Chapter 20: Listen to the song and practice the song
Back in town, Yang Zheng rode his bicycle home. Meng Yufei and Du Yuexin walked to Du Yuexin's store together.
"Recently, I have arrived on a few tapes, all of which are from Hong Kong and Taiwan stars, I have dismantled them and listened to them, they are very good, I will listen to them later!" On the way, Du Yuexin was excited to talk about the latest new pop song tapes, knowing that Meng Yufei also likes to listen to songs and sing, and does not forget to share her favorite songs with her friends.
Meng Yufei listened quietly along the way, and occasionally discussed the style of the star with Du Yuexin.
Many of the most popular Hong Kong and Taiwan songs are classic old songs of later generations, Andy Lau, Jacky Cheung, Liming, Aaron Kwok, these four people are known as the Four Heavenly Kings, Hong Kong's media circle, entertainment industry no matter how to clamoring for the 'new Four Heavenly Kings', 'Four Heavenly Kings Successor', these four people's status is eternal, until these four people are getting older, those so-called successors are still silently in the corner of history.
Now is the most prosperous era of the 'Four Heavenly Kings', the four of them are almost the entire Hong Kong entertainment industry, although the four of them are developing in multiple habitats, but the place where they compete the most is still in music, every year during the four major music awards in Hong Kong, not only the four people fight openly and secretly, but their fans are also salivating.
Meng Yufei's favorite Hong Kong female singer Faye Wong, Taiwanese female singer Sammi Cheng, Stefanie Sun... are all diva-level figures, and now their status in the music world is in full swing, of course, there are many singers that Meng Yufei likes and have not debuted yet!
"By the way, what do you buy blank tapes for? Do you want to record your favorite songs and listen to them on a single record? Du Yuexin thought of the blank tape and asked Meng Yufei, at this time, if you want to record songs, the tape recorder is the mainstream, and many young people like to use the tape recorder to record while playing, and record all their favorite songs into the same tape to listen.
"Well, a few of the songs I like are not on one tape, so I always have to change the tape when I listen to them, just record them on a disc and repeat them directly." In the face of her best friend, Meng Yufei didn't want to deliberately hide that she wanted to participate in the selection of the record company, but this matter will definitely have no result for a while, and the record company has to listen to so many songs for a long time, so let's wait for the results to see the situation and then talk to Du Yuexin.
When she arrived at Du Yuexin's store, Meng Yufei looked at the audio and video tapes that Du Yuexin had just arrived, and she also had a lot of pop song tapes at home because she liked music. If Meng Yufei might have bought it before, now these songs are basically familiar to her, and she can sing them, there is no need to listen to them over and over again with the tape recorder, learn them over and over again, and buy them when you want to listen to them or ask Du Yuexin to borrow them.
took two blank tapes, Du Yuexin's father was in the store, so he didn't want Meng Yufei's money, and just said that she would take it.
Du Yuexin wanted to help her father watch the store in the store and listen to the song by the way, and took the two boxes of tapes she had heard to Meng Yufei and asked her to go home to listen, the two made an appointment to call if something happened, and when she left, Meng Yufei gave Du Yuexin 5 yuan and turned around and ran.
There have been once or twice in the past when Meng Yufei bought a 1 box or 2 boxes of tapes, and Uncle Du didn't charge money, and Meng Yufei, who already knew that it was hard to make money, would be embarrassed to take it for nothing in the future.
Some cautiously returned home, took out the key to open the door, Meng Yufei breathed a sigh of relief, said nothing today, and couldn't be unlucky if he didn't go out today, right?
The door of Meng Yufei's house has a small square box on the door knocker on the right, and the door can be locked inside and outside.
If someone in their family is sleeping at home, they will lock the door from the inside, so that people outside can open the door even if they have a key, and at night when the whole family is sleeping, they will directly plug in the door up and down, and they can't get in even if they have a key.
Since the door of the house is locked from the outside, there is no need to ask grandma if she is definitely not at home.
