MUSIC 103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Head Voice, Steve Urkel, Louis Armstrong
28 Jan 2017
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Certain kinds of instruments can only play straight tones: ex: pianos. Nasal: ex: steve urkel voice, bob dylan, nasal cavity produces higher overtones. Raspy: ex: louis armstrong, more stuff in throat that is vibrating, makes low overtones, metal reeds are more raspy. Voice types: only for human voices and not instruments. Chest voice is when people talk: singing sounds more conversational, ex: johnny cash. Head voice: shifting vocal chords, so you use face more than chest: requires more training, many styles use this because it projects more. Falsetto: shifting vocal chords up: men use this technique, makes voice very high. Prepubescent voice: easier than head voice. Falsetto is also more natural than head voice: when singing it"s either all falsetto or no falsetto. Exception is yodeling: castrato: being castrated before puberty so that voice doesn"t drop at puberty. Idiophone: body of instrument vibrates: membranophone: the skin/plastic vibrates.
