Among the different styles of singing skills of Chinese orchestras, there is a type of timbre that has become more or less the most popular timbre of each of us in adolescence, which has a wide audience and will always have commercial value. In the analysis of popular vocal music, the so-called smoke voice is essentially a fricative timbre with the granularity of the timbre as the main source of overtones, and it will give people a sense of vicissitudes and deep feelings because of the richness of low-frequency overtones, which is very masculine.
So in the whole Chinese music, which singers are smoky voices? How do they differ in the way they sing in smoke? And which singer has the best smoky voice? Today, we make a specific aesthetic analysis of the advantages and disadvantages of vocal science popularization and qualitative vocal timbre:
There are a total of smoke voice singers: Daolang, Zhou Xiaoou, Xu Wei, Old Wolf;
In Chinese music, the singing method of smoke is actually mainly concentrated in the sinking market, with folk songs and rock being the majority, and most of the smoke singers are actually active on the Internet. There are actually very few singers who can really walk out of a professional path with their smoke voice, and they are all singers with high attainments in the field of smoke voice without exception.
There are a total of eight top professional smoke singers we can hear:
1: Daolang. Daolang's timbre composition is: friction + mixing system, in terms of singing, it belongs to a relatively advanced smoke voice mixing timbre, which has both the perfect timbre granularity of the smoke voice, and has the ability to mix the high vocal range, and the overall sound is very exciting and curious. His smoke voice timbre is the most impactful and influential singer in the country, and he has brought the rapid market occupation advantage of smoke voice timbre to the extreme. At the same time, it also has the thinking logic of the music genre that is completely adapted to the positioning of the smoke voice.
In the details of his singing skills, Daolang is completely different from most other smoke-throated singers. Because there is a problem with the smoke voice: the threshold is low, and the ceiling is also low. Most singers sing smoke is the result of active friction between the larynx and the vocal cords, which will cause the singer to be unable to complete the higher position hanging, and the pronunciation point will fall in the throat, resulting in most of the smoke will present the following timbre and hard injuries:
- The voice is too thick and lacks a closed core, and the sound is muffled and lacks the brightness of the articulation.
- The vocal range and key are too low, and the bass midrange is the mainstay, the key is too low, and there are few mood fluctuations.
- The tempo of the music is slow, and it can't be fast at all, because one piece can't handle the maintenance of the fricative.
For example, some Internet celebrity singers: Wang OK, and a large number of smoke singers on the Avenue of Stars, all of them will present three problems, and the smoke for the sake of the smoke will lead to the tension contrast space of the vocals, and the strength and weakness of the vocal music will be lost. But Daolang has made all the breakthroughs in three aspects:
- Daolang's voice is on the vocal line, and there is also a problem of thick lines in the main song part of the middle range, but in the chorus part, the core of the voice is clear when closed, and the overall brightness is full, with the texture of pharyngeal sound and tearing sound. It combines the granularity and brightness of the tone. That's the best sound, with brightness providing the punch of pitch and the so-catching aesthetic of the core, and granularity providing detail and emotion. Back then, Daolang mainly relied on
- In terms of vocal range, Daolang Yan's voice has completed the very terrifying C3-C5 full range ability, which is because of the strength of the mixed pharyngeal sound.
- Daolang's music speed is actually a little slow, but fast songs such as "Lover" also have a certain contrast between strength and weakness. On the whole, Daolang's style is still a bit concentrated.
To put it simply, Daolang's smoke voice is relatively advanced and technical. In 2004, he mixed and integrated the mainstream mixed singing method 20 years later, and developed the connection between the timbre of the smoke voice and the metal core of the strong mixed voice:
- The smoke is a granular explosion, with a very weak brightness of the mid-bass timbre;
- The pharyngeal sound is an explosion of brightness, with extremely grainy treble and super treble timbre.
Daolang perfectly blended the two and created the myth of crushing mainstream singers in 2004. However, Daolang also has the problem of inverted voice now, and the outbreak period is the real hoarseness around 2017, which is because the active friction of the smoke voice will excessively deplete the function of the vocal cords.
