What's the technical term for when a singer grunts during a song?

[Rakehellion]

Like when they say "oooh" or "mmmmmm" or "doo wop" or something. What's that called?

 

[motsm]

Scat would fit that description; not that one, the other one.

 

[Markbnj]

I don't know what the technical term is, except it isn't "grunts."

 

[Rakehellion]

Scat would fit that description; not that one, the other one.

I thought scat was "skibbidybebop" and Yodeling is something different and BeBop is something different still.

 

[smitbret]

Like when they say "oooh" or "mmmmmm" or "doo wop" or something. What's that called?

I call it "Lazy Song Writing"

If you can't find some decent lyrics then just write an instrumental and stop pretending your a poet.

 

[Rakehellion]

I don't know what the technical term is, except it isn't "grunts."

I guess every sound has its own name.

 

[Rakehellion]

I call it "Lazy Song Writing"

If you can't find some decent lyrics then just write an instrumental and stop pretending your a poet.

It's called singing. And I wouldn't take writing advice from someone who types like you.

 

[motsm]

I thought scat was "skibbidybebop" and Yodeling is something different and BeBop is something different still.

The doo wop example you gave fits scat, but the other stuff would just be called singing. I guess there could be a more specific definition, but singing certainly doesn't have to be lyrical.

 

[JulesMaximus]

Lame

 

[Leyawiin]

"Fill".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fill_(music)

 

[Rakehellion]

Gay

Thanks! That's just the answer I was looking for.

 

[twinrider1]

They have the milk cow blues.

 

[MongGrel]

THE SCATMAN CROTHERS Be Bop A Lula

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icSwaWZn4QI


Scatman John - I'm a scatman lyrics


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBlQjYyB78k


Do Wop, I'd just say is Do Wop, and a bit dif.


50 stuff.

 

[IronWing]

Brownian vocalization

 

[MongGrel]

Blues Brothers - Minnie the Moocher (Cab Calloway)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZ5gCGJorKk

Cabell "Cab" Calloway III (December 25, 1907 – November 18, 1994) was a jazz singer and bandleader. He was strongly associated with the Cotton Club in Harlem, New York City, where he was a regular performer.
Calloway was a master of energetic scat singing and led one of the United States' most popular big bands from the start of the 1930s through to the late 1940s. Calloway's band featured performers including trumpeters Dizzy Gillespie and Adolphus "Doc" Cheatham, saxophonists Ben Webster and Leon "Chu" Berry, New Orleans guitar ace Danny Barker, and bassist Milt Hinton. Calloway continued to perform until his death in 1994 at the age of 86.

 

[manimal]

Sprechstimme or stottern

 

[Ichinisan]

Disturbed

 

[smitbret]

It's called singing. And I wouldn't take writing advice from someone who types like you.

Kurt Cobain did it so it's not singing.

Advise me please, you Nobel Prize winning author.

 

[Away]

Disturbed

:biggrin:

 

[It's Not Lupus]

Vocal interjection, I think.