Here are a background intro and lyric to this song: "Xiao He Tang Shui" AKA "Rippling Brook" is a famous Chinese Folk Song, has been labled as "the Oriental Serenade". It takes place in rural-folk region of China, where local peasants would call out to their lover in the form of singing. This song origanlly depicts a woman calling out to(missing) her lover; LiNa decides to re-interpret this song in an almost haunting but beautiful sade way. LiNa's husband rearranged the instrumentals and added a new melodic segment to it (The lyric-less vocal part) The whole song has only 5 sentences of lyrics, therefore it is a test of the singer's ability to use vocal techniques to create "rippling" but diverse effects. Lyrics: The moon rising above the mountain is bright, oh so bright. Made me think of my loved one, deep in the mountain. Sheer breeze swirled up from the mountain My love oh my love Do you hear me calling you? The moon rising above the mountain is bright, oh so bright. Watching the moon I think of my loved one Sheer breeze swirled up from the mountain My love oh my love Have you heard my calling? Calling for you. Please like my comment to bump it to the top so more people will see the background of this music. *translation added in this video, performance starts at 1:37 ruclips.net/video/1yCGWDzu2rs/видео.html
I think GONG Linna (the singer) and her husband (the Germany gentleman repeately showed in the video) had worked together to rearrange the song - adding the drums and the sustain singing parts, etc.
BTW, about the drums. This is the traditional type of Chinese drum, called “Gu”. In the history, warriors will play this kind of drums during battles, the sound of the drumbeat excited warriors; it is still used nowadays during dragon boat races, each team will has one drum on their boat and has their own beat, inspire the players. Chinese folk musicians often use this kind of drums when they want the audiences feel the kind of passion, the power and feel deeply inspired. The drummers can played different sound by beat on the different part of a drum, often with a little bit of dance motions. Similar kind of drums are also used a lot in other East Asian countries’ traditional musics. Here is a video of a Japanese Enka, “ABaReTaIKo” (means Fiercely beat the drums) preformed by my favorite Enka singer Ms. Sakamoto Fuyumi ruclips.net/video/7BF340Umz6g/видео.html
We call it Big Drum or Chinese Big Drum, it can be used not only in folk music but also in many other places like Lion Dance performance and Dragon Boat Race.
THE VOCAL LEXICON yeah and we also use many other musical instruments in folk songs as well, like bamboo flute(笛), Xiao(箫), 琵琶 etc. i think Ms Gonglinna chose the drum because its a love song and the chinese big drum is perfect for representing masculinity.. so it really depends on the content of a song
Hi there, thank you very much for your update! Here's some information about this song. A Brook Flows (a Folk song from Yunnan) Singer: Gong LinNa The moon rises bright and clean, bright and clean Reminding me of my love in the valley Fresh breeze goes on the slope, on the slope My love, my love, my love Do you hear me calling your name (Drums come in) The moonlight shines the hill, shines the hill Seeing the moon and thinking of my love Fresh breeze goes on the slope, on the slope My love, my love, my love Do you hear me calling your name (Vocal) The moon rises bright and clean, bright and clean Reminding me of my love in the valley Fresh breeze goes on the slope, on the slope My love, my love, my love Do you hear me calling your name Some more: The drum used in this video is a Chinese bass drum called "Da Gu" in Chinese. By the way, the instrument used in Tan Jin's video is called Erhu (and the special vocal you talked about in TanJin's video is a form of Beijing Opera ).
heyy. Please react to "desirous water" and "Jiuer" from Tanjing. She is chinese top singer who also went for The Singer along with the same season with dimash. Her vocal ability is really good and is capable of doing opera volk rock pop and many other types of vocals.
Amazing you could tell this is folk music. But traditional Chinese folk music usually has minimal background instrumentals. This is more infused with classical music as well.
@frs 12 there's isn't really a team named that. That is just a humorous term (or meme, if you will) we use to call performers that generally have received academic music/dance training, got 1st or 2nd in prestigious national competitions (the academic ones instead of reality shows) and then entered top-level national art departments or at least come from such background. This term contrasts them with pop singers because, for one, they usually perform for the biggest events and the army, somewhat like an international namecard, unlike bands that go on tours or idols that you can 'follow' and get to see very often. They rarely appear on 'smaller' stages though that is changing as some of them got approval to appear on reality shows, like the one in this video. Secondly, they used to be deemed boring & uncool by young people but due to the said reality shows we discovered they *really are* frigging good singers so now there is a trend to appreciate them as well as older music. As for recommendations there are already a lot floating around in this comment section as you know we Chinese are a bit crazy for recognition from foreigners 🤦😂 Tan Jing, etc. are all good.
