Chapter Forty-Eight: A Winning and Losing Game

Yin Qingyue looked at the time, stood up and stretched.

Qu Jiani and Wu Peng, when they saw Yin Qingyue get up, immediately stopped their childish behavior.

"At that time, I want you to pick a few more people to come out, as Bass, if the situation allows, in addition to Uncle Gu and Xiao Ye, you can also choose a few more people to be VP......" Yin Qingyue finished speaking to Qin Feng, and then turned to Qin Ye and said, "Our Uncle Gu is not familiar with a cappella, you have to explain it to him more, after all, the VP of a cappella is still different from a simple beatbox performance." ”

As she spoke, she walked out, and the two brothers Qin Feng walked side by side with her, holding back a smile and nodding in response.

Qu Jiani, who was standing in place, was already laughing so hard that she couldn't straighten her waist, "Gu, Uncle Gu, hahaha...... Congratulations, Uncle Gu, you have been upgraded directly from the master. ”

Wu Peng was puzzled and depressed, and after glaring at Qu Jiani hard, curiosity still prevailed, and he caught up with Yin Qingyue and the three of them, who had already walked out, "Qin Xiaoye, Xiao Yeye, you wait for me, hurry up and talk to me more about a cappella." ”

"In fact, in the early days, a cappella was still accompanied by musical instruments, such as a guitar, or an organ, etc., and later, a cappella was also divided into many genres, but in modern times, everyone is more familiar with the complete absence of musical accompaniment, which is roughly divided into bass, VP, lead singer and vocal chorus of various voices...... Sister Qingyue and brother just now are trying to let you know a cappella more intuitively, so I directly use the concept of Beatbox to let you understand ...... first"

"Wait, what is VP?" Wu Peng interrupted Qin Ye's words and asked a new question.

"In a cappella, the singer is often required to use the voice to imitate various instruments or other special sounds, which we usually call VP, which is short for Vocal /percussion, which means vocal percussion, vocal rhythm. When Qin Ye encountered something he liked, he actually opened the conversation box and talked endlessly for Gu "Curious Baby" Peng.

"Huh, what's the difference between that and B-BOX?"

"The difference is ......"

The figures of everyone gradually faded away, and the sound of conversation became smaller and smaller, Qu Jiani heard the conversation between Wu Peng and Qin Ye, and couldn't help but hold his forehead, and said to himself: "Alas, even if the young master and Xiao Ye can get the score, MIDI, and the single-track and single-track MIDI of each voice part done well in three days, they only have sixteen days to rehearse...... After the parts are divided, there are still some adjustments to be made during rehearsal...... Plus there's an unreliable VP...... It's really worrying!"

She raised her head and looked at the speckled sunlight shining from the wisteria flowers, her eyes full of excitement and expectation: "However, such a challenging life is really new and exciting, haha ^_^"

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After the coordination of Mr. Liu, from the afternoon of the 3rd to the group competition, the last class in the afternoon and the evening self-study time were vacated as rehearsals, and even after Yin Qingyue told him his idea of the competition repertoire, he also intimately helped everyone get a small closed rehearsal room.

"Come on, look forward to your secret weapon!" Mr. Liu blinked his shrewd little eyes and made a V gesture.

Seeing his sudden cuteness, Yin Qingyue's right eyebrow jumped, and the corners of Qin Feng's mouths couldn't help twitching, and they felt a big drop of sweat on the back of their heads......

During the first day of rehearsal, Mr. Liu brought new news: the top three classes in the finals of the campus will be rewarded with extra points in the final examination of this semester, and if the top three collectives in the finals can also get extra points in the college entrance examination in the future, and the school will also reward an additional trip during the summer vacation. The most important thing is that such award-winning experiences will be recorded in the archives to help them in their future studies and job searches.

After Mr. Liu announced the "explosion" news, he left the rehearsal room and left the venue to them.

As soon as he left, everyone surrounded Yin Qingyue and couldn't wait to ask her questions about the repertoire of the competition.

Yin Qingyue told everyone about his idea, most people have heard of or come into contact with a cappella, even if they didn't know it before, as a person who can be admitted to the top class, the foundation of vocal music will not be bad, so everyone agrees with this idea, and they are eager to start rehearsing immediately.

