Chapter XVIII
Tonight's concert was not so formal, but it also opened Yang Jingxing's eyes. From seven o'clock to nearly ten o'clock, hundreds of people from dozens of programs took turns on stage, full of tricks. Various soloists, soloists, choruses, trios, quartets, small ensembles. Strings, wind music, percussion, bel canto, ethnic rap, and various tones.
Yang Jingxing applauded each program, and there were two of the most enthusiastic. Once gave Zhang Chujia their quintet, and once was the finale of the ten girl groups on stage, there were guzheng, pipa, erhu, dulcimer, huqin, flute, electronic organ, electric guitar, jazz drums, a hodgepodge played the theme music of "Contra" and "Legend of the Moon Shadow", but the effect was very good.
When the curtain was announced, it was said that this group was called "306", and it got thunderous applause from the audience, and it seems that this group of girls is popular in the conservatory.
After the performance, the unprecedented cheers and applause showed that the students of the Conservatory of Music and Yang Jingxing still had something in common.
When 306 came to power, Zhang Chujia was already sitting next to Yang Jingxing, and she saw Yang Jingxing's excitement and told him about the origin of 306.
The reason why it is called 306 is because the place where this group of girls usually rehearse is in classroom 306 in the north building. 306 is not an official group recognized by the school, but a fun group formed by the students themselves. The main initiator is a talented girl from the composition department, that is, the girl who plays the electronic piano on stage, and she is just a sophomore. The classics played by 306 are mainly arranged by her.
The first sensation of 306 was half a year ago, when there were only six people, and a folk music version of "Contra" made them an instant hit in the conservatory.
Of course, those teachers who teach polyphonic fugue will not encourage this practice, or even look at it, but 306 is still very popular with the people, and the few appearances are sensational. Unfortunately, they didn't have the opportunity to go to the official concert held by the school, and they became an underground music group in the academy.
Zhang Chujia commented: "I think they have a good mentality. "When I entered the Puhai Conservatory of Music, I still have the heart to adapt and play game music, indeed.
Yang Jingxing hehe: "I really want to ask them for an autograph." β
Zhang Chujia's eyes were contemptuous.
Yang Jingxing returned to school at eleven o'clock, went to the piano room, tried to play "Contra" on the piano, tried to wipe it for most of the night, and made a crude score, but the overall feeling was sparse, as thin as a mobile phone ringtone, 108,000 miles worse than 306, so he put it down and concentrated on practicing the piano.
On the nineteenth, a new week begins. It started to cool down last night, and today it's only about 20 degrees, and autumn is coming. Some of the girls wore jackets and even pants in spring and autumn clothes.
Shangpu has four or five sets of spring and autumn clothes, and there are gray, dark blue, black suits, and a set of sportswear. The most popular for boys is the black stand-up collar suit, but the girls don't have sailor suits to wear.
Tao Meng is still wearing a long skirt today, but the white shirt on the upper body is added to the blue jacket, and the blue and white striped tie is played. Yang Jingxing is still in a shirt, but there are already boys wearing suits or stand-up collars.
It was only halfway through a class, and Yang Jingxing had already watched Tao Meng several times, which was very abnormal. Tao Meng finally gave Yang Jingxing a glance back, with displeasure on her face.
Yang Jingxing was thick-skinned and asked, "Have you watched "Slam Dunk"?"
"I've seen it...... Don't talk about this in class. "Lesson from the squad leader.
Yang Jingxing was not interested, and continued to ask: "Do you like the songs in it?"
"Loved it...... Which one?" Tao Meng looked at Yang Jingxing.
Yang Jingxing was still embarrassed to sing, so he quickly drew two lines of stave on scratch paper, and wrote down two unformed phrases for Tao Meng to see.
Tao Meng looked at it for a while, her pink lips sang softly, and then said, "This is "Until the End of the World", what is written!" She knew more than Yang Jingxing.
Yang Jingxing sighed: "I just started playing basketball after watching "Slam Dunk". β
Tao Meng stopped gossiping with Yang Jingxing and went to study seriously.
After the exercise, Yang Jingxing ran to find Hu Yiqing and begged him to help download the theme song of "Slam Dunk" on the Internet. Hu Yiqing was surprised to find that there seemed to be no generation gap with Yang Jingxing, she had also watched this anime, so she agreed, and promised to complete the task successfully.