This afternoon, taking advantage of the fact that no one at home is practicing guitar, and there is no need to lock the door if he doesn't sleep, Meng Yufei covered the door, returned to the house to change the clothes with chocolate stains, and soaked them in laundry detergent water.
After being outside for most of the day, my body was sweaty and sticky, I took a comfortable cold shower, and then went to wash my clothes, the stains were not very easy to wash, and I rubbed hard with soap to wash them, and I couldn't wait to take out my guitar and start looking for a feel when I returned to my room after drying my clothes.
Guitarist Karebalo once said, "The left hand is only the worker, and the right hand is the artist." ”
Beginners generally think that it is more difficult to press the chords with the left hand, especially the chord presses with a large complex span, the left hand should have very good flexibility and stretchability, and the strings should be elastic and not stiff.
The correct posture of the right hand directly affects the player's technical height, timbre, speed, dynamics, right hand fatigue, musical performance and visual effects, so playing the guitar requires a very high degree of independence of both hands. The right hand is important, but without the left hand, the chord worker will greatly reduce the effectiveness of playing.
In order to facilitate the pressing of the strings, Meng Yufei cut off the nails of her left hand, leaving only the thumb uncut, fortunately Du Yuexin did not learn guitar, otherwise let her cut her nails and designate not to do it, that is a girl who loves nails like hair, and she has to hesitate for a long time every time she cuts her hair and nails.
The school has a rule: students are not allowed to dye their hair, wear high heels, etc... Of course, nail polish is also not allowed to be applied. Du Yuexin, who loves nails, buys a transparent nail polish to paint, if she is not a student now, and she has to abide by the school regulations, Du Yuexin may go to learn nail art and make her own nails.
I haven't held a guitar for a while, and Meng Yufei found that she was really a little hands-on.
Gently plucked the strings, the soothing prelude sounded, and Meng Yufei sang softly: "The long platform oh long wait, the long train carries away my short love, the noisy platform oh lonely waiting, only the love of departure without the love of my return, oh - lonely platform, oh - lonely waiting." ”
The rhythm of the guitar slowly accelerated, and Meng Yufei's plucked strings in her right hand changed to strumming, singing the climax of the song: "My heart is waiting forever, my heart is waiting forever, my heart is waiting forever, my heart is waiting and waiting, my heart is waiting and waiting......"
This song is called "Platform", which is the first song taught by Meng Yufei when he was learning guitar, and he was particularly impressed.
Whether it is with a pick or a finger play, the correct action of the string sweeping is a coordinated action of the big arm driving the small arm and the small arm driving the palm, the big arm to the palm as a whole should be very relaxed, the wrist movement range is the largest, but also the most relaxed, to achieve the most like the "weak and boneless" feeling.
The lower arm has the most middle range of movements, and the upper arm has the smallest amplitude, so that the swept timbre will be smart, fresh, relaxed, and pleasant, and it is also conducive to 'crazy', that is, black jazz and other music that needs to be swept quickly.
Only when the postures are coordinated will the style of the piece be accurately presented.
Unless you're looking for a special effect, if you're just moving your elbows and your wrists are not moving, the tone will become extremely stiff.
Meng Yufei carefully recalled that the guitar teacher had taught the essentials of playing and strumming the strings, and found that it was easier to find a relaxed feeling now, experience is on the one hand, on the other hand, it is really the elasticity and stretchability of her finger joints and muscles are good, which is really much better than the feeling of learning the guitar as an adult in her previous life.
So there is a saying: it is easier for children to learn the guitar well than adults!
Adults' stiff joints and muscles limit some of the movements of playing the guitar perfectly, and there is no speed and flexibility that small children learn especially quickly in comparison.
Meng Yufei practiced the guitar for almost 1 hour, and played the song when she learned the guitar at the beginning of the year, and almost found the feeling that she stopped practicing, her fingers had begun to redden, and it should hurt if she practiced again, after all, her hands have not been practiced now, and she will not be able to stand it for too long.
Turn on the tape recorder, put the tape from Du Yuexin in, hum softly along with the music, and the afternoon passed in listening to the song and practicing the song.