This video is an introduction to the three fundamental styles of Tuvan throat singing: Kargyraa, Khoomei, and Sygyt. Examples and demonstration of techniques are provided.
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Xorekteer (Throat singing from the chest)
Generate a small bubbling sensation in your larynx by gently toning the phrase "Ahhh" and feel where the bubbling is strongest. This bubbling is created by your vocal cords/folds moving in your larynx. This is the region the throat that needs to be constricted.
Now, sing the phrase "Ahhh" and squeeze the region of the throat (the larynx) that was creating the bubbling sound in the previous exercise. When you squeeze the larynx while simultaneously singing, it creates the xorekteer voice.
Khoomei
Generate the Xorekteer voice. Now, bring the lips and mouth into the shape of a small circular opening to create a chamber for the sound to resonate in. This proper reshaping of the mouth creates the Khoomei style.
Sygyt
While still practicing Khoomei, you can now bring the tongue to the top of the jaw, filtering the sound out through a small opening wherever you feel comfortable, creating the high whistle of Sygyt.
Kargyraa (Watch our new Deep Bass Throat Singing tutorial: • Deep Bass Throat Singi... )
Begin with the mouth closed for back pressure. Begin by clearing the throat with a squeeze of the larynx. Almost like making the tone "Hmmm". When you feel the vibration of the throat coming on, open the mouth and experiment with different vowel sounds.
*Photo of Kongar-ol Ondar by Bill Loewy courtesy Wikimedia Commons
Email me at "jerry" at "didgeproject.com" for private lessons and questions.
I'm gonna try this the next time I'm in a public bathroom stall.
Jean-Paul Sartre for real lmao
Mark van Werven _good one.... good one_
Dead ass laughing!
Isnt the public restroom the right place???
Oooooooh itttttttttys hardddddddddd tooooooòooo pooooooooooo
Its 12:42 am and my whole family is sleeping and im just like GOOOOOHUAAAAAAAAAAAAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Same fam
Pretty much
🤣🤣🤣🤣
ME TO LMFAO 😂😂😂👌🏻
Lol forreal
My neighbour must think I'm having a stroke
I was doing this today and thought "I have thin walls. My neighbors hate me. Or they'll call cops"
@Charles Lee Ray cops show up I open the door throat singing and they collapse to the floor
This made me laught :-D
Or that somebody else is giving you a stroke.
Everyone: supposed to be vibing at home in quarantine Me: OOOOOOAHHhhhHOooO
Yup 😂😂
I'm in, greetings from the land of milk and honey :-)
YES SIRRRRRRRRRR
Same
best use of your time. seriously.
My 16 year old son has taken up throat singing as a way to annoy his dad....what started out as a joke is becoming a talent. He's wanting to study music in college so this is up his alley and I'd like to encourage him to learn more about this style of singing. Thank you for sharing your knowledge to inspire others!
Lol your son is awesome 😎 also never underestimate how far we will go to annoy our fathers haha
@@Saber23 thank you!!🙏🏼✨💜 it’s funny- what was annoying to his dad is actually comforting, soothing and healing to me! 🙏🏼✨💜
wow so nice to know that, your son is awesome! does he finally study music in college?
Who else is learning this during quarantine
Bro yes I’m trying my best but I haven’t made any progress 😭😣
@@emekaokaforize2993 yep same
Me
@stinkyfoot666 LMAO
Just figured out the kargyrra style...now onto the others.
He keeps saying “gentle” but his face turns red and there’s a vein bugging out in his next... why am I still super excited to try?
as long as you're not becoming red, you're doing it right. :-D
@Zaher Beaini good point but good throat singers does not become red. I think he's a beginner that puts too much effort.
Actually, the point is that his technique is quite off. What he is doing is not using larunx but compressing his vocal cords and stopping the air from coming out. That forces the cords to open periodically to let the air out. Using this technique may cause serious problems with voice, and apparently some people can injure their vocal cords (depends on the width of the cords, that is genetically difined). So, if you really want to learn throat singing I'll suggest that you go to a vocal coach that can teach you things like screaming. That is basically the same technique, but used in a slightly different way. When you really know how to use your rima vestibuli it won't be a problem anymore to figure out throat singing.
