How to sing REALLY low. A short Tutorial. 

CorpseHusband: *Sike*

@@artlover5060 well he has the advantage of having asid reflux fucking up his voice.

@@Equitine Yeah that too...

@@Equitine I mean it’s cool and all to have a deep voice but I wouldn’t call have GERD an advantage...

@@jonathanpenyak700 got a point there lmao.

Highly underrated comment my friend

😂😂😂😂

LMAO

Me talking to anyone:

Bruh Moment 😂😂😂

Hate to break it to you, but these two techniques are both absolutely not what metal singers use. They're both very quiet and there is no way you can scream with them. Metal vocalists use some different wacky shit to do what they do.

@@KorZen10 hate to break it to you but I’m a metal vocalist and these are the bases for learning how to scream and preparing for a scream

@@KorZen10 bro 💀

@@KorZen10 It really depends on the singer, some really scream and have such a low voice that it sounds like a growl (Glenn Benton), some actualy simply scream just soft enough to not hurt their throat (Tom Araya, Chuck Billy when he does extreme vocals etc.). There are so many ways to do metal vocals... Some (mostly modern metal) just use a tiny vocal fry and that sounds always the same and it's pretty terrible imho. There are also the reverse growl piggy grindcore lads 😄 (low volume too) So many different styles.

I am not good at breath retention when I exhale growl but I can inhale scream and growl really well. 🤘🏼😎

is bro singing viking songs now

"Is takes a long time to say anything in old entish and we ents never say anything unless it is worth taking the time to say"

@@shelbyjackson6903 oh i see a man of culture ;)

@@maximelecardinal1309 yes indeed, I see you're of the cultured variety as well

That explains the timbre of his voice!

Lol, good one

lol

You’re on to something... Alright it’s decided I’m growing out my hair

Can't beat that logic.

What about Vince Neil? 😂

My hair is down to my ass. Everything suddenly makes sense.

hahah, yeh he's said it's one of his pet peeves when people say literally when it's not literally, so he actually had to correct himself for doing it 🤣🤣

@@huldradraco well Geoff and I share that pet peeve!

Another alto/contralto here! How low can you sing. My lowest good note is a C3. I'm so sick and tired of all the people celebrating the very high notes (I have no chance at all to hit), I started to evolve my low notes, even if nobody notice it is difficult too. So I can expand my vocal range on the other end and have the possibility to sing the tenor songs, without any strain, even if it sound somekind of weird an wrong (it's still a female voice). Because there are nearly no good songs for contraltos in musicals or films.

Another alto/contralto here! How low can you sing. My lowest good note is a C3. I'm so sick and tired of all the people celebrating the very high notes (I have no chance at all to hit), I started to evolve my low notes, even if nobody notice it is difficult too. So I can expand my vocal range on the other end and have the possibility to sing the tenor songs, without any strain, even if it sound somekind of weird an wrong (it's still a female voice). Because there are nearly no good songs for contraltos in musicals or films.

@mijalheinrich4331 My range is from about F3 to E5, but I'm in my 60s now and don't have time to practice. I know I can go lower, but I really haven't done that too often. There is a place,"musicnotes" that you will find helpful. It has all types of music and you can change keys and see the range. Cher is a great alto to listen to.

​@@mijalheinrich4331 YESSS!!! I can hit a G2 comfortably without these tricks - so going into this video, I am STOKED to keep expanding my range down!! 😁 Exactly like you said, we get it - singing high is impressive. But I've been playing in the whistle tone range since I was in about 2nd grade. Singing *low* however? I didn't figure out until I turned 30!! Not to mention - how many female vocalists do you know who can sing the low registers? Not *nearly* as many as can figure out the high notes. 😁

I found out I was a contra alto mostly thanks to Geoff overall

I actually laughed at this haha.

HAHAHAHAHA

this one made me lol

@@allistercrow2405 yeah, me too! How to sing low? Answer, have a low voice lol 😁

На-на! :))))) It's so hilarious!!!!

