Chords for Vocal Coach Reacts to Mongolian Throat Singing - Bukhchuluun Ganburged

Welcome back to The Vocalist.
Today we are listening to a Mongolian singer named Buku.
I hope I pronounced that correctly.
_ This performance is from a TEDxSydney event in
2016.
I just want to read a little blurb that they have here.
It says, performing the folk
musics of Mongolia and exploring the oral dimensions [Dm] of sounds generated by traditional
_ instruments and harmonic overtone vocal techniques.
So we'll leave it at that.
I have a feeling this
is just going to be so cool.
So let's do it.
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_ Oh my gosh.
_ _ I won't go back.
I might have to collect my thoughts with this. _
_ The one thing that stood out to me is_
Nope, we're just gonna keep going.
Oh my gosh. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [Gm] _ [G#] Hi everyone.
_ I come from Mongolia and I just showed you _ _ _
Mongolian throat singing.
_ I'll quickly introduce my instrument as well.
This is called the
mernghur.
Mer means horse, hur means fiddle.
You can call it horse head fiddle or horse hair fiddle.
Because two strings look like _ [G] _ [C] just _ _ _ strings but it's horse tail.
_ And bow is horse tail.
Which means I play horse tail with horse tail.
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_ _ _ _ _ [D] And so I would like to sing with you now from the center till end of the left hand side.
Please
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_ _ From _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ right _ till end of the right hand side.
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Now together.
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Until I finish my song, please keep [N] going. _
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That was _ stunning.
_ I'm so glad we got to see him close up both while he was singing
and while he was playing.
_ _ Obviously I have no training in Mongolian throat singing,
but what it did remind me of is formants, which we talk a lot about in like western classical music.
So it's the idea that, well this is why I talk about vowel modification a lot with my singers
and I mentioned it here on the channel because certain vowel sounds like certain frequencies.
And there are two demonstrations that have always resonated _ _ with me.
So I'm gonna attempt them
today.
I'm gonna speak into the microphone and when I go through the vowel sounds,
you'll notice the pitch changes even when I'm whispering. _ _ _
_ _ _ [F#m] _ _ _ So you can hear how the sound gets a
little bit warmer, a little bit darker, a little bit deeper.
And then the other one, which I'm not
very good at doing, it's like you can sort of flick.
_ I'll try it.
If I say the vowels, A, E,
I, O, U, _ _ _ _ _ _ _ that wasn't a very good demonstration.
Some people are way better at that than I am,
but it shows kind of like the arc of the vowels and within, I think that's the second formant.
_ _ So _ I would have to, oh my goodness, I'm so curious because there were moments when it
sounded like he was whistling and I don't know if he had to also use like his nasal
_ _ passage to do that.
_ _ _ I'm sure I can find so much more from him online so that's what I'm gonna do
because that was, it was beautiful.
The melody of that song was gorgeous, but then to just see
the dexterity, like he has to have such incredible control over _ _ everything, like his tongue, his jaw,
his oral cavity, his nasal passage, _ and of course his chords. _
There was just so much going on.
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was so, so amazing to see.
_ _ _ That's it for today.
I know I didn't really like _ analyze, but how could
I?
I mean, that was just so fascinating to watch. _
_ _ [G#] Thank you for this recommendation.
Yes, I will be,
I will be going down the rabbit hole, I think, on this one.
So
thank you for watching with me and hopefully I will