Vitas, this handsome guy (when he was young) who was hailed as "a gift from God" by the dean of the Odessa Conservatory of Music, is a top artist in the entire field of human pop music. Singing exists. Human pitch talent has been most perfectly reflected in Vitas, or it can be said that Vitas has raised the entire aesthetic range of human popular music. And he also suffered from a serious heart attack due to excessive burden on his heart caused by six and seven sets of whistles.
From the perspective of timbre, Vitas’ main timbre focuses on head voice, dolphin sounds and whistles. But this is different from the dolphin sounds and whistles of ordinary pop singers. Vitas' strongest competitiveness is that his whistles and dolphin sounds do not sound harsh, but have extremely high melody beauty and perfect head. Sound overtones are very difficult to achieve. We can compare Zhang Jie's dolphin sound and Vitas' dolphin sound to see how beautiful Vitas' head voice and whistle are. His use of head cavity cries has reached a very terrifying level.
In terms of vocal range, Vitas' expansion of the vocal range has reached the limit of human auditory beauty. His extreme B7 pitch has gone beyond the melody of pop music, but is an ascending fill-in tone. Moreover, the existence of Vitas directly led to the emergence and popularity of dolphin sounds. Jane Zhang and Zhang Jie were very popular in "Super Girl" and "Happy Boy" back then, which had a lot to do with their high-pitched dolphin voices.
In terms of vocal ability, Vitas is not a pop singer, but prefers artistic singing and absolute musicality. His support and vocal cavity are completely individual extreme expressions. In fact, Vitas is not strong in the range below five groups. In the two octaves B2-B4, Vitas has a voice stuck problem at the first voice change point F4. But people don’t need to sing F4 at all, because they have the choices of F3, F5, F6, and F4, and the F4 pitch itself is not very pleasant.
In general, Vitas is completely in the category of artist and vocalist, a god-level leader who has successfully expanded the boundaries of pop music. 1: Timbre: The aesthetic expression of dolphin sound;
Vitas’ timbre should be the most diverse among singers in the world. Although essentially it is mainly dolphin sounds and whistles concentrated in the high range. But because Vitas' vocal range is so wide, it also leads to many other timbre abilities. The details are as follows:
Bottom chest voice, bubble voice, vocal cord friction, vocal cord marginalization, raised articulation point, bel canto alto, strong mix, metal core, pharyngeal sound, tearing sound, weak mix, dolphin Sound, whistle.
In general, Vitas basically has all the names that we can call timbre techniques. Even the timbres that we cannot name, such as some weird timbres, "The Fifth Element" and tongue-playing techniques, we can't even name. So in essence, Vitas' timbre advantage itself is such that it instantly beats other singers.
The bottom chest voice is a D2 lowest bass expression based on the bel canto chest sound. The whole is a non-articulate super bass. It is one of the Vitas tongue sounds and appears in "Goodbye" Live singing. The bubble sound focuses on the bass capabilities of E2, F2, and G2. Generally speaking, if we compare Vitas and Zhang Jie in two sets of basses, Zhang Jie has an advantage over Vitas. Zhang Jie's lowest basses are E2 and F2. There are a lot of F2 quality expressions in the theme song "As Long as Ordinary" of "I'm Not the God of Medicine". It is a fragmented timbre with articulation and non-bubbly sounds. Generally speaking, in terms of the bass pop music market, Zhang Jie still has certain advantages over Vitas.
Vocal cords and vocal cords are marginalized, the former is a whim attempt among Vitas' very few rock singing styles. The latter is an important basic tone of Vitas' midrange. Unlike other singers, Vitas's vocal cord marginalization is more obvious starting from the third group, and he has a high degree of vocal marginalization until the fourth group of voice changes. In the vocal range where the vocal cords are marginalized, Vitas also has two timbre expressions that focus on the pronunciation points of bel canto and ordinary pop music. Therefore, compared to the individual tone of the bass, the midrange is more suitable for Vitas.
The first high-pitched range after entering the voice change point is a range rarely used by Vitas. This vocal range is a young talent for Vitas, because the high treble pressure has led to the degeneration and damage of the vocal ligaments, causing the timbre to fluctuate greatly after changing the vocal range. The range between F4 and D5 is mostly seen in the early days of Vitas.
