I guess you could say Abel is an extremely able singer.

Are we just gonna ignore Sam saying people who say Michael Jackson can't sing are dumb? It was the greatest thing I've heard today. Thanks Sam!

“You´re a dumb person if you think Michael Jackson can’t sing" 😍😍😍

I don’t care what he’s singing in as long as he continues to. He’s my fave male vocalist of today.

abel: *breathes* sam: they're connected

Abel (The Weeknd) is coached by Ron Anderson (he was actually with him at SNL for this performance too), who focus a lot on working your head voice. If you go watch his performances before 2013 - before he got with Ron Anderson - he would sing falsetto and break and/or jump a lot, but now he can do what we hear here.

It funny that other artist after releasing an album go on a ton of interviews and shows... but The Weeknd doesn’t do it. He stays mysterious and knows that people will listen to him anyways.

"He is able to..." Of course; he's Abel.

After I heard Scared to Live on the official album, I thought "this doesn't sound as good as the SNL performance". Few days later, deluxe album drops and the SNL performance is put on there.😂

pls pls pls dooo more the weeknd, I loved your in depth analysis of this performance! I would recommend you the "call out my name" live performance at coachella :)

i don’t think he’s singing falsetto at all, that’s just his voice type. he’s showed time and time again that he has a wide chest range it honestly sounds great.

I’m glad I’m not the only one that calls The Weeknd by his actual name lol

I love how smooth and soft his voice is no matter how loud or low his sound is. It gives off so much R&B vibes and I love that so much.

I love that you made the connection with him and Michael. I am not a singer and know nothing technically but I have a good ear and am a huge Michael fan. I've been saying he sounds like Michael for a long time. The vibrato man!

"He's gonna feel it in his head" In your eyes music video: loses head. nice.

When abel and bruno collab. Im gonna lose my shit.

Sam I already loved ur personality and valued your knowledge BUT you love The Weeknd/Trilogy too?! how dope! XO

He's said before that he's inspired by Ethiopian artists -- as you probably know he's Ethiopian himself. If you were to listen to (traditional) Ethiopian music, you can easily hear what he's influenced by. He translated an Ethiopian singing style to his own brand of music. Also the head moving thing is actually something most Ethiopian artists do. Look up a live performance and you'll see the same thing!

3:08 yea well his head comes off In the recent music video 😂

Love The Weeknd, basically Michael meets dark gritty noir-ish music, I agree with Sam that Trilogy is his masterpiece (even though the rest of his albums are great as well)

“A lot of people who sing pop music and R&B, well R&B less, but like they’re kind of afraid of vibrato, especially - they think it’ll make them sound too classical, and it’s just not the case.”

"He's great. He's great. He's great." 🤷‍♂️

Sam “giving the big neck muscles something to do” so they don’t interfere with the small singing muscles reminds me of Cesar Millan, the dog whisperer giving dogs little backpacks 🎒 and putting them on the treadmill so they feel useful with their little job and don’t feel the need to destroy your shoes 👠.

HIS VOCALS WERE FIREEEEE

I love The Weeknd. His earlier stuff, and his newer stuff.

The Weeknd has the most unique voice I think fr fr 👑

Abel really is one of the greatest singers I've ever heard. I love that you mentioned Trilogy because it indeed is a masterpiece.

He's definitely the modern-day Michael Jackson. His new album "after hours" took us on a journey unparalleled by other artists.

"we fell apaaart...it kinda falls apart...it FALLS APART"

He's exaggerating the head jerk because he's in character

Listen to the weeknd “call out my name coachella performance” if you want to see him sing with a lot more power and volume

I have always loved his voice too, but you can tell he has really improved his technique nowadays.

You mentioned Michael Jackson in the video, will you ever react to a compilation of his best live vocals? It would be interesting

I am so in love with his new album. He’s helping me get through so much

Would u say he’s dramatizing his head movements and mouth movements because he’s is really into the song that his emotions are shown by his head and mouth movements?

I think he's moving his head to help him internalize the rhythm of the music. I think the way and where he emphasizes the pulses in the music is what makes his music cool.

