Episode 7 The Voice: Louder on Two

feeling tonight's show may be a goodie. Will.i.am and his finalist

Jermain are joining me. Plus, vocal virtuoso, Ali Tennant, is popping by

for some more expert analysis. And, hour rein's back with another

singing masterclass. You're watching The Voice: Louder on Two - help me!

Hello welcome to The Voice: Louder on Two. The final is edging ever

closer. Just four more sleeps until we find out who is going to be

crowned the voice Champion 2014. After narrowly missing out last

series, my first guest has his eyes firmly on the prize. He Is a

superstar producer, pop innovator, dedicated follower of fashion and

last, but not least, a highly skilled wordsmith. I can only of

course be talking about Will.i.am. You have the crazy harmones. It was

a sick beat. Sick describes someone who is suffering from nausea. Sick

may describe the vomit itself. Let's go back to 1987 and skateboarding.

In those days, well skateboarders would use the word "sick" to

describe a stunt that really appealed or a crash that was quite

horrendous! Totally sick, man! Sorry, I lost my balance. Gyles

there. Give it up for Will.i.am. APPLAUSE

Lovely to see you. We loved your show with Joanna Lumley. Isn't she a

great Dame? Super dope. One woman can you use that term for.

Saturday's show, to brilliant. Can you describe it using suffixes like

brilliantly, superbly, like you were doing on Saturday? I was really sad

because Sophie left. Yeah. At the same time I was thrilled that

Jermain was there. It's like, this rollercoaster of emotion where

you're happy for your finalist, but you're sad for someone who deserves

to be there as well. It was kind of... I was kind of torn. Ed bag?

Yeah. We can feel that will watching it with you. The great thing was you

performed with Sophie May and Jermain and show off your fancy foot

work up on the stage with Let's Dance. How difficult is to choose a

song to suit such different voices, you you all have different voices?

You do something to where you are thrown out of your comfort zone so

everyone is uncomfortable. If you do that, and you are trying to make it

a rememberable moment, then you go... You go at it that way. You

don't want to favour one person's voice over the other. So, to have

everyone uncomfortable, when you have that much diversity - It worked

really well though. Yeah. We talked about Sophie May, her performance

was encountriedible. They loved the homage to Metropolois and her head

dress and the rings around her. I imagine that was your concept? Yeah

I loved Metropolois. I was surprised that a 17-year-old would have

knowledge of. I was like, really, do you want to go there, have you heard

of Metropolois? She was like, no, the hotel next to Hide Park? I was

like, no, not that Metropolois! ,,you impressed with her ninjas,

will Jermain have stormtroopers or tumblers? Stormtroopers... I will

leave that with you. You think about it. This show is about the Voice.

Can you do many clever things with yours. I love beat boxing. Lucy!

Like that. # Bring the action... #

WILL BEATBOXING # Watch out now... #

That sucked! He is saying - when did I do all that stuff? We have a treat

for you. The other day when you were on we had hand bells. We have a game

for you to play, have you heard of a glass harmonica, Will? I have. We

have one in the studio for you. There are two kinds. Oh, yeah. The

one where you use your finger. Ah, ha. Then you rev your finger up.

Alasdair will play snippets of four songs. Take it away.

PLAYS GLASS HARMONICA Where's the love. Yeah, you got one.

Alasdair, isn't he great! That is so wonderful. I want to play that. I'm

sure he will have a go. He is part of an Oscar-winning team he played

in the opening scene of Gravity. I thought I heard Miley Cyrus. It's

not. It is I Should Be So Lucky. And Ruby Ruby Ruby, Kayser chiefs --

Kaiser chiefs and It's Not Unusual. That is from Sir Tom Jones. We'll be

chatting to Jermain in a moment, but first let's enjoy a special acoustic

performance from the Sophie-isticated Miss Sophie May who

came in earlier in the week. Here he is singing Royals.