In this sound range, Vitas' early strong metal core mixing capabilities are still very top-notch now. But there is a very serious problem. Vitas' strong and weak throat positions are not well controlled. The high throat position does not cause much damage to the vocal cords in the super high range, because the vocal cavity is in the head cavity rather than in the head cavity. maxillary sinus. However, the pressure of the top four mixing area on the vocal ligament is very large, and what is essentially required is the simultaneous action of the cricothyroid muscle and thyroarytenoid muscle. When the throat position cannot be well controlled, singing once is a time of damage. This is also the reason why Vitas would rather upgrade to group five than play A4-D5 in the later period and now.
But Vitas' weak mix is ??very strong. For example, "Stars" is the representative music of the five groups of high-pitched areas. It is not a strong mix, but a weak mix. The weak mixing ability and the dolphin sound are of the same origin.
After entering G5, I basically started to enter Vitas’ strongest vocal range and ability to express. Starting from G5, Vitas has reached a level where he can beat other singers instantly. The tone here is mainly dolphin sound as the outstanding one. The whistle sound is too artistic and a bit highbrow, but the dolphin sound really adds a lot of artistic space to pop music. And Vitas is almost synonymous with dolphin sound.
Nowadays, whether it is Zhang Jie, Dewahi, or even Zhang Liangying, all singers who have played high-pitched dolphin sounds are not worthy of fear compared to Vitas. . Because it is very simple, Vitas is the person who promotes dolphin sound, and he is also the representative of composers, lyrics and singers of dolphin sound songs around the world. The songs sung by Zhang Jie and Diwahi require payment to Vitas according to the copyright.
From the perspective of timbre quality, Vitas' dolphin sounds are the standard for six groups of popular dolphin sounds in the world. They are silky smooth, have full resonance overtones, and come with a sustaining vocal effector, maintaining the The dolphin sound of Tarth is infinitely close to what we think of as the song of a siren. Ethereal and melodious. The reason lies in Vitas' excellent head voice. In terms of the nature of the performance, Vitas's high notes will not make you feel the slightest ferocity, only elegance and admiration.
The final whistle sound is actually a derivative of the artistic treble and is also an addition to the dolphin sound. It's strange to say that the dolphin sound itself is a fill-in sound, but to others, the dolphin sound is a fill-in sound because the ability can only reach the level of fill-in, but Vitas can open up seven groups on top of the dolphin sound Whistle melody hearing. 2: Vocal range; five octaves and a half;
Live vocal range: D2-B7;
About this vocal range, the breadth is very unexplainable. But judging from the standards of popular music, there are still advantages and disadvantages.
The advantage area is the treble area, concentrated in A4-B7. The disadvantage area is the bass area E2-C4; overall, if you look carefully at Vitas' sound area, you will find that the core tone of Vitas is It tends to be soft, and the corresponding ability is cricothyroid muscle ability, not thyroarytenoid muscle ability. Of course, the thyroarytenoid muscle ability may also reach the terrifying heights of six and seven groups.
Based on the basic direction of insufficient thyroarytenoid muscle ability and overwhelming cricothyroid muscle ability, the advantages and disadvantages of Vitas' vocal range are easy to understand. Generally speaking, the thyroarytenoid muscle needs to maintain the throat position to stabilize the tone and power, so the real sound and strong mixed metal core in the thyroarytenoid muscle's advantageous area are disadvantageous areas for Vitas. The cricothyroid muscle does not need to maintain the laryngeal position, and the higher the cricothyroid muscle expresses, the more the vocal cavity can replace the pressure with the vocal ligament, and the vocal ligament only vibrates.
So, Vitas’ approach is to release the high-pitched area after the thyroarytenoid muscles. It is also because of this that Vitas' vocal range can be expanded by two octaves again above the G5, the extreme range of pop music, to B7.
Such a wide vocal range has created Vitas’ unparalleled artistic music creation ability.
For example, many of his songs are actually not pop music written for the public in a strict sense, but they are extremely suitable for Vitas to sing. The existence of Vitas is destined that his artistry can lead and break through the public's music aesthetics.
But it is worth mentioning that the wider the vocal range and the more high notes you sing, the more abilities you will lose as you age. For example, for Vitas today, the beauty of his high-pitched dolphin sound is far less than it was when he was young. Basically, it is not much different from the dolphin sounds of Diwahi and Zhang Liangying. But no matter what, he is already 46 years old, and he also suffered from heart disease because of his high voice.
In general, Vitas' singing skills and music are still the high ceiling in world music.