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Although "Singer" is a program where big-name singers compare their songs, the 500 viewers who voted were not professional musicians or music critics, nor were they blindfolded and only listened to songs. The overall audio-visual experience of the scene, so although external factors such as costumes and stage lighting are not decisive factors, they are also one of the factors for the audience to judge the singer's vote. This is why Xiao Yao wants to emphasize to the audience the reason for the vote. ． update the fastest

But it's enough to say that. Xiao Yaoqing coughed on the stage, resumed his identity as the host, and continued to introduce the next singer's competition repertoire: "Next, let me introduce the competition repertoire brought by the next singer."

Hearing Xiao Yao start the next singer's performance, the audience who had started to imagine out of curiosity also withdrew their minds and refocused on Xiao Yao on the stage.

"The competition song brought by the next singer is an English song." Xiao Yao introduced, "On this stage, there are many singers who have sung English songs, but the next singer is special because he The English song I bring to you is an original and new song that has not been released yet."

"Oh~" Hearing that it was an original new song again, the audience in the audience had already guessed who the next singer would be, and there was another round of applause and cheers immediately.

"The song that the next singer will bring to you is called "Thinking Out Loud", which is a very warm love song." Xiao Yao smiled and continued, "Next, the next competing singer will perform !"

Under the applause of the audience, Xiao Yao turned around and walked to the back of the stage again, this time, he walked in the direction of the passage leading to the backstage.

"Sure enough it's him!" The audience gave Xiao Yao even louder applause with such expressions on their faces!

Soon, a figure appeared in the passage connecting the stage and the backstage. At this time, the audience looked at the figure in the passage still against the light, and could not see the appearance of the figure in the passage clearly, but Xiao Yao returned from this passage just now, and he had already come out of that passage when he appeared as the host in the opening scene After one time, judging from the figure, the audience is still very sure that the figure is Xiao Yao.

The lights at the scene came on, and Xiao Yao, who reappeared on the stage, also changed his image. His lower body was still in black trousers and black boots, but his upper body was neither the suit he wore when hosting, nor the electronic DJ for Liang Xueying. Instead of the sweater he wore at the time, he was wearing a white shirt with a small black vest over it. A black tie was tied around the neck, but it was not tightened tightly under the collar of the shirt, but was loosely hung around the neck.

This kind of clothing not only shows Xiao Yao's good figure, but also shows Xiao Yao's casual temperament, which is definitely very eye-catching, but when Xiao Yao appeared, the audience's attention was not on Xiao Yao's clothing superior,

Instead, they looked at Xiao Yao's left hand in unison. Because what Xiao Yao is holding in his left hand does not look like a musical instrument, but

"I'll go! What is Xiao Yao doing up here with a shovel? Is he going to bury someone?"

The camera at the scene deliberately gave a close-up of what Xiao Yao was carrying in his left hand, so not only the audience in the studio, but even the singers in the lounge room were all confused.

What Xiao Yao was holding in his left hand was indeed a shovel, with a wooden handle of primary color, and a black head that seemed to be made of iron, with a semicircular pointed tip at the front. The whole thing looks like an ordinary pointed shovel, the only difference is that there are some small silver cylindrical things inserted on the left and right sides of the top of the shovel handle.

Xiao Yao went straight to the front of the stage and bowed to the audience. On the stage behind him, several staff members brought a chair and a microphone stand. Judging from the height of the microphone stand, it seemed that the performers were going to sit on the chairs. to sing.

The surprised and puzzled expressions of the audience in the audience naturally did not escape Xiao Yao's eyes. He smiled slightly, turned his left hand, and turned the direction of the shovel in his hand, turning the concave side of the shovel head to the stage. At the same time, he gently held the head of the shovel with his right hand and showed the whole shovel to the audience.

"Oh my God! Is this a guitar? And a guitar made of a shovel?!" Campus Chief: The Great Demon King

The audience in the audience and the singers in the lounge room all stared wide-eyed, staring at the thing in Xiao Yao's hand with a ghostly expression on their faces.

