1. Singing is not just for singers
2. Sing, find the feeling in singing
3. Be sure to learn to read music scores
4. Let MTV and computer multimedia teach you to sing
5. Feel it with your heart
I will never forget that in commemoration of the first anniversary of the death of Professor Shen Xiang During a solo concert, a deejay gave a moving speech. He is over forty years old, thin and of medium build. Everyone recognized him as a famous conductor. He stood in the center of the stage with an excited expression and said in a slightly trembling voice: "I am a student of Professor Shen Xiang, (a burst of good-natured laughter). Don't laugh, please. Listen to my hoarse voice. How can I be Shen Xiang?" Where are Professor Xiang's students?" He looked solemn, but his voice became sonorous and powerful, and he said loudly every word: "It's true, I have been singing under Professor Shen Xiang for many years. As we all know, Professor Shen Xiang is the best singer. Our country’s greatest vocal educator, (Applause), Professor Shen Xiang once asked me, “Do you want to learn to sing? "I said, I want to learn, but my voice is hoarse and I can't even hear my words from the other side. How can I learn to sing? Professor Shen Xiang said seriously: "As long as you want to learn, you can learn it." He said , “Have you ever seen a rooster crow? The rooster only has such a small body, but when it opens its mouth, holds its head high and crows, it can be heard miles away. We humans have such tall bodies, and our mouths and heads are many times bigger than those of roosters. How come we can't sing loudly? ... "So I started learning vocal music... (Applause)
This passage is very thought-provoking. Singing is not the exclusive domain of singers; learning to sing is not something that only professional literary and art workers can do. As long as If you are willing to learn, you can learn to sing regardless of your vocal conditions, because the singing vocal organs of both singers and ordinary people are generally the same. Parts:
Respiratory organs, vocal organs, vocal organs, articulating organs, hearing organs
(1) Respiratory organs: mouth, nose, pharynx, larynx, trachea. , bronchi, lungs, chest, diaphragm.
The lungs are attached to the chest, with the ribs on the outside and the diaphragm on the bottom. Due to the relaxation of the ribs and the up and down movement of the diaphragm, the ribs expand and contract during inhalation. Open, the diaphragm stretches downward, and the chest expands; when exhaling, the ribs relax, the diaphragm lifts upward, and the chest shrinks. The diaphragm is a large flat muscle that divides the lower part of the chest and the abdominal cavity. The power of singing comes from the activity of the respiratory organs.
(2) The vocal cords are located in the middle of the larynx and are the vocal organs that vibrate.
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Is the vibration of the vocal cords passive or automatic? There are currently two theories. The earliest one is the aerodynamic theory proposed by Miller, which is also called the muscle tension theory. He believes that the vibration of the vocal cords is passive and active. The breath produced by the trachea vibrates the vocal cords. Another theory is the neural timing theory proposed by Yu Song in 1950. He believes that the vibration of the vocal cords is automatic and controlled by the recurrent laryngeal nerve. The publication of this theory caused a stir in the laryngology community around the world and opened up new avenues for research in the field of vocal physiology.
The larynx is the main organ of singing and pronunciation. People refer to it as the "Adam's apple" in men. The neck can be seen from the appearance. To learn to sing, you only need to briefly understand that the larynx is composed of four pieces of cartilage, namely the thyroid bone, cricoid cartilage, arytenoid cartilage, epiglottis cartilage and various muscles. It is located between the base of the tongue and the trachea. The tongue duct is connected to the top, the trachea is connected to the bottom, the esophagus is behind the larynx, and the spine is behind the esophagus.
(3) The phonation organ: The phonation organ includes the entire vocal system. Cavities. For example: the sinuses of the head, the nasal cavity, the oral cavity, the pharyngeal cavity (hypopharynx, oropharynx, nasopharynx), the laryngeal cavity, and the chest cavity are the vibrations introduced by the fundamental sound in the vocal cavity. It’s called *Ming tone. Currently, the vocal music industry usually divides *Ming tone into three situations.
The first type is divided into ringing in the head, ringing in the mouth, and ringing in the chest. The second type is divided into upper vaginal tinnitus and lower vaginal tinnitus. The third type is adjustable and non-adjustable cries. The singing function of the singing cavity is to expand and beautify the singing voice.
(4) Articulator: The articulator refers to the lips, teeth, tongue, lower palate, palate (soft palate and hard palate), etc. It is the segmented pronunciation organ for articulating, articulating, and forming language.
(5) Hearing organ: refers to the hearing analyzer of the ear and inner ear.
The above five parts are the singing and vocal organs of the human body, and they are an organic whole that is interconnected and controlled by each other.