Even though im a drummer. Learnt alot about techiniques vocalists use from your videos. Has really helped when working with singers

I'm a massive XO fan who also really enjoys your analysis videos, so this was a little bit of heaven for me. Stay safe Sam😊 love from 🇬🇧

He bites off his words like MJ

He is incredible you can feel it his concert his voice is very sweet.

Yay!!!!! I'm so glad you posted it brightens my day up!

Trilogy was amazing, along with Kissland

The head movements could help him form the shape hes aiming for. I've noticed it in other artists whose head direction goes along with the note they're moving towards.

the best voice teacher. I am so grateful for your beautiful work! ♡

7:19 that's how the mosquitoes sing coming to my ear when am asleep at night.😂😂

Please do more Weeknd! His voice is so complexing

So glad to see you❣️ You were missed... Great reaction to The Weeknd. Hope to see you a lot while social distancing❤️

gosh I missed you so much, and here you come with 2 videos in one day: I'm happy now!

He actually did a cover of dirty diana and i thought it was Mj first

6:12 - When you get back with your ex - When you go on spring break during quarantine - When you've convinced yourself youre failing because your teachers have something against you

The weeknd has a perfect voice let's be honest

There are no words to explain how much i love YOU and your channel! There’s always a smile on my face watching your reactions

Wonderful analysis. You’re awesome. Thank you for this content too. I can’t seem to find too many vocal coaches who actually know what they’re talking about when it comes to The Weeknd. He’s certainly an interesting character with a beautiful voice.

I DIDN'T EXPECT THIS. OMGGG, I'M SCREAMINGGGGG

Hey dude! I just wanna let you know that I absolutely adore your content. Please never stop! - A year long subscriber

Imagine if him and michael Jackson made a Album.

Yes. This is what we needed.❣️

I love this channel. Keep up the great work Sam!

Hey Sam. Thanks for the content! Really enjoy your channel.

I don’t think I’ve ever seen you analyse Lara Fabian videos? You totally should, she’s so well-known for her extremely strong technique and emotional commitment (like in « Je suis malade » or « Adagio » from the concert From Lara With Love).

Sam, thank you so much for your reaction to "The Weeknd" He is a very talented singer, so soothing and sweet but powerful too. I'm a fan.! ...I would love for you to react to more of his music please. Thank you for sharing with us. Stay safe honey.!

the way youre saying he modified the word “scared” is how i normally say “scared.” same thing with your example with “love” 😂😂😂

My first time watching you , and I really like how you pause and explain your thoughts and teach us these things. Im not a singer or anything but this video was super cool and interesting

Love vibrato! He's telling a story and the tremor in the voice matches the tremor of emotion as also seen in facial expression and body movement.

i love that i took choir all through HS and i understand everything you’re saying

3:00 You get to see him be a head bobble. All good! Good concept that those muscles aren't important for your voice.

Would love one if you did a video on Frank Ocean and/or Donald Glover/Childish Gambino. Both extremely versatile artists.

I know nothing about music but I enjoy watching you and I’m learning as I go! You are awesome 👏🏼

I LOVE, love, love Abel's voice, too. I have seen a couple of live performances where I sense deep down, he gets a bit nervous singing live on stage, but maybe those were performances in the pre-Ron Anderson coaching days, as another commentor suggested. It's nice to hear his voice analysed, though. So much to learn from this, as always. I do think, though, I prefer his studio work compared to live.

Check out the second half of “I was never there” and his song with cashmere cat “wild love” to hear him in falsetto (just two examples)

He mixes really well AND his voice is brighter than everyone. His natural timbre sounds very very bright

Oh My Gosh sooooooo happy you did this!!!❤👏❤👏❤👏❤👏❤ Thankya Thankya Thankya!! Also 100% agree about him and MJ being comparable. Stay safe🙏

i'm so damn in love with abel, jeez. i'd love to see more reactions of you to him i really enjoyed it, there's sooo many thing i don't know.

Check out his newest album After Hours if you love the Trilogy! It has a lot of similar vibes while still retaining his newer pop sound and it's honestly the best thing he's done since those three albums.

