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Today we will try to enter the great macro area of the timbre classification and, to do so, I will start from my experience.
How I was classified, what brought me and what did the timbre classification move me?
I will start with a first question: why classify?
The timbre classification can be used to give a clear shot of the vocal stamp inside a repertoire or style or in any case a place where you can say who we are. This can have positive aspects and negative aspects, which I will address by bringing the line of thought that I consider for me as correct as possible, both as a singing teacher in the classroom, and as I answer the various questions that I meet in the network.
Each person classifies in his own way based on experience and ear, there are also timbre classifications related to anatomy and physical conformation, the physiology that each of us has and which makes us unique.
In my life path I have been classified in different ways, first as a baritone, at a certain point as a tenor, then
Baritenore , to return baritone again. I faced these changes and the person I had in front of me classified me, also indicating the repertoires to sing, but this brought me confusion, to the point of making me stop, not sharing this mainly subjective evaluation. On this topic we should ask ourselves questions to go and define who we are faced not so much by classifying it but
photographing it . Unlike a timbre classification, sound photography is a "dynamic shot", it is something that changes over time and that can be carried in the relationship and dialogue with the learner in a clearer and more objective way. In the narrative of this great chapter
"photographing the vocal sound" we will try to compare ourselves and this is why I also ask for your opinions, and we will tell thanks to my story as a didoty but first of all as an artist, so that whoever we are facing can understand How to look at each other. I really believe that the sound can be looked at, it is enough to have the desire to photograph yourself and to enter in detail, however having the constancy to perform many shots over time: when I was born as a singer, when I am growing as a singer, at the moment in which you are at the apex of your own song and also grasp that moment when you are in the senile part of the singing. Personally, I see singing as a tool not so much of style, but of expression, communication, a tool that defines the community and that, over time, has allowed man to be able to be like this, a singer of his life.
Then I'll wait for you inside Siing.net to face the next chapters together:
- The 4 photographs of the sung sound
- Are we acute or low or medium?
- How important is intensity as interpretative value?
- Long or short? This is the dilemma ...
- Each sound to its color and shade
- The sound areas, explored and unexplored places of our voice