About the drums, this particular base drum is one common instrument in traditional Chinese music. Made from bamboo and leather, was used by military, the empire and folk thousands of years ago, you can see it still being used in today's religious ceremonies. The strong connection to Chinese tradition makes this drum a common choice of rhythmic instrument for folk songs. Gong's best live performance (to me), you should check it out... Not only her vocal but also the music itself which was composed by her and her husband. The stage design was gorgeous, it's just one of the most epic live ever in Chinese music history. ruclips.net/video/gF9tJQ2LYGs/видео.html
She is the Walking Ancient Chinese Singing Techniques's Book she learn the lost Singing techniques one by one from the fragile-home(the singing family)fragile mean very little of people know how to singing with those techniques，btw she can also sing pop but I just want to say she is indeed A Chinese-Music Grand level teacher. Before we know what is western music technique or Pop，the Chinese also have amazing music techniques but due to the old fashion thinking of Chinese people Girl are not allowed to sing because the folks say no man will marry a women who pleasures other man or people you know right？And I remember in medieval time Europe or west country，women are not allowed to enter stage like opera singer in the old time only man can sing opera. Correct if I'm wrong.
Seriously, you must try Gong Linna’s “TanTe”! That is a song her husband wrote for her and that song made every one in China knows her name! Very very unique song, requires great technique to perform it. A person who loves music like you need to try this: ruclips.net/video/fogC8xUDVFw/видео.html
ShanGe(mountian song) is the original music (pure music) most of them from China. Especially from China's YunNan, XiZang, ShanXi, GuiZhou and Myanmar's Shan State.
Mrs.Gong definitely is my favorite artist in music. But not all Chinese folk music uses this type of drum. We have an abundance of traditional instruments to accomplish one piece. And even the drums have a lot of differences. Folk music generated from different regions and ethnical minorities tends to use particular sets of traditional instruments, including drums.
thank you for reaction "Gong Linna" . And now ,I recommend you another one,it will 100 percent shock you, it call Laoqiang Opera of Huayin County , a old Chinese singing style by using chest . SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO POWERFUL SO SO SO SO SO SO STRONG VOICE!!! plz plz plz plz reaction ："谭维维 "(Tan Weiwei ) part lyrics translation： Why does the sky turn grey Why is the earth not green Why is the heart not red Why is the snow mountain black Why don't rhinos have horns Why do elephants have no teeth Why do sharks lose their fins Why do birds have no wings We need to stop The world needs a little color
that drum is called dagu (大鼓, literally means big drum). you can find in wikipedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Chinese_musical_instruments in the skin section.
NEW! you have to check out Sheena as KZ - rolling in the deep , on your face sounds familiar kids . She won this week, its was that good ruclips.net/video/HO4X8Pa0f7A/видео.html
Can u react to her singing Tan Te.? This song got her famous because of extremely rapid jumping notes and diversified Chinese folk vocal style. Its an insane song nobody could sing. Xiao He Tang Shui was too easy in her standard
Gong is more than folk music. Gong goes popular because of Tan Te, in this song Tan Te (means upset, heart up and down), Gong shows how a serious folk singer become crazy. Surprise no reaction on RUclips about Tan Te. It went viral in China and very controversial. Definitely not folk music, we still don't know what it is.
dude, you must react to sheena belarmino as KZ Tandingan at YFSF........ she sang "rolling in the deep" and she nailed it bro...... gotta react to it dude....
Can you react to Tan Jing- 九儿? ruclips.net/video/qIqQUN_2zLk/видео.html She was on the last season of Singer, and she is legitly one of the best singers in China. The song itself only has 4 lines of lyrics but you can feel the difference each time she sings them.
Hi Frank, please allow me to recommend you another song of Gong Linna, ruclips.net/video/gF9tJQ2LYGs/видео.html, please enjoy the other dimension of MUSIC, just feel and experience the strong vocal of her, which is I think, a better performance than this one.
