if you dont know the overtone thing is just, when you sing some pitch youre producing a bunch of harmonics (frequency multiples of the 'fundamental' pitch) along with it, which change with the sound you make (oo emphasizes fundamental, moving towards ee brings out higher ones)
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and if one of the harmonics resonates in the shape inside your mouth area, it will be enhanced and other frequencies filtered out
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so the idea is kind of like whistling except instead of exciting a resonance by pushing a bunch of air through, youre singing normally but also singling out vibrations at some multiple of th fundamental pitch
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so first you play around slowly moving from one vowel sound to another on a single pitch. at some point you convince yourself you can hear some harmonic, very faintly
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then you systematically explore mouth/tongue/throat position to make that harmonic more resonant. some good axes to vary are what your tongue does when you say 'ell' 'arr (american)' or 'oong'
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(this is how i figured it out, no one was teaching me and it took a couple days to get a loud 3:1 and others took longer, so maybe there's a better way)
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and then you start to hear harmonics whenever you sing
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also probably you want some basic relaxed voice technique first so you dont hurt yourself practicing (not because this is risky i think, its just something you want in general if youre spending some amount of time singing). i dont know the right way to teach that either
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