Chords for Vocal Coach Reacts to Jennifer Hudson performing Hallelujah

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I'm Tara with Tara Simon Studios and today I'm gonna be reacting to Jennifer Hudson.
She is singing Hallelujah and she's amazing already.
I know this is gonna be awesome.
This is the Global Citizen Prize 2019 performance.
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Go crazy for the incredible Jennifer Hudson.
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_ _ [N] Love her.
She's so good.
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[Ab] _ _ [Abm] I always think it's so special when artists sing away [Bb] from the mic.
It's just sort of like a I'm singing to myself moment on stage, private and public.
Really good.
[Eb] _ _ _ _ That's so cool.
_ [Abm] _ She don't [Eb] need a mic.
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[Db] Beautiful.
Now I heard there was a secret chord that David played.
Ooh.
And it pleased the Lord.
You don't really care for [Ab] music, do ya?
[Eb] Mmm.
[Bb] She's so good. _
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_ [Eb] Mmm.
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_ [Ab] Ooh, yes.
[N] Let's talk about that real quick.
Compah.
That right there.
The pah instead of the pose.
You could go to the diphthong really easily there but she didn't.
She went to the pausin.
Hallelujah.
And then she switched from chest and a loo.
Yeah, which was very beautifully done and not easy to do on a higher-end
Chest voice.
Let's listen to that one more time and especially watch her
Composing look at the width that she's doing on the composing instead of just length
It takes width and length both in equal portions
By the way to sing in belt in a relaxed state and still get vibrato out really really good
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[Fm] Switching there to [Ab] head voice.
[Abm] So good great technique [Ab] there
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_ _ [Ab] _ _ _ _ She's so [Db] soulful nice _ [Ab] vocal break not that she needs it but _
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[Cm] _ _ [Ab] _ _ _ [Db] Yes, beautifully frontally placed so [Fm] good
_ [Ab] _ [Db] Switching from that big chest moment to head voice moments now
Ad-libbing
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Beautifully rounded mouth there
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Where's my where's my lighter when I need it
[Fm] _ _ Love the choir in the background too
_ [Db] _ _ _ _ Yes, [Ab] I _ [Eb] _ _ _ _ [Ab] _ _
just [Eb] love that
_ [Ab] Wow
Okay
That's super cool and that's not something [N] you see every day Okay
you have to be a really big confident and yet casual singer when you are
Good enough and loud enough to step away from a mic and look at that space to fill that room
I mean you could hear that all the way from the back seats.
That is special.
That's something that's really
It's a gamble to do it takes a lot of courage to do but she knows her voice.
She knows her
Her projection level so well that she's just like well forget it
I'm just gonna walk away from the mic and I'm just gonna like kind of vamp off of here and I'm just going to
Have a conversation what it does when you go away from a microphone in a big space or a small space
I would even venture to say is it takes that that level of untouchableness away from you and it makes you one of the
Audience again, which creates this sense of like in Spanish.
It's cariño, right?
It's the sense of like just I I feel you I'm with you
I've got you like I'm one with you and it especially for this song.
It creates this unified feeling between
Jennifer and the audience that makes you feel a different way when she does that versus when she's singing in front of the mic
Even though when she's singing from the mic, she's still very reachable and amazing and performing well, but there's difference
There's something more formal about that versus something where she's just stepping away from the mic and it almost seems like it's improv
Maybe it is and she's just she's just singing to you
She's just talking to you off the mic and she did that at the beginning and then she finished it off at the end as
She was walking away and I thought that was super super
Baller of her frankly, she owns the stage.
She's got an amazing voice and she knows it So well
she knows exactly how to manipulate it where she can push it to and how she needs to run off a note if she doesn't
Want to hold it anymore her her placement and her transitioning between chest voice and head voice is amazing
Her frontal forwardness when she does this chest mixy kind of gospel-y sound is just is just wonderful
There's so much technique in here to talk about and I just love how no matter what genre of music Jennifer sings
She is she stays true to the tonality of who she is
Which has got those she's got those gospel roots just deeply embedded into her sounds into the way
She produces her vowels into her vibrato into her runs and her slides and all of that
It's [F] just it's just wonderful and I love that about her
You know that it's Jennifer Hudson the first three [Am] seconds that you hear that voice and that's exactly what you should hear [F] when listening to
Someone like her or any other recording or sing you want to know up that's them right when it happens
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Thank you so much for watching guys.
I love [F] you
I'm proud of you and I'll see you in the next one _ _ _
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