you can't sing TWO notes at once!
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- Опубліковано 6 лют 2025
- Lalah Hathaway and Snarky Puppy playing "Something": • Snarky Puppy feat. Lal...
She's able to do something called polyphonic splitting, where she splits her vocal folds somehow in order to create two distinct pitches, which is really really cool and makes the band go crazy!
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My new goal in life is to impress a drummer so much that they stop playing
I once did it with a fart :)
Some African kids who never played the drum and tried it and played better than some of the best drummers in the world
@@jadencoles380 lol
Wise man.
Intruder
She didn't just pull off the poly- she did different chords IN TUNE. Like dang, man.
You should check out a beatboxer that goes by Stitch. Specifically a wildcard he did titled ‘Feels Like Nothing’.
@@cole6011 Esh! I've seen it, its super cool. Haha. You never know when you'll run into someone from the BBX community.
Are you talking about 0:15? There's background singers singing those chords, you can see them in the video a few seconds after.
@@DavidDaGamer no, later in the video, she's doing polyphonics and hitting two notes at once. But the impressive part is that both notes are in tune, and she does several different two-note chords.
@@DavidDaGamer 0:57 and 1:05
The multiphonics are awesome but her range is something else.
Yeah, sure, name 3 people that can "do multiphonics" in tune like that. Her range is pretty good, she hit a ok Db, and has a very warm and great low range, but like, come on, I've heard plenty of people with 2 octaves and a half range, I have never heard anyone sing 2 notes at the same time in tune like that, I'm not sure people even know how she actually does that
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@@goncalooliveira3487i can name 4 people who can do it actually. Stitch, De!ty, Two.H and Pash
@@teniejc beatboxing fella spotted
This woman ❤
I love all of Snarky Puppy absolutely losing their minds
*_Especially_* Larnell's
Edit: welp, twas not Larnell
@@aloysiuskurnia7643 except Larnell isn’t there. Sput Searight on drums
@@toodsf1 ah ffffffffffffff now that's a shame on me 🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃
Best part of it honestly
Sput came out the throne!
I used to be able to do this as a kid. It's like singing both falsetto and chest voice at the same time.
Of course, I made it sound like a dying whale...
i tried and i souded the same 😭😭😭😭
gotta say "choo choo" when you do it. sounds just like a train whistle and kids love it haha
Same. Me and my sister figured it out when we were about 7 and 11.
The real champ is Billy West who acted a short monologue for a throwaway character in futurama with this technique
I can still do it, just not on purpose. That's the thing; I can make a lot of sounds, but most of them I cannot recall and make on demand.
I don't know... It's impressive for me cause that's the first time in my life I hear it!
When you listen to the whole track, you feel the band just LOCK IN after that. Even in this clip you can hear the band’s energy flips a switch and goes to a new level after she sings those notes
And yun breath it's on fire
Agree. Felt that too
Glad someone else felt that too! Drummer laid some stank on that flam and the rest of the band just followed his lead to where they all wanted to go!
Beatboxers do this a lot in many different ways. I believe it's called "poly-voice" or something like that. It's soo dope!
Yes bro,poly or double voice.
I have never heard a beat boxer do this.
@@Drfresh1402 i highly recommend checking it out. They can get quite clever with this technique
@@Drfresh1402 a lot of them use it, you can look this video from beatboxer Stich -Feels like nothing-
@@Drfresh1402 check out Stitch beatbox he’s very good at it
you know you're good when the BAND freaks out mid-song
0:48 that seamless change in her registers is just so addictive to listen to
The fact that she simply sang two notes is incredible. Not only that but they were in tune and she did different notes too. We’ve got a superhuman in our midst.
