Vocal Processing

To cultivate a good vocal and good at hearing, we need special training. Among others by doing breathing exercises and drink water frequently. That's it? Of course not, many techniques and other ways to process vocal, in the drive it we can read below!
1. Articulation, is a way of pronouncing the words good and clear.
2. Respiration, is an attempt to breathe as much air, then stored, and released little by little as required.
Types of Breathing in the three types, namely:
- Breathing Chest: Breathing is suitable for low tones, the singer easily tired.
- Abdominal Breathing: fast air out, is less suitable for use in singing, because it will quickly tired.
- Breathing The diaphragm: is the most suitable respiratory used to sing, because the air is used to easily set their use, has a vocal power and good stability.
3. Phrasering, is the rule that good execution of sentence and was so easy to understand and comply with the rules and regulations.
4. Body attitude, is the position of the body when someone is singing, could, sitting, or standing, an important respiratory tract should not be disturbed.
5. Resonance, is an attempt to beautify mefungsikan sound with air cavities that contribute vibrate / vibrate around the mouth and throat.
6. Vibrato, is an attempt to beautify a song by giving the wave / voice quivering regularly, usually applied at each end of a sentence on track.
7. Improvisation, is an attempt to embellish the song by changing / adding some melodic songs with a professional, without changing the basic melody.
8. Intonation, is high or low a tone that must be reached exactly.
Formation requirements of good tone:
a. Good hearing
b. Respiratory Control
c. Musical taste.
Tone, is the sound that has a regular vibrations per second.
The nature of the tone is 4, namely:
a. Fitch is the tone of coverage accuracy.
b. Duration is the length of a note must be sounded
c. TONE INTENSITY is hard, soft tones to be sounded.
d. Timbre that is a different sound colors each person.
Sound is AMBITUS tone area can be reached by someone.
A professional singer should be able to reach the notes from the lowest to the highest according to ability.
Crescendo is a small voice gradually louder.
DESCRESCENDO is loud gradually slow.
STACATO is the singing voice broken.
SHARED HUMAN VOICES 3 (THREE):
Adult Women's voice;
a. Soprano (high female voice)
b. Messo Soprano (voice is female)
c. Alto (low female voice)
Adult Male voice:
a. Tenor (high male voice)
b. Baritone (voice is male)
c. Bass (low male voice)
Children's voice:
a. High
b. Low.
Diatonic scale is a series of 7 (seven) fruit tones in an octave that have a high composition of regular tone.
Appliances Major diatonic tones are tones that have a ladder distance between tone 1 (one) and ½ (half).
Characteristics of Major diatonic scale:
- As a sprightly
- Eager
- Usually begins and ends with a tone Do = C
- Having a pattern of intervals: 1, 1,. ½, 1, 1, 1, ½
Sample song tone bertangga Major:
Maju Tak Trembling, Indonesia Raya, merdeka day, Halo-halo Bandung, Indonesia Jaya, Garuda Pancasila, Mars Student.
Appliances characteristics Minor diatonic tones:
- Less enthusiastic.
- Being sad
- Usually begins and ends with a tone of La = A
- Having a pattern of intervals: 1, ½, 1, 1, ½, 1, 1.
Note: This theory is not sufficient for a lot of Dangdut music developed in Indonesia.
Sample song tone bertangga Minor: Thanks, God, Autumn Flowers.
Chromatic scales are scales that have the tone spacing is only ½. Example: C - Cis - D - Dis-E - F - Fis - G - Gis - A - Ais - B
LADDERS ENHARMNONIS NADA is a series that has scales and a different location, but have the same pitch.
Example: Tone Ais-Bes, Cis-Dec, Gis-As, Dis-Es, Fis-Ges.
APPRECIATION The totality of activities that include vision, observation, evaluation, and appreciation of a work of art.
Measure is still knocking repeatedly on a song.
Example bars: 2 / 4, 3 / 4, 4 / 4, 6 / 8
Serving CHOIR is composed vocal music dri 15 people or more who combine a variety of sound colors into one unified whole and can reveal the soul of the song performed.
TYPES OF CHOIR:
1. UNISONO Choir The choir is by using a single voice.
2. 2 Voice Choir similar, namely the chorus of human voices using the 2nd type, eg a kind woman's voice, a kind man's voice, a kind voice of children.
3. Choir 3 similar S - S - A, which is a kind of choir using voice Soprano 1, Soprano 2 and Alto.
4. 3 Voice Choir Mixed S - A - B, the choir menggiunakan 3 mixed voices, for example: Soprano, Alto Bass.
5. 3 choirs kind T-T - B, the 3 choir voices sound kind of guy with 1 Tenor, Tenor 2, Bass.
6. 4 Voice Choir Mixed, ie mengguanakan choir sound mixed men and women, with a S - A - T - B. Soprano, Alto, Tenor, Bass.
Conductor / CONDUCTOR is the man who led the Choir.
The requirements of a Conductor / Conductor of both:
a. have leadership qualities
b. has a strong physical resistance
c. should be healthy physically and spiritually
d. sympathetic
f. learned how to exercise effective
g. have a good imagination
h. have the knowledge, skills, and ability to play music.
MARK is a sign of dynamic states utuk hard, soft a song that was sung. Examples Dynamic Signs:
1. f: Forte = loud
2. ff: fortissimo = very hard
3. fff: fortissimo assai = hard as possible
4. mf: mezzo forte = loud setemgah
5. fp: Forte piano = start with hard and soft followed
6. p: piano = soft
7. pp: pianissimo = very soft
8. ppp: pianissimo possibile = gently as possible
9. mp: mezzo piano = half soft
CHANGE DYNAMICS SIGNS:
- Diminuendo (dim): softening
- Perdendosi: soften up missing
- Smorzzande: little by little lost
- Calando: reduce hard
- Poco a poco: little by little / long run
- Cresscendo: loud gradually
- Decrsescendo: soft fade
MARK TEMPO is a sign to show diguakan fast or slow a song should be sung.
MARK A. FAST TEMPO
1. Allegro: fast
2. Allegratto: rather rapid
3. Allegrissimo: much faster
4. Presto: very fast
5. Presstissimo: as soon as possible
6. Vivase: fast and excited
B. TEMPO SIGNS ARE
1. Moderato: moderate
2. Allegro Moderato: speed is
3. Andante: slowly
4. Andantino: fast enough
C. SIGNS SLOW TEMPO
1. Largo: slow
2. Largissimo: more slowly
3. Largeto: bit slow
4. Adagio: very slow with feeling
5. Grave: very slow sad
6. Lento: very slow connection, relationship.
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