@@Bladavia Baadsvik plays the bottom notes (stems down) and sings through the tuba the top notes. Having played multiphonics before, the farther away the two notes are, the easier it is to play. In this specific composition, Baadsvik plays a Bb2 and also sings a Bb2 to start the song, and it is truly something else. If you want to check out more Baadsvik, he has a whole TEDx Talk where he talks about the Tuba Virtuosity and plays the entirety of Fnugg as well as Czardas.
I can just about manage to do multiphonics on my euph and even on a trumpet, just playing octaves. But getting different intervals while playing is SO difficult. Oystein is an incredible performer.
If I understand playing tuba correctly, what he's doing is exactly how you get similar two-note chords on a didge, so it shouldn't be a surprise that some tubes resonating sound similar.
I played with Baadsvik at a tuba convention at the University of Iowa. One of the most fun gigs I have ever had. We played a piece about his cat Felicia. I didn’t realize how important of a guy I was playing with until after when I was talking with my tuba friends. Great guy too, treats you like you are the most important musician on the gig.
I remember discovering Øystein Baadsvik, changed the way I thought about music really, multiphonics were so challenging and cool to learn, and I cannot stress how difficult it is to do on a tuba, he’s octaving AND harmonizing in rapid succession and later in this exact solo he beat boxes
I figured out how to do this on my trombone a while ago from messing around and so far I was able to get 3 distinct notes at the same time which my band director confirmed, although it's much easier to do 2 notes which I can do casually but I have to focus a little to get 3 notes and I'm trying to figure out how to do 4 🤔
I learned how to do this after stumbling on this video in the 2008-2010 era while I was in marching band playing tuba. I got pretty decent at it and would show it off always. This dude truly was a huge inspiration for me as a young man trying to find his way.
dont wanna pull a 🥸 but this is just multiphonics, a technique where you sing while playing to harmonize with yourself. i actually bought the official sheet music and he claimed to be inspired by rock, jazz and the digeridoo. the beatbox section is my favorite since beatboxing into your instrument is common in flute and tuba and it produces a cool sound.
Yeah, this has little to do with mongolian throat singing, I think that is not even physically possible with a brass instrument? This technique is also pretty great to do with harmonicas/bluesharps and other reed instruments.
@@C4pt41nN3m0 Oh, I should've been more specific perhaps. I think you maybe are referring to "growls" or the throaty voice that's also heavily used in metal music? Which absolutely is possible yeah I agree. What I was referring to is the modulation of overtones within the shape of the mouth that is accompanied with that in Mongolian throat singing that creates the distinctive sound of having "multiple notes" going at the same time. Hence it also being called "overtone singing". (I should note this isn't the case for all types of throat singing, nor is it unique to Mongolian throat singing) That part isn't possible I think, because that relies on the produced sound going through the mouth in order to be modulated, amplifying some frequencies while attenuating others. It kind of functions like a frequency filter or EQ on the sound coming from the vocal cords. That's why you want either a fairly tight and constricted vocal sound, or do the raspy voice with false vocal cord flaps, since that gives you more frequency content in the sound to work with, so you get stronger overtones. But in brass and reed instruments the sound only happens after it exits the mouth (or at the lips, in the case of brass), so the mouth shape does very little to the sound in the same way you can with overtone singing (it does a little bit, but you can't do the whole modulating thing I just talked about). You would have to have some way to change the shape of the instrument itself (including the aperture size) in order to get that kind of funky stuff to happen, which might actually be an interesting experimental instrument to design now that I think of it...
@@C4pt41nN3m0 Yeah sorry, that's something I gotta see/hear to believe really, because I'm not sure if that's possible. Since overtone polyphonic singing is really dependent on embouchure to be correct (mostly aperture size though) otherwise it just doesn't sound out. Not to my experience with doing both kargyraa and sygyt throat singing, and not what I've seen other Mongolian/Tuvan/Altai/etc throat singers seen do either, when they perform it with strong sounding overtones. Would love to be proven wrong however, because that does sound pretty cool, but I wonder what's really happening there.