3 notes homie….3 notes…the videos says YOU can’t even sing two…post people can’t even sing one
She sang THREE my dawg
@@edwardtorres4553I can’t wrap my head around this at all. Like any 3 notes being sung at one time by one person is insane and superhuman to me but nah let’s make it the most beautiful chord I’ve ever heard. I keep trying to convey my befuddlement but I don’t know if words can do it
When a group of professional musicians LOSE THEIR 💩 you know you've just heard something spectacular.
Watching Michael’s (bass player) reactions increase was the cherry on top. He was impressed by the solo before she even pulled out the polyphonic. Then his mind progressively got more and more blown.
The energy of the whole band went through the roof after that solo.
If you can get SNARKY PUPPY to stop playing in awe you know you’re good
"Ma'am, your backups haven't turnt up today"
"yeah, no worries, I got this
Donny’s Baby Girl ❤. Such an amazing voice just like her pops
they just bunch of talented people enjoying this moment having so much fun
That polyphonic voice is amazing! This is literally a beatboxer’s dream right here
Something about great musicians in awe of each other makes me smile
If Jacob Collier knew how to do this, the world would explode
If he did that he would explode 😆
@@Jinjr322 am sure he does boss, it's just a joke. I know he's Genius and give him all the kudos 👏🏼 , I'm just not a fan of his voice or music.
@@JRCOWBOY78 who
@@JRCOWBOY78 lol I’m just messin around. Listen to whatever you want who cares we’re all gonna die anyway
@@chrispotter3190 yobama
I mean, I can whistle and sing a note at the same time. But SING two notes at the same time??? I call hacks!
I just tried and it worked
Overtone singing is definitely not too hard to learn and there’s lots of ways to do it. But the ability to improvise throwing it into a cadenza is pure musical genius.
@@musomaster9027 this isn't overtone singing, and the technique isn't well understood yet, but a number of vocalists have been able to do it. Needs more attention and research though.
@@YnEoS10 That's interesting! I always thought this was some form of overtone singing too! Is there a name for this technique?
@@Blyfh I don’t really know any agreed upon name that wouldn’t be confusing. I usually just call it the Lalah Hathaway technique for convenience just because she’s the most common point of reference. Beatboxers who use it call it “Polyphonic Voice” but this won’t be clear to people unfamiliar with beatboxing terminology, because there are several Polyphonic singing techniques and so people might assume you mean overtone singing or something else.
Hopefully when the singing community becomes more aware of it and more research is done on it people will figure out an appropriate name to refer to it.
No matter how many times I've seen and heard this over the years, I get the biggest, stupidest grin on my face every time I see their reaction.
That's really interesting. I've seen a lot of overtone singing where you just kind of find the placement where your voice just kind of does that. It's mostly a party trick I think, you don't get a lot of room for stank lol.
This is more like a breathy wheeze, but you can hear both of the notes clearly since the lower one isn't a lot louder. I think most people could probably do this with a bit of trial and error(I've heard plenty of people do it involuntarily just via a bad chest infection), the hard part would be controlling it in a way where you actually get the notes you want. She does that expertly. Pretty cool.
As far as I understand, overtones are more of an caustic trick of the light that happens when you have really tight harmonies (like, actual exact ratios)
@@GR20000 There are some tricks to it. I can overtone sing by myself, and choose which overtone I want to be loud. There is a trick to it, but it really isn't that difficult with a bit of practice. There are plenty of vids on youtube explaining it. 🙂
Yeh, it really does just sound like she is wheezing rather than singing...
Except this isn't overtone singing at all, overtone singing is easy to learn, hard to amplify and hard to throat sing properly. It's simple in every way and simple to understand. By the way things stand and from what I've seen, almost no one at all can do what she does and I see no reason to think you "can just learn to control it and that people even do it involuntarily because they have an infection".
