Chapter 969 Sweet Singing
My own program on the program list is relatively close to the middle, and although everyone's programs are staggered, they are arranged in a relatively concentrated manner. It is obvious that this is for the singers to catch up. On average, one song lasts five minutes, and three songs only last fifteen minutes. You only need to finish the performance within an hour before you can leave this venue and go to the next one.
These routines were carefully performed in the previous life. I quickly changed into costumes, arranged my makeup and hair, and came to the waiting area to watch the performance.
When Zhou Zhi was relishing this familiar scene, he felt someone tapping his back.
As soon as I turned around, I saw a woman wearing a royal blue silk dress, crystal high-heeled sandals, long-sleeved silk gloves, exquisite makeup, tall black hair, and a diamond-style tiara. The beautiful woman appeared in front of him.
"Ting...Tingting?" After the little girl said this, she overwhelmed the entire backstage with her beauty. Even Zhou Zhi, who was very familiar with her, was stunned for a moment.
In the last life, the two brothers and sisters wore bargains when they were running around. The clothes were rented from a wedding dress shop, and the accessories were randomly picked up from places like Kowloon and Lotus Pond. But now Guan Tingting is wearing this outfit. , but it was Tang Qi's discarded performance costume, and the accessories were also carefully selected over the years. It was obvious that even the makeup techniques were taught by famous teachers.
So Zhou Zhi had never seen Guan Tingting look like this in her previous life.
"Does it look good?" Her big eyes with false eyelashes twinkled. Guan Tingting handed Zhou Zhi a string of sapphire-shaped decorative necklaces: "Come and put it on for me."
"It's so beautiful." Zhou Zhi took the necklace and stood behind Guan Tingting, put the necklace around her neck, and said softly: "Little girl, you have grown up all of a sudden."
Guan Tingting leaned back and bumped Zhou Zhi with her back, obviously feeling quite proud.
Zhou Zhi, who was currently buckling the necklace, accidentally caught a glimpse of the ravine on Guan Tingting’s chest under her silk dress, and was so frightened that she quickly turned her gaze back to the buckle.
The words came true, this little girl really grew up all of a sudden...
After finishing the service, the brother and sister began to watch other people's performances.
In the last life, Guan Tingting explained the precautions to Zhou Zhi, but in this life, it was Zhou Zhi's turn to explain to Guan Tingting.
The performances here are actually quite professional, but they are a bit too "academic" and the imitations are too deliberate. One of the two singers just imitated Yang Yuying, and the other was older and even wore a military uniform to imitate Dong Wenhua. The Five Moon singing here is indeed a bit...it can only be regarded as a warm-up.
"Is this a related household?" Zhou Zhi whispered in Guan Tingting's ear.
“Are we not?” Guan Tingting gave Zhou Zhi an elbow: “I’m not scolding myself too.”
“I noticed that your temper changed when you came on stage?” Zhou Zhi laughed. Said: "You couldn't accept such words before. Come on."
"It's my turn, I'm too lazy to be poor with you." Guan Tingting turned around and showed Zhou Zhi a seemingly sincere smile, but Zhou Zhi knew it was her sweet smile: "Wish me good luck."
"Go, go and add a touch of beauty to this ordinary night, go and turn the busy people under the stage upside down. The brilliance on her face will cover up the brightness of the stars, and let the birds think of dawn and sing songs -" Zhou Zhi put on a pose. He recited it like a stage opera chant.
Guan Tingting's smile turned into a real smile: "I found that when you came to the stage, my temper also changed."
At this time, the off-site host had already started to make jokes and told a few jokes. Liven up the atmosphere and finally say it in an exaggerated tone : "Next, let us invite Ms. Guan Tingting, known as the 'Little Teresa Teng', to present a song for everyone - "Seeing the Smoke Again"!"
However, the music started, and after the host left, the stage There was no one there, only the beautiful and melodious singing sounded.
“I saw the smoke rising again, and the twilight shone on the earth...”
Teresa Teng is actually an underestimated singer. For a long time, when talking about Teresa Teng, she was the representative of "extreme music".
However, in fact, she is outstanding in terms of timbre, range, chest resonance and abdominal support in the cavity, the ability to maintain the five groups of treble, the richness of the bass, the brightness of the treble, and the strong metallic mix. The highest level.
It’s just that Teresa Teng’s popular songs were mainly slow and tender, which resulted in her personal abilities not being highlighted.
Only those who have heard her sing "Star" can truly know how powerful her abilities and skills are.
The funniest thing is that Teresa Teng’s singing style has a certain relationship with Zhou Zhi’s academic research. Chinese pays attention to the correct and round accent of characters. This accent actually refers to "biting the characters".
The ancients have studied singing thoroughly for a long time. The traditional articulation is actually divided into three parts, that is, "making the sound", "leading the belly", and "returning to the rhyme".
The utterance of a word, especially when it is pronounced for a long time, will become more and more obvious.
"Bent the word" means to pronounce the beginning of the word correctly, which is actually the initial consonant, and the so-called "sounding" means to pronounce the initial consonant accurately.
"Yin belly" refers to the prolongation of the sounding final, which is usually also called the belly.
"Guiyun" is the ending of the pronunciation of the word.
So the pronunciation process can be summarized into three key points: bite the beginning of the word, pronounce the belly of the word, and close the end of the word.
The reason why this is done is because the Chinese language itself has its own high and low sounds, and after adding music to it, it is necessary to replace the high and low sounds of this language with the high and low sounds of the tune, so that Remove the "talking flavor" when singing to reflect the maximum charm of the music.
How to solve it? Take the word "sea" as an example.
The word "大" has a high pitch, while the word "海" has a low pitch. To solve this problem in music, we must divide "海" into three parts.
First, the sound of "drink" is pronounced, which is "making a sound"; then the mouth is long and the tone is bright, which is "introducing the abdomen", and finally it returns to the rhyme of "love", which is "returning rhyme".
In this way, "big - sea -" becomes "big - drink love -". In this way, the pitches of "big" and "love" are originally the same, and they only need to be adjusted according to the tune. Just come and compete.
In the past, this was basically the case for all kinds of folk arts in China, from poetry singing to drama performances to ethnic singing.
This performance is particularly obvious in Peking Opera's "Nian Bai".
However, starting from Teresa Teng, this cookie-cutter singing method began to change. This is what she first started to use - pronunciation point awareness.
This question is a bit complicated to talk about. Basically, the pronunciation point of articulation is very forward, unified in front of the maxillary sinus, and the opening creates a bright and soft tone.
This pronunciation method actually combines the high-pitched singing method of folk songs and the singing method of Western music, which is characterized by warmth, softness and brightness.
It is indeed worthy of the term "extreme sound", so much so that later the singing circle called this singing method "sweet singing".
But it is a huge misunderstanding to think that Teresa Teng can only sing one and a half octaves without high notes.
In an era when tapes were not popular, there was nothing that could be done about the better the songs became and the more popular they became.
If you listen to her English songs and Japanese songs, you will know her true abilities.
After singing the first verse, Guan Tingting slowly walked to the center of the stage. This method of "hearing the voice first, seeing the person later" also filled the audience with imagination. space.
But no matter how they imagined it, Tingting's appearance proved that their imagination was not enough. The owner of the singing voice was more beautiful than they imagined.
Of course, the bonus of makeup is inevitable.
While everyone in the audience was intoxicated by Guan Tingting's appearance and singing voice, only Zhou Zhi was thinking about academics with his head down, comparing the huge difference between the vocal position of "sweet singing" and the traditional vocal rhyme.
(End of this chapter)