How to Make Armpit Sounds
So you want to be in a band? You can blow your trumpet and your nose. You can strum your guitar and clap your hands. You can stomp your feet, smack your lips, and slap your thigh. But can you play your armpit?
Instructions
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Bring your hands in front of your face and shape them around an imaginary hamburger, like you are just about to bring it up to your mouth and take a bite out of it. Now take one hand away.
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If you are right handed, lift your left arm up like you are a chicken about to flap its wings.
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Keeping the opposite hand in "hamburger" shape, slide it under your shirt up to your armpit. You may need to adjust the width of the hamburger shape, but it should fit snugly.
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Because your arm is raised, you will feel a "bowl-like" shape to your armpit. Slide your cupped hand away from your armpit just slightly until your fingers are an inch or two away from the outer edge of your armpit. The main "pinch" should be between your pointer finger and your thumb, the thumb being the finger pinching the front side of the armpit.
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Now, relax the hand around the armpit, so that it is not too tense and with as much force as you can muster, flap your wing.
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At first, you should either get a trumpet-sound of some kind, or a "whoosh" or air. If you get the air, simple adjust the position of your hand until you make a sound other than air. If you do not get any sound at all, your hand was probably too tight or too high. By flapping your wing hard, it should have pushed your hand into the one spot that will give you the best chance to make sounds.
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Keep practicing. Once you get the basic steps down, experiment with hand position and thrust of wing flapping in order to create a variety of tones (short bass-y rumbles to long squeaky sopranos).
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Pick a song and practice "squeaking" it. See if family members or friends can name that tune.
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You are now ready for the big stage. Get some friends and teach them. Combine your talents, invite some people to listen, and you have the neighborhood's first armpit band.
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Tips & Warnings
For added level of difficuly, attempt to use the same principles in order to create a similar (albeit more airy) sound using your leg pit, or the area directly behind your knee.
