Chapter 57: The First Song
Yang Jingxing originally wanted to refuse, but Qi Qingnuo reminded: "Uncle Chen knows many people, and many companies and singers are looking for him to order equipment. ”
Yang Jingxing stammered, so the three of them went to dinner together.
Uncle Chen, formerly known as Chen Xiaoqiang, is forty-five years old this year, and he also played in a band when he was young, the underground one is not as popular as Qi Qingnuo's father Qi Dawei's City God Band.
Chen Xiaoqiang told Yang Jingxing that when he was young, he was poor and couldn't afford a guitar, how could Yang Jingxing have a good life like this. In order to make a living, Chen Xiaoqiang later turned to the background, but unfortunately gradually found that his pursuit of music could not keep up with the times, and all kinds of behind-the-scenes scenes made it difficult for him to accept, and slowly, he became a seller of equipment.
The people Chen Xiaoqiang knew when he was young are now in all walks of life, but there are still many who are engaged in music work, their own bosses, producers, and singers.
Chen Xiaoqiang and Zidawi are friends and have known each other for more than 20 years. Qi Dawei now runs the bar, which is a frequent meeting place for old friends, and Chen Xiaoqiang also asked Yang Jingxing if he had been there.
Speaking of which, Chen Xiaoqiang still has a deep rock complex, and he even blames himself for not developing rock and roll in his generation, which has allowed today's music to fall to this point. But he said they really tried hard.
Chen Xiaoqiang didn't know whether Lu Dao inspired Yang Jingxing or looked down on him: "Your generation is fortunate and unlucky, most of the students in the Conservatory of Music are from very good families like you, and they don't have rich life experience, so it is difficult to make good music." ”
Chen Xiaoqiang also listed some of the best people of his era, only a few of them were from professional classes, but they also slowly started to fight, at that time, everyone was poor. And those who are not from professional classes, although they are full of enthusiasm, are still limited by creativity, and they are basically short-lived, and there are basically no people who can make cultural achievements.
Chen Xiaoqiang is obviously educating the next generation, saying that to make music, you must be able to endure hardships, you must endure loneliness, you must never give up, and if money is like dung. Some people have written and sung one or two songs in their lives, and then they have relied on this old book to jump up and down, walking around and showing their faces, how boring it is, can they be called musicians?
In this regard, the City God Band is obviously a positive role model, although they used to be so popular, but then there is no market, or their music can't keep up with the needs of the times, but they don't grovel, they don't compromise, they fend for themselves, and old friends can still get together from time to time and continue to make the music they want to make, although they don't have many listeners, but they live with dignity, and their music is also dignified!
Chen Xiaoqiang said like an old angry young man, and said a bucket and another bottle, and Yang Jingxing and Qi Qingnuo listened. Later, Chen Xiaoqiang was a little embarrassed: "Don't think I talk too much, I heard Nuo Nuo say that you are a person who concentrates on making music, so I will talk about my own experience, I hope that your generation will take fewer detours and make more achievements." ”
Yang Jingxing thanked: "Listening to your words is better than reading a book for ten years." ”
Chen Xiaoqiang said: "Among the younger generations, Nuo Nuo is very remarkable and has lived up to her father. ”
Yang Jingxing smiled: "You said so much, I also have a deep understanding of this." ”
Qi Qingnuo was still eating, looking at Yang Jingxing: "Don't come with me, I only eat vegetables." ”
Chen Xiaoqiang said again: "Don't say anything handsome...... Can a man eat with his face? He has to rely on his ability and talent, right?"
Yang Jingxing rejoiced: "Fortunately, I don't look good." ”
Chen Xiaoqiang disagreed again: "This is about packaging, I have seen a lot, those little white faces are much worse than you." ”
After eating, Chen Xiaoqiang asked Yang Jingxing to go to Zidawi's brilliant bar to play when he was free on the weekend, and it would be good to get to know more of his seniors. It also shows that the brilliant bar is very different from the bars that ordinary young people go to now, it is a place that pays attention to literary and artistic exchanges.
Chen Xiaoqiang asked, "Do you know Nuo Nuo's mother?"
