Wednesday, August 27, 2008

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Well, I figured out how to throat sing today. I'm not entirely certain how, though.
I was just sorta perusin' through my falsetto while listening to my iTunes, and found a note that hit some overtones. So I used it, and it worked.

Throat singing is where you find a note that resonates in your head/throat/body particularly well. As a result, you get some pretty nifty whistle-like notes. The end effect is that you're singing two notes at once. By changing the shape of the air column in your throat, the overtone changes, without the base note changing. The people most known for throat singing are the Tibetans, I believe.

So I randomly figured out how to do this. And promptly remembered a little tidbit: Throat singers are somewhat famous for losing their voice by age 30. So I will be throat singing not-so-often. But It's cool to know how.

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