Øystein Baadsvik has been performing this song for so many years. I saw him perform it in Tyler, TX about 16 years ago when I was a younger lad. Another fantastic tuba player is Patrick Sheridan.
Mongolians singing regularly: Just noticed that was in the transcription but seriously, if you had a guitar in the background doing the same thing with some crazy drums, it'd sound just like The Hu
In the original video at about 3/4 of 8 minutes he has another solo with something like beatboxing and mongolian singing. He's talented, and this is a fun number. :-D Great choice, @george collier 🙂
Most of the time there are three notes here though. There's the lip trill required to play the instrument, the voice, and the overtones isolated by the tongue.
I think this transcription is missing something the sheet music gives, while performing multiphonics Baadsvik gives a specific vowel to sing, and marks it in the part.
![GEEK TIMË [OFFICIAL AUDIO]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/ry-6RvkH880/mqdefault.jpg)
The song is called Fnugg, an original Composition by the performer in this video, Øystein Baadsvik
I used to work so hard on this.. it's such a nice feeling on tuba. This live performance in particular is astounding.
care to explain how this works technically ?
@@Bladavia Baadsvik plays the bottom notes (stems down) and sings through the tuba the top notes. Having played multiphonics before, the farther away the two notes are, the easier it is to play. In this specific composition, Baadsvik plays a Bb2 and also sings a Bb2 to start the song, and it is truly something else. If you want to check out more Baadsvik, he has a whole TEDx Talk where he talks about the Tuba Virtuosity and plays the entirety of Fnugg as well as Czardas.
@TuBachle noice
I thought Fnugg was the style of playing.
It was so smart of how the song introduces the two notes slowly separating to let the audience notice what the player is doing
Piece
I can just about manage to do multiphonics on my euph and even on a trumpet, just playing octaves. But getting different intervals while playing is SO difficult. Oystein is an incredible performer.
That has to be Mongolian throat singing. That is amazing.
yeah it’s so cool
True, it hurts tho
5ths are way easier for me, I can't do octaves to save my life
Same exept baritone
Because of how the tuba resonated with the harmonics, it reminded me a lot of the timbre of a didgeridoo
Definitely does sound a bit like a didge
If I understand playing tuba correctly, what he's doing is exactly how you get similar two-note chords on a didge, so it shouldn't be a surprise that some tubes resonating sound similar.
This sounds more like a didgeridoo than throat singing where they create overtones in the sinus cavities.
Was thinking exactly the same thing! Multiphonics is honestly my favourite part of practicing Didgeridoo
It feels so good when you do this on a didgeridoo and you feel the soundwaves slowly perfectly overlapping harmonically.
I played with Baadsvik at a tuba convention at the University of Iowa. One of the most fun gigs I have ever had. We played a piece about his cat Felicia. I didn’t realize how important of a guy I was playing with until after when I was talking with my tuba friends.
Great guy too, treats you like you are the most important musician on the gig.
Played a recital with Øystein a couple years ago and reminisced about his grainy Fnugg video in the earrrrly days of youtube.
@Eskil Wehus I am not! This was on his US tour in ... fall 2018 I think?
I remember discovering Øystein Baadsvik, changed the way I thought about music really, multiphonics were so challenging and cool to learn, and I cannot stress how difficult it is to do on a tuba, he’s octaving AND harmonizing in rapid succession and later in this exact solo he beat boxes
Multiphonics on every instrument is fascinating, my personal favorite to do is on the baritone saxophone.
YES HE MADE A TRANSCRIPTION
he does do those !
Love a classic tuba example of tuba multiphonics. Don't see that often. Now Nat McIntosh on Sousaphone, that man can multiphonic
Real
I like that the eyebrows and where it fully engages the Mongolian funk are notated. Very important.
Get this man on the Dune 2 soundtrack
wtf thats sickkk how do ppl do this i can barely play a sax
They happen to also be able to throat sing. [Captain Obvious signing out] 🫡
@@athenovae hmmm... This is actually done by singing normally. Inside of a tuba.
@@fanfoire can confirm as I play tuba as a freshman
@@fanfoire I'm agreeing with you? I think you've misunderstood
you can do this on sax too but it's slightly different and called growling
Those people are not there to watch him play. They're paying tribute.
