Entertaining Children

"Since you have agreed, the repertoire for the performance has been decided." Xiao Yao said to the six girls, "I'm going to the recording studio to arrange and make music, and I'll do the dance moves when I get back with the soundtrack!"

"What about us?" Wei Yunjing asked.

"You should familiarize yourself with this song first." Xiao Yao pointed to the sheet music in her hand and said, "By the way, this is a song sung by men and women. I only divided it into sections for male voice, female voice and chorus. In the section for female voice I haven't divided the specific allocation of the six of you, you can also discuss it yourself, and we will determine it later. In addition, if you have ideas about dancing, you can also design some movements first, and we will discuss together later to decide whether to use it or not."

"Okay, got it." Wei Yunjing nodded.

"Okay, that's it." Xiao Yao said, "Brother Liqing, you are the captain. When I'm not around, you are responsible for the practice!"

"No problem, we will work hard!" Wei Yunjing clenched his fist and said.

After Xiao Yao made arrangements here, he followed out of the practice room and went to the recording studio. Before Xiao Yao participated in the show, he told the program team in advance that he would write songs and choreograph, and the program team also prepared a separate recording studio for Xiao Yao.

This program is related to music, and the program team also invited a group of professionals such as producers, sound engineers, and musicians. If you want to record, these people can all be called to cooperate and help. Xiao Yao doesn't have to do everything by himself. He plans to be the producer of this song, and he also plays the guitar part by himself. If the sound engineer and other instrument players are needed, he will ask the professionals invited by the program group to help.

This song is a song from Xiao Yao's previous life, and the arrangement has the original template from his previous life. Xiao Yao doesn't plan to make too many changes, at least not in terms of musical instruments, so on the way to the recording studio, Xiao Yao told The musicians and sound engineers that I and the director of the filming team needed, I asked the program team to invite people over. Xiao Yao's song hadn't been decided before, and the recording time was also uncertain. The program team would definitely not let a bunch of people wait for Xiao Yao in the recording studio without doing anything.

When Xiao Yao came to the recording studio, the people the program team notified for him hadn't arrived yet. Xiao Yao was not in a hurry, and just took advantage of this time to perfect the arrangement in his head, and wrote out the score of the song and several instruments that needed to be used.

Recording began immediately after the sound engineer and musicians arrived. The composition of this song is not difficult. Xiao Yao wrote the scores of various instruments in advance and participated in it himself, so the whole recording process went smoothly. However, despite the smooth process, it took almost the whole afternoon to record the soundtrack and accompaniment of the song.

After the soundtrack was recorded, it was almost time for dinner. Xiao Yao did not leave directly for dinner, but returned to the practice room.

After returning to the practice room,

Xiao Yao found that the six girls were still there.

"Senior is back!" Seeing Xiao Yao's return, several girls smiled and stood up to greet him.

"Senior, have you finished the music and accompaniment?" Wei Yunjing asked.

"It's done!" Xiao Yao took out a USB flash drive and lit it up, "I know you guys are eager to hear it, so let me play it for you first, then go to eat, and come back to choreograph after dinner!" Saying that, Xiao Yao went to Go to the audio equipment placed in the corner of the practice room.

"Come back to choreograph after dinner?" Wei Yunjing asked in surprise, "Are you still here at night?"

"What? Don't you guys practice at night?" Xiao Yao turned around and asked.

"No, of course we have to practice at night." Wei Yunjing said, "But shouldn't you be in the promotional period of the movie? I think you should be busy, senior. You have been here for a whole day. I didn't expect you to be able to do it at night. Practice with us."

"My itinerary is all set by myself, including movie promotion." Xiao Yao said with a smile, "I don't have any other activities or announcements this week, so I will help you with the performance. Not only will I come every day, but I will also wait It will also take a long time.”

"Wow~" Hearing what Xiao Yao said, the six girls cheered.

Xiao Yao played the soundtrack and accompaniment to the six girls. After hearing the girls' praise, he went to the cafeteria to have dinner with the six girls.

