Entertaining Children

  Chapter 206 Warm-up

  The hip-hop team's affairs came to an end for a while, and Xiao Yao's focus naturally shifted to the band. A week is neither long nor short, nor short. The song "Immortals" is something everyone has already practiced. With a week of concentrated assault reinforcement, Xiao Yao is confident that it should be enough for the warm-up performance of the "Daydream" Los Angeles concert.

  Of course, rehearsal is only a technical preparation, as long as you spend time practicing. As for psychological preparation, Xiao Yao has nothing to do. The "Daydream" Los Angeles concert was a big scene with thousands of spectators. Now even Xiao Yao himself was a little nervous before he took the stage, let alone those in the band who hadn't seen many big scenes.

   "Yang, I'm very nervous!" Dean said to Xiao Yao nervously in the backstage lounge. Invisible, Xiao Yao has long become the backbone of this band.

   "I can see it," Xiao Yao grinned reluctantly, "It's not just you, you all have the word "nervous" written on your faces. But this is normal, it's just the first time the band has experienced such a big scene."

   "But what about you?" Dean looked at Xiao Yao who was smiling, "It's the first time for you, why you don't seem nervous at all."

   "I just concealed it better, look." Xiao Yao gave a wry smile, spreading his fisted hands, the sweat in his palms was clearly visible.

   "Ha, why do I feel nervous when I see you? I'm not so nervous anymore." Dean laughed.

   "Me too." George and Mike agreed. Although Samien did not speak, he nodded in agreement.

"You guys..." Xiao Yao rolled his eyes, then put on a particularly nervous expression, and began to whirl around in the lounge, "God, I'm going to be on stage soon, what should I do? I'm so nervous, I feel I'm about to faint. No, I'm going to the bathroom to vomit for a while..." At the end of the talk, Xiao Yao started fanning his face with his palm.

   "Enough, you acted too fake." Dean and the other three interrupted Xiao Yao with a smile. After such a disturbance, everyone's nervousness has been relieved a lot.

  "Are you ready?" At this moment, Keith Craig opened the door and walked in and said to the people in the lounge, "Time is coming."

   "Ready, you can come on stage at any time." Xiao Yao answered Keith.

   "Okay." Keith Craig nodded, and then asked more frequently, "Is it the first time you perform in front of so many people, are you nervous?"

   "It's a terrible question," Xiao Yao glanced at Keith and sighed, "Of course we were nervous. It was just a bit of relief. If you ask like this now, the tension will return."

"It's okay," Keith smiled indifferently, "I actually wanted to tell you that it doesn't matter how nervous you are now. Once you get on stage and start acting, you won't be nervous. Trust me, I have experience."

   "I hope so." Xiao Yao nodded.

   "Okay, let's get on stage." Keith greeted with a clap of hands.

Several members of the   band followed Keith out of the lounge and walked onto the stage from the back side through the aisle. As soon as they walked out of the passage, they heard a huge noise, the scene of thousands of people, it was really not covered.

  It’s time for the concert to start, the audience is almost there, and all the preparations are done on the stage. Keith walked directly to the vertical microphone in front of the stage, and Xiao Yao and the others walked to their own instruments.

  After Samien sat on the drum set, Mike stood in front of the electronic keyboard, and Xiao Yao and George carried their guitars and bass respectively. As for Dean, who had no musical instruments, he stood beside Xiao Yao and helped Xiao Yao adjust the height of the microphone stand in front of him.

   "Good evening everyone!" Keith walked to the microphone and said loudly, "Thank you for coming."

  With the high-powered speakers spreading Keith’s voice throughout the scene, the audience knew that the concert was about to officially begin, and immediately there was a wave of cheers like a tsunami.

"Thank you," Keith thanked the audience for their enthusiasm, and then said, "I am very happy to tell you that for tonight's concert, we have invited a very popular band as our opening guest. They are ..." At the end, Keith put his palm to his ear and made a listening gesture.

  "IMMORTALS!" The audience shouted very cooperatively.

A week after the movie "TeenageVigilantes" was released, several major mainstream music sites in the United States have already appeared on several major mainstream music sites in the United States. The official version of the studio sound source of the song "Immortals" has been available for download, and the song has also begun to be broadcast in the United States. Started to hit the radio charts during the show. Now that the movie has been released for more than three weeks, it is almost ready to be drawn. After more than half a month of publicity, the student band IMMORTALS and their song "Immortals" have gained considerable popularity.

"Yes," Keith nodded, apparently very satisfied with the audience's response, and then said loudly, "This is the first time this band has appeared in public tonight. I think for most people, they They are still mysterious, so please allow me to be very honored to introduce them to everyone."

  "Beautiful female drummer, Samien!" With Keith's voice, a close-up of Samien was shown on the big screen.

   "Cool!" The audience exclaimed.

