How to Sing like Brian Johnson from AC/DC

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Brian Johnson is actually English with a geordie accent, not Scottish. Apologies for the mistake 😊
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@hello_world777 Жыл бұрын

Wow - that is so great! I found it to be a mix between Axl Rose and Johnson. You should do a setlist with all ACDC songs - I'd listen to it!

@Geek_Chorus 9 ай бұрын

Step 1-Force your intestines out through your nose.... Actually Brian Johnson has one of the coolest voices in rock. His singing is what turned me onto AC/DC when I first heard "Who Made Who" when I got that album as a gift when I was 12. It blew me away! Also met him and the guy is pure class 100%

@RandomKissFan0815 26 күн бұрын

He is just a normal guy like you and me

@daveroller8663 Жыл бұрын

Seriously that was pretty damn good. I’ve always tried to figure out how he and other singers like the singer for Jackyl sing like that. Great job man!!

@Thewilko1234 Жыл бұрын

He’s English btw he’s from a town called Dunston In Gateshead,Newcastle Upon Tyne

@SterlingRJackson Жыл бұрын

Mistakes have been made. His accent is pretty thick.

@Thewilko1234 Жыл бұрын

@@SterlingRJackson indeed it’s a common mistake either Welsh or Scottish people think

@bobcatstillwell4844 Жыл бұрын

🤘😎🤘 You killed it! Awesome job!

@VoxRox Жыл бұрын

10:18 This is so key. You must learn to use less air. And the higher you go, the less air you use. I could sing high with pretty good stamina, but I was still prone to blowing out my voice. Almost four years ago, I showed a video of me singing a 'fair' attempt at Roxanne by The Police to a hard rock and metal guy and he told me about using less air. It took me some time to figure it out, but it was so helpful for both reliability in hitting higher notes in mixed voice, and also to protect my voice. Now I can sing tough songs for literally hours at a stretch and not blow a gasket.

@electricorchard1428 20 күн бұрын

Don't agree with this, it's always been more air less squeeze- to yes keep the volume low, but you don't do that by closing off. It is a case of pressure and flow, you want tons of pressure always so you can have flow when you need it for distortion.

@VoxRox 18 күн бұрын

@@electricorchard1428 I dunno, man. My personal experience is that more air=less control and prone to blowing out the voice, less air=control and stamina. In my experience, more air is the wrong way to go.

@electricorchard1428 18 күн бұрын

@@VoxRox Which is completley the opposite of most classically trained musicians. You are blowing your voice out because you are too constricted and getting any sort of volume like that will blow out your voice. If you relax and push more air, it will give you no strain. Your experience is wrong.

@VoxRox 18 күн бұрын

@@electricorchard1428 You wanna bet? I don't blow my voice out and I can sing most people under the table any day of the week. You wanna try me? Classical training won't help you sing Rock and Roll, my friend.

@VoxRox 18 күн бұрын

More air and a relaxed technique may get you falsetto notes, or singing like a classically trained counter tenor, but that is not at all what drives rock vocal styles.

@Camhill182 Ай бұрын

You should do Joe Elliott of Def Leppard!

@exkalibur25ca Жыл бұрын

That was incredible 😍

@Thomas-ig3kn Жыл бұрын

Awesome video brother 👊🏻👊🏻👊🏻

@11KT11 Жыл бұрын

That’s was fricken awesome!

@mathieurivest2348 Жыл бұрын

nice, better than I expected !

@darrinjoy4893 Жыл бұрын

No easy feat but you crushed it!!! My wife approves as well😉

@TD_t_dickens Жыл бұрын

Great singing.

@garethbarry3825 2 ай бұрын

Holy freakin hell- that was INCREDIBLE

@Owen_plays_music1049 Жыл бұрын

6:02 Yes it's a half step down. They play in Eb since 2008 :)

@557brunof4 11 ай бұрын

but the isolated track of brian singing thunderstruck is from donington 1991

@r7m 10 ай бұрын

Bb*

@aireLIONpk Ай бұрын

BIG BIG BIG SHAPPO for u making this video, with all of what it takes !

@Okie-Tom 2 ай бұрын

Not bad at all! His voice is very unique for sure!

@carlyp9460 Жыл бұрын

look who popped up on my feed. happy to see your face :)

@SterlingRJackson Жыл бұрын

Now you can finally sing like Brian Johnson like you’ve always said you wanted to.

@mathewverdon9250 8 ай бұрын

Hi bud, I really appreciate your videos and was hoping you might look at ACDC back in black vocal analysis. I'm trying to learn this and find myself going from high compression head voice and chest voice. It's either one or the other and I think it's just not consistent. I find head voice too high at times and a high Chest voice to low. Any help with an exercise would be great. Many thanks and keep up the great work.

@prp2 Жыл бұрын

😂 Just came across your channel but you're fuckin hilarious, man, and... nicely done!

