Entertaining Children

  Chapter 913 Masters Tournament

  Sun Tingting’s tutor is Oliver Hill, a professor at Chambers Conservatory of Music, and a world-renowned musician and violinist. He is not only Sun Tingting's mentor, but also the mentor of Laura Sim, the victim of the murder three years ago. Since two of his students were involved, he was very concerned about the case. After closing the case, he learned the details of the case in more detail, and even learned about Xiao Yao's role in the detection of the case.

Professor Hill didn’t care much about Xiao Yao’s skill in reasoning, searching and arresting suspects, but it was heard that Xiao Yao had inferred from Laura Heem’s performance video by watching Laura Sim’s performance. Mu may have a history of drug abuse, while Professor Hill is very interested and also pays attention to Sun Tingting's boyfriend.

  Professor Hill had heard Sun Tingting say that her boyfriend also played music, but mainly pop music. The violin version of "faded" submitted by Sun Tingting yesterday was a version adapted by Sun Tingting himself. Professor Hill did not know that Xiao Yao had already come to New York. Today, when Sun Tingting said that Xiao Yao helped her write this new song, and that the demo was also recorded by Xiao Yao yesterday, he had the desire to see Xiao Yao.

  I heard that Xiao Yao was in the school, Professor Hill immediately contacted several musicians and asked Sun Tingting to call Xiao Yao over.

  Professor Hill left Xiao Yao, but also wanted to take the opportunity to observe Xiao Yao up close. It's not that Professor Hill suspects that there are still people taking drugs among the players who are practicing together, but he wants to see if Xiao Yao can still see something that he didn't.

  After the first round of joint practice was over, Professor Hill stopped all the musicians, then turned his head and smiled and asked about Xiao Yao's feelings. Xiao Yao is not very good at classical music, but his brain is definitely very good. In the first joint training, everyone inevitably had some mistakes and omissions. When the musicians were playing, Xiao Yao listened quietly, silently, and did not easily interrupt. But when Professor Hill asked, Xiao Yao also pointed out the mistakes and omissions of the musicians. Came out.

  Professor Hill could also hear these mistakes and omissions. However, a young man in his early twenties can accurately hear the mistakes of each musician while playing several instruments at the same time. Even if he wrote this piece, it is very rare. I originally wanted to see the poisonous aspects of Xiao Yao's eyes, but Xiao Yao's ears were also very poisonous. It was the first time for Professor Hill to feel such a solid musical literacy in such a young person, and he even got the idea of ​​accepting Xiao Yao as a student.

  In addition to violin performance, Professor Hill is also a master in both composition and conduct. Even if I heard Sun Tingting say that Xiao Yao's violin is only one of the instruments he knows and is not a very high level, Professor Hill feels that accepting him as a student teaching composition and conductor seems to be a good choice.

  However, Xiao Yao just simply appreciates classical music, and has no intention of immersing himself in it. And now it’s hard to get through until Sun Tingting is about to graduate from the Chambers Conservatory of Music, and the separation between the two of them can end. He doesn't want to stay here for a few more years and continue to separate the two places. Facing Professor Hill's kindness, Xiao Yao almost declined without hesitation.

  I heard that Xiao Yao is still an actor, and is currently studying at a film and television academy in China, studying acting. Professor Hill did not force him, but asked Xiao Yao to practice with Sun Tingting in the next two days. Xiao Yao naturally agreed to this request to spend more time with Sun Tingting.

  The Chambers Conservatory of Music is full of professional musicians, and it doesn’t take too long to practice a piece of music.

   Practice with other musicians during the day, practice alone in the afternoon, and join Xiao Yao in the evening. This kind of life only lasted three days, and Sun Tingting flew to Los Angeles with Xiao Yao and his personal team.

  Among Xiao Yao’s acquaintances in the United States, more people have settled in Los Angeles than in New York. New York is just Sun Tingting, Paul, and TJ. In Los Angeles, the relationship is relatively good. There are about a dozen people including Keith Craig, the Smith family, the other two members of the "Immortals" band, and Zhou Jingyi, plus Nathan and others on the parkour team, other people from the "Daydream" band, and the female singer Liv Palemer under the "Daydream" studio, these acquaintances are even more.

  When Xiao Yao, Sun Tingting and a group of four arrived in Los Angeles, Keith Craig and his wife and the "Immortals" band came to pick up the plane at the airport.

  Meeting old friends is naturally a lively event.

  This time Xiao Yao came to Los Angeles to participate in the celebrity game. The organizer has arranged a hotel for Xiao Yao and his team. After everyone exchanged greetings at the airport, they escorted Xiao Yao and the four to the hotel.

