Vocal Analysis -【Fur Elise】by Faouzia

[@kahnsreaction7810]

No singing training. She is classically trained in piano and violin. Her fingers on her runs are mimicking her piano playing. She writes all of her music that's why it's sounds classical. She was born in Morocco and raised in Canada. You can hear her Arabic heritage shine through.

[@SingingTechniquesINT]

Shocking that she hasn't had vocal training !! 😯

[@Rosannasfriend]

I think you’re right about the detachment. For this song, she’s playing a character. She’s playing a woman who is not living for herself, but the other person. So the detachment is the right kind of emotion to show this song.

[@KaliFlamingo]

The whole video, she is playing the role of a marionette. Her clothing and her arm movements and spinning is all to mimic the "puppet on your string" in the opening lyrics. She's actually a very emotional singer, but she's very good at acting out the emotions with respect to the song lyrics.

[@ConradMacMillan]

I have never heard her discuss vocal technique with respect to training. I believe she is incredibly in tune with her voice and body and so, is very instinctual in her approach to music in general and singing specifically. This, I think, is part of her allure and is partly why she is of such interest to both vocal technicians as well as artists. She has a very analytical mind, as evidenced by her pursuit of an engineering degree, that she can wield to advance her own vocal training.

[@SingingTechniquesINT]

I agree with you that she is incredibly in tune with her voice and body. She's born to sing. Wasn't aware that she has an engineering degree 😯

[@AhmedNaim-qm4ub]

Faouzia is morrocan canadien singer song writer piano violin and guitare player. Her influences come from her morrocan arabic background. She use to listen to égyptien divas such as oum keltoum in high notes.

[@1thomson]

Yes! Her family spoke Arabic at home. Her community spoke French. And the province in which her community is located speaks English. So, she grew up speaking _three_ languages. She grew up hearing the "song" of three different languages. A Norwegian friend insists that every language has its own "song" or underlying, general rhythm that distinguishes it from other languages. That experience must have tuned her brain to hear rhythm, dynamics, and timbre in everything she encounters. IMHO

[@AhmedNaim-qm4ub]

@1thomson Absolutely ! She herself confess that in one of her interview... She said that she grew up with her mother listening to Fairuz, ou Oum keltoum ... But she also like Rihanna Adele etc. stay safe

[@بلااسم-ظ5ط]

تركت المذلولين الخونة تفو الله يغبر لمكم شقف

[@BrunoSousa-sk7pb]

Masterpiece!

[@neigema4097]

Faouzia vhante de tout du rap a la tecno ...a la balade et pour ceux qui trouvent as l'émotion écouter bad Dreams écrit à 13 ans exothermique elon ec5... merci beaucoup

[@Rosannasfriend]

Faouzia is a very emotional singer. I like her style of showing emotions which is very subtle, and she lets it be Organic, she’s not trying too hard to show it, she just lets it come out from a natural place. That’s my preferred style. However, there is one time recently, where she sang an R&B song, by a singer that I know to be very blatant in her emotional expression, and I didn’t feel Faouzia did enough for that song and she was just having too much fun with it. That’s the only time her emotions were not enough for, otherwise she’s great, and like you said, it depends on the genre. It also depends on the listener. We all have different ways of expecting emotion, so you’re right about that too.

[@Rosannasfriend]

For this song, she was definitely playing a character. So I think you’re right that the detachment isn’t itself an emotion that is appropriate for this song. This is a woman who is not living for herself. She’s living for the other person.

[@SingingTechniquesINT]

I think that I came across that R&B song that you're talking about and I had the same thinking as you, but for the life of me, I can't remember the song title too!

[@peter4422]

Thanks Bev! I missed your analysis! I hope you will post more of them!

[@SingingTechniquesINT]

Thanks Peter, I hope so too

[@peter4422]

@@SingingTechniquesINT 🎧🎶🎵👩‍🏫

[@kavi3561]

她从五岁起开始学习钢琴和小提琴，从那时候开始打下乐理基础。她小时候，父母会在家里播放Terouz和Unkiltum这样的阿拉伯歌手的音乐，里头有很多疯狂的转音，她就一遍遍地模仿直到掌握，再大一些的时候，她也经常听Beyonce和Lady Gaga，通过模仿她们的唱法来学习声乐。

[@SingingTechniquesINT]

她的音乐吸收好丰富！😄

[@pinocchiotarator4590]

Thank you for this reaction and your interesting analysis, 😊😊😊🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉💫💯👍🏼👌🏼

[@SingingTechniquesINT]

Thank you for your comment! 🫠

[@Laila-rp6sb]

فوزيه لم تخضع للتدريب و ذلك هو سر تميزها ! هي وضعت بصمتها القويه في عالم الغناء كونها دربت نفسها بنفسها تعلم ذاتي

[@neigema4097]

Autodidacte pour le chant Dans une interview sur une émission canadienne elle expliquais que souvent quand elle chante c'est main situé ses doigts sur un grand piano et que ça l'aidait a positionner c'est note. Il y a beaucoup démission ou elle parle de sa façon dont elle a appris seul et écrire ses texte a 13 ans et qu'elle avait plusieurs cahier plein texte innexploit'e ...

