@chrisliepe thanks! They're not a very well known band, which is why I find it hard to get tips on how to properly sing this song 😅

[@laineyb7708]

Very fascinating and fun.

[@zacharysmithingell5460]

Hey Chris, could you do a breakdown of the late great Matt Holt of Nothingface? I don't know what track would be good because they're all uhhhh pretty explicit. But yeah, talk about monstrous, disastrous scream that would make a demon weep. Besides that, it's unique - I can't think of anyone else that sounds like he did.

[@CagedGod]

Could you analyze Terry Kath of chicago's vocals? Make me Smile is a good example of his prowess.

[@Rojomanzana438]

2:03 Return to monke

[@moonlampje79]

Could you do the curse, divide and legion of monsters, pretty pleaaaase?

[@callyatheoriginal]

Really unique performance style! Nice unpacking by you Chris! I would kindly ask you to do Benjamin Kowalevicz from Billy Talent! Greets from Germany

[@LexaTerrestrialx]

that triple glottal stop in head voice is a lot easier to do when you have your stomach go in and out really fast kinda like in that one video you had...

[@psychlyeslg]

The perfectly cut "No mommy" made me chuckle.

[@monikavarro2020]

The demon...👹👹👹 in MEEEEE!!!! 😀😂

[@halorenegade9495]

I wanna try and record some songs, but i am completely new to this. My question is what program do you use to get these isolated layers? And where do you get these songs from? Is it just the original song placed in the program and the program processes the different layers so that you can switch them on and off?

[@chrisliepe]

I just search for them and find them on KZbin :)

[@russellradwanski5771]

I'm curious what sort of software this is and that you might recommend for enthusiasts

[@chrisliepe]

Logic or Pro Tools are both amazing!

[@russellradwanski5771]

@@chrisliepe thank you for the advise!

[@stevedevore875]

It’s way easier to do this weird sound at the beginning by sucking in air as opposed to blowing out. Just try it… 😊

[@stevedevore875]

Actually all of those sounds

[@AaronToro]

Would love to see a breakdown of ZP Theart doing Operation Ground and Pound - Dragonforce. Just some pure power metal highs

[@seangaskinmusic2300]

🔥🔥🔥hell yeah !

[@yllekjs76]

It sounds like there's a chorus on the chorus vocals

[@donnixofficial6306]

Can you do 'I don't love you' by MCR

[@xtimin]

The funny thing is that rythmic element is almost like a musical theatre singing

[@vikmaknae]

love your insights but this guys(the best singers) are singing on emotion. I've always sing the best when I am drunk cause my emotions are activated if that makes any sense haha

[@myronmosley2167]

Your staccato is a little sloppy but very good analysis. I thought I was the only one that heard his vocals like this, but I've never heard the isolated vocals.

[@chrisliepe]

Ya that "mixed voice" staccato IS HARD... I find I can do staccato really well in certain settings, but I'm still dialing this one in for sure!

[@myronmosley2167]

@@chrisliepe you'll get it. You're a great vocalist. I love the way you break everything down barney style for all of us plebs to understand.

[@Ronin42069]

zoom lessons available?

[@jonrosuanims827]

does it require a great range of voice?

[@chrisliepe]

No, just a good awareness is what your voice can do and how to experiment with it ! :)

[@senseiofsong]

This song has it all. Monkey sounds, screams, tribal drums, downturned geetars, scary lyrics. Did I mention monkey sounds? Awh! Awh!

[@MALLPRETZEL]

Do Brendan Yates from Turnstile

[@CraigBurnat]

You sure he isn’t inhaling on the ahh ahh ahh ahh?

[@baltesers]

Please do Michael Starr's vocals!

[@arbiterargiros]

vildhjarta -vagabond please

[@monikavarro2020]

Why are the 'bad' words edited out? Can't KZbin handle a few swear words?? 😩

[@chrisliepe]

Most of the time and was the case with this track, when I find the isolated vocals, they are the radio edit/clean versions because they are lifted from the video game guitar hero.

[@monikavarro2020]

@@chrisliepe That's too bad! I prefer the album version better! I don't see why they edit it out. We're all over 18! 😃