Chapter 178 Rehearsal

  As soon as the three girls left, the band members surrounded Xiao Yao.

   "Where's the score? Take it out first." Dean said most eagerly.

  "Here, here, let's take your time, everyone." Xiao Yao took out a few pieces of paper from his schoolbag.

   "Why are there any differences? How many songs did you write?" Dean glanced at the papers he had received from Xiao Yao.

   "It's the same, see clearly. That's piano score, drum score and bass score." Xiao Yao rolled his eyes and said.

   "Oh, that's true." Dean took a closer look and found that the four-line is bass score, the five-line has two, the upper and lower two rows are piano scores, and the five-line alone is drum kit. There is also a stave that is a vocal score with music and lyrics together.

  "Where did you use paper for these musical instrument scores?" It was Samien who asked this time.

   "Ball-point pen and ruler, I drew on white paper by myself." Xiao Yao shrugged. "It's not difficult to draw a few parallel lines."

   "It's not difficult to draw lines, but how do you know these individual instrument scores? Do you know piano, drums, and bass too?" Mike said with a rare bass score.

   "Yes, I didn't say that I can only play guitar." Xiao Yao said naturally.

   "What else do you have?" Dean looked at Xiao Yao. After getting along for more than two months, he thought he knew Xiao Yao well, and now it seemed that he still had too many secrets in this guy that he didn't know.

"Instrument?" He started to count his fingers: "In addition to piano, guitar, bass, drums, but also ocarina, harmonica, saxophone, erhu... By the way, erhu is a traditional Chinese stringed instrument. There are only two strings..."

   "Enough, you can start a band by yourself." George couldn't help but interrupt.

   "This sounds like a good idea." Xiao Yao said, touching his chin. At this moment, Xiao Yao remembered the owlcity from his previous life, and it seemed that he could have fun like this after returning to China.

   "Hey, are you looking at me or the score?" Xiao Yao raised his head, but saw several people looking at him like aliens, and reminded him aloud.

  After Xiao Yao’s reminder, the few people picked up the music score in their hands and looked at it as if they were waking up from a dream.

  Samien glanced at Xiao Yao, who was empty-handed, and asked, "Everyone has scores, what about your guitar scores?"

   "Here." Xiao Yao smiled and pointed to his head, then closed his eyes.

  Although everyone has no creative talents, after all, they are playing teams, and there is still nothing to say about the knowledge of music theory and musical instruments. So within a few seconds, everyone hummed quietly to the score.

  About two or three minutes later, everyone went through this song by Xiao Yao. And everyone's first feeling after humming is: This song is really awesome! Don't lose to the hot hits on the bulletin board charts.

"I have an idea." Dean said after humming the score. "Isn't our band still without a name? The temporary name of the West Bridge Middle School Band is boring, and it's too uncharacteristic. How about Immortals? This song is the first song of our band, so use the name of this song as the name of our band."

   "This song is made by Yang." Samien frowned and reminded Dean.

"Keyang is now also a member of our band. His songs, that is, our band's songs..." Dean looked at Samien, suddenly understood what Samien meant, and quickly explained, "Of course, if In the future, when this song can be released, the author of the song will definitely be signed by Yang alone. The ownership of this song is Yang alone, not the entire band."

  Gorgeous and Mike, who were beaming on the side, heard Dean’s words and nodded in support.

   "I have no opinion." Xiao Yao nodded in agreement.

  "Well, in this case, everyone should hurry up and get familiar with the score. When Jenna and the others buy dinner, everyone will start rehearsing after eating. Our band’s first song of the same name, everyone must not play it."

Because there are five members in the band and they are going to perform live performances, Xiao Yao removed the prelude part of the soundtrack from the original version of "Immortals" from the previous life. Xiao Yao felt like a flute and a sound like a flute. The instrument sound of the whistle was replaced by the keyboard sound. At the same time, for the live effect, a section of guitar and bass solo was added to the middle of the song, which made the whole song more appealing, without some electronic sound, but more like a traditional pop rock song. . Judging from the effect shown during rehearsal, it seems to be pretty good.

