How to sing overtones (tutorial)

Short tutorial on how to sing and control overtones. Leave a comment and give me your thoughts!

View my F#1 tutorial:

[Jeroen]

Dont you hate it when you watch a tutorial on overtones and suddenly end up in mongolia riding a horse?

[QuizmasterLaw]

"don't worry"
They said
"it'll be easy"
THEY SAID

[tee]

My neighbors definitely think I'm insane. They might be right...

[Ultracity]

Congratulations! You can now do an impression of Kermit the Frog singing to his pet cicadas.

[greenmandude]

for mobile users who couldn’t skip: 1:12 (click it)

[agcla]

I lost focus at "move your tongue forward and backward until you hit the sweet spot"

[teusstolosa]

After watching Anna-Maria Hafele's polyphonic overtone, you made me realize that this is not as alien as it sounds xD.

Maybe singer-ventriloquists singing overtones can put words into this kind of harmony. I'm really digging this xD... this is the first day I knew of this thing. Just wow

[crazyjonsnow]

Tried it. Actually nailed it first time. This is messed up, dude...you've completely ruined my life...

...for my poor family

[Justin-dgnn]

It's also fun to stand in a small room or hallway and hum a note, rising or lowering it until you feel a really strong reverberation, or that area's "pitch".

[zacharymazzuca]

it's 5 hours before my last finals of Junior year and this is what I'm doing. I'm actually kinda freaking myself out, because I can't tell if I'm making the overtones or imagining them 😂😂

[simplyfantastic]

Just found out about this using my overtones. I've been singing, unprofessionally, for years. It's always been a favorite thing to do. I heard your overtones, I lost my mind. I can't wait to start practicing this. I can't wait to actually pay attention to mine! Thank you for catching my eye.

[FrogFishLeezerd]

I hear a definite Kermit the Frog Overtone! LOL

[AJeanC]

there are a ton of "tutorials" on here, but none seem to explain it as simply and clearly as you've managed to do. Thank you for posting! ^ _ ^

[lurchie]

This is terribly cool. Somehow, I've lived my entire life without knowing polyphonic overtone singing exists. Thanks for posting the tutorial. Well explained.

[taira_]

You sir just successfully made me look like an idiot for 3 and a half mins straight. ..🤣 Luckily I'm alone in the house and most importantly IT WAS WORTH IT! I'm quite surprised how actually simpler and easier it is to do than I expected. Thank you, I think this is the best tutorial out there :D Now I can't stop doing it lol I'm a theremiiiin XD

[maylyncoffey]

I just learned about this in Chorus the other day from my director because we're doing a song called Myoon Myoon which comes from where singing with overtones originated (in this style at least). It fascinated me so I've been watching different styles of how-to's and I have to say, yours is helping me the most, by far. It's very descriptive and easy to understand. Thanks, again!

[oh]

Wonderful, i came across your video a month ago..found it great but as a smoker was out of breath....now this was a wake up call. So result was I decided to quit and every time I had a craving I would do the "eeeooohh" as a reminder of what I was trying to achieve...anyhow had my first proper overtone sound today ( and my breathing has improved). I am heathier and more musical now, very grateful thank you !!!!💯

[rohitkandala]

So I paused the video at about 1:34 and decided to try it out and you will know when you get it, cause I got it. I was freaking out, but I am very much impressed of your teaching skills. Thank You!

[minecraftace]

I've been told I'm a pretty resonant bari-base, and so when my choir director demo'd his version of polyharmonic singing, I just had to give it a try. Took me about 30 seconds of messing around with my face and the inside of my mouth, and I got the overtones. Thanks to this video, I'll now be messing around with changing overtones and amplifying them even more so than usual :D

[lukario]

Went through both this and Anna's Tutorial this is honestly amazing and probably has a lot of possibilities. In her video where she did the descending and ascending minor scale is that sold it for me and I will learn it.