Lowest note is around a G1, and I have hair down to mid-back. Can confirm!

I said it somewhere else, but: **cries in austin brown**

Matt? He doesn't have long hair

When Girls have also Long Hair: Is this a Joke? Seriously.. I want my Voice to be Low but nope

Im sensing a Smason and Delilah story going on

Big johnson shakd

It's like an earthquake. XD Literally. XD I can do everything else but the growl. I guess I have a good excuse for not being able to go that far, because I'm a female and I don't really want to go THAT low. I'm really proud of myself for getting this low though. Thanks Geoff! :)

I dropped my headset and now it vibrates on really low bass sounds, every single word that came out of his mouth shook my skull.

This is throat singing. They do it in Mongolia, Tuva, and Tibet.

@@PuzzledMonkey I will automatically assume there is a slight language barrier and misinterpretation of the original comments context.

Lol

Yup lol

"How to sing really REALLY low" Geoff: *walks on stage* "Just fucking do it." *leaves*

😆😂😂

I'm baritone I don't think I can do what he does it all.

Max Cormier that’s what I was thinking.

Exactly 😆

same

Lol I scrolled down to the comments as soon as he started speaking

Like...wtf? 😅😂

this is made by natural low voice gang

Be hit by the 200 wheeler called puberty

I am not a fish....(just a joke)

*wise choice*

Not "just a bass" a true Basso Profundo. Amazing!

you only do it for a few seconds each time then wait to do it again ,rinse and repeat until success

So to summarise, take a break

I am gonna be honest I didn't listen now my throat hurts like hell

i took a break, grew up and now i can do it, thanks

@@xescdelarosa3328 I think when he says "take a break" he means like, 30 mins or something LOL

Check out Venus Theory. His talking voice is quite mind-blowing, too.

@@vidarhjal JD sumner, no more

Fuck ! I wish I had a manly voice like his

Phil Anselmo also has a voice that can be measured by a seismograph.

@@vidarhjal I think I got some. My voice is still getting lower and I can sing a D2

l0l

Yeah pretty much 😂

Stolen comment

Try inward bass singing

Im not a girl, but my voice is decently higher than his and I can get a very inconsistent and out of tune a1

At least he knows.

What is the lowest note you can hit?

@@ThePlanemadness I don't know, an F2 maybe

@@blackfyre1351 pretty much same as me then. I have hit a d#2

@@ThePlanemadness I can hit lower notes but it's shakey as hell.

Late to this, but the growl that Geoff was talking about, in beatboxing terms, is chest bass. Since Mongolian throat singing, aka. throat bass/vibration bass (the subharmonic version of throat bass), uses the arytenoid cartilages to create the vibration by overlapping with our normal voice, while the growl, aka. chest bass, uses the epiglottis to vibrate, which does not include our voice. That's why you can vocalise the growl/chest bass in order to have, in beatboxing terms, vocalised chest bass, which is well-known for being used by Bass Ventura, Colaps, Sxin, etc.

Can I get an Amen?

I honestly have no clue scientifically how much ones speaking voice correlates to their singing. I'm only a 15 yr old learning bass and i speak right in between the 2st and 3rd octave which would make me more speak in an average baritone even though I know for a fact I'm a bass singer. I guess I can't say much about it until I grow much older since everyone's voice is always maturing, especially basses. But yeah, i don't know how much one's speaking voice correlates to their part. Probably has a lot to do with age

@@raphaelkelly861 I speak around an g2 and I'm a baritone

I’m a 17 year old bass baritone and I speak between G2-E2 sometimes too - my earliest recollection of my vocal range was D2-A3 and now I’m topping at A4 in full voice and I’m put in the choir’s tenor section because I can, largely thanks to mixed voice. I know a tenor only a year ahead of me who can hit C2s (and he is definitely a tenor, he’s just practiced his lows a lot and he also likes getting into vocal fry too) too. Vocal types are really broad so it’s all about your speaking voice and your natural timbre.

