Entertaining Children

  Chapter 234 Learning to play

   "Dan Jiao'er? Why?" Xiao Chengru asked strangely, "Don't you never wear girl's clothes? This Dan's role is a woman's role."

"That's not the usual clothes. Costumes are not included here. I haven't heard of any actor who refuses to perform because a role in a movie or TV series needs to wear women's clothes." Xiao Yao said, "Actually. This is the case. You also know that I am participating in the "The Voice of China" competition. I now have an idea to add Peking opera vocals to the songs during the competition. So I not only need to learn, but also have a quick success in a short time. At the very least, it can help me reach the stage where I can perform on stage. Can you help me find such a teacher?"

   "It turned out to be to participate in the singing competition." Old man Xiao Chengru said a little disappointed, "I thought you were interested in Peking opera. I really want to learn how to sing."

"I am interested in Peking Opera," Xiao Yao laughed. "That's why I thought about combining pop music with Peking Opera. You don't want me to throw away everything I learned before and concentrate on learning to sing. ?"

  Xiao Chengru thinks so too. Xiao Yao has a lot of things from elementary school, and he has gradually begun to make grades. As an actor, I have already won the best newcomer actor in the TV drama genre, and I have also sang a single. And after more than ten years of music and instrument performance, it is impossible to change my career to be a Peking opera actor now. Moreover, the influence of the program "The Voice of China" is still very good. If he can sing a song with Peking opera singing during the competition, he will not use another form to help promote the one handed down by our ancestors. Quintessence?

"That's right." After thinking about it, Xiao Chengru nodded, "Since you want to learn, grandpa must do everything you can to help. When it comes to the famous family in Yanjing city that grandpa knows in this respect, it must be Mr. Mei's direct descendant. , Mr. Qingchang. But his rules for accepting disciples are strict."

"No, I won't officially apprentice the teacher this time." Xiao Yao hurriedly interrupted his grandfather, "I am mainly for this competition. I definitely can't persist in training like martial arts. I don't want to smash Mr. Qingchang's signature in the future. I have enough masters now, and I don’t want to have more masters than I can count by myself in the future. Can you discuss with Mr. Qingchang. If you don’t go to a teacher, you just need to give advice to the younger generation based on your face. It’s really impossible. You can help me find a lesser-known instructor."

   "Well, let me tell Mr. Qingchang first." Xiao Cheng Confucianism.

   "Say it now? You should have his phone." Xiao Yao said while he was hot.

   "Your kid is so anxious." Xiao Chengru said a little funny.

   "There are only less than 20 days left for the recording of the next game. I have to know earlier what level I can reach, so that I can prepare the corresponding song." Xiao Yao scratched his head.

   "Okay, for the sake of your kid listening to the scene with me for a day today, I will call to help you ask." Xiao Chengru shook his head and smiled and took out his cell phone.

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   "Okay, okay, then thank you very much." Xiao Chengru hung up the phone.

   "Grandpa, what did you say first?" Xiao Yao quickly asked, seeing Xiao Chengru ending the call.

   "Mr. Qingchang said to see you first and listen to your voice." Xiao Chengru said, "As long as your voice is not too bad, he is willing to help."

   "Yes, it should be." Xiao Yao nodded and said, "When will I see you?"

   "Knowing that you are in a hurry, I made an appointment tonight. Let's go directly to his house after dinner." Xiao Chengru said.

   "Okay, after listening to the drama all afternoon, grandpa, you are also hungry, I will invite you to eat and go." Xiao Yao said immediately.

  Xiao Chengru and Xiao Yao, grandfather and grandson, went to have a sumptuous dinner. After a short rest, they took a taxi to the home of the famous Huadan artist Mei Qingchang. Speaking of famous singers of Peking opera, all Xiao Yao knows is Mr. Mei Lanfang, who was born a hundred years ago and has existed in the same past and present. As for this Mr. Mei Qingchang, Xiao Yao neither knows whether he is a descendant of Mr. Mei Lanfang, nor does he know whether there was such a figure in his previous life. But since grandfather Xiao Chengru said that he is a famous master in Beijing, he must be a very powerful figure in Peking opera.

  The face of Mr. Mei that Xiao Yao saw was white and firm, with no beard on his face. At first glance, he looked like a young man on stage for many years.

After chatting with Mr. Xiao Chengru, Mei Qingchang turned his attention to Xiao Yao. Seventeen or eighteen-year-olds are handsome, but they are much taller than ordinary children of this age. If it is on the Peking Opera stage, it is not suitable for him to sing a female dancer. It is basically difficult to find an actor to play with him. However, they are going to the stage of the singing competition. They just have to add a piece of Peking opera to the song, that is, he will perform alone. There is no problem with the play.

