Chapter 957: Two Voices
This song is the second song that Xiao Yao has prepared, and it will be rehearsed with Nicky Thompson's musicians in a while, and it won't be long before Nicky Thompson and Cordy Scott can be seen, so both of them don't care too much about Xiao Yao's behavior. Nicky Thompson just pouted, Cordie Scott just smiled, and the two went on.
"luckyi'minlovewithmybestfriend~" When Cordy Scott saw Xiao Yao write the chorus, he couldn't help but read it out, and smiled randomly, "Ha, I like this sentence!"
"Of course you do!" said Nicky Thompson, "because your wife is your best friend!"
Cordy Scott's wife was his middle school classmate, and he was a childhood sweetheart, and the two developed from good friends to lovers and eventually got married. Cordy Scott is a representative of American stars who are long-term and single-minded, and he is very affectionate with his wife, and this past has been picked up by the media to report and promote, and Nicky Thompson knows it.
"Hehe~" Cordy Scott smiled.
"But I don't like it!" said Nicky Thompson.
Although I don't know if Xiao Yao's song was written for female singers, although Xiao Yao's lyrics have not been written, but judging from the lyrics that Xiao Yao has written, Nikki Thompson has basically determined that this is a very warm and romantic sweet love song. And Nicky Thompson just broke up with her boyfriend not long ago, and is currently single, so she will naturally be a little unhappy to see this kind of song.
"Why?" asked Cordy Scott deliberately.
He certainly knows why. Nicky Thompson's romance is the focus of American gossip media. Some time ago, Nicky Thompson broke up with her boyfriend, and the gossip media reported it, and Cordy Scott only heard about it.
"The whole world is full of the sour smell of love, only I exude the fragrance of a single dog!" Xiao Yao suddenly said with a smile.
"What?" asked Cordy Scott and Nicky Thompson in unison.
"Nothing, just a sudden remark. Xiao Yao smiled, "It's not the lyrics in my song!"
This sentence comes from a Japanese animation work in the previous life, which is very popular on the Internet in Huaxia, and it can be regarded as a stalk, but there are no similar anime works in this world, whether it is Huaxia or Japan, this sentence has not appeared, so it became Xiao Yao's.
"I think it's beautiful! It's great to write the lyrics!" laughs Cordy Scott, "Of course, it's not a good fit for this song, but it's perfect for a song about broken love and loneliness." I think it's going to be a very pop and really good lyric! Jan, you're really stylish!"
"Thank you for inspiring me!" Xiao Yao smiled.
"You're talking about me?" said Nicky Thompson, glaring at Xiao Yao.
Nicky Thompson has mentioned Cordy Scott's wife just now, whether Xiao Yao knew that Cordy Scott was married or not, he must know it now. Of the three of them, only Nicky Thompson is single, and Xiao Yao obviously didn't mean the musicians next to him.
Xiao Yao smiled slightly, and answered Nicky Thompson's question.
"Haha!" Cordy Scott laughed out loud, "so Jan is helping you answer the why!"
"Bad guys!" Nicky Thompson said angrily, pointing at the two of them, "both of you!"
"Ok, I'm a bad guy!" Xiao Yao smiled, "Then you still want to help the bad guys, borrow bad guy musicians, and watch the bad guys rehearse?"
"Of course!" said Nicky Thompson at once, "even if you are a bad person, I will not go back on what I promised." Also, I already knew you were the bad guy!"
"Alright!" Xiao Yao said as he collected a few of the written scores and handed them to Nicky Thompson, "can you please find someone to help me hand over to your musicians, and let them take a look at them first." For the one with the lyrics, please give it to the harmony singer, and the chorus part of the song needs to be harmonized. ”
Nicky Thompson took it and handed it to the assistant girl behind him and said, "Give it to Amy, tell Amy what he said." ”
The assistant girl nodded and took it, turning to leave.
"Guys, while you're free now, let's practice together again!" After the assistant girl left, Xiao Yao hugged the guitar and turned to the other musicians.
"Good!" several musicians naturally nodded in agreement.
What everyone rehearsed this time is naturally a variation of the one that has been practiced once just now and prepared for the live performance on stage. The changing rhythm, Xiao Yao's tongue flicking and other improvisations made Nicky Thompson's eyes shine.
"How's it going?" asked Nicky Thompson after singing a song.
