Author: Liquorice
Date: 2011-12-01 21:43
"He's simply singing while playing"
That's not true. He has actually invented a new technique. To understand the technique, you must first understand the difference between singing and humming. Humming is singing with the mouth closed. During humming, the sound comes out of your nose.
If you sing while playing the clarinet, then you get a distortion of the sound, because both the air used to play the instrument, as well as the air used to sing, is all going through the mouth. Jazz players use this to get the "growl".
What Fröst is doing is puffing out the cheeks, as you do when you circular breathe, which means that the clarinet sound is now being produced solely from the air stored up in the cheeks. While doing this he hums, so that all of the vocal sound is coming seperately out of the nose. This enables him to produce vocal tones without distorting the clarinet sound. Co-ordinating all of this is pretty difficult, and Fröst must have spent many, many hours working on this technique.
There was a clip on YouTube of him doing the whole Bach/Gounod Ave Maria like this, but I can't seem to find it now. It was some kind of live outdoor event in Sweden. If anybody finds it, please post, because it will clarify what I'm trying to explain.
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