Chapter 61 Industrial Metals
For those who engage in music, music is a road of no return, and it is difficult to climb up when you enter this pit.
Rock 'n' roll, on the other hand, is an extreme sport in the industry, and from the day you participate, it means going on an adventure.
Some of the people who embark on this path with impulse are for ideals, and some are for playing with fruits.
Rock and roll can indeed bring them passion and joy, let them live freely, unrestrained and unscrupulous, and life becomes more exciting.
If music is compared to the sea, in the context of commercialization, the environment in which rock music is located is like a stormy wave, and people either like it to death or stay away from it.
However, except for a very small number of people who successfully went ashore through the storm and waves, most of the rest sank to the bottom of the sea forever, and they were despondent but survived.
Several members of the Broken Band are all high-achieving students who graduated from professional colleges, and they all embarked on the road of rock and roll for their ideals.
Of course, the beautiful pointed fruit is also a big reason for their initial impulse.
More than ten years have passed, as they grow older, their passion has subsided, and Guo'er can't play anymore, and the only thing that supports them now may only be ideals.
Lead singer Yue Di and others are die-hard fans of metal rock, which is also the reason why the members of the band have not changed for more than ten years.
In this world, like in previous lives, metal rock is a foreign product from the West, although there are not many metal fans, but as long as they enter the pit, most of them are die-hard fans.
So most of the people who play metal rock bands in this world are made up of music fans, and now metal bands are grabbing a lot of them, but there are very few bands with distinct styles.
The same goes for Chipping, the band's tracks are heavily imitated and lack their own unique style, which is the main reason why Shatter has not been popular.
In Li Dong's previous life, heavy metals were classified very broadly, and ferrous metals with evil, pagan worship and satanic thought as their main appeals. Death metal evolved from the background of "Whip Metal" or "Grind Core".
There is also a destructive metal that is slow in pace and tempo, not intense or aggressive, but still has a sense of weight. With roaring or high-pitched vocals, a lot of distorted tone on electric guitars, and heavy metal that fills the entire listening background with dense and fast drum beats and low, powerful basses.
From the day rock music was born, it found loopholes in the rules of this world, and then tenaciously multiplied, constantly subverting itself.
Even in the midst of the decline of rock 'n' roll, surprises can still be heard from the records of some new bands.
It is precisely the continuous technological innovation and continuous breakthrough of rock music that has created the undead rock music.
In the past few days when Li Dong and the Shatter Band were rehearsing, he made up for the rock knowledge of the world and listened to a lot of classic rock tracks.
also found a way for the Shattered Band to break through, if it doesn't break the thinking bottleneck of Yue Di and others' traditional metal diehards, the Broken Band will never be able to come out.
Although Li Dong didn't know how to make the Shattered Band innovate and break through, this world and his previous life were in two different dimensional planes after all.
In particular, the style of Western rock music is still somewhat different from that of previous lives.
In the previous life, Gothic metal, heavy metal, grind core, and death metal in Northern Europe, punching metal and speed metal in Germany, electronics, punk, and post-friends in the United States, and independence, England, and countryside in Britain all have very distinctive characteristics.
Even Chinese rock, which has always been self-deprecating for its earthy rock, although it has only been developed for 30 years, there are still many bands with their own distinctive musical styles.
Moreover, Chinese rock has also put on the cloak of rebellion, truth and resistance, which is also a major feature of Chinese rock.
The Gangnam Music Festival is a paradise for niche music, and it is also an opportunity for Li Dong to become famous in niche circles.
Since he has decided to go, of course Li Dong will not regard this Jiangnan Music Festival as a tour, and must take advantage of this opportunity to shine.
Although Yue Di is willing to take him, the Broken Band is known as an old band in the rock circle, in fact, it is not nice to say, the old brand is not equal to the big name, if the band is not popular, no matter how old you are, no one will hang you.
It is said that the scale of the Gangnam Music Festival is very large, and there are more than a dozen performance venues alone, and only those big names can occupy the best positions.
Every year, the Gangnam Music Festival invites some emerging bands and established bands, more out of encouragement and nostalgia.
The venues where these bands will perform will certainly be very remote and simply not able to attract attention.
If the Broken Band doesn't get attention, and Li Dong wants to take advantage of this opportunity to shine and make a name for himself in niche music circles, that's.
So the Fragments had to be changed so that they could get a lot of attention at this festival, so that Lee Dong could have a chance.