@Zaher Beaini I think he's straining the right muscles but also straining extra muscles in his neck and face which is constricting the bloodflow. Source: I'm a medical massage therapist and I study muscles and my vocal teacher gets onto me about doing this all the time. If what you said was true then just holding your breath would turn your face red, which it typically doesn't. He's still trying too hard, it's not effortless for him yet - he's still getting close enough to teach it and knows a lot more than most teachers about this. He's effectively one step ahead of the class on this one - still struggling at times to perform. It's hard! He's 100% straining too many muscles - even though his sound is right - his technique is concerning and my vocal teacher would stop him and have him relax his neck and turn his head back and forth slowly while doing this. Furthermore, you can actually hear his tension in the voice sometimes. His technique is far from perfect. He would benefit from some time with a vocal teacher who focuses on posture/positioning/tension. He's also forcing the air with too much tension instead of letting it flow out, so it's also his chest cavity with too much tension going on. Unless you've studied muscles professionally or are a vocal teacher I doubt you'd notice. It's clear to me he's stressing out his intercostals a bit much because they move so much on the onset of his sound... His shoulders and posture are also too far forward. I could literally write a paper on how his posture is off because it's my weakness. Postural foundation is key to voice. Just shifting a couple things is the difference between resonance and effortlessness and straining for me, so I assume the same applies for everyone else.
Overtone Pear kzhead.info/sun/l5yyg9eCfKace5E/bejne.html is this it?
So if my desk is floating...am I doing it right??
Yes.
Not only does my desk float but my lizard grew a ponytail and joined in with a banjo
Yes.
My parents are floating.. i think im doing it a bit overkill
😂
Tuvan throat singing is the most underrated form of music on this Earth.
That, and bass solos. 😂😂
your comment is the most underrated form of video
@@smilingface2006 what does that mean.
@@smilingface2006 that's actually the only funny cursed comment I've ever read
I am just ordinary tuvan who learn english, never expext that people around the world interesting our culture, thanks for the video
From 7:27 - watch this man turn himself into a beetroot in just 20 seconds!
WHEN YOU SEE IT COOKING ZEE
Turns out I've been idly practicing the lower tones since I was a kid
TheLarch I did this once while driving in a loud tunnel and never realized it till I found this lol
same i had no idea
Me too. Always made these sounds all the time and even learned to speak with that voice. It never hurt. I thought I was just weird. Who knew?
TheLarch I had the same realization ! And then I heard similar style singing in a sphongle song. Then I saw a pic of a NOW That’s what I call Mongolian throat singing! Which led me to this gem. I have a didgeridoo too! Everything is connected! (Also I know that NOW cd is a meme) maybe one day
Same!
I have my french final exams in 2 days... what am I doing here?
Alors comment était ton examen ?
following your actual path....
Your learning frunch lol
lol and did you do it?
Don't wreck the vocal cords singing you gunna need them to cry rape later.....remember the plan
I am now ready to conquer the Asia beyond the Altai and the Europe beyond the Urals!
Might aslo want to learn Kossack Sword Dance! ;-)
And maybe horseback riding
I had to watch 3 fake throat singing videos before getting here.
they were like cleaning throat, weren't they?
Sinan ÇINAR Aynen oyle :)
I found one other that get the xorekteer part but misses the rest.
i had to go through 17
Sinan ÇINAR Ingilizcem yerlerde nasıl yapacağız gırtlak müziğini
7:40 Not gonna lie, I was worried about you.
Haha he gets really red
Went from the colour of his wood wall to the colour of his shirt.
I laughed my ass off
It's fun to drag the cursor back and forth and watch him change colors
Finally a good teacher
For awesome teachers, check out Steve Sklar, Alex Glenfield and Alex Kuular... and many more. I wouldn't give too much credit to Beetroot-Man.
RIP neighbours - going to learn this as well during qurantine between jobs haha
My dog runs out of the room whenever I do this. Is this a good sign or a bad sign?
You have unlocked the reverse dog whistle
Normally they run off whith a high pitched peep. Now they run away from bass singing😂
My cat comes running. I have no idea.
I’ve been doing Death Metal vocals since quite sometime now and many people often think that metal and throat singing are the same techniques but it’s not quite so. Death metal growls and screams focus on the diaphragm instead of the chest and their no stress on the throat. Throat singing and metal vocals are almost opposites as they require activation of different parts of one’s throat
I go to a musical school, out of 350 students, only 19 can do Mongolian throat singing, and the fastest it took for one of them to learn it was three months. The longes was more than a year
I'm scaring my cat
delucieuse me too. He keeps running out of the room.