What are they paying tribute to
0:00 when you walk into your grandparents bathroom and turn on the lights, triggering the 60 year old exhaust fan to lurch to life
HHAAHAH I had this happen
Oh! So he is the voice behind my fan’s sound
yes.
Imagine being a neighbor of this guy when he is practicing at 11 p.m.
"Hans Zimmer is typing..."
;D good one
my brain when my crush walks by:
"hey :)"
my vocal chords:
I figured out how to do this on my trombone a while ago from messing around and so far I was able to get 3 distinct notes at the same time which my band director confirmed, although it's much easier to do 2 notes which I can do casually but I have to focus a little to get 3 notes and I'm trying to figure out how to do 4 🤔
ok
“Can you play your B flat scale sir?”
“Certainly!”
*proceeds to play every single note at once*
Imagine that on a viking era with some mushrooms and lots of hidromel, people get crazy
WHAAAAAAAT!!! Mind officially blown. This is crazyyy
That stage looks amazing too
I was expecting them to segways or at least quote Astronomia. Either way, I'm blown away.
"Tuban throat singing" missed opportunity!
As a tuba player, that was sick
got to watch him play in person once baadsvik is amazing
Ahh yes, Fnugg is by far one of my personal favorites
0:15 sounds like my air conditioner turning on
I learned how to do this after stumbling on this video in the 2008-2010 era while I was in marching band playing tuba. I got pretty decent at it and would show it off always. This dude truly was a huge inspiration for me as a young man trying to find his way.
Throat singing + tuba = beauty
Bro has a ring modulator built in.
dont wanna pull a 🥸 but this is just multiphonics, a technique where you sing while playing to harmonize with yourself. i actually bought the official sheet music and he claimed to be inspired by rock, jazz and the digeridoo. the beatbox section is my favorite since beatboxing into your instrument is common in flute and tuba and it produces a cool sound.
you sound like a 🤓 because you used the word "just", mongolian throat singing isn't just singing, ur not 🧐
Yeah, this has little to do with mongolian throat singing, I think that is not even physically possible with a brass instrument?
This technique is also pretty great to do with harmonicas/bluesharps and other reed instruments.
Is jethro tull locomotive breath also a good excample? He's also kind of beatboxing into his flute
@@C4pt41nN3m0 Oh, I should've been more specific perhaps. I think you maybe are referring to "growls" or the throaty voice that's also heavily used in metal music? Which absolutely is possible yeah I agree.
What I was referring to is the modulation of overtones within the shape of the mouth that is accompanied with that in Mongolian throat singing that creates the distinctive sound of having "multiple notes" going at the same time. Hence it also being called "overtone singing". (I should note this isn't the case for all types of throat singing, nor is it unique to Mongolian throat singing)
That part isn't possible I think, because that relies on the produced sound going through the mouth in order to be modulated, amplifying some frequencies while attenuating others. It kind of functions like a frequency filter or EQ on the sound coming from the vocal cords. That's why you want either a fairly tight and constricted vocal sound, or do the raspy voice with false vocal cord flaps, since that gives you more frequency content in the sound to work with, so you get stronger overtones.
But in brass and reed instruments the sound only happens after it exits the mouth (or at the lips, in the case of brass), so the mouth shape does very little to the sound in the same way you can with overtone singing (it does a little bit, but you can't do the whole modulating thing I just talked about).
You would have to have some way to change the shape of the instrument itself (including the aperture size) in order to get that kind of funky stuff to happen, which might actually be an interesting experimental instrument to design now that I think of it...
@@C4pt41nN3m0 Yeah sorry, that's something I gotta see/hear to believe really, because I'm not sure if that's possible. Since overtone polyphonic singing is really dependent on embouchure to be correct (mostly aperture size though) otherwise it just doesn't sound out. Not to my experience with doing both kargyraa and sygyt throat singing, and not what I've seen other Mongolian/Tuvan/Altai/etc throat singers seen do either, when they perform it with strong sounding overtones.
Would love to be proven wrong however, because that does sound pretty cool, but I wonder what's really happening there.
