POLYPHONIC OVERTONE SINGING - by Anna-Maria Hefele 👉 follow me!

What people said

Recommends user59277 · 2019-04 · Music: Practice & Theory Stack Exchange · on “How come you can hear individual notes but not overtones?”

With training you can actually hear the overtones. A good introduction to this is listening to polyphonic overtone singing. This is a singing technique in with the overtones of the voice are amplified by creating a 2nd resonance chamber in the mouth with tongue positioning. Here is an example of that: From listening to that you should know what they sound like, and then listen to a constant pitch and try to pick out the overtones. Once you notice them it's kind of hard to unnoticed them. I hear overtones in almost every steady pitch now.

Cites Cort Ammon · 2018-03 · Music: Practice & Theory Stack Exchange · on “How come we squish everything into one octave?”

It's helpful to remember that we're not playing just fundamentals. Every time we strike a key or blow a note, we get the fundamental and a whole set of overtones. Psychoachoustically speaking, our ears are used to this and they capture all of these frequencies together as a pitch and a quality of some sort. If we play notes from the harmonic series across the entire range of the piano, they sound disconnected. They don't sound like a chord. This is because our brain is smart. It noticed that the set of overtones it heard did not line up well with what it learned things sound like over the last few million years. The loudness of each harmonic isn't quite right for it to be a single source. Th

Cites phoog · 2022-12 · Music: Practice & Theory Stack Exchange · on “How vowels are expressed in musical notation, the case of B5 in Lilypond”

Trying to emulate Spanish vowels sound with musical notes, Not going to happen, at least not if I understand what you mean by this. I believe your thought process is as follows: At [LINK] there is a chart showing formants F1 and F2 of the vowel /a/ at 700 Hz and 1000 Hz and of /e/ at 660 Hz and 1290 Hz, so if I play two musical notes with the first two frequencies, it should sound like /a/, but with the second pair of frequencies, the two notes will sound like /e/. There are a number of problems with this line of reasoning. First, the formant isn't a precise frequency but (from English Wikipedia [LINK] ) a "broad spectral maximum." It is broad. This is reflected in the spectrographs as a dar

Cites matszwecja · 2023-08 · Music: Practice & Theory Stack Exchange · on “Can multiple instruments make a chord?”

@ConnieMnemonic Yeah, the technique is called overtone singing and let's you project several tones simultanously, eg. this [this video]

Cites Whatssuppp · 2024-03 · Music: Practice & Theory Stack Exchange · on “Is there a way to sing actual clear, nice two notes? (Polyphonic overtone singing)”

So I found this two video On polyphonic overtone singing, I'm just wondering is there a way to actually sing good two notes that doesn't sound like a weird, creepy frog? (I'm just curious..)

Cites user1079505 · 2024-04 · Music: Practice & Theory Stack Exchange · on “Pitch or frequency?”

I'd like to expand a bit the answers given by Нет войне and skinny peacock. The terms pitch and frequency describe different things. Frequency is a physics property of a periodic signal, Pitch perception is a psycho-acoustics phenomenon. In many musical situations the the fundamental frequency of a note and its pitch are very closely related, so it's common to associate these two terms. However, the perceived pitch is in fact affected by a list of factors, including harmonic content, inharmonicity, nonperiodic components and others. Frequency of a periodic signal is well defined, and can be determined with tools like Fourier transform or autocorrelation. Pitch perception is subjective, and m