In the small rehearsal hall of the Jianghai City Cultural Center, three old men with gray beards were sitting on small stools at random, looking at the scores in their hands.

"Yu Fan, is this the new folk music you said?" Raising the score in his hand, Ma Huaiyuan asked with some confusion.

"Teacher Ma, this is just a simplified version, only Chinese drums and flutes, well, specific to the later stage, we have to add some accompaniment elements of electronic music." Liu Yufan explained with a smile.

This is his adaptation of "Kangding Love Song", which is based on Chinese folk songs, but adds many innovative techniques. Of course, the rhythm of the drums is borrowed from Wu Guozhong's adaptation. Liu Yufan remembers that the original song was filled with electronic drums, but Liu Yufan always thought that if the timbre of Chinese drums was replaced, it would be more expressive.

"Well, that's a lot of ideas. Hey, you've become two voices in the back, how do you get this? Ma Huaiyuan saw that behind him, the original melody of the flute changed from one to two, and felt a little strange.

"It's a flute duet. It just so happens that Mr. Ma is also there, this second voice, please make up for it. Liu Yufan said with a smile, not at all embarrassed because he temporarily caught the "strong man".

"You kid, dare to pull me to fill the number." Ma Huaiyuan said with a smile, but he looked at the score in his hand and was very interested. A small tune like "Kangding Love Song", he usually only blows it when he teaches children, but he didn't expect it to become a little complicated after Liu Yufan changed it like this. humming a melody adapted by Liu Yufan in his mouth, although he felt a little weird, he also felt very fresh.

"Hehe, Mr. Ma, come to the rescue." Liu Yufan said with a smile.

Mo Yan looked at the score in his hand, and his face also showed an interested look. Although his main business is piano, he is also familiar with other musical instruments, especially composition. A large part of Liu Yufan's knowledge of composition comes from his teachings. Although he didn't know much about the flute, he looked at the score in his hand and nodded secretly. Although it was changed a little strangely, it was fortunately quite regular, and there were no obvious harmonic and orchestration errors.

If you want to say that the most head-scratching person in this, even if it is Liu Yufan's second uncle Ma Hua, he doesn't understand the simple score, although Liu Yufan gave him a score, but he can't understand it.

As if seeing the dilemma of the second master, Liu Yufan smiled and said: "Second master, don't worry, I'll teach you to recognize this score, it's very simple." ”

"Xiaofan, I can't understand this thing." The second uncle said with some embarrassment.

"It's okay, you don't need to read the simple score above, just look at the drum sheet below." Liu Yufan said, pulled the score in front of the second uncle, and explained it to him briefly.

"Second master, you see, every X here represents a drum, and the line below represents the length of each note. Here~~" Liu Yufan pointed to an arc on the drum score, and a number 3 was written on it, explaining this, he was a little worried, and he didn't seem to know what to say.

"Here, it's a triplet, well, in fact, the triplet is~~" Liu Yufan tried to explain to the second uncle what a triplet is, but for the second uncle who didn't even graduate from elementary school, it was really difficult for him to understand what a triplet was.

"Yu Fan, let's do it, you show your second uncle, and he will hear it." Seeing Liu Yufan's embarrassed appearance, Mo Yan also knew what he was afraid of, and reminded him on the side.

"Well, okay then." Liu Yufan said, got up and walked to the big drum in the corner.

In the rehearsal hall of the Municipal Cultural Center, many large-scale musical instruments are prepared, such as Chinese drums, which are important percussion instruments.

The diameter of this drum is more than one meter, and the drum surface is made of fine cowhide, although it looks like the leather surface has been a little yellowed, but the tight drum surface and good color still show that this is a good drum.

The bright red lacquer surface of the drum body is lined with several rows of copper nails, revealing a kind of simplicity and heaviness.

Seeing that Liu Yufan came to the drum, the second uncle Ma Hua also followed. In fact, as soon as he entered the door, the eyes of the second master were attracted by this big drum. He has been playing drums all his life, and he can see at a glance that this is a good drum. If Liu Yufan hadn't been telling everyone about the score just now, he would have been itchy for a long time, and I am afraid that he would have picked up the drumstick and beaten it well.

"Second uncle, I'll fight first, you listen to what it means." Liu Zifan said, picked up two drumsticks from the corner of the wall, stood still in front of the drum, tied his steps, shook his wrists, and then raised his arms together, and the two mallets fell on the drum surface!

"Knock knock!" Three drums in a row suddenly added a bit of enthusiasm to this somewhat empty rehearsal hall.

With a slight shake of the wrist, the drumming weakened again, and the drumsticks rolled lightly on the drum surface, making a cheerful "guer" sound, like a cheerful horse's hooves.

