Entertaining Children

  Chapter 1283 Two groups of musicians

   "Yang, how do you want to play?" Several musicians also asked Xiao Yao, "Do you have any ideas?"

  "First of all, it is the change of rhythm and speed." Xiao Yao turned his head and looked at the musicians.

   "The change of rhythm and speed is a good idea." Several musicians nodded one after another, "But how to change, where to change?"

"My idea is," Xiao Yao said, "The first verse and chorus remain unchanged. Starting from the second verse, we speed up the performance to the beginning of the third verse. The speed slowed down and became even slower than the original version. The third verse is relatively short, so the time after this slowdown is not long. Starting from the preliminary chorus of this period, we will speed up again, I I think it’s better to go faster than the second paragraph, and return to the original speed when the final chorus comes.

   "Quick, slow, fast, it doesn't sound very complicated." The drummer nodded and asked again, "But how fast and how slow should it be changed?"

"When we were practicing just now, the speed was about 96 beats per minute," Xiao Yao thought for a while, and said, "I want to speed up by a third in the second stage to about 128 beats per minute. The third stage slows down. The speed and acceleration are reduced and speeded up by half, respectively, at 48 beats per minute and 144 beats per minute. Let’s practice this way and try the effect, okay?"

   "No problem!" Several musicians said.

  There is no metronome at the scene, but everyone is experienced professional musicians, and they have no problem feeling and grasping the speed of the music. 96 beats per minute is a relatively common medium speed in music. When you practiced before, there was no problem with the speed. On this basis, the increase and decrease of one-third and one-half is not for everyone. How difficult it is, as long as it is unified in advance.

   "Wait," Cordy Scott interrupted, "Young, did you just say first? So are there others?"

"Others, I improvise when I am preparing to practice, and I don’t have any requirements for the band’s musicians." Xiao Yao said here, and suddenly said, "By the way, the chorus part, please help sing the harmony ."

   "OK, no problem!" Several musicians laughed.

  The music scores Xiao Yao gave to several musicians are only the melody, without the lyrics. However, the chorus marked by Xiao Yao on the tune was only one lyrics. The first two were repeated twice, and the last time was repeated four times. The musicians have heard Xiao Yao sing three times, even if they still can't remember the lyrics of the whole song, one sentence of the chorus is always remembered.

  After the discussion, the rehearsal continues.

  According to the agreement, there are no changes to the prelude and the first verse. In the two lines of the first chorus, several musicians opened their mouths and sang together with Xiao Yao. Xiao Yao didn't produce any "Yao Mozi" at this time, and he sang with the musicians routinely.

  When it came to the second verse, all the musicians obviously speeded up their performance, and Xiao Yao's singing speed naturally also speeded up.

  From here, the rhythm of the whole song accelerated, giving people a different feeling overall, and Xiao Yao also began to give people a different feeling. The changes in Xiao Yao's singing are not only speeding up, but also beginning to add improvisational things. For example, at the end of the first sentence of the second verse, when Xiao Yao sang "OnTheRadio", he suddenly came to play.

  As soon as this weird voice came out, everyone showed a very surprised expression. But everyone is very professional. Although the musicians all showed surprised smiles, they didn't stop their hands, and there were no pauses or errors in the accompaniment of the instruments. Although Cordy Scott, who was watching, pointed to Xiao Yao in surprise and amusement, he did not laugh to interfere with everyone's rehearsal.

Xiao Yao’s improvisation is not just a place to sing. When it came to the second chorus, the band members sang harmony with him, and Xiao Yao added in the interval between the two sentences. Some humming that don’t understand the lyrics at all and have no actual meaning of the lyrics.

  These humming without the actual meaning of the lyrics made Cordy Scott and the musicians more recognition of Xiao Yao's current improvisational state, which made their perception of Xiao Yao even better.

  "Very awesome, very interesting!" At the end of the song, Cordy Scott from the sideline clapped his hands and applauded sincerely, "Young, you are incredible!"

   "Cordie, I like this guy!" the musician who played the electric guitar smiled and yelled to Cordy Scott.

   "Thank you!" Xiao Yao smiled to the guitarist, "But I am here now! You like me, shouldn't you tell me directly?"

   "Ha~" Xiao Yao's ridicule caused a lot of laughter at the scene.

  The laughter continued, the door of the rehearsal room was pushed open, and a female voice rang: "What did I miss?"

