Entertaining Children

As soon as the three girls left, the band members surrounded Xiao Yao.

"Where's the music score? Take it out and have a look first." Dean said most eagerly.

"Here, here, everyone take your time." Xiao Yao took out a few pieces of paper from his schoolbag and said.

"Why is it different? How many songs have you written?" Dean glanced at the few sheets of paper he took from Xiao Yao.

"It's the same, see clearly. It's piano score, drum set score and bass score." Xiao Yao rolled his eyes and said.

"Yo, that's true." Dean took a closer look, only to find that the four-line sheet is bass sheet music, the five-line sheet sheet has two sheets, the top and bottom sheets are piano sheets, and the five-line sheet sheet music is drum kit. In addition, there is a stave, which is the vocal score with music and lyrics.

"Where did you get the sheet music for these musical instruments?" It was Samien who asked this time.

"Ballpoint pen and ruler, I drew it on white paper." Xiao Yao shrugged. "It's just drawing a few parallel lines, and it's not difficult."

"It's not difficult to draw lines, but how do you know these individual musical scores? Don't you know how to play piano, drums, and bass?" Mike said holding a rare bass score.

"Yes, I didn't say that I can only play the guitar." Xiao Yao said as a matter of course.

"What else do you want?" Dean looked at Xiao Yao and asked. After getting along for more than two months, he thought he already knew Xiao Yao very well. Now it seems that there are too many secrets about this guy that he doesn't know.

"A musical instrument?" He began to count with his fingers: "In addition to the piano, guitar, bass, and drums, there are also ocarinas, harmonicas, saxophones, and erhu... By the way, the erhu is a traditional stringed instrument in China. Only two strings..."

"Enough, you can start a band by yourself." George couldn't help but interrupted.

"This sounds like a good idea." Xiao Yao touched his chin and said. At this moment, Xiao Yao thought of the owlcity in his previous life, and it seemed that he could play like this after returning to China.

"Hey, are you looking at me or the score?" Xiao Yao raised his head, but saw several people looking at him as if they were looking at aliens, and reminded him aloud.

After Xiao Yao's reminder, several people picked up the score in their hands and read it as if they had just woken up from a dream.

Samien glanced at Xiao Yao, whose hands were empty, and asked, "Everyone has sheet music, where is your guitar sheet music?"

"Here it is.

Xiao Yao smiled and pointed to his head, then closed his eyes.

Although everyone has no creative talent, they are playing in a band after all, and their knowledge of music theory and musical instruments is still useless. So within a few seconds, everyone started humming to the score in a low voice.

After about two or three minutes, everyone played through Xiao Yao's song. And everyone's first feeling after humming it is: this song is really fucking great! Not at all lost to the top hits on the Billboard charts right now.

"I have an idea." Dean said first after humming the sheet music, "Doesn't our band have a name yet? The temporary name of the Westbridge Middle School band is meaningless and too impersonal. How about calling it Immortals?" ? This song is the first song of our band, so we use the name of this song as the name of our band."

"This song is from Yang." Samion reminded Dean, frowning.

"Kayan is also a part of our band now. His song is also the song of our band..." Dean looked at Samion, and suddenly understood what Samion meant, and quickly explained, "Of course, if If this song can be released in the future, the signature of the songwriter must be Yang alone, and the ownership of this song is still Yang himself, not the entire band."

George and Mike, who were beaming at the side, nodded their heads in support when they heard Dean's words.

"I have no objection." Xiao Yao nodded in agreement.

"Okay, since this is the case, everyone hurry up and familiarize themselves with the score. After Jenna and the others buy dinner, everyone will start rehearsing. The first song of the same name of our band, everyone must not fail."

