Entertaining Children

The three returned to the hut used by the band for rehearsal, and of course they did not inform George and Mike again.

Xiao Yao sat in front of Mike's electronic keyboard, while recalling the music in his head, he played and restored it on the electronic keyboard, confirming each other with the music in his mind.

Sami En and Dean sat quietly on the side, quietly listening to Xiao Yao's operations on the electronic keyboard.

The songs that pop up in Xiao Yao's hands are all short pieces, and from time to time, he will operate various sound effect buttons on the electronic keyboard to listen to the effects of different sound effects. Different types of accompaniment, combined with the short piece of melody he played.

Xiao Yao had to listen to each short piece of melody several times, until he felt satisfied, and then he would use a pencil to write it down on a blank score paper, so it took Xiao Yao almost two hours to complete the melody of the whole piece. It took an hour to finish. But to the ears of Samien and Dean, the long piece of melody that Xiao Yao played just now, they didn't know if it was a piece of music. Because there are too many changes in rhythm and style. And its length is much longer than that of a regular piece of music.

"Is this the end?" Seeing that Xiao Yao stopped and put away the scores he had written, Dean asked curiously. Although almost two hours had passed and the sky outside had begun to darken, Dean was still surprised by Xiao Yao's speed.

"It's not finished yet." Xiao Yao shook his head, "But that's it for today. This long melody needs to be processed electronically, and I can use my laptop for the rest."

"Laptop?" Dean asked puzzled.

"Yes," Xiao Yao nodded, "Nowadays, there are many softwares on the computer that can do electronic sound effects, and the operation is not complicated. I have electronic sound processing software installed on my laptop."

"I know that." Dean also nodded, "But if you want to process electronically, you also need a sound source. Shouldn't you bring your notebook and record the sound of the instrument as the sound source before processing it?"

"I still have simulation software for various musical instruments on my computer." Xiao Yao raised the music score in his hand and said, "With this, I can just input it according to the music score. Isn't there a sound source? It's mainly a computer keyboard. Without the feel of the piano keys, it would be better to write the music directly on the instrument, but after the music is produced, I can still simply input the score into the computer."

"Well, it turns out that this is how you compose music. I have seen it." Dean smiled in surprise.

"Hey, I didn't compose like this before." Xiao Yao hurriedly said, "The main reason is that I don't have an electronic synthesizer at hand now.

And the soundtrack of street dance is mostly electronic dance music, so I have no choice but to use computer software to do this. "

"Okay," Dean raised his hands and said, "It's getting late now, since you're done here, let's go home early, and I'll wait to hear your finished product."

"Well, it's really late, and it's hard for you to stay with me for so long." Xiao Yao said apologetically.

"It's nothing, it's a kind of learning for me. As for the driver Sammy, since she volunteered, she has nothing to complain about. Let's go." Dean smiled indifferently.

"Hey, you're the one who talks a lot." Samion glared at Dean and said.

Three days later, Xiao Yao went to the factory where Zhou Jingyi's dance team rehearsed as scheduled. It's just that when he came again this time, not only Samion came with him, but Dean, George and Mike also followed him to join in the fun.

According to the three of them, if it was just an ordinary street dance team rehearsing, then they would naturally have no interest in following Xiao Yao as an audience. But since Xiao Yao is the choreographer and composer, the situation is different. It was also Xiao Yao's work, so of course they were interested in coming over to enjoy it together, so as to have a good look at it.

"Yang, you're here." When Xiao Yao and the others arrived this time, Zhou Jingyi was already waiting at the door, so as soon as they appeared, Zhou Jingyi greeted them.

"Well, more people came this time. The band members also wanted to see what the dance I choreographed looked like, so they all came together." Xiao Yao explained with a smile.

"It's okay, you are welcome." Zhou Jingyi greeted the band members with a smile, "I am Jin. I work with Yang in "Buy More". I have seen you rehearse. You are great!"

"Thank you," Dean and the other three said with a smile.

Samion and Dean talked about the relationship between Xiao Yao and this hip-hop team. Dean knew that a large part of the reason why Xiao Yao would arrange and make music for this hip-hop team was because of the girl in front of him. Dean knew it, and of course George and Mike knew it too. Therefore, the three of them are relatively friendly and polite to Jin.

"Yo, buddy, you're here. Then let's see what you can do." The bald-headed black youth TJ and the light-blond white youth Paul saw Xiao Yao appear and greeted him. The one who spoke was the black TJ.

"Okay, then let's listen to the soundtrack first." Xiao Yao took out a USB flash drive from his pocket and swung it up, taking the lead to walk over to the audio equipment placed inside.

"Hey, guys, today's business is here, everyone come here." Paul shouted loudly to the team members who were scattered in the workshop or warming up or practicing their movements alone.

