Although "Singer" is a show where big-name singers sing more than they sing, the 500 viewers who voted are not professional musicians or music critics after all, and they are not blindfolded and only listen to songs, and the basis of voting is naturally based on their overall audio-visual experience on the scene, so although the external factors such as costumes and stage lighting are not the determining factors, they are also one of the factors for the audience to judge the singer's vote, which is why Xiao Yao wants to emphasize the voting object to the audience. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

But at this point, it's enough. Xiao Yaoqing on the stage coughed, resumed his identity as the host, and continued to introduce the competition repertoire of the next singer: "Next, I will introduce to you the competition repertoire brought by the next singer." ”

Hearing Xiao Yao start the performance of the next singer, the audience who had expanded their imagination because of curiosity also retracted their minds and refocused their attention on Xiao Yao on the stage.

"The next song to be presented by the singer is an English song. Xiao Yao introduced, "On this stage, there are many singers who have sung English songs, but the next singer is more special, because the English song he brought to you is an original new song that has not been released yet." ”

"Oh~" Hearing that it was an original new song again, the audience had already guessed who the next singer would be, and immediately there was another round of applause and cheers.

"The next singer will bring you this song called "Thinking Out Loud", which is a very warm love song. Xiao Yao smiled and continued, "Next, the next competing singer will perform!"

Amid the applause of the audience, Xiao Yao turned around again and walked to the back of the stage, this time, in the direction of the passage leading to the backstage.

"Sure enough, it's him!" The audience had such expressions, and the applause for Xiao Yao was a little louder!

Soon, a figure appeared in the passage connecting the stage to the backstage. At this time, the audience looked at the figure in the passage and was still backlit, and they couldn't see the appearance of the figure in the passage clearly, but Xiao Yao went back from this passage just now, and he had already come out of that passage once when he appeared as the host at the beginning.

The lights on the scene turned on, and Xiao Yao, who reappeared on the stage, also changed his image, his lower body was still black trousers and black boots, but his upper body was neither the suit when he was hosting, nor the sweatshirt when he helped Liang Xueying do an electronic music DJ, but wore a white shirt and a black vest. A black tie was tied around his neck, but instead of tightening under the neckline of his shirt, he pulled it loose and hung loosely around his neck.

This kind of dress not only shows Xiao Yao's good figure, but also shows Xiao Yao's casual temperament, which is definitely very eye-catching, but when Xiao Yao appeared, the audience's attention was not on Xiao Yao's dress, but invariably looked at Xiao Yao's left hand. Because what Xiao Yao was carrying in his left hand didn't look like a musical instrument, but...

"I'm going!" What is Xiao Yao doing with a shovel? Is he going to bury someone?"

The camera at the scene deliberately gave a close-up of what Xiao Yao was carrying in his left hand, so not only the audience in the studio, but even the singers in the lounge room were confused.

What Xiao Yao was carrying in his left hand was indeed a shovel, a wooden shovel handle of primary color, the head of the spade was black, it seemed to be iron, and the front end was a semicircular pointed tip. The whole thing looks like a normal pointed shovel, the only difference is that at the top of the shovel handle, there are some small silver cylindrical things stuck on the left and right sides.

Xiao Yao walked straight to the front of the stage and bowed to the audience, and on the stage behind him, several staff members moved a chair and a microphone stand, according to the height of the microphone stand, it looked like a performer was going to sit on a chair and sing.

The surprised and puzzled looks of the audience naturally did not escape Xiao Yao's eyes, only to see him smile slightly, turned his left hand, and turned the shovel in his hand in a different direction, facing the audience with the concave side of the shovel head, and at the same time gently supported the shovel head with his right hand, showing the whole shovel to the audience.

"Oh my God, is this a guitar? And a guitar made of a shovel?!"

The audience and the singers in the lounge room all stared wide-eyed, staring at the thing in Xiao Yao's hand with a hellish expression.

That's right, the shovel Xiao Yao is holding in his hand is indeed a shovel from the back, but when it comes to the front, everyone can judge that it is a guitar.

The two rows of small silver cylindrical objects at the top of the wooden handle of the shovel are the buttons, and the bottom of the middle of the concave side of the shovel head is glued to the saddle and the string bridge. Between the buttons and the horses, the audience can clearly see a row of strings.

The whole log handle is the neck of this instrument. From the back, the wooden handle is cylindrical, but after Xiao Yao changed the direction of the shovel, you can find that the wooden handle of the shovel is actually semi-cylindrical. The wooden handle is close to the side of the strings, and the part that has been flattened from the underside of the pillow that is attached under the button to the top of the spade pants that connects the spade head to the shovel handle has been made into the fingerboard of the instrument. It's just that this shovel looks relatively simple, and the fretboard is bare, not to mention the pins that make it easy to remember the location of the pins, and there are not even the frets that separate the frets.

A closer observer will notice that the knobs at the top of the shovel handle are not symmetrical with three on each side, but three on one side and only two on the other. In other words, Xiao Yao's shovel has only five strings on it. So strictly speaking, the shovel in Xiao Yao's hand is not a guitar, but a plucked instrument similar to a guitar. It's just that in terms of appearance, this shovel is more similar to the guitar in structure, and can be classified into the guitar family like the banjo, which is also a five-stringed instrument.

In October last year, when Nicholas Cross and Ake Robinson were in Shencheng to help Xiao Yao make a dragon qin, Xiao Yao also took the opportunity to learn how to make guitar instruments with the two. At that time, Xiao Yao learned from Ake how to use special materials to make a unique shape of the body, and also used various waste materials and tools in the production room as raw materials for guitar production, and made several "non-mainstream" guitars that looked strange. This five-string guitar made of shovels is the most successful one of them.

