Entertaining Children

  Chapter 195 Dance with plot

  The three returned to the hut for the band’s rehearsal, and of course they did not notify George and Mike again.

  Xiao Yao sat in front of Mike's electronic keyboard, recalling the music in his head, and playing restoration on the electronic keyboard, which confirmed each other with the music in his head.

  Samien and Dean sit quietly on the side, quietly listening to Xiao Yao operating on the electronic keyboard.

The music that Xiao Yao’s hand pops up is a short paragraph, and from time to time he will operate various sound effect buttons on the electronic keyboard, listening to the effects of different sound effects, and sometimes he will also play the presets on the electronic keyboard. Various types of accompaniment, combined with the short melody he played to listen to.

Xiao Yao had to listen to each small melody back and forth several times, until he felt satisfied, he would write it down on a blank sheet of music with a pencil, so Xiao Yao spent almost two melody for the entire melody. It took only hours to finish. But to Samien and Dean, they didn't know if Xiao Yao played such a large melody just now. Because of the rhythm changes inside, there are too many style changes. And its length is much longer than the length of a regular piece of music.

   "Is this over?" Seeing Xiao Yao stopped and put away the scores that he had written, Dean asked curiously. Although almost two hours had passed, and the sky outside had begun to darken, Dean was still surprised by Xiao Yao's speed.

  "Not yet complete." Xiao Yao shook his head, "but that's it for today. This large section of melody needs to be processed electronically, and the rest can go back and use my laptop."

  "Laptop?" Dean asked puzzledly.

   "Yes," Xiao Yao nodded, "Now there are many software on the computer that can do electronic sound effects, and the operation is not complicated. I have electronic sound processing software installed on my laptop."

  "I know this," Dean also nodded, "but you want electronic sound processing, and you also need a sound source. Shouldn't you bring your notebook and record the sound of the instrument as a sound source and then process it?"

"I still have simulation software for various musical instruments on my computer," Xiao Yaoyang said, taking the score in Yang's hand, "With this, I just input it directly according to the score. Isn't there a sound source? Mainly a computer keyboard. Without the feel of the keyboard, it’s better to write the music directly on the instrument, but after the music is created, I can just input the score into the computer and I can still do it.”

   "Well, it turns out that you play music like this, I know it." Dean smiled in surprise.

"Hey, I didn't compose like this before." Xiao Yao said quickly, "The main reason is that I don't have an electronic synthesizer at hand now, and the soundtrack for street dance is mostly electronic dance music, so I can't use a computer. The software does this."

   "Okay," Dean raised his hands. "It's not too early now. Now that you are done here, let's go home early. I'll wait to hear your finished product."

   "Well, it is indeed late, and it is difficult for you to stay with me for so long." Xiao Yao apologized slightly.

   "It's nothing, this is also a study for me. As for Sammy, the driver, since she is voluntary, she has nothing to complain about. Let's go." Dean smiled indifferently.

   "Hey, you talk a lot." Samien glared at Dean.

  Three days later, Xiao Yao once again arrived at the workshop where Zhou Jingyi and his dance team rehearsed. Only this time when he came again, not only Samien came with him, but Dean, George and Mike also came with him to join in the fun.

  According to the three of them, if it is just an ordinary street dance team rehearsing, then they naturally have no interest in following Xiao Yao as an audience. But since Xiao Yao is a choreographer and soundtrack, the situation is different. That is also Xiao Yao's work. Of course, they are interested to follow along and appreciate it, so they have a good experience.

   "Yang, you are here." When Xiao Yao and the others arrived this time, Zhou Jingyi was already waiting at the door, so as soon as they appeared, Zhou Jingyi greeted them.

   "Well, more people came this time. The band members also wanted to see what my choreography dance looked like, so they all came together." Xiao Yao explained with a smile.

   "It doesn't matter, you are welcome." Zhou Jingyi smiled and greeted the band members, "I am Jin. I work with Yang in "Buy More". I have seen you rehearse before, you are great!"

   "Thank you," Dean and the other three said with a smile.

  Samien and Dean talked about the origins of Xiao Yao and this hip-hop team. Dean knew that Xiao Yao would do the arrangement and soundtrack for this street dance team, in large part because of the girl in front of him. Dean knew, and of course George and Mike knew too. Therefore, the three of them are more friendly and polite to Jin.

   "Oh, man, you are here. Then let us see what you can do." The bald black youth TJ and the pale blonde white youth Paul greeted Xiao Yao as they appeared. It was black TJ who spoke.

   "OK, let's listen to the soundtrack first." Xiao Yao took out a USB flash drive from his pocket and raised it up, taking the lead in walking towards the audio equipment placed inside.

   "Hey, guys, today's business is here, everyone is here." Paul shouted to the team members who were spread out in the factory or warmed up or practiced their movements alone.

