NIRVANA Studio Multitracks - Territorial Pissings (Listening Session & Analysis) Kurt Cobain
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This song is highest on my list when it comes to crazy Kurt vocals. He goes SO off the rails towards the end and I just love how much contrast there is between the verses and the choruses.
In this song we have one of the best demonstrations of WHY Kurt's voice resonated so well with people. This song came out when the mainstream Rock music spotlight was focused on the likes of Bon Jovi and other 'excellent' vocalists. Then you have Nirvana come in and make the "Hey, we are REAL, and we're just like YOU". Kurt's voice embodies reality, vulnerability and a relatability!
We get to hear the nuances in all of the band's performances in new ways with these multitracks. You don't realize how raw Kurt's singing really is until you hear tracks like this in isolation! And WOW... the "live in studio" vibe on this track is really something special to behold!
Kurt and Nirvana's whole thing was an "F you" to perfection and expectation and was the beauty of the Grunge movement. I'd love to see it more often in modern acts.
Loathe is the first band that comes to mind, with current bands.
And before "grunge," it was the beauty of the punk movement.
"grunge"
"Did someone request Free Bird?" 🖕 - Kurt Cobain
@@madhatter8508 And part of what made thrash metal. 🖕- Cliff Burton
Kurt's voice still gives me chills. The man embodied rock music.
Kurt plugged directly into the soundboard on this one literally. And into all of our sarcasm, anger, fun, energy, and empathy at the same time. Just because you're paranoid, don't mean they're not after you.
Kurt's voice was (still is) so powerful! It inspired me to sing that way when I was a teenager. But today I can't do this anymore... not without becoming voiceless for a week.
I can teach you how to do it without losing your voice! Try this: www.mymusicalvoice.com/p/the-aggressive-vocalist-s-master-plan-of-attack
I am not in the best place in many ways, some I am but I choose to not make it far worse by listening to this music, at times it has helped but you just end up being negative like him if you can’t help being affected by it at a certain stage, and you feel more alienated like he did, and I don’t want that again. The most positive music and changes are yet to come I think.
I think it partly helped him sing like that regularly by talking quietly, like he did in interviews, and having songs and verses where he sings a lot more quiet.
And taking long breaks or regular breaks so he didn’t wreck his voice.
I like to think of Kurt's screaming technique as crying baby style. Uncontrolled, untethered, and done with pure purpose.
wow, i dig that take.
Yeah I agree, like a child throwing a tantrum, but in the best possible way.
Except Kurt was able to scream on pitch
@@TestMeatDollSteak with signature nasal resonance
@@TestMeatDollSteak nice name btw. a perfect example
The intro vocal is actually Krist, not Kurt. Great video as always!
Thanks for that!
I originally thought it was Dave. But can tell clearly now its Krist lol
Yep he would usually do it live, see the live in mtv studios in 92 for instance.
@@Daxman360 I bet Dave could do a great Krist impression though
@@brandonhabermas9590 deffo 🙈🙈🙈
If you can get your hands Hairspray Queen with all the tracks separated thatd be so cool. His voice goes so high throughout the verses and need to hear just the vocal track. Itd be so cool
This track analysis is a perfect example of how good of a job Butch Vig did with the sound mixing. How do you even make this distorted guitar riff sound so clean lol
RIGHT
@@georgecain123 thanks for rectifying !
Using a seymour duncan JB helps getting that clean distortion
Great video. Really brought out what I admire about Kurt Cobain. He didn't follow trends, and he was confident in his sound, and what resonated with his heart when it came to creating music
At my very first gig, with my very first band in 1993, we finished our show with a cover of this beast! It was in a village hall and lads out of the crowd had been around the back and found a load of old panto props. We had nutters in wigs and even two lads in a panto horse costume hammering around the stage. Madness. Great times!
Nirvana songs and Kurt's personality is a constant fight between opposites I believe. These songs have soft vs. heavy guitar parts, soft legato singing vs. aggressive percussive phrasing, sweet folk chords with a clashing 4th added vs. tritone and semitone metal chord progressions all in one song. That adds to the dynamics and excitement. His attitude both sharpens the corners but his melodies also make you flow around these sharp edges. The listening experience is like watching a fair sports game, both parties fight relentlessly and there is a tie in the end.