@SterlingRJackson Жыл бұрын

Ha that’s very kind 😊

@aimr75 Жыл бұрын

@Sterling R Jackson great job breaking down Brian’s singing. Would be great if you could do something similar with Kurt Cobain

@KyOte13 Жыл бұрын

please … please do Bon Scott. The man was a total master

@Thedarkestant 23 күн бұрын

Bon Scott is a tenor... Waaaaay harder for a baritone to sing in chest voice.

@scottedwards3463 11 ай бұрын

Omg what an amazing educational video. Do you do lessons?

@SterlingRJackson 11 ай бұрын

Yes. I’ve been teaching for about 12 years. You can book lessons directly through my website “sterlingrjackson.com” 😊

@XavierRichard76 2 ай бұрын

Great video! Thanks for the tips. I use to sing in a AC/DC tribute band for years now and I can sing Bon Scott’s stuff easily, my voice match perfectly but when it comes to Brian, things get harder. I noticed that convincing myself I have a low pitch voice (it’s not the case), I can barely imitate Brian’s voice but it’s still far from the original. By the way, Bon Scott’s area is my favorite.😉 Thanks, Keep on the good work!

@stebolian Жыл бұрын

Nice Job. I get this but my mix isn't accessible everyday for some reason. Especially after singing normal pub songs. This gets lost somewhere. But other times easy. However my mix also is chesty which isn't correct. How do you make it exist up higher as that would last longer as theres less weight etc?? Advice?

@SterlingRJackson Жыл бұрын

Not easily answered in a comment but you need to find a sound that allows you to blend back and forth not a sound that builds too much tension.

@rockyourworld5374 5 ай бұрын

I have been working on Brians for a while now. One thing i notice is: It is head voice, pressing your chest in the higher notes helps distort the sound. But in you shook me all night long and others in similar tune. You can't focus on the heighth of the notes. Rather you have to stay in a head mainly, chest mix. The high notes come from the nose whilst lower growl is chest voice. It is like tibeten throat screams. There are two distinct sounds about an octive apart. Back in Black and the like are very tricky because it would be easy clean, However with distortion the vocal tone gets bent into minor keys sounds. And the distortion can make the sound go flat. Screaming would work but it mucks up brian sound to much.

@SterlingRJackson 5 ай бұрын

Very true here. There are healthy and not so healthy things happening in the recordings. He distortion is happening often times from multiple places and it makes for a really interesting and complex sound. When he sings live he only has his high range for about two to three songs and then starts staying lower.

@siralleycat9141 Жыл бұрын

Sounds like Brian is using a chorus on his voice or possibly a light flanger in addition to the delay. It all makes him sound much fuller.

@rocknroll1973 Ай бұрын

He doesnt. All shows use a bit of reverb to help the vocals standout and sit in with the mix.

@siralleycat9141 Ай бұрын

@@rocknroll1973 Reverb can only be heard from the first few rows of the audience. It can serve to bury the vocals in the mix if overused. Singers usually like it in the monitors to take the strain off their voice, but at FOH, delay is king, and sometimes other effects. As a matter of fact, after hearing the isolated track again, you can clearly hear the chorus/flanger and the delay on his voice. You probably won't be able to convince me otherwise.

@rocknroll1973 Ай бұрын

@@siralleycat9141 it's not to hear the reverb. It's for it to mix in and standout. They don't put a lot kf reverb on it. But only a little bit. Helps the vocals sound full. Listen to vocals with reverb vs without in a live setting

@peterbernhard7415 Жыл бұрын

Great voice. I' m not gonna link to any own attempts, as singing Thunderstruck means competition if not "war". Just checked "about" and was struck by the name of the band "vagus nerve". What region of the belly, anatomically, of of the chest does refer to, if to any muscle at all. Because it's brains with Brian, too. Just checked that Jackson did more than 200 videos - this confirms my belief that it just takes a whole lot of practice. Like 2 hours of choir each week - not enough. Refering to "nerve" and its ending in the head and not even in the vocal chords: if you really have - broken German: - ear worms you sing along it might even be your inner voice training the frequencies that do not become lost but come out much more "trained". Sure you got to know the melody by heart (you can learn by heart by first time listening if it's standard enough to you, in my opinion) before you start singing. To sum up: it's practice. And not losing your very good physical state you are hopefully thankfully so to say in. I'd be interested in know if the singer does any muscle training, belly muscles whatever. Frankly, if he/you do/does any muscle training - any muscle would do, such is my interest. In other words my guess is that it's not restricted to vocal chords, the muscle work in it. ... yes, I do. All the same. Linking to my pupil's attempts ("who want to "read more""...): kzfaq.info/get/bejne/pa-VktRyqtmpqJ8.html I did after this lesson, singing along Johnson, hope he never minds. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ftpinpOFl9mnZH0.html I did earlier this year. Indeed, I should not underrate Jackson's advice, as generally speaking he addressed what turned out my problem too. "Sustainability". One funny thing that now crosses my mind is that trying to be competitive by sustaining a high note (in the first version I was trying to compensate by showing off my deep natural range - "ridiculous") will take away from the sustainability of singing Thunderstruck in one take. You got to train hard. Second, Jackson tells about bad and better days - I thought this is supreme: the general physical fitness. After this video I tend to think that in fact on an unfit day I may compensate the state I am in by knowing some technique, and why not take it from Johnson. Thank you!

