Why does Jay Chou have a clear feeling of squeezing his throat when singing high notes?
On the one hand, his voice is relatively thin. On the other hand, it is because Jay Chou lacked formal vocal training in his early years. He didn't pay much attention to it, or because he kept the style and didn't want to change. He never wanted to be a singer, he started out as a music composer (his main direction and strengths are composition, rhythm grasping, harmonic arrangement, and the arrangement and production of some songs)
Singing is a complete last resort, just to sell songs that can't be sold (someone has to sing the songs he wrote)
His vocal foundation with Tao Zhe, Wang Lihong and Lin Junjie is simply incomparable. Think about the family conditions and academic qualifications of these people to know how obvious the gap is. They have basically studied and studied singing methods and vocal techniques abroad.
Jay Chou's conditions are not allowed, he has not even been admitted to college, and his family is only a middle-class class. After graduating from high school, in order to make a living, I could only work as a restaurant waiter or something.
In fact, Jay Chou's early musical development conditions were not as good as Xu Song' in college.
His only strength was that he learned classical piano as a child with the support of his mother, and practiced cello in high school. This is his only musical foundation, and vocal music has nothing to do with him. The real systematic learning of vocal music was also after becoming famous, but Jay Chou did not seize the opportunity.
Of course, after Zhou Dong became famous later, although his singing skills continued to improve, he still did not take much time to systematically learn vocal music and maintain his voice.
It was when it was time to fight for his musical talent, and he couldn't find time to do anything else. We are at the peak of our career. At that time, I was desperately writing songs, and I couldn't find time to study and systematically learn vocal music.
He is consolidating his musical position and shaping his own musical style. In the early years, although Zhou Dong's body was able to be good, his voice became strong after a long time.
Now in their forties, people are middle-aged. His style of music has also been fixed, it is too late to adjust it, and Zhou Dong is too lazy to learn vocal music, which is the reason.
He never cared much about his singing skills. He cares about whether his singing voice can express the emotions in the song. It allows people to fit into the song and feel his thoughts. That's what he wanted.
The richness of his singing voice makes people imitate it for example:
"Sweet"
Chrysanthemum Terrace
Huo Yuanjia
Rosemary
"Double Stick"
It is really difficult for ordinary people to use so many singing voices in so many styles of songs, and it is also comfortable to listen to, which may be the most intuitive reason for Jay Chou's fire.
Speaking of practical points, Zhou Dong is actually a successful example of Di Si's counterattack. (Just by virtue of his character, the family environment.) If he didn't have musical talent, it would be very difficult for him to catch fire in today's era).)
Jay Chou has completely relied on talent and hard work to achieve today's achievements. So the strengths are obvious, and the shortcomings are also prominent.