  This song was written by Xiao Yao, so it is naturally the most familiar to Xiao Yao. So in the rehearsal, Xiao Yao unconsciously assumed the role of guidance.

   "Stop, George, you're slower."

   "Mike, your tempo is not right, grab a shot. Come on."

   "Samien, you missed the beat the previous time, and you missed the drum beat. Pay attention next time."

   "Dean, the tune was gone just now, singing rock is more than just shouting, pitch is also very important."

  "Stop, sorry, I just strummed one less string. Let’s do it again."

   Xiao Yao pointed out from time to time everyone including their own mistakes and omissions, sometimes interrupting the rehearsal and stopping to say, sometimes waiting for the completion of a performance before raising them.

   "Yang, who are you anyway?" Dean couldn't help but ask Xiao Yao during a break in the rehearsal.

Dean was not questioning Xiao Yao’s guidance. The mistakes and omissions pointed out by Xiao Yao were facts. He just didn’t understand why Xiao Yao’s ears were so powerful. No matter who made the mistake, he could point out his mistakes. In the case of playing. "I suspect that you are not Xiao Yao, the mathematics genius of China Yanjing No. 2 Middle School, but a musical genius who imposts you."

"Haha," Xiao Yao smiled, "Actually, Xiao Yao, who is good at math in Yanjing No. 2 Middle School, has a father who is an original singer and producer. He has been learning music with his father since he was a child, and his ears have also passed through. His father trained in music for more than ten years."

"You mean, your dad is a singer and producer who plays music. You also learned music from your dad since you were a kid, so you write songs. With so many instruments, your ears are so good?" Dean looked at Xiao Yao said.

   "Yes," Xiao Yao nodded, "That's what I meant."

   "Then your academic record?" Dean continued to ask.

   "Of course it is true." Xiao Yao said, "One is school education, the other is family education. Because my expertise in literature and art has nothing to do with school education, the information given by the school does not mention it."

   "But that's also incredible, you are simply a genius, double material. What is your IQ?" Mike also leaned over.

   "I haven't tested it, I don't know." Xiao Yao smiled and shook his head.

After the end of the first day of rehearsal, although the results of the joint exercise were not ideal and time was still tight, both the songs Xiao Yao took out and the performance of Xiao Yao during the first day of rehearsal gave everyone a great deal. Confidence. I believe that as long as we can practice well this week, the band will be able to make a big hit on the performance of the school celebration.

  Originally purely to support her best friend Samien’s Jenna, the three of them became the first three loyal fans of the band after watching the band’s rehearsal for this day. In the next few days of rehearsal, all three of them attended all day long. While being an audience, they also took on the logistical work of buying food and water for the band members.

  On the first three days, the loyal audience of the band rehearsal was Jenna and the others. On the fourth day, the fourth audience appeared.

   "What the **** is this..."

  At halfway through the fourth day of rehearsal, the warehouse door to the supermarket was opened for the first time. A girl wearing an apron and a baseball cap printed with the supermarket name LOGO pushed the door into the warehouse. As soon as she entered the warehouse, she was taken aback by the deafening music inside.

Because the heavy iron door has a good sound insulation effect, and the warehouse is separated from the front sales area by an office and an aisle, so in the supermarket sales area, the sound of the band rehearsal in the warehouse is not very audible, plus the supermarket broadcast There is music in the speakers, and the rehearsal of the band will not affect the business of the supermarket in front. This is also one of the reasons why Robert Johnson agreed to lease the warehouse for the band to rehearse.

  However, only the owner Robert Johnson and a few employees know about renting the warehouse to rehearse for the band. Not everyone who works here knows about it. Obviously the girl who had just walked into the warehouse was one of the unsuspecting employees.