@@themriron2391 Same here, I talk between a E2 and G2, my lowest It's a D2, in a good day a C2, and my highest (in chest) is a G4 (I'm not saying I can belt that high everytime, normally is an E4 ), I'm 16.

So true

lmao

He hits the same E1 from the Oogie Boogie song at 5:29

You forget that is pre-recorded with multiple takes most likely and definitely been through some software. This is coming from my own experience on the same stuff.

Omg yes😱😱

Lol same

Hahaha, both for me. 🤣

Yesssss

Two dungeons deep~ and caverns old~

@@GregAtlas We must away, 'ere break of day

😂😂😂

basically, at first, take lotsa breaks

If hurts you're doing it wrong.

It will dry your chords, both vocal and false, it you put the fry in the wrong part of your throat, so aim to make the sounds above your chords and use the throat shape to create the harmonics and resonance. And have good by breath support, as if you were preparing to belt. When you first find where to make the sound and how you are not using your main vocal chords, it is surprising as hell 😄

I’m in that situation now. It’s nice

Very underrated comment my friend 😂

Seems like the type of thing that needs to be practiced once a day, every (or maybe every other) day.

What he means is that growls do hurt in the beginning and they really do, but if you continue to do it while your Throat hurts, you can seriously really fuck up your vocal chords, And what we was saying with this was to not rush it, practising stuff like this takes time, so if your throat starts to really hurt, "take a break and try again later"

Bruv i tried growling 3 times and im coughing my toes out rn

@@MrClaeb-lf7mp coughing my toes out 😂😂😂😂😂

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Now I kinda wanna hear you use subharmonics lol

Same 🤣

lol im soprano too but its fun to watch bass xdxd

So, welcome to the world of earthquakers.

I want to be able to do that cuz it sounds cool

@@Ibrahim.l20 it ruins your vocal cords, don't

@@wyattwilliams2457 worth it

@@Ibrahim.l20 P.S. It doesn't ruin your vocal chords. 😉

@@wyattwilliams2457 if you do it right and with moderation, it doesn't

U gay man.

It's very soothing

He does audiobooks

@@Solitude11-11 he does what?!?! which ones????? *goes to dig through audible*

@@thpwrbttn5454 Lol, on his channel

word

Plus Avi

Melvin Franklin, and Tim Storms can go deeper than Avi.

@@christianhenry4173 yes, but also avi has been known to blow out speakers and he uses overtone, which i dont believe either him or tim can do. So all three are talented

christian henry omg Tim storms is a legend he’s literally has the deepest voice in the world. Avi doesn’t have to much of a range.

Yes, you're right! He's just too humble to admit he's the king of subharmonics!

@@joshuaoziegbe2227 yes, you're right too.

I personally think Avi kaplan is a better singer and geoff is a better bass and tim is idk growl notes prolly as you said

@@prestonfhahn all basses are beasties xd, because ins't usually had that voice

Tim - Growls Geoff - Subharmonics Avi - Overtones

My headphones literally rattled

Ok I saw your comment and was like, oh ok so like, a growl ya know. Like he demonstrated previously. But holy fUck

EQ the air out of it. Use an Equalizer on the mic line to eliminate high frequencies like moving air.

I’ve heard true Mongolian throat singing and that sounds painful! 😱

@@stevewells5493 it's actually not, it's like any muscle or tendon - strengthening and stretching

There's a throat singing asian rock band that's pretty great called The Hu

@@joza5623 Hello there! Fellow Hu-fan!

@@Real_Petty SUGAAN ESSENAAAAA

Connor Bruley David Larson goes very into detail, you should check him out if you haven’t already

@@colefountain1030 he's a hack ...

Agni Das in what way? He seems to know what he’s talking about. He’s not an expert, but he doesn’t claim to be, and the points he does know he explains about as clearly as Geoff does here.

