Throat Pops - Articulation Series

Let's now take the same lick (in a swing/shuffle rhythm) and use our throat to articulate. You'll use the same set of muscles around your vocal chords/folds that you use for the throat tremolo. Start with a blow tremolo to get attuned to the feel of this, then move to draw. After that try that same tremolo very slow and controlled... this will develop your sense of what it is to control those muscles so you can use them for an articulation. Try our same lick as yesterday using a throat pop to articulate each note. Though this is not a common articulation to use in this type of lick, it's very affective at faster tempos (listen to Canned Heat's "Help Me" for a great example of this).

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