First of all, how to open your throat?
If you want to open your throat completely, you must first understand the place and feeling of exertion. If the throat can be completely opened when singing, then the singer's own feeling should be that the throat expands outward and has the power to make the Adam's apple downward. "Opening the throat correctly means feeling the neck expand around." "It is right to feel the muscles on both sides of the throat sour and make the Adam's apple drop." To illustrate this problem, you can often make a gesture that your hands are pushed out from your shoulders like two walls to show the direction and feeling of this power.
In order to find out the feeling and intensity of throat opening, there are many specific means, which are easy to understand and effective. Singers can choose one or more of them in practice and experience them in various ways.
1. Yawning is the easiest way to open your throat. "There is a way to open your throat. When you are sleepy, you yawn while talking, and then your throat opens. " "In order to prevent yawning from going too far, the sound will be made too late."
2. Finding the fulcrum of the chest is conducive to opening the throat. "When you sing, the sound comes from where you cough." "The sound is coming from the middle of two collarbones, and the sound is very deep." "The sound came from the bottom of the throat."
3. Imitating a loud person helps to open your throat. "Imitate a person with a wide voice to sing, don't imitate that person's timbre, mainly imitate his technique. As a technology, it has the same requirements for any sound. "
Singing without opening your mouth will force your throat to open.
Laughter and crying also help to open the throat.
6. Looking back, you can often find the feeling of opening your voice.
The above are some commonly used methods to open the throat, and singers can choose and use them flexibly according to their own problems. In addition, when your throat is completely open, when you sing, you will feel the power of pushing your head forward and upward, that is, to some extent, there is a feeling of neck.
Cheryl Milnes, a famous American baritone singer, talked about correcting the unnatural state of some singers' heads and chins. She advocates crossing her hands and putting them on the back of her head, moving forward gently and forcefully when singing, and leaning back slightly. At this time, her head and chin are in a state of singing.
Another feeling is very important, that is, when the throat is completely open, the singer will feel that the throat seems to disappear when singing, and only the support of breath and the loud resonance of the mask can be clearly felt by the singer, that is, "only the diaphragm is in contact with the mask when singing". In other words, the fully opened throat looks like a smooth passage, where the sound is not blocked, but sent to the mask above. Although this is a feeling and imagination, it seems to be an objective fact. This feeling is recognized and emphasized by many famous singers in the world, so singers must try their best to find this feeling, and only in this way can they completely open their throats.
How to find the mask resonance?
Mask resonance is actually the product of opening the nasopharyngeal cavity. In other words, when the singer's voice resonates with the mask, his nasopharyngeal cavity is completely opened. If opening the throat requires opening the laryngopharyngeal cavity and oropharyngeal cavity, then if you want to send sound into the mask, you must also open the nasopharyngeal cavity at the same time. How to completely open the oropharyngeal cavity and nasopharyngeal cavity at the same time, so as to obtain full mask resonance? There can be the following means.
1. Smiling sounds easily enter the mask position. Ancient teachers taught singing only two things: first, yawning and opening your voice; Second, singing with a smile helps the voice to enter the mask. On these two points, there have been many excellent singers in history.
2. Feel the resonance of the mask by humming. Of course, this humming must be based on a completely open throat and good breathing support, otherwise it will not enter the inside of the mask. In addition, try to find a dizzy feeling when humming, which shows that we have opened the nasopharyngeal cavity and really arched our heads.
3, not opening your mouth will also help to find the resonance of the mask. In addition to not opening your mouth, the singer is also required not to control the sound with his mouth, nor to make a sound with his mouth, which often affects the resonance of the mask.
4. Singing in a low voice helps to find the resonance of the mask.
5. Try to use the mask to resonate when you speak. As Sheba said, "Speaking should be as beautiful as singing, and singing should be as natural as speaking."
On the treble problem
1. "Be sure to be full and accurate before singing high notes. This high-pitched impression has long been imprinted in your mind. " This sentence includes two aspects. First of all, you must establish a correct voice image in your mind. Second, before singing high notes, all parts of the vocal organs, such as the support of diaphragm, the position of Adam's apple and the resonance of mask, should be prepared for active work.
2. The function of sound is just the opposite of pitch. In other words, the higher the pitch, the lower the movements and feelings of some parts of the vocal organs. We summarize this reverse movement into three aspects. When singing high notes, we use internal strength instead of external force: first, the muscles on both sides of the Adam's apple pull the Adam's apple down; Second, the diaphragm effectively controls breathing; Third, don't put your head forward, don't look up, and bow your head slightly.
3. The treble needs mask resonance most.
4. Be confident when singing high notes.
Several problems that should be paid attention to when practicing vocal music
1. Practicing vocal music is a hard job.
2. Keep a good singing state when practicing voice.
3. Cultivate singing awareness when practicing vocal music.
4. When practicing vocal music, try to achieve the unity of subjective and objective.
5. Practice your voice with clear goals.
6. Don't pursue the volume excessively when practicing your voice.
7. Pay special attention when practicing your voice.
8. Practice singing with a scientific attitude.
Steps of singing vocal practice
Generally speaking, the practice of singing basic skills can be divided into three stages according to the law of range development.