Let me tell you a "little secret" first: Before I learned vocal music systematically, I often sang at the top of my voice deliberately. Although I could sing more beautifully, the volume was very low. The higher the note is sung, the more tense the throat muscles and jaw become, making it impossible to sing even the small letter C. After learning scientific vocal methods, the vocal range expanded to three octaves, and a rich alto tone emerged, with a volume that could pass through a large symphony orchestra.
If you have never learned to sing before reading this book, please do not rush to learn more vocal methods. It is best to remember 6 words first: clear vocal channels and tight vocal cords. After understanding the structure of the human body's singing and vocal organs, you can open your mouth and throat as easily as yawning. Song Zetong, use your back as a door and push it back, singing with a smile. Then start by imitating, listen to new songs and teach them how to sing karaoke, and you can sing how you want. You can learn well by listening to the sounds, listening to the musical expressions, and not being nervous in your voice. You might as well give it a try.
We live in the era of reform and opening up, and the fast pace of work and life means that most of our friends sing every day, but do not have the opportunity to learn singing systematically. Many successful people in their careers, such as entrepreneurs, writers, administrators, and generals, have great musical talent but do not have the time to develop it. Teenagers like music very much, but they have to study hard. It costs a lot of money to hire a teacher to take singing lessons. They cannot let their parents burden them too much. A very talented friend of mine once told me that I have no connection with singing. When I was little, I didn’t dare to sing loudly. Now, as a father, I am even more embarrassed to sing loudly. I said to him, please read this book I wrote. It is specially written for those of you who want to sing, but are embarrassed to sing, and don’t have time to learn singing from a teacher. This book mainly teaches you how to open your mind and teaches you the methods and techniques of singing. Learning to sing is different from studying medicine, architecture or other subjects. You must first learn theory and professional skills, and then obtain a qualification certificate before learning practice. To learn to sing, you must sing first, learn while singing, and learn while singing.
When learning to sing, auditory receptors are very important. To put it bluntly, you need to be able to listen with your ears! As you may have already experienced, listening to the OK tape is a good way to do this. OK Belt is both economical and convenient. Listen to OK tapes after studying and working. It can relax tension and fatigue and give you pleasure, thereby improving the efficiency of study and work. It can also be used as your vocal teacher in conjunction with this little book of mine.
How to listen? It’s about learning to recognize sounds with your ears. In the process of listening to and learning songs, you must first familiarize yourself with the melody, which means you must first learn to sing new songs. Secondly, listen to the sound and establish a correct sound concept and sound image. Listen to how others sing, feel relaxed and natural, and gradually master scientific vocal methods and singing skills. Furthermore, you should also pay attention to how others pronounce words, how they breathe, how they control their voices and express their emotions. Learn to listen to the artistic expression and processing of songs.
While listening to others singing, you should also pay attention to listening to yourself. You know, there are two ways for a singer to listen to his own voice: the first is that after the sound is emitted, it is transmitted through the air outside the body and then sent back to his ears. This pathway is the same as the pathway for others to hear; the second pathway is that the sound emitted at the speed of sound is immediately sent from the pharyngeal tube into the ear tube, vibrating the eardrum from the inside. The sound sent by this second channel is inaudible to others.
Since this sound takes a shortcut and is much louder than the sound returned through the outside of the body, the singer mainly hears the sound effect of the second channel, which is completely different from the effect heard by others. Therefore, it is often difficult for singers to tell whether their voice is correct or not. "Those involved are confused, but onlookers are clear." This sentence is most appropriate to use here. How can I tell whether my voice is correct or not? Use a tape recorder to record yourself singing. Listen repeatedly, ponder carefully, find your own beautiful timbre, and then gradually consolidate it. Imitate your beautiful voice and change your ugly voice. In addition, you can also use the comparison method. For the same song, record OK's singing and your own singing, and compare them sentence by sentence. How did he sing this line? How did I sing this line? Which one has a better voice? Use your brain to think about it. To sing a song well, three parts are singing and seven parts are thinking. Including many professional singers, voice problems are mostly due to vague concepts of singing techniques. Isn't it difficult to do this "listening" and "thinking"?
3. You must learn to read music scores
Here I make a request, you must learn to read music scores when learning to sing! I learned that many friends who are learning to sing now don’t know how to read music scores and rely entirely on their ears to listen to a song. We went to the army to teach songs and found that quite a few young soldiers did not know the music. This often results in a song that is easily sung wrong and everyone makes the same mistake. This company sang wrongly, and that company also sang wrongly.
As I said before, listening to music is an important means of learning, but it does not mean that you can just listen to music without reading the music score. Listening without reading the score can only be a rough listening. Even if you listen to a singer singing, he will not sing the score completely accurately. It’s not that the singer didn’t sing correctly, but that the song the singer sang was a second creation by himself and is different from the composer’s original score. The best way to learn to sing is to listen to the music and read the music at the same time.