Hi, @THE VOCAL LEXICON Sorry that I didn't leave more information last time because I couldn't find my favourite performance of her singing this song. And now the MGTV Music Channel has uploaded the version I talked about. Hope you like it: ruclips.net/video/J-ObQ6npV-Y/видео.html BTW, Gong Linna is one of the best singers dedicated to revive classic Chinese poem with music and singing, this song in the following link is also very beautiful, hope you'll make a reaction and analysis video to it: ruclips.net/video/f0qWbrlgKEk/видео.html
Not only am I not accustomed to it, I'm not even familiar with it, because I didn't know that was a characteristic of the genre. Does she sing in a different voice with other music?
In Chinese folk music, almostly yes. The voice in the video is typical Chinese folk voice. Not only she, u can find the same voice in others Chinese tranditional folk singers' performances. But her voice in this performance is really higher than almostly others.
I understand, but still there was no amplification in the European theaters and opera was developed to project to the back of the theater and also over the orchestra, so it had to achieve a similar effect, but by restricting the overtones and creating a more narrow bandwidth tone, as far as I understand it.
Here are a background intro and lyric to this song:
"Xiao He Tang Shui" AKA "Rippling Brook" is a famous Chinese Folk Song, has been labled as "the Oriental Serenade". It takes place in rural-folk region of China, where local peasants would call out to their lover in the form of singing.
This song origanlly depicts a woman calling out to(missing) her lover; LiNa decides to re-interpret this song in an almost haunting but beautiful sade way. LiNa's husband rearranged the instrumentals and added a new melodic segment to it (The lyric-less vocal part)
The whole song has only 5 sentences of lyrics, therefore it is a test of the singer's ability to use vocal techniques to create "rippling" but diverse effects.
Lyrics:
The moon rising above the mountain is bright, oh so bright.
Made me think of my loved one, deep in the mountain.
Sheer breeze swirled up from the mountain
My love oh my love
Do you hear me calling you?
The moon rising above the mountain is bright, oh so bright.
Watching the moon I think of my loved one
Sheer breeze swirled up from the mountain
My love oh my love
Have you heard my calling?
Calling for you.
Please like my comment to bump it to the top so more people will see the background of this music.
*translation added in this video, performance starts at 1:37 ruclips.net/video/1yCGWDzu2rs/видео.html
She is one of the most admirable artists I admire🌸
I think GONG Linna (the singer) and her husband (the Germany gentleman repeately showed in the video) had worked together to rearrange the song - adding the drums and the sustain singing parts, etc.
yes they did
BTW, about the drums. This is the traditional type of Chinese drum, called “Gu”. In the history, warriors will play this kind of drums during battles, the sound of the drumbeat excited warriors; it is still used nowadays during dragon boat races, each team will has one drum on their boat and has their own beat, inspire the players. Chinese folk musicians often use this kind of drums when they want the audiences feel the kind of passion, the power and feel deeply inspired. The drummers can played different sound by beat on the different part of a drum, often with a little bit of dance motions. Similar kind of drums are also used a lot in other East Asian countries’ traditional musics. Here is a video of a Japanese Enka, “ABaReTaIKo” (means Fiercely beat the drums) preformed by my favorite Enka singer Ms. Sakamoto Fuyumi
ruclips.net/video/7BF340Umz6g/видео.html
Relax thanks for this enlightening comment. Being also a music producer I love learning about musical instruments. This was very helpful.
THE VOCAL LEXICON You are very welcome. And thank YOU, I learned a lot of music knowledge from your Vlog.
龚琳娜老师很厉害👍🏻
hi.. coach ..one more very famous singer "TAN WEI WEI " song name is "The Night Ulaanbaatar "
Nice reaction to a new singer!
We call it Big Drum or Chinese Big Drum, it can be used not only in folk music but also in many other places like Lion Dance performance and Dragon Boat Race.
Hmmm... cool. Thanks.
THE VOCAL LEXICON yeah and we also use many other musical instruments in folk songs as well, like bamboo flute(笛), Xiao(箫), 琵琶 etc. i think Ms Gonglinna chose the drum because its a love song and the chinese big drum is perfect for representing masculinity.. so it really depends on the content of a song
龔琳娜老師……好像是，
Beatiful!
its easy to say that she is better than Dimash
Hi there, thank you very much for your update! Here's some information about this song.