  Everyone turned their heads and saw that Nicky Thompson came in. Behind her, besides her agent Amy Hatton, there is also a staff member named Vincent.

   "Nicky, your rehearsal is complete?" Cordy Scott asked.

   "Yes!" Nicky Thompson nodded, "It's okay after the rehearsal. Come and see how your rehearsal is going."

   "It seems to be going well?" Nicky Thompson asked again.

"Better than smooth!" Cordy Scott laughed, "Young is really talented. His new song is very good. I have practiced it a few times just now, and there is no big problem with it. Even better. What's more, he has already made some special changes and designs for the stage performance, which is very interesting and interesting. I believe he should have no problem with this opportunity to perform."

"Really?" Nicky Thompson was happy at first, and then closed a little smile, looking at Xiao Yao with a smile but a smile, "I remember that someone was Amy who invited me to be the stage director, but I didn't expect myself He became a guest performer. I didn’t say that if I didn’t help, I needed someone else to help him with a musical instrument!"

"Friendly reminder," Xiao Yao smiled, "If I remember correctly, it is not me who suggested that I should replace Hopson as a guest performer! It was you and Cordy who suggested to Mr. Green to let me perform. Guests, I promised to fight for it and didn't make you embarrassed in front of Mr. Green. Didn't this help you?"

"That's right," Xiao Yao said again, "the first person to suggest to Mr. Green that I be a guest performer is you! Cordy just expressed to Mr. Green that he agrees with your suggestion, and he said it after you. The result. Now it's Cordy who played the music and the instrument to help me, but you, who did nothing!"

   "Ha~" Cordy smiled, "Young makes a lot of sense!"

   "Hey, Cordy, who are you helping?" Nicky Thompson gave Cordy Scott a dissatisfied look.

   "Of course it's Bang Yang!" Cordy Scott took it for granted, "Why should I help you?"

   "Okay, Nicky," Amy Hatton said, "You can't say it, you haven't suffered a lot!"

"Okay, I'll help you!" Nicky Thompson said to Xiao Yao, "All you need now is the musicians. I was in the rehearsal just now, and I couldn't lend you the musicians. Now I'm finished with the rehearsal, I can enjoy the music I lent you my hand. I will now let my musicians come over and replace Cordy’s musicians. When I’m on stage, let my musicians accompany you!"

   "Hey, Nicky, what are you doing?" Cordy Scott said, "They have all practiced with Young!"

"It's okay, you can practice again!" Nicky Thompson said, "Young said it makes sense. I suggested to David that Young be a guest performer, but I didn't help him. I'm sorry, so I want Help him! It only took me half an hour to rehearse, and you have almost practiced. Now there is more than an hour left before David said, and there is no time to practice again!"

   "Nicky, don't mess around!" Amy Hatton said.

   "Young, what do you say?" Nicky Thompson looked at Xiao Yao.

"Thank you for providing me with musicians." Xiao Yao smiled and nodded. "Many musicians use their own instruments. They have been arranged here, and it is troublesome to exchange them. Or you can ask the organizer for another one. Find a rehearsal room? In addition, I heard that your performance has harmony singers. Can you call the harmony singers and ask them to rehearse with me?"

   "Young, what are you doing?" Cordy Scott asked in surprise, "Are you really going to change musicians?"

   "Heh~" Xiao Yao smiled, turned his head and said to the musicians, "Thank you guys, please continue to practice this song, and I will be on the stage later, I still have to ask you to help me accompany me!"

   "Do you want us to accompany you?" Several musicians asked in confusion, "Then, do you want to change musicians?"

  Several musicians had a good time rehearsing with Xiao Yao, but after hearing Xiao Yao's request for Nicky Thompson to be a musician, the faces of these people were not so good. Well, everyone worked so hard to line up with you for half an hour, but you said that you want to change? But now after listening to Xiao Yao's words, everyone really doesn't understand what Xiao Yao meant.

  Cordie Scott, Nicky Thompson, and Amy Hatton also looked at each other, feeling a muddled head, and didn’t know what Xiao Yao meant. In the end, Cordy Scott asked, "Young, what do you mean? Do you change musicians or not?"

   "Change? Why change?" Xiao Yao smiled.

   "If you don't change, why let Nicky call up musicians and harmony singers to find a rehearsal venue?" Cordy Scott asked.