"You're a bad guy, but I have to admit that you're very good!" said Nicky Thompson, "In my opinion, the Korean group can't beat you with your performance on this song, do you really need to prepare another song?"
"I feel like he has some other skills that aren't shown in this song. Hurty Scott rubbed his chin and said, "He's going to write another song, maybe to show off something else about his music." ”
"Oh?" Xiao Yao glanced at Cordy Scott with some surprise.
"Did Cordy guess right?" Nicky Thompson noticed Xiao Yao's expression.
"Hehe~" Xiao Yao smiled.
"Forget it, you'll be able to see it in a moment anyway. When Nicky Thompson saw Xiao Yao like this, he knew that he would not answer directly.
Xiao Yao turned his head and continued to discuss some small problems in this rehearsal with the musicians, and then practiced together again. Halfway through this joint practice, Amy Hatton pushed the door in. However, seeing that Xiao Yao was rehearsing, he didn't bother him, and it wasn't until Xiao Yao finished singing the whole song in this rehearsal that Amy Hatton told Xiao Yao that the rehearsal room was ready, and the musicians and backing vocals were in place and could go over to rehearse.
Xiao Yao greeted the musicians here, got up and went to another rehearsal room with Amy Hatton, and Nicky Thompson and Cordy Scott naturally followed.
In another rehearsal room, Amy Hatton introduced Xiao Yao and the musicians to each other. The score has been given to musicians and harmony singers before, what instruments are played, and where the harmony singer needs to sing are marked on the score. Xiao Yao and the musicians briefly greeted each other, asked them if they had any questions about the score, and then began rehearsals.
The intro of the song is short, and there is only one acoustic guitar as the soundtrack. After Xiao Yao held the acoustic guitar in his hand and played two bars, he began to sing:
“doyouhearme,talkingtoyou…”
"Oh~" Listening to Xiao Yao sing the first line of the beginning, Nicky Thompson and Cordy Scott were a little amazed in their hearts. The two were amazed not only by Xiao Yao's singing, but also by the state he was showing now.
When I rehearsed "Theremedy" with the musicians of Cordy Scott before, Xiao Yao not only spoke more quickly when singing, but also shook his head with a ruffian and cool energy, but this song is a love song, Xiao Yao not only sings softer, but the whole person's expression is also very soft, and his eyes are full of tenderness.
Two different songs, of course, the state shown by the singer when singing is different. But for the two of them, Xiao Yao, who had just seen and sang "Theremedy", immediately became tender and watery, and the speed of this state switch still surprised the two of them.
In the beginning, the two were only slightly surprised, and what really shocked the two was in the second half of the main song of the song, that is, when Xiao Yao sang the lyrics of Cordy Scott's suspicion that Xiao Yao's song was written for female singers.
“boyihearyou,inmydream,ihearyourwhisperacrossthesea…”
When Xiao Yao was rehearsing this song, he used a standing microphone stand, and the whole person stood behind the microphone with a guitar on his back and sang while playing. Although Xiao Yao was standing behind the microphone stand, the whole person was sideways, facing the microphone. Before singing this sentence, Xiao Yao turned around, still facing the microphone sideways, but from the left to the right, and the voice he sang was different from the front.
"Oh my God, what did I hear?" said Nicky Thompson and Cordie Scott, looking at each other for the same thing. When they read from each other's expressions that they were not hallucinating, both of them had shock written on their faces.
Also shocked were the musicians and backing vocals. Because the sentence they heard at the moment was actually a female voice.
Nicky Thompson and Cordy Scott both saw that the harmonic singer's mouth didn't move, and only Xiao Yao was singing. Although the position of the musicians and harmony singers is behind Xiao Yao, whether Xiao Yao's mouth is moving when this voice sounds, but the musicians and harmony singers have not only rehearsed with Nicky Thompson just now, but have also rehearsed together for a lot of time before, so they are relatively familiar with each other. All of them were sure that the female voice just now did not belong to either of the two female harmonic singers!
"ikeepyouwithmeinmyheart,youmakeiteasierwhenlifegets~huh?"
When Xiao Yao sang the fourth sentence, he stopped. According to his previous arrangement and soundtrack, there was only his own acoustic guitar accompaniment, so there was no problem for him to play and sing by himself. But at the end of the fourth sentence of the female voice, other instruments such as drums should be added, Xiao Yao sang here and found that the voices of other instruments did not sound, so he could only stop.
