Exploring songs with “talk-singing”

We featured songs on this episode that use the unique “talk singing” technique. For the most part, we agreed that talk-singing meant that the singers were using short notes without too much melodic range, but still consciously in the key of the song.

We talked about:

• how the ends of talk-singing musical lines work
• the differences between rap and talk-singing
• how talk-sung songs have interesting music beds
• how you have a melody even when you’re speaking
• how the late 70s and 80s saw a lot of talk-singing songs
• our theme episode on Unconventional Singers

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