Chapter 397: What is Metal Music?
“aa————!!!!”
“ya——~~~~!!!!”
As if he was deliberately damaging his voice, Cao Wu pressed his vocal cords and let out a sharp roar.
The violent drums and scorching guitar bass stimulated everyone's nerves, and the furious, high-pitched screams were like the screams of a demon crawling out of the abyss, making the temples jump wildly, even through the soundproof glass.
Could this be the death metal that Cao Wu is talking about?
It's deadly!
Everyone was a little embarrassed, but they were embarrassed to speak, so they could only make eye contact with each other.
"Do you think it sounds good?"
"I don't know, it's okay, it's just a little too noisy. ”
"I think it's noisy too, maybe I'm old, right?"
Of the thirty or forty people present, only about seven or eight of them showed interested looks, and the rest looked confused.
However, Yue Qianfan, who was sitting in front of the mixer, gradually became excited.
Listening to instrumental music alone, he couldn't imagine the final effect for a while, but when Cao Wu entered the studio and sang like this, he immediately heard the taste.
It turns out that this song feels like this!
In his imagination, Cao Wu's singing voice should be the feeling when he sang "No Place for Self-Respect" and "Don't Come to Entangle Me", so when he was reading the score, he always felt wrong.
But when Cao Wu sang with this unprecedented voice, it was like a slap in the face, instantly opening the 36,000 pores around him, and he only felt enlightened, and his vision was instantly broadened and bright.
The cage of thinking that had been imprisoned was broken in an instant, and he trembled with excitement.
It turns out that the song can still be sung like this!
It turns out that music can still be played like this?!、
Cao Wu's hoarse but high-pitched voice sounded like heaven in his ears at the moment, he didn't listen to the lyrics at all, but did not let go of the slightest detail, carefully smacking Cao Wu's singing voice, studying his vocal position, every breathing, every pause.
Every second, countless new knowledge points appeared in front of him, and he was hungry for them, completely forgetting about his work.
After singing it again, everyone applauded and applauded vigorously, but no one dared to say what was good.
Seeing them like this, Cao Wu only felt funny, so he waved his hand and smiled: "Don't be difficult for yourself, since this kind of music is called extreme metal, not everyone can accept it." Just like the melodic metal of "Nemo" and "I?Want My Tears Back", my honey, the arsenic of the other, I like it very much, and I don't need to force it if I don't like it. ”
Yue Qianfan agreed: "Indeed, it is difficult for people who do not have a certain foundation in music appreciation to accept this style of music at once. People have different tastes for appreciation, and I like it very much. ”
Someone raised his hand and asked, "Brother Cao, can you tell us about it?"
Cao Wu smiled, and just wanted to speak, but Yue Qianfan coughed first, and said with a smile: "Why don't I talk about my understanding first?"
"Yes!" Cao Wu readily agreed.
Yue Qianfan thought for a while and said, "Actually, I couldn't understand it at first, and I couldn't figure out why music was so extreme. Later, I figured out that maybe this style of music is not popular music at all, but a kind of development of serious music by Mr. Cao Wu. ”
"Since the birth of rock music, it has been divided into the ranks of popular music, and over the years, no matter how it has changed and developed, it has not changed the fact that instrumental music is thin and the arrangement is popular, mainly to sound good. But the song completely breaks with the notion, not only does it scrape your eardrum desperately with noise, avant-garde classical music, but it amplifies them with amps, and even the singing voice screams in an almost self-harming way. ”
"When listening to this song, I didn't hear the lyrics at all, I only felt a kind of raw power, anger and **. ”
After that, he paused, looked at Cao Wu and asked with a smile, "How is it?"
"Awesome!" Cao Wu applauded and said with a smile: "You can have such a deep understanding after listening to it once, you really deserve to be Teacher Yue." ”
"Don't laugh at me. Yue Qianfan shook his head helplessly, and said with a smile: "Tell me, what is your idea for writing this song?
Cao Wu thought for a while and said, "Death metal is actually a branch of metal music, if you really want me to explain, I really don't know how to explain it." ”
"Let me talk about metal music first, metal and rock are actually the same, whether a song is hard rock or heavy metal, sometimes it's really hard to say. For example, our "Rock or Bust" and "Don't Root Me", which song belongs to metal and which song belongs to hard rocking, in fact, to most people, the difference is not so obvious. ”
"But for me, the difference is quite big. "Rock or Bust" is a typical hard rock song, the instruments it uses are the three simplest rock pieces, and the melody is also the simplest three chords, repeated constantly, in fact, it is a more extreme rhythm and blues. ”
"But "Don't Come to Pester Me" is a typical heavy metal song, and the difference between it and "Rock or Bust" is that its arrangement uses a very obvious electric guitar riff, and the more exaggerated distortion effect is turned on, and the drums account for a large proportion of it. But to say that its drums are more important than "Rock or Bust" is not necessarily true......"
"Death metal should be a bit more extreme, even so extreme that many people can't accept it. Just like our "Painkiller" this time, the distortion effect of the electric guitar and bass is much higher than that of "Don't Mess with Me", and the drum speed is also much faster. ”
"In terms of singing, the way I just used is an extreme voice, just listen to the name, you know, this is a more extreme way of singing, the one I just used is just an extreme voice......"
"Wait a minute, do you mean that this extreme voice is a singing technique, or is it a new type of singing technique with mature theory?" Yue Qianfan was a little confused.
"Uh...... I do know of a few ways to sing with an extreme voice, but it's far from mature. Cao Wu smiled: "Actually, this is what we made up blindly when we were in high school, and Batu will do it, and he will sing it in the way of Humai." ”
Everyone looked at Batu curiously, Batu crossed Erlang's legs, put his feet on the coffee table, looked calm, and casually came to a section of Humai, which was quite similar to when Cao Wu sang just now.
In fact, Humai is also an extreme voice, and the principles are all common. There's nothing mysterious about it, just listen to it twice and get used to it. Cao Wu got up and said with a smile: "Okay! You can do whatever you need to do! I'll record it a few more times." ”