Chapter 956: Two Groups of Musicians
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"Yang, how do you want to play?" Several musicians also asked Xiao Yao, "Do you have an idea?"
"First of all, it's the changes in rhythm and speed." Xiao Yao turned to look at the musicians and said.
"It's a good idea to change the rhythm and speed." Several musicians nodded and said, "But how and where?"
"My idea is," Xiao Yao said, "the first verse and chorus remain unchanged. From the second verse, we speed up the playing speed. At the beginning of the third verse, we change the The tempo slowed down and became even slower than the original version. The third verse is relatively short, so it doesn’t take long after this section is slowed down. Starting from the preparatory chorus of this section, we speed up again, I I think it's better to go faster than the second stanza, and then go back to the original speed when it comes to the final chorus."
"Fast, slow, fast, it doesn't sound very complicated." The drummer with the drum kit nodded and asked again, "But how fast and slow do you want to change?"
"When we were practicing just now, the speed was about 96 beats per minute," Xiao Yao thought for a while, and said, "I want to speed up by one-third in the second section, so that it becomes about 128 beats per minute. The speed of the third section slows down. Reduce and speed up by half, respectively, 48 beats per minute and 144 beats per minute. Let's practice this way first and try the effect, okay?"
"No problem!" several musicians said.
There is no metronome on site, but everyone is an experienced professional musician, and the feeling and grasp of the tempo of the music are nothing to worry about. 96 beats per minute is a relatively common medium speed in music. You didn’t have any problems with the speed when you practiced before. On this basis, it’s no problem for you to increase or decrease by one-third and one-half. No matter how difficult it is, as long as they are unified in advance.
"Wait," Cordy Scott interjected, "Jan, you just said first? So is there anything else?"
"Other things, I improvise when I'm preparing to practice, so I don't have any requirements for the musicians in the band." Xiao Yao said here, and suddenly said, "By the way, for the chorus part, please help me to sing the harmony together .”
"Okay, no problem!" Several musicians laughed.
Xiao Yao's sheet music for several musicians has only the melody and no lyrics. However, the chorus marked by Xiao Yao on the song only has one line of lyrics. The first two times are repeated twice, and the last time is repeated four times. The musicians have heard Xiao Yao sing it three times. Even if they still can't remember the lyrics of the whole song, they can still remember a line of the chorus.
After the discussion, the rehearsal continued.
According to the agreement, the prelude and the verse of the first verse have not changed much this time. In the two lines of the first chorus, several musicians opened their mouths to sing with Xiao Yao. Xiao Yao didn't make any "moths" at this time, and sang a chorus with the musicians very routinely.
When it came to the second verse, all the musicians obviously accelerated their performance, and Xiao Yao's singing speed naturally increased accordingly.
From here on, the rhythm of the whole song speeds up, giving people a different feeling overall, and Xiao Yao also began to give people a different feeling. The change in Xiao Yao's singing is not just an increase in speed, but also the addition of improvisation. For example, at the end of the first line of the second verse, Xiao Yao suddenly flicked his tongue when he sang "".
As soon as the weird voice came out, everyone showed a very surprised expression. But everyone is very professional. Although the musicians all showed surprised smiles, they didn't stop their hands, and there were no pauses or mistakes in the accompaniment of the instruments. Although Cordy Scott, who was on the sidelines, pointed at Xiao Yao in surprise and amused, he didn't laugh out loud to interfere with everyone's rehearsal.
Xiao Yao’s improvisation was not limited to tongue-tapping singing in this place. When it came to the second chorus, the band members sang harmony with him, and Xiao Yao joined in the interval between the two sentences. Humming without understanding the meaning of the lyrics.
These hummings without actual lyrics made Cordy Scott and the musicians more aware of Xiao Yao's current state of improvisation, and made their perception of Xiao Yao even higher.
"It's great, it's very interesting!" At the end of the song, Cordy Scott, who was on the sidelines, clapped his hands heartily, "Yan, you are really unbelievable!"
"Cordy, I like this guy!" the electric guitarist shouted to Cordy Scott with a smile.
"Thank you!" Xiao Yao smiled at the guitarist, "But I'm here now! You like me, shouldn't you tell me directly?"
"Ha~" Xiao Yao's ridicule caused laughter at the scene.
The laughter continued, the door of the rehearsal room was pushed open, and a female voice sounded: "What did I miss?"
