"What's wrong? Can't open your mouth?" Zhu Chaoyang asked strangely.

How can you drop the chain at a critical moment? Zhou Xiaolan calmed down and began to sing. The treble section is completed as expected.

After singing the song, Zhou Xiaolan's face was flushed.

"How do you feel after singing this song?" asked Zhu Chaoyang.

"I don't feel like I'm angry. Zhou Xiaolan said.

"How's your voice?" Zhu Chaoyang asked, "Is it uncomfortable?"

"Well, my throat is tense too. Zhou Xiaolan cleared her throat.

"The main thing is that you're shouting at the top of your lungs. Zhu Chaoyang said, "In the long run, the damage to the vocal cords is too great." ”

Yes, every time Zhou Xiaolan returns from a performance, her voice is hoarse for a while.

"You don't need to sing with your voice, what do you sing?" Zhou Xiaolan asked.

"You said that too, breath. Zhu Chaoyang said, "But you don't know the true meaning of the breath." ”

"What does that mean, Teacher Zhu?" Zhou Xiaolan asked.

"Sometimes a sentence with long lyrics, how do you deal with it?" Zhu Chaoyang asked.

"Let's breathe. Zhou Xiaolan said.

"Sometimes a singer can finish singing without breathing. Zhu Chaoyang said, "For example, in Qi Yu's "Olive Tree", these two sentences - 'My hometown is far away' and 'Why wander, wander far away', need a long breath to support." We listened carefully to Qi Yu's singing, and there was no ventilation in the middle, but she finished singing very coherently, why?"

"She has a lot of lung capacity and she's full of breath. Zhou Xiaolan replied.

"Yes, singing has to have a lot of lung capacity. Zhu Chaoyang said, "But the most important thing is that her breathing style is different." ”

"What's the difference?" Zhou Xiaolan asked.

"Our usual breathing is chest breathing. Zhu Chaoyang said, "But when singing, you have to use abdominal breathing." ”

"What is chest breathing and what is abdominal breathing?" Zhou Xiaolan asked.

"Chest breathing, when we inhale, the ribcage bulges. In the abdominal breathing method, the abdomen is bulging. "You can feel these two different breathing methods. ”

Zhou Xiaolan tried it, and sure enough, it was a different feeling.

"Is there any difference?" asked Mr. Zhu.

"Chest breathing is the most natural way to breathe. Zhou Xiaolan said, "I am not very accustomed to abdominal breathing. ”

"Practice even if you're not used to it. Teacher Zhu said, "No matter what you do, you must consciously practice abdominal breathing. ”

"Why do you have to use abdominal breathing when you sing?" Zhou Xiaolan asked.

"Which is the largest space in the chest cavity or abdominal cavity?" asked Mr. Zhu.

Zhou Xiaolan thought for a while and said, "Of course, the abdominal cavity is relatively large." ”

"That's right, so you have to practice abdominal breathing, in order to increase your lung capacity as much as possible and store more breath. Teacher Zhu said.

"Abdominal breathing is also called subdiaphragm breathing. Teacher Zhu continued, "The diaphragm is above the chest cavity, and the diaphragm is the abdominal cavity. ”

Zhou Xiaolan nodded as if she didn't understand.

"Once we know the abdominal breathing technique, we need to practice how to exhale, which is often referred to as breath control. Teacher Zhu continued.

"Breath control?" Zhou Xiaolan didn't understand this.

"It's how to exhale the breath that you just inhaled deeply. Teacher Zhu said, "Without training, I often take deep breaths. As much as you inhale, you can spit out. ”

Like the two lyrics of Qi Yu just mentioned, it dragged on for a long time. If you learn breath control, then you don't need to breathe in the middle, you can sing it coherently, and it has to be very long. In these two sentences, no ventilation sound is allowed. Of course, if you learn to ventilate skillfully, you can do that. Teacher Zhu said.

"What do you mean by skillful ventilation?" asked Zhou Xiaolan.

"It's just that the ventilation is not detected. Teacher Zhu said.

"Ventilation is not discovered?" Zhou Xiaolan said, "How?"

"It's still a matter of training. Teacher Zhu said, "I can't say a word clearly." In short, it is necessary to control the breath well, and it can be done. ”

"So much knowledge!" Zhou Xiaolan sighed, "I usually sing blindly." ”

"It's good to be able to sing so well. Teacher Zhu said, "It proves that your foundation is good." ”

"Sometimes I can't get angry when I sing, what's going on?" Zhou Xiaolan asked.

"Again, I just said, I didn't use abdominal breathing. Teacher Zhu said, "The other is that the dantian didn't exert himself and didn't push the qi up. ”

"Dantian gas?"

