Entertaining Children

  Chapter 522 "It's Now"

   "Go on the big guy as soon as you come! Does he want to play and sing?" Cai Ruoqi looked at the black grand piano that was moving onto the stage.

  Watching this show on TV, the stage was still empty when the singer appeared, but when the singer was about to start performing, there were already instrumentalists and even dancers on the stage. Naturally, these people and things did not appear out of thin air, but the preparation process was cut out in the later editing. This process is invisible to TV viewers, but can be seen by people on site and in the lounge.

   "It should be, he can play the piano on August 1st!" Xiao Siqi nodded.

"What is supposed to be?" Hong Wei said sideways to Xiao Siqi as if thinking of something, "Old Xiao, your son came to play in the gym, would you not know if you are a father? Did you help him make the arrangement of this song? Yes? You've been pretending to us just now, right? Interesting you?"

"Really not!" Xiao Siqi raised his hands and said, "I admit that I recommended him to the director team of the show, but the director team didn't tell me whether he agreed to come. Even if I guessed that he might come, the show The team won’t tell me which game he came in. I didn’t know that he was today’s kicking hall singer."

"As for the songs he sings, from lyrics to arranging, he has always done it by himself. I have never intervened." Xiao Siqi continued, "unless it is a song written for others, he might throw the lyrics and music to others. I asked me to do the arrangement. I don’t know what song he is going to sing today. I have never heard this song "Just Now"."

   "Is there such a bull?" Several agents deliberately said in a suspicious tone.

   "Of course," Xiao Siqi stared, "His ability to arrange music has also been affirmed at the "Golden Disc Award."

"Come on, I know you have a great son, so don't show it off." Hong Wei waved his hand and pointed to the TV. "The scene is ready, and your son is about to start singing. By the way, I haven't heard your son sing live. Well, I have to listen to his live singing level. Who is that? Can you help me make my voice louder? They are so noisy, I can't hear them at all!"

   "We are noisy? Who is the one who talks the most here?" Xiao Siqi and the few people next to each other looked at each other.

The preparations on the stage were ready, Xiao Yao sat in front of the piano, gently placed his hands on the keys, and in front of his mouth, there was also a microphone placed on the microphone stand, which was obviously to play while playing. While singing.

  Seeing such a scene, the audience immediately couldn't wait to applaud.

  The lights on the live stage dimmed, and the audience consciously stopped applauding. Sitting on the piano bench, Xiao Yao nodded slightly to Liu Tong, the orchestra conductor, and pressed his fingers on the piano keys.

  "Don’t drag mud and bring water, don’t be lazy and wasteful, this is my age, huh~"

  This is a song without a prelude. As the piano sounded, Xiao Yao's singing also sounded. At the beginning of the song, Xiao Yao fully demonstrated his high-pitched voice.

   "The planets line up in a line, now it’s time to strike while the iron is hot, my dream is not the future, but the present~"

   is still the pure piano accompaniment of self-play, Xiao Yao went on to sing the second part, and once again blasted a higher note in the last part of the tail.

In the previous part, Xiao Yao’s piano performance and singing are all on the same rhythm, but when he sings "not the future", Xiao Yao’s piano performance stopped, and the phrase "is now" used a cappella, and When the ending sound of the word "Zai" was prolonged, Xiao Yao's piano sound rang again, but there was an obvious change in rhythm and speed, which became more compact and faster than before.

  "My dream is not the future, but the present~"

  Under the piano accompaniment of a different rhythm, Xiao Yao sang the last two sentences repeatedly with the same rhythm.

  Just the beginning of this one, surprised the audience and the singers in the lounge with their mouths open.

   "So handsome!" Cai Ruoqi also repeated Liang Xueying's evaluation. It's just that Liang Xueying just mentioned the image of Xiao Yao, and Cai Ruoqi was talking about Xiao Yao's opening performance.

"Your son is very courageous to play with a pure piano at the beginning of such a long period. But his voice is really good, high and accurate." Hong Wei turned to look at Xiao Siqi, and exclaimed sincerely, "There are also these last two. Sentence, the same singing, different accompaniment, so beautifully played!"

"He is really good at playing." Xiao Siqi nodded and said, "But I guess the highlight of this song should be more than this. This is a very important stadium match. If he can't make the top four, he will have to go. He certainly can't accept such a result."

  Sure enough, when the first concert was over, Xiao Yao stood up from the piano bench, took off the microphone on the microphone stand in front of him, and stood in front of the stage. The accompaniment at this time has also changed. With an electronic drum beat, the live accompaniment has become the main electronic piano sound of the midi keyboard, and the accompaniment of electronic drum beat rhythm has been added at the same time.

"On the eve of the competition, I worked hard in the recording studio. The accumulated potential is the traces of time. Wherever there is a dragon, I will work hard to finish my eyes..." With the obvious electronic accompaniment, Xiao Yao started the first segment. The singing of the main song. To many people's expectations, what he sang next turned out to be a rap.

  This is the song of Wang Leehom in the previous life. When Xiao Yao moved here, the lyrics of the song and the chorus were not changed. However, in the lyrics of the first verse, Xiao Yao modified some places that were not suitable for him.

For example, in the original lyrics, "Weeping in the studio on the eve of the millennium", the millennium is too far away from Xiao Yao. He who was born in 1998 would never appear in the studio on the eve of the millennium, let alone Crying. There is no movie "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" in this world, and Xiao Yao did not fight for the role of "Luo Xiaohu" who partnered with Zhang Ziyi in the movie like Leehom Wang. Keeping the original lyrics of "Luo Xiaohu and Ziyi" seems inexplicable. Up. So Xiao Yao made some changes to these lyrics that felt inappropriate.

