As someone who walks, I just want to say thank you. It's really nice that there are people out there who let me know that they're turning so I won't be ran over when crossing the road :) you guys are my heros!
Currently trying to figure out how to replace my 98 Camry hazard relay cause my blinkers don't work. If anyone wants to help a brotha out. Doesn't help that I deliver pizza. Sorry people about my no-blinker-ass.
It's amazing how something that is a standard feature in every car is so infrequently used. There are people who could probably tell you every little thing about the bluetooth/navigation systems in their cars and use them obsessively but never take advantage of a simple turn signal switch.
I'm glad you are honest enough to say that you don't understand how the polyphonic singing works yet did your best to explain what you know anyway. Massive respect for that! Great video and analysis as always, too!
Chantelle Lee You and I are exactly the same. We should take a road trip and see how quickly our “harmonic” “singing” shatters all of the windows in the car!
Want to see polyphonic singing integrated artistically instead of in standalone technique showcase? These guys do it in rock n roll form: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-v4xZUr0BEfE.html
Dropping this link here. It's one of the most popular live vids from his Nashville shows. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE--JK41Q7zy-s.html
What Lalah Hathaway is employing to produce that sound is actually a multiphony technique (biphony) - where two frequencies originate simultaneously on the vocal cords (different from overtone singing - Avi Kaplan). During the performance with Snarky Puppy she produced two simultaneous notes at different intervals; two times major second, minor third & major third in order to match the musical context. What's even more impressive is that you can hear that the notes produced by Lalah Hathaway contain almost no overtones of their own, they are almost sine waves; the intervals do not correspond to natural overtone intervals and are therefore harmoniously independent of each other - that alone tells me that she has 100% control over each note individually. That's some extraterrestrial vocal control. Not surprised though her father is legendary soul singer Donny Hathaway. Awesome video. 😊
@@marykay5299 I was surprised that didn't give him props for that! I wonder if they figured someone was actually whistling. Though I'd expect Ben Folds would've caught it.
I can really tell how much of a passion this is for you. I love the technical expertise. Just a quick note: In an interview a few years back Avi was asked to explain overtone/polyphonic singing. He mentioned just moving his tongue to change the higher note. Your explanation reminded me of his explanation. :)
@@mijalakis3 No, Minnie enunciated live above C6 many times. This video shows some of those cases (I could understand what she said even though I didn't even know the lyrics beforehand :-) ): ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ZU56QDStgUo.html Most are just melismas, but there are words, as well. The video has a second part.
@@hiblinks1199 He can't speak in Whistles and Mariah's whistle is very fast/agile, and she's the only one who can do appoggiatura in Whistle register (3 notes).
Let me tell you... I saw Avi Kaplan do that live when he was still a part of PTX and it's absolutely breathtaking in person. It's something that you an appreciate recorded but LIVE it's a JOURNEY.
Today I was thinking "hmmm it would be interesting if a voice teacher did a video 'reacting to polyphonic sounds and overtones' " Sam Johnson, was that telepathy!? 😜😄👍
Hi Sam! I'm a big brazilian fan of your videos and i would love if you reacted to Andre Matos singing Shaman - Fairy Tale (live). He was a amazing brazilian singer who passed away recently... Thank you!
I'd really like to see you react to the Mongolian band The Hu. They use traditional Mongolian polyphonic singing in a hard rock to heavy metal sound. Really cool stuff.
Avi was doing "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" with his overtone, right? It's been a super long time since I've seen that vid, but I think I was able to hear it
When Avi is doing his overtone singing, he is actually singing "When the Lion Sleeps Tonight" during that part. Figured I'd point that out, since not many people were able to notice it.
Sam, I'd love to see you analyze some beatboxers. I think you'd find some of the things professional beatboxers can do absolutely insane. Codfish or Reeps One would be a neat place to start.
Yyyeeessss!!!! I would love to see him break down that witchcraft! The few I’ve seen in person just make my jaw drop, and a few have explained how it works....but they may as well have been speaking in an alien language.
Sam, u are so technical with your explanations!! Could u do a video about how smoking affects a singers voice?? I'm no expert but I assume it does have an affect on the voice especially over time & I think it would help me understand the changing sound of some of my favorite artists!!! Or this could be a 💩 suggestion that just gets buried in the comment section 🤷 Much ♥️ Capt. Cool Hair 😘
A better way to produce what Avi did is a hard rr sound going into an Ee sound. Jake Runestad, a modern day composer does this In a few of his songs and especially in a song called ner ner highly recommend checking it out!
I don't know if I agree with it as a party trick. Tibetan throat singing, has no words, and is essentially a meditation process for them. And it is for me. Tuvan, khoomei, Mongolian throat singing has words, and they write songs for it. It is actually a style of singing. I find the same problem with finger tapping guitar style. Peple still think it is a trick to spice up your solos, like van halen, but it is a style of playing that goes back to flamenco, and now people like Michael hedges made it into a style of writing songs, and math rock groups have continued and evolved it.
Surprised david lee roth wasn't on here, he wastn't technically a good singer but he was a master at doing overtones and whistle register singing, and actually making a place for it in his music and made it iconic for the first few van halen albums
@@mercado21aa yeah that will be awesome and well I just know those from Mexico but followers can provide good singers from each country, like doing a top 5 and then our voice teacher can pick and have fun analyzing totally by sound not lyrics, after all he seems to enjoy it that way
That third guy, who had strong fundamentals so he could pick harmonies sounds weirdly similar to the way of "singing" through the mass in greek/russian church 🤔
@Voku o, dear I didn't recognise you! 😊😊 I was thinking that you're making fun of the Dimash 😔sorry!! I love him too much and I get everything about him personal 🙄🙄 have a nice day❤
That first thing is fairly simple... us beatboxers call it Polyphonic voice, i actually have a tutorial about it on my channel (Double voice tutorial) I kinda explain it as whispering a head voice, and slowly bring out a voice, very airy though. Other people explain it as voice cracking, but continuously
Yessssss!!! Boi I’d love to hear more about bass voices - Tim Foust of Home Free is someone I’ve always been so fascinated with, especially how he talks about holding onto his range by working the high end as well as the lows
Engine yes! More velvety basso profundo, How do bass voices do that?! Also I’d love to hear about the scientific/genetic differences in tone and color.