Everyone turned their heads and saw Nicky Thompson walking in. Behind her, besides her manager Amy Hatton, there was also a staff member named Vincent.
"Nicky, are you done with your rehearsal?" Cordy Scott asked.
"Yes!" Nicky Thompson nodded, "I'll be fine after the rehearsal, come and see how your rehearsal is going."
"It seems to be going well?" Nicky Thompson asked again.
"It's better than going smoothly!" Cordy Scott laughed, "Young is really talented. His new song is very good. I practiced a few times just now, and there are no major problems in coordination. It's even better. What's more, he has made some special changes and designs for the live performance of the stage performance, which feels great and very interesting. I believe he should have no problem winning this opportunity to perform."
"Really?" Nicky Thompson was happy at first, then withdrew his smile a little, looked at Xiao Yao with a half-smile and said, "I remember that someone was invited by Amy to be a stage director for me. He became a guest performer. If it didn’t help me, I won’t say anything, and I need someone else to help him with musical instruments!”
"A friendly reminder," Xiao Yao said with a smile, "If I remember correctly, I was not the one who suggested me to replace Hopson as a guest performer! It was you and Cody who suggested to Mr. Green that I should be a performer For the guests, I agreed to fight for it, and I didn't embarrass you in front of Mr. Green, didn't this help you?"
"By the way," Xiao Yao said again, "It was you who first suggested to Mr. Green that I be a guest performer! Cody just expressed to Mr. Green that he agreed with your suggestion, and he said it after you. The result Now it's Cordy who helps me out with musicians and instruments, and you, who do nothing!"
"Ha~" Cordy laughed, "Young makes a lot of sense!"
"Hey, Cody, who are you helping?" Nicky Thompson gave Cody Scott a dissatisfied look.
"Of course it's helping Yang!" Cordy Scott said as a matter of course, "Why should I help you?"
"Okay, Nicky," Amy Hatton said, "You can't say no, it's not like you haven't suffered a lot!"
"Okay, let me help you!" Nicky Thompson said to Xiao Yao, "All you need now is a musician. I was rehearsing just now, so I couldn't lend you a musician. Now that I'm done rehearsing, I can lend you a musician. I lent you my hand. I'll send my musicians over now, and replace Cordy's musicians. When you're on stage later, I'll have my musicians accompany you!"
"Hey, Nicky, what are you doing?" Cordy Scott said, "They've already practiced almost like Young!"
"It's okay, you can practice again!" Nicky Thompson said, "Young is very reasonable. I suggested to David that Yang be a guest performer, but I didn't help him. I'm sorry, so I want to Help him! I only spent half an hour rehearsing, and you guys are almost done. There is still more than an hour before the time David said, and there is still time to practice again!"
"Nicky, don't mess around!" Amy Hatton said.
"Yan, what do you say?" Nicky Thompson looked at Xiao Yao and said.
"Thank you for providing me with musicians." Xiao Yao nodded with a smile, "Many musicians use their own instruments, which have already been arranged here, and it would be troublesome to exchange them. Why don't you find another one from the organizer? Looking for a rehearsal room? Also, I heard that your performance has backing singers, can you also call the backing singers and ask them to rehearse with me?"
"Yan, what are you doing?" Curdy Scott asked in surprise, "You really want to change musicians?"
"Heh~" Xiao Yao smiled, turned his head and said to the musicians, "Thank you everyone, please continue to practice this song, and I will ask you to help me with the accompaniment when I get to the stage later!"
"You still want us to play the accompaniment?" Several musicians asked doubtfully, "Then do you want to change musicians?"
The musicians had a good time rehearsing with Xiao Yao, but after hearing what Xiao Yao asked Nicky Thompson for a musician, their expressions became less pleasant. Originally, everyone worked hard to line up with you for half an hour, but you said you wanted to change people? But now after listening to Xiao Yao's words, everyone really doesn't understand what Xiao Yao means.
Cordy Scott, Nicky Thompson, and Amy Hatton also looked at each other, feeling confused, not knowing what Xiao Yao meant. In the end, it was Cordy Scott who asked, "Jan, what do you mean? Are you going to change musicians?"
"Change? Why do you want to change?" Xiao Yao laughed.
"If you don't change, why did you ask Nicky to call the musicians and backing singers to find a rehearsal venue?" Cordy Scott asked.
