Re: Heavy Metal Phonation
| From: | william drewery <will65610@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, July 13, 2004, 16:54 |
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--- David Peterson <ThatBlueCat@...> wrote:
>
> >
> On this note, though it's not music, I was watching
> the NBA
> playoffs this past month, and in game where the
> Miami Heat
> were playing the Indiana Pacers in Miami, the crowd
> started
> chanting (at some time or another), "Let's go Heat!"
> It was
> then that I noticed (and it's probably occurred to
> others) that
> *that's* the way to teach people how to do front
> rounded
> vowels. Everyone knows the experience of chanting
> something
> really loud ("Defense!" is another good one), and
> what I found
> is that front vowels (especially the high ones) get
> rounded profoundly
> when chanting/shouting. So it wasn't, "Let's go
> [Cit]!", it was
> absolutely, "Let's go [Cyt]!" Same goes for,
> "[dyfEns]!" I'm not
> so sure about the mid vowels. I'll have to listen
> to the crowd
> more at [lejkr=] games (well, not *next* season...).
>
> -David
Fascinating!
I remember that one of my first singing lessons
recommended using front vowels whenever possible,
because they have better resonance. I was also taught
to use post-dental articulation (not alveolar) for all
my coronals. This is supposed to shape the vowels less
in enunciation.
I've never used [y] for [i], but i frequently use [y]
for [M] and [2] for [7] when singing. i don't hear
this consistently on the radi(Country & Western Music
seems especially prone to *not* do this), but both
David Draimon and Chester Bennington do this a lot. It
may be why Metal singers are often percieved as having
a European accent, even when they're from New Jersey.
I wonder how any of the above stuff works in say,
German or French.
Travis
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