The new Dune soundtrack sounds great!
It sounds like he's throat singing and playing tuba at the same time, super impressive
The ( eyebrows ) annotation made me giggle
baadsvik needs to get into some weird hippie festivals. those crowds would lose it for a performance like this
I’m ready to sack some villages!
Played this for my Junior recital, and boy is it a fun one!
Not quite to this level, but I learned how to do this back when I was playing. Fnugg was the goal - never quite made it 😅
I've met him in my school last week he played that exact same song and I'm learning it rn.
the resolution at 0:32 is so satisfying and strong. it's so good!
This is hauntingly amazing... and my worst nightmare.
“YOU CANT PLAY 2 NOTES AT ONCE!”
I would like you to meet James Morrison
Øystein Baadsvik has been performing this song for so many years. I saw him perform it in Tyler, TX about 16 years ago when I was a younger lad. Another fantastic tuba player is Patrick Sheridan.
Mongolians singing regularly:
Just noticed that was in the transcription but seriously, if you had a guitar in the background doing the same thing with some crazy drums, it'd sound just like The Hu
Baadsvik my king 😍
thats is the most crazy multiphonics ive ever heard
Sounds like throat singing, dubstep, and celtic.
holy hell i really need to learn how to do this on my tuba
Man's playing the tubaridoo
Had no idea Dr. Alan Grant could shred the tuba.
I dont even have words to describe this
This noise is making my toes curl
That one time in elementary school where you are playing a instrument at the talent show and everybody starts clapping and you want them to stop
Also sometimes because of the harmonics and stuff if you play certain maj 3rds on the tuba the 5th also sounds so you can get a lovely major chord :)
This man js summoned a demon with his tuba chants
What? TUBA GETS A SOLO??? UNBELIEVABLE!?!?!?!?
The microwave warming up
Good voice control.
The true origin of THX sound
That perfect fourth at the beginning is the voice of God.
This is like listening to an digeridoo and Mongol throat singing at once, what a beautiful sound!
The oscillating fan in the corner of my room
At my middle school we had a dude that could do this in choir (hold two notes at once)
Shit was wild ngl
Wth
the best tuba player ever, at least i think so
this sounds like the song that you here when sent to the underworld of some tribal story
Imagine a monk just behind the stage singing while he played notes 😂
man I completely lost it at the Commence Mongolian Tuba Funk
sounds like Mongolian throat singing
The Sardukar of Salusa Secundus approve of this music! 🫡
That is what I call talent!!!!
the dude down the street starting his clapped honda civic at 3:88am
finally, some notation for the eyebrow players
"mongolian tuba funk" is a cool ass phrase
Do a Rahsaan Roland Kirk transcription! It's not two notes on the same instrument, but it is two brass and/or woodwind instruments at once
It sounds like those doorstop things after you flick it
Meu ventilador 👌🏼
"Commence Mongolian Tuba Funk"
Sounds like my grandmas box fan starting up
In the original video at about 3/4 of 8 minutes he has another solo with something like beatboxing and mongolian singing. He's talented, and this is a fun number. :-D
Great choice, @george collier 🙂
that airplane you see while walking your dog
I kind of wonder what this would sound like on piano
When your split personalities both have the same skill.
I can’t read music notation but I like the eyebrows notation
Baadsvik is awesome
I heard Anne-Marie Hefela and was amazed at that. This is equally amazing
Most of the time there are three notes here though. There's the lip trill required to play the instrument, the voice, and the overtones isolated by the tongue.
It reminds me of some didgeridoo techniques from my youth, amazing that it works on such instruments !
This guy is the Dune soundtrack.
Sounds like my fan
Bro went from a fan to the tmz movie intro
I think this transcription is missing something the sheet music gives, while performing multiphonics Baadsvik gives a specific vowel to sing, and marks it in the part.
0:00 grandma’s fan starting up
This somehow reminds me of Mongol throat singing.
Anyone else want a transcript of the tuba solo from Brooklyn (Youngblood Brass Band)?
This sounds like Sardaukar chants!
Amazing!
POV: I turn on my grandparents bathroom vent.