Huang Guanzhong, the lead guitarist of Beyond, actually sang very well all along. It is also a very good presence among professional T2 singers. In the early days, there was a hard-top real sound of A4, and in the middle of the A4, although the quality was not very high, but it was enough, and in terms of the Live level of the "I Am a Singer" period, it has exceeded the level of many band lead singers. It is only because of the existence of Huang Jiaju that Huang Guanzhong's singing standards have been overly ignored.
Huang Joined Beyond as Guitarist in 1985 and became Beyond's lead singer in 1988. Yes, Huang Guanzhong served as part of the lead singer of the song " The Earth " . Beyond's first famous song was actually sung by Huang Guanzhong, and in 1988, Huang Guanzhong sang "The Earth" and won the top ten gold songs of the year, Huang Guanzhong was the lead singer, and Huang Jiaju was the composer and harmonist.
At the 1988 Top Ten Golden Melody Awards Ceremony, Huang Guanzhong officially appeared on stage for the first time, no longer as a guitarist, but as a lead singer. Although the performance this time was very tense and the voice was shaking, the degree of completion was not bad. And at that time, the yellow guanzhong tone was indeed more advantageous than Huang Jiaju, the pronunciation point was high, the tone was bright, light, and full of youthfulness.
After 1988, from the song "Really Love You", Huang Guanzhong mainly focused on the pop music style arrangement for Beyond, and the lead singer position became the exclusive position of Huang Jiaju. It wasn't until Huang Jiaju's death in Japan that Huang Guanzhong served as the lead singer of the remaining Beyond band.
From 1993 to 2005, Huang Guanzhong's singing status no longer followed the original pop rock of the Huang Jiaju period, but turned to genre rock that was not known for its melody. In terms of singing, the traditional rock power sense chest sound was begun as the core, accompanied by the eye load of the high throat position on the vocal cords, which caused huang Guanzhong to invert his voice, resulting in a hoarse tone. The treble part of Huang Guanzhong is basically replaced by a pharyngeal tone. The overall singing method is the thick lines of rock and roll. Lacks many of the tricks of popular music.
Below, the analysis of Huang Guanzhong's singing ability is simply completed in three aspects: timbre, range and cavity;
The difference between the timbre of Huang Guanzhong is huge, and the main reason for the difference in timbre is caused by the death of Huang Jiaju. The death of Huang Jiaju brought about a major change in Huang Guanzhong's musical genre, and based on genre, Huang Guanzhong's singing method and timbre completely overturned the reorganization.
Beyond's style before 1985 was biased towards hardcore and cultural rock, but in the later setbacks, Huang Jiaju changed to pop rock, and pop rock made Beyond usher in the peak of his career. But when the soul chord of pop rock, Huang Jiaju, died, Huang Guanzhong returned to the state he was in before 1985: genre rock.
Based on the genres of pop and rock music, Huang Guanzhong's timbre has two distinct performances:
These two types correspond to different timbre techniques.
Early, the pronunciation dot hung on, the standard popular singing method. But for pop rock, it is not entirely based on pop singing as the core, such as the soft hearing of vocal cord marginalization commonly used in pop, which is actually not used much for pop rock. Because pop rock also has the basic requirements of rock and roll: a sense of power.
Vocal cord marginalization and false sound, which lack a sense of power and the expressiveness of the timbre of a thick emotional carrier, are not suitable for Huang Guanzhong. Therefore, in the early days of "The Earth", Huang Guanzhong's timbre techniques are as follows:
1: Chest vocals are getting stronger; in the early days, there was no good chest voice participation, and the vocal learning carried out after "The Earth" completed the sense of strength and bass blessing of the mesophyllum for the mid-bass.
2: Squeeze hard top: The A4 of Live in the "Earth" period is basically a hard top real sound, at the cost of high throat. This is a large foreshadowing for the problem of timbre hoarseness caused by his late inverted voice. However, after "The Land", Huang Guanzhong should have received a certain vocal guidance, completed the partial mixing resonance of A4, and had the ability to mix.
