Why does Sniti keep singing male songs? - Page 6

Originally posted by: musicmuse

hey, that was a neat explanation, sushruta😊

I am not sure about the theory, seems pretty right, what you wrote.

I just attempt to sing, till everyone sushes me down😆

Originally posted by: sushrutapandey

Can you explain more clearly? What does that mean? And like I said, let me explain my experience. When I try to sing along, I try to match with the scale(not sure of the correct term) of the original singer. When I try doing this with Lata's songs for example, I have a problem if I try to match her. However if I start lower, I have no problem hitting all the notes even if they go high. But when I start low, the song doesn't sound as good as the original. Now, I don't have this issue with male songs. In my mind, this is not the problem of hitting high notes. It's just the kind of voice I have that's somewhere in between the deep male voices and the shrilly female voices(eg Lata, Shreya).

Originally posted by: sushrutapandey

@lifetuz thanks for trying to explain( I thought everyone ignored my post lol) but I didn't get it.

@xobile thanks to you too.

I went to a few classes for Carnatic music a long time ago and if I remember from what the instructor told me then , it is this( if something is wrong let me know)

the male sruthi is generally between 1.5-4.5( the way it is defined in carnatic)

the female ones are usually around 4-6(not sure about the higher one).

Now these numbers refer to the sa note( in the middle octave). So, I would be most comfortable hitting the sa at 5-5.5. . Once you start there, you go to the higher sa and you can also go lower from the base sa . Now going higher and lower is defined relative to your starting point. So every singer has a comfortable starting point that allows him to sing the higher notes with ease. However, it does not mean the singer can start only at that starting point. For example, I could start at 4, 4.5, 5 or 5.5. However, with some of these starts I won't be able to hit the notes in the lower and higher octaves.

What I was referring to when I said my voice is closer to the male voice is in my mind, referring to the starting point. In the sense that my comfortable sa falls around 4.5 or so.

Now, what does it mean that male singers are more comfortable in higher scales than female ones? Obviously I am guessing you are not referring to the absolute value. Because as far as I understand there is no absolute value. What I understand by that is male singers can have a wider base of starting points and still sing the higher and lower octaves at these different starting points.

While female singers, on an average, don't have such wide starting points to choose from.

So if the MD determines that a song should be sung at a particular scale, then you need a singer who is able to sing comfortably at that scale while being able to transverse through the higher and lower octaves if the song requires it. So in my understanding the absoluteness is imposed by the music director creating a song. It is not like the song cannot be sung by a different singer choosing a different scale but that the MD determines that the character of the song is best accomplished at his chosen scale.

That was a long paragraph and I guess I confused everyone including myself😆 but it would be great if someone who knows this stuff better could throw some light.

Originally posted by: Anamika21

Just watch what she pronounces at 2.06 min

[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lZSi2xV0Zk[/YOUTUBE]

Originally posted by: Simi_PagalLadki

@mind-googling. Why am I an exception?

Originally posted by: tulipbaby53

Just watch what she pronounces at 2.06 min

[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lZSi2xV0Zk[/YOUTUBE]

Originally posted by: Killer07

Omg, Sniti is really awful in a romantic duet After listening to this romantic no. of sniti I am sure no heroine would ever prefer a playback. Good that Sniti restricts herself to the male songs, she does well in it & has her own style of singing.