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Summary: Throat singing is a method that some singers use in which there aren't a lot of vocal gymnastics, and in which the voice is hard to control. Find out why throat singers are rare in R&B music with advice from a professional musician in this free video on rock and roll.
Aaron Graham is guitarist and sings vocals for the band, Pine Cone Wars. David Boehme is the drummer and sings background vocals. Named by Teen People Magazine as "The best unsigned...read more
"What is throat singing? It is basically singing with your throat and not, it is hard to explain. The only way to explain it I guess is to get examples of different singers. One singer that sings with his throat is probably like Michael Bolton, the guy sounds like a saxophone because he has just an open throat. You don't have much control when you have an open throat. An opposite to throat singing would be like R and B someone that uses a lot of control and tightens up their vocals so that way they can kind of go high and low like moving fast, like Michael Jackson does not throat sing at all. Liam Gallagher from Oasis. He definitely throat sings. He doesn't do a lot of technical ups and downs he just sings with his throat, definitely with his diaphragm. He is, it is definitely more for mainly rock singers that sing with their throat. So it's basically an open throat more than a tight controlled like an R and B type of style."
eHow Article: Learning Throat Singing
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