Xiao Yao turned his head and found that several musicians were looking at him in a daze. Xiao Yao knew the reason, and said with a smile: "Hey, what are you doing? Are you asleep?"
"Oh my God! it's still Yang's voice!" the drummer was the first to come back to his senses, and exclaimed, "What's the matter with the female voice just now?"
"I am the only singer in this song, these few sentences don't need harmony, the harmony singer didn't make a sound, of course I sang it!" Xiao Yao smiled.
"You can sing a woman's voice?" said the crowd in disbelief.
The sentences just now are not simply raising the pitch and imitating the high notes of a female voice, but in terms of timbre, it sounds like a woman's voice, and it is a relatively low and thick female voice. They don't say they haven't encountered it, they haven't even heard of this kind of thing before.
Nicky Thompson looked at Xiao Yao like a monster and said, "Young, you are such a monster!"
"I'm praising me!" Xiao Yao said with a smile.
"How is that possible? How did you do that?" asked Nicky Thompson in succession.
"Special talent plus special training!" Xiao Yao said with a smile.
Xiao Yao does have a special talent in sound. As early as learning to sing Dan from Peking Opera masters in order to sing "The New Concubine is Drunk", Xiao Yao began to imitate women's voices. Later, after a period of training and some practice when playing live broadcasts, Xiao Yao was already able to imitate women's voices and speak. In the program "Sound Immersion", Xiao Yao dubbed nine different animated characters at one time, two of which were women, and they were women of different ages. In the past few years, Xiao Yao's skills in this area have become more sophisticated, and he can already sing with a relatively low female timbre.
"I see why the lyrics of your song read a little strangely. "This song isn't a song you wrote for yourself, or a song you wrote for a female singer, but a love song for a man and a woman." The reason why you chose this song is because you can tell everyone through this song that you can imitate a female voice and sing both parts of a woman's voice. You really don't have other skills that you didn't show in Theremedy, that's why you're preparing this second song!"
"Ha!" Xiao Yao smiled and gave a thumbs up to Cordy Scott, "Cordy, you're right!"
"You're really a monster!" Cordy Scott shook his head with a wry smile, "Your two songs, in terms of quality alone, plus the ability you showed in these two songs, these wonderful highlights, I don't think that Korean group has the slightest chance of winning you, unless David and all the judges are idiots." ”
"Ha, I hope it's as you say. Xiao Yao smiled, "But even if I have more secret weapons and more extras to show up, I still have to practice what I should practice!"
As he spoke, Xiao Yao turned to the musicians and harmony singers behind him and said, "I know the reason why everyone stopped just now, and I understand it too. This can actually be regarded as a joke I played on everyone. Now that everyone knows that I can sing female vocals, I hope that when I rehearse later, people won't stop interrupting for this reason. ”
"No problem!"
"Of course not!"
The musicians have expressed their opinions.
"By the way, I would like to be reminded in advance. Xiao Yao said, "In addition to the second half of the first main song, I sang it with a female voice, and I also sang it with a female voice in the second half of the main song." The structure of these two sections is the same, and the position of my female voice is the same!"
The song "Lucky" sung by Xiao Yao is also a song by Jasonmarz in his previous life, but this song is a duet love song between him and a female singer Colbiecaillat.
Xiao Yao liked this love song very much in his previous life, and he was more impressed by this song. Because the lyrics in the lyrics, I am lucky to fall in love with my best friend, and the lyrics that express longing and whispering across the ocean are more similar to the situation of Xiao Yao and Sun Tingting, Xiao Yao plans to sing this song with Sun Tingting.
Due to the relationship of time, not to mention that Xiao Yao didn't want to call Sun Tingting who was far away in Europe, even if he was willing to call, Sun Tingting was willing to come, and it was too late in time. Xiao Yao definitely wouldn't sing this song with other female singers, and he really wanted to sing this song, so he made some changes to the original version.
No matter how powerful Xiao Yao is, he is just one person, and he can't make two voices at the same time, so Xiao Yao has added harmony singers, and the part of the male and female chorus is completed by him and the harmony singers. As for the part where men and women sing separately, Xiao Yao used two different timbres for men and women, and completed it alone.