Yutaka Tanabe did something incredible.

I saw him put one of the A5 drum sticks on the ground, and then took out a pair of B5 drum sticks from his arms.

In this way, he has a total of three drum sticks in his hands.

"Is it ......?"

Masato Honda's eyes lit up.

"What is he going to do?" asked Hikaru Utada curiously.

Masato Honda looked at Yutaka Tanabe, who was sitting motionless on the drum bench, and said, "If Naoto knew that someone had inherited his mantle......"

Kazumi Watanabe said to Hikaru Utada, who looked inexplicable, "Mr. Honda's younger brother invented a striking technique back then, and we call it Sanstab ......"

As he was talking, Yutaka Tanabe on the stage moved.

He holds the stick in his left hand in his normal hand, while his right hand takes a very strange position – holding the B5 stick with his thumb and forefinger, and the A5 stick between his ring finger and little finger.

No wonder it's called Three Knife Stream.

To look at it this way, Honda really looks like a samurai with three knives.

"But can you really play the drum with such a stick?"

As soon as Hikaru Utada's words fell, with the muffled sound of a few kick drums, the drums crackled and poured down like a torrential rain!

Hikaru Utada's eyes instantly widened.

Is there any mistake, it comes up and starts at 180?!

……

The word tempo in music is borrowed from the Italian word for "time". Modern music is often measured in "beats per minute" (bpm) as a unit of tempo.

The speed of 180 refers to 180 beats per minute.

It's a terrifying speed.

If you follow the standard 4/4 beat, that means you need to hit at least 720 hits a minute! That means an average of more than 12 hits per second!

It may be said that it is difficult to have an intuitive feeling, so take two examples, and everyone will understand.

Historically, the Guinness World Record for a drum kit was set by Mike-Mangini in 2005 for 300 speeds and 1203 beats a minute.

Until Lin Hai was reborn, no drummer could break this record.

……

Here's another example.

In 2014, a horror film called "Burst Drummer" was released in the United States.

(Don't ask me why I'm not an inspirational film, you ask someone who learns instrumental music, and I believe he or she will tell you the answer.) ）

Less nonsense.

This film tells a story that if you don't go crazy, you can't live.

The main character, Andrew, is a substitute drummer who has always dreamed of one day standing on a world-class stage, and by chance, he was selected by maestro French to become a member of a jazz band.

Then came the beginning of the nightmare.

Frankher is a very demanding person, and likes to use humiliating means to bring out the potential of his students, so much so that many students suffer from depression, some can't bear it and give up music, and some even commit suicide because of it.

The protagonist was also on the verge of collapse and gave up for a while, but in the end he achieved self-transcendence, and finally appeared on the stage again, completing the sublimation from technology to belief......

In this film, the teacher's requirement for Andrew is to reach a speed of 400.

Some people may wonder, isn't the world record only 300?

Here it needs to be explained.

First of all, the world record is calculated in 4/4 time, and in "Burst Drummer", Andrew plays jazz drums, and the basic sound pattern of jazz is three notes per beat, that is, 3/3 beat, so the teacher's actual requirement is to hit 1200 beats per minute.

Secondly, it's just a movie.

Movies can be exaggerated, but in reality, even Mike Mangini, when he set the record, did it with the metronome on, and in the process he was just repeating a single jump of a quadruple, with no rhythm to speak of.

It's easy to understand that if you hit a drum hard, you can hit it very quickly, but in reality, a drummer may have to hit two, three, or even more notes in the same beat......

Take it now, the speed is 180, and the actual number of taps per minute by Yutaka Tanabe is close to 1000!

……

"Three Knife Streams......

Lin Hai looked at Yutaka Tanabe, remembering a rumor he had heard before.

It is said that some drummers have strong finger control and can control two drumsticks at the same time with one hand, which allows them to produce richer note variations to compensate for the lack of tempo.

When I first heard someone tell it, Lin Hai only thought it was a joke, because if he really did this, it would inevitably lead to an unstable rhythm-

No matter how lively the juggling is, if the rhythm is out of order, it doesn't make any sense.

However, Yutaka Tanabe not only really performed this legendary skill, but also the rhythm was not chaotic at all, and it was still as stable as a metronome.

Looking at the flying "knife", Lin Hai's fighting spirit burned.

……

Offstage.

Shinji Takeda's face was ugly.

As soon as he said that Yutaka Tanabe lacked stage presence, he was slapped in the face in the blink of an eye.

Yutaka Tanabe is not only as simple as using "rare skills", but his "moves" are also completely different from the original - if he used to throw fireballs on the spot, now he is rushing into the enemy formation and releasing a storm of blades, and the visual experience is completely two extremes!

Where did this bastard kid come from?!

Shinji Takeda hated it, but laughed again in the blink of an eye.

"I can't help myself, I'm dumbfounded now......"

Shinji Takeda didn't name him, but everyone knew he was talking about Lin Hai.

Hikaru Utada glared at Takeda angrily, and then looked at Lin Hai worriedly.

In the face of the violent sword qi displayed by Yutaka Tanabe, how should Lin Hai face it?

