Singing did not sound good, are not allowed to sing the tune, the brain may be to blame.
Even after years of musical training, I began to sing or bad. When I play the guitar, mandolin, or other stringed instruments, I'm a respectable musicians. But when I sing, raspy voice will come up.
I always try to sing a little better (at my vocal teacher sympathy it), but I still do not listen to the voice command, I want to know: My music does not match this selectivity, the blame who? My brain, ears or vocal cords?
To find out, I found the Montreal International Brain, Music and Sound Research Laboratory (BRAMS) specialists. This research institutes and music related to music recognition and associated complex neurobiology. I asked Sean to ask? Hutchings, he studied for four years at the agency and music-related neuroscience (Hutchings now working in Toronto's Royal Conservatory of Music). He told me he could help me, and most people do not sing did not sound like they think that bad. I started to like him.
Hutchins said that although almost everyone with physical hardware can be issued to a wider range of notes, but did not sound good singing still prevalent. "Singing is a complex expression," he explained, "Most people, about 60%, will have difficulty singing."
Over the years, many neurobiologists have been in-depth research capacity related to music, making music and explore why the relationship between how to compose music, explore singing and language, as well as other music recognition secret. Hutchins have a nice singing voice, but also the (research) Music talented experts. His work focuses on studying why musical talent, singing in particular, it will be very different from person to person. I was pleased, his research explores why some people music good qualifications, but not sing songs. It turned out that even though I had a bad voice, but my brain will still be some interesting and charming things - like me to sing in the song of the human brain as well.
The truth about not sounding
Everyone has heard the song come to sing good or bad. I think in the last Serie B league baseball, when a sincere but bad start singing the national anthem, originally a proud to be at the top of the pitcher condor gliding was scared to fly high outfield bleachers, until the end of the song .
However, I do not sing well but also have a scientific definition. It involves three drawbacks: the accuracy of pitch, duration hold, and note memory (remember how long to keep the notes and lyrics).
Studies have shown that most people, whether through music training, will be reflected in three aspects in the two aspects of good: immediate and long holding notes and memory. That's why you can hear me sing which song, even though you may be very sorry to hear me sing it.
In fact, usually the problem comes from bad singing pitch accuracy (pitch), also known as tones. Pitch unit is cents (100 cents = one semitone = 1/12 octave), the pitch does not accurately be defined as: sung notes cents and would like to sing the notes cents inconsistent. A difference of more than 1/2 semitone (50 cents) regarded singing did not sound good.
Hutchins found that, in general, non-musicians about 60% of the people can be classified as singing did not sound, because the pitch is not accurate. Those who have seen "American Idol" program will know, science has proven: Most people are not able to control the pitch.
Hutchings in 2008, began to explore why so many people have intonation problems. He must first rule out the simplest explanation: sing well because of the vocal cords (terminology: sound folds, vocal fold) is not good. He soon found that these muscles can not blame on the throat, they are able to emit a specific note on the physiology.
Now the rest of the two suspects. Sing well may be a perception issue - people might not be able to properly hear the it may be motion control problems - bad people can not sing very well to control the vocal reproduction hear the notes. Hutchins To verify that these two possible causes.
He first verify the perception problem. Hutchins were tested at least seven years of experience musicians and ordinary people own a computer synthesized tones, asking them to hear and then reproduced. They first use a slider to match reproduce this note. Slider is a simple device, the slide button to change the pitch, just like with your fingers glide up and down the guitar strings. Both groups eventually be able to correctly match to prove that perception is not the cause of the problem. "People can hear the correct notes," Hutchins explained, "Although trained musician performance was faster, but ultimately all subjects can exactly match the notes." However, when asked to test themselves come and sing match notes, non-musician group only 59% success rate.
This illustrates the difference between what? Hutchins believes the brain's error correction - the comparison output target, adjust behavior to respond - is the source of the problem. Even if he played the same note more than 20 times, the non-musician group, those who are not allowed to sing for the first time, nor can reproduce notes. Interestingly, they are usually the same mistake again and again to sing the notes, as if locked in there. Hutchins even allow testers to use the computer to help with a program to display different bars on the screen, corresponding to the pitch of their singing. But still it does not work.
With sound conclusions
Without a trained person can not reproduce the correct notes, even in the case with the help of the case, even tried several times. This fact suggests that the brain continues to generate an error, an error has occurred in spite of the ears to know. Testers know that they go out of tune, but they just could not sing the correct notes. Hutchins conclusion: our brains have the ability to send voice to send the right signal to the notes, but it will map out the wrong signal output to match the perceived notes. "Our brains did well on the perception, which is why a lot of people, though not a musician, but also be able to enjoy music." But the same brain but to give vocal sent the wrong directions.
The error term is called Deficit. Sing songs of the human brain, we will hear the notes associated with the wrong throat muscles. Cross the wrong relationship. In my case, when I hear a tune E, call brain to reproduce it, but ordered my brain muscles to send a voice raised in G. It's like someone switched all the characters in my computer keyboard, beat is the letter B, showing up is F. My normal hearing ear, so to hear yourself to sing, I always feel very embarrassed. However, the associated reset my brain is not easy.
Traumatic brain damage issues and researchers have found that brain remapped association is possible, but for adults, this is a hard laborious task that requires many years of daily practice. When I asked Hutchins those of us who have no hope to sing songs, he smiled and said, "I would say hopefully. Practice, practice, practice, patience and good vocal teachers will be helpful."
Haha, practice hard, no one wants to hear the answer. I still prefer to roll up the car windows, make waves drown my voice - the intonation thing left to those good people sing it.
(Author: James Translation: Chen via discovermagazine)
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