My cat just looks at me like im posessed
My cats seem rather worried ^^'' They both come to my room and tease me, and give that bewildered cat-look XD (Sponken as a cat: Great,.. the cuddle-slave pickedup some wierd stuff on the slavenet again. Let's calm him down before he hurts himself)
I tried this and threw up in my throat..and then had to poop
Bradley Leacock 😂
ok
What a series of unfortunate events. Idk how that happened
😆😆😆😆😆
wtf 🤣🤣🤣
I'm REALLY impressed with your abilities. I'm First Nation and our people have been throat singing since before our recorded history (it's not the exact sound as this, but the basics as far as training your body to do it are the same), I've never heard a non-indigenous person who sounded so natural at it
Wow this is a huge compliment. Thank you so much. We plan to release an updated video soon. Subscribe to our channel to stay tuned. Can you share a video of someone from your tradition throat singing?
No problem, keep up the good work! A really good example of our sound is an Inuit woman named Tanya Tagaq (the best quality ones are on her Vevo channel), she's become pretty well-known for combining traditional throat singing with contemporary music
Didge Project do you do private classes?
My grand ma was a slapaho princess but she wasn't raped by Spaniards. Yep. I have dream catchers everywhere and about 10 wolf shirts.
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Hi Jerry best throat singing... I love that fact that your are better than 99% of the videos where they don't even tell how to do it.
Or try to sell you a book
holy fuck man I cant believe it. I could do the sound after 3 minutes ofs practice. ofc I have to get better but sure I did. Perfect tutorial
Same! His teaching is clear and concise. I loved it!
Took me 7 months. My friend heard me today and instantly got the sound. And im doing it right. Some people are just lucky.
I got it but then i lost it? I dont know what i was doing, do you have also like a nasal sound to it or not any nasal at all
Much thanks for this. Practicing these styles (particularly Sygyt) is incredibly grounding.
I used to make these similar sounds when I was a really little kid. I totally forgot about it until I started coming across people doing it on KZhead. Then I was introduced to the real throat singing. How amazing. I find it very calming and healing. Whether I'm making the sounds or somebody else. And it doesn't even have to be the professional or whatever. But I really admire all of it. And think you for this video. I want to learn more about this. Blessings and peace.🤗❤🤗
Thank you so much for uploading this video. Using your technique I am able to sing Khoomei well. I'm trying to master it before moving on to Sygyt. I can't thank you enough for spreading your wisdom on this topic.
This is how I’m going to get a whole subway car to myself.
FINALLY a good video that explains clearly what's happening in the throat! Thanks so much for sharing!
Appreciate your video so much! Very well detailed. I've been wanting to find satisfactory guide to the technique for a long time
Thanks, Jerry, that was awesome! I just got back from a performance with Alash! Wow, the energy of those three is like a tidal wave.... listening to them on youtube is nothing compared to the live show! It was mesmerizing!
You sir, just made one of the most complete tuvan throat singing tutorials i've seen, and i've seen a lot of them
I'm glad that you shared these techniques with us, it is very helpful! Cheers!
Definitely the best video explaining throat singing that I've seen! Thank you!
Phenomenal instruction. I was able to produce clear overtones after 5 minutes of making an attempt. Now to practice and fine tune. So exciting! Making the bubble sound in the throat to isolate the muscles needed really helped.
yeah I was really impressed by the technical explanation and where the difference is with other styles/traditions
Awesome tutorial, I still have a long road, but with this video and 30 min of practice I got the trick! For a clumsy guy is not that bad jajajajajajajaja I've made the first step, 1000 miles ahead
Bro did you manage to do it
Thank you for making this video, it has been by far the most helpful! I go back to it time and time as I'm practicing and trying to learn these styles!
I have decided to take up throat singing. And your video is the best. I have watched it multiple times for practice.
I finally understood that the "Siren: Blood Curse" theme is Kargyraa style!
Greetings my fellow throat singer!
This the best Tuvan throat singing basic tutorial ever! Thank you so much! Your explanation was so easy to understand that I got it on the first try. I’m sending you my love and appreciation for your teaching.
this definitely taught me the fundamentals and what i was looking for. thank you so much for your specific walk through on this. i feel like it laid the ground work to practice on my own time and learn the more advanced techniques naturally.
I sound like a dying whale whilst doing this
Enderaya So does he. 😂
I doubt you can reach the deep sounds a whale can doe.
nailed it!
