1. What is singing?
Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, which is often contrasted with speech. A person who is singing is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can either be sung a cappella (without accompaniment) or accompanied by musicians and instruments. Singing is often done in a group, such as a choir. Nearly anyone who can speak can sing, since in many respects singing is merely a form of sustained speech. It can be informal and just for pleasure, for example, singing in the shower; or it can be very formal, such as singing done professionally as a performance or in a recording studio. Singing at a high amateur or professional level usually requires a certain amount of innate talent and a great deal of regular practice, and/or instruction. Professional singers usually build their careers around one specific musical genre and undergo voice training, provided by a voice teacher or coach throughout a career.
2. What are component that what should know in singing?
There are two component in singing, such as vocal registration dan vocal resonation. Vocal registration refers to the system of vocal registers within the human voice. A register in the human voice is a particular series of tones, produced in the same vibratory pattern of the vocal folds, and possessing the same quality. Registers originate in laryngeal function. They occur because the vocal folds are capable of producing several different vibratory patterns. Each of these vibratory patterns appears within a particular range or pitches and produces certain characteristic sounds. Vocal resonation is the process by which the basic product of phonation is enhanced in timbre and/or intensity by the air-filled cavities through which it passes on its way to the outside air. Various terms related to the resonation process include amplification, enrichment, enlargement, improvement, intensification, and prolongation, although in strictly scientific usage acoustic authorities would question most of them. The main point to be drawn from these terms by a singer or speaker is that the end result of resonation is, or should be, to make a better sound. There are seven areas that may be listed as possible vocal resonators. In sequence from the lowest within the body to the highest, these areas are the chest, the tracheal tree the larynx itself, the pharynx the oral cavity the nasal cavity and the sinuses.
3. How to classify the singing voices?
Voice classification is the process by which human singing voices are evaluated and are thereby designated into voice types. These qualities include but are not limited to: vocal range, vocal weight, vocal tessitura, vocal timbre, and vocal transition points such as breaks and lifts within the voice. Other considerations are physical characteristics, speech level, scientific testing, and vocal registration. However women are typically divided into three groups: soprano, mezzo-soprano, and contralto. Men are usually divided into four groups: countertenor, tenor, baritone, and bass. When considering the pre-pubescent male voice an eighth term, treble, can be applied. Within each of these major categories there are several sub-categories that identify specific vocal qualities like coloratura facility and vocal weight to differentiate between voices.
4. What are the advantages in singing?
Singing is considered by some to have positive effects on peoples' health. A preliminary study based on self-reported data from a survey of students participating in choral singing found perceived physical benefits including increased lung capacity, improved mood, stress reduction, as well as perceived social and spiritual benefits. However, one much older study of lung capacity compared those with professional vocal training to those without, and failed to back up the claims of increased lung capacity.
Singing may positively influence the immune system through the reduction of stress. One study found that both singing and listening to choral music reduces the level of stress hormones and increases immune function.
5. How to be a good singer?
Steps
1. Find a vocal coach. Incorrectly performed techniques can ruin your singing voice. Investing in an experienced vocal coach is well worth the money. If your voice is weak, know that this is usually caused by under-developed muscles or improper use of the resonators (the pharynx, the hard palate, and the nasal cavity). Muscles can be strengthened and with training you can learn how to use your resonators to project a powerful voice. If you cannot afford or do not want the dedication that comes with hiring a professional voice coach, consider joining a local choir.
2. Learn your vocal range. This is essential, as singing pieces written for the wrong range may strain your voice The tone of your voice is much more important than range. People will love or hate your voice based on its sound character, not how many notes you can hit. Never sacrifice tone for range (stay inside your range). Your range can change over time and with maturity and training but vocal chords can not learn to physically change.
3. Correct your posture. Stand tall with one foot slightly in front of the other one, feet shoulder width apart. This allows you to breathe easily and to allow maximum lung capacity to allow better notes and phrases. Stand up straight, shoulders back and down, floating over your torso. Make sure that your chest is high to give room for your lungs to expand and contract, Relax your jaw, relax your face.
