Entertaining Children

  Chapter 126 Background Music

   Xiao Yao walked out of the rehearsal room of the Dawn Dance Troupe and took out his mobile phone and made a call.

   "Duo'er. Are you free tonight? My brother would like to ask you for a favor." Xiao Yao said to the phone, "I want to make a piece of music, and there is a piece of violin in it, can you help me score it?"

"Soundtrack? What's the soundtrack?" Sun Tingting was very happy when she received Xiao Yao's phone call, but she didn't expect Xiao Yao to ask her for help. She couldn't help but say with a little temper: "You can't think of me when you are okay. Think of me when you ask for help? No help!"

"Don't, elder brother, okay?" Xiao Yao quickly calmed down, "I found a dance team and choreographed a dance for them, but there is no background music that matches it. I plan to use the background music for the dance tonight. Come out. In my plan, there is a violin soundtrack in this background music. The best violin player among the people I know is you. The first thing I think of you is you, so please help."

Listening to Xiao Yao complimenting that her violin is playing well, Sun Tingting felt a little more comfortable, and her tone became a little looser: "What dance team? Why did you do the choreography and soundtrack for the dance team again? Your interest? Put it on the dance again?"

"It's a coincidence," Xiao Yao replied. "Didn't my parents open a studio to recruit a dance team? I kept a little bit of heart. I happened to meet a very good dance team today, so I went to watch them dance. , I played with them for a while. Then I came up with an idea and choreographed a dance for them. It should be quite fun. But there is no background music for this dance. I am going to make it myself tonight.

  In my expectation, this musical accompaniment needs to have the sound of a violin. My dad and I don’t know how to play the violin, and we don’t have a violin at home, so I think of you first. Tonight you help me get the background music out, and tomorrow I will take you to watch them dance, how about? "

"This... okay." Regarding Xiao Yao's affairs, Sun Tingting was really uncomfortable and really refused. Besides, a few of her friends knew that the fun things Xiao Yao said in his mouth, it must be. Quite fun.

   "What kind of tune is this?" Xiao Siqi frowned while holding the score produced by Xiao Yao. In addition to the drums and keyboard, the main instrument in the score is actually the violin, and the drum is used to master the rhythm in the music, the keyboard is the auxiliary, and the main melody used in the entire score is the violin.

It was not before that there were no music works that combined classical instruments like violin with popular instruments, but Xiao Yao’s piece is obviously a very hip-hop style, adding violin to this style that is the most different from classical style. , This has never been seen in Xiao Siqi's music career.

  "This is the background music I made for a dance. Dance itself is a mix of ballet, modern dance and street dance, so of course the background music must be this combination of classical and hip-hop style." Xiao Yao explained.

  "This...classic and hip-hop, ballet and hip-hop, can this be combined? The style is too different?" Xiao Siqi wondered.

  "Try it. Anyway, I tried a lot of meat. I think it should be very special." Xiao Yao said.

   "Why did you suddenly think of doing something like this?" Xiao Yao asked.

"Remember that I recommended a dance troupe with you at noon today?" Xiao Yao nodded when Xiao Siqi saw Xiao Siqi, and continued: "I was with them this afternoon, and I made a ballet on a whim, combining modern dance and street dance together. Dance, but I don’t find a background music that matches it, so I’ll get one now.” Xiao Yao smiled, “If it’s done, the studio should be able to receive a dance video with this music as a preliminary selection. "

  "You are so attached to this dance company, wouldn't you join them too?" Xiao Siqi asked strangely.

"It's not there yet, but after the music and dance come out, it's not necessarily true. Maybe they will absorb me to join." Xiao Yao smiled, "But I am going to find the two captains inside to steal the teacher. It’s not possible to officially join, at most you can play with them when you are fine."

   "The last question," Xiao Siqi said, "Drums and keyboards are easy to play, we both know how to do it, but neither of us knows how to play the violin. We don't even have a violin at home. How can we do it?"

   "I have asked Duo'er to help, she will be there in a while." Xiao Yao said, "While Duo'er hasn't arrived, let's record the drum and keyboard tracks first."

  When Sun Tingting brought the violin to Xiao’s house, Xiao Siqi and Xiao Yao had already halfway through the tracks of the drum and keyboard. They just had some time for Sun Tingting to familiarize themselves with the melody of the violin, and practice a little bit by the way. When the drum and keyboard tracks are completely set, Sun Tingting is almost ready to start recording.

  Sun Tingting started to learn to play the violin at the age of eight, and has been learning the violin for seven or eight years. The technique is not to say, the recording naturally went smoothly.

"Duoer's violin is really nothing to say." At the end of the recording, Xiao Siqi couldn't help but praise Sun Tingting. "I heard that you learned the piano for three or four years, and then you changed to the violin when you were eight. If you start I just learned the violin, I am afraid it is even more serious now."