At noon, Yang Jingxing took back the MP3 from Hu Yiqing and ran to the piano room, not knowing that he wanted to make a piano version of "Slam Dunk" by himself.
After two hours, Yang Jingxing's result was still a single-chord mobile phone ringtone. The melody is probably right, but it sounds terrible. "Until the End of the World" is a very rock song, and if you want to change the piano music, Yang Jingxing is really not that material at present.
But Yang Jingxing was not afraid of losing face in front of Hu Yiqing, so he told her about his results at night. Hu Yiqing was pleasantly surprised: "Not bad." β
Yang Jingxing is self-aware again: "But it's so thin and naΓ―ve." β
Hu Yiqing smiled: "There are no chords, you can melody with your right hand and chords with your left hand, but you must not be able to match the chords now, and the arrangement is not simple...... It's already pretty good, really. β
Yang Jingxing nodded inferiorly, and said, "I practiced "Canon", how about you listen to it." "This is the task assigned by Liu Miao and Xia Xue, and he is quite dedicated.
After listening to Yang Jingxing's playing, Hu Yiqing praised him again, saying that he would definitely be very good if he practiced for two more days, and then said: "This one is by Pahaibel, the most famous, and I like Bach's too." β
Yang Jingxing was surprised: "How many versions are there?"
Hu Yiqing smiled, and took Canon as the starting point to give Yang Jingxing an impromptu music theory lesson, from Canon to Fugue, polyphony, to variations, and then to Baroque, to musical structure, to counterpoint, to Bach's equal-temper piano pieces, Beethoven's sonatas, and Tchaikovsky's "PathΓ©tique...... Hu Yiqing also played a lot of examples to Yang Jingxing.
Yang Jingxing listened so seriously and sighed sincerely: "Teacher Hu, I really admire you. β
Hu Yiqing was embarrassed: "You have to learn it in the future...... Oops, it's almost nine o'clock, let's go to class. β
Then start the test-taking education.
Hu Yiqing left at half past ten, Yang Jingxing continued to practice the piano until two o'clock, and then couldn't help but be impulsive again, and began to listen to "Slam Dunk", trying on the piano while listening. As Hu Yiqing said, in order to reflect the taste of the original work to the greatest extent on the piano, in addition to the melody and rhythm, more attention must be paid to the chords.
But Yang Jingxing only found out what was going on with the Lu Dao chord a few days ago. To match melodies with chords, he hasn't gotten started yet. As for the inner and outer tones, chord progressions, and the chord characteristics of rock, he still didn't know anything about them. And how to embody the rock style on the piano, it is even more inadequate.
So Yang Jingxing now wants to make a successful adaptation, which is tantamount to a fool's dream. But fortunately, he has this idea and is willing to try hard. Sometimes it's better to do it badly than not to do it well, and if you don't do it, most of the time you will never do it well.
Yang Jingxing struggled until four o'clock, made a few small sections, was extremely ugly, and went back to the dormitory depressed and slept for three hours to get up to class.
After the recess exercise, the big-eyed girl Zhou Fanli waited for Yang Jingxing next to the gate of the teaching building. Those eyes were very powerful, and after stopping Yang Jingxing with an unhappy gaze of complaining about grievances, Zhou Fanli took a few steps to the side, so as not to be seen lively, and turned around and continued to use her gaze to drag Yang Jingxing to keep up with her.
"What a coincidence. Yang Jingxing smiled.
Zhou Fanli didn't smile, looked at Yang Jingxing, her eyelashes trembled, and asked in a low voice, "Why didn't you come to me...... Don't you want to be friends with me?"
Yang Jingxing was a little disappointed and surprised: "Haven't we been friends for a long time?"
Zhou Fanli asked, "Didn't Tao Meng tell you that I went to look for you?"
Yang Jingxing nodded: "I said, and I said that you took something." β
Zhou Fanli glanced at her eyes: "She's so pretentious." β
Yang Jingxing nodded: "Well, I'll tell her." β
Zhou Fanli glared: "What! Then when will you come to me?"
Yang Jing's behavior was difficult: "I really don't have time recently. β
"You're coming to pick me up for lunch after class!" Zhou Fanli hated Yang Jingxing and couldn't say, "I haven't given you anything yet?"
Yang Jingxing hesitated: "First ask, do you have a boyfriend?"