@@GR20000 Kinda yes, kinda no, there are many reasons why overtones might resonate. When talking about throat or overtone singing, it is a trick of positioning and shaping things around in your mouth or/and throat in a way that amplifies the natural overtones that occur when you sing (octave, octave+fifth, 2 octaves or 2 octaves and third, etc). Sometimes, if harmonic intervals in a certain range are played perfectly in tune, loudly, continuously and with the right combination of instruments, strong high overtones will resonate and you will hear a strong resultant/combination tone, if it perfectly in tune it will likely sound really nice, if not it will sound bit muddy and not clear and depending on the notes, it will weird
I have been a polyphonic overtone singer for 30 years and it isn't what she did. She sung one note with her vocal cords and another with her false chords. Though unusual, we hear similar effects from the throat singers of Mongolia. If you want to be an amazing singer, become an overtone singer. It will take 3 years of practice to get good and 10 to become amazing, but that is the same with any musical instrument, and the voice is much more than any musical instrument. It is shocking to think that people can't sing and won't learn when voice was what made humanity amazing
LMAO DRUMMER HAD TO TAKE A BREAK
What the heck... I play music since my 3yo... i'm 35 now. I have an absolute hearing, I learned piano and guitar like by myself. I can play Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, jazz, blues, rock, hard rock, metal,... I never heard a singing like this. As pure as clear water. Those harmonies... jesus what a blessing !
The band’s reaction is so priceless! And that ORGANIST!!!!! Sheesh!! 🤦🏾♂️
She's fabulous but I LOVE the drummer's reactions, just about fell off my chair laughing. Joyeous!
THE QUINTUPLET LEADING TO EPIC NEW MUSICAL TERRITORY IS WHAT AMAZES ME. EVERYTHING ELSE AFTER IS JUST PERFECTION.
she got that "we need to turn on the generator so we can pack-a-punch our LMGs" voice.
I half expected to hear a "Fetch me their souls"
The band is in awe lol they’re like lil kids when she splits her voice lol I love it 🥰
I learned how many years ago at a barbershop singing class. The human voice is amazing !
what you'll have learnt in a barbershop class is most likely overtone singing, which I dont think this is, other comments have explained that she can actually vibrate her vocal chords at two distinct frequencies, both then with their own overtone series
I really love how the band come back in super hard. love it, and so jealous of the vocals...
She didnt do it when they rehearsal I believed ... amazing
This video should have over a billion views by now! Man, that was sickkkkkkk!
SICKKKKKK!
Okay. Now I've seen everything.
Regardless of this awesome polyphonics technics that’s two notes at the end was perfectly in tune with the chord
Awesome
I have been singing along to bands that do complex vocal harmonies for years, and I have been convinced that I'm not _really_ imitating the sound. I don't know how I do it - but in my ears it sounds just like that! So cool to see someone actually do it.
Lol Now I have to figure out whether I am or not and how to do it on purpose. ^_^
Being a drummer myself I can understand his reaction. I guarantee everyone was like I’m glad I was there to see and hear this and it’s recorded
The drummer's reaction is everything
you know its true when the drummer stops playing lol
sing one note, no one bats an eye.
sing two notes at the same time, everyone looses their minds!
This was my favorite!! I remember seeing her live and she did this!!! It was amazing
I just learned to do this by accident last night when playing around in the whistle tones (basically putting falsetto on the falsetto).
One day, I'mma learn how to do it GOOD, like this woman! :D
don’t let the Metal singers find out about this.
I'm laugh crying right now in pure joy... oh my Good God
I like to see the rest of the band grooves so hard even when they're not playing, they feeling it.
This clip is as wonderful as ever!
I sing. I humbly bow.
I liked it when she sang “sugadoolamanasoobadie”
A lot of beatboxers are also doing this polyphonic singing technique. Stitch - Feels Like Nothing is a good example of this and another cool technique.
Yeah I know two.h but this lady took it to a whole new level by using different notes. 🙌
@@Ranakade You should really check out Stitch then
@@Ranakade she's great! I just wanted to share other vocalists using the technique in a different context. Its not a competition, so we can listen to and appreciate all different uses and learn from the mindblowing things they discover.
