A singing skill:

Pitch and rhythm

There are many basic forms of music, but the most important ones are pitch, rhythm, timbre, speed, dynamics, harmony and so on. The most important things here are pitch and rhythm. It can be said that pitch and rhythm are the basis of a musical work. If you want to sing a song well, singing accurately and rhythmically is the most fundamental and basic content. Without this guarantee, everything else will be inferior, and there are many reasons for poor intonation or wrong rhythm. I can sum up the following points:

(1) Lack of musical sense leads to poor intonation or rhythm. Music is an art of hearing, but art has talent and understanding. Because people have different sensitivity and ability to music, their understanding of pitch and rhythm will be different. This is an objective existence. Therefore, due to the lack of ability to distinguish between pitch and rhythm, you can't distinguish and feel your own pitch and rhythm when singing. It should be said that there is still such a situation, and there are not many schools. You can try this method: randomly create a melody on a fixed pitch instrument to see if you can imitate humming, or play a rhythm to see if you can shoot better with your palm. This is a way to test your musical literacy. Friends who have such problems mainly listen to the original songs and carefully analyze the pitch and rhythm of the songs. You can try to listen and sing more and slowly reach a state of "singing without leaving your mouth", and the pitch and rhythm will gradually become accurate. For friends who have this problem, great patience and hard work are needed. But you will find pleasure in learning music in this process!

(2) Poor singing leads to poor intonation or rhythm.

There is a sense of distinguishing between pitch and rhythm, but without correct technical methods, the pitch is inaccurate and the rhythm is unstable. For example, when I was studying in college, one of my classmates was a vivid example: he studied piano since he was a child and his piano skills were excellent. Generally, the piano player in primary school has a better judgment of pitch rhythm than ordinary people, and he practiced his ears well at school (note: ear training is a music subject, mainly to train his ears to judge pitch), but he always sings out of tune. Why shrimp? ! This is because he is not a vocal music major, and his singing skills can't reach a good state. He was short of breath and talking at the top of his voice. Of course, the rhythm is not allowed to mess around! Therefore, it is not enough to be conscious, but also to have certain singing skills to achieve "unity of form and spirit." If so, friends should pay more attention to training their breath and vocalization, so that the pitch and rhythm can meet the standards required by their hearts!

In addition to the above two situations, such as when recording, the ear can't hear the accompaniment due to technical problems, etc., which will also affect the pitch rhythm, which will be discussed later in the next article.

(2) Singing skills.

(1) Breath and breath

Anyone who has studied physics knows that the physical cause of sound is that external factors impact the object, and the object vibrates to produce sound waves of different lengths, which causes the surrounding air to vibrate to produce sound. Therefore, the power source of singing is breathing, and the use of good breath can make the physical characteristics of vocal cords better played, thus singing beautiful and complete songs. Therefore, the use of breath is one of the most important skills in singing. Several breathing methods are named in common words)

1. Sigh and inhale:

As we all know, sighing is a common phenomenon in our daily life. It's relaxed and downward. Conducive to the relaxation of inspiratory muscles, so as to better inhale breath. The specific way is to sigh first and then inhale. Your mind is mainly thinking about sighing, not inhaling. When the breath is discharged with a sigh, that is, the work of the expiratory muscle is completed, and then the inspiratory muscle will immediately start to work-inhale, and this cycle is automatically completed. If your mind is thinking about inhaling, your inspiratory muscles will always be working and can't relax, so it is difficult for you to inhale normally. Note: when you sigh, just breathe there, and don't make any forced actions artificially. Keep sighing in the process of singing, every phrase is like this, forming a good breathing cycle. Next, practice sighing and inhaling in combination with the singing of songs. Try to sigh (spit) out your breath before you are ready to sing, and then start singing when the breath is naturally inhaled.

2. Odd-smelling inhalants:

Smelling fancy inhalation method is easy to make the air suck deeply, and it is easier to understand and master without inhalation sound and unnecessary action. When smelling the flowers, people's mood is particularly pleasant because of the flowers. It is a feeling of relaxation and excitement to distinguish them with special care. Specifically, when inhaling, the upper body is completely relaxed, the waist line is very comfortable to relax, and then the chest also has a sense of relaxation. The increase of the internal space allows the breath to flow naturally. This kind of inhalation is both relaxing and moderate, which makes people very excited and makes the chest feel spacious. Sing with this feeling of inspiration, with smooth breath and mellow voice.

You can open your mouth or close your mouth. When you shut up, you can't close it too tightly, which will affect the speed and flexibility of air intake. When simply practicing inhalation, you can use closed inhalation. When singing, it is better to open your mouth naturally and inhale through your nose at the same time. Whether you inhale with your mouth closed or your nose open at the same time, the most important thing is to experience the feeling of breath flowing into your body.

3. Accidental inhalation

Sudden inhalation is to use the rapid physiological response of people when they are surprised to achieve the purpose of rapid inhalation. This kind of inhalation is fast and deep, which can make the respiratory muscles complete the cycle of contraction and relaxation in an instant and exercise the rapid flexibility of the respiratory organs. This inhalation is also called "panting". It is better to express sadness and passion.

For some methods of breathing, refer to the papers of the Conservatory of Music. )

Why do you want to give this breathing such a name? It is mainly to let everyone master the requirements of singing breathing in a familiar state in life, but it should be noted that singing breathing is definitely a special kind of breathing, which cannot be completely equivalent to breathing in life. How to use breath is the highest state. Personally, I think it is the highest state to serve the artistic conception of songs and send and receive freely. Therefore, different songs have different requirements for breath, mainly as follows:

(1) Breathe quickly and spit slowly: some phrases switch quickly and have small mouths, but the phrases develop very long, which requires breathing quickly and spitting slowly, such as red *, full excitement when breathing, positive diaphragm and even balance when exhaling. This is the most difficult situation.