Yang Jingxing shook his head.
"The editor-in-chief of Qunwen Publishing House, I know all great writers!"
Chen Xiaoqiang said that he could send Qi Qingnuo home, but Qi Qingnuo was not in a hurry, and said that he wanted to get Yang Jingxing's new equipment to have a good time. When the two went back to school, Yang Jingxing asked, "Does your father still have long hair?"
Qi Qingnuo smiled: "Yes, but it's a blessing...... But my dad's hair isn't disgusting!"
Yang Jingxing said: "When I was in junior high school, I also wanted to grow my hair long. ”
Qi Qingnuo looked at Yang Jingxing, as if imagining his long hair, shook his head and said, "I advise you not to think like that again." ”
Yang Jingxing asked the matter: "Are you willing to let 306 perform what I wrote?"
Qi Qingnuo said: "In principle, no...... See how well you write. ”
Yang Jingxing asked again: "Have you considered adding vocal music?"
Qi Qingnuo said: "I've tried, but it didn't work, so take your time...... Don't think of yourself as a 306!"
Yang Jingxing is still reasonable: "Who asked you to seduce me." ”
Qi Qingnuo smiled: "Who seduced you?
"You!"
Qi Qingnuo said: "Then you give up early, you are really not my dish." ”
Yang Jingxing was sad: "What are you doing?"
Qi Qingnuo was very decisive: "First of all, I really don't like your looks. ”
Yang Jingxing nodded and covered his face: "Well, this is also my heart knot." ”
Qi Qingnuo smiled: "A handsome man, no matter what he does, gives me a very impure feeling, I feel very floating, especially you...... You don't have low self-esteem, do you?"
Yang Jingxing was very angry: "Just allow you to be beautiful, others are guilty if they are not ugly!"
Qi Qingnuo comforted: "Personal taste, I like you a lot, don't take it to heart." ”
Yang Jingxing asked: "It seems that there is a second?"
Qi Qingnuo chuckled: "It's not just second! Second, I don't like rich men, I don't like them very much, especially the rich second generation." ”
Yang Jingxing rejoiced: "That's okay, I'm not." ”
Qi Qingnuo struck: "Don't hide it, you have been stereotyped in my mind." ”
Yang Jingxing was furious: "Don't go too far!"
Qi Qingnuo was very proud: "Third, like all women, I don't like men with flowers. ”
Yang Jingxing was surprised: "Have you seen through this?"
Qi Qingnuo said: "There is a specialization in the art industry, do you say that you are a monkey to break buds, today the erhu and tomorrow the guzheng, what do you like?"
Yang Jingxing excited: "I like music!"
Qi Qingnuo said: "Even if it is." Fourth...... Forget it, I see you're a little overwhelmed, we'll talk about it next time. ”
Yang Jingxing praised viciously: "You are so kind!"
Qi Qing Nuo Ha Lu Ha Le.
Yang Jingxing called Yu Xinting and said, "Let's go, clean up." ”
Yu Xinting said: "I mopped the ground at noon. ”
Yang Jingxing said: "If you don't clean it, I want to criticize you!"
Yu Xinting said: "Definitely not, I'll come down immediately." ”
Yu Xinting came over and saw Qi Qingnuo and Yang Jingxing together, so she asked, "Have you eaten?"
Yang Jingxing said: "I'm so full and full, and I'm angry." ”
Yu Xinting asked, "What's wrong?"
Qi Qingnuo Ha Le put his arm around Yu Xinting's shoulder: "Ignore him, let him be full for a while." ”
Opening the door of 402 and looking inside, Yu Xinting screamed and jumped into the classroom with both feet: "When did you come?"
Qi Qingnuo said: "You have a surprise, the drumstick is in that box." ”
Yu Xinting hurriedly flipped it out, opened the drumstick bag, took out the drumstick, knocked it excitedly with both hands, and looked at Yang Jingxing and smiled.
Yang Jingxing said: "Let's improvise. "Run to the back of the double row of keys to turn on.