@@agnidas5816 I would not say he’s a hack. He’s a very clear lyric baritone that taught himself to sing lower through shear willpower and throwing stuff at a wall. He honestly is the best subharmonic singer in the world (not that big of a selection lol).

SAME...

You chicks better stay away from bass range register!

@@jessibaet5828 dude im just messing around. I know I can’t hit these notes.

@@lowkeybuckley 🤨

Post Vid of that. Your public would love to see it!

You should totally do more tutorials.

of course

he didnt do the E1 perfectly, it came out flat which if anything is actually even more impressive

I've never met an artist of any kind that gives themselves the credit they deserve. That's what makes a successful artist. They're always trying to get better at their art.

it took me 2 weeks to hit c1 with nice clear tone... we are just built differently bro. insted its been a 3 years struggle for me to hit higher notes, some progress, yes.. But i just cant go high and it dosnt matter how mutch i want it. i mean my headvoice starts at b2.. Yes im in headvoice, B2! and its F#####in impossble to hit c4 without going into falsetto.... yes, c1 sounds frikking awesome to hit, and how it resonance.. feels pritty damn good. yes. But thats also pritty mutch it.. a few awsome notes thats almost never really used.... Guess how many songs i can sing with a range from e2 and c4, maybe d4.... its like 10 songs.. i wish i could be a barritone or any other range for that matter. Yes, obviously some lower bass singer hits barritone easily. But trust me, Geoff range, and his vocal skill. Its like comparing a 100m olympic runner with a amature highschool 100m runner that is best in his school. few people can do what he can do. few! in my experience, if your talking voice isnt around f2 b2, ish. +- 3 tones.. something like that... its deffinatly not impossible, ive heard a guy with a very high speaking voice and i guess is like treble, maybe even tenor. but he hits c1d1e1f1 even subhormnic perfectly.. soo, who am i to say what can or cant be done... but if you tried for 2 years, then either there is something wrong with how you practice, idk. then something can be done. othertwise. maybe you should practice to hit notes thats more comfortable for you insted? just saying. i will never say to anyone, "you cant", all im saying, 2 years bro.. 2 years.. maybe its time to change strategy?

@@saxrendell que? flat e1, more impressive? how? no, bruh.. just. no.. like huh`? are you serious? flat e1?`more impressive then e1on pitch? a nice clear note? bruh. no. nononononononononono.

@@phillpauley6672thats the trick.. or, i would rather say, that the key for sucess, dosnt matter in what field. everyone who is successfull has the same personal trait in them. wich is as simple as they want it more then anyone else... nothing else matter as mutch.. sure natural gifted, good suport and all that is very important. but at end of the day. the one who wants it the most will end up on top. its just a matter of time. its actually at the same time, sad. becuse to achive something great also demands a little bit crazy.. success always comes with a huge price. you have to give up to achive, and for someone to pay that price for a maybe in ten years i could be that 1% that actually makes it.. yes, its a obsession. yes its mental.. yes yes yes..

Yeas that's Talent

Step 2: have long hair

I have it but normally i use higher notes to speak, but when it comes to imitate Elvis Presley or Leonard Cohen it becomes rly funny. But i want to hit a lot lower notes, but i have no place to train this :(

I speak also with deep voice as normal, but i love to switch my tones and notes while speaking so i can speak higher but my base voice note is much lower ;)

haha jokes on all of you i have both a deep ass voice and really long hair, and apparently i just tested i can naturally drop the register into subharmonics

your a godsend ty

@@jakedebagel4073 thank you.God bless you

Thank you, you amazing stranger!

What was 1?

​@@thechh8297Just having a low voice already.

He's making an offer you couldn't refuse (I know that's Godfather but idk any other mafia jokes).

