Entertaining Children

"Big guy as soon as he comes! Is he going to play and sing by himself?" Cai Ruoqi looked at the black grand piano that was being moved to the stage.

Watching the show on TV, the stage was empty when the singer came on stage, but when the singer was about to perform, there were already instrumentalists and even backup dancers on the stage. Naturally, these people and objects did not appear out of thin air, but were cut out during the post-editing. This process cannot be seen by TV viewers, but can be seen by people on the scene and in the rest hall.

"It should be, he can play the piano on Bayi!" Xiao Siqi nodded.

"What should it be?" Hong Wei turned sideways to Xiao Siqi as if remembering something, "Old Xiao, your son is here to kick the club, don't you, as a father, know? Did you help him arrange the arrangement of this song?" Are you pretending to be with us just now? Are you interested?"

"Really not!" Xiao Siqi raised his hands and said, "I admit that I recommended him to the director team of the show, but the director team didn't tell me whether he agreed to come. Even if I guessed that he might come, the show The group will not tell me which show he is coming from, I really didn't know that he is today's kicking singer."

"As for the songs he sang, from the lyrics to the arrangement, he has always arranged it himself, and I have never intervened." Xiao Siqi continued, "Unless it is a song written for someone else, he may throw the lyrics and music to others. I asked me to do the arrangement. I don't know what song he is going to sing today, and I have never heard this song "Just Now."

"Is there such a thing?" Several agents deliberately asked in a suspicious tone.

"Of course." Xiao Siqi stared, "His ability to arrange music has also been affirmed at the "Golden Disc Awards."

"Come on, I know you have a great son, so don't need to show off." Hong Wei waved his hand, pointing to the TV and said, "The scene is ready, your son is about to start singing. By the way, I haven't heard your son sing live yet." Well, I need to hear how he's singing live. Who's that? Can you turn it up for me? They're so loud, I can't hear them!"

"Are we arguing? Who is the one who talks the most?" Xiao Siqi and the people around him looked at each other in blank dismay.

The preparations on the stage were ready, Xiao Yao sat in front of the piano, put his hands gently on the keys, and in front of his mouth, there was also a microphone placed on a microphone stand, which was obviously intended to be played while playing. Singing.

Seeing such a scene, the audience immediately gave a round of applause impatiently.

The lights on the stage dimmed, and the audience stopped their applause consciously. Sitting on the piano bench, Xiao Yao gave a slight nod to Liu Tong, the conductor of the band, and pressed his fingers on the piano keys.

"Don't be lazy and wasteful, don't be lazy and wasteful, this is my era, eh~"

This is a song without a prelude. As the piano sounded, Xiao Yao's singing also sounded. At the beginning of the song, Xiao Yao fully demonstrated his high-pitched voice.

"The planets line up, it's time to strike while the iron is hot. My dream is not the future, but the present~"

Still with the pure piano accompaniment played by himself, Xiao Yao then sang the second stanza, and sang a higher note again in the last long tail part.

In the previous part, Xiao Yao’s piano performance and singing were on the same rhythm, but when he sang “Not the Future”, Xiao Yao’s piano performance stopped, and the sentence “It’s now” used a cappella without accompaniment, while While prolonging the ending of the word "in", the piano played by Xiao Yao sounded again, but there was an obvious change in rhythm and speed, which became more compact and faster than before.

"My dream is not the future, but the present~"

Under the piano accompaniment of a different rhythm, Xiao Yao sang the last two lines repeatedly with the same rhythm.

This opening alone made the audience and the singers in the rest hall open their mouths in surprise.

"So handsome!" Cai Ruoqi also repeated Liang Xueying's comment.

It's just that Liang Xueying was talking about Xiao Yao's image just now, and Cai Ruoqi was talking about Xiao Yao's performance at the beginning.

"Your son is not timid to use pure piano accompaniment for such a long section at the beginning. But his voice is really good, high and accurate." Hong Wei turned his head to look at Xiao Siqi, and sighed sincerely, "And the last two Sentence, same singing, different accompaniment, very beautiful!"

"He's really good at playing." Xiao Siqi nodded and said, "But I guess there's more to this song than that. This is a very important tournament. If he doesn't make it to the top four, he'll have to leave. He certainly cannot accept such a result."

Sure enough, after the first stanza ended, Xiao Yao stood up from the piano bench, took off the microphone on the microphone stand in front of him, and stood in front of the stage. At this time, the accompaniment also changed. With the sound of an electronic drum, the live accompaniment became mainly the electronic piano sound of the midi keyboard, and at the same time, the accompaniment of the electronic drum rhythm was added.

"On the eve of the competition, I worked hard in the recording studio. The accumulated potential is the trace left by the years. Wherever there is a dragon, I will work hard to put my eyes on it..." Accompanied by the obvious electronic accompaniment, Xiao Yao started the first paragraph The singing of the main song. To the surprise of many people, what he sang next turned out to be a rap.

This is a song written by Wang Leehom in his previous life. When Xiao Yao moved it here, he didn't change the lyrics of the tune and the chorus, but in the lyrics of the first verse, Xiao Yao modified some things that didn't suit him.

For example, in the original lyrics "crying in the recording studio on the eve of the millennium", the millennium is too far away from Xiao Yao. cried. Also, there is no movie "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" in this world, and Xiao Yao did not fight for the role of "Luo Xiaohu" who partnered with Zhang Ziyi in the movie like Wang Leehom. It seems inexplicable to keep "Luo Xiaohu and Ziyi" in the original lyrics up. Therefore, Xiao Yao made some revisions to these lyrics that felt inappropriate.