"When and where did he get such a guitar made of shovels?" Xiao Siqi also looked at the strange-looking guitar in Xiao Yao's hand with an incredulous face.

Unlike the dragon qin, which looks so cool that it looks blind, the appearance of this shovel guitar looks very simple, except for novelty, weirdness and fun, Xiao Yao has never taken it out to show off with anyone, but he occasionally takes it out to play when he is entertaining himself, so even Xiao Siqi doesn't know that Xiao Yao has such a "weird" guitar.

There is no strap buckle on this shovel guitar, so Xiao Yao can't put a strap on this piano like a dragon qin, and he can only hold the piano in his arms and sit on a chair to play. Looking back and seeing that the preparations on the stage were ready, a staff member stood by the chair and waited for him, Xiao Yao turned around with a shovel guitar and walked to the chair in the center of the stage and sat down, took a device handed by the staff, and inserted the plug into a jack on the concave surface of the spade.

The body of Xiao Yao's shovel guitar is the piece of iron of the spade head, which naturally has no sound hole and resonance box, so Xiao Yao installed a pickup under the strings of the spade head according to the structure of the electric guitar, but there is only one knob and an output jack to control the tone of the pickup on the concave surface of the spade head, and there is no crank and volume knob and coil control switch. This also makes the piano look much more rudimentary than a real electric guitar.

signaled to the staff OK, and after the staff left the stage, Xiao Yao slightly adjusted the angle of the microphone on the microphone stand and the posture of holding the shovel guitar, and was ready to start the performance.

Seeing Xiao Yao's movements, the audience quickly quieted down, on the one hand, they were looking forward to Xiao Yao's original new English song, and on the other hand, they also wanted to hear what the sound effect of the guitar made of the shovel in Xiao Yao's hand was playing.

“When Your Legs Don't Work Like They Used To Before，And I Can't Sweep You Off Of Your Feet~”

It's a song with almost no prelude, Xiao Yao just swept the four strings under the shovel guitar and sang it after making a four-note sound. At this time, he didn't have the passion of the first two competitions, nor did he have the jumping off when he hosted, and he didn't even have the pride when he held a shovel guitar to show the audience just now, the whole person sat on the chair with a smile and played the guitar, his eyes and expressions were very soft, and his voice was also warm and soft, singing this warm love song of the healing system softly and slowly.

“Darlin' I Will Be Lovin' You Till We're Seventy，Baby My Heart Could Still Fall As Hard At Seventeen。 ”

The song was the work of Ed Sheeran, a British musical genius in the previous life, and Xiao Yao made few changes when he moved to this world, the only change was in the second line of the main song, which changed the original "Twenty Three" to "Seventeen". Ed Sheeran in his previous life was born in 1991, and his album "X" containing this song was released in 2014, when he was exactly twenty-three years old, but Xiao Yao is not even twenty years old now, and it is a little inexplicable to use this "Twenty Three", considering that he and Sun Tingting determined that the relationship was seventeen years old, and it happened to correspond to the love of you until the age of seventy in the first half of the sentence, so Xiao Yao changed the number of the last age of this sentence to seventeen.

Unlike the previous singer Liang Xueying's performance, which brought a strong visual and auditory impact to the audience with its complex soundtrack, powerful singing, and gorgeous stage lighting effects that connected the entire stage space, Xiao Yao's performance was much simpler and more low-key in every aspect.

On the soundtrack, apart from the weird shovel guitar he played, there was only a Cajon drum and another guitar and bass on the side of the stage. In terms of stage art, there are only a few orange lights lit up on the stage to set off the warm atmosphere of the scene, and it is still the kind of background headlights that are fixed in positions and angles and cannot be moved. In terms of voice, Xiao Yao's singing also seems a little uneventful, there is no gorgeous treble, and there is no skillful transposition that sounds, even if he sings the chorus, the whole person does not have too many emotional changes, it is like telling an ordinary love story softly in your ear.

Music is magical, not only exciting, but also relaxing and quiet. The audience, who was shocked by Liang Xueying's performance of the previous song, was extremely excited and excited, even if they were extremely curious about Xiao Yao's shovel guitar, they gradually calmed down their excitement and quieted down in Xiao Yao's singing.

The 500 viewers at the scene certainly not everyone could understand the meaning of the lyrics of Xiao Yao's English song, but from Xiao Yao's singing, expressions, the soundtrack of the whole song and the soft light environment of the scene, most of the audience still felt the sweet and warm emotions conveyed by Xiao Yao, and slowly reveled in Xiao Yao's singing, and couldn't help but gently shake their heads with Xiao Yao's music.

"I will love you until we are seventy years old, and my heart will remain as strong as it was seventeen. ”

"When my hair falls out and my memory fades, and people don't remember my name, and my hands don't pluck the strings as before, I know that you will still love me just as much, because your soul, my dear, never grows old, it is eternally young. Your smile will always be in my memory. ”

"Embrace me into your arms, kiss me in the starlight, and rest your head on my heart-pounding chest. ”

Such sentences, such scenes, can be copied down as a declaration or love letter to the opposite sex. Therefore, those audiences who have enough English proficiency to understand the lyrics of this English song on the spot are intoxicated by the beautiful love story described by Xiao Yao's lyrics.

After the second chorus of the song, there is a solo interlude on the guitar, watching Xiao Yao holding a shovel, just like the casualness of the guitar solo performance before, he didn't look at the fretboard without frets, and the left finger moved skillfully and smoothly on the fretboard, and the audience finally couldn't help but break the silence and send a round of applause.

“... And We Found Love Right Where We Are！”

After playing the guitar solo, Xiao Yao temporarily stopped playing, held the microphone on the microphone stand with one hand, and sang most of the ending paragraph with a smile to the audience, until the last sentence, when he put his fingers back on the shovel guitar and ended the performance of the whole song with a gentle strumming.