Esh
@@Ranakade nah bro two h has way more tech altho hers is super clean. two h can do all sorts of tricks and is basically one of the inventors
Everyone loves this but when I do this under the newyork subway they call the cops wtf
I remember our teacher had us watch this in musical theater 😂 everyone was sooo shocked!
imagine performing with her and she just whips that out. absolutely incredible ❤❤
Just threw my hands up at my desk leaned so close to the screen prepping my soul...I still wasn't ready. Wow. WOWOWOWOW.
now we know who to call for the air raid siren
How in the goddamned fuck
Lol, ngl, we used to practice these sorts of things in Jazz school during breaks between us classmates. 😂 But obviously we couldn’t do it in tune like she did here. She sounded so good like she has some effects on it. Crazy good stuff man.
This is just absolutely insane man just absolutely well done
You know if you got the best musicians losing their sh*t in a live recording, you got something. 😲
lalah: whoOOOOO
band: *randomly stops playing*
ok snarky puppy and lalah hathaway. still the most legendary combo one could never imagine
I can't even begin to imagine what that sounded like live on the playback. Probably sounded like a ghost trying to steal your soul.
She's fantastic
Anyone else just hear a sim character singing?
When your sax and trumpet player don't make it to the session.
et would be proud
That hit at the end was like somebody dropped a house on me
Nice. Lovely to see the world explore "new things" she does this fine tho. This has actually been discovered a long time ago also the beatbox community discovered several different ways to perfom "double voice/poly-voice" as they call it and that's actually something they discovered through singing few years ago and are now using in a really cool insperational ways as performers.
As a party trick, it's quite ez to do this by humming one note, whilst whistling something else.
Yeah I don't go to parties
i used to be able to do this as a kid, amazing!!
Brilliant! What a nice talent! She's really amazing, man! She can sing two notes at once.
"you can't sing TWO notes at once!" Indeed, I can not. But some can - and some can even better.
It's about 8 Years ago when I discovered "polyphonic overtone singing - by Anna-Maria Hefele" here on UA-cam.
Amazing!
Usually snarky puppy are doing all the impressing
Billy west did it on Futurama. They thought they were having technical difficulties. It was just him
There's a woman who can sing 2 notes like that (one is a harmonic, I believe) and sing both the melody and an accompaniment - 2 different, complimentary melodies! This video just reminded me to find her in my history and save it (if I haven't already and just forgot).
That is called 🔥control🔥
I didn’t even see her face at first, but Lalah Hathaway’s voice is so memorable that I instantly knew, and then I knew what was coming 😂
I need to go to a show NOW. GOOSEBUMPS ENGAGED
A miracle singer right there!
Amazing!!
That's amazing
She knows a prayer to invoke an angel at will
Crazy
jason this is amazing
I didn't even do it
That sounded like an alien's mating call.
Usually I hate people very passionately singing/scatting nonsense but omg this was amazing
She said woooooohhhh👹
Phenomenal talent. ♥️💯
She essentially invented a whole new sound
MY JAW DROPPED
Easy peacy natural vocal talents doing the vocal job with no real hard work, this one is for you, a new era that being vocal is much more harder even if you are extremely talented is coming...
Damn, it’s really hard to pull this kind of technique off with such a smooth and crisp tone
she sounds AMAZINF
insane! i can see the musicians freakin out !!
She can do it because she has unusual vocal chords. A doctor actually watched them work while she was singing to try to find out what was up--she has explained this lots of times online. It's a physical anomaly that made it possible.
"is it possible to learn this power?"
For those who don’t know it yet: there is such ancient technique that is called polyphonic overtone and polyphonic singing.
The Speorg Note
"you can't sing TWO notes at once!" Tell that to the throat singers of Tuva!
For all the people in the comments wondering where to find more polyphonic stuff, the Malaysian beatboxer known as Stitch is also known for doing similar stuff so go check them out as well