Lalah Hathaway sings a F'ing chord Super talented
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She's singing one note and whistling the other.
Aw hell I can do that
Its basically just making that weird ufo hum/whistle sound. Just with good pitch control and awareness.Ok, sir.
If I could have seen behind that pop filter I wouldn't have even asked.
Love her voice.
Proof that talent can be hereditary.
Proof that talent can be hereditary.
Im pretty sure that's not what she's doing.
Her mom is really cool
This is my shit here.
Shits on all these bum ass mainstream singers today
It's called repetition and remember you can be taught to sing notes...some of your famous singers do that with their music today but the producer is the magician who how to mask the fact that they might not have strong vocals,wind or the range.
Live performance is what usually seperate talent from average joes....the average will have a performance with dancers,and theatrics a talented singer needs a band,maybe a few backup singers and a microphone.....
Live performance is what usually seperate talent from average joes....the average will have a performance with dancers,and theatrics a talented singer needs a band,maybe a few backup singers and a microphone.....
Well I'm absolutely sure. The voice is a monophonic instrument. The only way for the voice to produce multiple tones is through the use of overtones/harmonics, but it wouldn't sound like what she's doing.
I actually know both Lalah and her sister Donnita and could call either one to confirm right now if I wanted. But without doing all that, trust me, it's just whistling and singing simultaneously.
The voice is not strictly a monophonic instrument. It's just that the other tones are nearly inaudible.
With all due deference and respect to what you've shared, I'm still not convinced that it's whistling. I am absolutely convinced that what she is doing is what you mentioned above in bold - harmonic overtones aka throat singing, a technique mastered in several countries internationally going back to antiquity. I would imagine that if you did consult Lalah, she would tell you the same.
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James Kuczero, Professional music teacher for over 3 decades and counting
Answered Jan 8
How is Lalah Hathaway singing three-note chords by herself in this video?
She’s only producing two tones, not a true chord, using a technique called polyphonic overtone singing. Almost all sounds produced by a voice or most all instruments contain more than one sound, but the overtones are so soft you can’t really hear them. Overtones are the reason you can tell your mom’s voice from some other woman’s voice, or partly why a trumpet playing low and a trombone playing high don’t sound the same. You recognize the unique combinations of fundamental and overtones (plus the resonance produced by the mouth and sinus chambers.
In the video, she is splitting the tone she is singing using the back edge of her tongue, then emphasizing one of the other overtones on top of the fundamental tone.
Here are a few videos which demonstrate the technique. The sounds are purer in these videos, making it easier to hear. Of course, these folks aren’t scatting around their demonstrations like Lalah, so her level of difficulty is harder, even if her tones aren’t as clean.
https://www.quora.com/How-is-Lalah-Hathaway-singing-three-note-chords-by-herself-in-this-video
She's fine too.
Absolutely!
Bruh, she's whistling. Respect here too, but it's not polyphonic overtones. It's whistling, and she was singing a two note chord, not three notes.
Do you know the overtones series?
Fundamental, octave, fifth, 2nd octave, M3, Fifth, 3rd octave, M2, etc?
The examples in your videos were emphasizing certain overtones along with the fundamental, which are an octave + apart. She is singing close intervals. It's just whistling bruh.
I have two degrees in music btw.
She still fucked up Anitas song
Wow! I know our ancestors had to have mastered this shit here. Now mantras and the 'Aum' sound make even more sense.
Im too young to know who tf this is.
Honestly impressive. I could tell you had a music background.
I'm also degreed in music, sing, play and am a former private vocal coach.
I think your original suggestion was the best. To support my assertion, let's hear from the lady herself speaking about that performance:
The collaboration with Snarky Puppy came about through "Sput," Robert Searight, the drummer for the band, who's also a GRAMMY-winning producer. The band invited me to choose a song I'd either written or recorded before and play it with them in a new arrangement. I flew in, we rehearsed it once or twice and recorded it at the Jefferson Center in Roanoke, Virginia, in front of a live audience, who were arrayed around the band on the stage like after a family dinner, all wearing headphones. Going seven minutes-plus gave me the room to stretch out and do different things. The hook was that I was able to sing multiple chords at once. On the YouTube video you can see me realizing, in the moment, how to control that process. It took six minutes to get to that point, but it was an incredible, expansive experience. I went to a different place vocally to be able to manipulate those chords. People are still trying to figure out how I'm doing it. And I don't even know. It's just something I've been doing since I was 12–13 years old.
On that particular take, two distinct tones are coming out, and then we change keys and I sing two tones in a different keys. I never really used it before on a record, because I wasn't sure how to control it, and people would probably think it was fake anyway, so I only do it live, and that just happened to be the right venue. The organist, Cory Henry, and I decided before we got to that vamp that he would go wherever he was going and I'd follow him. His playing really encouraged me to come to that space. The great part of the performance is it's a real conversation between musicians. The fact [that] I was able to stretch to that point is a phenomenal gift. And it's amazing we were acknowledged for it. … I think that might've been the second take, but we performed it all the way through, with real musicians, no Auto-Tune, [we left] it as is. We weren't out to make it perfect.
I've asked people on Facebook and Twitter how they [think I] do this vocally, and [haven't] gotten one taker. I've studied the Tuvan throat singers, the Bulgarian Women's Choir and Tibetan monks — these mystical, magical people who are doing some sort of weird harmonics with their vocals. I'm trying to figure out if I can use some of that in what I do.
(At the 56th GRAMMY Awards, Lalah Hathaway and Snarky Puppy won Best R&B Performance for "Something," marking the first GRAMMY win of Hathaway's career. The win also marked the first for Brooklyn, N.Y.-based instrumental fusion band Snarky Puppy. The song is featured on Snarky Puppy's 2013 double-disc album, Family Dinner, Volume One.)
(Roy Trakin, a senior editor for HITS magazine, has written for every rock publication that ever mattered, some that didn't, and got paid by most of them.)
https://www.grammy.com/grammys/news/making-something-learn-lalah-hathaways-special-talent
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