Qi Qingnuo didn't grab it with Yang Jingxing, picked up the guitar and hung it up, turned on the stereo, and tried the sound effect a little. Yu Xinting hurriedly sat behind the drum, adjusted the bench, and found: "There are two more cymbals." ”
Yang Jingxing also tinkered for a while and set up the timbre. The main keyboard is played in unison with brass and strings, and the secondary keyboard is responsible for solo or something. Fortunately, he learned from Cheng Hao, otherwise it would take him a long time to understand those settings.
After doing it himself, Yang Jingxing asked, "Are you ready?"
Qi Qingnuo said: "It's been a long time, let's start." ”
So Yang Jingxing started, and it was brass in unison. Generally speaking, brass unison is used to express the magnificent atmosphere, but Yang Jingxing's prelude is relatively melodious, and I don't know if he is unfamiliar with the equipment or deliberate.
This brass prelude was repeated three times, and Qi Qingnuo and Yu Xinting looked at Yang Jingxing with a surprised look. It's a good melody, it can't really be improvised.
Then, Yang Jingxing's string unison followed up again, it was a variation of the previous melody, but the brass was not over, it became an orchestral unison, atmospheric and tactful, just a few seconds, but it gave people goosebumps.
Qi Qingnuo and Yu Xinting both forgot their responsibilities, and they both looked at Yang Jingxing, looking forward to him finishing this piece of music. But Yang Jingxing repeated the prelude again, and signaled Yu Xinting with his eyes: "There is no drum beat, hurry up, improvise, play casually." ”
Yu Xinting listened to Yang Jingxing's amazing orchestral melody and rhythm, but she was a little anxious, the drumstick was raised a few times and did not fall, after Yang Jingxing repeated it again, she finally found her senses and stepped on the bass drum.
"Very good!" Yang Jingxing praised: "Plus the snare drum." ”
Again, Yu Xinting added a small snare drum, and the rhythm was not bad, Qi Qingnuo had a feeling: "Add a barrel drum here, four or three beats!
This is not too high for Yu Xinting, a beginner, but the little girl is also very excited and eager to try.
Again, although the drum beat and the orchestral rhythm are not very closely matched, Qi Qingnuo still clenched his fists: "It's so cool!"
After the prelude, Yang Jingxing said, "It's your turn." ”
Of course, Qi Qingnuo used Yang Jingxing's melody, but he added chords by himself, which felt very good, although it was very short, but what a wonderful SOLO paragraph.
Yang Jingxing was still not satisfied, and said: "Is it a full point to use the small nine chords here and then add the small seven transposition?"
Qi Qingnuo couldn't wait: "Come again, come again, you start." ”
This time it was more complete, with the brass unison repeating the melody three times, then the strings and drums cut in and repeated, followed by the orchestra plus the drum kit and the electric guitar.
It's not perfect, but the feeling of melody and rhythm has come out, thanks to the melody, the effect is very good, both magnificent and emotional, it can make the auditory nerves immediately excited.
The song was less than half a minute, but Qi Qingnuo was so excited that he held the guitar and circled, walked in front of Yu Xinting in two steps, and ordered: "Stand up!"
Yu Xinting was a little scared and stood up. Qi Qingnuo was very polite, hugged Yu Xinting's head and kissed her on the face.
Yu Xinting was frightened, and almost poked Qi Qingnuo with a drumstick, and after Qi Qingnuo let go of her, she conditionally wiped the kissed place on her face with the back of her hand.
Yang Jingxing was anxious: "What about me, what about me!"
Qi Qingnuo calmed down and called Yu Xinting: "You go." ”
Yu Xinting looked at Yang Jingxing.
Yang Jingxing smiled: "Look at you, my face is red with fright." ”
Yu Xinting denied angrily: "No!" and knocked on each other with drumsticks.
Qi Qingnuo abandoned Yang Jingxing and used the guitar to repeat the half-minute tune SOLO. It's not bad, but it's still a little worse than the orchestral unison.
Qi Qingnuo was still very satisfied, and sighed long: "I haven't felt like this for a long time!"
Yang Jingxing flaunted himself: "I am repaying grievances with virtue." ”
Qi Qingnuo raised his palms: "I don't accept it!"