This will be a great video as always, i love these videos, thx for making them
He formed his own genuine style and artistic agenda, never swaying from that path. The raw unfiltered expression was balanced with precise stylistic control and hard work. I recall in one interview he said something like "that's just how we like art" when asked about his lyrics that used fun wordplay and expression ("mosquito, my libido" etc).
Chris, I can’t emphasize enough the positive effect your content has had on my life. From going through your course, working with you one on one in a few lessons and these videos about the vocal break and the importance of becoming a character as appose to being “ right”:
You have single-handily brought me from being ready to give up on pursing music to having complete confidence in my voice and embracing it’s “ flaws” and leaning into them! Thank you so much!
Really love the multidimensional nature of your lessons Chris!
One of my all time favorite songs again. Big thanks!
All the instruments sound amazing and with personality. The voice is raw, honest and powerful. Incredible song, thanks a lot for the breakdown!
Great video Chris!
Great video and deconstruction. This is one of my favorite Nirvana songs - deceptively simple, but as you said the different layers give it that wall of sound. It's such a powerful song and the production on Nevermind is so good
I bought your course back in 2020 and tbh, i paused at some point in the first section of it and never went back but have been meaning to go back and continue the course. Seeing this motivated me again (as lack of motivation remains an issue, possibly from depression).
I mimicked the sigh method or whatever to get to my vocal break and found that, from there, i'm able to open up the door to getting that raspy tone on my voice. It's not a scream or heavy distortion, but sometimes a good rasp is what i'm looking for when recording punk vocals. You have a way of helping us understand things much better than many others try to put it.
I'm going to follow up with the course and hopefully breakthrough to unleash that punk rock powerhouse inside of me haha thank you for dropping these gems
Excellent presentation! 🎼🤘❤️
Man, there's no attitude... There 's guts
that sums up everything. What you're hardly working to explain is that Kurt just speaks his truth 100% every time he recorded a song. No calculation. Great video btw ;)
Lean into the imperfections. You get it. Love this video man.
This breakdown of the grunge era early 90's reckless abandon attitude, which Nirvana and Kurt embodied, is so well articulated! Completely agree that the imperfections and incidental nuances create such character that is missing from today's music. Really hope it comes back in a new form someday. Love what you do, keep up the great work. Subbed.
Chris, this was a brilliant video, Kurt really knew how to let go and lean into it he was brilliant at delivering raw emotion. Made me want to get in the vocal booth and try do the same!
So insightful, love the way you express your ideas!
i'd love to see a video like this on dan marsala vocals with story of the year
"Being imperfectly you is Inspiring" best thing ive heard on the Internet since the dawn of music in my life. This is where I'll be when I need vocal lessons and learning techniques.Nirvana was my first love in Music at such a young age of 10, now years later, that Trio and Kurts songs drive the sound that i have created today. From Memory 2022 will be the beginning of a new bliss of Music for our Elder, Grown and youth of Yesteryear and Last today. See you there.
I was listening to nirvana lately...several years passed since i hear anything from them and instantly thought of you hearing kurt singing, the cracking in between the screams, it was in front of me all along. I can safely sing as i wanted as a teen because of you, i crack myself and bang all those songs like the first time that i hear them and it was amazing to be able to sing and scream without losing my voice for a day like years before.
Thank you Chris!
Just play the section between 09:50 - 10:07 while the family is casually hanging out in the house. This is golden!
My favorite multitrack yet! Throughout the choruses, his voice keeps cracking into a higher note and you can sort of hear the technique he has for his screams.. To me it seems he sort of drops onto the note from the top and then settles into the fullness of the scream... "Vocal Bombs" lol.. They certainly had an impact. Great video, Chris! 🔥
What a great analysis, this is POWER!!!! kurt has an unbeatable personality and attitude, and his voice in the last in utero shows was incredible powerfull and sounded so good too
I've listened to this song probably hundreds of times in life and every single time, Kurt makes me laugh at the end. It's just perfect nonsense chaos.