Lmao, same

I'm watching it jus to listen to him talk if I'm being honest

@@wilsonclaire3352 no. Hes jus got a nice voice. Lol

Fellow soprano, just enjoying getting my brains buzzed via my eardrums 😉

You mean to "low five"? ;D

@@chasmkek no hi five, thats what makes it even more impressive XD

His voice is lower than my physics grades

....and I was 666th like 😅

His regular speaking voice is somwhere around the very lowest note i can hit with vocal cords..

his adams apple doin cheat codes (¬ ͜ʖ¬)

Hadouken?

@@derekeliopoulos2670 no

L OOOOOO L....

This comment 💀💀💀

lmfao

true, that is a huge factor. Geoff has however also practiced since highschool days to get his voice even lower than he naturally was, so practicing does help. it may only be a few notes, but every note makes a difference 🙂

Reaching new lows. That made me laugh. Thank you

One of the few times where reaching new lows are actually desirable

I personally think tenors and bass voices are a myth. With the right practice, you can do both

@@starshot5172 ahahaha 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡

​@@user-ze5nw4ks5t We had a guy in our church choir singing tenor for like years and some time ago he switched to bass. It was pretty bad in the beginning, of course, but he really improved in the span of like two hours. I definitely thought of him as just a tenor. Could be that some people just have a larger vocal scale by default, but I'm pretty sure it's about training. I am a baritone, so I've naturally had to train my voice to go all kinds of places (because of lack of songs I can comfortably sing in the proper key) and my vocal range has improved a LOT, be it bass or tenor. Please do share your opinion on the issue (you can write in Russian, I can read it).

LOL

You should check out corpse husband he makes songs

Niranjan Rajesh subharmonic

@Niranjan Rajesh subharmonic

I'll rephrase it. Nobody: Geoff: Casually hits a B1 and then subs a G1 in the beginning of the video.

Niranjan Rajesh well well well, what have we here?

Really?

@Alexandria Hauser Wow. 😂 Hello darkness my old friend...

@Alexandria Hauser Wow that's nice of you. But did you know why I was getting it? Because a vision softly creeping, came to me while I was sleeping for 5 minutes.

@Alexandria Hauser Within the sound... of silence?

@Alexandria Hauser Aww thanks. ^^ I often have dreams where I walk through narrow streets of cobblestone.

I enjoyed reading this comment thread

Same here!

CAUTION: if at any time you feel your ovaries descending, STOP IMMEDIATELY! Put on some Celine Dion, lie down, rest, and allow the poor girls to return to their original, upright position. Also, any hard, Adam's Apple-like growths that may develop on your neck or throat area deserve prompt medical attention.

Oh, just a bass attempting soprano notes over here.

Same ;w;

Same here but at least I can do a few subharmonics😂

Yes essentially. Here’s some more explanation I wrote a while back with a bit of maths. Every time you go up an octave, the frequency of the note is doubled (eg. A4 = 440hz, A5 = 880hz, A2 = 110hz etc). Let’s take the note A2 (110hz). Let’s use A2 as the fundamental to produce an A1. A perfect fifth above A2 is E3 (roughly 164.814hz). We know the vocal cords during subharmonics vibrate in a 3:2 ratio. The ratio between a tonic note and a perfect fifth is about a 3:2 ratio (give or take). So the ratio of E3:A2 is 3:2 (110hz = 2, so 55 = 1, therefore 3 = 3 x 55 which is 165, so E3 = 165 (roughly). This means when doing subharmonics, your vocal cords vibrate to relax at a 3:2 ratio, meaning they’re basically vibrating a perfect 5th apart. I would assume this also means you can also hear a bit of an E3 in the the subharmonics while you’re doing this. As for why singing in a perfect 5th produces an octave undertone? I don’t know. I’d assume it’s because the vocal cords are physically in contact with each other for less time as they’re vibrating at different speeds, so I would assume the fact that they are in contact with each other less frequently, let’s say they’re only in contact with each only 55 times a second (55hz = A1) instead of the usual 110 times a second like a normal A2 is (110hz), produces that octave drop below the fundamental.