"Okay, let's see what this guy can do." Hearing Paul's greeting, everyone gathered in the middle of the open space of the workshop and sat down casually. Although the factory building is old, it is the place where they rehearse after all, so it is relatively clean, and it is okay to just sit on the ground.

Soon, there was music on the stereo. Everyone listened quietly and focused. During the listening process, many team members unconsciously nodded their heads up and down or shook their bodies along with the music.

The entire soundtrack is roughly divided into four parts. The melody of the first part sounds more cheerful, and the rhythm is indeed in line with the rhythm of hip-hop. But when you hear the second part, everyone has a gloomy feeling when listening to this song, which is rarely seen in the soundtrack of hip-hop. The third part has the fastest pace and feels the most exciting. At the end of the final stage, the melody of the whole music became gentle again, with some sad feelings. But after listening to it as a whole, everyone feels that this is a very good hip-hop soundtrack.

And the most important thing is that everyone can hear this piece of music that has never been heard before. They have never heard of a song that fits so well with the hip-hop rhythm, so it means that this song should be the original creation of the guy in front of him.

Since it is original, it must be specially created for dance, so the degree of coordination with dance is naturally extremely high, and there will definitely not be a situation where their dance and music rhythms do not match up, so everyone immediately loves Xiao Yao Gao took a look, this guy still has some skills.

"What do you think?" Xiao Yao waited until the music on the speaker ended, then looked at the dance team and asked.

"A very good piece of music." This time Xiao Yao was answered by the light-blond white young man Paul, who then asked doubtfully, "But why does the middle section give people a gloomy feeling?"

"This is naturally to meet the needs of the dance." Xiao Yao smiled, and continued: "Since you think there is no problem with the music, then I will briefly introduce the plot of this dance to you, and then I will tell you the specific choreography .”

"Wait, are you talking about the plot?" This time it was the black TJ who asked strangely, "We are doing hip-hop, not acting in a movie or a musical, so how come there is a plot?"

"Street dance is also a kind of dance, right?" Xiao Yao looked at the crowd and said.

Seeing that everyone nodded, Xiao Yao continued: "Dance is a kind of performing art. Its purpose is to express the characters' thoughts, feelings, character or personality, and even other things. It needs the audience to feel , experience and understand these things we want to express. If it is purely to show your dance moves, to show your dance skills and abilities, then the content and form of this dance will be disconnected and lack artistic integrity .”

"What you're talking about is theoretical. It's too profound for me to understand. All I know is that there are many dances, especially hip-hop dances, that don't have any plot." Said a young man in the team who Xiao Yao couldn't name .

"I don't deny it," Xiao Yao nodded, "but if you watch any excellent dance, no matter whether it has a specific plot or not, you can feel something other than the dance technique. This thing We may not be able to say it specifically, but we know it in our hearts. This is what dance wants to express, and we want what the audience can feel. If it is purely for showing movement skills, in my opinion, it is more like Acrobatics, what's more, many acrobatic shows have also joined the plot."

"The reason why I choreographed a dance with a specific plot is to make it easier for the audience to feel what I want to express in the dance. The judges are also the audience. In addition to professional details such as movement skills, their feelings are also very good. Important. As a hip-hop dancer doing Thomas maneuvers, can you be a professional gymnast? Does it mean that if you find a gymnast, you will definitely win the hip-hop championship?"

"Sounds reasonable, I agree with you." Paul said first.

"Well, regardless of whether there is a specific plot or not, we still need to see what your choreography looks like and how it works, so let's ignore this for now and follow your plan." The black TJ also said .

Xiao Yao smiled, and began to formally introduce: "The plot is very simple. A man and woman lovers were attacked by zombies. They first ran away, and then they met some uninfected normal people, who were also besieged by zombies. The escaped normal people joined forces to fight against the zombies, and the group of zombies were wiped out by the normal people, but the two found that the hero was bitten by a zombie in order to protect the heroine during the battle, and he would also become a zombie. In the end, the heroine was in pain The main character was eliminated.”

After finishing speaking, Xiao Yao spread his hands together and said, "It's such a story, what do you think?"

"I think it's good. Although the story sounds a bit old-fashioned, I feel that this old-fashioned story should also touch many audiences." Paul commented first again, and then he frowned again, and asked Xiao Yao: " But why zombies?"

"The story is not afraid of clichés, the important thing is the way of telling the story. For us, it is the specific choreography." Xiao Yao explained, "As for why it is a zombie, the first is because the theme of zombies is very popular now. Many movies and episodes about zombies are very popular, which shows that everyone is very interested in zombies. Secondly, zombies are also very suitable for popin. If we come to a group of robots, it will be old-fashioned. "(To be continued.)