Chapter 6: I remember
This café was special today, it was not as crowded as usual, and when it was close to nine o'clock in the evening, the hall was packed. Many people didn't want to leave after dinner, and they all ordered a cup of coffee to stay in their places, enjoying themselves immersed in the wonderful world built by Liu Jingxin's musical notes.
Although there were piano players and violinists to help share the burden, Liu Jingxin also sang for almost two hours. Even if he couldn't sing later, he still enjoyed the feeling of being appreciated, and he was still reluctant to leave the small stage, so he could only play solo songs when he couldn't sing. But even so, it is very popular with customers.
At nine o'clock on time, Liu Jingxin put away the guitar and came to the front desk to settle the day's song order.
Today, two customers ordered a song and gave Liu Jingxin a total of 100 yuan.
After only singing for three hours, he actually had an extra income of 200 yuan, which Liu Jingxin had not expected at all before. However, there is great instability in the income from ordering songs and tips, and you can't rely on it too much.
Liu Jingxin walked out of the café with his guitar on his back and saw Tian Zheng already waiting at the door.
The two were not very familiar, and after meeting, they were polite, and then they came to the nearby Xidan Pedestrian Street business circle, and randomly found a slightly less person to sit on the side of the road.
"Let's get started. Liu Jingxin saw that it was not too early, and suggested straight to the point.
Tian Zheng nodded, took out a piece of paper from his pocket, and unfolded it seriously. There were lines of small print written on it, which was the marriage proposal he wrote to his girlfriend. He read the love poems he had written over and over again, his face getting redder and redder, but he couldn't open his mouth.
"It's okay, you just sing as you like, you can sing as you want, and I'll help you with chords at the same time. Liu Jingxin encouraged him, opened the piano bag and took out the guitar, and quickly completed the tuning.
Tian Zheng held back for a while, and finally spoke, he obviously blushed and looked hard, but the sound he made was very small.
"I'm not very expressive, I'm stupid to the point where I get home, I'm a complete fool......"
Tian Zheng is more and more in the state, and his voice is getting louder and louder, but Liu Jingxin is becoming more and more out of state and more and more collapsed.
In the first two or three sentences, Tian Zhengyi shared three completely different keys, the most outrageous thing is that it is obviously a love song in four-quarter beats, and he also mixed three-quarters of a beat in the style of waltzes, which directly made Liu Jingxin stupid, not only that, but his rhythm was all chaotic.
It seems that he feels that the atmosphere is not right, Tian Zheng sang more and more urgently, and the last sentence was like rapping, and it was completely impossible to listen to as a love song.
"How is it?" Tian Zheng asked as he looked at Liu Jingxin expectantly.
Liu Jingxin was silent for a long time, raised his hand and patted Tian Zheng's shoulder, and persuaded with a serious expression: "Listen to my advice, you still recite love poems according to your original plan, I can give you a soundtrack, and the effect should not be too bad." ”
Tian Zheng was like a deflated balloon, and said dejectedly: "Alas! I'm so stupid!"
Liu Jingxin asked with some curiosity: "Why do you have to choose to propose marriage in this way? You need to mobilize emotions, isn't it good to recite poems with music?"
Tian Zheng sighed and said: "Actually, it's like this, when we first started falling in love, I accompanied her to watch an idol drama, in which the male protagonist played in a band, and when he confessed to the heroine, he sang a song." At that time, she was very excited and told me that if someone sang and proposed to her, she would immediately agree. I guess she'd forgotten about this little thing for so long, but I remember. ”
Liu Jingxin nodded thoughtfully, he really could understand Tian Zheng's desire to leave no regrets in the marriage proposal ceremony.
However, no matter how strong the desire is, the ability is not enough, and it can't be forced after all!
Obtain a limited-time mission (Tian Zheng's wish) Tips: As a layman, Tian Zheng lacks the support of basic music theory knowledge and cannot complete the composition alone, so it is recommended that the host help determine the key and chords, so that Tian Zheng can complete the composition in the musical accompaniment. 】
Hearing this task prompt, Liu Jingxin's eyes suddenly lit up.
As long as the accompaniment is confirmed, he will add the melody to the accompaniment, and there is a limit to how much he can go out of tune!
Liu Jingxin patted the frustrated Tian Zheng and said with a smile: "That's it, you wait a while, I'll extract a section of the melody of your main song and the chorus part, and then help you extend it according to the chord direction, and try to help you pick up the whole song." ”
"Well, then I'll trouble you!" Tian Zheng heard that there was still a chance, and his eyes suddenly widened with excitement.
To write a song normally, you must first have words and songs, and then you can make chord combinations and arrangements. Liu Jingxin reversed this process, hoping to have the desired effect.
Liu Jingxin first found the first chord, hummed a short melody that Tian Zheng had just hummed, and then followed the chords backwards, and soon completed the chords of the main song, and the chorus part was also matched with chords in the same way. Add a small transition between the main chorus, and the chords of the whole song are almost ready.
Subsequently, Liu Jingxin began to play the chords of the whole song over and over again, and Tian Zheng took the lyrics and tried to add melody to the chords.
After about dozens of attempts, the melody that Tian Zheng hummed finally changed and gradually stabilized, and at this time the night was already dark, even in the bustling Xidan Pedestrian Street, there were not many people at this time.
Tian Zheng had already entered a state of excitement, he was so excited that he pulled Liu Jingxin to sing several times, and took out his mobile phone to record, and finally saw that Liu Jingxin was really tired, and the time was indeed too late, so he stopped unsatisfied.
Tian Zheng was grateful from the bottom of his heart for Liu Jingxin's help, and dragged Liu Jingxin to have a supper and drank several bottles of small beer, and then took a taxi to send Liu Jingxin back to where he lived.
Dragging a tired body into the door and turning on the light, looking at the deserted room, smelling the musty smell in the air, Liu Jingxin sighed, and felt a sense of loss from heaven to the cold world.
He used music to heal people, give people encouragement, give hope, and send warmth to people today, but when he returned to this cold basement, he was left alone, no one to heal him, no one to give him encouragement, no one to give him warmth, no one to give him hope, no one to care about him!
Sighing softly, Liu Jingxin carefully put the piano away, picked up the basin and was about to go out to pick up water and wash, when he suddenly felt the mobile phone in his trouser pocket vibrate, he took out the mobile phone and looked at it, and found that there were several missed calls from his mother, the most recent one was ten minutes ago.
Why hasn't my mother slept so late?
Liu Jingxin put down the basin and called back, and the call was quickly connected.
"Mom, what's wrong? Is there not enough money at home...... It's okay, I took a big job, but I made money, and I should be able to get some money back in a week...... I'm pretty good now, I'm living every day, living in a small apartment, having a small barbecue, going out by car, you really don't have to worry about me ......"
After ending the call with his mother, Liu Jingxin put down his mobile phone, his eyes were slightly red, but the corners of his mouth raised a stubborn smile.
Who says nobody cares about him? Who says nobody cares about him?
He is now full of strength, and he firmly believes that the future must be better and better!