Zhou Xiaoou - the strongest Chinese singer at present, there is no one, after 20 years of singing, the smoke voice still has not fallen, a little miracle
Zhou Xiaoou, an actor active in the film and television industry, is currently the best singer in Chinese music, and there is not even one of them. Zhou Xiaoou's smoke voice is completely different from Daolang's, showing the following characteristics:
1: The tone of the smoke voice is more granular, and it has the bright and crisp feeling of the articulation; In other words: Zhou Xiaoou's sense of language supports a certain brightness for the smoke voice, and the processing logic is completely different from Daolang's pharyngeal sound. We must know that the smoke voice is timbre, but it falls more on the sustain, and Zhou Xiaoou's articulation is a large number of rock and roll broken accents, and the first closed tone of the articulation has the ability to provide brightness. Combined in this way, Zhou Xiaoou and Daolang have the same perfect expression of brightness and granularity.
2: The smoke voice often resonates with the upper laryngeal closure and the lower laryngeal chest sound in the neutralization, presenting a kind of: the beginning of the sentence is closed-the smoke voice in the sentence - the excessive chest sound at the end of the sentence, so that each sentence actually has a higher sentence opening and the bite is closed and bright, and the sentence provides granularity, and the end of the sentence increases the cavity resonance. It's very balanced, and the key is not to hurt the throat,
3: Zhou Xiaoou's cavity is very reasonable, it has perfect sound mixing ability, and the use of cavity can greatly reduce the pressure of the vocal cords and further reduce the harm of the smoke voice. The principle is that the cavity has a very high amplification ability, and most of the smoke is a non-cavity amplified smoke voice. At this time, the smoke voice has to complete the shaping of timbre, and it also has to complete its own amplification, and the load on the vocal cords is extremely great. This is also the reason why Xu Wei relies heavily on microphones and sound amplification. And Zhou Xiaoou's cavity has achieved a very perfect loud volume amplification ability, and the stable confrontation with sound pressure. Then Zhou Xiaoou's vocal cord friction only needs a small degree to complete the listening sensation of the smoke voice.
4: Zhou Xiaoou is a wandering singer, and his annual singing times are low. This is very good for protecting the throat, and most of the smoke is due to the collapse of the vocal cords caused by the high-intensity work of the concert. Zhou Xiaoou perfectly avoided the intensity of work.
So for now, Zhou Xiaoou is the best of all the smoked singers, and after singing for more than 20 years, there is still no sign of losing his voice. Not only that, Zhou Xiaoou also has a very good treble ability, and the highest treble can come to A4. This sound is actually very high, which means that no matter which music variety show Zhou Xiaoou goes to, there is a market for singing.
Xu Wei - the smoke voice with a very heavy voice is inseparable from the microphone and stereo
Xu Wei, the singer who focuses on the healing style of folk rock, his singing timbre is also a typical friction sound. In essence, because folk and rock have high requirements for true vocal emotions, and Xu Wei is a guitarist and does not have any vocal learning. And it is just that the smoke voice is a singing method with a very low threshold but a very high commercial lower limit, so it hits it off.
Xu Wei's smoke voice is fundamentally different from Daolang and Zhou Xiaoou in terms of vocal technicality - he does not have the ability to mix voices. This means that Xu Wei's smoke voice can only be maintained in the middle and low tones, and the main sound range is: C3-D4, which is a little tense from the beginning of E4. And Xu Wei's highest note is G4 of "Blue Lotus", in fact, this tone is not high, but it is already the limit of Xu Wei's smoke.
Most of Xu Wei's music based on the smoke voice is very healing, and it makes people want to quit when they listen to it, and most of the emotions here are done in the form of a hard-top real voice. This results in a large overload of the vocal cords, and the cavity does not have the ability to amplify sound. In an interview, Xu Wei played the guitar and sang without a microphone, and basically couldn't hear any sound clearly. The overall sound pressure and volume are low. And Xu Wei's dependence on microphones and speakers is very high, and there are a lot of synthesizers and reverberations in his life information.
Old wolf - the same inverted smoke voice, the vocal range C3-E4, F4 are a bit difficult to top
The smoke voice of the old wolf, a folk singer, is actually similar to Xu Wei, and their logic is the same: the fricative smoke voice of the amplification logic of the non-mixed sound system. The quality of the mid-bass is more explosive, because the sigh of the mid-bass is very consistent with the smoke voice. But in the treble zone, only one word can be said: the old wolf has no treble. After entering C4, the old wolf's singing logic gave up the smoke voice, and he couldn't maintain the pitch pressure while maintaining the timbre of the smoke voice.
To sum up, at present, in the domestic smoke field, Zhou Xiaoou is the only one, Daolang and Xu Wei have a certain inverted voice, but they still have good singing ability. Hopefully they all have better works in the future.