"Young, why don't you come to Los Angeles earlier? You have a training class tomorrow and the day after tomorrow. We don't have much time to get together." On the way to the hotel, Dean Smith, who was in the same car with Xiao Yao, couldn't bear it. Live complaining to Xiao Yao.

   "Because Tiana had rehearsals a few days ago." Xiao Yao replied with a smile.

   "She rehearsed, and you don't rehearse, can't you come first?" Dean said again.

   "Idiot!" Sammy, who was sitting next to Dean, gave Dean a look at the back of his head, "Young is here to accompany his girlfriend, not to perform with us!"

   "You?" Dean clutched his head and looked at Sami in aggrieved and surprised expression.

   "Why didn't you see Jin? Is she not in Los Angeles?" Sun Tingting suddenly asked.

"Well, she's filming, and she won't be in Los Angeles today and tomorrow." Dean nodded and said, "But for the backstage game, Kim will go. We have all booked tickets, in the second and third rows, Basically all together."

   "The second row and the third row, are they so close?" Xiao Yao smiled.

   "Of course, we spent a lot of money to get this, just to watch you play up close!" Dean laughed.

   "Thank you!" Xiao Yao was moved in his heart and said to Dean.

  The organizer also provided some family votes to the stars of the celebrity contest. Xiao Yao got four of them. They had long been given to Sun Tingting and the friends Zhao Rui, Lin Qisan, and Zhou Zhihao who said they would come to the United States to watch the game. Even his parents, Chen Chen and other domestic relatives and friends are Not in the turn, let alone these friends in the United States.

  Masters tickets are not as difficult to buy as tickets to the All-Star Game, but it is not easy to buy them. Moreover, Xiao Yao told them that he was going to participate in this year's All-Star Weekend Celebrity Tournament later. At that time, it was estimated that the tickets were almost sold out, especially the high-priced tickets in the front row, which were almost certainly sold out very early. They definitely spent a lot of effort and money to get the tickets for the second and third rows.

  A group of people arrived at the hotel. After Xiao Yao and others settled their luggage, Keith Craig and his wife, as the landlords, invited Xiao Yao and others to enjoy a sumptuous meal.

  After dinner, Keith Craig and his wife left their time to the young people and bid farewell to everyone for the time being. Fang still took Pei Minyi and contacted the masters organizer to confirm some necessary activity schedules. Dean and others knew that Xiao Yao didn’t like the atmosphere of the party very much. In addition, they were really closely connected through a band. It’s been a long time since everyone got together to sing and play musical instruments. The little landlords like Dean pulled Xiao away. Haruka and Sun Tingting went to their rehearsal room together.

  This time I came to the United States, Xiao Yao had no plans to perform with the "Immortals" band, nor did he help them write new songs, so everyone just played casually in the rehearsal room to find out how they felt when they practiced and performed together before.

  "Immortals" band is an artist under the "Daydream" studio, and their rehearsal room is also in the "Daydream" studio. There is no shortage of musical instruments in the music studio. Even if there is no violin in the rehearsal room of the "Immortals" band, there are still instruments in the studio. Since it was casual, Sun Tingting on the side couldn't help looking for a violin in the instrument room and joined it.

Although they practiced several old songs written by Xiao Yao for the band, there is no violin soundtrack in them, but Sun Tingting is now an excellent violinist with the ability to arrange music, and Xiao Yao’s songs, she has very familiar. After joining this violin, not only did it not appear abrupt and uncoordinated, but it had a more shocking effect.

  Speaking of it, Xiao Yao hasn’t broadcast live for a long time. This time playing with the "Immortals" band and Sun Tingting was a very good live broadcast content. Xiao Yao took out his mobile phone, set up his position, and did a live webcast on "Youyu" for a period of time.

  Although Xiao Yao hasn't broadcast live on Youyu for a long time, he still notices that the number of water friends in his live broadcast room has not decreased much. As soon as Xiao Yao's live studio started broadcasting, many water friends who received reminders to start broadcasting immediately clicked into his live studio. Many network anchors, including the three major female anchors of Youyu, also pay attention to Xiao Yao's live broadcast room. As soon as Xiao Yao started broadcasting, many anchors also received the news, and then came to round the room. In this way, the noise was not small, and the back-end management staff quickly noticed and linked Xiao Yao's live broadcast room to the recommendation on the homepage.

Although Xiao Yao and others hardly interacted with Shuiyou and other anchors during the live broadcast, it was only Xiao Yao and other members of the "Immortals" band, especially the live content that included his girlfriend Sun Tingting singing and playing musical instruments. It is fresh and attractive enough, so the water friends are basically reluctant to leave after seeing it. The number of people in the live broadcast room reached more than one million in almost ten minutes, and it has been continuously rising at a high speed.

