Fan question: Brother Coat - how is Zhu Zhiwen's singing skills?
A: Good! Chinese T2, amazing self-learning ability, bel canto baritone, G2-G4, the limit of music lovers, but there are rhythm and style limitations
Coat brother Zhu Zhiwen, the 42-year-old peasant singer who became famous in one fell swoop, is one of the very few music lovers in China who insists on vocal love and is successful. He retains his simple love for music and musical beauty, and in the trivial farm work of life, he still retains the original intention of singing, and in the long run, music itself is a simple enjoyment for him. This singing state is not the commercial starting point of other singers, but has become the most shining characteristic of the coat brother.
From the overall singing skills, the coat brother can compare the Chinese T2 (weak) level singing skills of professional singers, and the whole belongs to the bel canto system singing, and the voice can be qualitatively located: bass and baritone. This is quite different from his self-described positioning of "lyrical tenor and baritone". In terms of music style, it is mainly based on the opening and ending songs of popular film and television dramas, and the style of the work has certain limitations. The small number of songs is also a common problem for non-professional singers. Because time only allows to focus on a few masterpieces.
In terms of timbre, the coat brother's timbre has a talent for bel canto, mainly imitating the language sense of Yang Hongji, but it is famous for his personal contrast recognition. The simple timbre also has a better timbre technology, the overall laryngeal position is extremely stable, and the resonance core is extremely solid, with the granularity and thick sense of space of male alto, and the brightness of the core, which is a high talent without a teacher. I heard that he taught himself bel canto mixes through a 2-dollar song score.
In terms of vocal range, the common vocal range of Coat Brother is G2-G4, which also has two octave widths. But in terms of overall quality, A2-E4 is the main sound area, and the overall one octave + fifth degree normal professional singer level. For example, in the singing of "Rolling East of the Yangtze River", the highest note of the coat brother is E4, and the lowest note G2 bite word is slightly blurred, and A2 has the basic biting texture. And the performance of the highest note G4 in "In That Far Away Place" is also very solid. Such a vocal range level can already reach the level of T2 of Chinese professional singers. Have basic stage expression.
From the cavity point of view, the performance of the coat brother is very amazing. It's hard to imagine that a farmer can sing such a perfect resonance and support to a 2-dollar pirated mixed singing sheet that he didn't know where to buy. In terms of cavity beauty, bel canto requires chest cavity-based, low-laryngeal biting, the stability of vocal cord closure, and the relaxation and clarity of Chinese bite are all very professional. The only drawback is that there will still be a certain rhyme fluctuation in the sustain processing between each word, which has a lot to do with his native spoken habits.
In summary, in general, among the bel canto singers of the coat brother, there is a natural degree of recognition and contrast, and the simple wood of the farmer gives him a unique soul for music, and the overall sense of investment is very high. However, if understood from a business perspective and an academic perspective, Zhu Zhiwen still has the following problems:
- 1: Rhythm basic skills and strength processing, slightly weak. The main thing is that the proficiency of the song is more dependent, and if a new song is handled, his strength processing will have the problem of being disturbed by bitten words and sound zones.
- 2: Weak plasticity. Age is here, and it is difficult to expand the musical style.
- 3: The solo baritone and bass are more picky, and the content of the music major is more limited.
The following is a specific analysis from the vocal range, timbre and cavity;
1: vocal range;
Available vocal range: G2-G4;
Coat Brother Quality Vocal Range: A2-E4;
Coat Brother CD Range: G2-G4;
Purely from the vocal range, the vocal range performance of the coat brother belongs to the midrange or bass range, and in the live video directly opened by Live, the highest-pitched scene is the pitch of E4. It contains the two most commonly used songs by the coat brother, "Rolling East of the Yangtze River" and "In That Far Away Place", both of which are performed in a descending position, and the highest note is in E4. So why E4? It's very simple, or because of the physiological voice change point, for the coat brother, his voice change point is on the F4 pitch.