Honestly for me it's the first blast of that absurdly loud and blown out guitar sounds that always gets a laugh, it's always felt deliberately ridiculous and almost like a loving blown-up parody of rock guitar as a whole.
@@disappointedoptimist255 Absolutely feels that way.
The imperfections are sincere ✨️
Amazing, to hear this reminds of me of listening to it for the first time
Wicked video bro
Putting rules on sounds is what holds music back. Expressing your soul through the music language is what makes it good.
Excellent analysis.
small correction: actually john lennon didn't dislike double tracking, he did it because he didn't like how his natural voice sounded
Your Channel is so refreshing. You're right. So much of what is out their vocal wise is just over safe and sanitized. Even when it comes to vocalists that are more "technical" than this, we're still missing a lot of this kind of feel and vulnerability in a lot of cases. What's worse is that I'm sure their are vocalists who do this naturally due to their influences and what not but the producer is auto tuning the nuance and humanity right out of the mix in so many cases. At least if you're self producing you can call the shots on that and choose the more expressive route.
"being imperfectly you, is inspiring.."
Dang?? That's kind of deep thanks I needed this advice😊
I like this break down. Very cool. I hear this played live in 1993. That is the year I saw Nirvana in concert . They were doing their "In Utero tour. But they played all of their best songs. Kurt has no problem maintaining his vocal. Just like on the album. Amazing.
BEST CONCERT EVER!
it's always been an expression of unapologetic exhaustive frustration layered with great rock and roll music. to me it's up there with cherub rock for one of the greatest rock riffs or songs.
love the stamp on it at the end !
Man, thanks for these videos, I make trap music, it's not rock,but this videos help me a lot to get more ideas,and you helped me improve my vocals as well, much appreciated
very interesting video, I really like your channel and contents!
Glad you enjoy it!
Great work, and one of the most underrated Nirvana songs.
That was internet gold. Thanks again, Chris.
Very welcome
This is a super cool episode Chris. I have a similar approach to my vocals. Partly from what I have learned from you and partly from listening to these guys, and also Chris Cornell a lot. Once I decided I didn't care what anyone thinks I began to improve. It would be way cool to see how someone like yourself would analyze one of my recent songs, "Last Goodbye" or "Broken" would be good examples because I purposely push my voice well beyond in some verses. Anyway, thanks for all the great info and providing stellar content for all of us
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Wow, that guitar sound is incredible
Oohhh chris,..ur videos getting better and better i guess,.minimum,.at least their have always same quali...!!!!
This time fabulous,..the way u put the song apart,.each Soundtrack analyzing,..i mean not just lyrics,.u put every second apart,.fantastic,.it is cosy,..and satisfiying to watch u,really,.music is my blood,.I love to deal with it. To think about it. Music not only consuming it, but to understand. No even more to be able to understand what happens there.
And to see that a plenty of people do it too,.just grand!!!!
Thanx 4 ur Engagements,..regards,chris ( -> my name is Christian,.so chris greets chris 👊😉),
the guitars of this song were plugged directly on the mixer, no mic on cabs and amps as old punk recordings, this is why they sound so different from the other tracks on Nevermind 😜
Chris new subscriber here loving these!!
Thanks for subbing!
It's funny hearing you scream Kurt-ishly, because you approach it with such thought-out technique. I'm fairly certain the last thing on his mind was technique at the time. Great videos!
Those drums are crazy
A one of a kind explanation on kurt's vocal performance
To this day I don't think anyone can match Kurt's voice. His music will stand for generations I believe.
If I were a singer I would definitely seek your counsel. Singing unabashedly, making your audience really feel something is an amazing gift ❤ But it’s a quick way to limit the amount of shows one can do. With training (and hopefully talent ;) you can sing like that more often and much longer xo
Dave is just thomping those drums. Unmistakable. Kurt giving his all. Last vocal part is epic.
14:40 vocal health alternative opinion
15:50 voice cracking
couldn't agree more
AWESOMENESS! Algo gave me you and "Where did you sleep.." I was like please, please please please tell me he did Territorial Pissings!?
