Three Rare Styles of Overtone Singing (Throat Singing)

[oilfortheworld]

ääää ok pils beer and drugs this is the correct medik and you are normal:)

[lurker901]

Your khat kargyraa sounds kinda like motorbike revving up there...was that on purpose?

[mariobro0193]

theres a bug on your shirt!!!!



[iskim86]

cemetery throat singing

[opandaquevoa]

Awsome! Do you practice shamanism? I guess i know the answer :) wish you well

[TwentyHydros]

OOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHOOOOOOH­OOOOOOOHHHHHHHHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO­oinsh.....-GASP- OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHH

[BirdOfParadise777]

OK. It is kinda creepy that you are doing this in a cemetary. That doesn't make me want to try this very bad! ;/

[Japanorama]

imagine going to put some flowers down for your gran or grandad and hearing this behind the tree... I would be like ........... O.O

[mrmoss6881]

I am not "mystical" if you know what I mean, but I have had vivid dreams where I am singing like this fluently. Then I try (awake) and can't. Just had to tell someone who knows what Tuva is.And I admire you for talent and perseverance.

[assassinbbx]

question is, can you beatbox while doing this...? 

[write2yibo]

i love the metal sound in all this <3

[Sydnoxi]

This is beautiful. Though I'm sure anyone walking in the cemetery who heard this would have run for their lives LOL

[artregeous]

tuva from china ? all turkaic step nomads share same tradition eveb american indians even hopi pathenon matches with sumerian pathenon i wonder what is not included in written sociantropology link to expandinh earth theory and unwritten tengrizm

[TheMrPalzan]

2:51 I almost shat in my fucking pants! I was so not prepared for this! But it's awesome anyway.

[Lyrext]

No offense, but your audience seems a little... dead.

[Ardemane]

Oh, thanks for your vids, are really appreciated!

Also, many people here would just LOVE some tutorials from you! (I mean -love-)

[Glenfuch]

@Ardemane Check out the blog OVERTONE SINGING: THE MUSIC OF SOUND. That's the closest thing I have to a tutorial.

[bangersfuzzy]

@Ardemane Cool Video.

[DarthNihilus1]

3:00

I was landing my spaceship, and the Alien air traffic controller shouted out that there was an open landing pad.

3:11 Don't step over the edge and face the being that produced THIS sound..

[MegaAHAP]

nice i can khoomei

its tuva im mongolia

[afareni]

Beautiful... I want to learn badly, can I learn simply by imitating videos on youtube with practice?

[Glenfuch]

@afareni Please see the blog OVERTONE SINGING: THE MUSIC OF SOUND. View all posts, and watch for more to come. All tips I have to offer, or ever will have to offer, shall be found there. Be well.

[chedca]

love wind, very difficult i find

[Trantum666]

Awesome! Respect from Hungary!

[erin303mezzo]

Thank you for your amazing videos. So informative and expertly demonstrated. Thank you for your genius.

[fleckx]

This needs a dubstep remix.

[TheIVVPLabs]

How much does this hurt/damage your throat?

[JRowe47]

@TheIVVPLabs not at all, if you're doing it right. Western trained singers get part of the picture when they train their head, nose, and chest voices. Tuvan style throat singing takes those concepts to an extreme and teach how to finetune the modulation of normal sound waves, in conjunction with mouth shapes and the esophogeal fold, to produce an incredible array of sounds.

Don't ever strain, simply follow the tutorials for Tuvan, throat singing, khargyraa, or overtone singing.

[metaldorksforever666]

@TheIVVPLabs It shouldn't at all.

[WonderfulDenmark]

The original death metal.

[anusrisweet]

retarted :)))

[Tiwaking]

Du er den bedste!!

[jugglergc]

@Tiwaking En anden dansk strubesang fan?

[Tiwaking]

@jugglergc Nej. Jeg er fra New Zealand men jeg er lære Dansk fra YouTuber Masteroth1!

[BLUYES422]

sounds painfull

[Tiwaking]

@BLUYES422 khoor kargyraa sounds incredibly painful!!

[BLUYES422]

it no longer sounds like a person and now sounds like an instrument 

[TRIAM1D]

This is awesome. At times the formant of your voice almost sounds like a Roland TB-303

[Bayplaces]

I'm mostly struggling with Enzengileer. Hearing it is what initially got me to try to learn how to throat sing, but at least I've got a bit of it down.

I appreciate your videos dude. They helped me out a lot. Now my friend plays the Didgeridoo and I throat sing.

[kreishaoro]

I respect the way you carry forward your teachers' culture through the words (in their language) that you use, and your humility in presenting it/disseminating it to others here. I trust you reached the proficiency you have because you really did listen good with more than just your ears. Thank you.

[Rhinoch8]

Just amazing. I Wish i could learn it!

