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hrvbr | 11 years ago

It's a traditional way of singing in Mongolia I think.

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hobs|11 years ago

My favorite example of this is Huun-Huur-Tu, I hadnt even seen a non-tuvan do it before this thread. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0djHJBAP3U&t=100

jtheory|11 years ago

I can do it pretty well -- the higher one, not the deep version (I can approximate the growly version, but it'll have me coughing after about 10 seconds, so I'm clearly doing something wrong!) -- after seeing Huun Huur Tu in concert back when I was in school I just tinkered until I could get the overtones reliably.

I also did a bit of barbershop (we called ourselves The Overhead Projectors...) and playing with throat-singing was actually quite useful in that context. I'm not sure how much it affect my actual voice control (probably some), but mostly I just became keenly aware of how much tone could vary just based on little changes in positioning of mouth, throat, tongue, palate, etc..