Chapter 162: A Lesson That Benefited a Lot

Listening to the follow-up arrangements made by the program team for the top 36 contestants, Liu Jingxin's heart was extremely emotional.

Those who are eliminated can only roll up and leave, but those who are promoted can get a lot of resources, making them even better. It's not a simple survival of the fittest, it's about the strong being stronger and the weak being weaker. If they want to be strong all the time, all they can do is to do their best not to be eliminated.

The teachers invited by the program team are very famous at home and abroad, everyone has a deep resume, and they have all coached first-line stars, which shows their strength.

After the meeting, everyone went back to their rooms to rest for the night, and the next day they officially began to receive professional training.

Originally, many people felt that the four-day training time was too short, and the so-called training was just a way to increase the professionalism of the program.

But what many people didn't expect was that they really benefited a lot from the four-day training.

In the instrumental class, a senior American musician was invited, and he was very proficient in common Western instruments and electroacoustic instruments.

His lessons are not about how to play an instrument, but how to behave on stage.

Among the contestants who have been promoted, not only the Friday band has to use musical instruments, there are many musicians who have self-playing and singing parts, so how to cooperate with the stage lighting and add the personal charm of the musicians will be the focus of the training of the instrument class.

Originally, Liu Jingxin and the others thought that they were already capable of controlling the stage well, but after the simulated performance, they were criticized by the teacher in various ways, and they were found to be very faulty, and they were all to the point, which was really convincing.

Here's an example.

When the band is doing the solo passage, Liu Jingxin will be used to giving up the core position on the stage to Zhang Xun or Jiang Li, and retreat to the back to silently sweep the strings.

The advantage of this is that it can better highlight the core position of the solo musicians in this passage, but the disadvantage is that the audience's attention is continuously shifted, resulting in a very chaotic stage effect.

All audience members may be accustomed to focusing on the lead singer, only to have the lead singer suddenly back away and let a musician come out, and most importantly, the musician will soon return his position to the lead singer.

Such a continuous shift in focus will lead to a temporary confusion in the audience's focus of attention, which will greatly affect the sense of substitution, and then lead to a decrease in the audience's psychological rating of the band as a whole.

But if the Solo part doesn't highlight the solo musicians, the lead singer will look a little embarrassed during this singing gap, and at the same time, the audience will not know where to focus at this time.

So, what should be done in this situation?

The best way to do this is for the lead singer to interact with Solo's musicians on stage, either instrumentally or physically. The advantage of this is to keep the focus of the audience unchanged, maintain the integrity and unity of the stage effect, and maintain the overall sense of substitution of the song.

After learning this class, Liu Jingxin and they really felt that they had benefited a lot, knew their many shortcomings in stage performance, and also knew how to correct them, which allowed them to achieve qualitative improvement in stage performance.

Not only the electroacoustic band, but also other musicians who use guitar, piano, MIDI keyboard and other instruments to accompany them also learned a lot in this class.

When many singers use musical instruments on stage, they will pay attention to the instrument part and lack the management of expressions and limbs, and if it is slightly better, it will also give people a feeling that the instrument is dispensable on stage, after all, singers can use accompaniment tape.

The main purpose of using musical instruments on stage is not only to enhance the singer's self-confidence, but also to help the singer calm the scene and increase the visual enjoyment of the audience. Then, the musician must regard the instrument as a part of his body, be full of emotions for the instrument, and from the expression to the body, he must reflect the inseparability between himself and the instrument.

For example, when playing the end note, the musician squints slightly and plays the last note very intoxicated, waits a few more seconds, and bows when the note is completely over, which is far more likely to gain the audience's sense of recognition than to open his arms to cheer immediately after the performance.

At the end of the instrumental lesson, the teacher said a sentence that was deeply imprinted in the hearts of every contestant: Musical instruments are the lives of musicians!

"I like this teacher!" Zhang Xun said with heartfelt emotion: "Because of what he said at the end, I have always regarded it as the truth." ”

Liu Jingxin thought of Zhang Xun's anger when he learned that he had sold Big G, and thought that Zhang Xun had traveled thousands of miles to Rongcheng to buy him back Big G, he stroked Big G's neck, and his heart was full of gratitude to Zhang Xun.

People who have not been exposed to a musical instrument for a long time will not understand this feeling.

This love for the instrument, very pure, very sincere, never betrayed, never indebted.

In addition to the instrumental lessons, the vocal lessons were the ones that allowed Liu Jingxin to learn the most.

The vocal teacher is a professor at a well-known music academy in China, who taught everyone scientific qi training, vocal practice methods, microphone use skills, vocal range widening methods and many other aspects of knowledge.

In the Friday band, it was not only Liu Jingxin who learned something in the vocal class, but others also learned a lot about harmony.

An electroacoustic band is not only the lead singer, but also a regular electroacoustic band, and almost every musician has to participate in the harmony singing.

The addition of harmony can not only add layers to the song, but also sublimate the whole song in special passages, such as the chorus, and enhance the appeal of the song.

As the most neglected part of a song, harmony is actually far from being as easy as most people think, otherwise the star concert will not invite a professional choir, and it will save more money by inviting a grass stage team.

Good harmony can add infinite charm to a song, while poor harmony can easily dominate the audience, affecting the performance of the lead singer and the auditory experience of the audience......

After the music class ended, Zhang Xun pulled Liu Jingxin in a daze and asked, "Brother Jingxin, should I also follow your example to quit smoking and drinking?"

Liu Jingxin said with a smile: "If you want, I will definitely support it! I have brought a lot of fat sea this time, and I can give you some." ”

"But if I didn't have cigarettes and alcohol, I wouldn't be so bored!" Zhang Xun lamented.

Liu Jingxin smiled helplessly and didn't say anything more.

If a person always likes to demand from others according to their own standards, then it is too harsh on others, after all, everyone's lifestyle is different. It is impossible for a person to be so strongly bound to himself in all aspects, there is always a place where others are better than themselves.

Zhang Xun's dedication to musical instruments is incomparable to Liu Jingxin.

As for the harmony of the band, practice normally, just don't drag your feet, Liu Jingxin is not so dull.

The four-day course ended unconsciously, and the program recording finally entered the next stage of filming.

The top 36 players will spend the next two days preparing their repertoire for the next competition.