A Brook Flows (a Folk song from Yunnan)
Singer: Gong LinNa
The moon rises bright and clean, bright and clean
Reminding me of my love in the valley
Fresh breeze goes on the slope, on the slope
My love, my love, my love
Do you hear me calling your name
(Drums come in)
The moonlight shines the hill, shines the hill
Seeing the moon and thinking of my love
Fresh breeze goes on the slope, on the slope
My love, my love, my love
Do you hear me calling your name
(Vocal)
The moon rises bright and clean, bright and clean
Reminding me of my love in the valley
Fresh breeze goes on the slope, on the slope
My love, my love, my love
Do you hear me calling your name
Some more: The drum used in this video is a Chinese bass drum called "Da Gu" in Chinese. By the way, the instrument used in Tan Jin's video is called Erhu (and the special vocal you talked about in TanJin's video is a form of Beijing Opera ).
heyy. Please react to "desirous water" and "Jiuer" from Tanjing. She is chinese top singer who also went for The Singer along with the same season with dimash. Her vocal ability is really good and is capable of doing opera volk rock pop and many other types of vocals.
reaction to singer2019 EP10 “xiao he tang shui” pleas！！
Amazing you could tell this is folk music. But traditional Chinese folk music usually has minimal background instrumentals. This is more infused with classical music as well.
Now,you have found one of the best singers in China.That level's singers are called "guojiadui"which means the national singer team
@frs 12 there's isn't really a team named that. That is just a humorous term (or meme, if you will) we use to call performers that generally have received academic music/dance training, got 1st or 2nd in prestigious national competitions (the academic ones instead of reality shows) and then entered top-level national art departments or at least come from such background. This term contrasts them with pop singers because, for one, they usually perform for the biggest events and the army, somewhat like an international namecard, unlike bands that go on tours or idols that you can 'follow' and get to see very often. They rarely appear on 'smaller' stages though that is changing as some of them got approval to appear on reality shows, like the one in this video. Secondly, they used to be deemed boring & uncool by young people but due to the said reality shows we discovered they *really are* frigging good singers so now there is a trend to appreciate them as well as older music.
As for recommendations there are already a lot floating around in this comment section as you know we Chinese are a bit crazy for recognition from foreigners 🤦😂 Tan Jing, etc. are all good.
@frs 12 look up Sa dingding 's upwards to the moon
@frs 12 tanjing(谭晶)，腾格尔
About the drums, this particular base drum is one common instrument in traditional Chinese music. Made from bamboo and leather, was used by military, the empire and folk thousands of years ago, you can see it still being used in today's religious ceremonies. The strong connection to Chinese tradition makes this drum a common choice of rhythmic instrument for folk songs.
Gong's best live performance (to me), you should check it out... Not only her vocal but also the music itself which was composed by her and her husband. The stage design was gorgeous, it's just one of the most epic live ever in Chinese music history.
ruclips.net/video/gF9tJQ2LYGs/видео.html
She is the Walking Ancient Chinese Singing Techniques's Book she learn the lost Singing techniques one by one from the fragile-home(the singing family)fragile mean very little of people know how to singing with those techniques，btw she can also sing pop but I just want to say she is indeed A Chinese-Music Grand level teacher. Before we know what is western music technique or Pop，the Chinese also have amazing music techniques but due to the old fashion thinking of Chinese people Girl are not allowed to sing because the folks say no man will marry a women who pleasures other man or people you know right？And I remember in medieval time Europe or west country，women are not allowed to enter stage like opera singer in the old time only man can sing opera. Correct if I'm wrong.
Maybe u can try ur next reaction video for 九儿
Seriously, you must try Gong Linna’s “TanTe”! That is a song her husband wrote for her and that song made every one in China knows her name! Very very unique song, requires great technique to perform it. A person who loves music like you need to try this: ruclips.net/video/fogC8xUDVFw/видео.html
ShanGe(mountian song) is the original music (pure music) most of them from China. Especially from China's YunNan, XiZang, ShanXi, GuiZhou and Myanmar's Shan State.