Zhou Fanli smiled: "No...... Dating is not allowed at school. β
Yang Jingxing nodded: "If you want to have a boyfriend, I won't dare to pick you up for lunch...... School is not allowed to be afraid of anything, you can find other schools, my girlfriend is from another school. He brags and doesn't blush.
Zhou Fanli stared at Yang Jingxing, her big eyes were a little angry, and she wanted to confirm: "You have a girlfriend?"
Yang Jingxing was proud: "Keep it secret, don't let the teacher know." β
Zhou Fanli's lips trembled twice, and she only held back a very low word: "Get out!" turned around and left.
Yang Jingxing was still wondering: "Hey, what's wrong?"
Yang Jingxing returned to the classroom, and Tan Dong immediately came to inquire about the information: "Hey, hey, eighteen!" Article 18 of Puhai school rules states that there is no romantic relationship between students in school.
Yang Jingxing was depressed: "There are still eighteen articles, she told me to get out." β
Ren Chuyu, who was following Tan Dong, was happy: "Won't it, what's wrong?"
Yang Jingxing looked frustrated: "Don't mention it." β
rang the class bell, and while the teacher didn't come, Tao Meng advised Yang Jingxing: "You'd better tell her not to come to the classroom to look for you in the future, Teacher Jiang already knew about the last time." β
Yang Jingxing said: "I really rolled up. β
Tao Meng squinted at Yang Jingxing: "Won't you practice the piano for this?"
Yang Jingxing protested: "Aren't you insulting my dream?" β
Tao Meng didn't care, packed up the books and test papers.
In the middle of a class, Tao Meng asked Yang Jingxing to discuss the topic, and after solving the difficulty, his mouth softened: "I take back my previous words." β
"What?"
"If you don't remember, forget it...... Can you speak seriously, especially with me. Tao Meng counted the tone of discussion.
Yang Jingxing nodded solemnly: "It's good, classmate Tao Meng, I want to learn from you." β
Tao Meng may feel that this is not serious, so he will not waste his tongue.
After class at noon, Yang Jingxing didn't dare to find the big-eyed girl, and went back to the piano room after a quick lunch. He used the stupidest method of matching chords to his slam dunk piano version, one by one. At his genius rate, it is estimated that it will take a few years to test the effect.
Towards the end of the English class in the afternoon, Yang Jingxing was called outside the classroom by Teacher Jiang. The classmates all knew that he must be interrogated because he was suspected of violating Article 18.
In fact, Mr. Jiang didn't mean to criticize Yang Jingxing, but just asked: "Some classmates came to me to complain, saying that you fell in love with a girl from another school, what's the matter?"
Yang Jingxing was embarrassed: "Ah, I'm bragging." β
Teacher Jiang seemed to understand, nodded and said, "I heard that you still practice the piano late every day, so you should pay attention to rest more and don't put too much pressure on yourself." There will be a joint entrance examination at the end of November, and I hope you will take it easy. You are very smart, as long as you keep working hard, you will reap the rewards. β
Babbling, these words are praise compared to the previous ones, Yang Jingxing thanked Teacher Jiang.
That night, Yang Jingxing asked Hu Yiqing to give him a composition and arrangement lesson. Hu Yiqing agreed, because in fact, she also began to prepare for this kind of thing. She has also learned some theoretical knowledge of composition and arrangement before, although there is not much practical application, but some conceptual things can still be explained to Yang Jingxing.
Yang Jingxing has this intention, that is, he wants to learn concepts and theories. So, the three hours of that night gave him a preliminary understanding of what motivation is, the so-called inspiration, arrangement, orchestration, and what is a chord progression.
Hu Yiqing encouraged Yang Jingxing: "So you are very talented, it is no problem to pick up the score." "That's right, as long as there is no very complicated modulation, the general tune, Yang Jingxing can write down the score after listening to it once or twice.
Listening is a talent, but writing still needs theoretical support. Yang Jingxing also probably understood that music creation was not a product of inspiration and speculation as he had imagined before, of course talent was needed, but hard work was even more essential.
From this night onwards, Yang Jingxing's angle of listening to any music was different. As an aspiring musician, as a person who does not want to be a musical speculator, he must carefully analyze the melody, harmony, chords, rhythm, hierarchy, and structure of each musical work.