I’m one of those people who naturally sings in the sixth octave. My easiest and effortless notes are between c6-g6. I’ll catch myself absentmindedly making bird and dolphin sounds all the time. I’m weird, I know.
• Now, when you quickly discuss overtones, we must add a lot to that. • Every _(integer) multiple of 2_ times the fundamental frequency will take us to an octave _above_ the fundamental. • Every _division_ of the fundamental frequency by a(n integer) multiple of 2 will take us to a lower octave. • This is a psychoacoustic phenomenon pertaining to the _homo sapiens_ species as far as we know, let us call it _auditory spacing._ • So our auditory spacing is organized under a base of 2. We can mathematise that as saying it is organized under _logarithm base 2_ aka _log2(x)_ (read as: logarithm of number x on base 2). Check out logarithms on-line, it's basic mathematics, I won't explain here. • What does it matter, though? • Well, if you know your mathematics, you will notice that _only odd numbers give us new harmonic resources._ • What does it matter? (you ask yourself again) • The _natural harmonics_ (aka overtones) of a given fundamental frequency are a (theoretically) infinite series of natural numbers (viz., positive integers) multiplying the fundamental frequency. So, e.g.: *1f* = fundamental *2f* = first octave above it *3f* = new note _a_ = _just fifth_ above first octave (aka a just twelfth) *4f* = two octaves above the fundamental *5f* = new note _b_ = _just third_ above the second octave *6f* = 2 * 3f = first octave _of_ new note _a_ *7f* = new note _c_ = _harmonic seventh_ above the second octave over fundamental *8f* = third octave of fundamental and so on… • Now what does it matter? (you ask yourself once more) • Well, if you've noticed upon reading, the _really_ new notes (the odd multipliers) are NOT the notes we often call by the names of "perfect fifth" or "major third" or "major seventh" - this is due to western (harmonic and melodic) instruments' *tuning / temperament.* Our system of _dividing an octave in 12 equally (aurally) spaced intervals_ is a _flattening,_ more appropriately a *reduction of dimensionality,* of a _2-axes system:_ famously known as _pythagorean tuning,_ or more appropriately a _rank-2 tuning / temperament._ Rank just means how many coordinates, how many inputs, one must provide before reaching any destination - think of a cartesian plane. Now, our western 12-tone system - we could call it _12 equally spaced intervals of the second harmonic (or first octave)_ - renders fairly well the 3rd harmonic (think of full HD, 4k, 1080p, whatever), we have a very decent _perfect fifth_ interval in our music, but everything beyond that is hugely fake (historical music, like baroque or classical or early romantic had better rendering of other odd harmonics than we ever do, in others words: if Beethoven heard our pianos today, he would call us mad and spit on our faces). That is why imitating arabic, persian, turkish, indian, etc., music sounds terrible in our instruments (the indian case actually affords a complicated discussion, but let us leave it at that). Persian medieval music, for example, uses the 7th, 11th and even 13th harmonics, so not a single "arabic scale" can actually sound [sic] arabic (correctly: persian) in our guitars, no matter how hard we try (bending strings can approximate those sounds, but is fairly unaffordable as a practice). So when Lalah Hathaway reinforces those higher harmonics, it sounds fairly "alien" because they actually are alien to all our instrumentation for (at least) the past two whole centuries now! *P.S.:* that is also why the notation on Avi Kaplan's overtones is extremely inaccurate (because the way we interpret the notation is inaccurate in regards to the harmonic/natural series). *P.P.S.:* Avi Kaplan's overtones are clearer too because his fundamental is really low, so the higher pitches stay within a comfortable listenable range.
I think the technique Lalah Hathaway is using is not based on overtones. It's rather some weird throat mechanics. You can also hear much air in her voice while doing it. Phil Minton uses a similar technique and he does it not only with "u" vowel and his voice sounds less breathy. Here at 11:39 he's showing it much. I think the "u" vowel is more about esthetics. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-wCS4vUym0_8.html
A singer that has combined some of these more unusual techniques (overtones and yodel mostly) to create her own singing style is Diana Ankudinova a young woman from Russia that has performed on several Russian TV shows. Her interpretation of the classic Chris Isaak song "Wicked Game" is brilliant. She has used these techniques in many performances but perhaps the most stunning is "Rechenka(River)" a Russian folk music wedding song (to scare away evil spirits). BTW these would be great for reaction videos and style analysis. Links: "Wicked Game" ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-7jv-DQnf2UY.html "Rechenka" ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-I0sliHsjEr4.html For her normal singing voice check out: "Derniere Danse" ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-TvNIXBjaDxI.html
I actually know how to do a polyphonic whistle. Don't ask how because I honestly can't tell you. Despite this, I don't have any interest in learning how sing polyphonically since it's not a sound I find musically useful, being more of a party trick than anything. I think it could be used well in beat boxing if it was incorporated well and since beat boxing is basically a vocal arms race. The technique works pretty well for whistling though, since it's more stylistically akin to distortion. Edit: just got to the avi clip and I retract my statement about it not being musically useful. That was a really cool tone.