# In the town # It goes tripping in the bathroom

# We don't care # We drive a Cadillac in our dreams

# Tigers on a gold leash # We don't care

# We're all caught up in your love affair

# We'll never be royals # That ain't for us

# We crave a different kind of buzz # Now, let me be your ruler

# You can call me Queen Bee # Maybe I'll rule

# Let me live that fantasy. # Sophie May. Will is having

masterclass in how to play the glass harmonica. How is it going? Man, I

suck! Thank you so much Alasdair for that. Did you enjoy that performance

by Sophie May? I love Sophie May. We look forward to seeing what you two

do in the future. We talked to the one man music factory, Will I Wonka.

His act Jermain was handed a golden ticket to the final. Here's a little

recap. # Without you... #

You sound like a baritone when you are down there and like a tenor when

you go up there. Fantastic. Super confident performance from Jermain.

Keep on doing it. I loved that. I loved it. I needed a dance.

APPLAUSE # Let's dance... #

Team Will. The artist with the most view votes, securing them a place in

next week's final is... Jermain! Please welcome back Jermain Jackman.

Jermain, that was incredible. How are your family and friends about

you going through to the final? How did you celebrate. What was the

first thing you did? They are excited, so supportive. They are

waiting to see what is to come in the finals. They are really positive

and staying positive about it. The first thing I did was celebrate with

my family and friends, but the Sunday morning I went to church to

give thanks. You are a good boy, aren't you? That was a knockout

performance that he gave there on Saturday. Were you part of the

planning with the little mic trick at the end or was that a surprise

for you as well? No, I was surprised with the volume swell and the hand

automate manual wa, wa, the little technique he created. It is - He

probably got that from the organ in the church with the spinner on it.

# Wa, wa, wa... # You worked the audience up there. A

vision in white, Jermain. You looked like you had been up there for

every. Were you ever apprehensive or anxious or did you feel strong about

the performance? I was nervous about my performance. I went into the zone

where I converted the nerves into positive energy and let it shine

through in my performance. He is good, isn't he? He is good! How was

Let's Dance up there, your capetastic out fit with Sophie May

and Will. We had so much fun on the stage. So much fun... It felt

relaxing, very cool. The seriousness of performing. We had fun. The most

important thing to me was having fun. Make sure you enjoy yourself.

We fed off each other, bonded as well going to the Savoy hotel. With

your mums! This weekend you will do up to three songs. You are doing a

new one which is Wrecking Ball, Miley Cyrus. Here is Miley. Here is

how she sings it. We will forget that. We will hear it Jermain-style

this is piano he hersals earlier on today.

# Don't you ever say I just walked away

# I will always want you # I can't live a lie... #

We are loving it. Why is this a good song for Jermain? Will he be lifting

a sledgehammer on the stage? You are going to give away my secrets. I in

trouble? That was supposed to be a surprise. Man, we have to pick a new

song. Maybe it's an Ape Fool. Yeah, yeah! I'm kidding. Don't tell him he

you have to do it before noon or it doesn't count. You are doing a duet,

can you tell hi anything about that? No. Google bought my brain for $40

billion - Really? April Fools. You get to sing a favourite, which has

been your favourite performance in your journey? I sing a favourite. I

was saying this earlier on today, it meant a lot to me when I started

performing publicly. Performing publicly! He was shy back then. The

movie inspired me to do much more of my singing. What movie? Am I meant

to give it away? Don't give it away! When I sang my song it was in a

competition in my school. I won the competition. Won the competition.

You heard that. Ladies and gentlemen, he won the competition!

He always like that. He is the best coach. Are you going to do anything

different on Saturday with your performances, or will you keep them

as he has always done? The same thing we ask last week! Exactly. He

is giving him the sweeties. Your family and your friends have been

standing by you. They have seen you go through this journey. They have a

few messages for you, Jermain. Enjoy this. Jermain as a son is brilliant.