  "Do you want to learn to sing Peking Opera?" Mei Qingchang looked at Xiao Yao and said. Although Xiao Chengru had already spoken to him on the phone, he still habitually asked the person concerned.

   "Hmm." Xiao Yao nodded.

  "Hang your voice first to listen." Mei Qingchang ordered.

   "Oh." Xiao Yao promised, and then "Huh~ah~" came.

   "Not bad, practiced?" Mei Qingchang nodded.

"Well, my grandfather is an actor," Xiao Yao pointed to Xiao Chengru to one side, and then said, "My father is a singer. When I was a child, I learned the skills of vocalization and vocalization with them. I have practiced it for more than ten years. "

   "That's right, Xiao Lao's grandson, this can be considered a family history." Mei Qingchang smiled and looked at Xiao Chengrudao, "Your grandson is very good."

   "I don't need you to praise him, as long as you are willing to point him, I will thank you for selling my face." Xiao Chengru also smiled.

   "Well, how far do you want to learn?" Mei Qingchang turned to Xiao Yao again and asked.

"My requirements are not high, as long as I get started quickly, reach the professional level in amateurs, and be able to perform one or two passages on stage within a dozen days." Xiao Yao said frankly, "but now that I have learned, I I don’t want to change after I learned the wild way at the beginning, so I asked Grandpa to invite you, everyone, to guide me."

   "That's not very demanding." Mei Qingchang smiled, "I heard that you want to add Peking opera to pop songs. Do you say that you can perform one or two passages in pop songs?"

   "Yes." Xiao Yao said, "The main reason is to have some intensive training so that I can sing these two passages."

   "What kind of joke? Is there a score? Show me how difficult it is." Mei Qingchang stretched out his hand.

"No, but the lyrics and music are all in my mind, but I don't know how to write Peking opera scores." Xiao Yao said helplessly, "Or I will sing a cappella for you, I must not sing very well, you just listen to that. Just fine, okay?"

   "Isn't it just a thought that you finished listening to the drama in the afternoon? Now that you have lyrics and music?" Xiao Chengru said in surprise.

   "Well, it came out of my head on the way here, so it may not be mature." Xiao Yao had to lie, pretending to be embarrassed.

   "It's okay, sing and listen." Mei Qingchang waved his hand.

   Xiao Yao cleared his throat, and sang out the Peking Opera accents from the two popular songs in the previous life with his throat.

"Strictly speaking, these two passages are not really Peking Opera." Mei Qingchang frowned, "But most people can hear the taste of Peking Opera, so it can barely be regarded as Beijing rhyme. But you come to me. It’s not the wrong way. You did not sing very well just now. If you want to sing these two passages well, you really have to learn some Peking opera skills. Um...mainly the skills of singing in the middle of Tsing Yi."

   "Really?" Xiao Yao was just listening to songs in his previous life, and he really didn't know if those two passages were Peking Opera in the true sense. But now he doesn't care about this. What he cares about is: "Then can I sing this in ten days?"

   "It depends on whether your ten days is ten... a few days, and how long you can study with me every day, and how much time you can spend practicing after you go back." Mei Qingchang laughed.

   "Huh?" Xiao Yao was a little confused. Only then did he remember that he only knew that he was going to Shen Na's practice room tomorrow. I haven't said how long Shen Na arranged to receive her guidance in the practice room. Not only that, but this time he is going to prepare two songs. He has to prepare another song to rehearse the singing, and the soundtrack for these two songs has to take time to come out. With this calculation, where does he have more than ten days?

"Yeah..." Xiao Yao quickly calculated it in his heart, and then said, "Count ten days. I will come to you for at least ten days, one to two hours at a time, and then I will go back and practice one or two more by myself. hour."

   "It's a bit hanged." Mei Qingchang shook his head, "It's more certain to add double the time."

"It doesn't matter, then double the time." Xiao Yao said, "At the beginning of August it will be a 16-in-4 competition, and the finals will be at the end of August. If it is too late, I will change my song and bring this to Peking Opera... Jing Yun's song will be sung for the finals."

  "The little guy is very confident," Mei Qingchang said with a smile, "As if you will definitely make it to the finals, what if you are eliminated in the game in early August?"

"Haha, there is nothing wrong with being confident." Xiao Yao scratched his head and said, "Even if I get eliminated, I don't want to take the songs I haven't learned on stage. But I still have to learn, even if I can't get in. In the final, I can also use it when I release an album in the future."

   "Okay, I like the attitude of the little guy." Mei Qingchang said, "Then you come here early tomorrow morning, let's start tomorrow."

   "It won't work tomorrow. Tomorrow, some of our participating students will participate in the first instruction class of the instructor in the program. I am not very happy to be absent." Xiao Yao continued to scratch his head.

  (End of this chapter)