la voce di Michael- aspetti tecnici
una delle cose che si possono valutare a prescindere dai gusti o dalla propria idea di arte, è la tecnica vocale, l'estensione, ed altre caratteristiche legate alla voce.
credo che in un cantante siano aspetti fondamentali. amo cantanti dalla estensione vocalica scarsa, e dalla tecnica insufficiente, quindi con questo non voglio dire che sia necessario possedere determinate capacità.
Ma bisogna dare atto a Michael di essere stato un grandissimo cantante, a mio giudizio sottovalutato, a causa dell'attenzione rivolta ad altri aspetti della sua arte.
estensione vocale di Michael adulto (quasi 4 ottave:rarissimo!!!)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBwA8f8ZUcU
Michael bambino
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsO_gZ5LMb8
vi riporto alcune curiosità. vi ricordo che non sono un'esperta in materia, ma il suo ocal couch Seth Riggs ne tesseva le lodi per primo...
Technically, Michael had one of the finest voices in contempary music. His first advantage is the natural
speed of his voice. He has the ability to sing in
staccato, and sing complex rhythms in perfect timing. The best recorded example of this is the title track from his 1979 album, Off The Wall. Michael possesses a
4 octave vocal range. (Christina Aguelira has a 3 1/2 octave range, Whitney 3, just to give you an example of great voices). His voice goes from two E's below middle C, to two B's above middle C, or 44 notes. This is an
EXTREMELY rare range amongst adult male singers. Essentially, Michael was able to reach octaves that other tenors cannot attain with their natural voice. His voice is NOT falsetto, as many people believe. Of course, MJ does use falsetto, but this is the range of notes he can sing in full voice. If you listen to the butterflies acapella, you can hear that all those high notes are in full voice and
not falsetto.
He has also been labelled "High tenor" by Seth Riggs, his vocal coach.
Si dice che MJ usava la tecnica dello staccato.raggiungeva poi note altissime senza usare il falsetto, come ad es in butterflies: impressionante:
Butteflies acappella
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpP5JqymcDY
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qui il video di un acuto tenuto 11 secondi. sotto vi riporto il commento di un soprano:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6VhQfd7V7Q&feature=related
i'm more impressed with how HIGH that note was O_o
High F#! And I'm saying that from a soprano's perspective...
For a trained soprano, it's an easy note... but I know when I first started SERIOUSLY singing, it took me a couple years before I could make the tone pure.
I can now sing it purer than he does here, but I mean...I'm female.
And I honestly do not know if I could hold it that long... hafta try someday.
per un soprano esperto raggiungere il Fa diesis alto non è tanto difficile, ma ci vogliono anni di studio,e comunque ricordiamo che il soprano è una donna...quindi traete le vostre conclusioni.
Michael era un tenore alto, ma avrebbe potuto fare il sopranista (caso rarissimo).
un'altro contributo interessante:
1. Rumors of the early-to-mid eighties, say that Michael has taken estrogen or hormone pills.
Michael Jackson's normal speaking voice, unfortunately, is a moderately low tone - not a deep tone - but moderate. The answer would be that Michael's speaking and singing range varies from a very low to very high pitch and tones."
2. "Michael Jackson, described by his vocal coach, Seth Riggs, as a high tenor, was declared the 11th best vocalist in contempary music, according to MTV's 22 Greatest Voices in Music. He has recieved many awards for his vocal performance through-out his career.
Technically, Michael Jackson has one of the finest voices in contempary music. His first advantage is the natural speed of his voice. Michael Jackson has the ability to sing in STACCATO, and sing complex rhythms in perfect timing....Jackson's second advantage as a singer is his range. Michael Jackson's natural vocal range, before he breaks off into FALSETTO, goes from two E's below middle C, to two B's above middle C, or
44 notes."
3. "Jackson sang from childhood, and over time his voice and vocal style changed noticeably, either through puberty or a personal preference to align his vocal interpretation to the themes and genres he chose to express.
Between 1971 and 1975, Jackson's voice "descended ever so slightly from boy soprano to his current androgynous high tenor". In the mid-1970s, the singer adopted a "
vocal hiccup" as seen in "Shake Your Body (Down to the Ground)". The purpose of the hiccup—somewhat like a gulping for air or gasping—was to help promote a certain emotion, be it excitement, sadness or fear. With the arrival of Off the Wall in the late 1970s, Jackson's abilities as a vocalist were well regarded; Allmusic described him as a "blindingly gifted vocalist".At the time, Rolling Stone compared his vocals to the "breathless, dreamy stutter" of Stevie Wonder. Their analysis was also that "Jackson's feathery-timbered tenor is extraordinarily beautiful. It slides smoothly into a startling FALSETTO that's used very daringly."
Source(s):
1.
en.allexperts.com/q/Jackson-Michael-489/Michael-Jackson-V... (Marcus Lamar Walker AllExperts - Michael Jackson)
2.
www.spiritus-temporis.com/michael-jackson/voice.html
3.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Jackson (www.wikipedia.org, entry: Michael Jackson, under vocal style)
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