There was no practice in the morning, and the thirty-six girls interacted with Xiao Yao all morning, and it happened to be almost lunch time at the end, so the thirty-six girls went to the cafeteria for lunch together. Practice in groups in the afternoon, the situation and progress of each group of practice is different, so the time to go to dinner will be different. When Xiao Yao and the six girls in the same group went to the cafeteria, only the other group of six girls from Ai Jun were eating in the cafeteria. This dinner was far less lively than lunch.

During dinner, six girls from Ai Jun's group also came over to inquire about their repertoire. After asking Xiao Yao for instructions with their eyes and obtaining approval, Wei Yunjing and others generously revealed their progress, that is, the song has been written, the soundtrack and accompaniment have also been made, only the dance has not yet been choreographed.

Although the dance has not yet been choreographed, the song was written in half a day and the soundtrack and accompaniment were completed. This speed also surprised the six girls in the other group. They originally thought that no matter what happened, there would be no song until tomorrow.

When they continued to ask what the performance songs were like, and asked Wei Yunjing and others to sing a cappella or hum a few words, Wei Yunjing and others did not look at Xiao Yao, and very tacitly refused on the grounds of confidentiality.

Ai Jun's group of six saw that Wei Yunjing and others couldn't make sense, so they asked Xiao Yao again. However, no matter whether they were exaggeratedly flattering or being coquettish and cute, Xiao Yao was unmoved in the slightest. He shook his head with an unchanged smile all the time, and only said that he would know when the performance came.

After eating dinner in the collective bickering with Ai Jun, Xiao Yao didn't rush back to the practice room to choreograph, but first let Wei Yunjing and others take a walk around the shooting base, euphemistically Take a walk to digest food. It took the seven people more than half an hour to walk around the perimeter of the base before returning to the practice room.

After returning to the practice room, everyone first listened to the accompaniment and soundtrack of the song again, and then Xiao Yao still did not rush to choreograph, but instead learned about the achievements of the six people in the afternoon.

Xiao Yao assigned a total of three tasks in the afternoon. One is to familiarize yourself with the song, one is to assign song passages, and the other is to design dance moves.

The best known of these is the second. This song has a total of three female voices, one male voice, and the rest are choruses sung by both male and female voices. The male voice is Xiao Yao's, and what needs to be divided is the three parts of the female voice. The three paragraphs of the female voice are all eight bars, but from the lyrics, the first paragraph can be divided into four sentences, each sentence has two bars, the next two paragraphs are three sentences, the first two sentences are three bars each, and the last sentence There are only two bars.

The result of the six people's discussion is to divide according to the ten lyrics. Except for Wei Yunjing and Lai Zhaodi who only sang one line, each of the other four sang two lines, and the four who sang one more line also sang the extra four lines in the first stanza with only two bars.

Xiao Yao was not surprised that Lai Zhaodi had only one solo line, but Wei Yunjing was slightly surprised that Wei Yunjing also had only one line. You must know that this song has no high-pitched parts, and the overall singing is not difficult. Even if Wei Yunjing is not a val, it is relatively easy to sing this song. Xiao Yao guessed that it was probably the sacrifice and concession made by her as the captain, but she didn't ask for confirmation, nor did she bring it up. He just took a look at Wei Yunjing and agreed to their singing arrangement.

"Although we have assigned different lyrics to each person, you should be able to sing the whole song. Let's hear how you got familiar with it this afternoon." Xiao Yao sat down next to the piano and began to understand the situation of the first item. , "Sing this song in turn, including the male part. Who will come first?"

"Ah? Is singing now?" Laizhaodi asked in surprise.

"It's nothing, just to understand," Xiao Yao comforted with a smile, "It's normal to have problems, and it doesn't matter, there are still a few days to come."

"Shi Yun, come here first! Make a sample for everyone!" Seeing that there was no sound, Xiao Yao began to click, "Accompaniment with the soundtrack or I can use the piano to accompany you on the spot, it's up to you."

"Ah? I haven't figured out the style of this song yet." Yang Shiyun also flinched.

"It's okay, I'll think about the style later," Xiao Yao said with a smile, "Just listen to your melody, tune, and intonation now. This is not a stage performance or an exam, so don't worry about it."