That's right, the shovel in Xiao Yao's hand is indeed a shovel from the back, but when viewed from the front, everyone can tell that it is a guitar.

The two rows of small silver cylindrical things on the top of the wooden handle of the shovel are the piano buttons. On the lower part of the concave side of the shovel head, the bridge and bridge are glued. Between the buttons and the bridge, the audience can clearly see a row of strings.

The entire log handle is the neck of this violin. Viewed from the back, the wooden handle is cylindrical, but after Xiao Yao changed the direction of the shovel, everyone can find that the wooden handle of the shovel is actually semi-cylindrical. The side of the wooden handle close to the strings, from the bottom of the glued nut under the button to the top of the spade pants connecting the spade head and spade handle, has been flattened to make the fingerboard of this piano. It’s just that this shovel looks relatively simple, with a bare fingerboard, not to mention the frets that are convenient for memorizing the positions of the frets, and there are not even frets to separate the frets.

Those who observe carefully can find that the piano buttons on the top of the wooden handle of the shovel are not symmetrical with three on each side, but three on one side and only two on the other side. In other words, there are only five strings on Xiao Yao's shovel. So strictly speaking, the shovel in Xiao Yao's hand is not a guitar, but a plucked string instrument similar to a guitar. Just in terms of appearance, this violin made of shovel is more similar to a guitar in structure, and it can be classified into the guitar family like the banjo, which is also a five-string. It's a guitar, but it's still passable.

Last October, when Nicholas Cross and Ake Robinson were helping Xiao Yao make dragon pianos in Shanghai, Xiao Yao also took the opportunity to learn how to make guitar-like instruments from them. At that time, after Xiao Yao learned from Ake how to use special materials to make the unique shape of the guitar body, he also used various waste materials and tools in the production room as raw materials for guitar making, and made several guitars. Take a "non-mainstream" guitar that looks weird. This five-string guitar made of shovel is the one that Xiao Yao thinks is the most successful.

"When and where did he get such a guitar made of a shovel?" Xiao Siqi also looked at the strange-looking guitar in Xiao Yao's hand with a face full of disbelief.

Unlike the Longqin, which looks so cool and dazzling, this shovel guitar looks novel, weird and fun, but it is actually very simple. Xiao Yao never showed it off to anyone. I occasionally play with it when I am entertaining myself, so even Xiao Siqi doesn't know that Xiao Yao has such a "weird" guitar.

There is no strap buckle on this shovel guitar, so Xiao Yao can't put a strap on this guitar like a dragon piano, and stand and play with his back on his back. He can only hold the piano in his arms and sit down. Play on a chair. Looking back, he saw that the preparations on the stage were ready, and a staff member was standing by the chair waiting for him. Xiao Yao, holding the shovel and guitar, turned around and sat down on the chair in the center of the stage, and took a device handed over by the staff , insert the plug into a socket on the concave surface of the spade head.

The main body of Xiao Yao’s shovel guitar is the iron piece of the shovel head. Naturally, there is no sound hole and resonance box, so Xiao Yao installed a pickup under the strings of the shovel head according to the structure of the electric guitar. , but there is only one knob to control the tone of the pickup and an output jack on the concave surface of the spade head, and there is no tremolo, volume knob and coil control switch. It also makes the guitar look much cruder than a real electric guitar.

After signaling ok to the staff, after the staff left the stage, Xiao Yao slightly adjusted the angle of the microphone on the microphone stand and the posture of holding the shovel guitar, and was ready to start performing.

Seeing Xiao Yao's actions, the audience in the audience quickly quieted down. On the one hand, they were looking forward to Xiao Yao's original English song, and on the other hand, they also wanted to hear the guitar made of the shovel in Xiao Yao's hand. , What is the sound effect that pops up?

