How to teach students to sing properly

How to improve students' singing level through singing skills training

Singinging is one of the most instinctive means of musical expression for human beings and a good way to express emotions. The national music curriculum standard clearly points out that in music teaching should pay attention to cultivate students natural, confident, expressive singing is the main content and goal of singing teaching. For students, good singing posture, correct breathing method, scientific vocal training, clear singing language, rich emotional expression, etc. are the basic singing skills that should be possessed in elementary school. The acquisition of these skills is inseparable from practical activities and specific training. In training, teachers should pay attention to avoid boring, boring skills training, therefore, the teacher to create a variety of images, interesting, effective music activities, guiding students to participate actively, so that students in the rich and colorful practical activities in the arts to gradually obtain these basic skills to improve their singing ability is very important.

A good singing posture

Good singing posture is the first step in learning to sing, but also the basis of students' singing skills. Teaching, the teacher should always correct the students incorrect singing posture, such as chin, stomach, teeth closed, mouth open, eyes looking at the faults, to let the students develop a correct singing posture, good singing state: the body is naturally upright, the whole body to remain loose, feet slightly apart (can be a front and a back), the center of gravity to stand firm, the head is upright, eyes flat, the upper chest is free to open, the abdomen is slightly closed, facial expressions The face expression is natural, etc.

From a young age, students are trained to maintain a correct and good singing posture, which is the basis for singing and vocalizing. If the singing posture is not correct, it will affect the singing breathing, affecting the singing voice. Correct singing posture should pay attention to the body natural upright, head slightly elevated, full of spirit, shoulders relaxed slightly backward, hands naturally hanging down, abdomen slightly closed, the whole body in a positive state and no stiffness. In the singing teaching, teachers should always pay attention to cultivate students' singing posture. In the process of students singing, we often find that some students sing on the table, some leaning against the chair lazily singing, some bent over, hand-supported chin listless singing ...... In the face of this situation, our teachers usually reprimand the students, so that the students in accordance with the requirements of the sitting, but in the actual activities, this way does not play a good role! But in the actual activities, this approach does not play a good effect, the students in a short while and "original form", the teacher's words thrown out of the sky, and some students will even produce a strong sense of rebellion. How can students sing in such a situation, how can they sing their feelings? If the teacher can do in teaching to create a variety of situational activities, constantly reminding, reinforcing the students to maintain the concept of correct singing posture, to avoid the use of hard, pale language to educate the students, may be better than a simple reprimand.

For example, in music teaching, teachers can show the following picture and students together to carry out the "look and learn" game. Let the students visualize the posture of several students in the picture and identify which posture is correct. And then call all the students together to learn a correct posture, the students through comparison and personal experience after the impression must be very deep.

When singing a powerful song, we can design a "learn from the PLA uncle" activity. Learning the People's Liberation Army uncle head high, energetic standing posture, enjoy a song sung by the military uncle, or even let the students stand up, learn the appearance of the People's Liberation Army uncle, chest out, stomach, full of energy to sing the song's strong and powerful to. At this time, the students will naturally be in the abdomen slightly closed, the whole body in a positive singing state, which is very conducive to the expression of the emotions of the song.

Second, the correct breathing method

Correct breathing, clear bite to sing a good song also plays a very important role. Breathing training for some pure breathing exercises, such as sniffing flowers, sobbing, huffing, coughing, shouting, etc., to experience the inhalation and exhalation movements and positions. On the basis of pure breathing training, breath control exercises, such as inhalation → control → exhalation → ...... so that students gradually learn the ability to control the breath in a measured way.

To enable students to master the basic method of singing breathing, that is, chest and abdomen joint breathing method, the use of the chest, diaphragm, abdominal muscles *** with the control of the breath, so that the lungs breath capacity, control freely and have a clear respiratory pivot point. In the inhalation, the mouth and nose at the same time gently and smoothly inhale, to deep and natural stretch, all parts of the body should be naturally coordinated, not rigid; so that the breath deep into the bottom of the lungs, the diaphragm sinks, the chest cavity and the two ribs open, the lower part of the thorax is slightly inflated, and pay attention to keep; in the exhalation, the shoulders, neck, jaw and mouth parts should be absolutely relaxed and natural, with the chest and abdominal muscles*** with the control of the breath, so that the breath of the use of the control The breath should be controlled by the chest and abdominal muscles***, so that the breath can be used freely and the breath can be maintained to support the sound, and not be leaked. Simply put is yawning, so that the vocal organs open and smooth, the position of the glottis down. Teachers should pay attention to the students to do more yawning and inhalation exercises, experience the stability of the laryngeal knot down and the relaxation of the laryngeal knot open, singing and vocalizing, emphasizing the maintenance of inhalation, that is, in order to make the larynx is in a lower position, always relax and open, and do not clog, squeeze tight. At the same time, emphasize the vocal folds to tighten and close, and block the air downward, also promote the larynx to put down the stability and relaxation of the larynx to open. Only by relying on the usual vocal exercises to carefully experience, and after a long period of conscious training, to form the correct subconscious methods and habits. However, the teacher's singing demonstration is very important, which can give the students practical perceptual understanding. Correct demonstration can also be better than too much or repeated explanations, so that students can find their own vocal deficiencies and correct them in the teacher's correct demonstration.