"Alright then!" Yang Shiyun stood up, "Then ask the senior to accompany me with the piano!"

The prelude to the soundtrack of this song is dominated by the sound of the guitar. Xiao Yao's feeling of playing the piano is very different at this time, but Yang Shiyun's musical quality is indeed very good and has not been affected. After the prelude, Yang Shiyun's singing sounded, whether it was rhythm, melody or pitch, it was very good.

"Very good, next one, Huiyi!" Xiao Yao nodded in satisfaction, and then named another Val in the team.

"I also use my senior's piano accompaniment!" With Yang Shiyun's appearance, Wu Huiyi stood up and said without being shy.

Wu Huiyi sang the whole song with the accompaniment of Xiao Yao, and her performance was also very good.

"The two of you can definitely debut as sl singers." Xiao Yao looked at the two who had sung and laughed.

"Then seniors, write two songs for them and send them to debut," Chen Ziwei said with a smile, "This way they don't have to compete with us here."

"It's easy to debut, hard to become popular, and even harder to stay popular." Xiao Yao shook his head with a smile, "How many people in this show have released singles or albums before? Not everything."

"So you start to dislike us?" Yang Shiyun smiled and said to Chen Ziwei, "We are teammates now!"

"No, no," Chen Ziwei waved his hands again and again, "I like you guys, so I'll help you find seniors to invite you to sing! How many singers are popular with your seniors' songs? If you can invite him to write songs for you, I've been so popular that I dare not say, But it’s definitely okay to be popular for a while.”

"Okay, next one, Chen Ziwei!" Xiao Yao interrupted.

"Ah? Is it up to me now? Alright!" Chen Ziwei stood up, "I'll ask my senior to accompany me too!"

Then Chen Ziwei, Lu Mingshuang and Wei Yunjing also sang the whole song with Xiao Yao's accompaniment. Although these three were not as good as the two vals, they were all pretty good. At least they sang the whole song, and Xiao Yao also praised it appropriately.

"The last one, Zhaodi!" Xiao Yao looked at the last one who came to Zhaodi.

"Oh!" Lai Zhaodi stood up with little confidence.

Xiao Yao smiled and played the prelude again.

"Big sister!" Xiao Yao stopped, looked at Lai Zhaodi helplessly and said.

"Ah? What's wrong?" Lai Zhaodi asked with a guilty conscience.

"Jingge is late." Yang Shiyun reminded in a low voice.

"It's not that I entered the song late, it's that I didn't enter it at all!" Xiao Yao said helplessly, "Not only did you miss the quarter beat of the song, but I played four beats and a bar later, and you still missed the song. Didn't sing."

"Ah, I'm sorry, teacher, no, senior!" Lai Zhaodi bowed.

"Come again, see my prompt." Xiao Yao said, "I nod, you can enter!"

"Okay!" Lai Zhaodi said.

Xiao Yao played the prelude to the song again. At the end of the prelude, Xiao Yao looked at Lai Zhaodi and nodded heavily. Seeing Xiao Yao nodding, Laizhaodi immediately began to sing.

Although it was still half a beat late, Xiao Yao didn't stop and let her continue singing. He just paused in the performance, trying to get back the half beat that night. As a result of Xiao Yao's meal, Lai Zhaodi's rhythm was also messed up, singing fast and slow, and it was even more out of tune with the accompaniment.

"I disrupted your rhythm, my fault!" Xiao Yao stopped and waved his hands, "Do it again!"

For the third time, Xiao Yao reminded Lai Zhaodi half a beat in advance that the timing of Lai Zhaodi's singing was right, but at the end of the song, the rhythm became fast and slow again, which didn't match the accompaniment. together. This time, Xiao Yao didn't make any rhythm adjustments. He gritted his teeth and wanted her to continue singing, to see if she could find the rhythm by herself in the end. But because of the accompaniment, Lai Zhaodi also knew that her rhythm was wrong, and the singing became more and more chaotic in the middle, and finally stopped when she couldn't continue singing.

"Teacher, senior, I~" Lai Zhaodi pursed her lips.

