The membership fee collected by the gym in the early stage, plus the income from selling classes, was already enough for Chen Qiang to pay off the loan.

Chen Qiang didn't plan to repay the loan early, he invested the money in the operation of the gym, so Chen Qiang found the manufacturer who produced fitness equipment for him.

"Here's my blueprint, you should be able to do it, right?" Chen Qiang handed the blueprint to the factory owner.

The boss looked at it and subconsciously asked, "Is this the kind of stationary exercise bike?" This one is easy to do. The structure is similar to that of a bicycle, except that the wheels are turned into a load-bearing wheel. ”

"You're right, but it's not just an exercise bike, I call it a spin bike." Chen Qiang pointed to the design drawing, and then said: "I need this thing to be able to sit firmly on the flat ground, even if I do all kinds of sports in the car, it will not fall down." ”

"It's not difficult, just increase the support area with the ground." The factory owner spoke.

"In addition, I wanted the pedal part to be stronger and able to support a person's weight for a long time." Chen Qiang said.

"Do you mean people riding standing up? There is no problem, you just need to use some better materials in the pedals, and you can do this, but if you use better materials, the cost will increase. The factory owner continued.

Chen Qiang nodded, and then said, "I'll order 100 units first, how about it, can you give me a preferential price?" ”

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Chen Qiang plans to promote spinning bikes in gyms. If you open a gym, how can you not have a spinning bike!

Spinning bikes were originally used as an alternative to outdoor training for cyclists, who could use them to train regardless of outdoor weather and road conditions. In the early 90s, spin bikes gradually appeared in gyms in the United States, and were widely popular in the local area, and then more and more media gave spin bike coverage, and by 1996, spin bikes spread to more than 30 countries, and gradually became popular all over the world. In the 21st century, spinning bikes have become a must-have equipment in ordinary gyms, and there are even many spinning clubs dedicated to spinning.

In the thirties, gyms in the United States already had exercise bikes for exercising, and there were pointer dials to calculate the mileage of cycling, but exercise bikes at that time were really like ordinary bicycles.

Although the structure of spinning bikes is similar to ordinary bicycles, spinning bikes are not prepared for riding after all, so spinning bikes have made a lot of improvements in details.

With the industrial level of the United States at that time, it was not difficult to make spinning bikes, in terms of materials and technology, although the United States in the thirties and forties was not as good as later generations, and the spinning bikes manufactured were relatively much bulkier, but there was no difference in the exercise effect.

After placing an order for spinning bikes from the factory, Chen Qiang also needed to find music for spinning bikes.

Spinning is to be accompanied by music, without music, riding a spinning bike is like a donkey grinding in circles, which is particularly boring and boring, and even if there is music, you also need that kind of passionate music, so that you can feel the charm of spinning.

The music industry in the United States has always been very developed, and in the future, American music will represent the popular trend of music in the world, and this is also true in the thirties and forties.

The development of music in the United States benefited from the popularization of radio, and most American households at that time had radios, even in remote areas, people could listen to free music through the radio without going to the concert site, which made the music industry in the United States begin to flourish unprecedentedly. The more people listen to music, the more musicians there are, the more musicians there are, the more songs there are, and the more songs meet the needs of more people for music, which forms a virtuous circle.

However, in the United States in 1939, there was not even rock music, so where to find that kind of passionate music? Is it possible to use Mozart or Beethoven to ride a spin bike?

Mozart and Beethoven are both some of the world's best fine music, but they certainly can't be used to ride spinning bikes.

And Chen Qiang is not a musician, he doesn't know anything about vocal music, and in later generations, he goes to a KTV to sing a song out of tune, and he obviously can't create music that can be used to ride an action bicycle.

At this time, professionals were needed to help, and Chen Qiang planned to find a musician at that time to create a few pieces of music for spinning training.

After all, New York is the largest city in the United States and the center of American art, and even if Hollywood rises in the future, New York's Broadway performances are still more compelling than Hollywood blockbusters. What's more, it was still 1939 at this time, and in the era when the film industry had not yet risen, Broadway was the world's top stage, and there was no one. New York is home to a large number of artists, including some of the world's best musicians. And the music of New York also represents the popular trend of American music as a whole.

Before the advent of rock 'n' roll, the main popular song among white Americans was Ding Bang Alley. Ding Bang Alley songs are generally written by white professional composers. The styles of different periods and different authors are different, but they have one thing in common, that is, from the content point of view, it is mainly love, full of romantic feelings, or slightly nostalgic and sad, or more cheerful and funny.

Modern people may not be familiar with the name "Ding Bang Lane Song", but they have definitely heard Ding Bang Lane Song. For example, the song "Edelweiss", which often appears in Christmas, is a masterpiece of Ding Bang Alley songs. Another example is the many episodes in the famous movie "The Sound of Music", such as "Doremi", which many primary and secondary school students have heard when they learn English, all belong to Ding Bang Lane songs.