At this moment, Lin Hai moved.

……

Lin Hai's way of dealing with it is to be fast against fast.

In between, he strummed eight eighths in a row, cut smoothly into the rhythm, and then began to play the speed.

When it comes to speed bombing, Lin Hai is really not afraid of anyone.

Lin Hai actually came into contact with speed play relatively late, and it was only after he arrived in Japan in his previous life that he really began to pay attention to guitar playing speed.

It was a very fortuitous chance, he and a friend went to Shiqiao to buy a piano, but met a high school student at the piano shop, and the other party offered to try it out, and the result was ...... Lin Hai was defeated.

Lin Hai's self-esteem is very strong, so much so that he started training for quick bombs that night, and one bullet is more than ten years.

It is no exaggeration to say that Lin Hai just lacked the opportunity to show in his previous life, and in terms of skill, he was not weaker than Kobayashi Shinichi and others.

Now he is slightly weaker than in his previous life because of his muscle strength, but being young has the advantage of being younger, his energy is more concentrated, and his control is even greater than that of his previous life.

"Nice, nice, nice......"

Watanabe Kazumi nodded repeatedly, very satisfied with Lin Hai's performance.

Masato Honda jokingly asked him, "How about comparing with you?"

Watanabe Kazumi didn't answer and asked, "We're old friends, aren't we?"

In other words, can you not mention which pot without opening it?

"Well, even if you're better. ”

"What do you mean even if I'm better?"

Watanabe Kazumi said arrogantly: "If I were twenty years younger, I would make sure that this kid couldn't find the north!"

As soon as the words fell, the stage changed again.

Yutaka Tanabe began to pick up speed.

"This kid ......"

Masato Honda stopped in the middle of his words, because Lin Hai also picked up speed.

……

Fast and furious are always linked.

The extreme hurricane on the stage has entered the sprint stage, this is a race with no end, and the winner or loser is who falls behind first.

Yutaka Tanabe's sword has converged a lot, and he has now given up the complex rhythm in favor of a single jump.

Such a drum does not have much beauty to speak of, but the stimulation of the adrenal glands is more and more intense.

Everyone in the audience breathed rapidly.

The speed of the drum beat is still increasing little by little.

……

Come on, come on!

Hikaru Utada stared at Lin Hai and silently cheered him up in his heart.

Strictly speaking, guitarists and drummers are more disadvantaged in fighting speed, and drummers have both hands and feet, which is a full-body exercise. As for the guitarist, all you can use is your hands.

Not only that, but guitar playing requires the cooperation of the left and right hands, which increases the difficulty of pursuing extreme speed.

Because of this, guitarists who want to pursue higher speeds need to free their hands from this "bundling".

For example, point strings.

In the history of electric guitar speed, there is one person who has played a key role, and that is Eddie-Van-Halen.

Eddie Van Halen (later referred to as Van Halen) was born in the Netherlands and later immigrated to the United States, is a famous American heavy metal guitarist, and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2007.

Van Halen's greatest contribution to rock music was pioneering the art of electric guitar stringing.

Note that it's the "electric" guitar point string technique.

Guitar stamping has been around for a long time, but before Van Halen, it was basically one-handed stamping, and he showed the world two-handed strumming, which also ushered in a new era of guitar racing.

……

Lin Hai showed his two-handed plucking technique and continued to bite the drum tightly.

However, the speed of the drum is still slowly improving, and even if the strings are tapped, it is a little difficult to keep up.

When Lin Hai used the plectrum vibrato, Hikaru Utada suddenly sighed.

Pick tremolo is the technique of quickly plucking a string up and down with a pick.

A vibrating word is enough to show that this is a small, high-frequency performance, and this technique is purely related to the muscular strength of the hand holding the pick (usually the right hand).

When a guitarist starts playing tremolo, it means he's reached his limit.

……

The drum beat was still picking up speed with difficulty and slowly, and Lin Hai had already used a tremolo, even Kazumi Watanabe had to admit that Lin Hai had lost.

The corners of Takeda Shinji's mouth showed a sneer, and he was just about to speak, when he suddenly heard Hikaru Utada let out an exclamation!

No one needs to explain, because Takeda himself saw it.

What did he see?!

Shinji Takeda's eyes widened as he watched Lin Hai's disappearing hand......

No, it's not gone, it's just that the arm is flying so fast that it looks like it's gone.

What is it?

Tremolo plus backhand strings plus overtones?

Not to mention Takeda Shinji, Watanabe Kazumi, an old fritter who plays the guitar, is a little dazed, these skills are not new, but when these things are kneaded together, he doesn't know how to name them for a while.

Lin Hai's sudden acceleration became the last straw that crushed Yutaka Tanabe.

The drumbeat came to an abrupt end.

Lin Hai then stopped.

Hikaru Utada raised his hands in cheers, then jumped on the stage, rushed to Lin Hai, and asked, "What is the name of that skill you just had?"

Lin Hai handed her the guitar, wiped his sweat, and said with a smile: "You can call it 'Shadowless Hand'." ”