He s a straight up genius .. not to mention blessed with one of the best voices ever IMO!? What gets me the most is how relatable all of his music is with me and my life .. how does he do that??? It’s hard to explain and actually mind boggling .. still amazes me to this day!

This is the first time I see your channel and I’m glad that you appreciate Abel as much as I do because he really does have an amazing talent. I also LOVE trilogy like that it’s a work of art, also kissland. ❤️ thanks for the cool video lol

the HE HEE came out of nowhere!! I’m crying 🤣🤣🤣 great video . Love The Weeknd too

He's probably pronouncing scared the way he does because he's Canadian - you hear that a lot here

There are people who think MJ can't sing? Omg! His voice was so beautiful. I'm shocked. 😱

The Trilogy was the best thing in the past two decades 🤯

People who dont exercise their singing voice wont understand, and you dont have to be an expert to know what that feels like to sing like Abel in these parts. You do tho, have to warm up and get all loosen up to the point you dont break. When you dont break your voice is flexible enough to get into this mode confidently, because oh yeah, takes confidence which is huge in singing, know where your voice needs to land the note. You'll feel your voice being made between your air stream and the pockets of space in your face and throat, the face expressions, the "set ups" for certain sounds and such. The voice just sort of happens now, it's different than before when you had to almost do a football hut. And you are now in control, like a ps4 controller, the more you go the more you dont even remember you have a controller to work. At the beginning you feel like you forgot how singing feels or how to calibrate from mid to loud to soft and around but back. As you sing sometimes, you can achieve it but you wont be following rules that let it happen the same again, if you do warm up with vocal exercises you'll be singing like if you were playing the piano, methodical, and to get Abel's voice in this mode, he's got a song you can practice, Prisoner, this song you can feel the softness. Your softness can be so strong though, specially if it's your base. You feel it softly made in the throat, soft but if warmed up you'll feel the steadiness of the notes, and because of this it feels flexible and the voice travels allowing you to get anywhere and everywhere, the listener is not aware of this at the time of listening, the recording only pics up sound, this is makes more sense when you remember that screaming at the top of your lungs can just be vocal fry.. so! I hope this made some sense. Also, you can go from chest to falsetto and in some parts you can flip back and forth and it almost sounds the same, mean whilst remaining in soft mode. It travels to the nose on from 2 3 4 and on 6 and sev after an octive sound the same for me in falsetto or head voice.

Abel has such amazing talent. I've been obsessed since 2011/2012. If it ain't XO then it gotta go.

Hey Sam! You just got a new subscriber bc I too love Abel ☺️💕 trilogy is my favorite album from him and I’m loving After Hours rn

sam's freckle game on point

Yes! Trilogy is the best! its my favorite project lol he really is an amazing singer and artist.

Thank you for this Sam. 🙏🏼 XO. 🖤

I 🤩 The Trilogy as well!

I need a gif of you making the "vocal chords coming together" gesture

Right as you said Trilogy was your fav I lost it. Subbed👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Love the content! Just earned a new sub! Xo

Would be awesome to have you reacting to the whole album, especially to Blinding Lights (there are some live performances already) and to In Your Eyes: the 80s vibes are unbelievable

The way man be grinning at the screen😂

I love these, especially when we can tell you’re a fan before you even say it.

Definitely definitely mix voice. I think it just came extremely natural to him and his voice type. The “ connectiveness” you hear is the ability to bring the mix, or rather maintain the head quality into the lower registers where one is tempted to shift into chest. So... head voice mixed with chest body resonance throughout entire range. His voice will last

I think i read somewhere that the reason for the fast vibrato is because of his ethiopian roots

Love this, could you do more videos on The Weeknd please? I’m really interested in knowing your thoughts on a variety of his tracks

I don't think it's falsetto as well, I think it's just his natural voice.

Love watching you! And love The Weeknd! I think it would be awesome if you analyzed Banks. I feel like people are pretty split on whether they think her live performances are good or not. And I’d like to hear what you think about the sustainability of the way she sings.

Great video dude 🤘🏻

That's a really good point about the neck muscles. Never realized how much they tense up when I sing!