I'm jealous
Yeah so does he 😂😂😂😂
I have been practicing extreme vocals now for probably 3 maybe 4 years, and I just found out that I have been doing bits and pieces of Tuvan Throat Singing without even knowing what it was. Knowing what it is now, and how to control it, I can easily say that I likely learn how to get lower lows. In addition, this is helping me to learn how to loosen my throat even more and achieve specific high tones.
damn, a proper functioning, practical tutorial that shows the necessities and what to do to get results, i'm impressed. Great tutorial
Good job ! I was lost with all of theses videos but now with your's i can exercise decently. Thank you a lot :)
Starts throat singing at midnight. Coughs the hell out waking everyone.
Fun fact, I accidentally learned this technique from actively doing over exsaggarated smash mouth all-star impressions
Thank you so much !!! Your explaination is white and clean !!! You are a feeler dude. I wasn't doing the chest exhaling and it changed in good. Very nice gift to the world this video. Love the practice !
I've been trying to do this all day and this is the only video that actually got me to do it
My throat feels like a 300kg grown man covered in razer blades and battery acid slid down my throat and at the same time hadnt cut his nails for 6 years and is clawing my throat walls as hes sliding down and just for good measure rubs his acid reflux he got the night before from eating raw onion, fried spicy pig fat and garlic onto my bleeding throat. Informative vid though, cheers from South Africa. 🎠
Julian K 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Also from South Africa
another south african, cheers
Julian K only an SA can complain like that 😆
Wow You should stop😝
Well done. Great description and demonstration. I have been an overtone singer for 30 years and and a throat singer for only 20. That was because it needed some adaption from the standard approach due to me being a bass baritone. There are two things I can add. The last technique is singing two different pitches with the voice box. We usually lead with membrane and muscle follows in sympathetic vibration, but with throat singing, we lead with muscle and membrane follows. This disconnection between the two is the hardest to master. The other feature is that tightening the singing muscle turns the vocal system from a pipe into a cylinder. In other words, a soft system within the tube becomes a hard surface from which sound emerges. This activates the resonant systems of mouth, throat, and the combination of mouth and throat. I was a didgeridoo player before I became an overtone singer and choir/performance conductor. I was able to double my vocal range. Eventually, I realised that as a didgeridoo player, I had the skills to advance to brass and bought a euphonium. I then invented the bass bugle which is a compact didgeridoo in the key of C where I can play any tune and often in three different keys. This is me playing the USA Stars and Stripes on bugle with every note in place. kzhead.info/sun/qruLnq1raWuubK8/bejne.html. As a vocalist we can use overtones and vowels to set the pitch of the voice box rather than guessing. That means perfect pitch if you grow up doing it, or great relative pitch and confidence otherwise.
this is the best! your "bubbling technique broke new ground for me. I started with digeridoo and it too drew me into the harmonics. :)
Best tutorial on KZhead! Very well explained and as you say, too many people seem to be doing false Khoomei and Sygyt on KZhead.
Practicing at my desk my son thought I had a stroke....DAMNIT!
Dang! Thanks jerry, this is by far the best video I've found on youtube for throat singing. Will you be doing more videos on this? :)
Yes there are more in the works!
Great to hear, very good explanation - still trying to get sygyt down personally, I can't whistle very well
This has got to be the most intuitive explanation of polyphonic/throat singing I've come across so far.
Dude you’re a great teacher, I’m getting the sounds on the first try. Thank you!
I came here after I was playing around with it by myself after I listened to some Viking like music haha and there was throat singing in it. But I realized I naturally could do this already and from what you are explaining is that I actually did find the right way. But after 10 minutes my throat was dead and I realize it's gonna take some time to learn to do this for long.
What my neighbours hear every night: "HUUUUUUUAAAOOOOOOOOOOO"
Well done! Excellent basics for getting the pump primed in throat singing, gratitude for your efforts, thank you very big!
I love that you showed us what you meant with the balloon. Adorable. This really helped me. I'm. Vocalist (singer/songwriter) and I love trying out this new stuff! This, multi tonal, and kulning. All amazing vocal arts to learn and study!!!
I forgot I had this video saved from 2020 and can say I finally did it! 😂💜🤟 That one sound I did as a kid and can still do paid off. SO COOL! Thank you!!! 🥰
SHIT, i've just done sygyt for the first time in my life, your explanation clearly helped! Hearing this from own throat is fantastic.
Excellent instructional video, the graphics and explanations were first rate. Thank you.
100% best throat singing video so far! thanks!!
Thanks sharing all your knowledge brother... i am in Mongolia right now and i a haven't found anybody to teach me so far... Tomorrow I start singing in the Mountains! Thanks!
darn I thought there were at least some schools in UB?
