Entertaining Children

The business of the hip-hop team came to an end for the time being, and Xiao Yao's focus naturally shifted to the band. A week is not long, nor is it short. The song "immortals" was already well practiced by everyone, and with a week of dedicated assault reinforcement, Xiao Yao is confident that it should be enough to handle the opening performance of the "Daydream" Los Angeles concert.

Of course, rehearsals are just technical preparations, as long as you take the time to practice. As for psychological preparation, Xiao Yao had nothing to do. The "Daydream" concert in Los Angeles was a big scene with thousands of spectators. Now even Xiao Yao himself was a little apprehensive before taking the stage, let alone those other members of the band who hadn't seen many big scenes.

"Yan, I'm very nervous!" In the backstage lounge, Dean said to Xiao Yao with a nervous expression on his face. Invisibly, Xiao Yao has already become the backbone of this band.

"I can tell," Xiao Yao forced a smile, "It's not just you, you all have the word "nervous" written on your face. But this is normal, and it's just the first time the band has experienced such a big scene."

"But what about you?" Dean looked at the smiling Xiao Yao and said, "It's your first time too, why don't you look nervous at all."

"I just concealed it better, you see." Xiao Yao smiled wryly, and spread out his fisted hands, the sweat in the palms was clearly visible.

"Ha, why am I nervous when I see you? I'm not so nervous." Dean laughed.

"Me too." George and Mike agreed. Although Samien didn't speak, he nodded in agreement.

"You..." Xiao Yao rolled his eyes, then put on a particularly nervous expression, and started circling in the lounge while saying, "My God, I'm going to be on stage soon, what should I do? I'm so nervous, I feel I'm about to faint. No, I'm going to the bathroom to vomit for a while..." At the end, Xiao Yao started to fan his face with the palm of his hand.

"Enough, your acting is too fake." Dean and the other three interrupted Xiao Yao with a smile. After such a commotion, everyone's tension eased a lot.

"Are you ready?" At this time, Keith Craig pushed the door and walked in, saying to everyone in the lounge, "The time is almost up."

"Ready, you can go on stage at any time." Xiao Yao answered Keith.

"Okay." Keith Craig nodded, and then asked a lot: "This is the first time you're performing in front of so many people, are you nervous?"

"What a terrible question," Xiao Yao glanced at Keith, and sighed, "Of course we are nervous. We just relieved a little with difficulty. Now that you ask this question, the tension will return."

"It's okay," Keith smiled nonchalantly, "I actually want to tell you that it doesn't matter how nervous you are now. When you get on stage and start performing, you won't be nervous anymore. Believe me, I have experience."

"I hope so." Xiao Yao nodded.

"Okay, let's go on stage." Keith clapped his hands and greeted.

Several members of the band followed Keith out of the lounge, and walked onto the stage from the side and rear through the aisle. As soon as they walked out of the passage, they heard a huge noise. The scene of thousands of people was really not built.

It's time for the concert to start, the audience has basically arrived, and all preparations have been made on the stage. Keith walked directly to the stand microphone in front of the stage, while Xiao Yao and the others walked to their instruments.

Samion sat behind the drum kit, Mike stood in front of the electronic keyboard, Xiao Yao and George carried their own guitar and bass respectively. As for Dean, who didn't have a musical instrument, he stood beside Xiao Yao and went to help Xiao Yao adjust the height of the microphone stand in front of him.

"Good evening everyone!" Keith walked to the microphone and said loudly, "Thank you for coming."

As the high-power speakers spread Keith's voice throughout the venue, the audience knew that the concert was about to officially start, and there was a burst of cheers like a tsunami immediately.

"Thank you," Keith thanked the audience for their enthusiasm, and continued, "I am very happy to tell you that for tonight's concert, we have invited a very popular band as our opening guest. They are ..." At the end of Keith's words, he put his palms next to his ears, as if he was listening.

"Immortals!" the audience shouted in unison.

A week after the movie "s" was released, the official studio version of the song "immortals" has appeared on several major mainstream music websites in the United States for download, and at the same time this song has also begun to be broadcast on music broadcasts in the United States. The program began to hit the radio charts. Now that the movie has been released for more than three weeks, it is almost time to draw. After more than half a month of publicity, the student band rtals and their song "immortals" have already gained considerable popularity.

"Yes," Keith nodded, obviously satisfied with the audience's response, and then said loudly, "This is the first time this band has appeared in public tonight, and I think for most people, they It's still very mysterious, so please allow me to introduce them to you with great honor."

"Beautiful female drummer, Samien!" With the voice of Keith, a close-up picture of Samien was shown on the big screen at the scene.

"Cool!" The audience exclaimed.