“hen ys dont ork like they usedbeore, and i ant seep you oyour eet~”

This is a song with almost no prelude. Xiao Yao just swept the four strings under the shovel guitar, and after making four notes, he began to sing. At this time, he was not as passionate as he was in the previous two competitions, nor was he jumping off as a host, nor was he even as proud as when he was holding a shovel guitar to show the audience just now. He was sitting on a chair with a smile on his face and playing the guitar. , the eyes and expression are very soft, and the voice is warm and soft, singing this warm healing love song softly and slowly. have a date with a beautiful woman

"Darlin i illlovin you till ere seventy, babyheart ould still all hard seventeen."

This song is the work of Ed Sheeran, a British musical genius in his previous life. Xiao Yao hardly changed anything when he moved to this world. The only modification is to replace the original version of "tenty three" Changed to "seventeen". Ed Sheeran in his previous life was born in 1991. His album containing this song was released in 2014. At that time, he happened to be 23 years old, but Xiao Yao is not even 20 years old now. Use this " Tenty three" is a bit inexplicable. Considering that he and Sun Tingting confirmed their love relationship at the age of seventeen, and it happened to correspond to the first half of the sentence, "I love you until you are seventy years old", so Xiao Yao put the number of the age in the last sentence. It was changed to seventeen.

Unlike the previous singer Liang Xueying's complex and atmospheric soundtrack, powerful singing, and gorgeous stage lighting effects that connect the entire stage space to the audience, Xiao Yao's performance is different from the strong visual and auditory impact. Much simpler and understated in any respect.

On the score, apart from the weird shovel guitar he played himself, there was only a cajon drum stageside and another guitar and a bass. In terms of stage beauty, only a few orange lights were lit on the stage to accentuate the warm atmosphere of the scene, and they were still the kind of background headlights with fixed positions and angles that could not be moved. In terms of sound, Xiao Yao's singing also seemed a little calm, there was no gorgeous high pitch, and there was no skillful transition. Even when he sang the chorus, he didn't have much emotion The changes in the world are like telling an ordinary love story softly in your ear.

Music is magical, not only can make people excited, but also can make people relax and quiet. The audience who were extremely excited and excited by Liang Xueying's performance of the previous song, even though they were extremely curious about Xiao Yao's shovel guitar, gradually calmed down their excitement and became quiet in Xiao Yao's singing.

Certainly not everyone among the 500 audience could understand the meaning of the lyrics of Xiao Yao’s English song, but judging from Xiao Yao’s singing voice, expression, the soundtrack of the whole song and the soft lighting environment of the scene, most of the audience Still feeling the sweet and warm emotions conveyed by Xiao Yao, he was slowly intoxicated by Xiao Yao's singing, and couldn't help shaking his head slightly following Xiao Yao's music.

"I will love you until we are seventy, and my heart will still be as firm as it was when I was seventeen."

"When my hair falls out and my memory fades, and people don't remember my name, and my hands can't pluck the strings like they used to, I know you'll still love me, because my dear, your soul never grows old. Go, it's forever young. Your smile will always be in my memory."

"Take me in your arms, kiss me under the stars, rest your head on my beating heart."

Such sentences, such scenes, can almost be copied down as a declaration or love letter to the opposite sex. Therefore, those audiences whose English level is good enough to understand the lyrics of this English song on the spot are intoxicated by the beautiful love story described in Xiao Yao's lyrics.

After the second chorus of the song, there is a guitar solo interlude, watching Xiao Yao holding a shovel, just like the casual guitar solo performance before, without even looking at the fretless finger The left finger moved skillfully and smoothly on the fingerboard. The audience finally couldn't help breaking the silence and gave a round of applause.

"andound lht hereare!"

After the interlude of guitar solo, Xiao Yao temporarily stopped playing, held the microphone on the microphone stand with one hand, faced the audience and sang most of the ending paragraph with a smile, and did not put his finger on the shovel again until the last sentence On the guitar, the performance of the whole song ended with a light strum.