"Green hills, distant mountains, singing smiles, dazzling sun..."
"Keep it in mind and control the future..."
"Didan, Didan, Didan Primary School..."
In the music classroom of Didan Primary School, the children from Class B of the first year who were selected to participate in the chorus competition stood in two rows on the stage and sang the school song of Didan Primary School.
They were accompanied by Yuan Huaiyu, who struck the keys of the piano briskly while humming the melody of the song softly.
Yuanzi and Xiaolan were sitting in the middle of the classroom, listening carefully to the children's songs. And by the classroom window, a seemingly out-of-place man was wearing a cap and casual sportswear looking out the window.
This person was none other than Reiko Akiba, who was invited as the children's special chorus coach.
When the singing stopped, Qiuting Lianzi glanced at Yuan Huaiyu in front of the piano in surprise, and then turned his attention to the children on the stage.
Xiaolan in the audience looked at the famous female singer and asked with a smile: "Miss Qiuting, how are you?"
"Well..."
Qiuting Reiko put her hands in her pockets, walked up to the children, stretched out her finger, and was the first to point at Genta: "First of all, you! Your voice is too loud! Control the volume, don't affect other people!"
Then there was Mitsuhiko next to him: "That's right, he didn't sing out of tune from beginning to end. But you'd better remind him when he sings too loudly."
Qiu Ting Lianzi nuzzled her lips towards Yuan Tai.
She took two steps to the left and looked at the somewhat absent-minded Hui Yuan Ai: "Then you... you can sing well, but it's better to be more like a child when singing."
The other children looked at her in surprise, not understanding what this sentence meant. Conan beside her quickly realized that this was to ask Haibara Ai to try not to use falsetto when singing, and to use a more authentic voice.
Come and sing.
Hui Yuan Ai subconsciously looked at Yuan Huaiyu in front of the piano on the right. After their eyes met, they quickly looked away and muttered: "I am not a child to begin with..."
Reiko Qiu Ting shrugged and pointed out the most important problems faced by the children one by one while singing. Then she showed a rare smile and reached out to touch Ayumi's head.
"The pitch is very good, the energy is very high, and the performance is very good - keep it up, don't be affected by other people's voices, have confidence in yourself..."
As he spoke, Qiuting Lianzi frowned and looked aside.
Conan, who was still smiling at first, suddenly felt that the atmosphere was a bit depressing. Qiuting Reiko looked at him seriously: "The problem is...you!"
"Not a single note was sung in tune from beginning to end. I even wondered if you were here to cause trouble!"
When Ayumi heard this, she immediately defended herself: "You're not causing trouble! Conan is just a tone-deaf person!"
The whole room burst into laughter.
Amidst the laughter of the children, Conan's face was also a little red, and the corners of his mouth were twitching.
"You are indeed a professional singer. This professionalism is really eye-opening." Appreciative voices came from the side, and Yuan Huaiyu smiled and complimented.
Yuanzi and Xiaolan nodded subconsciously. Qiuting Reiko seemed to be looking at the scenery outside the window from beginning to end, not listening carefully, but in fact, she could distinguish everyone's voice clearly and find out the problem.
This skill made them all feel like they were standing on a high mountain.
"I dare not take it. Does this teacher teach music? He plays the piano very well."
Qiuting Reiko looked at Yuan Huaiyu. From her point of view, there was basically nothing wrong with the teacher's piano accompaniment, which surprised Qiuting Reiko, who had worked with countless well-known pianists.
"No, I'm not a music teacher, I just practiced a little when I had free time."
Yuan Huaiyu shook his head: "It's just that this piano seems to be old, and there are some problems with the tone and pitch. I have to find someone to tune it before the children compete."
The look of surprise on Qiuting Lianzi's face became even brighter: "Indeed, the overall tone is declining. I didn't expect you to be able to hear it?"
"Could it be...Miss Qiuting, do you have absolute pitch?" Xiaolan, who was listening to the conversation between the two, remembered a term she had heard before.
"Yes, that's right." A look of pride flashed across Qiuting Lianzi's face.
Yuanzi's face was full of doubts, and he turned his head to look at his best friend: "Absolute pitch? What is that?"
"Absolute pitch is an ability that musicians dream of. As long as a person with absolute pitch hears a certain sound, he can still identify the pitch of the sound without a reference sound. The famous musician Beedo
Fin has that ability."
Yuan Huaiyu's voice of explanation came. He looked at Qiuting Lianzi with questioning eyes, and the latter shrugged and turned away.
Yuan Huaiyu pressed the keys with his fingers, and a note came out.
Qiuting Reiko quickly gave the answer: "E5, Mi."
Yuan Huaiyu pressed two keys at the same time again, and this time Qiuting Lianzi still accurately stated the pitch of the sound.
Mitsuhiko also looked at Qiuting Reiko excitedly: "Then you can sing so well, is it because you have an absolute sense of pitch?"
However, Qiuting Reiko leaned on a desk and shook her head: "Not necessarily. To engage in music-related work, you don't have to have an absolute sense of pitch."
"Miss Qiuting may be embarrassed to say it," Yuan Huaiyu explained with a smile, "There are very few people who have an absolute sense of pitch, but there is no doubt that people who have an absolute sense of pitch are more likely to achieve musical success than those who don't.
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Akito Reiko lowered her head: "I was born like this, but in the final analysis, the essence of absolute pitch is a kind of timbre discrimination, which can also be achieved through a lot of acquired training. For example, Mr. Pu and Takumi, who previously tuned Mr. Domoto, are all acquired training.
Absolute sense of sound."
After the chat-like conversation ended, Qiuting Reiko spread her hands: "In short, these are the only suggestions I can give. The rest is all up to you to practice by yourself. Come back to me after you sing better."
With that said, she turned around and was about to leave the music classroom.
"How about you demonstrate it for us before you go back?" Haihara Ai suggested from the side.
"Yes!" the children responded quickly.
Conan looked at Haihara Ai and thought to himself, this is not like your usual style. Why did you suddenly stand up at this time?
He looked at Qiuting Reiko again, with a clear expression on his face - this was probably a small revenge for being told that he didn't look like a child just now.
But one thing is that Conan himself also wanted to hear what it was like when Reiko Akitai sang. When they were listening to the rehearsal in the concert hall before, they were blown away even before they could hear Reiko Akitai singing.
"How much can you pay me?"
Qiuting Lianzi picked up her bag, turned around and said something that shocked the children.
She smiled: "Professional singers will not sing if they are not paid. Goodbye!"
But she soon felt that the shoulder bag on her shoulders was a little light. When she turned around, she saw the largest boy sitting beside her holding her water glass.
Qiuting Reiko remembered that when she was in the concert hall a few days ago, this child was very curious about her tea and wanted to drink it.
"Hey! That's my tea!"
She scolded and was about to step forward to get her water glass back.
But Yuantai had already poured out the tea in the cup, holding the lid that served as a teacup in his hand: "I'll open..."
Before he finished speaking, a suppressed angry voice sounded from the front: "Yuta!"
Yuantai's hand holding the lid of the cup froze in mid-air, and his whole body turned to stone like a sculpture. His forehead and back of his neck were instantly covered with beads of sweat.