Entertaining Children

  Chapter 542 Shovel Guitar and "ThinkingOutLoud"

Although "Singer" is a big-name singer-song show, the 500 audience who voted are not professional musicians or music critics. They are not blindfolded and only listen to the songs. The voting basis is naturally based on their The overall audio-visual experience of the scene, so although external factors such as costumes and stage lighting are not the decisive factor, they are also one of the judgement factors for the audience to vote for the singer. This is why Xiao Yao wants to emphasize the audience to the audience.

   But at this point, it is enough. On the stage, Xiao Yaoqing coughed, restored his status as the host, and continued to introduce the next singer's competition repertoire: "Next, let's introduce the competition repertoire brought by the next singer."

  Hearing Xiao Yao starting the next singer's performance, the audience who had started their imagination because of curiosity also retracted their minds and returned their attention to Xiao Yao on the stage.

"The next singer's competition song is an English song." Xiao Yao introduced, "On this stage, many singers have sang English songs, but the next singer is more special because of him. This English song for everyone is an original song that has not been released yet."

  "Oh~" Hearing the original new song, the audience in the audience had already guessed who the next singer would be, and immediately there was a burst of applause and cheers.

   "The next singer will bring you this song called "ThinkingOutLoud". It is a very warm love song." Xiao Yao smiled and continued, "Next, the next singer will perform!"

  In the applause of the audience, Xiao Yao turned around again and walked towards the back of the stage. This time, he walked in the direction of the passage leading to the backstage.

   "It really is him!" The audience had such an expression, and the applause to Xiao Yao was a little louder!

   Soon, a figure appeared in the channel connecting the stage and the backstage. At this time, the audience looked at the shadows in the aisle still backlit, and could not see the appearance of the shadows in the aisle, but Xiao Yao had just returned from this aisle, and he had already exited that aisle when he appeared as the host again at the opening. After that, in terms of body, the audience was still very sure that the figure was Xiao Yao.

The lights came on, and Xiao Yao, who reappeared on the stage, also changed his image. The lower body is still black trousers and black boots, but the upper body is neither the host suit nor the electronic DJ for Liang Xueying. Shi's sweater, but wearing a white shirt with a black vest. There was a black tie around his neck, but it didn't fit tightly under the collar of the shirt. Instead, it was pulled loose and hung around the neck.

This dress and dress not only shows Xiao Yao’s good figure, but also shows Xiao Yao’s casual temperament. It is definitely very eye-catching, but when Xiao Yao appeared, the audience’s attention was not on Xiao Yao’s dressing up. Instead, he looked at Xiao Yao's left hand in unison. Because what Xiao Yao is carrying on his left hand does not look like a musical instrument, but...

   "I'm going! What did Xiao Yao come up with with a shovel? Is he going to bury someone?"

  The camera on the scene gave Xiao Yao a close-up of what he was holding in his left hand. Therefore, not only the audience in the studio, but also the singers in the lounge room were confused.

  What Xiao Yao carried on his left hand was indeed a shovel. The wooden shovel handle of the original color, the head of the shovel is black, it looks like it is iron, and the front end is a semi-circular pointed tip. The whole looks like an ordinary pointed shovel. The only difference is that on the top of the shovel handle, there are some small silver cylindrical objects inserted on the left and right sides.

Xiao Yao walked straight to the front of the stage and bowed to the audience. On the stage behind him, several staff members put on a chair and a microphone stand. From the perspective of the height of the microphone stand, it looks like the performer wants to sit in a chair. Sing.

The surprised and puzzled expressions of the audience in the audience did not escape Xiao Yao's eyes. He smiled slightly, turned his left hand, and turned the shovel on his hand, turning the concave side of the shovel head toward the stage. The audience below, while gently supporting the head of the shovel with their right hand, showed the whole shovel to the audience.

   "My God! Is this a guitar? Is there a guitar made of a spade?!"

  The audience under the stage and the singers in the lounge room opened their eyes wide, staring at the thing in Xiao Yao's hand with a devilish expression.

