[a freshman in the vocal department] 07. Expression and vocal skills

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Expression is not about feeling an emotion, but a technique of bringing out the feeling you feel.

Even if you feel deeply, you may not be able to reveal it. Feeling an emotion and expressing it are different abilities. It is the technique of vocal that makes the difference in the song.

When it comes to expression, you usually think of showing your emotions big, but it doesn't necessarily mean just strong expressions. Stopping becomes a message, and the choice of doing nothing also becomes an expression. Nevertheless, lessons usually start with expression. The person who can reveal it to the outside can reduce it later, but it is not easy to draw the expression when it is closed from the beginning.

When I take lessons, there are cases where the pitch is right and the beat is accurate, but it does not impress me. On the contrary, some songs convey emotions with just one line even if they are not perfect. Just as a slight change in the angle of the jaw changes when taking an ID photo, a song changes even with a very subtle change.

In lessons, you may try to use your body excessively to bring out emotions. This is because emotions make movements, but movements also call out emotions. Another way is to create a situation by writing a subtext in the lyrics.

The direction of the sound varies depending on who this word is directed to, what emotion it is, what relationship it is, what space it is, and what time zone it is. There is a sadness that bursts out and a sadness that sinks inside. Depending on the direction of energy, the same lyrics become completely different songs.

I've said similar things about pronunciation. The way you speak depends on who you are speaking to and in what space you are speaking to. A voice spoken on the phone and a voice thrown in a large space cannot be the same. Expression is also in its extension.

There is a French student giving a lesson. He speaks clearly what he understands, and when he gets emotional while singing, he stops and cries as it is. He also accurately talks about what he feels he lacks.

Seeing this, I thought that expression might be a matter of attitude and initiative rather than of emotion. During the class, I also began to see more clearly what curriculum this student needed. There are times when I feel that I am closer to the relationship between the coach and the player than the relationship between the teacher and the student.

Of course, it doesn't mean that Korean students don't express themselves. However, it seems that we, who have grown up in a culture where learning accuracy is a priority and responds carefully to teachers, need to practice bringing out more expressions.

There are cases where many students sing as if they are being checked in the lesson room. It feels like checking the pitch, beat, technique, etc. to see if they are wrong. But music has a reflective side. It is rare to show ambitious things on stage that have not been done before. In the practice process, such as tones, facial expressions, and gestures with emotions, it should be set as the default value. That way, it comes out naturally on stage.

Expression is not the ability to feel a lot of emotions, but the skill to bring it out. So we need to practice expressing a little more in many ways.

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