brian grover's Crash Course in Khoomei

brian grover's
Crash Course in Khoomei

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a collection of recordings from late 2003
that provide a very quick, yet complete,
course of instruction to get started
down the road to throat singing in the Tuvan style

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This page contains the audio from the companion CD i give out to students taking my Introductory Throat Singing Class at The Old Town School of Folk Music in Chicago

All i have posted at the moment is the tracks straight from the CD so many of them are just me talking. eventually, i'd like to transcribe all the text so one would only need to stream the audio examples

these are in the order that i've found usually works best when teaching a class. but they are also split up into very small chunks so that you can jump to any point you need to and also easily repeat any section you might need to at any time

you can feel free to download these files and burn them to disc or any other way you'd like to copy them as long as you are not charging anyone anything for any kind of copy

If you have any questions or comments you can find my contact info on the main khoomei page

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• Introduction
  general introduction spoken over music with audio examples and a little song at the end
  
• Safety
  talking about safety precautions
  
• Theory
  talking. general overveiw of how harmonics work
  
• Breath Support
  talking. explaining breathing deep and supporting the sound
  
• Breathing Exercises
  some exercises to strengthen and learn to control breath support of vocal sound
  
• Singing Strong and Strident
  mostly talking about the correct 'natural' voice to build khoomei on
  
• On Warming Up
  talking about various ways to warm up your voice
  
• warm up exercises
  some vocal warm up exercises
  
• intro to Khoomei style
  talking. explaing what happens in your throat to get Khoomei
  
• normal to khoomei
  coming at khoomei from a 'normal' voice
  
• fry to khoomei
  coming at khoomei from a 'vocal fry'
  
• talking into khoomei
  coming at khoomei from talking
  
• core voice of khoomei
  making sure we are clear on the core tone of the khoomei voice
  
• explaining kargyraa
  talking about the mechanics of kargyraa
  
• beginning kargyraa
  exercises to get the kargyraa voice started
  
• Kargyraa harmonics
  how to get and control harmonic tones in kargyraa
  
• Arty Sayir in Kargyraa
  song for demonstration
  
• Amazing Grace in Kargyraa
  song for demonstration
  
• Khoomei Harmonics
  explanation and examples of how to get harmonic tones in khoomei
  
• Khoomei Harmonics exercises
  exercises to find, develop, and control harmonic tones in khoomei
  
• Jaw and Lip positions
  fine tuning the harmonic content in khoomei
  
• Arty Sayir in Khoomei
  song for demonstration
  
• Amazing Grace in Khoomei
  song for demonstration
  
• getting Sygyt
  talking about the mechanics of sygyt
  
• Sygyt example
  demonstrating sygyt
  
• Chylandyk
  explaining and demonstrating the chylandyk style
  
• closing thoughts
  

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