Yang Jingxing really admired Hu Yiqing more and more, and asked, "You have also written songs, right?"
Hu Yiqing's embarrassed smile showed that she had experience, but said: "I have homework when I am studying...... Just like your essays, you have forgotten what you wrote. β
Perhaps it was the broadening of his horizons and his beautiful yearning for the future that suddenly inspired Yang Jingxing, after Hu Yiqing left, his left hand suddenly became flexible on the keys, and he actually played improvisation, a group of fast chords and arpeggios made him feel good about himself, and quickly recorded it.
Yang Jingxing enjoyed this feeling of self-development and learning, so he wasted most of his time on "Slam Dunk" one night. However, when playing chords, he also gained a new understanding of chord playing.
It was about two o'clock in the morning when it rained. Autumn rain, lingering. Yang Jingxing stood on the balcony, opened the window, and blew the night breeze for a long time. This act summoned the people from the management office and brought him an umbrella, fearing that he would return to his bedroom in the rain. The person who delivered the umbrella also made a joke about Yang Jingxing, saying that it was his audience.
There was a physical education class on Wednesday afternoon, but the rain had not stopped, so I had to play freely indoors. Table tennis, badminton, volleyball, skipping rope and so on.
In the first semester of his sophomore year of high school, Yang Jingxing's class practiced a rope skipping program for the sports meeting. More than a dozen girls in the class all danced some small tricks, and it is conceivable that the thick hemp rope was very long, weighing more than ten pounds, so Yang Jingxing and Shao Lei were allowed to be rope throwers.
There will be a sports meeting after eleven, and there is no need to arrange a program performance in the third year of high school, but the physical education teacher is very nostalgic for the program that won the first prize at the beginning, and found the long rope again, wanting the students to recall the original passion and pass the time by the way.
Of course, it is Yang Jingxing and Shao Lei who throw the rope, and the girls are interspersed in two groups, led by Tao Meng and Jiang Jing. After the girls stood up, the rope was also thrown up, and Ren Chuyu, who was following Jiang Jing, suddenly remembered and said, "Let's stand in reverse, our team was originally facing Yang Jingxing." β
Yes, Tao Meng took a look and prepared to change sides. But the PE teacher found it troublesome: "It's not all the same on either side, that's all." β
So at the beginning, the physical education teacher blew a whistle, Tao Meng and Jiang Jing jumped into the rope circle that was not turning fast, and the two of them were back to back, jumping lightly.
Yang Jingxing looked at Tao Meng's preoccupied expression and her ponytail that was only tied up in physical education class and shook it at the back of her head, and she didn't know what nerves she was doing, so she suddenly laughed, and the corners of her already big mouth were pulled high.
Laughter is really contagious, Tao Meng also laughed, but because she had to maintain the rhythm of bouncing, and her sports performance was not very ideal, she laughed a little nervously, a little hard, and quite serious.
Yang Jingxing smiled even brighter.
Tao Meng may have felt that he was ridiculed, so he forgot the content of the show, and he didn't turn around when he should have turned around, and Jiang Jing didn't forget it.
Ren Chuyu complained: "I'll just say no." β
Tao Meng was annoyed: "Does it have anything to do with this?"
Cao Ayalan said: "Tao Meng is a little uncomfortable, forget it." β
Tao Meng didn't appreciate it: "It's okay, come again." β
This time, she still faced Yang Jingxing, and she didn't make a mistake.
Later, there was a section of fast rope, and ordinary girls couldn't jump, so they left a master to perform. Yang Jingxing worked very hard, making the rope ring turn fast, and he couldn't hold it anymore when he saw Shao Lei's expression.
The girl who jumped the rope didn't hold it up first, and she didn't retreat when she didn't have the physical strength, she didn't jump up at once, and was heavily pumped under the calf by the heavy hemp rope, which seemed to hurt a lot, and she squatted down.
Yang Jingxing hurriedly went over to care: "It's okay, I'll take a look." β
The girl shook her head and smiled.
Tao Meng can be regarded as seizing the opportunity and condemning Yang Jingxing: "What are you playing, be careful." β
Yang Jingxing was so aggrieved that he pushed the responsibility on Shao Lei: "It's obvious that you didn't keep up with the rhythm." β
Shao Lei gasped angrily: "Get out of yours." β
Tao Meng taught Shao Lei again: "Be civilized." β