I’m no singer and no Kurt but as someone whose rly taken a deep dive into grunge in the last 2 years im so fucking happy to say when I do sing I take major inspiration from Kurt I’ve never been shy abo my voice dying, shrieking, or bleeding and it really took this video to open my eyes just how similarly I sing to Kurt. FUCKING AWESOME
it's so jubilant!
I don't know why but it makes me think of Black Francis who uses this way, and this convey a great communicative jubilation (example: "Distance Equals Rate Times Time")
You really surprise me when you started "singing" ... (this is the first time I see one of your videos) ... then in good French that I am, I tell you : quel bel organe !!! 😉
There’s no way Kurt could’ve sang like that and kept it up until today without serious problems. We’ll obviously never know for sure since he didn’t choose to live long enough to find out, but compared to someone like Chris Cornell his vocal production wasn’t healthy or controlled.
Look at Wes Scantlin from Puddle of Mudd and the way his voice sounds, because he started a band right after Nevermind because he obviously idolized Kurt, and he tried to sing like him. At this point he’s a perfect case study for why singing like that is a bad idea in the long term, because his voice is shot and he will likely need surgery if he hasn’t already had it done, and he has been singing the same way as Kurt for almost as long, less maybe 5-6 years give or take. Kurt would have likely had troubles at an even younger age because Nirvana likely played more shows per year on average than Puddle of Mudd at their peak, and likely would have continued to do it for much longer.
If you’re going to sing like that for the album, then you had better have a way to half-assed fake it live, or your voice and your career are going to be short lived.
If you hear your voice crack and squeak it’s the sound of dry vocal chords strained until they are so tight that there isn’t enough pressure behind your breath to push through them anymore. Which means right up until it stopped it was the most intense straining and friction between then that you could possibly put them through. It sounds cool, but you’re doing damage.
It’s the vocal equivalent of what the guys from Jackass did to their bodies and as cool as that was in your 20’s, it gets rough as you get older because you can’t keep it up at that level.
The day finally arrived🤟🤟
:)
nice video! can you make a vocal-analysis of "Nirvana - Hairspray Queen"? that would be so sick!
Great video! Greetings from a sudamerican Nirvas tribute channel!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thanks for coming over here and checking things out!
Thats what i LOOOOOOOVE about Kurt Cobain the imperfection in the vocals
Chris looking more and more jacked with each video
Kareokeed this song years ago at a friend's house during a party. I sure wish they had been recording it because I friggin nailed it. People there were freaking out! ( In a good way) my voice was a bit rough afterwards so I did little red riding hood by sam sham and the Pharos as an encore. Territorial pissings was also the first song I ever covered in my first band circa 1998😆 that laid back attitude and not really screaming so much as just letting the emotion out has always been kinda easy for me. This one is definitely hard on the ol' throat box tho
This song taught me alot growing up about what actually qualifies as a song. 3 chords and raw emotion no matter what you sound like, let it out!!!
Can you do another Nirvana video and talk about the vocal harmonies between Kurt and Dave? Amazing harmonies on the studio versions of ‘In Bloom’ and ‘On a Plain’ or live ‘Polly’ almost everything from MTV unplugged but especially ‘All Apologies’
Hi Chris. I think this is my first comment on your channel but have watched many of your vids and love them. I especially love your Nirvana, Chris Cornell and Pearl Jam content. (I guess that gives you an idea of my age... lol).
I would love for you to do a reaction video of Pearl Jam's Jeremy. I think it would be fun for you to do it on their uncensored video because I believe the emotion in Eddie's voice is so tied in to meaning of the song and that is so well embodied in that video. He is so into the role that even his appearance is different than anywhere else (in my opinion).
Secondly, in regards to doing Kurt "the right way"... I wonder (and only wonder because I have 0 knowledge) if there is a physiological component to this. I wonder this because when I do karaoke for a full night, my voice actually hurts less doing Nirvana (at full tilt) than many "clean" songs. Anyway, I would love to hear your thoughts on this. Maybe this is just because I've been "singing" Nirvana for years that my voice is used to doing that as opposed to those "cleaner" songs.
Again, thanks for your fun and instructive videos Chris. I wish you well!
What a great video as always!