@deschlu Жыл бұрын

Ivan gac is the best ACDC cover singer ... he have it all

@ramirohernandez2380 Жыл бұрын

Eso estubo bien solo faltaron los agudos osea lo grave si no me equivoco but sounds good

@benmcgarry9563 Ай бұрын

A reporter once asked Brian Johnson in the 80s how he got his voice, he said "A pack of cigarettes and a bottle of whiskey a day."

@MichaelLynch1 2 ай бұрын

I've seen AC/DC Many many times, 10 on Back in Black tour in 1980 and was down front on half of those, see him up close in his early on fire vocal say, you surprised Me, that was excellent without straining too much , you actually sang 👌 very very clean and pitch was perfect 👌

@johnmcminn9455 Жыл бұрын

I was under the impression singing upper register mix with distortion will ruin the smoothness in the break area A4 B4 C5

@SterlingRJackson Жыл бұрын

Hi John. You seem to have received a lot of very specific information from one or a group of select folks and in my opinion it’s not necessarily correct. I’ve sung a lot of songs on my channel that disprove what you’re mentioning. There is no specific set of concrete rules to any of this. Just experiment and learn. Have fun with it. You’ll hit walls. Just listen to others than can go past those walls and study what they’re doing.

@johnmcminn9455 Жыл бұрын

@@SterlingRJacksonthanks for a response good advice, you really nailed the sound in your video. I did see an Ac/dC tribute band " Stiff upper lip" where the lead singer was joking he could actually "sing" normally with out distortion, in his other band . I am really amazed by that kind of talent where you know how to " not hurt yourself" some of the people who had trouble are actual touring musicians who have had to sing when they were sick or really needed a break.like Cornell, Plant, Perry, and others I like what you said, about the vocal cords swelling and positioning themselves with practice and performance. An interesting thing about singing is why musicianship is taught with sol-fedge, sight singing( do re me) is because the instrument voice, you can feel where G4 A4 C5 and B4 are much unlike pressing a button or plucking a string .

@dmytrotarasov9477 8 ай бұрын

Man, please learn about flase chords and extreme vocal technique.

@infodotwtf Жыл бұрын

Can you do a How to Sing Like Rod Stewart? 😮 Stay With Me...

@roythewho 10 ай бұрын

Yes please!

@kelevmiara665 11 ай бұрын

I can sing it with the high voice but zero distortion...

@jimijames27 10 ай бұрын

14:20 John C Riley?

@SterlingRJackson 10 ай бұрын

Haha. Does sound a bit like that.

@robertbodoh2519 11 ай бұрын

That was good man. I sound like michael Jackson singing AC/DC. BAHAHAHA

@ramirohernandez2380 Жыл бұрын

Yes because every voice is Unique but Johnson's and scott so similar

@JagadguruSvamiVegananda Жыл бұрын

I switched-away from the video before you began your imitation and had no idea that it was YOU, and not Brian!

@fin78_ 8 ай бұрын

Brian has a geordie accent not scottish.

@john2charles 2 ай бұрын

hes not Scottish, He's from Newcastle and has a Geordie accent

@SterlingRJackson 2 ай бұрын

Yep. Wrote that in the description.

@laurenceblackadder3103 2 ай бұрын

It a Geordie accent not Scottish, big difference

@SterlingRJackson 2 ай бұрын

Yes indeed. Made a mistake. Tried to fix it by writing it in the description. 😊

@laurenceblackadder3103 2 ай бұрын

@@SterlingRJackson No worries wouldn’t matter to anyone else the world but us England and Scottish have so many regional accents it would blow your mind

@laurenceblackadder3103 15 күн бұрын

@@SterlingRJackson No worries brother the number of accents in this part of world is unbelievable

@Jayteaseepiirturi 28 күн бұрын

I actually pulled this fucking song off today. High dominant is just fucking deadly! I'm probably not gonna do it again. It's just terrible.

@gregortega6547 11 ай бұрын

You'll never get it! All hiding behind a tower of effects NO scratchiness because you don't sing with tension too worried about "ruining" your voice. Rock and roll singers don't give an F about saving their voices they leave it all on stage. If you want to sing forever go sing pop :)

@SterlingRJackson 10 ай бұрын

Exactly Greg. I should give up Everything. I’m an absolute dick. Shame on me for helping others.

@gregortega6547 10 ай бұрын

@@SterlingRJackson you shouldn't give up and you're not a dick and it's great that you're trying to help people really you have some great videos with good info. But with many rock and roll singers just be honest with it and say look if you're going to sing and sound like them you're going to possibly damage your voice. All of those great rock and roll singers have had vocal chord surgery and that's ok.