  The image of Samien today is very special. Half of the hair on the head was draped smoothly on the right side of the head and shoulders like the original long straight hair, and the other half was woven into several small braids and hung on the other side. This image comes from Xiao Yao's handwriting, and it fully expresses Samien's usual high-coldness, drumming but passionate duality. This peculiar and full of personality hairstyle coupled with Samien's exquisite and beautiful face shocked many live audiences.

  And with the audience's exclamation, it was Samien's drum solo, and Samien was more cool when moving, and the audience instantly remembered this girl who looked full of personality.

   "Keyboard player, Mike!" After Samien's solo ended, Keith continued to introduce. The big screen also switched to a close-up of the microphone. Mike also came with a keyboard solo that Xiao Yao had prepared for him.

  Mike is also well-dressed, but compared with Samien, he is a bit ordinary, and the audience's reaction is not as great as when he saw Samien. The same situation also happened to George and Dean, especially Dean. Without a musical instrument, he naturally did not have a solo to perform. He could only take the microphone in front of Xiao Yao and shout to the audience, "Hello everyone! "Although I received cheers from the audience below, it was far behind Samin.

  Until the introduction of Xiao Yao, the following reaction became more enthusiastic.

  "Guitar player, Yang from China!" Keith said loudly, randomly pointing out Xiao Yao's origin.

  A close-up of Xiao Yao was cut out on the big screen. Unlike the other team members who looked cool, but were actually nervous to a bit stiff, Xiao Yao had a gentle and confident smile on his face, plus his absolutely handsome Chinese face, which attracted the stage. Many female audience members screamed.

  After Xiao Yao’s cool guitar solo, Keith’s mission is basically completed. In the end, Keith announced aloud: "Please enjoy your immortals performance below." A word introduced the band and song name. Keith turned to the side and waved, and then quickly walked off the stage.

   Dean took a few steps forward, stood at the original position of Keith, and reached out to support the pole of the upright microphone. Then he turned his head to look at Samien at the back, nodded to indicate that he was ready to start.

  Samien nodded to indicate receipt, then raised the drumsticks with both hands and began to beat each other. After four beats, Mike’s keyboard sounded accurately. After eight beats, Samien’s drums were also accurately added. Then Dean, who closed his eyes and tapped his feet, also sang correctly. In the first verse, there is no problem with the sound and rhythm.

  The beginning of the prelude was no problem, Dean did not lose his voice or lost his voice. Xiao Yao secretly breathed a sigh of relief. It seems that the long-term practice is still effective. Although everyone is nervous, there is no problem with the rhythm. Now that a good start has been made, in the following part, everyone is used to it, and it should not be easy to make mistakes. The rest is the active atmosphere, which fully mobilizes the enthusiasm of the audience, and "warms" the scene.

After    sang a few words, Dean suddenly relaxed, opened his eyes naturally, and looked at the dark crowd in front of him. It seems that Keith was right. After he started performing, he naturally became less nervous.

The North American box office of the film "TeenageVigilantes" has exceeded 100 million, and the theme song "Immortals" has been available for download and the radio chart has also entered the top 20 on the bulletin board, so people who have listened to this song are no longer Few, but listening to their live performance is definitely the first time for most people.

  Although the band was singing, some corresponding highlights from the movie "TeenageVigilantes" were also released on the big screen. This is to remind everyone that this song is the theme song of this movie, which not only enriches the band's live performance, but also wins the box office of the movie that is about to be drawn. Many viewers who have watched the movie screamed and cheered when they saw the familiar movie scenes, but most of the audience's attention was still on the band's live performance.

When this band performed live, the participation of all members in singing was obviously higher. All members of the band at the end of the single lyrics sang repeatedly and all members sang "Immooo...Immortals" with pitch changes in the chorus part of the chorus. Both greatly enhanced the appeal of the song to the audience.

  The configuration of dual vocals is not a simple one for each to sing. The two lyrics in the same paragraph will also be sung alternately by the two. The first person can lengthen the ending of the previous sentence as much as possible to better stimulate the audience's emotions.

  In addition, the live version of this song is also different in arrangement from the soundtrack and studio version in the movie. The soundtrack in the movie is of course to serve the plot of the movie, while the studio version is for sensory enjoyment. In both versions, the guitar and bass solo in the middle are removed. On the other hand, the live version serves the emotions of the audience, so the musical instrument solo has returned to the song performance. The enthusiastic screams of the audience were the best response.

  As the mood of the band and the audience continued to rise, after the first chorus, a scene of a chorus of thousands of people on and off the stage naturally appeared. Even many people sang like Dean, Xiao Yao and George on the stage.

Some things can be learned without a teacher. I saw the scene where everyone sang in the audience. When the second chorus came again to the repeated sentences of "Immooo...Immortals" with pitch changes, Dean Naturally, he took off the microphone on the stand, walked to the edge of the stage, and extended the microphone to the audience below the stage. The audience in the front row craned their necks in excitement, shouting hoarsely into the microphone in Dean's hand.

  (End of this chapter)