4. Get to know your singing tools so that you are more familiar with how everything is supposed to move and feel.
- Touch the top of your collar bone. About a half of an inch below your finger is the top of your lungs.
- Find your nipple line. This is the place where your lungs expand the largest.
- Find your ribs. Your ribs move like bucket handles attached to your spine and your sternum. When you breath in, they move upward and make your chest expand, when you breath out, they move downward and your chest decreases.
- Find the place right below your sternum where your rib cages meet. This is the bottom of your lungs and the housing of your diaphragm. The reason your stomach may pooch out when you breath deeply is because your diaphragm is pushing down on everything below your rib cage, not because your lungs are in your stomach.
5. Always warm up before you begin singing or doing practice exercises. You should always warm your voice up in this pattern: middle range, low range, then high range, then back to middle. You should spend at least 10 minutes on each range and do not stress your voice if you're frustrated and cannot hit a note. Warm back down or up to your comfortable range and then try again, carefully. Other things to practice:
- dynamics - Sing a comfortable pitch and start very softly, crescendo to loud then decrescendo back to soft. Do this with many different vowels and pitches. Dynamics are variations the intensity of your resonance (volume, but don't think about it that way). Even the simplest use of dynamics will make your songs come alive, and the more you practice, the louder and softer you'll be able to sing healthily. When reading music, from quietest to loudest, dynamics marks are as follows: pp (pianissimo, very quiet), p (piano, quiet), mp (mezzo piano, medium quiet), mf (mezzo forte, medium loud), f (forte, loud), ff (fortissimo, very loud). When you start out you will probably only be able to sing from mp to mf, but your range will increase with practice.
- agility - Try singing from do to sol to do really fast back and forth, trying to hit all of the notes. Do this in increments of half steps on different syllables. This will help your voice become more flexible.
6. Pronounce your vowels correctly. Words are truly nothing but a constant succession of vowels with consonants dropped in occasionally to create meaning. So practice all your vowels at every pitch (high, low and in between). In English there are very few pure vowels. Normally, we will encounter diphthongs which are two or more vowel sounds elided together. In classical singing, the singer will sustain the note on the first vowel and then say the second on the way to the final consonant. In country, singers like to slide through the first vowel and elongate the second vowel on the sustained note. Where as: a classical signer would sing "Am[aaaaaaai]zing Gr[aaaaaai]ce" and a country singer would sing "Am[aiiiiiii]zing Gr[aiiiiii]ce". If you can, always sing the first vowel for as long as you can before letting the second vowel in. Here are some pure vowels to practice with: AH as in "father", EE as in "eat", IH as in "pin", EH as in "pet", OO as in "food", UH as in "under", EU as in "could", OH as in "home". Try singing all of these vowels while maintaining your core sound which is the resonance in the mask of the face.
7. Practice scales. You need to do this often if you have pitch problems. Most coaches will recommend 20-30 minutes a day when starting out. Practicing scales will also strengthen the muscles used for singing and give you better control. To practice scales, identify your range (tenor, baritone, soprano, etc...) and know how to find the notes that cover your range on a keyboard or piano. Then practice the major scale in every key moving up and down using the vowel sounds. At some point you can start working in minor scales as well. Solfege (Do,Re,Mi,...) is also an effective tool for improving pitch problems.
8. Be reasonable with your self-expectations, regardless of where you are coming from, if you can devote 20 minutes or more a day to practicing scales and songs you can expect measurable improvement within four weeks. Most pitch problems can be corrected within 3-4 months. Understand that your progress is linked to your ability to practice daily (as with most training). If you only do 15 minutes a day, a few days a week, you could spend a year or more. If you devote yourself you could completely transform your voice in three months. Everyone is different.