"Because I decided to work with two groups of musicians to prepare two performances." Xiao Yao said, "Since Nicky wants to provide me with musicians, I don't want to disappoint her kindness, so I will prepare another song. You. My musicians helped me accompany "The Remedy", Nicky’s musicians and harmony singers helped me accompany and sing another song, and then they will be on stage separately. In addition, these two songs are my work, musicians They are relatively unfamiliar, but I am very familiar with them, and I don’t need as much practice time as them. This way, when I prepare for the second song, I can use this time to continue to practice familiarity."

   "Are you going to prepare two performances?" Cordy Scott and Nicky Thompson said in unison in surprise.

"Yes!" Xiao Yao said, "Mr. Green didn't say that I can only perform one song, right? Of course, tomorrow night's awards ceremony will definitely only be able to perform one song, but tonight is my competition with that Korean group. There is no rule that only one song can be sung. I can prepare two performances for Mr. Green to choose! Don't you think that my chances of winning will be greater?"

  "This~" Everyone looked at Xiao Yao speechlessly.

   "Nicky, what do you say?" This time, Xiao Yao said to Nicky Thompson.

Nicky Thompson gritted his teeth, turned his head to Vincent and Amy Hatton and said, "Vinson, can you help us find another rehearsal place, Amy, you go and talk to the musicians and harmony singers." ."

   "I don't need all the musicians to come, the musician I need is..." Xiao Yao told Amy Hatton the required musician configuration requirements, and finally said, "In addition, I personally need an acoustic guitar."

   "Okay, no problem!" Amy Hatton made a gesture.

  In this situation, Amy Hatton can no longer say that Nicky Thompson is a nonsense, and can only cooperate with them.

  "Do you want to play the guitar for the second song?" Cordy Scott asked with a smile.

   "Of course!" Xiao Yao helped the acoustic guitar held in Fu's arms.

Nicky Thompson looked at Xiao Yao holding the guitar in his hand, remembering that he had invited him to be a guitarist, and said, "Young, I haven't heard what songs you rehearsed with Cordy's band. My band’s rehearsal room prepares some preparation time, can you rehearse again now."

   "It can be, but I think I need to do another thing first." Xiao Yao said.

   "What else are you doing?" Cordy Scott said.

"Score!" Xiao Yao said, "I was rehearsing with Nicky’s band for a new song that has not been released. The musicians definitely don’t know. I want to write the score for that song first, the musicians. We need to rehearse and perform. I don’t know how long it takes them to prepare the rehearsal room, but I think it’s better to write it down first, so that even if our rehearsal is not over here, they can take a look in advance and get familiar with it. No need to sit and wait."

   "Save time!" Cordy Sko nodded and waved to the assistant again.

  The assistant immediately passed the paper and pen to Xiao Yao. Xiao Yao still used the back of the guitar as a tabletop, and immersed himself in writing.

   "This song is called Lucky?" Cordy Scott saw Xiao Yao write his name on the top of the score and asked.

   "Yes!" Xiao Yao nodded with a smile, "This song has something to do with myself!"

   "Oh?" Cordy Scott said, "It's about yourself?"

"Yes," Xiao Yao said, "I came to the U.S. for a vacation. Coming here tonight was not part of my plan. As a result, Hobson had an accident. I became a candidate for a guest performer. Isn't it very Lucky?"

   "But you didn't really want to be a guest performer at this awards ceremony." Nicky Thompson said.

   "Ha!" Xiao Yao smiled.

   "Young," said Cordy Scott, "this time, can you write the lyrics and let me see what the lyrics look like?"

Xiao Yao refused to be his backing singer and guitarist. He agreed with Nicky Thompson. He felt that Xiao Yao didn't really care about the status of the guest performer at the Billboard Awards Ceremony. Later he promised that David Green should be with those Koreans. related. He wanted to see from the lyrics what kind of relationship this song had with Xiao Yao.

   "Yes!" Xiao Yao nodded, "But we have to wait till the end."

  Xiao Yao wrote several scores, each marked on the scores for drums, bass and other special musical instruments for easy performance, and finally wrote the lyrics on one of the scores.

  Cordie Scott has been standing beside Xiao Yao, bowing his head and watching him write. When Xiao Yao wrote the lyrics of "BoyIHearYou", Cordy Scott couldn't help but curiously asked: "You wrote this song for a female singer?"

   "Really?" Hearing Cordy Scott's words, Nicky Thompson, who was still standing aside, couldn't help but walk over.

   "Heh," Xiao Yao smiled, "I'll know when you hear it!"

  (End of this chapter)