"In the team competition on campus, because the third year of high school has to prepare for the college entrance examination, I chose to give up the competition," Yin Qingyue said after signaling everyone to be quiet, "In other words, there are a total of twelve groups of participating teams on the day of the competition, and one game will be won or lost." ”

She paused, glanced at her classmates, and saw that their expressions of excitement began to retract and become solemn, before she asked, "Do you want to win?"

"Yes!" everyone replied in unison.

"A cappella doesn't mean that you can master it to the extent that you can win the award if you rehearse casually, so during the rehearsal process, I will be very strict, and you will be very hard, so if you want to quit early, please bring it up now, I will report to Teacher Liu, these people will be treated as normal leave, and no one will embarrass him (her),"

Yin Qingyue paused for a moment and said in an accentuated tone, "However, if I force myself to stay in order to get extra points during the exam, but during the rehearsal, I will definitely not show mercy to everyone because I am afraid of hardship!"

As soon as her voice fell, the people in the class began to shout-

"Don't worry, squad leader, don't say it's you, we won't let go of such a person!"

"That's right!"

"Whoever dares to be lazy or something, Lao Tzu will be the first to beat him!"

"Yes, he beat him so much that his own mother couldn't recognize him!"

Yin Qingyue raised her hand and made a "stop" gesture, and the rehearsal room immediately fell silent.

"Now, I'll give you five minutes to consider what I just said, whether to leave or stay, and after five minutes, tell me to make a decision - remember, once it's decided, there is no remorse, and those who leave are absolutely not allowed to leak out our performance form!"

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Five minutes later, forty-three people in the class, including Yin Qingyue's five, all stayed, as if they were afraid that others would not see his (her) determination, and stood in line with their heads raised and chests straight, which was comparable to the military posture review ceremony during military training.

Yin Qingyue looked at everyone's energetic faces, smiled and said: "Then, in the next time, no matter how hard it is, please remember your determination today, and report the belief that you will win, whether it is for the class or for yourself, together, fight for honor!"

"Yes!" replied neatly and loudly, echoing through the rehearsal room.

"In addition to this, I have two other requirements: first, as I said before, the format and songs of our participation in the competition are required to be kept secret before the official competition;

Second, since we had never worked together in a cappella before, and even some of my classmates were new to the concept, I would do some work assignments later, and ask everyone to follow the guidance of their respective group leaders according to their own groups during rehearsals. ”

She put her hands behind her back, and her keen gaze swept over everyone, as if she could see through people's hearts: "You guys, can you do it?"

"Yes!" they replied neatly.

Yin Qingyue bowed: "Whoever has experience as a VP, or knows how to beatbox, stand up first." ”

In addition to Qin Ye and Wu Peng, there were three boys who stood up.

She motioned for Qin Ye to take these people to the side to do the test first, she had already given the songs she had selected to Qin Ye and the four of them, so he knew how to proceed.

"For the rest, do the vocal range test. ”

She took out a stack of staves from her backpack, pressed the three parts of high, medium and low, and she took a few clips in advance and wrote them for testing.

The score was handed to Qin Feng and Qu Jiani, and the three of them were divided into three groups to test and group the rest.

Before the end of the class, the overall division of labor was finally arranged.

As the director, she is responsible for the tune and speed of the songs, the score, etc., the tedious and trivial work, and the overall situation; Qin Ye is mainly responsible for the arrangement of the rhythm group, and also serves as the leader of the VP group, responsible for selecting the team members, and guiding other VPs, and coordinating with the choir; Qin Feng is responsible for the selection and guidance of the bass group members; Qu Jiani is responsible for the selection and guidance of the backing singer group.

As for the lead singer, everyone felt that Yin Qingyue should be the role, so she didn't waste time discussing this issue.

Considering that it was the first time for everyone to cooperate and there were a large number of people, she called Zhang Jianjun aside again, did some questions and a few tests, and then decided that if it was difficult for everyone to find the right cut point during the rehearsal process, he would be the conductor.

In the next three rehearsals, everyone gathered in the rehearsal room to listen to the original song on a loop and familiarize themselves with the melody.

Yin Qingyue and Qin Ye seized the time to do a good job in the preliminary work such as the general score and MIDI.

In the midst of the busyness, time flies, and in the blink of an eye, the weekend is coming, and the second and third races of the individual competition will start again......