Scat and Scatting

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So does anyone else on here do this? I do it constantly, although I didn't realize that's what I was doing until recently.



Because I never got seriously into jazz, it never occurred to me that the way I imitate instruments with voice was just scatting with different music.



This is my favourite song to scat along to, especially the little scale run.

Also, please no poop jokes.
Please.


Also, today is the day I learned the forum doesn't support posting emojis.

I love Ella Fitzgerald. I spent several years fooling around with jazz without much progress.

Lately I have been trying to improvise counterpoint or harmony lines, vocally, along with recordings. I do it while driving.

I also hum to myself all through the day. Sometimes it is music I know and sometimes it is improvised.

Thank you for posting the scat instruction. His five points work well into other jazz instruments as well. Cool guy. I think I'll look up his other videos.

The intro to this 1925 comic song by Wendell Hall has a little bit of something that might be close to "scat" music in it. Of course this isn't a video from my collection but I do have this on record...it's kind of fun to listen to sometimes. Maybe it's not the real jazz-style scatting but it's probably some of the earliest stuff I can find close to it.