6. Who is the famous singer in Malaysia?
In my opinion the famous singer in Malaysia was Sudirman. Sudirman was born on 25 May 1954 in Temerloh Pahang and was the youngest child of 6 to Arshad Hassan & Ramlah Dahlan (once a Stateswoman in Pahang during the 1950s). His passion for singing and entertaining started at a very young age as his brothers, sisters and neighbours would happily let him entertain them with his singing during their pastime. After rejecting to take a scholarship to further his study in Science, he continued instead with Law and received his degree from University Malaya and was called to the Bar and became a practising lawyer. He married Kamariah Jamaluddin in 1981 and divorced her 3 years later.
He was named 'Malaysia's Singing Ambassador' by Malaysia Tourism Development Board (TDB). He was the voice behind the TDB tune, To know Malaysia is to love Malaysia which was composed by American Emmy, Grammy and Oscar nominated singer and songwriter Carol Connors. He was referred to as the 'Singing Dynamite' by Singaporean journalists. His singing brought him standing ovations in Australia (in Sydney and Melbourne), Japan, Kuwait, Hawaii, US At the Melbourne Hilton, 500 guests packed the ballroom screaming, 'More! More! More!'. Being patriotic, Sudirman replied, "Come to my country and we'll show you that we are a kind and hospitable people".
He won many local competitions from Bintang RTM Best Singer (1976) to Muzik-Muzik TV3 Best Performer and Berita Harian Popularity contest Most Popular Artist. Topping Malaysian, Brunei and Indonesia charts with songs such as "Merisik Khabar", "Milik Siapakah Gadis Ini" and "Sampaikan Salam". Songwriters that have supported him in the past included S.Atan, Manan Ngah, Michael Veerapan and Syed Harun
Sudirman also acted in a film named Kami (Malay meaning "Us"), which was released in 1982. He played the lead in a heart-rending tale where two destitute orphans found each other amidst the cold, harsh realities of Kuala Lumpur street life. This memorable film also spawned an enduring track, "Pelangi Petang" (Malay meaning "Evening Rainbow") which has been heralded as an iconic song in Malaysia's music industry.
In 15 April 1986, he held an open air concert on Chow Kit Road, which was the first time ever that a stret concert drew a 100,000 person crowd on a Monday night. It jammed the stretch of Jalan Tuanku Abdul Rahman, Jalan Raja Muda to Jalan Raja Alang. Several fans fainted, many left with fond memories, a few suffocated and were rushed to the hospital due to pack of crowd pushing and shoving. To quote a local newspaper The Star, "KL came to a standstill and it had nothing to do with the recession but with a one man, Malaysia's top entertainer, an electrifying performance and most memorable night".
Sudirman's songs topped the charts with every new album that was released. There was a time when his song "Merisik Khabar" went up as #1 song for 2 months while his second song "Milik Siapa Gadis Ini" from the same album came in second and stayed at the top for a few weeks after "Merisik Khabar"
In 1989, Sudirman won the title "Best Performer" in Asia Music Award 1989 contest at Royal Albert Hall, London where Leslie Cheung (Hong Kong Megastar), Anita Sarawak (Singapore Diva), Epo (Japan), Kuh Ledesma s (Philippines) and many other chosen singers (based on their merit) who represented their own respective countries. An information officer at the Malaysia High Commission, Revi Pilla,i said he still remembers going to the Royal Albert Hall in 1989 when the late Sudirman Haji Arshad performed at the Salem Music Awards.“I went to see Sudir with other Malaysian friends. It was such a great atmosphere.We were so proud." The crowd that filled the room was mostly made up of Asian fans skewed mainly towards Hongkies and Singaporeans. But Sudirman won ther hearts to a point where they cheered for Sudirman as if he were theirs.
In Singapore he had a strong following as was evidently seen when he made a concert in Singapore's Kallang National Stadium in August 1987. Girls and even moms were biting their knuckles and people came from all walks of life a race. Excerpt Kelvin Tan Look Siew Director of Singapore Armed Forces Music & Drama company "We wanted to bring down a prominent artist from the region and Sudirman's name automatically cropped up".
