How to open your throat when learning to sing opera

There are many Chinese operas, such as Peking Opera, Ping Opera, Hebei Bangzi, etc., which are all quite famous. When learning to sing opera, from a professional point of view, you should open your throat, that is to say, you need to practice your throat. There are many ways to practice your throat. If you want to learn to sing opera, you must practice the basic skills well. As the saying goes, one minute on stage takes ten years of hard work off stage. Let us understand how to open our throat when learning to sing opera.

How to open your throat when learning to sing opera

In addition to practicing the two sounds "yi" and "ah", I was also asked to practice the sounds "two", "three", "four", "five", and so on up to "ten". My experience is that if you practice a few notes from "one" to "ten", you can not only master the vocal characteristics of each part, but also exercise the use of muscles in each part when making sounds. Some comrades do not pay much attention to using spoken lines to practice voice. In fact, reciting lines plays an important role in voice practice, especially reciting Beijing dialect, which requires more effort. In the past, some old gentlemen said that Beijing dialect is harmful to the throat. This is because Beijing dialect is more difficult to recite than rhymed dialect. Rhymed dialect has a slower intonation and stronger melody, and is easier to recite with the accompaniment of gongs and drums.

Reciting Beijing dialect is like walking a bumpy road. It has high, middle and low notes, and it is sometimes high and sometimes low, with a lot of jumps. Add to that the fast intonation and it is not easy to recite well without the accompaniment of gongs and drums. However, reciting Beijing dialect more often does have its benefits. On the one hand, it can practice the vocalization of different parts of the body. At the same time, you can practice your speaking skills, which is killing two birds with one stone. The first thing to pay attention to when tuning your voice is not to try to sing a high pitch. If you do, your throat will become narrower and narrower, and it will easily become muffled. You should pay attention to singing the bass and middle notes realistically, and then gradually raise the pitch.

In addition, from the perspective of voice training, when tuning your voice, you should try to find some familiar plays, because this can minimize the impact of unfamiliarity with the singing style on voice training. In the process of voice training, you should also pay attention to perseverance. In the opera world, there is often such a situation: some actors have good vocal talents, but their performance is not as durable as those with weaker voices. The reason is that those with weaker voices are the result of frequent training.

There is an old saying, "No painstaking effort will go unnoticed." No effort will go unappreciated. In the past, we would train our throats over three winters and four summers, and we would never stop even in the hottest and coldest days. We would go to the suburbs to train our throats before dawn, and even persist even when our mouths were frozen numb in the winter. After returning home from training our throats, we would drink some boiled water to moisten our vocal cords and then adjust our throats. In short, when we use our vocal cords, whether we are singing or reciting, we must explore and follow its scientific principles. When it comes to protecting and training your voice, you need to be both patient and careful, and never use your vocal cords too aggressively out of impatience.