In addition, reading more music scores is necessary to improve your audition singing ability. Maybe, when you look at the score of the first new song, you won't taste the sweetness yet. After reading a few songs, you will feel that in the process of looking at the score, you can choose your favorite songs and broaden your horizons. It broadens your horizons and enriches your mind. If you persist in this way, if you read one song a day or one song a week, your musical accomplishment and artistic thinking will also improve.
Learning to read music is not difficult. You only need to practice sight-singing for a quarter of an hour every day. First learn the simplified musical notation. Most of the popular songs have simplified musical notation. Further, you need to learn staff music. Many art songs or songs with piano accompaniment are notated using five-line notation.
To learn to sing, you need to be enthusiastic, patient, and perseverant. Shakespeare said: Ignorance is the curse of God, knowledge is the wings to fly to heaven.
When learning to sing, you must also write frequently. Many professional singers fail to do this. What to write? Write about the understanding of the concept of sound; write about the analysis of music reading works; write about the understanding of the musical image of songs; write about the views on the content of song expression, etc.; write desk analysis of new music scores; write about the experience of writing old music scores...
You will find that your own understanding and imagination are so different when it comes to learning to sing. The more you practice, the more you read, the more you write, the more you explore your potential and you will go from not being able to sing to being able to sing as you please. At a certain stage, there will be a leap and sublimation, and you will become a popular and good singer.
4. Let MTV and computer multimedia teach you how to sing.
Using modern technology to expand your horizons is another good way to learn vocal music.
In the 1990s, MTV’s large-scale filming provided convenient conditions for intuitive learning for the majority of vocal music lovers. A layman looks at the excitement, an expert looks at the door. When watching MTV, make a conscious effort to watch some of the award-winning musicals. For example: "On the Wings of Singing", "I Love Wuzhishan, I Love Wanquan River", "Wish You Peace", "Songs One, Two, Three and Four", "Soldiers", "Yellow River and Mount Tai", "The Great Wall" "Long" and so on. You can record these award-winning works on a video recorder and watch them several times when you have time.
First, you must learn from experts by watching MTV, improve your appreciation level and identification ability, and gradually get a correct sound concept. Second, it depends on how the expert performs the performance and how to make the voice and emotion highly unified. Third, let me make some assumptions. If it were me, if I changed my singing method, what would the effect be? Through MTV, you can learn more about some music works and enrich your music knowledge. You can also try to write some song singing analysis and song reviews, and correct yourself while criticizing others. If possible, if you can use a camera to record yourself while practicing singing, and listen to your own video, so that you can be both a singer, an appreciator and a critic, you will make greater progress. There are also some science and technology workers and students in universities, middle schools and primary schools who have more opportunities to use computers, so they can make full use of the computer multimedia CD-ROM and Sound Blaster and Visual Blaster functions to learn vocal music in an all-round way.
5. Feel it with your heart
Chinese singers went to Italy to learn vocal music, and unexpectedly found that in this country, which has more than 300 years of bel canto singing, the teaching materials for teaching vocal music are not as good as ours. There are many countries, but there, whether they are teenagers or gray-haired old people, they can sing many arias from classical operas with great emotion. Even the workers who are responsible for carrying luggage at the airport sing a few words at random, and their voices are so beautiful and moving. No wonder they have a world-class singer like Pavarotti.
Singing should be felt with the heart and move people with emotion. When words cannot express love, only singing can express it. The following chapters will tell you about the techniques and methods of singing respectively, but you must not forget that although there are thousands of tricks, love always comes first.
I am most willing to listen to soldiers’ songs and listen to soldiers shouting songs. They sing while walking, while sitting, and standing. They have to sing while watching movies and holding meetings, and they have to sing every day before eating. Even if there are only three people left to hold a class meeting, one person has to seriously direct two people to sing loudly. . Class after class and company after company sang songs. Everyone was holding back their energy, blushing, and straightening their throats. They were full of gunpowder and would not stop singing until the other party was defeated. This kind of chanting is a catharsis of the youthful vitality and enthusiasm of the soldiers. I often stood motionless with a smile, listening to the soldiers shouting songs, but my eyes were filled with tears. Singing songs eliminated fear, shouted out determination to move forward, shouted out high-spirited will, and called out a generation of proud men in the military. Of course, I hope that soldiers can sing better.
I hope that one day, ordinary people in our country can sing beautiful harmonies with just three or five people together. Teenagers can generally sing beautifully using scientific singing methods; The elderly still maintain their youthful singing voices; other countries are studying our scientific national singing methods...