The image of Samien today is very special. Half of the hair on the head was draped over the right side of the head and the right shoulder in the original long straight hair, while the other half was braided into several thin braids and hung down on the other side. This image is written by Xiao Yao, which fully expresses the two sides of Samien who is usually cold and passionate when playing drums. This peculiar and full of personality hairstyle coupled with Samien's exquisite and beautiful face immediately shocked many audiences.

What matched the audience's amazement was Samien's drumming solo. The Samien who moved was more cool, and the audience instantly remembered this girl who seemed to be full of personality.

"Keyboard player, Mike!" After Samien's solo ended, Keith continued to introduce. The big screen also switched to a close-up of Mike. Mike also played a keyboard solo prepared by Xiao Yao.

Mike has also been well-dressed, but compared with Samien, he looks ordinary, and the audience's reaction is not as great as when they saw Samien. The same situation also happened to George and Dean, especially Dean, who has no musical instrument and naturally has no solo to perform, so he can only take the microphone in front of Xiao Yao and shout to the audience, "Hello everyone! "Although I got cheers from the audience below as a response, it was far behind Samien.

It wasn't until Xiao Yao was introduced that the reaction below became more enthusiastic.

"Guitar player, Yang from China!" Keith said loudly, casually pointing out Xiao Yao's background.

A close-up of Xiao Yao was cut out on the big screen. Different from the cool-looking faces of the other team members, who were actually tense and stiff, Xiao Yao had a gentle and confident smile on his face, coupled with his absolutely handsome Chinese face, which attracted the attention of the audience. Many female audience members screamed.

After Xiao Yao performed the same cool guitar solo, Keith's mission was basically completed. Finally, Keith announced loudly: "Please enjoy your immortals performance." One word introduced the name of the band and the song, Keith turned to the side and waved his hand, and then quickly walked off the stage.

Dean took a few steps forward, stood where Keith had been, and reached out to hold the pole of the stand microphone. Then he turned his head to look at Samien at the back, and nodded to indicate that he was ready and could start.

Samien nodded to indicate acceptance, then raised the drumsticks with both hands and began to beat each other. After four beats, Mike's keyboard sounded accurately, and after eight beats, Samion's drum sound also accurately added in, and then Dean, who closed his eyes and beat the time with his feet, also sang correctly The first verse, the sound and rhythm are also no problem.

There was no problem with the prelude at the beginning, and Dean did not lose his voice or lose his voice when he spoke. Xiao Yao secretly breathed a sigh of relief. It seems that the long-term practice is still effective. Although everyone is nervous, there is still no problem in grasping the rhythm. Now that it's off to a good start, everyone will get used to the next part and it shouldn't be too easy to make mistakes. The rest is to activate the atmosphere, fully mobilize the enthusiasm of the audience, and "warm" the scene well.

After singing a few words, Dean suddenly relaxed, opened his eyes naturally, and looked at the dark crowd in front of him. It seems that what Keith said is right, after starting to perform, he will naturally not be nervous.

The North American box office of the movie "s" has exceeded 100 million, and the theme song "immortals" has also entered the top 20 on the billboard after it began to be downloaded and started to hit the radio charts, so people who have heard this song have already entered the top 20. Few, but listening to their live performances is definitely the first time for most people.

Although the band was singing, some corresponding highlights from the movie "s" were released on the big screen at the scene. This is to remind everyone that this song is the theme song of this movie, which not only enriches the band's live performance, but also gives another boost to the box office of the movie that is about to drop. Many audiences who have watched the movie screamed and cheered when they saw the familiar movie screen, but most of the audience focused on the live performance of the band.

When this band is performing live, the participation of all members in singing is obviously higher. The repeated singing of all the band members at the end of a single lyric and the "rtals" with pitch changes in the chorus part of the chorus are greatly enhanced. The appeal of the song to the live audience.

The configuration of dual lead singers is not simply that each person sings a section. For the two lines of lyrics in the same paragraph, the two will sing alternately, and the former can prolong the ending of the previous line to better arouse the emotions of the audience.

In addition, the live version of the song is also arranged differently from the film's soundtrack and the studio version. The soundtrack in the movie is naturally to serve the plot of the movie, while the studio version is for sensory enjoyment. In both versions, the guitar and bass solo in the middle are removed. The live version is for the emotions of the audience, so the instrument solo has returned to the song performance in a grandiose manner. The enthusiastic screams of the audience are the best response.

As the emotions of the band on stage and the audience continued to rise, after the first chorus, a chorus of thousands of people on stage and off stage naturally appeared. Many people even jumped and sang along with Dean, Xiao Yao and George on the stage.

Some things are self-taught. Seeing the scene where everyone in the audience sang in chorus, when the second chorus came to the "rtals" that repeated continuously and had pitch changes, Dean naturally took it off. He lifted the microphone on the stand, walked to the edge of the stage, and extended the microphone to the audience. The audience in the front row stretched their necks excitedly, shouting hoarsely into the microphone in Dean's hand. (To be continued.)