[MrViola94]

So I've seen this video like eight times and only now realized there a graveyard in the background. Observation points - 60.

[hippyable]

totally shagged up! cool! one talented man.

[hippyable]

totally shagged up! cool!

[LOL4618]

Amazing, man:)

[brookeworm27]

it wld be rly cool if you took popular songs and sang them like this......... evanescence wld sound insane!

[americanfella]

You are exceptional!

[kahtuh]

You are a natural. Thanks man.

Liked the captions too... interesting to learn the cultural origins of some of the sounds. 

[EBE246]

Lol dude, at 3:32 a bug starting climbing you like, hey this guy sounds interesting, or Ohhhh my great master, ahh listen to that , and while he climbs, master, may i cuddle here, lol, anyways once again, u sound good.

[EBE246]

Have you seen this vid, it kicks ass, watch?v=HwANedEkqaY

[EBE246]

Oh yeah, you sound so good doing this, that when you did the 2nd one, I ended up getting goosebumps, lol, whooo, *shoulder shrugs* ahhh, lol. Peace.

[EBE246]

I can imagine the possibilities one can make, or imagine devices that create certain effects like levitation or destruction, etc etc, because when you look at that and how now we got ultrasonic levitation which levitates objects using sound and frequencies to levitate them, it's on a small scale but who says we can't go big on that, I fancy the idea that there might be natural ways to get some of those results, maybe maybe not, but but who knows what can happen.

[EBE246]

Dude you sound good, I'm watching tesla and physics and schumann resonance or cavity, You know how certain things have certain resonance,in this physic vid watch?v=q4setd7BZWM i saw the guy talking about helium and how it changes voice resonance too high, and sulfur hexaflouride makes it lower, now you know how certain things have certain resonant sounds, what were to happen if you sang that specific sound and fooled with these gases, while overtone singing.

[SpiralOut011]

Hi, I'd be very interested in some skype lessons. Are you doing those yet? I have just somehow practiced my way into producing reasonably good overtones but would love to be able to take it further into more variation in tone etc. Plus I'd literally pay fives of dollars extra for a tutor with a great sense of humour.

[jahchild1904]

I know you taught yourself all of this, but did you have any instructions at all? I've been trying to learn for years, and one of my sources is your older video, but I've hit a stopping point where I can't seem to get any better (I'm really no good at all as it is). What do you recommend?

[Glenfuch]

@jahchild1904 I took a few lessons with Tuvan pros and those lessons consisted entirely of listening and repeating, or call and answer. No instructions were delivered. Careful imitation is all you have to go on. Do you have a visual guide of the overtone series in musical notation? Singing and identifying which partial you are isolating is helpful for becoming musical with the overtones.

[jahchild1904]

@Glenfuch Hm no I don't, I guess I don't know enough about the overtone series yet. As for the listening and repeating, that's pretty much what I try to do, but it's sometimes hard to know from listening to yourself whether it's right or not. Anyway, where would I get this visual guide? (Thanks for the reply, by the way!)

[CopperEye108]

Holy smokes that's awesome. I love Ezengileer.

[ChiefBada]

That last style... Was strangely beautiful... I have no idea why, and it sound kinda cliche, but it touched me somehow... I want to go be with my family...

[TheSatanicGamer]

how can i learn that last style of singing?

[jazzercizor]

May I ask where you learned these techniques? Did you have a mentor? I really wouldn't mind moving to Mongolia, but I'm wondering if there's a more convenient way.

[Glenfuch]

@jazzercizor I learned these techniques by listening and borrowing from brass fundamentals. I was in Tuva a couple times and took a few lessons with Sergei Ondar and Fedor Tau, but the Tuvan way of learning is very much just a matter of listening and repeating: straight ahead call and answer. It works! if you really listen.

[Glenfuch]

@jazzercizor I don't mean to sound mystical or aloof, but simply "lift" what you want to hear. Experiment, make reasonable and playful adjustments to your sound, record yourself and listen, and do it every day. Probably, however, there are some physiological aptitudes that might make one person more able to amplify the harmonics than another. At the dentist a while back, x-rays revealed that my sinuses sit very low and almost to the roots of my teeth and hard palette. But who knows!?

[Wongraven559]

@jazzercizor just practice a lot, everyone has the ablility to throat sing but you must practice a lot and be ablt to sing in general also :) if you need any help let me know and i can help you out im a throat singer as well and i know all of these techniques too check me out at wongraven559 :)

[deathmetalterrorist]

Are you a baritone or a bass? I'm a tenor I don't seem to be able to hit those low notes.

[Glenfuch]

@deathmetalterrorist I'm in the baritone/bass range, so yes, the range of your kargyraa will parallel your natural singing voice.

[eleventhing]

@deathmetalterrorist me either :[



[balcer9]

So white people can do that as good as native Tuvans and Mongolians etc... good to know. 'm practicing my khomei for about a year now and I'm nowhere near to your singing.