But Li Dong is an outsider after all, of course, he can't forcibly instill these ideas to Yue Di and others like a missionary, which will arouse the disgust of the other party.
So he brought Tang Xiuxiu, Hu Guangsheng, Zhu Yuanyuan and others over, and said that they could learn from their predecessors like rock and roll.
In fact, Li Dong's real intention is not this, in the interval between the rehearsals of the broken band, he will also rehearse new repertoire with his own band.
Trying to use this way, subtly change the Broken Band.
Of course, if he can't change it, Li Dong won't do anything deliberately, and he is not a saint.
Although Yue Di and the others are down-and-out, they are all arrogant people.
To be honest, they still appreciate Li Dong's musical talent, and at the same time, they also have some disdain.
After all, people are selfish, at least ideologically, most people think that what they like is the best, and everyone else is stupid @.
The band members such as Li Dong and Li Guangnan have a strong metal style when they newly rehearse a track.
But in terms of arrangement, it takes a very bold approach, and it has extremely distinctive characteristics compared to the traditional rock music of this world.
With the help of Li Guangnan, Li Dong finally decided on the arrangement after several days of repeated research based on his own memory.
They use a mixer or keyboard, and technically use a lot of cold computer-sampled sound effects to render the atmosphere, and the music is cold and has a metallic texture.
The musical effect of heavy metal guitar is retained, and a large number of distorted and repetitive rhythmic fragments are used throughout the piece, and the rhythmic background is set by the percussion of heavy machinery, metal utensils, or traditional percussion instruments.
The music background is also interspersed with the cold and ethereal accompaniment of Tang Xiuxiu and Zhu Yuanyuan, which makes the music style very rhythmic and incendiary.
Yue Di and the others were all stunned when they heard the new track they rehearsed, and it was more of a shocking amazement, metal could still play like this.
This also opened their eyes, and the shackles that had been imprisoned in their minds seemed to have been blown open one after another.
The metal style of this track is very unique, which makes Yue Di feel something different, and his scalp explodes when he listens to it.
He had a strong instinct in his heart that this was an opportunity for the Broken Band to break through, and even rise to prominence.
Yue Di privately gathered the members of the band together and tried to talk about his own ideas, which was strongly supported by everyone.
In order to adhere to the ideals in their hearts, the Broken Band has stumbled over the years, and they have long been exhausted and bruised.
In fact, Yue Di and others have long been aware of the band's problems.
They have always wanted to seek breakthroughs and innovations, but at their age, their thinking is outdated, they have empty skills, and their passion is long gone, so it is difficult to change their thinking.
So, the next day, Yue Di found Li Dong and humbly asked Li Dong for advice on the arrangement of this metal genre.
When Li Dong heard this, he discussed it with Yue Di and others, and regardless of whether the other party understood it or not, he expounded his concept in one go.
Seeing that Yue Di and the others were still confused, Li Dong shook his head with a wry smile.
"How about this song, if you like it, you can try to sing it a few times first, through rehearsal and singing, and slowly explore this style of arrangement. If that's not enough, I have two more songs here, also in this style. ”
Yue Di didn't just want to sing a few times, he wanted to buy songs from Li Dong, but he was embarrassed to open his mouth.
"Brother, you know, we don't have money to buy songs...... But this song is so important to us...... I ......"
Li Dong smiled secretly in his heart, this song is not for you, but he can't agree to be too refreshing.
Ascend Mien, fight Mi Qiu.
If you give too easily, others will not only not cherish it, but may also complain, which has nothing to do with character and belongs to the category of human nature.
This kind of stupid @ forcing thing, Li Dong won't do it.
So Li Dong made a contemplative state, as if he was very entangled.
Yue Di's heart is also up and down, and he and several people in the band have long lost the mind to stick to their ideals.
Paralyzed, the child's milk powder money is not enough, who cares about that thing.
"Brother, do you think this will work, we will pay in installments in the future, and as long as the Shatter Band sings these songs, the benefit will be half of yours. ”
Of course Li Dong was willing, but he still pretended to refuse, and finally agreed at the insistence of Yue Di and others.
Seeing Li Dong nodding, Yue Di and the others were very grateful to Li Dong, and they were also extremely excited in their hearts, as if the long-lost passion had returned.
"That's right, Dongzi...... What kind of style is this arrangement......"
Li Dong listened to Yue Di's words, smiled and said, "Let's call it industrial metal......