Changing the voice point will cause a certain discomfort of vocal cord closure, and it is even more difficult to Chinese the difficulty of biting words and the low-throat position required by bel canto. Therefore, Bel Canto's F4 has a large technical bottleneck in the early stage for the coat brother who does not have systematic training and only relies on self-learning. However, this bottleneck was gradually eliminated after participating in the competition to receive vocal training, and the available highest-pitched scene of the coat brother was the G4 strong bite word performed in "Where the Peach Blossoms Bloomed", and the overall resonance quality was very high, but the G4 pitch bite word was only checked once. There may be some lack of material.
In this way, we can understand the overall singing curve of the coat brother like this:
1: When he first appeared on stage, the beauty of his singing skills focused on the perfect performance of timbre and cavity, rather than the vocal range.
2: After taking the stage, the vocal range of the coat brother began to expand from E4 to G4, meeting the pitch required by basic professional singers.
In terms of vocal range, the advantage of the coat brother is slightly weaker. The development of the vocal range is also the core of the vocal system and vocal education, and the problem of voice change points for F4 still exists without vocal guidance. But this problem does not exist alone. The real advantage of the coat brother lies precisely in the talent of the timbre and cavity.
2: Timbre;
The aesthetic characterization of timbre by bel canto singing system is an extension based on fixed hearing. The fixed hearing sensation can be concentrated as: majestic, atmospheric, natural, bright, full, relaxed, rounded and other emotional expressions. The core timbre technology that provides these is: the low throat position. The low laryngeal position can provide greater thoracic resonance, and thoracic resonance is the main true vocal rich area and bass space, and the bass is precisely the tone of the musical mood. The tone of the low throat position is the main reason why the bel voice color distinguishes it from other singing styles.
The shaping of such a beautiful voice is essentially based on the personal vocal cord closure treatment of laryngeal stability. For the coat brother, the choice of bel canto is a very correct type and everyone is at the same starting point. The coat brother's imitation self-study can use the laryngeal position and pitch as the basic disk, and exercise the vocal cord closure ability as the direction of progress to complete the shaping of the timbre.
The chassis of the beautiful voice color is majestic and atmospheric, but it also requires a certain brightness of the core. This is why Pavarotti is famous all over the world, among the three tenors, Pavarotti has the most balanced timbre. For the coat brother, the main use of his mixing logic self-study is also the concentrated hanging processing of the E4's tone core. The core performance of the bel voice color is quite different from the pop singing style. The details are as follows:
- 1: After the beautiful voice color meets the basic low throat position, it is mainly used to express the pitch.
- 2: The color texture of beautiful voice is mainly based on the stability of vocal cord closure.
- 3: The brightness of the beautiful voice color core is mainly based on the concentration of the hanging head on the resonant sustain space.
- 4: Bel canto generally has no falsetto, and male singers are mainly based on real voices.
When most pop listeners hear Pavarotti's singing for the first time, they subconsciously distinguish between bel canto and pop. It is because of these four points, which are different from the natural, high-throat, true falsetto, and multiple timbre modes of pop music. These four points are essentially a subtraction, a kind of minimalism, and for a self-scholar like Coat Brother, bel canto is more reasonable than pop. The overall threshold and dimension of change is less and low.
In the years of practice of the coat brother, based on the knowledge of song scores, he gradually ate these four completely, reaching a high expressiveness on TV shows. This has room for realization at the technical level of beauty sound.
3: Cavity. The most amazing place.
The most difficult part of bel canto singing is not the timbre but the cavity, because in essence, the protective, round, and majestic characteristics of bel canto are the system formed by the study of the cavity and vocal logic. In the cavity, the talent shown by the coat brother is extremely amazing. Generally speaking, even the bel canto singing style of students in the class has the situation that they cannot be taught. But the bel canto of the coat brother is based on the mixed vocal score. The direction and detail processing in the middle are not much different from the imitated teacher Yang Hongji.
Among them, the most core abdominal support is the core difficulty, but it is precisely the abdominal support that is the best place for the coat brother. Even the key teacher Sabine who has had a choir and the World University Choir Competition is not as good as the coat brother in terms of overall support. This kind of singing talent, if the coat brother had better resources to cultivate in the early years, it might be more powerful.
To sum up, the singing skills of the coat brother are talented, and it also inspires every music lover not to give up his love.