Chapter 21: The Pain of Convulsions
Although Li Mu has always been just a music lover, and playing the guitar and forming a band in college can only be regarded as an amateur, he is also a very serious and immersed enthusiast for many years.
Generally speaking, even if a band is only in the stage of imitating others, it should not try any song or style, so that it is no different from a bar band, and if you really want to be a good band, you first need to set a style for yourself, and then desperately absorb the nutrients in this style, and finally even if it is a cover of other people's songs, you can play your own style.
However, Zhang Kexuan's game is really nothing new.
"Then do you have any suggestions?" Zhang Kexuan scratched his head, his face a little unbearable.
Li Mu shrugged his shoulders and said casually: "If you want to have fun, you should put down your instruments first, have a meeting to discuss the style and route that everyone prefers, and then everyone will work that road together." ”
Saying that, Li Mu said mercilessly: "If you just play casually, try any style at home and abroad, it's easy to do, anyway, there is a performing arts bar at the intersection where you go out, and you can go there at night." ”
In recent years, Jinling's consumption level, with four people in the resident band, singing for one or two hours a night, is at most 400 yuan.
But the four of them are all real rich second generations, who would look down on this amount of money? Moreover, for them, going to a bar to perform is a very low thing.
Although the faces of the four people are not very good-looking, what Li Mu said is the truth, and it is full of truth, even if the four of them are dogs in their hearts, they can't refute it.
The other guitarist said, "Hey, little brother, didn't you write your own songs?
The bass player and drummer also looked encouraged, and the drummer said in a strange tone: "Yes, show and show, let us see the world, everyone can play with mouth cannons, few can cook, everyone is a gourmet." ”
Li Mu looked at the drummer buried in a large pile of cymbals, and shook his head helplessly, it seems that they are not very convinced, it is very, I didn't want to evaluate, you asked, and you didn't let you tell the truth, are you rich second generation so hypocritical?
Immediately, Li Mu only asked the drummer one sentence: "Dude, your equipment is absolutely awesome, the top one has nothing to say." ”
As soon as the words fell, Li Mu saw a trace of pride on the other party's face, and then the conversation changed: "Don't talk about stepping on cymbals, you have to have a drum kit, but you just got 16, 17, 18 inches of Crash cymbals, a whole three, as well as water cymbals, Ding Ding, and even Chinese cymbals, but I see that you have three songs, among them, except for the cymbal and a Crash closest to you, the other five cymbals, you haven't touched them at all, may I ask what kind of psychology do you have?
"You ......" The drummer thought that Li Mu was complimenting himself, but when he heard it, almost a mouthful of black blood spurted out.
Yes, those who play music have this mentality, regardless of whether the technology is good or not, first make up the equipment as much as possible, especially if there is two money, it is even more difficult, I can't wait to buy everything I can, but I can really use it, there are very few, he put out so many cymbals, but also for a visual, as for his technology, he can't play at all.
Zhang Kexuan didn't dare to despise Li Mu this time, don't look at people's age, but the eyes and mouth are really poisonous, it's really bullish or pretending to be bullish, people can see it at a glance, and it hurts people without dirty words.
So Zhang Kexuan played a round and said: "Li Mu, I didn't expect you to be an expert, let's go, let's go to the recording studio." ”
Li Mu shrugged his shoulders and said indifferently: "Then let's go." ”
Anyway, it's all here, if you rich people pretend to be forced, don't let me be a **silk pretend?
As soon as he entered the recording studio, Li Mu found that the equipment here was more professional than the outside, and it was divided into two rooms, both behind the soundproof glass door, one for recording vocals, and the other for recording drums and other musical instruments that needed to be picked up by speakers.
There is also a Martin's native electric box guitar, in layman's terms, it can be understood as an acoustic guitar that can be plugged in and output, this brand of guitar, the top goods are at least tens of thousands, and Zhennima is rich.
Zhang Kexuan took Li Mu and everyone into the outside of the recording studio, and said to Li Mu: "Look at it, you can use the equipment here, if you need other instruments to match you, we can also help." ”
"No hassle. Li Mu thought to himself, isn't it just to record a song "Zebra Zebra" for Chen Wan, it's not so troublesome, such a good acoustic guitar, such a good microphone and tuning equipment are already very enough.
