What is falsetto? How to sing falsetto?

People's everyday voice is the real voice, and the voice issued by a different vocal state (e.g., male as female voice) is the falsetto voice. The untrained voice, from the natural voice area to the high place to say or sing, to a certain height will feel difficult, if high, the voice will suddenly change, lose the original tone, and become weak and weak and colorless voice, that is, the so-called "falsetto". In Chinese opera, the real voice and the falsetto are called the real voice and the falsetto, the big voice and the small voice, and the big and the small voice, and the big and the small voice, and the big and the small voice, and the big and the small voice, and the big and the small voice. China's traditional saying is that both men and women have true voice and false voice; Western countries do not have true voice, only called chest voice. Both men and women have chest voice. However, the falsetto is limited to the male voice. The female voice is only the head voice and higher than the head voice "whistle".

The human vocal cords have two vocal functions, namely, the heavy function of chest voice and the light function of falsetto or head voice. The real voice to the role of the arytenoid muscle, the vocal folds full vibration, the edge of the round pure, full and loud voice, the voice door with the audio open and close, the use of gas is more economical, generally used in the low and middle voice area. False voice is based on the role of the circumflexor muscle, the vocal folds localized (edge) vibration, edge of the thin, the vocal folds are not closed tightly, there is a pike-shaped gap, the cost of gas is more, generally used in the high voice area.

Natural falsetto is not expressive, expressive is the trained, breathing support with the art of *** sound falsetto. The Qingyi in Chinese opera, the male soprano or male alto in some ancient European churches (e.g., churches in England and Russia) are all sung in falsetto; the Xiao Sheng in Chinese Peking Opera and Kunqu Opera, and the singing of the Chinese folk songs of the Qinghai folk song Hua'er and the Yodeling (a kind of mountain song) of the mountainous regions of Switzerland and Austria are sung in alternating real and falsetto voices; and the Laosheng and Laodan in Chinese opera, and folk songs of many regions of China and the world, are mostly sung in real voices. folk songs in China and many parts of the world, are mostly sung in the true voice.

The practice of the high register

The high register is often found in the climax of a piece of work, and it has the power to stimulate the listener's emotions and inspire the heart. Singing well in the high register will add color to the whole singing. Therefore, with a loud, metallic treble for singers is very valuable, in the natural voice area to find a good foundation of the middle voice area, and mastered the skills of the voice area can be practiced after the treble. When singing soprano, both cheekbones need to be more active and open, and the whole singing state needs to be more positive and excited. As the pitch goes up, the lower jaw needs to be loosely pulled downward and backward to the sides; the little tongue is lifted as if yawning and sucking in the air to make the throat more open, and the larynx must not be moved upward with the pitch, but rather, on the contrary, it gradually descends to remain in the state of inhalation, which of course must be supported by the breath. Singing soprano method is a difficult point in the training, based on continuous practice, has also summarized a lot of effective methods, but each method should be tailored to the individual, to take the effective way and method suitable for their own.

The first is the pivot point method: when singing as if the vocal cords are not long in the throat, but long in the chest, sing every word do not leave this pivot point, mouth relaxation singing, so that the attention to the thought there, all of a sudden the sound will be balanced. This method can solve several problems: if you sing high notes, the throat is easy to lift, you think of the chest, you do not want to larynx, the pivot point is low, the larynx is also naturally relaxed, decentralized, the larynx is lowered, the throat is naturally open. There are also vocal cords in the chest, of course, the breath can not exceed the vocal cords, that must be under the chest, the breath will sink down, stabilized. This is basically to find the correct way to vocalize.

The second reverse reference is the metaphor of "changing words under the throat". The way to change the word under the throat is to say that the throat is easy to be high when you sing high notes, so you should change the word under the throat about one or two inches, or "change it against the shoulder, change it at the base of the neck". When singing this way, the throat is most likely to open, and the voice is easier to vertical, easy to enter the head voice, easy to find the focus position of the high notes.