3: Strong mixing: The quality of the strong mix in Huang Guanzhong is still relatively low, and the maintenance of the metal core is mainly based on the tendency of the pharyngeal pharynx, and often cannot reach the quality of the pharynx. But even if it is lower, it is better than the real sound hard top, and it is more protective of the voice. The strong mix of G4 and A4 is not bad in Live.
4: Weak mix: Huang Guanzhong's weak mixing tone, the existence period is very short, only existed in a few Live scenes around 1990. Later, after switching to genre rock, the weak mix has not been suitable for the noisy rock atmosphere. It is a product of popular music singing.
In the post-1993 period, after Huang Guanzhong entered genre rock, the timbre skills were very few, and tended to be fixed:
2: Pharyngeal tone: This is the core of Huang Guanzhong's serious voice but still able to sing, Huang Guanzhong's current G4-A4 is basically based on pharyngeal sounds.
Nowadays, Huang Guanzhong's timbre techniques, situation chest voice and pharyngeal sound are two kinds. Full of vicissitudes and thickness, especially his chest voice, because the problem of high larynx has not been solved, so there is a large dumb problem in the tone of Huang Guanzhong. It sounds heart-wrenching.
Huang Guanzhong's vocal range: C3-F4-A4;
In C3-A4, Huang Guanzhong's dominant area is the part of the pharyngeal replacement point F#4-A4 after F4. The disadvantage area is below F4, because excessive high larynx and chest voice overload make Huang Guanzhong's mid-bass quality loss more serious. There is a faintly distorted bass of Dao Lang's dumb cut tone.
The overall monophonic quality is not high, first, because Cantonese bites are more difficult than Chinese, and second, because the closed accent caused by high larynx is difficult, and the voice line is narrowed.
In general, Huang Guanzhong's vocal range ability can not be said for much. But the lack of skill, which led to the popularity of the soil and water, the high pitch can also be sung, but it is not very good. The emotional treatment of details is still quite different from Huang Jiaju, and in terms of the expression of the vocal range, Huang Guanzhong still has a certain theory and cognitive lack. Admittedly, the guitarist's ability is not in singing. If you focus your musical attention on the arrangement, you will naturally sigh his charm.
Huang Guanzhong has a large problem with the cavity. It mainly focuses on the inverted voice caused by laryngeal confrontation.
Based on the rock style, the requirements for ordinary pop music cavity do not apply to Huang Guanzhong. Whether it is abdominal support or chest cavity true voice control degree, there is a large space. But this is not the main problem - high throat position, is the reason why Huang Guanzhong's voice has been declining;
The problem here is that Huang Guanzhong's understanding of the chest sound is too fixed, and the chest voice overload of the middle bass is heavy in an instant, which will cause fluctuations in the pronunciation point, and a good high note is the need for the resonance support hanging on a certain pronunciation point. While the mid-bass chest sound in the treble is merely an embellishment to maintain the metal core. But Huang Guanzhong did not understand this very well. In the treble is still maintained a high chest pull, which is very stressful for the vocal ligaments of the high larynx of the treble.
However, after the dissolution of Beyond in 2005, Huang Guanzhong's solo journey, a vocal teacher gave a better plan - pharyngeal sounds.
Based on the pharyngeal tone, Huang Guanzhong can still complete the high-pitched expression of A4 in the case of inverted voice. This is still relatively strong, at least it shows that he has been improving and learning. However, since it is a pharyngeal sound, it must bear the situation of timbre fragmentation and homogenization of singing.
Overall, Huang Guanzhong's singing skills are still good. Not many people can sing A4 at the age of several decades. But to be honest, in terms of details, it has been influenced by a certain type of music. There is a certain epidemic of water and soil dissatisfaction. Hopefully he'll shine again.
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