"Because I decided to cooperate with two groups of musicians and prepare two performances." Xiao Yao said, "Since Nicky wants to provide me with musicians, I don't want to disappoint her kindness, so I will prepare one more song. You My musicians will accompany me on "the", and Nicky's musicians and backing singers will accompany and sing another song for me, and I will be on stage separately. In addition, these two songs are my works, the musicians They are relatively unfamiliar, but I am very familiar with them, and I don’t need as much practice time as them. In this way, when I prepare the second song, this side can also use this time to continue to practice familiarity.”
"You want to prepare two performances?" Cordy Scott and Nicky Thompson asked in surprise in unison.
"That's right!" Xiao Yao said, "Mr. Green didn't say that I can only perform one song, right? Of course, tomorrow night's award ceremony must only perform one song, but tonight is my competition with that Korean group. There is no rule that only one song can be sung, I can prepare two performances for Mr. Green to choose from! Don’t you think that my chances of winning will be greater?”
"This~" Everyone looked at Xiao Yao speechlessly.
"Nicky, what do you say?" Xiao Yao said to Nicky Thompson this time.
Nicky Thompson gritted his teeth, turned to Vincent and Amy Hatton and said, "Vinson, please help us find another rehearsal place, Amy, go talk to the musicians and the backing singer .”
"I don't need all the musicians to come. The musicians I need are..." Xiao Yao told Amy Hatton the requirements for the configuration of the required musicians, and finally said, "In addition, I personally need an acoustic guitar."
"Okay, no problem!" Amy Hatton gestured.
In the current situation, it is impossible for Amy Hatton to say that Nicky Thompson is messing around and can only cooperate with them.
"Do you want to play the guitar yourself for the second song?" Cordy Scott asked with a smile.
"Of course!" Xiao Yao helped the acoustic guitar in his arms.
Nicky Thompson saw Xiao Yao holding the guitar in his hand, and remembered that he had invited him to be the guitarist, and said, "Yan, I haven't heard what the song you rehearsed with Cordy's band looks like. My band's rehearsal room has some prep time, can you guys rehearse it now."
"It is possible, but I think I need to do another thing first." Xiao Yao said.
"What else are you going to do?" Cordy Scott asked.
"Score!" Xiao Yao said, "The rehearsal with Nicky's band is also a new song that has not been released. The musicians must not know about it. I need to write out the score of that song first. I don’t know how long it will take them to prepare the rehearsal room, but I think it’s better to write it out first, so that even if our rehearsals are endless, they can take a look in advance and get familiar with it first. You don't have to sit around and wait."
"Save time!" Cordy Scott nodded and waved to the assistant again.
The assistant immediately handed over the pen and paper to Xiao Yao. Xiao Yao still used the back of the guitar as a desk and buried himself in writing.
"This song is called lucky?" Curdy Scott asked when Xiao Yao wrote his name on the top of the score.
"Yes!" Xiao Yao nodded with a smile, "This song has something to do with myself!"
"Oh?" Cordy Scott said, "You wrote it yourself?"
"Yeah," Xiao Yao said, "I came to the United States for a vacation, and coming here tonight was not in my plan. As a result, Hopson had an accident, and I became a candidate for a guest performance. Aren't I very Are you lucky?"
"But you didn't really want to be a guest performer at this award ceremony." Nicky Thompson said.
"Ha!" Xiao Yao smiled.
"Yan," said Cordy Scott, "this time, can you write the lyrics and let me see what the lyrics look like?"
Xiao Yao refused to be his backup singer and guitarist. He agreed with Nicky Thompson. He felt that Xiao Yao didn't really care about the identity of the performer at the Billboard Awards Ceremony. Later, he agreed that David Green should be with those Koreans. related. He wanted to see the relationship between this song and Xiao Yao from the lyrics.
"Yes!" Xiao Yao nodded, "But we have to wait until the end."
Xiao Yao wrote several scores, and made notes on the scores for players with special instruments such as drums and bass for easy performance, and finally wrote the lyrics on one of the scores.
Cordy Scott has been standing beside Xiao Yao, bowing his head and watching him write. When Xiao Yao wrote the lyrics of "boyihearyou", Cody Scott couldn't help asking curiously, "Did you write this song for a female singer?"
"Really?" Nicky Thompson, who was standing aside with some reserve, couldn't help but walk over after hearing what Cordy Scott said.
"Oh," Xiao Yao smiled, "you will know when you hear it!"