[@SingingTechniquesINT]

Merci beaucoup! 🙏🏻🙏🏻

[@dodoartemis4344]

She has never had any singing lessons she had classical training,piano, violin ,

[@SingingTechniquesINT]

shocking!

[@ms.chuckfu1088]

Thanks Bevlyn.

[@SingingTechniquesINT]

Thank you for your comment! ❤️

[@ms.chuckfu1088]

@SingingTechniquesINT Thoughtful analysis. I appreciated it very much.

[@orinocoecocamp2258]

reacting to your reaction: repeating "Idid not have have time" will get you no where, even while using your fingers..

[@Rosannasfriend]

You broke down This performance better than anybody ever has.

[@SingingTechniquesINT]

Thank you for saying that! ❤️

[@ivypoon5780]

Thanks! She is Moroccan born in Canada. Can hear middle eastern influence. Her voice is so beautiful

[@neigema4097]

Autodidacte sa première chanson sur youtube elle avait 13 ans c'était Adel elle chantait et jouait du piano.❤

[@SingingTechniquesINT]

Yes her middle eastern influence is strong. And I love it!

[@goodways11]

She was born in Morocco and when she was three or five years old, her parents moved to Canada. She is Amazigh and they have distinctive and different voices from the Middle East.❤

[@SingingTechniquesINT]

Amazing, I learnt something new! Wikipedia: "Amazigh[b] or Imazighen,[c] are a diverse grouping of distinct ethnic groups indigenous to North Africa who predate the arrival of Arabs in the Arab migrations to the Maghreb." Thank you.

[@Nauma3]

Faouzia’s singing is emotionless?? Then whose singing is emotional?

[@SingingTechniquesINT]

Comments like this is subjective 🙂

[@Nauma3]

@ I’m asking objectively though, i want to hear what you call “emotional singing” so i can make a difference 🤷🏻‍♀️

[@ConradMacMillan]

If it is emotion you seek, then perhaps this performance of "Desert Rose" will suffice -- kzbin.info/www/bejne/Y36ZaIKYoJ2Vn9U or maybe this excellent rendition of Jaques Brel's "Ne me Quitté Pas" -- kzbin.info/www/bejne/eYPVhZWipZ52mc0

[@SingingTechniquesINT]

Thanks! I love the exasperation in her rendition of "Desert Rose". And damn i didn't know that she speaks French. Her diction is perfect!🤯

[@ConradMacMillan]

@@SingingTechniquesINT French is her second language. She grew up in a small English speaking community speaking Arabic at home; went to French language elementary and middle schools; and spoke English with her friends in high school and around town. Her knack for languages has been evident in many performances in China the past 6 months where she sang in Mandarin.

[@ninanina-bv5xi]

YOUR ANALYSIS IS GENEAL! YOU PUT IT IN A MICROSCOPE 😂😂, IF IT IS POSSIBLE TO SEE YOUR ANALYSIS OF HER SONG "RIP LOVE" at "SINGER 2024" SHOW THERE IS A LOT OF ARABIC INFLUENCE IN THIS SONG.

[@SingingTechniquesINT]

I am seriously considering, I was choosing between her RIP Love and Fur elise for this video

[@ninanina-bv5xi]

​@@SingingTechniquesINT both are masterpiece❤

[@defunct32]

Are you Singaporean?

[@SingingTechniquesINT]

@@defunct32 definitely! 🌟

[@بلااسم-ظ5ط]

In contrast to the common belief that she is influenced by Arabic rhythms, she is actually deeply influenced by Amazigh rhythms.

[@adinet2244]

Neither. What rhythm notes she writes depends on the style of music she intends to create. Her music is structured on the Western musical theory which is very different from what you might expect

[@dodoartemis4344]

Her riffs and runs are typically Arabic 😂, it's easy for us to do it but not for western people 😂

[@SingingTechniquesINT]

I think I would have to agree

[@goodways11]

She was born in Morocco and when she was three or five years old, her parents moved to Canada. She is Amazigh not arab and they have distinctive and different voices from the Middle East.❤

[@lordalmansoori6888]

@@goodways11 shes an arab i can tell from her rifts theyre common in arabic singers