Ambassadors of Harmony - Tuning Overtones!

Ambassadors of Harmony creating some amazing overtones under the direction of Jim Henry.

Song: Loch Lomond.

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Music

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• overtones
• barbershop
• chorus
• ambassadors
• of
• harmony
• quartet
• jim
• henry
• bhsbass

[Icyveins906]

@trudbol Finally someone who understasnds the physics of sound! XD I will say this though, each and every person must "create" their overtones before being able to overlap them. Some of the best leads like Tony De Rosa have audible overtones in their lone voices. Barbershop is a funny beast, kind of a fusion of jazz and eastern harmonic overtone singing.

[trudbol]

@jlabfh755 What @fastragger meant is that is that the overtones aren't "created", they already exist in each person's sound: an overtone is just another word for a harmonic (sound frequencies that are multiples of the pitch frequency). When people sing in tune, they position their pitches in a particular configuration that enables their (already existing) overtones to start overlapping, hereby making these overtones more audible. The sung vowel will also affect overtones (the "formants").

[jlabfh755]

@fastragger Actually they are creating overtones, it is extremely possible to hear overtones with any chord as overtones are not created but simply enhanced by tuning and vowel shape. And as you can see at 0:38, Jim was asking them to activate a particular overtone. If it weren't possible to activate overtones with every chord, well then we wouldn't have something to strive toward in barbershop now would we :)

[tman8077]

I hear them!!!

[fastragger]

This is great work, but you all should look up what "OVERTONES" are.

This excellent practice session has nothing to do with overtones. It is working on tuning difficult chords that contain unusual intervals such as major sevenths, adjacent chromatics and tritones. In fact, an overtone is not created with these kinds of chords.

[TheBandGeekInvasion]

@us2guam2us Yeah. They were considered the "Devil's Chord" The most famous use of the tri-tone is in West Side Story's "Maria" (Fun Fact: if you listen to "The Simpsons" theme, the opening "Theee Siiiimpsooons" is a tritone.)

[us2guam2us]

@ImBradMusic "a musical interval that spans three whole tones" not commonly used because, if i remember correctly, in the medieval ages tritone's were "satanic"

[SweetAdeline1977]

Wow! I wish we spent as much time working our overtones like this!

[davec727]

@powerofiandi oh, yeah, the chord before it is a nice minor second. Maybe the timestamp was off :)

[powerofiandi]

@davec727 i defenitely hear a dissonance. it sounds like a minor second to me. i dont have the music obviously but it sounds to me like a 2nd of some kind. i think the interval right after is a perfect 4th. i'm assuming he was talking about the dissonance, sorry if im way off. either way this i love tuning chords like these. SO INTENSE i like it