EMI London took him on to work together with Stock, Aitken & Waterman (British producer trio who took on Kylie Minogue, Jason Donovan and Rick Astley) for world market and he recorded an album but time was not on his side.
Death
Sudirman was rumored to have died from AIDS as it was a hot topic in the 80s and others insisted that it was witchcraft (since his death cause was never registered as AIDS as it was by law then to register cause of death under the Ministry of Health). The cause of his death became a topic of discussion among the media with some speculating that his actual cause of death took place even earlier than recorded and was believed that he was buried in UK. His sister and Mohd Radzi Sheikh Ahmad (now Minister of Home Affairs) however, announced that he died from a stroke known as cerebrovascular.
He died at 4.00 am in the morning on the 22 February 1992, aged 37, at his sister’s (Datin Radiah) house, at No.16 Jalan Taban Satu, Lucky Garden, Bangsar, Kuala Lumpur.
He was brought back for burial in his hometown Temerloh, Pahang and was buried at Chengal Muslim Cemetery, Temerloh near the graves of his parents.
Penghibur TV Terbaik, Anugerah Seri Angkasa, RTM 1978
"Malaysia's Singing Ambassador" MTDC 1985 ("To know Malaysia is to love Malaysia")
Persembahan Terbaik Anugerah Juara Lagu TV3 1987
Penyanyi Lelaki Popular, Anugerah Bintang Popular Berita Harian 1989
Asia's Number One Performer 1989 . Salem Music Award London
Malaysia Guinness Awards
Ahli Mangku Negara by Yang di-Pertuan Agong 1988
Ahli Mahkota Pahang by Sultan of Pahang 1990
Johan Mangku Negara by Yang di-Pertuan Agong 1992
No. 1 Malaysian singer (from New Straits Times )
Films
Teriring Doa (1977)
Aku Penghiburmu (1978)
Perasaan (1979)
Anak Muda (1980)
Lagu Anak Desa (1980)
Lagu Dari Kota (1981)
Twinkle-Twinkle Little Star (1981)
Lagu Cinta (1982)
Abadi (1982)
Images (1983)
Orang Baru (1984)
Lagu Dari Sebuah Bilik (1984)
Kul It (1986)
Orang Kampung (1986)
Asia’s No. 1 Performer (1989)
Salam Terakhir (1992) (Last albums)
Sudirman - Jauh Di Sudut Hati (1992)
Sudirman - Balik Kampung (1993)
Sudirman - Setelah Kau Tiada (1995)
Compilation albums
Koleksi 16 Lagu-lagu Terbaik (1986)
Pilihan Sentimental Emas (1987)
Lagu-Lagu Rakyat (1989)
Koleksi Klasik (1991)
Sudirman - DwiDekad (1996)
Nilai Cintamu (2000)
Sudirman - 24 Greatest Hits
Sudirman No.1 (2002)
Sudirman Penghibur No.1 (2002)
Sudirman II 40 No.1 Dalam 1 (2003)
Memori Hit Sudirman (2004)
Sudirman - Memori Sentimental Hit (2005)
Sudirman -Dwi Intan
Sudirman - Timeless (2006)
Koleksi Emas Aidilfitri
Alunan Sukma Sudirman & Sharifah Aini
Memori Hit Melayu Deli
7. When did the chest voices and head voices been discovered?
The first recorded mention of the terms chest voice and head voice was around the 13th century, when it was distinguished from the "throat voice" (pectoris, guttoris, capitis — at this time it is likely that head voice referred to the falsetto register) by the writers Johannes de Garlandia and Jerome of Moravia. Chest voice and head voice are terms used within vocal music. The use of these terms varies widely within vocal pedagogical circles and there is currently no one consistent opinion among vocal music professionals in regards to these terms. Chest voice can be used in a particular part of the vocal range or type of vocal register, vocal resonance area, and a specific vocal timbre. On the other hand head voice can be used in a particular part of the vocal range or type of vocal register and a vocal resonance area
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