"Singing rap really looks like young people." Hong Wei moved his body to the rhythm of Xiao Yao's music, and then said: "It's novel and innovative, and young people should like it very much. But the audience who voted There are five age groups, and light-singing rap doesn’t have much of an advantage.”

After the first verse ended, Xiao Yao did not return to the piano, but continued to hold the microphone in front of the stage and sang the chorus of the song. After the high-pitched chorus ended, the song came to the verse of the second paragraph. The main song of this second paragraph is not rap, but slow rocking.

"I'm not superstitious but I believe it's not a coincidence!"

"It's not a coincidence, what can't beat me is learning~"

In the verse part of the second verse, the audience discovered another novelty, that is, the accompaniment singers standing behind the stage used rap to harmonize. Although the speed was relatively slow, it was indeed rap , was sung with spoken words, while Xiao Yao in front was still singing with the emphasis of rock and roll. Moreover, the content of Xiao Yao's singing is still followed by the accompaniment. Who is singing in harmony for whom?

"Now I finally understand what is the definition of luck~ No need to wait,~"

"Now I understand the definition of luck.!"

In the second half of the second verse, the harmony reappeared, and it was still two lines. But this time, although Xiao Yao's singing came first and the harmony came after, it was still Xiao Yao who sang and the harmony said!

"I'll go! I've only heard singers sing in harmony when they rap, but I didn't expect your son to do it the other way around." Hong Wei leaned back on the sofa, shook his head and said, "I have nothing to say to your son. That’s enough.” Because the second verse is not a rap, Hong Wei stopped the rhythm of his body.

"From what I hear, it seems that there is a third verse." Xiao Siqi said noncommittally, just watching Xiao Yao who sang the chorus again routinely on TV.

On the stage of the studio, Xiao Yao, who sang the third chorus, suddenly ran to the edge of the stage near the band, and reached out his hand to dig into the ground. When he ran back to the front of the stage, there was already a common Hand-held megaphone.

Everyone in the rest hall stared wide-eyed like the audience. Although Xiao Yao's previous performance had shocked them enough, but what are you trying to do with a loudspeaker?

"What the hell are you doing?" Hong Wei no longer asked Xiao Siqi, and leaned forward to stare at Xiao Yao on the TV, "Do you think the volume is not loud enough? Let the sound engineer Wouldn't it be nice to just turn up the volume on your mic? Using an amplified speaker will distort the sound. I've never seen anyone use it for an indoor gig, except at an outdoor rock festival. !"

Of course, Xiao Yao didn't use the hand-held loudspeaker to increase the volume. He put the loudspeaker in his right hand in front of his mouth, and stretched out his left hand to lift the microphone to the front of the speaker. Instead of roaring, he sang the third verse at a normal volume.

The third verse is rap again, but through the hand-held loudspeaker, Xiao Yao’s voice has undergone a change similar to electronic sound, which makes Xiao Yao’s rap very peculiar. Reggae-like taste.

"Ah~" Seeing Xiao Yao holding a horn on the stage, hearing the obviously out-of-shape but yet so special voice, the audience went crazy, and screamed wildly without restraint.

"I'll go!" In the rest hall, the singers and managers were going crazy, but they didn't yell, including Xiao Siqi, they all looked at Xiao Yao on the TV with a hellish expression.

This is a competition show for singing competitions. Using a loudspeaker to change one's own voice is actually a very risky move here, and it is easy to be caught saying that he did not rely on his original voice to compete. That is to say, the third verse has only four lines in total, which is less than half the length of the first two verses. The proportion of such a song with four choruses and three verses is very small, so Xiao Yao dared to Play like this.

"Now..." Saying the last two words of the third verse, Xiao Yao directly threw the handheld loudspeaker in his hand to a staff member by the side of the stage. He turned around and turned to the piano again, skillfully and quickly put the microphone in his hand back on the microphone stand beside the piano, and sat down by the piano again.

"Don't be lazy and wasteful, don't be lazy and wasteful, this is my era, eh~"

After Xiao Yao sang the last two words with a loudspeaker, the live music accompaniment gradually disappeared, and Xiao Yao, who returned to the piano, also sang the last song with the pure piano accompaniment mode played by himself just like at the beginning. One time refrain.

"The planets line up, it's time to strike while the iron is hot. My dream is not the future, but the present~"

"Suddenly this moment is now."

Will Xiao Yao make the ending exactly the same as the beginning? Of course not, when Xiao Yao sang the second half of the chorus, the sound of electronic drums and midi keyboards in the accompaniment also sounded again. At the end of the third sentence, the rap harmony of the live accompaniment singer also appeared again. Accompanied by the piano, electronic drums, and midi keyboard in his hand, Xiao Yao also soared out an extremely shocking high note that lasted for several beats at the end of the sentence.

"My dream is not the future, but the present~"

At the end stage, it was still the repetition of the last two lines, but whether it was volume or pitch, Xiao Yao lowered it a little, giving the whole song a relatively soothing ending. At the end, all the accompaniment sounds stopped suddenly, making the lingering sound of Xiao Yao's last word "in" seem to reverberate in the air above the scene for a long time.

"Thank you!" Xiao Yao calmed down a little while sitting on the piano bench, then took off the microphone from the microphone stand, stood up again, walked to the front of the stage and bowed to the audience.

"Wow~" Almost half of the audience stood up from their seats, clapped and screamed while raising their hands.

"Xiao Yao!"

"Xiao Yao!"

I don't know where it started, Xiao Yao's name was shouted from the auditorium, and then the momentum quickly expanded, and the audience quickly changed from cheering and screaming to shouting Xiao Yao's name in unison.