  Yes, the shovel that Xiao Yao held in his hand was indeed a shovel from the back, but when it was changed to the front, everyone could tell that it was a guitar.

  The two rows of small silver cylindrical objects at the top of the wooden handle of the shovel are the piano buttons. On the lower middle of the concave side of the head of the shovel, the piano code and string bridge are glued. Between the button and the bridge, the audience can clearly see a row of strings.

  The entire log wood handle is the neck of this piano. From the back, the wooden handle is cylindrical, but after Xiao Yao changed the direction of the shovel, everyone can find that the wooden handle of the shovel is actually semi-cylindrical. The side of the wooden handle close to the strings, from the bottom of the pillow pasted under the button to the top of the trousers connecting the **** head and the **** handle, has been flattened to make the fingerboard of this piano. It's just that this shovel looks relatively crude, and the fingerboard is bare, not to mention the marking of the position that is convenient for memorizing the position of the product, even the frets for dividing the grade are not available.

  A closer look can find that the buttons on the top of the wooden handle of the **** are not symmetrical with three on each side, but three on one side and only two on the other side. In other words, there are only five strings on Xiao Yao's shovel. So strictly speaking, the shovel in Xiao Yao's hand is not a guitar, but a plucked stringed instrument similar to a guitar. Only in terms of appearance, this shovel-made violin is structurally similar to the guitar, and can be classified into the guitar family like the five-string banjo. This weird-looking violin does not have a specific name, so I can barely call it. The guitar is still justified.

  In October last year, when Nicholas Cross and Ake Robinson were helping Xiao Yao make dragon pianos in Shencheng, Xiao Yao also took the opportunity to learn how to make guitar instruments with them. At that time, after Xiao Yao and Ake learned how to use special materials to make a unique shape of the piano body, he also used various waste materials and tools in the production room as raw materials for guitar making. A "non-mainstream" guitar that looks weird. This five-string guitar made with a **** is the one that Xiao Yao thinks is the most successful.

   "When and where did he get such a shovel-made guitar?" Xiao Siqi also looked at the strange-looking guitar in Xiao Yao's hand with an incredible face.

Unlike Longqin, which looks so cool and bright for blind eyes, the appearance of this shovel guitar looks strange, weird and fun, but it is actually very rudimentary. Xiao Yao has never shown it to anyone before. Occasionally I used it to entertain myself, so even Xiao Siqi didn't know that Xiao Yao had such a "weird" guitar.

There is no strap buckle on this shovel guitar, so Xiao Yao couldn’t put a **** this violin like the Long Qin, and stand and play with his back on his body. He could only hold the violin in his arms and sit down. Playing on the chair. Looking back to see that the preparations on the stage were ready, a staff member was standing by the chair waiting for him, Xiao Yao turned around holding the shovel guitar and walked to the chair in the center of the stage and sat down, and took a device handed over by the staff. , Insert the plug into a socket on the concave surface of the shovel head.

The main body of Xiao Yao’s shovel guitar is the iron piece of the shovel head. Naturally, there is no sound hole and resonance box. Therefore, according to the structure of the electric guitar, Xiao Yao installed a pickup under the strings of the shovel head. , But there is only a **** for controlling the tone of the pickup and an output jack on the concave surface of the shovel head, and there is no crank, volume **** and coil control switch. This also makes this piano look much simpler than a real electric guitar.

  Signed OK to the staff. After the staff left the stage, Xiao Yao slightly adjusted the angle of the microphone on the microphone stand and the posture of holding the shovel guitar, and he was ready to perform.

Seeing Xiao Yao's movements, the audience in the audience quickly calmed down. On the one hand, they were looking forward to Xiao Yao’s original new English song. On the other hand, they also wanted to hear the guitar made by Xiao Yao’s shovel. , What is the sound effect of the pop-up?