  Before Xiao Yao came to Los Angeles, the official website of the National Basketball Association had announced that the last star teammate to participate in this year’s All-Star Weekend Masters was Xiao Yao. Many friends who knew this news were not surprised that Xiao Yao was in the United States at this time.

However, Xiao Yao played live with the "Immortals" band in the rehearsal room two days before the game. Many water friends wondered if Xiao Yao would join the "Immortals" band in the All-Star Weekend in addition to participating in the competition. Served as a guest performer before and after a certain game. Xiao Yao didn't watch the barrage or answer when he was playing. The barrage in the live broadcast room was always full of questions of this kind.

  After everyone had a good time, when Xiao Yao was about to put away his mobile phone and turn off the live broadcast, he saw these problems in the barrage. However, Xiao Yao didn't answer directly. He just told the camera to let everyone see for themselves. After Xiao Yao gave some free publicity to the All-Stars of the US NBA, he shut down the live broadcast software and downloaded it.

  It was not early at this time, and Xiao Yao did not ask Dean and the others to send it away, but he returned to the hotel with Sun Tingting.

  The next day, Xiao Yao did not play with Dean and the others again, because according to the organizer’s arrangement, he would also participate in a celebrity training session today.

Playing on the court by himself, his girlfriend watching from the side of the court, cheering on, this kind of scene is the envy of other people countless times when Xiao Yao was studying in his previous life, and in this life, he has not had such an experience, so this In this training session, Xiao Yao did not bring an assistant, nor did he go alone. Instead, he took Sun Tingting with him.

  When Xiao Yao arrived at the training class venue, there were already many people on the court. Seeing Xiao Yao appear, Joey Bilsa immediately greeted him enthusiastically and introduced Xiao Yao to the others on the court.

Like the star charity basketball game that Xiao Yao participated in in China, this celebrity game is also an exhibition match. Each team is a mixed team of professional and non-professional players, as well as a mixed team of male and female players. Each team is a mixed team of professional and non-professional players. None of the coaches are professional basketball coaches. But in terms of personnel selection, there are still some differences between the Masters and China’s Star Charity Tournament.

First of all, in terms of coaching, one of the two head coaches of the Masters is a basketball commentator for a sports TV station, and the other is a basketball reporter for a sports magazine. They are not professional coaches, but their jobs are related to basketball. This is related to that time. The China Star Charity Tournament is the same, but the difference is that the two head coaches of the Masters Tournament are both women, and they are young big beauties. Maybe the two very beautiful and beautiful head coaches will give people the impression that they are slightly worse in tactical arrangements, so in addition to the head coach, the organizer also arranged a retired former All-star player for each of the two teams. The team’s player and assistant coach.

  In terms of players, there are no active professional male players in the Masters. Each team has only one active US women's basketball player and two former US men's basketball players who have retired.

  From this point of view, the gap in the personal abilities of the players in the Masters seems to be smaller, but it is not.

  Although the players of the two teams are all stars, they are very different in occupation and age. In terms of occupation, China’s Star Charity Tournament is not only professional players but also acting stars. In this celebrity tournament, there are professional basketball players, acting stars, sports stars in other sports, internet celebrity anchors, and even team bosses. In terms of age span, the oldest player is a team owner, who is almost sixty years old, while the youngest player is only twelve or three years old and is still a child. It's really grandpa and grandchildren playing together in the same arena.

  Although the gap between the players is relatively large, overall, the paper strength of the two teams is basically balanced. Professional female players, older players, and children who seem to be clearly different players are all on each side of the two teams.

From the perspective of the selection of coaches to players, the entertainment of this celebrity match is far greater than that of China’s Star Charity Tournament, but since it’s a match, training sessions are also necessary, and at least the teammates of the same team must know each other in advance. And get familiar with it.

  There is only one pre-match training session arranged by the organizer. It seems that they just want to let these star teammates know and familiarize themselves with each other. As for the tactics, most of it depends on the on-the-spot performance of four non-professional coaches or the free play of these stars.

  Professional players and non-professional players are mixed together. Professional players don't go all out, and they generally give the opportunity of performance to non-professional players. Since it depends on the free play of the stars, Joey Bielsa naturally thought of Xiao Yao who met at the China Star Charity Basketball Game that year. In his eyes, Xiao Yao’s basketball level is almost close to that of China’s professional players. It is estimated to be better than most American star players. What’s even more rare is that Xiao Yao is also very comprehensive, able to attack and defend. , Can assist and score, fully equipped with the ability to determine the outcome of a game.

Therefore, he not only recommended Xiao Yao, the Chinese star, to the organizers very actively, but also strongly requested that Xiao Yao be placed in his team. When he introduced Xiao Yao to other members of the team in the training class, he also completely It is to introduce the posture of a core main player.

  (End of this chapter)