"Jin," Xiao Yao, who was facing the warehouse and supermarket door, saw that the girl who came in was scared and screamed, and also showed a puzzled expression. He stopped quickly, put down the instrument and walked over to say hello and explained. : "Our band rented this place for rehearsal. It was approved by Mr. Johnson."

  The girl in front of me, like Xiao Yao, is here part-time as a tally clerk. The other day was probably not her working day, so she didn't know it.

"Okay," the girl named Jin also knew Xiao Yao who was also working here part-time, nodded and said: "Since the boss agreed, there is no problem. I came in to get the beer, and the shelves outside are almost sold out. "

"We moved the goods here, so some things are not in their original places." Xiao Yao said, "The beer you want is there and put it on the shelf on the third floor. Let me move it for you. How much do you want? "

   "Okay, thank you, I want to get a box." Jin said as he looked at the three-story shelf that had to be reached by a ladder.

   "OK, wait a minute." As he said, Xiao Yao quickly moved a ladder to stand beside the beer shelf, climbed up and brought out a box of beer. Jin did not stand in place and waited, but stood by the ladder and took the beer from Xiao Yao who was still standing on the ladder.

   "Are you okay with yourself? I have to continue rehearsing." Xiao Yao jumped off the ladder, greeted Jin, and ran back to the band without waiting for her answer.

   "Yang, don't pick up girls during rehearsal, okay?" Dean joked as he looked at Xiao Yao who was running back.

   "I was helping a colleague. It is not easy for a girl to climb the ladder. Besides, beer was originally on the first floor, but we moved it to the third floor." Xiao Yao shot back.

   "Are you familiar with that girl? Where does she come from? What does she do?" Samien asked this time.

   "I don't know her very well, I only know that she is called Jin, she is of Chinese descent, and she is also part-time tally and sells goods. She seems to be a student in a dance school." Xiao Yao scratched his head.

   "People learn to dance, they are very flexible, how difficult is it to get up the ladder?" Samien rolled his eyes and said.

   "Hey, who said he should hurry up to rehearse, and he still didn't practice? Where did he practice just now? Next." Xiao Yao could only use his commander's power to forcibly divert the topic.

  The girl named Jin took the beer and walked to the supermarket, not fast. Xiao Yao and she have both worked here for more than two months, and have seen them many times, but the two are not very familiar with each other, so they are only limited to meeting and saying hello. Unexpectedly, this big boy, who usually looks very ordinary except for his good-looking and sunny appearance, is actually a playing team.

  Dance students are also interested in music, so Jin was a little curious about the songs rehearsed by the band, and deliberately slowed down.

  "Because, we, could, be, Immooo...Immortals, Immooo...Immortals, Immooo...Immortals, Immooo...Immortals..."

   A burst of high-pitched singing came, and Jin looked back curiously, and saw Xiao Yao standing on a standing microphone, hissing while playing the guitar.

  Since the first day of rehearsal, Xiao Yao pointed out several intonation problems to Dean and performed a demonstration, Dean suggested that the band should be changed from a single vocalist to a dual vocalist configuration, and he and Xiao Yao would sing a paragraph each.

Everyone saw Xiao Yao’s performance. Therefore, all members of the band except Xiao Yao expressed their approval for the first time. Only Xiao Yao raised a question to Dean: "You don’t know how to make an instrument, you I play the guitar when I sing, what are you doing when I sing?"

"I sing the first part and you sing the second part. When you sing, the song is almost at the climax. I just took the microphone and bounced around on the stage, waving to the audience to create the atmosphere. "Dean took it for granted.

  This move seemed reasonable, and Xiao Yao accepted it. So when Jin turned his head, he happened to see Xiao Yao singing.

   "It's really good, and this song seems to be very nice." Phnom Penh thought as he walked to the supermarket, "I will get off work soon. It seems that I can come over and listen to the complete song after get off work."

  So, the Immortals band had a fourth audience during the rehearsal, but this fourth audience basically hid in the corner of the warehouse and listened secretly.

  (End of this chapter)