I used to work so hard on this.. it's such a nice feeling on tuba. This live performance in particular is astounding.

care to explain how this works technically ?

@@Bladavia Baadsvik plays the bottom notes (stems down) and sings through the tuba the top notes. Having played multiphonics before, the farther away the two notes are, the easier it is to play. In this specific composition, Baadsvik plays a Bb2 and also sings a Bb2 to start the song, and it is truly something else. If you want to check out more Baadsvik, he has a whole TEDx Talk where he talks about the Tuba Virtuosity and plays the entirety of Fnugg as well as Czardas.

​@TuBachle noice

I thought Fnugg was the style of playing.

Was thinking exactly the same thing! Multiphonics is honestly my favourite part of practicing Didgeridoo

It feels so good when you do this on a didgeridoo and you feel the soundwaves slowly perfectly overlapping harmonically.

That has to be Mongolian throat singing. That is amazing.

yeah it’s so cool

True, it hurts tho

5ths are way easier for me, I can't do octaves to save my life

Same exept baritone

Definitely does sound a bit like a didge

If I understand playing tuba correctly, what he's doing is exactly how you get similar two-note chords on a didge, so it shouldn't be a surprise that some tubes resonating sound similar.

@Eskil Wehus I am not! This was on his US tour in ... fall 2018 I think?

he does do those !

HHAAHAH I had this happen

Real

They happen to also be able to throat sing. [Captain Obvious signing out] 🫡

@@athenovae hmmm... This is actually done by singing normally. Inside of a tuba.

@@enzolescure5833 can confirm as I play tuba as a freshman

@@enzolescure5833 I'm agreeing with you? I think you've misunderstood

you can do this on sax too but it's slightly different and called growling

;D good one

yes.

ok

“Can you play your B flat scale sir?” “Certainly!” *proceeds to play every single note at once*

you sound like a 🤓 because you used the word "just", mongolian throat singing isn't just singing, ur not 🧐

Yeah, this has little to do with mongolian throat singing, I think that is not even physically possible with a brass instrument? This technique is also pretty great to do with harmonicas/bluesharps and other reed instruments.

Is jethro tull locomotive breath also a good excample? He's also kind of beatboxing into his flute

@@C4pt41nN3m0 Oh, I should've been more specific perhaps. I think you maybe are referring to "growls" or the throaty voice that's also heavily used in metal music? Which absolutely is possible yeah I agree. What I was referring to is the modulation of overtones within the shape of the mouth that is accompanied with that in Mongolian throat singing that creates the distinctive sound of having "multiple notes" going at the same time. Hence it also being called "overtone singing". (I should note this isn't the case for all types of throat singing, nor is it unique to Mongolian throat singing) That part isn't possible I think, because that relies on the produced sound going through the mouth in order to be modulated, amplifying some frequencies while attenuating others. It kind of functions like a frequency filter or EQ on the sound coming from the vocal cords. That's why you want either a fairly tight and constricted vocal sound, or do the raspy voice with false vocal cord flaps, since that gives you more frequency content in the sound to work with, so you get stronger overtones. But in brass and reed instruments the sound only happens after it exits the mouth (or at the lips, in the case of brass), so the mouth shape does very little to the sound in the same way you can with overtone singing (it does a little bit, but you can't do the whole modulating thing I just talked about). You would have to have some way to change the shape of the instrument itself (including the aperture size) in order to get that kind of funky stuff to happen, which might actually be an interesting experimental instrument to design now that I think of it...

@@C4pt41nN3m0 Yeah sorry, that's something I gotta see/hear to believe really, because I'm not sure if that's possible. Since overtone polyphonic singing is really dependent on embouchure to be correct (mostly aperture size though) otherwise it just doesn't sound out. Not to my experience with doing both kargyraa and sygyt throat singing, and not what I've seen other Mongolian/Tuvan/Altai/etc throat singers seen do either, when they perform it with strong sounding overtones. Would love to be proven wrong however, because that does sound pretty cool, but I wonder what's really happening there.

Wth