"Take it!" Xiao Yao swung his fist and shouted.

Lai Zhaodi was startled, and looked up at Xiao Yao.

"Look at my expression," Xiao Yao pointed at his smiling face and said, "I know your foundation is not good, so I don't blame you! Let's find a solution."

"How to solve this?" Everyone else asked.

Many of the other five had worked with Lai Zhaodi in the past. Even if they hadn't worked with the same group, they had heard that Lai Zhaodi was a major problem in the show. Dancing is a little easier to solve. How can the singing problem be solved in a short time?

"Let's do it the same way!" Xiao Yao said, "It's okay for you to have a poor sense of rhythm, but the intonation seems to be okay. I think the accompaniment may affect you, so how about you sing a cappella for me , let me first confirm if there is any problem with your pitch."

"Okay!" Lai Zhaodi nodded and started singing with the score.

"The intonation is not bad, in terms of tune." Hearing Zhaodi sing it again, Xiao Yao nodded.

"It's okay for me to sing by myself, but I tend to mess up when I have an accompaniment." Lai Zhaodi said.

"The rhythm of your singing is also problematic!" Xiao Yao looked at her with a helpless smile and said, "It's just that there is no accompaniment, so you can't hear it yourself!"

"Ah?" Lai Zhaodi lowered her head in embarrassment.

"I need to give you some special training to exercise your sense of rhythm." Xiao Yao touched his chin and said.

"Senior, are you going to give Zhaodi a little trouble?" Lu Mingshuang laughed.

"Yes!" Xiao Yao smiled and nodded, "Do you want to go together?"

"No, no, no!" Lu Mingshuang waved his hands repeatedly.

This is a small treatment for Lai Zhaodi's weakness. The few of them have no problems in this area, so they don't envy it at all, and they don't have any opinions.

"Come on, learn to beat the time with me!" Xiao Yao stretched out his hands to beat the time, "Hit, hit, hit, hit!"

"Hit, hit, hit, hit!" Laizhaodi repeated once.

"Repeat eight times. If you can feel that the speed is consistent, you basically have a sense of rhythm." Xiao Yao laughed.

"Oh!" Laizhaodi stretched out her hands again.

"Stop!" Xiao Yao waved his hand to stop, "You definitely can't do it now, and you can't do it tonight. It's training time now, you can't let the six of us do nothing and just watch you beat the beat Bar?"

"Oh, then I'll go back to practice by myself at night!" Laizhaodi said.

"This is a criterion for you to judge, not a practice method." Xiao Yao shook his head with a smile and said, "You have to go back to the dormitory and slap your hands all night, which will affect the rest of the people in the same dormitory, and you will be slapped!"

"Ah?" Laizhaodi was stunned again, "Then how should I practice?"

"Rhythm is a feeling, not by practice!" Xiao Yao said, "When you go back, you will download a metronome app on your phone and listen to it all the time to feel the rhythm. If you walk or eat It's rhythmic, and I think that feeling is almost there."

"That would be considered crazy?" Lai Zhaodi asked Xiao Yao after imagining it.

"Ha~" When Laizhaodi asked, the other five girls laughed. Think about it is indeed a bit like.

"Aren't you afraid that people will say you're stupid, and you're afraid that people will say you're crazy?" Xiao Yao said with a smile, "When I was filming a TV series for the first time, I was also treated as a lunatic by others, even my friends who grew up with me said I'm crazy, but the story behind, I think you should have heard of it?"

"Fei Tian Award for Best New Actor!" Lu Mingshuang hurriedly replied.

"When filming "127 Hours", I locked myself in the studio and lay on the ground for a day and two nights. I only brought a bottle of water and a piece of bread, and I was almost hungry for a day and a night." Xiao Yao added, "If you want to be successful, you have to be a little crazy. This world belongs to lunatics and paranoia!"

"Okay, I'll play the metronome and listen to it when I get back!" Lai Zhaodi nodded.

"Okay," Xiao Yao stood up from behind the piano, "That's all for singing today, and I'll correct any problems later. Now let's choreograph. Do you have any moves in mind? Do it for me first. have a look!"