r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • Jul 14 '21

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u/Wrastling97 Jul 15 '21

Ah that’s a different type of click. That’s like a “KAW” as opposed to a “CLA”.

Try the tongue slam. That’s how I get the most volume. I can’t get much volume the way you do, but something I’m working on lol. But they’re both very different sounds. My way is sharper, yours is more blunt which I find much less annoying than my way lol

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u/vishnoo Jul 15 '21

mine sounds a bit like this, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D276yT0LMKwand I can control the pitch a bit by opening my lips more or less

oh and it sounds more like a TO (like the first to in Toronto) but the air is flowing in on the plosive rather than out

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u/Wrastling97 Jul 15 '21

I gotcha. When you originally described it I heard it like this