"Qi Shen Dantian, Dantian luck. Teacher Zhu said.

"What do you mean?" asked Zhou Xiaolan.

"Qi Shen Dantian is easy to understand. Teacher Zhu said, "It is to press the inhaled air to the dantian part." ”

Zhou Xiaolan gestured to the position of the dantian.

Zhu Chaoyang took Zhou Xiaolan's hand and put it three inches below his navel, "There are actually three places in the dantian. One is between the two eyebrows, it is also said to be Yintang, which is the upper dantian, in the heart of the nest, that is, the middle acupoint, which is the middle dantian, and here is the lower dantian, in the Guanyuan acupoint. The dantian we sing about is what we refer to here. In order to strengthen the position of the Dan, the strength in Mr. Zhu's hand was strengthened, so that Zhou Xiaolan could feel where the Dantian was.

Yuan Man saw Zhou Xiaolan and Teacher Zhu pulling and pulling, and put his hand on his lower abdomen, his face turned green. What the fuck is learning to sing, it's just a hooligan!

"Oh, the gas is going to sink here, isn't it? Zhou Xiaolan pressed down on Ying Tian with her hand and felt it slowly.

Then there's the issue of pronunciation. "Some people speak Mandarin very fluently, but they may not be able to solve the problem of pronouncing words clearly when singing. ”

"What's wrong?" asked Zhou Xiaolan.

"After all, speaking and singing are two different concepts. Teacher Zhu said, "If the Mandarin when you speak, if it is not particularly standard, it is generally not bad, people can still understand what you mean." But singing is different. ”

"What's the difference?" Zhou Xiaolan asked.

"When singing, there is a special emphasis on articulation and articulation. Teacher Zhu said, "Bite and articulate are two steps that occur sequentially in pronunciation and are closely limited to the production line. In the articulation of words, it is necessary to grasp the sound, inducing the abdomen and returning to the rhyme. ”

"What is the voice, the abdomen and the rhyme?" Zhou Xiaolan asked.

"To speak out is to bite the beginning of the word, to lead the abdomen is to lead the long word belly, and to rhyme is to clear the end of the word. Teacher Zhu said, "Doesn't it sound confusing?"

Zhou Xiaolan nodded, "Indeed, it's completely foggy, I don't know what you're talking about." ”

"In singing, we divide a word into three parts: the beginning, the belly and the ending. Teacher Zhu said, "For example, your surname is Zhou, and this Zhou character is Zhi Ouche." ”

"What do you mean by Zhi Ouche?" asked Zhou Xiaolan.

This is a method of phonetic pronunciation of words by the ancients. Teacher Zhu said, "Because there was no pinyin before, the ancients used two words to reverse cut in order to let others know what to read this word." For example, the word 'week' is branch-Europe-week. The basic rule of reverse cutting is to use two Chinese characters to spell together to phonetize a character, cut the upper word to take the initials, and cut the lower words to take the finals and tones. ”

"Then the word 'Zhu' is Zhi-Wu-Zhu. Zhou Xiaolan said.

"Clever!" said Mr. Zhu, "there is a popular word on the Internet, which can be said to most intuitively explain the anti-cut phonetic method of the ancients." ”

"Which word?" Zhou Xiaolan asked.

"Eat lotus root. Teacher Zhu said with a smile.

"Eat lotus root?" Zhou Xiaolan muttered, "Eat lotus root, oh, it's ugly!"

"yes. Teacher Zhu said with a smile, "After understanding the reverse cutting method used by the ancients, it will be much easier for us to analyze the prefix, belly and end of a word." ”

"Let's take a specific example. Teacher Zhu said, "Drink the word 'wine' in a pot of old wine." ”

"Wine, chicken-lotus-wine?" Zhou Xiaolan still used the reverse cut method to analyze this word.

"Yes, chicken-lotus-wine. Teacher Zhu said, "But you can't sing like this in singing." ”

"If you sing 'wine' as 'chicken-lotus', you are singing it wrong. Mr. Zhu said, "A successful singer will not make such a mistake." ”

"Then how do you sing it?" Zhou Xiaolan asked.

This goes back to what we just said. Teacher Zhu said.

Zhou Xiaolan listened quietly, and her admiration was beyond words.

The prefix is the initial part of the word. Teacher Zhu said, "Actually, it's not quite accurate to say this, because some words don't have initials." But for the sake of understanding, I'll say that this prefix is the initial of a word. Can you understand that?"

Zhou Xiaolan nodded.