"Uncle Xiao, don't praise me," Sun Tingting said somewhat discouraged, "I originally wanted to keep learning the piano, but when I was eight years old, Bayi brother came to my house to play the piano several times, and he played better than I was then. It’s so strong that I think I can’t play the piano anymore, so I learned the violin he doesn’t know how to play.”

  In fact, this was only one reason why Sun Tingting changed her major in musical instruments back then. Another reason was that she overheard a conversation between Xiao Yao and Sun Zhihao.

  At that time, Xiao Yao was rehearsing the drama with Sun Zhihao. Xiao Yao had been living in Sun Zhihao's house. Once there was nothing to do, Sun Zhihao showed Xiao Yao a copy of the script and asked him what he thought. It was a story similar to the previous life "101 Proposals", where the female protagonist counterattacked and pursued the goddess, except that the heroine in the script was a beautiful pianist, not a cellist.

  The film Douban in the previous life had a rating of less than 6 points, but the box office exceeded 200 million. Xiao Yao did not know how to rate it. In the end, Xiao Yao could only talk about the heroine's career. In his previous life, Xiao Yao remembered the more famous pianists, whether it was Lang Lang, Li Yundi who played classical music, or Jay Chou, who played classical music, Leehom Wang was all male.

As a female performer, Xiao Yao only remembers Chen Mei who played the violin. In addition, Zhiling's sister played the cello in the movie is indeed very beautiful, so Xiao Yao suggested that Sun Zhihao change the heroine's identity, saying that she was a female player. It is difficult for the piano to visually reflect the elegant and feminine feeling of women. It is not as good as playing a classical stringed instrument such as a violin.

He does not mean that. Sun Tingting overheard Xiao Yao's words, and she happened to be most convinced of Xiao Yao at that time. Xiao Yao said that girls play the violin better than the piano, and she also felt that playing the piano is not as good as Xiao Yao. She wanted to change to a musical instrument that Xiao Yao could not learn, so after Xiao Yao left the Sun family after playing the drama, Propose to learn a new musical instrument with parents. When she was young and the cello was too big, she learned the violin.

Sun Zhihao asked Sun Tingting to learn a musical instrument, that is, from the perspective of improving her own quality and temperament, she should cultivate her artistic quality. It is not really necessary to train a world-class performer. Sun Tingting wants to learn a new instrument, so Sun Zhihao will follow her. Yi, I also hired a teacher and started letting her learn to play the violin.

  "Is there anything to do with me?" This is the first time that Xiao Yao heard that Sun Tingting gave up piano and studied violin because of him. He was also stunned.

"Anyway, I always have one thing better than Bayi brother you. You are also starting to learn the violin now, and I am afraid it will be difficult to catch up with me." Sun Tingting wrinkled her nose proudly: "We still listen to the synthetic sound. The finished product after the track, I now want to know the effect of my violin and your original instrument together."

   "Okay, let's listen to how effective our work is." Xiao Siqi followed Sun Tingting. With that, I turned on the external playback function on the playback device.

  The music began to play. The first thing that sounded was a very vigorous drumbeat of a typical hip-hop rhythm that was processed by electronic sound, and then a violin sound rushed out, which immediately made people feel like the hair is standing upright.

The whole tune is based on drums. The violin and keyboard alternately or together represent the melody of the song. The drums and keyboard are processed electronically, and the violin is the original sound. Together, the whole tune not only makes people feel electric The wild nature of music hip-hop also appreciates the majestic atmosphere of classical string music. The collision of these two very different styles not only did not make people feel uncomfortable, but also gave people a peculiar feeling of blood boiling and goose bumps at the same time.

  "Awesome!" Sun Tingting couldn't help but praised, "It's the first time I have heard this kind of music. I really don't know how Brother Bayi could think of music like this."

   "Well," Xiao Siqi also nodded, "It is indeed very flavorful, and it feels very special. I am looking forward to seeing the dance that matches this song now."

"If it goes well, you should be able to see it in two days." Xiao Yao smiled and said to Sun Tingting, "Duoer, I will take you to the dance tomorrow. Let's take the DV and record the dance. Then, please be a guest photographer and record it for us."

   "Okay, no problem." Sun Tingting agreed with a smile. As the daughter of a producer, director, screenwriter and actor, she has not been to the film and television crews in recent years. She knows how to operate professional cameras, let alone take DV shots.

   "Okay, then let's talk about it." Xiao Yao said with joy, "It's too early now. I will send you home first. I will pick you up at your home after lunch tomorrow."

   "Uncle Xiao, Brother Bayi, can you copy this piece for me? I want to listen to it several times after I go back." Sun Tingting did not leave immediately, but asked Xiao Siqi and Xiao Yao.

   "Of course there is no problem." Xiao Siqi smiled, took out a U disk from the drawer and inserted it into the device. After some operations, he pulled it out and handed it to Sun Tingting.

  (End of this chapter)