Entertaining Children

  Chapter 9 The Most Beautiful Melody

  A complete music album usually contains at least ten songs. According to the contract, Xiao Siqi's album must be completed by the end of this year. Excluding the studio recording and production time of almost a month, Xiao Siqi will have to submit the scores, lyrics and song samples of at least ten songs to the record company for review after about a month. Writing ten songs a month is of course an impossible task for Xiao Siqi, but Xiao Siqi has been preparing for this album before. The time left for half a year after the car accident is not counted. Xiao Siqi was not out of stock for more than a year.

  For this album, Xiao Siqi also wrote more than 20 new songs in more than a year. However, Xiao Siqi, who has suffered two consecutive defeats, attaches great importance and strict requirements to this album is also extraordinary. Among the more than 20 new songs, Xiao Siqi believes that the level can be selected for the new album, so far there are only seven. So what Xiao Siqi needs to do now is to write three more quality songs that can be selected for the new album in this coming month. It seems that this is not an impossible task.

  After several months of learning with Xiao Siqi, Xiao Yao has now mastered the basic knowledge of music theory, the basic skills of vocalization and training of the vocal range and the basic playing methods of the three instruments, and has entered a stage of extensive practice. Xiao Siqi shifted his energy to the creation of new songs on his own album, and it did not have much impact on Xiao Yao.

  In order to give Xiao Siqi an undisturbed creative space, Xiao Yao moved the instruments he usually practiced out of the music room and moved the place of his practice from the music room to the living room. Anyway, the soundproofing effect of his house is good. Even if he is practicing in the living room, as long as he doesn't press madly, he usually won't disturb the neighbors next door. As for why not just move to the gym, which is about to become Xiao Yao’s exclusive room, it is because one of the three instruments he wants to practice is the piano in the living room, which cannot be moved.

  The instruments currently mastered by Xiao Yao are electronic organ, piano and ukulele. The electronic organ is the most suitable instrument for Xiao Yao's physical condition and is also the first instrument he learned. After mastering the electronic piano playing skills, Xiao Yao focused his idea on the piano, which is known as the king of musical instruments, and the guitar, which is the magical instrument of sultry sisters.

It’s better to say something about the piano. After all, the posture and **** of the keyboard are similar. Although his height cannot effectively reach the bottom pedal, he is familiar with the different keyboard feel and tone of the piano and the keyboard. It will still be useful in the future. When the physical condition is sufficient, you can naturally use the piano to play faster and better.

  The guitar makes Xiao Yao a little bit difficult. His height is not as high as an ordinary acoustic guitar, and his palm is too small to completely cover the six strings on the guitar. Just when Xiao Yao was very frustrated and prayed that he would grow up soon, the word Hawaii mentioned on TV accidentally reminded him of another thing. Ukulele, also known as ukulele. The appearance, shape and playing technique are very similar to the guitar, but the overall size is much smaller than the guitar, and there are only four strings, which can almost be covered by his current small hands. So Xiao Yao asked Xiao Siqi to learn how to play Ukulele.

  As a professional musician, although Xiao Siqi has never played ukulele, he also knows this kind of instrument. Thinking of the size and number of chords of this instrument, he also knew that Xiao Yao was preparing to learn to play the guitar in the future. If a child wants to learn, he is naturally willing to teach. As a person who plays the guitar very well, although he has never played ukulele before, it is naturally easy to learn this kind of instrument that is similar to the guitar but much simpler, and it is of course not difficult to teach Xiao Yao after learning. .

   Xiao Siqi, who plunged into the music room and created with one heart, originally belonged to Xiao Yao and took care of each other in life, but now he simply handed over all the trivial matters of life to Xiao Yao. For example, Xiao Siqi's cooking skills are very poor. Originally, Xiao Siqi would take Xiao Yao out for dinner, but occasionally he was too busy and missed a meal before calling to order food for takeaway. Now, three meals a day are all settled by Xiao Yao calling for takeaway. Xiao Yao didn't have any dissatisfaction with this either. Anyway, he just cleaned up the house. He had been living alone in his previous life and was very comfortable with these tasks.

  Of course, Xiao Siqi did not completely isolate himself from Xiao Yao. Whenever he thought he had written a good melody, he would bring Xiao Yao to play it to him. Only when Xiao Yao nodded and said it was good, he would continue to expand and perfect that melody into a complete tune. This is not to say how good Xiao Yao's music literacy is now. He can only tell Xiao Siqi that it sounds good. Generally, not so much. Waiting for a few very subjective evaluation vocabulary.

The reason why Xiao Siqi used Xiao Yao’s judgment as a criterion for whether to continue is because Xiao Siqi was deeply impressed by Xiao Yao’s extraordinary performance. Several songs were performed to Xiao Yao one by one, and ordered him to listen to songs according to their feelings. After listening to songs in his previous life for more than ten years, Xiao Yao, who has listened to countless songs, still has some music appreciation skills. As a result, Xiao Yao ranked in the top seven. The seven songs of's are exactly the seven songs selected by Xiao Siqi for the new album. Therefore, Xiao Siqi, who thinks that Xiao Yao's music taste and aesthetics is very right, regarded Xiao Yao as the first examiner of his own music.

   Xiao Siqi doing this seems a bit tricky, but he has a rather childish personality. Once he becomes self-willed, he is... just so self-willed.

  However, music creation is really not something that will have results if you work hard. Ten days have passed and Xiao Siqi still hasn't created a song that satisfies him enough to be included in the new album. Seeing Xiao Siqi haggard day by day, Xiao Yao felt a little unbearable. Xiao Siqi's performance during this period of time is in his eyes, working hard enough, and working hard enough. Xiao Yao wondered if he should also turn on his golden finger to help him.