The specific method is: inhale quickly, pause slightly, and exhale slowly. You can understand it this way: imagine that a long-lost friend suddenly appeared in front of you, and you gasped in surprise, almost crying and stopped in this state. After a few seconds, it seems that there is an external force pushing back the lower abdomen, and I feel that the lower abdomen slowly exhales in the confrontation with this external force. At this time, the diaphragm has played a strong supporting role. (2) Breathe slowly and exhale quickly: Some songs and phrases are short and have big mouths, but the development of phrases is very small. When singing, you have time to prepare for breathing, but you should exhale quickly and don't procrastinate. Clear and direct.

(3) Slow suction and slow vomiting: This situation mainly occurs in some slow-motion situations. Because the music rhythm is not fast, the whole melody is written for a long time, so you can inhale slowly and sing slowly. The difficulty here is that you can't get angry casually. Although it is not too difficult to ask for breath in this situation, once you get angry, you will find that the pitch is wrong, the rhythm is wrong or the voice is not in place. The author occasionally has this problem. So in this case, the continuity and stability of breath are needed.

(4) Breathe quickly and exhale quickly: This situation is mainly in some fast-paced songs. There are even requirements for strength.

Compared with the above three, this is relatively easy.

These are several situations of singing and breathing. You can practice according to your own situation, according to your familiar songs and fragments that meet the above situation, or create some vocal music that meets the four situations, and gradually experience the experience and feelings of breathing under different situations. There are some simple ways to train breath, such as some exercises to increase vital capacity, but a large vital capacity does not necessarily mean that breath is used well. Large lung capacity should be combined with the scientific use of breath to be more powerful.

(b) Pronunciation and vowels

As we all know, words are ultimately sung by sound, so enunciation is also an aspect of singing technology. The general requirements of singing language are: accurate and dexterous initials, good vowel shape, natural and timely rhyme, and remembering Yin and Yang. We must be clear about priorities and handle the tone and situation. The prefix must be bitten correctly, but not to death. When the prefix is bitten, it should naturally transition to the stomach in time. After pronouncing words, stop the sound and rhyme in time, and pay attention to the connection of the three, so as to make the transition natural and smooth and become a whole. In addition, pinyin should be sung accurately, such as "L" and "N", "flat tongue" and "upturned tongue", "F" and "H", "front nasal rhyme" and "back nasal rhyme" should be distinguished and the tone should be accurate.

Every word has a vowel. In fact, many times we have to practice some basic vowels and attribute the ending word to the vowel of this word when singing. For example, in the song "Admit Your Mistake", the vowel "I" that the author is good at is used very well. Attributing words to vowels is what we usually call "returning to rhyme", which is a way to simplify complicated things.

(C)*** and vibrato (also known as overtones)

Our vocal cords are the main organs of our human body, but if we only rely on the vocal cords to make sounds, our vocal cords will be very fragile. The human body is a big structure and a big cavity. If the vocal cords emit sound, the quality and brightness of the sound will be greatly enhanced by some shock wave and other parts of the body producing * * * vibration with similar frequency, which is called * * * sound.

There are many cavities in the human body, such as nasal cavity, head cavity and abdominal cavity. Generally speaking, it is better for us to use the head cavity * * *, because the head cavity * * * can produce ideal results. When we sing, we can think that our vocal organs such as vocal cords and mouths are connected with our heads, and the sound is thrown up!

Training * * * sounds can be combined with vowel method. For example, ah vowels are suitable for practicing head cavity * * * sounds, and m sounds are suitable for practicing nasal cavity * * * sounds. When you feel tiny numbness in your body parts and vocal cords, it means that you are producing * * * sounds.

As for many vibrato singing methods we usually use, it is also the role of * * *. Because of the * * * sound, other cavities cause * * vibration, but they are not completely consistent with the frequency of the vocal cords, so they will produce a slightly different pitch from the vocal cords. When two kinds of sound effects are put together, there will be slight sound fluctuation, which is vibrato.

The method of training vibrato (overtone) is also training * * * sound. * * * sounds with some breath will naturally produce vibrato (overtone).

(D) Psychological adjustment and relaxation state

Singing is a very advanced physiological and psychological activity, and having a correct physiological state is a prerequisite, but a correct psychological state is also essential. Sometimes poor psychological state will directly lead to the change of singing physiological state. Therefore, it is also important to have a good mental state when singing.

No matter when recording or singing, my friends often feel nervous and in a bad state, including myself. At this time, the adjustment of mental state is very important! First of all, we can adopt the method of association, associate more life scenes that are basically consistent with the content of songs, and try our best to make ourselves have a mental state in life. Secondly, you can sing some simple and short practice songs or hum songs to fully relax the vocal cords. You can also yawn, put down your throat and return to a very relaxed state. At the same time, I suggested that my nervousness can't solve any problems, and I can only get better if I relax.

Because singing is a technical activity, like other technical activities, it needs long-term repeated training to make vocal movements return to a state of human natural science. Moreover, popular singing has always been controversial in the field of music pedagogy in China, and it is in an immature period. Therefore, we should think more, experience more, feel more, and experience some unique and proprietary skills and technologies.

About recording technology and singing consciousness, common sense and daily maintenance of musical sense cultivation will be mentioned in the next article. I also hope that everyone can make more suggestions, make more corrections and discuss more, so that all friends can improve and make progress! Thank you!