  "WhenYourLegsDon\'tWorkLikeTheyUsedToBefore, AndICan\'tSweepYouOffOfYourFeet~"

  This is a song with almost no prelude. Xiao Yao just swept across the four strings under the shovel guitar, sang four notes and then began to sing. At this time, he did not have the passion of the first two competitions, nor did he escape from the host, and he did not even have the pride of holding the shovel guitar to the audience just now. The whole person was sitting on the chair and playing the guitar with a smile. , Her eyes and expressions are very soft, her voice is warm and soft, she sings this healing love song in a soft and slow voice.

  "Darlin\'IWillBeLovin\'YouTillWe\'reSeventy, BabyMyHeartCouldStillFallAsHardAtSeventeen."

This song is the work of Ed Sheeran, a former British musical talent. When Xiao Yao moved to the world, he did not make any changes. The only modification was to change the original "TwentyThree" to the second lyrics of the main song. "Seventeen". Ed Sheeran was born in 1991 in his previous life. His album "X" containing this song was released in 2014. He happened to be 23 years old at that time, but Xiao Yao is not even 20 years old now. This "TwentyThree" is a bit inexplicable, considering that he and Sun Tingting determined that their relationship is seventeen years old, and it corresponds to the love you in the first half sentence until seventy years old, so Xiao Yao put this sentence at the last age The number has been changed to seventeen.

Different from the previous singer Liang Xueying’s complex and atmospheric soundtrack, powerful singing, and the gorgeous stage lighting effect of the entire stage space that brought the audience a strong visual and auditory double impact, Xiao Yao’s performance was Everything is simple and low-key.

  On the soundtrack, in addition to the weird shovel guitar he played, only a cajun drum, another guitar and a bass on the stage. In terms of stage beauty, there were only a few orange lights on the stage that set off the warm atmosphere of the scene, and it was still the kind of background headlights with fixed positions and fixed angles that could not be moved. In terms of voice, Xiao Yao’s singing also appeared to be a little calm. There was no gorgeous high pitch, and there was nothing very technically sounding transpose. Even when the chorus was sung, there was not much emotion in the whole person. The change in the above is like telling a normal love story in your ears softly.

  Music is magical, not only can make people excited, but also can make people relax and quiet. The audience who were shocked and excited by Liang Xueying's previous song, even if they were curious about Xiao Yao's shovel guitar, gradually calmed down their excitement in Xiao Yao's singing and quieted down.

The five hundred audiences at the scene certainly not everyone can understand the lyrics of Xiao Yao’s English song, but from Xiao Yao’s singing, expressions, the soundtrack of the entire song, and the soft lighting environment, most of the audience I still felt the sweet and warm emotions that Xiao Yao conveyed, and slowly became intoxicated in Xiao Yao's singing, and couldn't help but shake his head gently following Xiao Yao's music.

   "I will love you until we are seventy years old. At that time, my heart is still as firm as when I was seventeen."

"When my hair falls out and my memory fades, people don’t remember my name, and my hands can’t pluck the strings like before, I know you will still love me the same, because my dear, your soul will never grow old. Go, it is always youthful. Your smile will always be in my memory."

   "Hold me into your arms, kiss me under the stars, and put your head on the chest of my heart beating."

Sentences like   , scenes like this, can simply be copied down as a declaration or love letter to confess to the opposite sex. Therefore, those audiences whose English level is sufficient to understand the lyrics of this English song on the spot are intoxicated by the beautiful love story described by Xiao Yao's lyrics.

After the second chorus of the song, there is a guitar solo interlude. Watching Xiao Yao holding a shovel, just like the randomness of guitar solo performances before, I didn’t even look at the finger without frets. The left finger moved skillfully and smoothly on the fingerboard, and the audience finally couldn't help breaking the silence and sent a round of applause.

  "...AndWeFoundLoveRightWhereWeAre!"

After the guitar solo, Xiao Yao temporarily stopped playing, holding the microphone on the microphone stand with one hand, smiling at the audience and sang most of the ending paragraph, until the last sentence, he put his finger back on the shovel. On the guitar, the performance of the whole song ended with a gentle strumming.

  (End of this chapter)