​@@matthewdockray9745 The short behind why is sounds as the undertone is, as far as I understand, because our human ears are not terribly smart. Every note produces overtones in its harmonic series. So if you get a big, bass-y A1(Thanks Geoff) that note is actually sounding as an A1, 110Hz, and then decreasingly loud like an A2-220Hz, E3-330Hz, A4-440Hz, etc. Because of this natural phenomena, the brain is already accustomed to hearing the harmonic series when a note is truly produced so hearing that same series the brain helps to make it sound a bit more normal by filling in some gaps.

Minor detail you missed, it's actually your normal cords doing this, left chord and right chord... The frequencies have a triplet pattern, and our ears only really hear whenever both chords hit at the same time.

@@leopirdas6577, how could your true vocal cords produce two notes at the same time? I always hear people say that your singing two notes at the same time, to me it seems more like the vocal cords are only actually making contact half the number of times that they're supposed to and that's why the note is an octave lower. And then your brain for some reason fills in the original note so you end up hearing two notes when in reality you're just singing one Would you agree?

@@chrismartinez144 partly. It's like this, your right chord vibrates 220 times a second, the left goes 330 times a second, but they only hit 110 times a second, so we hear the 110 hz. However, that note doesn't technically exist (it won't really show up on those pitch graph thingy ma dolly whoopers). That make sense? My whole argument is that it's only your normal vocal folds vibrating, your false folds aren't vibrating in *this* subharmonic technique. Your false folds are engaged whenever you're doing kagyraa or throat singing/throat bass

Thanks dude!

Metal guitar does it all the time. I think distortion helps. Common technique to “play” below E without having to tune down.

@@RodrigoR9 How's it done? What's the technique called?

@@ethanmehta I learned it as an “inverted power chord”. One way to think about when playing, imagine you were to play the root-5th-octave chord, but then leave the root out. It actually sounds kinda as if the root was there. So if you want to play a power chord you can’t because the root is too low, you can do this trick by leaving the root out and playing the octave instead. Most famous example using these chords is Smoke on the Water. Most common example using them to sound lower than possible I think is Blind by Korn (and it sounds super low, they do it on the 2 lowest open strings of a 7-string). I like to use this to play some songs that normally require D tuning for some power chords, then I don’t need to tone down from E. I think it still works somewhat on an acoustic, but the effect is much bigger with distortion. I also think it’s more noticeable at lower frequencies. I’m not sure why. And it might work with other “chords” too, not sure.

tried this technique with a frequency analyzer and hit an A1 my lowest normal note is C2 lol

I think you're cute.

@@DanteLikesRock I liked your book dante but the sequel was better.

It's not that hard but all its about is control and training. Like I can hit rly low notes but I don't control them. But someday ... oh yeah they will work as I want ;)

I actually laughed out loud haha.

While you're on vacation and your truck is still at the airport

But he could hit the gas and belt it like a death metal growler no doubt, same techique, different results.

Gotta be a Samsung

@@swaggyp2823 my Samsung does well with bass :p

Wear headphones!!!

@@rudarud3849 That's literally what I said I did....

@@swaggyp2823 It's a cheap phone, a Vivo. I'd rather spend my money on other things.

Honestly there's a better way to learn it. There's a different way but it's from the beatbox community. We call it "throat bass" and there's plenty of variations, such as vibration bass. The basses can warp, such as evil bass, alien bass and such, but they won't be what you're looking for if you want to do bass singing

hahaha yes, I´m a girl and tried too hahaha in some minutes I was sounding like a dog hahaha

@@alexlozanov7640 Ah yes, a fellow beatboxer

I already can sing low and high lmao

L OOOOOO L...MY GOD BEST COMMENT !!!

it still blows my mind that Treebeard was voiced by the Actor of Gimli

The best part is, if you have closed captions on for Oogie Boogie Song, when he says "man" at the end, the CC says "subterranian" lol