   "OK, let's see what this guy can do." When everyone heard Paul's greeting, they gathered in the center of the workshop and sat down casually together. Although this workshop is old, it is a place for them to rehearse after all, so it is cleaned up, and it's okay to just sit on the ground.

   Soon, there was music in the stereo. Everyone listened quietly. During the listening process, there were many players who unconsciously nodded their heads or shook their bodies with the music.

  The whole soundtrack is roughly divided into four parts. The melody of the first part sounds more cheerful, and the rhythm is indeed in line with the rhythm of street dance. But after hearing the second part, everyone has a gloomy feeling when listening to the song, which is rarely seen in the soundtrack of street dance. The third part has the fastest rhythm and the most intense and exciting feeling. At the end of the final stage, the melody of the whole music became gentle again, and there was some sadness. But after listening to it as a whole, everyone felt that this is a very good street dance soundtrack.

  And most importantly, everyone heard that this piece of music has never been heard before. They have never heard a piece that fits the hip-hop rhythm to such a high level, it means that this piece should be the original one of the guy in front of it.

Since it is original, it must be specially created for dance, so the degree of coordination with dance is naturally very high, and it will definitely not happen that the dance and music rhythm part of their previous situations are not in line with each other, so everyone immediately responded to Xiao Taking a high look, this guy still has some abilities.

   "What do you think?" Xiao Yao waited until the music in the stereo ended, then looked at the dance team and asked.

  "Very good piece of music," this time it was Paul, a pale blond, white young man who answered Xiao Yao. He then wondered: "But why does the middle section give people a gloomy feeling."

"This is naturally to meet the needs of the dance." Xiao Yao smiled, and then said: "Since you think there is no problem with the music, then I will briefly introduce the story of this dance to you, and then I will tell you the specific dance arrangement. ."

   "Wait, you said the plot?" This time the black TJ asked strangely, "We are dancing hip-hop, and we are not acting in movies or musicals. How come there is a plot?"

   "Hip-hop is also a kind of dance, right?" Xiao Yao looked at the crowd.

Seeing everyone nodding their heads, Xiao Yao continued: "Dance is a kind of performance art. Its purpose is to express the thoughts, feelings, character or personality of the characters, and even other things. It needs the audience to feel it. , Experience and understand what we want to express. If it is purely to show your dance moves and show your dance skills and abilities, then the content and form of this dance are out of touch and lack artistic integrity ."

"What you are talking about is theoretical. It's too esoteric. I don't understand it. I only know that there are many dances, especially street dance. There is no story." said Xiao Yao, a young man in the team who could not be named. .

"I don't deny it," Xiao Yao nodded, "but if you watch any excellent dance, whether it has a specific plot or not, you can feel something other than dance movement skills. This thing We may not be able to say it concretely, but we know it in our hearts. This is what the dance wants to express, what we want the audience to feel. If it is purely to demonstrate movement skills, in my opinion, it is more like Acrobatics, not to mention that many acrobatic shows have also joined the plot."

"The reason why I will arrange a dance with a specific plot is to make it easier for the audience to feel what they want to express in the dance. The judges are also the audience. In addition to the professional details such as movement skills, their feelings are also very good. Important. As a hip-hop dancer who does Thomas's swing, can you be a professional gymnast? Does that mean that you can get the hip-hop championship if you find a gymnast?"

   "Sounds very reasonable, I agree with you." Paul said first.

"Well, whether there is a specific plot or not, we all want to see what your choreography looks like and how effective it is, so just ignore this for now and follow your plan." The black TJ also said. .

Xiao Yao smiled and began to introduce it formally: "The plot is very simple. It is a couple of lovers who were attacked by zombies. The two first ran away, and then they met some uninfected normal people who were also besieged by zombies. The normal people who could run away joined forces to fight the zombies. The group of zombies were wiped out by normal people, but the two found that the hero was bitten by the zombies in order to protect the heroine during the battle, and he would become a zombie. In the end, the heroine was in pain. The protagonist was wiped out."

After    finished speaking, Xiao Yao spread his hands and said: "It's such a story, what do you think?"

"I think it's good. Although the story sounds old-fashioned, I feel that this old-fashioned story should have moved many viewers." Paul first commented again, and then he frowned again and asked Xiao Yao: " But why is it a zombie?"

"The story is not afraid of clichés. The important thing is the way of telling the story. For us, it is the specific choreography." Xiao Yao explained, "As for why it is a zombie, the first is that the subject matter of zombies is very popular nowadays. Many movies and episodes about zombies are very popular, indicating that everyone is interested in zombies. Secondly, zombies are also very suitable for popin. If we come to a group of robots, that would be the old fashioned. "

  (End of this chapter)