So Li Mu said: "I'll just play the record directly." ”
"Amateur. The drummer pouted: "The vocals should be recorded separately, and when you play and sing, the sound of the guitar will also be partially captured by the vocal microphone, and the effect will be worse." ”
"You're right. Li Mu nodded, and asked rhetorically: "This is similar to the nature of you not using those five cymbals, and the technical level is not so professional, what is the use of such professional equipment and means?"
"I'll wipe ......" The drummer was almost on fire, Zhang Kexuan hurriedly glanced at him, and said to Li Mu: "You can do it if you think it's suitable, come, let's start." ”
Li Mu also held the nature of playing tickets, connected the guitar to the equipment, adjusted the microphone, and Zhang Kexuan also made an OK gesture outside, the equipment was all done, and it could start at any time.
So, Li Mu played the prelude to "Zebra Zebra".
A few buddies originally thought that Li Mu couldn't write anything original at his age, but as soon as the simple melodious finger playing prelude came out, several people immediately changed color, not to mention anything else, this melody line and this guitar arrangement have a certain foundation, this kind of skill is not to play the guitar, but to have real arranging skills.
When Li Mu opened his mouth to sing the first sentence, Zhang Kexuan only felt that his brain exploded, although he hadn't heard the reason yet, and he didn't know what this song was going to sing, but just Li Mu's slightly hoarse voice with the melody of the song and the perfect timbre of Martin's guitar was enough to amaze him.
Chen Wan was fascinated as early as the moment the prelude sounded, when he was in Li Mu's house, his guitar was still a lot inferior, plus there was no professional equipment, the sound field atmosphere was 108,000 miles worse than now, after all, this is the top equipment! Listening to this song like this, the whole person almost has to blend into the notes.
Li Mu's song was done in one go, and there were no mistakes in his voice and playing, this time he was personally very satisfied, so he stood up, pushed open the soundproof door, and said to Zhang Kexuan: "I think this should be fine, it's a small sample, there's no need to be too refined." ”
Zhang Kexuan looked at Li Mu like a monster, the drummer...... The drummer was already blushing.
Chen Wan felt as if she had just recovered from a different kind of faint sadness, this should be the charm of music, creating an atmosphere, tricking you in, and then bringing out similar feelings in your heart, so that after a song, you seem to be hollowed out by the song.
Chen Wan, who came back to her senses, clapped her hands excitedly: "The singing is great, it's really amazing!"
Zhang Kexuan also felt shameless, he was only eighteen years old, and he had already played so awesome in the original, but he was twenty-four, and he hadn't written a complete song yet.
As soon as he thought of this, Zhang Kexuan's heart twitched.
Just a few days ago, he was still holding back his strength to write a song that told the dissatisfaction of the angry youth with society, but he couldn't help it, and it is not surprising that ninety percent of the people who play rock and roll these years are in this tune.
The key is that Zhang Kexuan is just an amateur, and he didn't understand that most people write songs first and then fill in the lyrics, but he didn't understand, so he wanted to write a beautiful, rebellious and critical lyrics first, and the song was called "Mom, Please Take Me Home Quickly".
The lyrics in the idea are to the effect that the author is fed up with social injustice and the indifference of the world, and hopes that his mother can take him home and stay away from this filth.
But unfortunately, the lyrics were written in two sentences, and then they couldn't hold it back, and then Zhang Kexuan's mother happened to see the draft of the lyrics, and scolded angrily: "You still ask the old lady to take you home quickly? You yourself haven't been home for three days, and the old lady can't find you! Do you rock and roll people like to talk nonsense with your eyes open like this?"
Come on, I was already stuck in the shell, and I was scolded by my mother so much that I gave up completely.
At this time, Li Mu saw that the four members of the band were not speaking, and couldn't help asking, "Can you let me listen to it again?"
Zhang Kexuan reacted and hurriedly said, "Okay, okay, wait." ”
After listening to the replay, not only the other five people were satisfied, but Li Mu himself was also satisfied, and said to Chen Wan: "Sister Wan, it's okay to do this, right?"
"Mmmmmm, perfect!" Chen Wan admired Li Mu for a long time.
"Okay, call it a day, please ask Brother Zhang to cut it out and copy it out, you don't need to do the post-production. ”
Zhang Kexuan hesitated for a long time and asked tentatively, "Li Mu, are you ...... Do you have any other originals?"