Do you HUM/VoicePlay/Whisle?? Ido

[peterseter3]

I was just wondering if any of you do this?

Cause i do. I"m always alone and i don't need an Ipod or whatever, i have memorized tons of musics since my video game years(long time ago, since i'm in my 30's now and i used to play mario etc in 1992, 1993,4,5 etc), i also learned piano since i was 13, memorized musics from all over, also memorized popular songs seen in tv etc, shows etc.

So i really have no need for an ipod. It makes me happier to do it myself with my voice.

Anyways, i enjoy doing Voice play. I say voice play cause that's how "Naturally 7" the group calls it. I don't know what the correct term is.

Basically i play full songs with my mouth. And i do Bass, Melody, drum set, and some other accents.. All at the same time with my single mouth. It's difficult and sometimes you need to switch off the drums cause if you do open mouth melody, then it's not possible to do drum at the same time.. But in that case you can still do drums by tapping on your chest (like Bobby Mcferrin) or on some other part of your body. But other times you can do it because you can alternate base and drums and alternate also with melody... so that when you do one, you don't do the other but on the next open space you can do the one that you didn't do.

So yeah, I'm surprised i see tons of people wit ipods instead of singing or humming. I always do voice play any time i go outside. Full songs with guitar solos too.

Anybody else do it? It's really awesome. Yeah I'm a bad singer when it comes to words cause i'm not realy a talker, but i'm good making music with my mouth and i'm in pitch.

[peterseter3]

I just wanted to add some thing, drums + melody at the same time can be done with your mouth by using Backvoice instead of open mouth voice. The way you do drums is flap your tongue while you do melody back voice.

That's one type of drum, you can do other type of drums. My personal favorite is closed teeth and puff air.
But that takes your entire mouth so can't do melody at same time, but you can do the alternating technique and it works.

Also you can do drums using the P mouth like the P sound in the word POW. But that again, uses your whole air and so you can't do melody at the same time, but you can use the alternativng technique and it also works.

Cymbals are done like PZZZZzz gradually you lower the volume so the cymbal sound fades. THen you can do inverse cymbals too by starting low volume then go louder.

You can do many types of drum sounds as youwant.

Then you can do trumpet too, trumpet is done with a lose closed mouth like blowing your cheeks but slight.

Anyways, alot alot of fun.

[peterseter3]

Oh and Jaazy Bass along with wood of drumstick hitting metal part of drum( dn't know the name of it)
you can do it by doing BACK VOICE BASS plus the drum type i described above. This way you can do bass at the same time you do drums, without having to alternate.

I alternate this with sum Teeth closed type drums. It's great. You can use this technique when you do the song "Fly me to the moon"

[peterseter3]

Hey i found one video that does what i'm talking about.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxsprXrOANw

Except most things i see are like hip hop where people don't care too much about great melodies. My form of doing this is with great melodies and songs. not hip hop

[Audio the obscure]

Sounds intriguing, Peterseter. I think I may have done the "trumpet" one, lol. I've "hummed" ever since I was in the crib, so to speak. I taught myself to whistle but it was at a later age.

It was very interesting reading your posts and the techniques you described on how to achieve the different sounds!