"If you don't pronounce 'wine' as 'chicken-lotus', then when biting the word, the duration of biting the 'j' should be short. If it lasts for a long time, it will become a 'chicken'. Teacher Zhu said, "You can feel it for yourself." ”

Zhou Xiaolan repeatedly pronounced the word "wine", constantly feeling different changes.

Then there's the belly. Teacher Zhu said, "Do you know where the belly of the word 'wine' is?"

"Is it 'lotus'?" Zhou Xiaolan couldn't be sure of her speculation.

Teacher Zhu nodded approvingly, "It's indeed 'lotus'." But how do you induce the abdomen?"

Zhou Xiaolan shook her head in confusion.

The word belly can be vividly understood as the abdomen of the human body. Teacher Zhu said, "In singing, this word belly is where we make a big fuss. ”

"What article?" Zhou Xiaolan asked.

"The emotional color of a song and the emotional color of a lyric are presented by the belly of the word. Teacher Zhu said.

"For example, the word 'wine' in the belly 'lotus', when we lead the abdomen, we must make sure that the mouth shape must be round and large, and it must be full. ”

"You try to sing the whole line. Teacher Zhu asked.

Zhou Xiaolan tried to sing over and over again.

"Pay attention to the finish. Teacher Zhu said after listening.

"Wrap it up?" Zhou Xiaolan said.

It's the end of a word. Teacher Zhu said, "It is the end of the vowel sound, which is the transition from the louder vowel to the weaker end of the vowel." Receiving this kind of word sound is to return to the rhyme, it must be in place, and the end of the word must be clear, otherwise the end of the word will be lost and the meaning of the word will be changed. ”

"For example?" Zhou Xiaolan asked.

"For example, if the word '快' (kuài) is ambiguous at the end, it will be sung as 'cross' (kuà). Teacher Zhu said, "This is more common among singers from Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macao who speak Mandarin not very standard, and of course, singers in the mainland are also playing this role now." In fact, this is a very bad phenomenon. ”

"Yes, yes, sometimes listening to them sing, without reading the lyrics and subtitles, you don't know what they're singing at all. Zhou Xiaolan felt the same way.

"The end of the word sound, as well as the end of the word sound without the end of the word and the end of the initial sound of the word. Teacher Zhu said, "But I seem to have talked too much today. You may not be able to digest so much. ”

Zhou Xiaolan was also embarrassed to say, "I really can't understand so much." ”

Teacher Zhu smiled, "Maybe I haven't been on the podium for a long time, and the teacher is addicted." I beg your pardon. ”

"Teacher, you're serious. Zhou Xiaolan said.

"One more question," said Teacher Zhu, "I just noticed that when you sing, your voice is a little floating. ”

"Floating?" Zhou Xiaolan said, "I've already used a lot of strength to sing, still floating?"

"You're using a lot of force. Teacher Zhu smiled, "I'm singing hoarsely." ”

Zhou Xiaolan smiled embarrassedly and stopped talking.

"The voice is floating, one is to prove that the middle qi is insufficient, that is, the abdominal breathing method has not yet been practiced at home. Teacher Zhu said, "The other is that the dantian has no luck." ”

"Qi Shen Dantian, Dantian luck. Zhou Xiaolan still remembered what the teacher said just now, "How lucky is the dantian?"

"It's your lower abdomen that pushes your qi upwards. Teacher Zhu said, "At the same time, the waist is forced, and the qi is squeezed upward." ”

Zhou Xiaolan tried her luck hard, and she squeezed out a fart. She couldn't hold back any longer and laughed.

"Ha Ma Pi!" Seeing Zhou Xiaolan making such a big ugly appearance, Yuan Man laughed in his heart.

"Push on your waist, don't push it so hard. Teacher Zhu smiled slightly.

"I'm sorry, teacher, you continue. Zhou Xiaolan said.

"You try again. Teacher Zhu said, and pressed Zhou Xiaolan's dantian with his hand to feel the strength of her dantian. squeezed Zhou Xiaolan's waist with his hands, so that Zhou Xiaolan could feel how much strength her waist should use.

Yuan Man couldn't hold back any longer and coughed vigorously.

Zhou Xiaolan looked at Yuan Man, "You're busy, you can go first." I'll learn some art from my teacher. ”

"Who is that?" asked Mr. Zhu.

"Oh, my man. Zhou Xiaolan said, "Teacher, you continue." ”

"It's almost four o'clock, man. Yuan Man said, "Don't you go to pick up the child yet?"

Zhou Xiaolan looked at her watch, "Oh, it's true." I'm sorry, teacher, I'm going to pick up my child first. Continued tomorrow. ”