There's a recording of nirvana playing where did you sleep last night that I think u should make a video about !
The performance is called nirvana NOB radiostudio (2 meter sessie) , it's definitely worth a listen !
What performance of that could top the MTV unplugged version? The ending of that is famously THE BEST live moment of the band -- period. Dont you think?
@@DAstreetTeam416 I mean yeah but for me it's not necessarily that it's better it's just different, the mtv unplugged version is legendary though
@@cwto_mam Haha yeah my comment was basically just reminding everyone the sky is blue.
Chris could you do a in-depth video of Anthony Green's voice from Circa Survive sometime. I'm learning a lot from your videos keep them up!
I'm glad you brought up that point at the end because yes he is basically boiling his vocal chords because he honestly didn't know any other way and likely when they played live, he dialled it back a bit because he wasn't all that bothered about live performances but in the studio he felt that this is what they all do right ? All in or nothing.
I used to be like that. Don't get me wrong, it really got those performances in the songs but that would have busted his voice up pretty good. I did that to my voice once and I was genuinely worried I wouldn't be able to pitch a note ever again, luckily it healed after around a month.
I think this does bring up something you have mentioned before Chris. Can you hear yourself in the mix ? Are you overly singing because the producer hasn't set your vocal monitor well or you were too afraid to ask for it ? I don't have any answer to that but it's something to ponder.
Hey man. I really love your vids and lernen so much. Could you do a video on how to sing like Nathan from Hot Mulligan or analyse a song? His style is just so unique and I can't figure out how to do it.
i need that multitracks :(
Finally
Those AKG cans are great
You should check out Miss Blue by Filter. After the song is over, there’s a sort of compilation of screams without the music behind them and other random recordings from within the studio.
Foo Fighters In Your Honor!!
That was cool, could you do a Layne Staley song.
His voice was so powerful also.
I’m sure Kurt got that guitar tone by plugging straight into the desk.
almost! guitar to overdrive pedal to desk
I'd love to hear you break down Mark Arm from Mudhoney's voice.
I'm a hardcore Nirvana fan and I play Nirvana covers on my other channel, but I think you could had did a better song from the nevermind album, In Bloom, Come as You are, Lithium, smells like teen spirit or drain you. Those were the best ones on that album IMO.
It's called passion, Kurt would always point out that is all that you needed
At first, I didn't think it was a good choice of a song (and I'm a massive Nirvana fan), cause you know, 3 power chords and Kurt just letting all out, but I'm happy I was wrong :)
❤❤🙏🙏GREAT VIDEOA
i would lovo tosee how this voice was record (the chains compressore etc.) its so dynamic but limited and constant in the same way ... I need to know
As I recall, Kurt recorded his guitars on this direct to the desk. Probably with his DS_1 pedal
This in an anthem
Hey Chris, thanks for noticing and loving my previous comment. I am somewhat of a Nirvana mega nerd and you probably won't find anyone who has read or learned more about Nirvana, including some of their recording tricks and methods than me. lol. If i can help with any of these Nirvana breakdowns let me know. I am also a guitarist and a home recorder. :D
Andy Wallace used samples on Daves drums for Nevermind.
Chris, is there anyways we could get a Crossfade vocal tutorial or a multi track breakdown? I think Ed Sloan's vocals are very underrated and I can't find any material showing how he gets his vocals. My guess is a lot of doubling and modulation.
It's PAIN. Pain is the only reason why grunge is the way grunge is. For Kurt, Eddie, Chris (and to some extent also Nu Metal performers like Korn and Linkin) to sing that way, they must have gone through so much hatred, loathing, suffering (and all other negative emotion) that it reflects in the performance.
I think what people miss about Kurt is that he idolized singers like Johnny Rotten and Henry Rollins. Nirvana was a punk rock band. Everybody knows he loved the Beatles and other pop bands too, but if you want to get a sound like his you need to study the punk bands that influenced him.
EXACTLY.
The clean sound your hearing is Kurt's chorus pedal. He used it with the distortion hence why it sounds like there's a clean guitar underneath it all
Those are some very Husker Du-sounding guitars right there.
Bro, fuck yes!