Three, scientific vocal training

Vocal training is to train students to master the scientific method of singing is one of the important basic training, the purpose is to make the students' singing vocal organs, the function of each part of the body, in line with the basic state of the natural physiology, the establishment of a more complete, more systematic and scientific method of vocalization, so that the singing to achieve a solid and stable breath, the larynx is open to loosen the voice, the voice beautiful and pleasant to the ear, the position is smooth and round. Pleasing to the ear, position smooth and rounded, clear and accurate biting words, sincere and moving feelings of the situation. Vocal training for students, from a certain point of view, is to create a musical instrument in the human body, this instrument is different from other musical instruments, it is completely subject to the command of the human higher system, the outside is invisible and intangible.

Lenin said: "Some people think that only poets need to fantasize, and there is no reason for this." We need to imagine in any invention, and vocal training is no exception. In the vocal training due to the semantic uncertainty of the language of vocal teaching, so that the students of the teacher told the requirements of the teacher is often not easy to understand and grasp, the teacher uses the image of the language to the more abstract concepts of concrete visualization. In order to achieve the purpose of training, teachers also often use heuristic sensory teaching methods, inspire and guide the students in the study by virtue of their own thinking to develop a rich imagination, through the association of some specific images, the principle of voice and function of a variety of abstract, not easy to understand the concepts become clear and recognizable. The so-called sensory teaching is to do in our daily lives some of the actions and feelings for singing and training, through these feelings to experience the scientific state of voice, to achieve better training results.

Primary school students, due to voice, physiological conditions and psychological qualities are different, in the vocal training of the state and the existence of the problem is also different. In the teaching process should be used for different, targeted teaching method. For example, some introverted students, in the vocal training, can not raise the spirit, vocal state is not in place, not active. Teachers should pay attention to mobilize the enthusiasm of such students, talk about some of the things that make them feel happy, in their emotions to reach a certain level of excitement and then practice voice, the effect will be better. Can also be used to stimulate the method, forcing them to do according to the teacher's requirements, sing some of the staccato or jumping tone, which is favorable to their state and function of the regulation of the response. For students with bad voice condition, we should overcome their inferiority complex, and use the teaching method of encouragement and praise to make them have confidence in themselves. For students who are slow in responding, they should be inspired and induced patiently, and repeat the explanation many times so that they can accept it. Exercises should be from shallow to deep, from easy to difficult. Teachers should be good at using some of the strengths and advantages of the students to attack their hard, targeted vocal training, from different practical situations, take a flexible and diverse approach to achieve a key to open a lock, and can be carried through to the training of all aspects.

In short, vocal training should be in line with the law of physical growth and development of students, in line with the natural physiological laws of the state, can not be rushed, to use a variety of educational methods, so that students can master a more systematic and perfect vocal methods and techniques for the future singing songs to lay a solid foundation.

Four, clear singing language

Clear singing language is one of the most basic requirements of singing. Throughout history, in China's traditional vocal art, there is a pithy jargon, called "the word is round", which is one of the basic aesthetics of our country has always pursued. Imagine, if in the singing, the audience can not hear the basic content of the performer sings, then, how can convey the basic thoughts and feelings, impress the audience? Cultivating clear singing language skills in elementary school students from an early age is a responsibility that is incumbent upon us in the classroom. In the music classroom, the most practical way is: high position, emotional recitation of the lyrics; also some tongue-twisting exercises.

In the activity of reciting lyrics, it should be emphasized that the recitation should be supported by good breath and rich emotion, so that the voice of recitation has a high position. And pay attention to the purity of the vowel and the clarity of the consonant. Can not appear "a" not like "a", "o" not like "o" and other vowel ambiguity.

We can also draw on the traditional opera, opera practice, interspersed with the music classroom to train our singing language, so that the singing language is clear and powerful. For example, "Eight hundred standard soldiers run north slope, north slope artillery running side by side, artillery afraid to touch the standard soldiers, standard soldiers afraid to touch the artillery gun." "East Dongting, West Dongting, Dongting mountain a vine, the top of the vine hanging bronze bells ......" and so on, through such exercises, and gradually strengthen the students' ability to bite the words, spit out the words.

Fifth, rich emotional performance

As we all know, singing emotional expression is the soul of the art of singing. China's ancient theories of vocal music, there is "with the voice, with the voice of emotion, voice and emotion" said, where the emphasis is on the expression of emotion. Our classroom music teaching is to allow students to learn and master a variety of emotional changes in the use, so that they can adapt to accurately and accurately express the complexity and variety of artistic images of feelings. This ability is not the teacher with a few adjectives to sing the emotion to explain can be achieved, the need for teachers in the long-term teaching for students to create colorful music activities, so that students in the activities of the gradual acquisition of this ability. For example, let the children read the lyrics with feeling, grasp the tone of the song, the rhythm and stress, feel the mood and thought of the lyrics. Or let the children on the concept of sound to play their own imagination, when singing a lyrical soft song, you can think of "white soft white clouds", so that the sound is more beautiful, transparent; when singing a light song, you can think of "naughty raindrops", so that the sound is more jumping, powerful. When singing a light song, you can think of "naughty raindrops" to make the sound more jumping and powerful. You can also create a variety of musical dance scenes, music recitals ...... let the children in the context of the song and dance, with the silent language and a variety of forms to enrich the singing, rendering the singing atmosphere.