He is always there to help me. He's always there to give me advice. It's

a pleasure to have Jermain as a son. As a twin brother Jermain is

extremely supportive. And, honestly, I can always rely on him. He's

always singing at home. Always - nonstop. First time I heard him sing

everyone was blown away by his voice. Even I was. I never knew he

was amazele He works so hard. Results come in time. Dream!

# HA is still a chair... # When you hear him sing, you think, why is he

standing in front of me, and not standing in front of 30,000 people?

When Jermain sings, it gives me goose pimples. He's got a God gifted

voice. Makes me very proud. # Still in love with me. It's Not

your beautiful mother. She is wonderful. And your friend also.

Saturday, how you feeling at this point before the final? I'm focused.

I am focusing on the ending goal, and focusing on my performance, how

to deliver that, and I'm focusing on the competition and how I can do

what I need to do in order to make sure I get the top spot. You are so

grown up. Have you heard from your cousin, Eddy Grant? He has given me

words of wisdom so I fully appreciate them. Are you excited for

Saturday? You are related to Eddy Grant? I didn't know that. You are

learning a lot today. I'm Blake steady grant. April fool! Good luck

for Saturday. Give it up Will.i.am and Jermain! Don't forget you can

download Saturday's performances from Jermain and indeed all the

finalists by heading to the Voice website. 20p from every download

goes to the BBC performing arts charity. With a place in the coveted

final at stake, all of the acts pulled it out of the bag with their

performances on Saturday night. Here to sing their praises is vocal coach

Ali Tennant. I've worked with some of the biggest names in pop, Jessie

J, one direction, JLS. I love nurturing new stars. From the

rehearsal studio, to the world stage for them that's what it's all about

for me. Please welcome back Ali Tennant.

APPLAUSE Hello, darling.

Don't play any tricks on me. How much did you enjoy Saturday? How

anxious do you get before they perform? I get super anxious because

a lot of the time and the last person they see before they go

upstairs onto the stage, and you give them so much energy over the

week and it's like you are walking on with them so you get nervous and

anxious. It's like your child, you know. And they don't let you down.

They have all been so brilliant. Would you believe it, they are all

fast passes? Who would have thought it. Who knew? It shows that they

know what they're talking about. I don't know how it goes. It's a

surprise but, at the same time, they were great. Let's have a closer look

at your boys from Saturday. Here is Team Kylie and Jamie Johnson. # No,

you won't, because I can't make you Love me # If you don't...

It gets me every time watching him sing that. Tom Jones said

afterwards, Jamie really sounded like he had lived that song. He

threw those emotions. It's impossible because it's only 19. How

do you help him? Zoe, I can't exactly help him with the emotion of

a song. What I can help him with is the dynamic so it's loud to soft and

soft too loud, which pulls you in. You got me, you got me. Sorry,

sorry. Yeah, you know, it helps with pulling the listener in, and giving

them the heart tug. It really does work. We've got a never- seen-before

exclusive clip for you now. This is Jamie in the open auditions. Never

seen before. Look, little Jamie. # I've got to change my answering

machine. # Now that I'm alone. # Come to the phone # And I know it

makes no sense... Can you see the changes in his voice

since then? Big-time. There's a lot of pronunciation changes, breathing

changes. He has got the full package now. Now we have thrown a lot of

different genre that, rock, pop ballads. He has grown in a short

period of time, so you can feel that now. Come on, Jamie. Now let's move

on to Jermain from Team Will. Here he was on Saturday.

Come on! So brilliant! A phenomenal ending. And of course, that trick

with a microphone for some how tricky is that? First of all, the

breathing technique you have to do is applied to do that, you have got

to fill your lungs, control those notes from the diaphragm. You have

some vocal lessons. I'm a long way from that, believe me. He had to

control the diaphragm and use that. Really manage his breath and

obviously, the trick that are used, it's the dynamics, again. Going from

loud to soft just using the microphone. Luther Vandross used to

do that. That's what he did. It was so impressive. We loved it. Here is

Jermain in his first audition. # Walk on, walk on, with God in your

heart # And you'll never walk alone...