Because there are five members in the band, and it is going to be a live performance, Xiao Yao removed the electronic sound in the prelude part of the soundtrack from the original song "immortals" in his previous life and synthesized it. Xiao Yao feels like both a flute and a The instrumental sound of the whistle was replaced by the sound of the keyboard. At the same time, for the live effect, a guitar and bass solo were added in the middle part of the song, which made the whole song more appealing. It lacked some electronic sounds, but it was more like a traditional pop rock song . Judging from the effects shown during rehearsals, it seems to be pretty good.

This song was written by Xiao Yao, so Xiao Yao is naturally most familiar with it. So during the rehearsal, Xiao Yao unconsciously assumed the role of a guide.

"Stop, George, you're slow."

"Mike, your rhythm is wrong and you rushed to shoot. Come again."

"Samien, you missed the beat just now, and the drum beat was missing a bit. Pay attention next time."

"Dean, I was out of tune just now. Singing rock is not just about shouting, pitch is also very important."

"Stop, I'm sorry, I missed one string just now, let's do it again."

From time to time, Xiao Yao pointed out everyone's mistakes, including his own. Sometimes he interrupted the rehearsal to stop and talk, and sometimes he raised it after a performance was finished.

"Yan, who are you?" Dean couldn't help asking Xiao Yao during a break in the rehearsal.

It's not that Dean questioned Xiao Yao's guidance. The mistakes and omissions pointed out by Xiao Yao are all facts. He just doesn't understand why Xiao Yao's ears are so good. No matter who it is, he can point out the mistakes and omissions. In the case of playing. "I suspect that you are not the mathematics genius Xiao Yao from Huaxia Yanjing No. 2 Middle School, but some music genius who is an impostor."

"Hehe," Xiao Yao smiled, "Actually, Xiao Yao, who has a good grade in mathematics in Yanjing No. 2 Middle School, has a father who is an original singer and producer. His father trained in music for more than ten years."

"You mean, your father is a singer and producer, and he plays music. You also learned music from your father when you were young, so you can write songs. You know so many musical instruments, and your ears are so good?" Dean looked at Xiao Yao said.

"Yes," Xiao Yao nodded, "That's what I mean."

"What about your academic performance?" Dean continued to ask.

"Of course it's true." Xiao Yao said, "One is school education, and the other is family education. Because my expertise in literature and art has little to do with school education, the information given by the school did not mention it."

"But that's unbelievable, you are a genius, double. What's your IQ?" Mike also came over and asked.

"I haven't tested it, I don't know." Xiao Yao smiled and shook his head.

After the rehearsal on the first day was over, although the effect of the joint rehearsal was not ideal and the time was still very tight, both the songs Xiao Yao produced and Xiao Yao's performance on the first day of rehearsal gave everyone a great impression. Confidence. I believe that as long as I can practice well this week, the band will be able to make a big splash in the school celebration performance.

Jenna and the other three, who were originally purely to support her best friend Samion, also became the first three loyal fans of the band after watching the band's rehearsal for the day. For the rehearsals in the next few days, all three of them attended without missing a day. While serving as audience members, they also took on the logistical work of buying food and water for the band members.

In the first three days, there were only three loyal audiences of the band's rehearsal, Jenna and the others. On the fourth day, the fourth audience appeared.

"What the hell is this..."

In the middle of rehearsals on the fourth day, the door from the warehouse to the supermarket was opened for the first time. A girl wearing an apron and a baseball cap with the supermarket's name on it pushed open the door and entered the warehouse. As soon as she entered the warehouse, she was startled by the deafening music inside.

Because the sound insulation effect of the heavy iron door is very good, and there is an office and a passage between the warehouse and the front sales area, so you can’t hear the sound of the band rehearsal in the warehouse in the supermarket sales area, and the supermarket radio Music was already playing from the speakers, and band rehearsals would not affect the business of the supermarket in front. This is one of the reasons why Robert Johnson agreed to rent the warehouse for the band to rehearse in the first place.

However, only the boss Robert Johnson and a few employees know about renting the warehouse for band rehearsals, not everyone who works here knows about it. Apparently the girl who just walked into the warehouse now is one of the unsuspecting employees.