Xiao Yao, who has been in this world for more than half a year, already knows the world quite well. Especially when he returned to his home and gained a higher family status in his relationship with Xiao Siqi, he has already obtained his own tablet computer and the right to surf the Internet at any time. During the period of studying music, he naturally has already understood the entertainment industry in the world today. I learned that the world has turned a corner a hundred years ago compared with the previous life. The historical trend is the same, the event is still there, and the characters and time have changed. The same is true in the entertainment industry. The course and trend of the development and evolution of popular culture and popular trends has not changed, but those who lead the trend are different, and the classics that lead the trend are also different, that is to say, they heard from the previous life. Those classic music and film and television works of the world did not appear. The same culture, the same trend, and the same aesthetics, then the classics from the past life are moved to the present world, and naturally they are still classics. The classics in my memory have become a private treasure house.

  Rebirth After learning about his family, Xiao Yao once lamented that his life entered a simple mode after reading files. Later, he took the initiative to learn various things and set various learning goals. Xiao Yao forced himself to increase the difficulty of his life. When he felt that his life surpassed the normal mode and moved closer to the difficult mode, this A discovery undoubtedly made his life seem to return to a simple mode. In order to make his life less boring and boring, Xiao Yao originally didn’t plan to turn on the cheats so early, but seeing Xiao Siqi’s miserable situation, he felt that turning on the cheats in advance and taking something out of the pocket seemed to be a good idea. .

  There are naturally many classic songs from previous lives in Xiao Yao's mind, but how to give Xiao Siqi the songs has to think of some way. Xiao Siqi insisted that the songs in his album must be his own original. No matter who throws a finished piece to him, he won't want it. So Xiao Yao still had to think that the classic songs he chose were "created" by Xiao Siqi himself. In this way, it seems that there are not so many songs to choose from.

   "Dad, take a break and chat with me."

  On this day, Xiao Yao, who finally figured out a way, pulled out Xiao Siqi, who had been in the music room for more than an hour, and sat down on the sofa in the living room. I sat in the seat where I usually practiced.

   "What is there to talk about." Xiao Siqi smiled helplessly.

"Just chat." Xiao Yao said with a smile: "Look at your light soaking in the music room every day. Grandpa taught me a word called Zhang Chi You Du, and he also taught me a word that haste is not good, so I let you relax properly. Take a break and change your mind. Maybe you can get some new inspiration."

Xiao Siqi also understands the principle that haste is not enough. Seeing his son so considerate, it is not easy to let him down. I had to say: "Okay, what do you want to talk about? I don't have the literary level of your grandfather." With that, I adjusted a more comfortable posture on the sofa, and obviously I wanted to relax.

  "Talk about you and my mother." Xiao Yao tilted his head for a moment, then asked, "Is my mother beautiful?"

   "Of course it's beautiful," Xiao Siqi smiled: "There are pictures of her everywhere in the house. You can't see it."

   "Then is my mother the most beautiful woman in your heart?" Xiao Yao continued. With Xiao Siqi's answer, his fingers pressed a string of notes on the keyboard.

   "Of course, in my heart, your mother is the most beautiful woman in the world." Xiao Siqi sighed, as if recalling Chen Zilin. Then he found something wrong, and asked Xiao Yao doubtfully: "What tune did you just play?"

   "It's not a piece of music, so I just played a section." Xiao Yao smiled deliberately and said: "I just heard you say that my mother is the most beautiful woman in your heart, so naturally I played it a few times."

   "It looks pretty good, wait, I want to write it down." Xiao Siqi said excitedly: "I have the words all at once. As far as the sentence I just said, you are the most beautiful in my heart."

  Looking at Xiao Siqi excitedly to get the blank staff and pencil, the corner of Xiao Yao's mouth curled up quietly. What he just played was the melody of the first chorus in the highly sung song "Most Beautiful" by Yuquan from the previous life. As a highly accomplished musician, Xiao Siqi can naturally hear the excellence of this melody. Even the matching lyrics popped out of Xiao Siqi's mouth under Xiao Yao's deliberate language guidance.

  However, Xiao Yao only played the first sentence of the chorus, only two bars, which is far from a complete work. It takes hard work to make this song take shape in Xiao Siqi's hands. It is impossible for Xiao Yao and he is not prepared to give Xiao Siqi the complete song, so that this song would not be Xiao Siqi's original. Xiao Yao's plan is to pick out the impressive sections of the verse and the chorus, and pretend to pop up inadvertently, and Xiao Siqi himself will complete the rest. Many musicians write songs, they also first have a great melody, then gradually add perfection, form the verse and chorus, and then fill in the words, and finally it becomes a complete song. This creative process is normal. .

Watching Xiao Siqi accurately turn the two bar melodies he played just now into notes on paper, and add words below, Xiao Yao continued: "Dad, let's talk, talk about you and my mother. What was it like on the first date? Did you send flowers? What flowers did you send? Roses?"

   "Hey, I said you are a kid, how do you know so much? Forget it, you're no ordinary kid anyway." Xiao Siqi threw the pen and paper on the coffee table, turned around and leaned comfortably on the sofa. "The first date, of course, is to send flowers. On a date, besides sending roses, you can also give carnations to girls?" Xiao Siqi smiled and seemed to recall the first date with Chen Zilin.

   I don’t know Xiao Yao nodded seriously, and said: “Judging from the performance of living with you in the past few months, I think it’s quite appropriate for you to send carnations.”

   Xiao Siqi was stunned for a while before reacting, Xiao Yao said that his life skills were too poor, and Chen Zilin was obviously taking care of everything in life. Chen Zilin is taking care of Xiao Siqi like a mother taking care of her son.

   "Hey, don't you want to fight? Did you say that about your father?" Xiao Siqi said angrily.

  (End of this chapter)