The next moment, the drum beat turned high-pitched again, and it was still the three "dong dong dong!" It sounds very unstable, like a drunk who walks on an unsteady road, but with a peculiar rhythm, the originally stable rhythm becomes full of changes.

"It's a triplet of quarter notes, I didn't expect it to have such an effect when applied to a drum." Mo Yan's ears were poisonous, so he naturally heard it at once, and what Liu Yufan was typing at this moment was the quarter note triplet written on the scoremap.

The second master can't read music, but he has an instinctive perception of drumming, which is practiced by playing drums for decades. Liu Yufan played this rhythm, he had never heard it before, no matter in which drum segment. This is normal, because in the regular passages of Chinese drums, the special melody of triplets is rarely used, let alone the triplet of quarter notes.

Although he didn't understand what a triplet was, the second master understood the taste of the drum. It was a drum beat that he had never played before, and it was like facing a brand new toy for him, which made him feel a little tickled.

"Come, Xiaofan, try it for the second uncle." As soon as he heard Liu Yufan beat a few times, the second uncle couldn't help it, snatched the drumstick in Liu Yufan's hand and squeezed him aside.

His hands gripped the drumsticks loosely, and a familiar feeling filled his body. Thinking back to the rhythm of Liu Yufan's play just now, the second master raised the drumstick loosely.

"Knock knock! Gu'er played Long Dong ...... "The second uncle's legs are slightly bent, his arms are lightly relaxed, a pair of drumsticks are sometimes urgent and slow, sometimes light and sometimes heavy, and it is the rhythm of Liu Yufan just now, don't look at him He only listened to it a few times, but these few fights are the same as Liu Yufan's previous play, and even the triplet that Liu Yufan thought was the most difficult before was played very accurately!"

Moreover, compared with the previous part played by Liu Yufan, the drum played by the second uncle MCA at this moment is more rhythmic, revealing a relaxed, freehand, and tendonous from the inside out!

"Sure enough, these decades of hard work are not in vain!" Looking at the second uncle, who did not have a little foundation in music theory, easily learned the drum he demonstrated before, Liu Yufan was not only expected, but also admired it very much.

The other two also nodded one after another, especially Ma Huaiyuan, who had not had much contact with Ma Hua before, knowing that he didn't understand music theory, and seeing that he could learn a new melody so quickly at the moment, and play so well, this made him a little surprised.

"Alright, alright, second uncle, let's get here first." Seeing that the second uncle was addicted and had no intention of stopping, Liu Yufan had to stop it.

The second uncle, Ma Hua, obviously figured out the meaning of this drum, and was playing hard, but he didn't expect to be interrupted by Liu Yufan, and he was still a little unhappy in his heart, looking at Liu Yufan and asking, "What are you doing?" ”

"Second uncle, let's try to close it." Liu Yufan said, turned around and took the flute bag from the seat, took out a C-tune flute, and then looked at Ma Huaiyuan.

"You kid!" Ma Huaiyuan smiled, and then took out a big C from the flute bag he was carrying.

is different from Liu Yufan's dark red cable flute, Ma Huaiyuan's big C is made of purple bamboo, and it does not use a two-section design, but a bamboo that leads to the end. This design, although not very convenient in tuning, is easier to blow and has a better tone. Many professional-level flutes are also designed in one section.

Ma Huaiyuan's one, but it is even more extraordinary, this is made by Ma Di himself, the timbre is very good, it can be called a "treasure flute", Liu Yufan has been greedy for a long time, but Ma Huaiyuan sees it as a treasure, and Liu Yufan has failed to "ask" several times.

"Hehe, the veteran is out, a top two, teacher, then let's start." Liu Yufan smiled at Ma Huaiyuan, and then said to the second uncle, Ma Hua: "Second uncle, this song has a prelude, when I finish blowing it for a while, I will nod my head at you slightly, and you will start, it is this drum, from beginning to end." If I nod my head again, you stop. ”

"Got it, here you go." The second uncle has also cooperated with the drummer a lot before, and he is no stranger to Liu Yufan.

"Yes." Liu Yufan agreed, lowered his head and adjusted the flute membrane, glanced at Ma Huaiyuan again, and saw that the other party also nodded lightly, and was ready to start.

The flute was light, the breath was slow, and a mellow flute sound suddenly filled the rehearsal hall.

The first two sentences are from the beginning of "Kangding Love Song", the abstract melody, although it is only a few simple notes, but like a freehand painting, a few strokes, it outlines a cool atmosphere like water.

Seeing that Liu Yufan nodded at himself, the second uncle tied his waist and horses, his arms fell together, and a majestic Chinese drum sounded!

Compared with the flute sound in front of it, the drum sound at this moment is as majestic as a mountain, giving people an extremely strong sense of contrast!

Mo Yan's eyes, who had always had a calm expression, lit up, and from this very creative beginning, he had already tasted some flavors.

(To be continued)