To quote ancient words of wisdom: “Everybody’s sayin’ that the Scatman stutters but doesn’t ever stutter when he sings. But what you don’t know, I’m gonna tell you right now that the stutter and the scat is the same thing, yo, I’m the Scatman.”
Bee bo bo bee bo bo
The speech and singing regions of the brain are separate from each other, which is why this works. It also can work for people who lose the ability to speak from brain damage.
It’s wild how adaptable the brain is. Some dude was out there just living life when he had a head mri after a car crash (iirc) and found that he only had a brain stem.
Wow! I had to go looking, he was having leg pains and they did an MRI ro find 90% of the brain missing. Wow. IFL SCIENCE
Non-amp link: https://www.iflscience.com/man-tiny-brain-lived-normal-life-31083
Edit: I just realized this post is over a year old lol
Glad it doesn’t only happen to me! Lemmy juust small enough still that I regularly find myself on some old posts, especially when checking out a “new to me” community. May your comment help the next passer-by!
I have a friend who also stutters, or, I found out he stutters after knowing him for a few months.
Apparently he uses a similar technique where he “sings” what he wants to say in a slightly higher-pitched voice when talking in a professional setting. He sounds totally normal when using it, but you’re not in doubt when he doesn’t.
I’m sure it took a lot of training to master it.
I actually had my own bard character based on this premise, Ré Mí the Eloquence Bard, a Kenku who learned to sing speak to overcome the Kenku speech impediment.
I’m chopping onions, that’s why there are tears in my eyes.
You said pre-covid. So what about now, do you still organize this? If yes, where?
James Earl Jones also is speak-singing because he stuttered as a kid. That’s why his voice is so resonant.
“psycho killer qu’est-ce que c’est” 🎶
I want to believe
https://stamurai.com/blog/stuttering-and-singing-what-we-understand/