First stage
Based on alto training, master the basic vocal methods, adjust and exercise muscles to meet the needs of singing techniques. No matter what kind of voice it is, you should start training from the alto. After practicing the alto, we will gradually expand the range. You should know that vocal music learning should start from the foundation. Alto is the foundation of the development of singing voice, and the foundation must be solid. We should remember the truth that "haste makes waste".
stage Ⅱ
On the basis of alto, we should appropriately expand the range, strengthen the coordinated training of breath and resonance, and practice the training of transition tone area (that is, the training of inflection area) to lay a good foundation for the training of entering the head tone area. The second stage of practice is the key link, which takes a relatively long time, but you must be patient and confident, don't rush to sing high notes, and hold your breath. After this range is consolidated, you can practice in the high-pitched area.
The third stage
That is to say, on the basis of consolidating the last two stages, the practice of high-pitched area can strengthen the training of volume and pitch, further expand the range and do more complicated vocal exercises, so that all kinds of voices can reach the ideal range. This shows that classroom practice should pay special attention to the unity of the three vocal areas of high, middle and low, and there should be no cracks in the tone transition. The key point is to strengthen the training of the head sound area to obtain the resonance of the head cavity at a high position, so as to achieve the purpose of unifying the sound area. In this way, our singing instruments are basically made and can sing generally difficult songs.
Etudes of singing and vocalization
The practice of etudes is an important basic training for vocal music singing. Etudes can be practiced with various vowels, mixed vowels or mixed vowels, or with the names of scales, such as 1234567, or with the lyrics arranged on the etudes.
In the process of vocal music practice, the function and state of vocal organs are adjusted according to the standard of sound effect and moderate muscle of vocal organs. Everyone's vocal organ structure, vocal conditions, voice types and vocal habits are different. Therefore, it is not necessary to sing every type of practice, but to choose the practice in a planned and targeted way. The vocal exercises chosen in different learning stages are different. But generally speaking, the initial practice always chooses vowels and a relatively stable scale to start practicing.
Generally speaking, choose rounder vowels such as "O" or "U" to start practicing, because these vowels are easy to form the needed space, and it is easier to keep the basic state of the throat open, and it is also easier to form the state of the throat space. But this is not absolute. Singers should find the most suitable vowels to practice according to their own feelings. Think more, be good at thinking in practice, and don't keep singing foolishly.
1 and the basic exercises of "Hum"
Generally speaking, it is good to practice "M" at the beginning, because it is easy to achieve high, front, bright and concentrated effects when pronouncing this sound. When practicing humming, you should first close your upper and lower lips naturally and open your mouth inside, as if it were a yawn. You feel the sound spreading to high places, frontal sinuses and paranasal sinuses, but don't block the sound in the nasal cavity, or it will make a nasal sound.
2. Vowel practice
In addition to humming practice, more is to practice vowels, such as single vowels such as A, I, O, U and E, and mixed vowels such as ma, me, mi, mo and mu.
3. Connecting with practice
People often say, "If you can't be coherent, you can't sing." The main expressive force of singing voice lies in its coherent beauty, and only a coherent voice can sing a moving melody line. In order to make the sound more coherent, the scope of practice can be relatively widened and the practice can be more difficult.
4. Exercise
Pause singing is also called staccato singing. Singing requires clarity, brevity, flexibility, flexibility and concentration. Pay attention to the flexibility and consistency of one word and one sound when practicing.
5. Practice of linking and tonality.
On the basis of mastering the singing methods of Legato and Tone, we can increase the practice of combining Legato and Tone, which is beneficial to the unity of singing state. Tone tone seems to be a "point", even audio and video are a "line", so that the position of sound is unified and the breath is kept uniform and smooth.
6. Practice of keeping the resonance position unchanged
In the practice of "humming", we have said that the best way to find the resonance position is to experience the feeling of "humming". If this resonance point is found correctly, then all other voices should be close to this humming position, so as to reach the high position of singing and unify the voices from top to bottom.
7. Sound flexibility exercises
This kind of practice is mainly to meet the requirements of fast and smooth singing, so as to achieve more active coordination of body, throat and breath.
8, combined with word pronunciation practice (with word practice)
It is required to be imaginative, artistic, visual, expressive in timbre, musical in sound and emotional according to the meaning of words when singing. Strive to achieve clear pronunciation and mellow voice, love and sound, and slowly transition to singing songs.
Matters needing attention in vocal music training
1, pay attention to protect your voice and practice singing and vocalization properly. The time for beginners is 20 minutes, and then gradually increase to half an hour or an hour. It is most important to practice every day, and absolutely avoid full-volume practice. Singing loudly is easy to damage the singing organs.
Don't practice high notes until you can't sing high notes. Always sing a set of notes that you are most satisfied with. Be more careful when choosing tracks. Don't sing songs that don't suit you.
3. Every exercise should be fresh, focused and interesting.
4. When practicing, use slow and short phrases as the initial exercise.
Vocal music training takes time, and there is no miracle. "Ten percent talent+ninety percent effort."