[eleventhing]

lovely :]

[mfchaosfilms]

Chuck Norris approves this.

[Glenfuch]

@mfchaosfilms Now only if I could earn the approval of Steven Seagal.

[MadMadamJess]

Incredible, my friend..I love the cemetery back drop..so appropriate and spiritual. YES! Where did you learn to do this? Any reference materials you can direct me to?

xoxoxo

-jess

[trumpetman]

Hey, I'm a fan! But just one question... What's the deal with the cemetery?

[Glenfuch]

@trumpetman The deal? I dunno. Seemed like a quiet enough place. The ceremony taking place a few plots over didn't seem to mind.

[trumpetman]

@Glenfuch Cool, I was just wondering. LOL Do you travel to Chicago often? I'd like to hear you live sometime!

[Glenfuch]

@trumpetman I don't come to Chicago too often. The spirits don't like to let me out of my shadow prison. But I'm always willing to break free if you have an idea and a way to get me there! I'm very easy to get along with. Just call, and I will come!

[EZSciFiMetal]

I just came here to say that I absolutely love your work. Also, you seem to be really funny as well. You could easily find a job as a humor columnist writing for a website.

[Glenfuch]

@EZSciFiMetal Thanks a million and one! If you know of any positions for an overtone-singing humor columnist, please don't hesitate to give them my name.

[balnazzar10]

=]

[misterbenberry]

i requested you on face book today. it is important that we are friends. i live in buffalo ny. please get back.

[bot1235]

hi Alex!

How long do you sing cut ´n o-tones?

Best in vid is from 1:28 - 2:48!

[Wheel333]

Inspirational sounds thanks. My cat thinks that my concertina actually doesn't sound so bad now compared to my newly discovered Khargyraa.

[rudypea]

My cat approves of this singing.

[Glenfuch]

@rudypea My cats don't mind it, but I wouldn't say they approve. I know they'd much rather I focus my energies on a more respectable career pursuit. Nevertheless, I hope your this singing leaves your cats feeline good!

[Glenfuch]

Yes, it is. I plan to retire there. Actually, I don't want to be buried, nor do I want to be cremated. I want to be fossilized. 

[Mourtsos]

is this a cemetery behind you?wtF?

[sitarooman]

This is some pretty amazing stuff. Are you and ethnomusicologist or how did you come to learn these obscure techniques? You're the best westerner I've ever seen! I've been trying to teach myself but the shear number of styles you know is overwhelming. Keep up the awesome tradition!

[Glenfuch]

@Nullll1111 Oh, that's just a little multitracking of my own singing, distilling down to a little piece entitled "Sun On Mu." Cute, isn't it?

[TajMikel]

How did you learn this so well? Well done!

[rowanhartsuiker]

"khoor kargyraa" sounds really nice, amazing really.

never heard of the name though.

[SpeedFreakNO]

Very impressive, this and the other video I've seen.

That sound is so awesome. Going to have to try and learn this :)

It's just amazing =)

[Skelic]

You are extremely skilled, you should release your work maybe via purchaseable MP3s and I would most definitely buy them! Thanks for these clips.

[Glenfuch]

@Skelic You're welcome, and thank you! At present I'm recordng a 45 minute long piece using overtone singing techniques. Keep an ear open for it. I hope to be done with it by the end of September.

[Karanis]

@Glenfuch I look forward to that. Keep us updated!

[greenishwitch]

Human Didgeridoo!! Wonderful music! Thank you!!

[lateralus411]

Very nicely done!

[Wongraven559]

i love it Alex im a throat singer as well and i sing all different kinds of styles these ones are really fun to do and you sound great i could listen all day, please do some more videos in the future i love all the different styles :)

[LeeJamYam]

Are you doing this in a cemetery?

[Glenfuch]

@LeeJamYam Yes, I am. I wanted to sing in a natural location, but it was rather hard to find a quiet place. The most quietude I could find was among the deceased. They didn't seem to mind.

[punchingjudy]

@Glenfuch Do you prefer overtone singing outside or in acoustic spaces?

[oblepikha]

Fantastic!

[synapse349]

Nice.

[MrJBoma]

The tone of your khoor sygyt reminds me a little bit of the chanter in canto di tenore style of polytonal singing from Sardinia.

[Glenfuch]

@MrJBoma Yes, the vocal technique is identical to the subtone singing of Sardinian quartets. I have not heard much of the bass tenore voice that moves around melodically. The choirs do place lots of spiritual emphasis on the "quintina", which is the virtual fifth voice consisting entirely of harmonics. The quintina seems to appear out of thin air.

[Glenfuch]

@MrJBoma Oh wait, my mistake. You are referring to the sygyt, not kargyraa. But yes, that is another similarity!