So watching this made me realize I have been able to do the Kargyraa thing for a long time, I just didn't know it was a thing lol This clicked with me and makes me actually want to learn more about this.
BEST Tuvan throat singing lesson EVER!
It's loud for this time of day . Thank you for the lesson.
Thanks a lot for explaining and showing, how this can be done. I know also a name for the " Vibrating Sound : " vocal Fry " I can do it inward better, but now, I also know, how to do it outward. I think, I'll just have to practice more, to get it more clear and loud 😊
6:51 when he messed up had me cracking up lol
IamSequoia me too🤣🤣🤣🤣
You are a great teacher I learned how to do this by accident years ago but it always hurted, and now im improving by the day and every day it hurts less!!!
Hey, you're the man. I was really hurting my throat doing the Kargyraa and using your suggestions, it's much less painful now!
Wow, would you look at that, a video about Tuvan styles that actually helped! Many thanks! :)
brushes off western overtone singing *Anna Maria Hefele wants to know your location*
Just found her videos, too. Nice.
Thank you so much for sharing this ancient, beautiful knowledge!
Thanks a lot for this video! I've been practicing for a few weeks (listening to The Hu) and with your tips, it feels really good now! Loving it.
I've been doing those low tones like that for years, didn't know it was related to this, so that's interesting. I was a while ago trying to learn subhamonic singing, and I got to a point where I could make sounds several octaves lower than my lowest chest note under normal singing conditions, I assumed my tone was just not practiced enough to sound smoother like subharmonic singing sounds, but it ends up I had instead accidentally fell into bass throat singing.
I finally do it!!!
This was the most helpful video I have found. Thank you
Holy shit! Ive watched a bunch of throat singing vids and got a little progress but you helped me crack the code past the plateau i was at! Way beyond thanks for expanding my knowledge brother!
Thank you so much for this video. I have only found one other real throat singer willing to teach in detail on KZhead, but he wants you to pay for the tutorials. I do think people need to be careful watching these types of videos and trying it just because it is such an advanced skill that needs to be done right, but at the same time it can be fairly easy as long as you have the correct teachings. I'm sort of upset that somebody would want to profit off of something so beautiful and not just show the world like you do. I hope to watch more of your videos in the future and follow you on your adventures!
The technique is somewhat similair to pig squeeling. So me knowing squeeling since before really helped me to do this,
its becaue it uses the false cords
Jesse i squeal with frys man!
Great Introduction. Thanks Chief!
Thank you so much for a great lesson. Your sincerity comes through. Respect!
awesome, i wont claim to be anywere close to pleasant to hear xD but i can now actually manage to hold a single tone for over a minute thanks to your video, trying to change the pitch however keeps ending up in the vibration traveling up towards my mouth if you understand what i mean, it loses the drone an ends up in just ordinary humming.... but hopefully its a matter of practise
Look up the video "Mongolian throat singing -Batzorig Vaanchig"
You will learn the shapes and resonances of your mouth, tongue and other aspects over time as you find what works best and doesn't
Me: Croaking My cat: 🙀
Thank you so much for this! I'm having a lot of fun with these sounds!
thank you very much. with this tutorial i got pretty fast the feeling I need to have to create those over tones with a natural feeling air flow. Now I know and am able to imagine how it should feel to produce those over tones to train to reproduce those without stressing my voice. I am trying to increase my ability to sing without a teacher at the moment so I try to learn different techniques to get better controll to increase the feeling and natural use of my voice. You really helped with that without me trying to stress my voice one single time, thank's for that.
Them: “when you come out of quarantine, you should be better than when you went in” Me: way ahead of you!
I'm going to practice this while driving on the highway so I'm not freaking out neighbors!
The sensation you are describing in the chest is something I have accidentally experienced doing low metal growls. Super excited to have that clarified for me.
Thank you Jerry. Top notch teacher. Gonna have a go at this. Yuma,AZ.
0:07 when you're eating fish and you think you accidentally ingested a fish bone
Did that once. 15 minutes to hook it out of my throat by hand. Good times.
Me at 5 in the afternoon: MMMMMMMAAAAHHWWOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO *- Insane voice cracks -* mMMMMMMMOOOOOOO Everyone else: "Who left the dying vaccum on?"
😐
Nice, very thoughtful and serious!
Thank you! I'm practicing throat bass for beatbox and I found this video helped tremendously .. Thanks so much, very good well done