Yang Jingxing said: "I'll still, let's continue." He said to Yu Xinting again: "Be careful, don't let her succeed!"
Yu Xinting smiled knowingly.
Qi Qingnuo said: "Then it won't be your turn!"
This piece is the piano piece that Yang Jingxing recently wrote, and of course he also conceived a version of the orchestra's performance. The brass prelude just now was a whim, but I didn't expect it to work very well.
Yang Jingxing first played a five-minute tune with a grand piano tone, so that Yu Xinting and Qi Qingnuo had a general understanding. The two girls are stupid, the whole piece has two parts, one is passionate, the other is melodious, supporting each other and comparing each other's plumpness, and a bit of Chinese style.
Yu Xinting said: "It's so good. ”
Qi Qingnuo looked at Yang Jingxing: "I'll take back the thousandth." ”
Yang Jingxing was angry: "Not so much, right?"
Yu Xinting asked, "What thousand?"
Qi Qingnuo said: "His shortcomings. ”
Yu Xinting hee.
Then the three of them began to work together on the band arrangement. In this regard, Qi Qingnuo was able to discuss with Yang Jingxing, but Yu Xinting was a little worse and did not dare to express any opinions. Fortunately, Yang Jingxing attaches great importance to Yu Xinting's weight and adds a lot of drums to it. There are also double-row keys that mimic the effect of the timpani, which feels really good and not difficult.
Yu Xinting was a little afraid: "I'll just listen, you guys come." ”
Yang Jingxing taught a lesson: "What do you think you are called to do!
Yu Xinting was a little aggrieved: "I didn't say it. ”
Qi Qingnuo hehe: "I'm touching your light." ”
Yu Xinting shook her head: "No!"
Yang Jingxing said: "It's true that you take advantage of her. ”
Qi Qingnuo was also proud: "Come, kiss one." ”
Yu Xinting hurriedly dodged.
Although Yang Jingxing had already had a more specific idea before, the three of them still discussed and tested it for an hour. After almost finalizing the draft, Yang Jingxing debugged the equipment and played it again.
Double-row keys, Qi Qingnuo is still much more proficient than Yang Jingxing, so he can give him a lot of advice, and he can also help him press the switch button. The whole piece is a brass unison repeating the intro, and then the strings follow in unison. After the intro, the music is quiet, with string pizzicato to introduce the theme, followed by the piano and electric guitar in the supporting role, accompanied by a string ensemble and drum beats. The theme of the whole piece is distinct, the melody is atmospheric and beautiful, and the atmosphere echoes before and after.
This is Yang Jingxing's first composition!
Yang Jingxing played it alone again. Qi Qingnuo was not excited: "You are still almost, come together!"
Yu Xinting disagreed: "It's so good!"
Qi Qingnuo smiled: "Don't you see? He doesn't like others to say that he is good." Then he also taught Yang Jingxing to add a synthesizer tone to make the effect fuller.
Three of them come together and do it all over again. Because Yu Xinting only needs to beat one or two drums, it is not difficult, and Qi Qingnuo's electric guitar is not a problem. Yang Jingxing is a genius from a classical piano, and the double-row keys are also qualified. And all three are serious.
At the end of the song, Yu Xinting put down the drumstick and applauded hard, but when she saw Qi Qingnuo rushing towards her, she hurriedly covered her face to dodge. Qi Qingnuo just scared Yu Xinting, and he didn't really want to kiss.
Yu Xinting said: "I want to score. ”
Yang Jingxing promised: "I'll give it to you tomorrow." ”
Qi Qingnuo said: "I want it too." ”
Yang Jingxing held a grudge: "Don't give it!"
Qi Qingnuo said: "I dedicate myself to music, come!" Facing Yang Jingxing, his eyes were closed, and his expression was distorted and his lips were pouting.
Yang Jingxing was afraid: "I'll give it to me." ”
Yu Xinting grinned and asked Yang Jingxing, "What's the name of the song?"
Yang Jingxing said: "I haven't taken it yet, you think." ”
This Yu Xinting was not afraid, and accepted the task with honor: "Then I'll think about it at night." ”