• Pommes_für_dein_Balg@feddit.org
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    23 hours ago

    It’s actually not.
    People with a bad stutter can often sing fluently.
    And with enough training, you can sing like a native speaker without understanding any of the words.

    When you talk, you translate thoughts and meaning into words in real time.
    When you sing, you reproduce words you’ve memorized and trained into muscle memory.
    It’s a completely different neural pathway.

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      21 hours ago

      It goes further than that. Different singing techniques use more or entirely different muscle groups than talking. Some more extreme metal vocal techniques bypass the vocal cords almost entirely. Y’all should watch the Charismatic Voice videos where they stuck cameras and stuff down Will Ramos’ throat.

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        22 hours ago

        I don’t think metal is bypassing the vocal chords so much as it’s using what are essentially vestigial vocal chords.

        I’m able to do throat singing, and it definitely feels different from normal talking or singing. I can occasionally sing polyphonically doing it, but it requires a perfect storm of allergies cooperating and warming up to the point that my throat muscles start gassing out.

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      22 hours ago

      This also explains why you can sing songs without actually hearing or understanding the lyrics e.g. all the right-leaning folks who were shocked RATM were singing political songs, or anyone who sings anything in a language they don’t know (which, as a former choir singer, was common)

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      20 hours ago

      If you’re comparing freestyling (assuming it’s fully improvised) is this still the case? What about reciting a memorized poem? (I agree with you, I’m just curious if you know where the boundaries are because I sure don’t)

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      22 hours ago

      Iirc completely different regions of the brain are activated too. There was a case of a woman years back who had some sort of brain damage and lost the ability to speak, but could still sing.

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    23 hours ago

    Incomplete. There are also rythmic and non-grammatical timing variations.