"Jin," Xiao Yao, who was facing the door of the warehouse and the supermarket, saw the girl who came in screaming in shock and showing a puzzled expression. He stopped quickly, put down his instrument and walked over to say hello and explained. : "Our band rented here to rehearse, with the approval of Mr. Johnson."

The girl in front of her, like Xiao Yao, both work part-time as a tally clerk here, and she probably wasn't working a few days ago, so she didn't know about it.

"Okay." The girl named Jin also knew Xiao Yao, who also worked part-time here, nodded and said, "Since the boss agrees, there is no problem. I came in to get beer, and the shelves outside are almost sold out. "

"We have moved the goods here, so some things are not in the original place." Xiao Yao said, "The beer you want is there, and it is placed on the shelf on the third floor. Let me help you move it. How much do you want? "

"Okay, thank you, I want to take a box." Jin looked at the three-tiered shelf that needed a ladder to get to.

"Okay, wait a minute." Saying that, Xiao Yao swiftly moved a ladder to the side of the beer shelf, climbed up and brought out a case of beer. Jin did not stand still and wait, but stood beside the ladder, and took the beer from Xiao Yao who was still standing on the ladder.

"Are you okay? I have to continue rehearsing." Xiao Yao jumped off the ladder, greeted Jin, and ran back to the band without waiting for her answer.

"Yang, don't pick up girls during rehearsal, okay?" Dean looked at Xiao Yao who ran back and teased.

"I was helping a colleague. It's not easy for a girl to climb the ladder. Besides, the beer was originally on the first floor, but we moved it to the third floor." Xiao Yao shot back.

"Do you know that girl well? Where is she from? What does she do?" This time Samien asked.

"I don't know her very well. I only know that her name is Jin. She is of Chinese descent. She also works as a part-time tally manager. She seems to be a student of a dance academy." Xiao Yao scratched his head.

"He learned to dance and his body is very flexible. How difficult is it to climb the ladder?" Samien rolled his eyes and said.

"Hey, who said that we should hurry up to rehearse? Are you still practicing? Where did you practice just now? Come on." Xiao Yao could only use his authority as a commander to forcibly change the topic.

The girl named Jin walked towards the supermarket with a beer in her arms, not very fast. Both Xiao Yao and her have been working here for more than two months, and they have met many times, but they are not very familiar with each other, and they only meet to say hello. Unexpectedly, this big boy who usually looks ordinary except for his good looks and sunshine is actually playing in a band.

Dancers are not lacking in interest in music, so Jin was a little curious about the songs rehearsed by the band, and deliberately slowed down.

"rtals..."

A burst of high-pitched singing came, and Jin looked back curiously, only to see Xiao Yao standing on a stand microphone, playing the guitar and singing hissingly.

Since the first day of rehearsal, Xiao Yao pointed out several intonation problems to Dean and gave a demonstration. Dean suggested that the band be changed from a single lead singer to a double lead vocal configuration, with him and Xiao Yao singing a section each.

Everyone saw Xiao Yao's performance, so all the members of the band except Xiao Yao immediately expressed their approval. Only Xiao Yao asked Dean a question: "You don't know how to play musical instruments, you I play the guitar while I sing, what do you do while I sing?"

"I'll sing the first stanza, and you'll sing the second stanza. By the time you sing, the song will almost reach the first part, so I'll take the microphone and dance around on the stage, waving to the audience to create the atmosphere. " Dean said as a matter of course.

This move seemed reasonable, so Xiao Yao accepted it. So when Jin turned his head, he happened to see Xiao Yao singing.

"You sang really well, and this song seems to be very nice." Phnom Penh thought as he walked to the supermarket, "I'll be off work soon, it seems like I can come and listen to the complete song after get off work."

So the rtals band had a fourth audience during rehearsal, but this fourth audience basically hid in the corner of the warehouse and listened secretly. (To be continued.)