Quackula said:
Murry Sparkles said:
Quackula said:
Also, what makes a good growl is really hard to pin down, it varies a lot from band to band and listener to listener. It's one of those things that's hard to define, but you know it when you hear a good one (assuming you're into that sort of thing, of course).
Some of my favourite growlers:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIXJFRVUdWo&feature=related
No John Tardy? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQgCZasm6mU
Also, @none, Hatebeak was hilarious. As far as pure novelty bands go it's great. I remember discovering them a long time ago. There was a similar band that did it with dogs if I remember right.
I've noticed something about these links, though: All of them growl on pitch in relation to the root. Sometimes it's on the 3rd, sometimes on the 5th, sometimes the root itself - the last link slides down from 5th to somewhere around the root; in another example, he begins at the 3rd and then slides down to the lower 5th. The only one I couldn't determine with certainty was the second link - although I kinda have the impression that he growled at the root pitch there... although sometimes I thought it was the major 3rd. Not sure. These examples do suggest, however, that good growling results from a "pleasant" timbre and fitting pitch.