Nice. It's like you're standing in church there. How much has he

changed? Big time. He has grown again. He is used to sing gospel

stuff, singing classical records. Now we have thrown in a lot of R,

up-tempo, so he has grown. In the clip, actually, his breathing is not

as good as it is now, so we have definitely made him grow and we have

pushed him. And they are all going to go out. Who will win? Good

question. I don't know. I knew you would not say. Will you come back on

the show on Friday? 100%. Thank you. We'll see you again on Friday. But,

for now, Ali Tennant, everyone! Time now to put my singing under scrutiny

with another masterclass from Maureen. Brace yourselves! This

could get ugly! I am Maureen Scott, a singing teacher and a vocal coach.

I have put loads of pop stars, people in major West End shows. The

whole thing about teaching singing is rewarding. Please welcome back

the incomparable Maureen Scott! APPLAUSE

Thank you are coming back foot I have been practising my hamster

face. And hopefully, let's have a recap of

the basics. Left luggage alignment, make sure you're standing correctly.

Straighten your knees of it. -- left luggage alignment. Put your hands on

your tummy. Release it and breed. Well done. And again. Brilliant. And

breed, and again. Fantastic. Now go VVVVV. VVVVV. And release, again.

And silent. And release. I'm not sure where my tummy is meant to be

going now. You will feel it going but it also holds for you. I will

hold your tummy for you. It'd comforting? IIIIINNNNGGG. And again.

IIIIINNNNGGG. And breed. Well done. I have to breathe through my mouth,

not my nose. Puffy cheeks. OK, puffy cheeks. I can feel a connection down

there for that what we going to learn today? Retraction, and opening

up of the throat. It's like giggling, laughing. I love your face

when you do it. What is that doing? One set of vocal folds sits on top

of the windpipe and they move like this. The other set on top of those,

OK, and these ones can squash those, and that's what happens when you're

feeling strained. If you have not warmed up. Hitting higher notes and

are not going properly. You have to giggle. With that face? Yes.

CHEERING I did it, everyone. It takes people

ages to do that. Let's do it. Can I sing now? That feeling, to the big

wide shape here and go MEE MA MEE MA MEE. MEE MA MEE MA MEE. Very good.

Go up a bit. The crew are shaking their heads. It was really good,

folks at home, and it takes ages to get that. MEE MA MEE MA MEE. MEE MA

MEE MA MEE. Now, to help you go up, what we can do is tilt. That means

that this, your thyroid, your vocal folds are in, and when you whine

like a puppy, quietly so you feel the muscles. So,

for people at home, this takes practice and you need to practice it

slowly. That's right. No sound at all? No sound, just feel the

muscles. And now Syron to the top of the range. IIIIINNNNGGG. Big smile.

IIIIINNNNGGG. I don't know what my face is doing. I apologise. Go.

IIIIINNNNGGG. IIIIINNNNGGG. Very nice. You can sing up there as well.

We are doing smiling and tilting. What will that give us? It makes us

sound pretty. It goes higher in the range, so we will do that. Tilt

silently. We will sing unchained Melody.

# Whoa, my love. # My darling.

# I hunger for your touch #. Go. OK, two seconds. Here we go. Tilt. OK,

release your tummy. # Whoa, my love.

# My darling. # I hunger for your touch #. Well

done. APPLAUSE

There goes my panto career. Thank you, Maureen. I'd like to say

it's been a pleasure. It's been painful. The next time we see little

beef from a very big performance from the two of us together. Give it

up for Maureen Scott! Well done. Thank you. That's it for today.

Thanks to all my guests. Tomorrow, the Voice godfather Tom Jones will

be here so if you've got any questions for him, send them in.

He'll be joined by his finalist Sally Barker. Plus vocal vixen Yvie

Burnett is back to look at the remaining finalists. See you