Mrs.Gong definitely is my favorite artist in music. But not all Chinese folk music uses this type of drum. We have an abundance of traditional instruments to accomplish one piece. And even the drums have a lot of differences. Folk music generated from different regions and ethnical minorities tends to use particular sets of traditional instruments, including drums.
that's the difference of singer and artist.
thank you for reaction "Gong Linna" . And now ,I recommend you another one,it will 100 percent shock you, it call Laoqiang Opera of Huayin County , a old Chinese singing style by using chest . SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO POWERFUL SO SO SO SO SO SO STRONG VOICE!!!
plz plz plz plz reaction ："谭维维 "(Tan Weiwei )
part lyrics translation：
Why does the sky turn grey
Why is the earth not green
Why is the heart not red
Why is the snow mountain black
Why don't rhinos have horns
Why do elephants have no teeth
Why do sharks lose their fins
Why do birds have no wings
We need to stop
The world needs a little color
hi ..coach .. u can go true china singer " ZHOU SHEN " singing song is MONSTER ,, also very nice
that drum is called dagu (大鼓, literally means big drum). you can find in wikipedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Chinese_musical_instruments in the skin section.
Thanks a lot
NEW! you have to check out Sheena as KZ - rolling in the deep , on your face sounds familiar kids . She won this week, its was that good ruclips.net/video/HO4X8Pa0f7A/видео.html
Can u react to her singing Tan Te.?
This song got her famous because of extremely rapid jumping notes and diversified Chinese folk vocal style. Its an insane song nobody could sing. Xiao He Tang Shui was too easy in her standard
Should try Tan Jing-Sali lake moonlight
This kind of music was basically from ShanGe (mountian song or mountain music)
Gong is more than folk music. Gong goes popular because of Tan Te, in this song Tan Te (means upset, heart up and down), Gong shows how a serious folk singer become crazy. Surprise no reaction on RUclips about Tan Te. It went viral in China and very controversial. Definitely not folk music, we still don't know what it is.
This is Original.
ruclips.net/video/fNF4siu5vAo/видео.html
reaction to singer2019 wuhun (武魂）please
Hi sir, love your videos, maybe you should give kids a chance: Elena Hasna - "I surrender" (Céline Dion) Next Star
鏡頭裡得那個外國人是這位歌者得老公，是德國人，歌者幾乎所有的歌曲都是她得老公作曲製作的。你可以聽她得成名曲，忐忑。
dude, you must react to sheena belarmino as KZ Tandingan at YFSF........ she sang "rolling in the deep" and she nailed it bro...... gotta react to it dude....
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Can you react to Tan Jing- 九儿? ruclips.net/video/qIqQUN_2zLk/видео.html She was on the last season of Singer, and she is legitly one of the best singers in China. The song itself only has 4 lines of lyrics but you can feel the difference each time she sings them.
pls react tnt boys as mariah and boys2men tnx.
哈哈国家队的
陈建斌老师听懵了
你太调皮了！！！哈哈哈哈😂😂
Hi Frank, please allow me to recommend you another song of Gong Linna, ruclips.net/video/gF9tJQ2LYGs/видео.html, please enjoy the other dimension of MUSIC, just feel and experience the strong vocal of her, which is I think, a better performance than this one.
Please react to JJ Lin's "Our Love" 林俊杰《我们的爱》:
ruclips.net/video/L4lZVoXntpo/видео.html
it's not her best performance though.
Hi, @THE VOCAL LEXICON
Sorry that I didn't leave more information last time because I couldn't find my favourite performance of her singing this song.
And now the MGTV Music Channel has uploaded the version I talked about. Hope you like it: ruclips.net/video/J-ObQ6npV-Y/видео.html
BTW, Gong Linna is one of the best singers dedicated to revive classic Chinese poem with music and singing, this song in the following link is also very beautiful, hope you'll make a reaction and analysis video to it: ruclips.net/video/f0qWbrlgKEk/видео.html
I guess one has to be accustomed to this type of Asian music, but to me it sounds like she's breathing helium.
lol! That's what makes the genre what it is.
Not only am I not accustomed to it, I'm not even familiar with it, because I didn't know that was a characteristic of the genre. Does she sing in a different voice with other music?
In Chinese folk music, almostly yes. The voice in the video is typical Chinese folk voice. Not only she, u can find the same voice in others Chinese tranditional folk singers' performances. But her voice in this performance is really higher than almostly others.
I understand, but still there was no amplification in the European theaters and opera was developed to project to the back of the theater and also over the orchestra, so it had to achieve a similar effect, but by restricting the overtones and creating a more narrow bandwidth tone, as far as I understand it.
全是中国人假装老外评论
I am an authentic English people, not jia Chinese, fine thank you, and you?