"Singing rap, really is the fan of young people." Hong Wei moved his body to the rhythm of Xiao Yao's music, and then said: "Novel, innovative, young people should like it very much. But the audience who voted There are five age groups, and light singing rap doesn't have much advantage."

  After the end of the first verse, Xiao Yao did not return to the piano, but continued to sing the chorus of the song while holding the microphone in front of the stage. After the high-pitched chorus ended, the song came to the verse part of the second paragraph. The verse of this second paragraph is not rap, but a slow shake.

   "I am not superstitious, but I believe it is not a coincidence!"

  "This is not a coincidence, all that can't beat me is learning~"

In the second part of the main song, the audience discovered a very novel place, that is, the several backing singers standing at the back of the stage actually used rap to harmonize. Although the speed is relatively slow, it is indeed rap. , Is used to sing with words, and Xiao Yao, who is in front, still sings with the emphasis of rock and roll. What's more, what Xiao Yao sings is still followed by the backing vocals. Who is this to sing for whom?

  "Now I finally understand, what is the definition of luck~ No need to wait, ThisIsMyTime~"

  "Now understand what is the definition of luck. ThisIsOurTime!"

  In the second half of the second verse, the harmony reappears, and there are still two sentences. But this time, although Xiao Yao's singing is the first and the harmony is behind, it is still Xiao Yao who is singing and the harmony is talking!

"I'm going! I've only heard a singer sing along with rap when he raps. I didn't expect your son to be able to come back." Hong Wei leaned on the sofa and shook his head. "I have nothing to say to your son. Let's talk about it." Because the second verse is not a rap, Hong Wei stopped the rhythm of his body.

   "I heard that, it seems that there is a third paragraph." Xiao Siqi was noncommittal, just watching Xiao Yao who sang the chorus again on TV routinely.

On the stage of the studio, Xiao Yao, who sang the third chorus, suddenly ran to the side of the stage near the band, stretched out his hand to explore underground, and when he ran back to the front of the stage, there was already a common one on his right hand. Hand-held loudspeaker.

  Everyone in the lounge was as wide-eyed as the audience. Although Xiao Yao’s previous singing has given them enough shock, but what are you going to do when you come up with a trumpet?

"Oh, mother, what are you doing?" Hong Wei stopped asking Xiao Siqi, leaning forward and staring at Xiao Yao on the TV, "Are you not thinking that the volume is not loud enough? Let the sound engineer Wouldn’t it be okay to turn up the volume of your microphone? Using a loudspeaker can make the sound look bad. Except for open-air rock festivals, I haven’t seen anyone use this in indoor performances. !"

   Of course, Xiao Yao's hand-held loudspeaker is not to increase the volume. I saw that he put the PA speaker in his right hand in front of his mouth, stretched out his left hand to raise the microphone to the front of the speaker, there was no roar in his mouth, but the third verse was sung at a normal volume.

The third verse is rap again, but through the handheld loudspeaker in his hand, Xiao Yao’s voice has undergone a similar electro-acoustic change, which makes Xiao Yao’s rap very peculiar. The taste of reggae music.

   "Ah~" Looking at Xiao Yao holding a hand-held speaker on the stage, listening to the obviously out-of-shape but also such a special voice, the audience on the spot was going crazy, unscrupulously let out a frantic scream.

  "I'll go!" In the lounge, the singers and agents were also going crazy, but they didn't yell, including Xiao Siqi, they all looked at Xiao Yao on TV with a devilish expression.

  This is a competition show for singing competitions. The practice of using a handheld loudspeaker to change your own voice is actually a very risky move here, and it is easy to get caught and say that he did not rely on his original voice to compete. That is to say, the verse of the third paragraph has only four sentences in total, not even half of the length of the previous two verses. The proportion of such a song of four chorus and three verses is very small, Xiao Yao dare Play like this.

  "Now..." After speaking the last two words of the third verse, Xiao Yao directly threw the handheld amplifier he was holding to a staff member on the side of the stage. He turned around and turned to the piano again, skillfully and quickly placed the microphone in his hand on the microphone stand beside the piano, and sat down at the piano again.

  "Don’t drag mud and bring water, don’t be lazy and wasteful, this is my age, huh~"

After Xiao Yao sang the last two words with the loudspeaker, the live music accompaniment slowly disappeared, and Xiao Yao, who returned to the piano, sang the final song in a self-playing pure piano accompaniment mode as he did at the beginning. A chorus.

   "The planets line up in a line, now it’s time to strike while the iron is hot, my dream is not the future, but the present~"

   "Suddenly this moment is now."

   Will Xiao Yao make the ending and the beginning exactly the same? Of course not. When Xiao Yao sang the second half of the chorus, the accompaniment of electronic drums and midi keyboard sounded again. At the end of the third sentence, the rap harmony of the backing singer on the scene also appeared again. Accompanied by the piano, electronic drums, and midi keyboard accompaniment, Xiao Yao once again soared at the end of the sentence with an extremely shocking treble that lasted for several beats.

  "My dream is not the future, but the present~"

  The closing stage is still the repetition of the last two sentences, but both the volume and the pitch, Xiao Yao has dropped a little bit, giving the whole song a relatively soothing ending. At the end, the accompaniment suddenly stopped, making Xiao Yao's last "Zai" lingering sound reverberating over the scene for a long time.

  "Thank you!" Sitting on the piano bench to ease his emotions, Xiao Yao took the microphone from the microphone stand, stood up again and walked to the stage to bow to the audience.

   "Wow~" Almost half of the audience stood up from their seats, raised their hands and applauded while cheering and screaming.

   "Xiao Yao!"

   "Xiao Yao!"

  I don’t know where it started. The audience shouted Xiao Yao’s name, and then the momentum quickly expanded. The audience quickly changed from cheering and screaming to shouting Xiao Yao’s name in unison.

  (End of this chapter)