Ding Bang Lane songs are obviously not suitable for spinning exercises, while riding a spinning bike, listening to "Edelweiss", it is estimated that it can make people fall asleep. The song is too hypnotic to be athletic.

Or while riding a spin bike, listening to "Doe a deer, a famale deer" from "Doremi", it feels like the Avengers and Thanos Armageddon, with the soundtrack of Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf. Over there, Team America, Iron Man, Thor, or something stood in a row and posed, Marvel fans were about to be moved to tears, this exciting moment, the song "Pleasant Goat, Beautiful Goat, Lazy Boiling Goat, Slow Goat, ...... Goat", Thanos himself could die of laughter.

Therefore, the romantic mood of Ding Bang Alley songs must not be used to start a spinning bike. Therefore, those white composers who wrote Ding Bang Alley songs were first excluded by Chen Qiang.

In addition to this, there was another type of music that was popular at that time, and that was jazz.

Between 1920 and 1933, there was a Prohibition in the United States, and jazz also emerged with Prohibition in the United States. There are also many classifications of jazz, and after the twenties, the old two-beat style jazz was replaced by four-beat style jazz, which gradually formed the basis of swing music, and then in the thirties, swing music gradually became popular music in the United States.

Especially after 1935, with the advent of the "big band era", there were many white orchestras recruiting black musicians, and the swing music of that era, which also combined the characteristics of white music and black music, became the most accepted music by the public. It wasn't until the rise of rock music that swing music gradually declined.

In the future, a rock band with a lead singer, plus a guitarist, bassist, and drummer is enough, but in the era of big bands, a band that plays swing music needs to have trumpet, trombone, tuba, piano, banjo, saxophone and drummer, and sometimes it also needs to add guitar, alto, clarinet, trumpeter and trombonist, so that the band has always been playing swing music, and those who don't know think it is a symphony orchestra!

Most of the swing music is very suitable for dancing, and the dance party plots in some old European and American movies are either played in a more orthodox symphony or more lively jazz, and those lively jazz are all swing music.

Since swing music can be danced, then it can be used to ride a spin bike. And because there is a lot of black music incorporated, there are also some blues music elements in the swing music, so the swing music was included in the scope of Chen Qiang's investigation.

At that time, blues music had also appeared, but it was mainly played by black musicians, and because jazz was very popular at that time, the blues music of that era also incorporated the style of jazz, which was completely different from the black music of later generations.

In addition to this, country music in the United States has always been thriving, and there are a lot of Americans who love country music. But the style of country music has been developing, for example, when jazz was popular, country music in the United States was more jazzy; When rock 'n' roll was popular, American country music had rock elements.

To put it bluntly, American country music is a kind of civilian music, and since it is civilian, it must absorb the most popular styles of music as nutrients for its own growth, so as to survive. Because of this, the kings and queens of country music in the United States all went to sing pop music in the end, and some became the kings and queens of pop music.

This kind of country music that follows the trend is naturally not in Chen Qiang's consideration.

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On Lenox Avenue in New York, Chen Qiang stopped in front of a building.

"This is it!" Chen Qiang walked into the building, went up the stairs, and just around the corner, he heard music from upstairs.

"That's right, this is it." Chen Qiang walked upstairs and followed the sound of music to the door of a room.

However, Chen Qiang didn't go in immediately, he guessed that the people inside might be practicing, so Chen Qiang stood outside the door, waited quietly, and waited until the music in the room stopped before he walked in.

Chen Qiang's appearance immediately attracted the attention of several people in the room.

"Hello, is Mr. Louis Thomas Jordan here?" Chen Qiang asked.

"I'm Louis Jordan!" A black male with a baby face stepped forward.

"Mr. Jordan, my name is Chen Qiang." Chen Qiang introduced himself.

"Chen Qiang? Are you the world's No. 1 athlete? Another black man exclaimed, apparently having heard of Chen Qiang's name.

Chen Qiang, big and small, is also a celebrity, and when he learned that it was a celebrity visiting, these musicians stopped practicing, but moved a chair for Chen Qiang to sit down, and someone poured Chen Qiang a cup of coffee.

"This is Trumpeter Courtney Williams, this is pianist Clarence Johnson, this is Walter Martin on drums, this is Saxophonist Stanford's Simon, and he is also in charge of the band's high notes, and this is Charlie Drayton for bass." Louis Jordan introduced his band to Chen Qiang.

Chen Qiang plans to find someone to compose music for spinning, and this Louis Jordan is one of the candidates circled by Chen Qiang after inquiring for a long time.

Louis Jordan is not only the lead singer of the band, but also a songwriter, and he is also an instrumentalist who specializes in various styles of saxophone, playing the piano and the clarinet.

Louis Jordan has some fame in swing music, and as a black man, he is also very good at blues, and most of his music is full of Goldman Sachs shouting characteristics, giving people a sense of jumping. And his music emphasizes a mix of piano, bass, and drums, which in the future evolved into a mix of electric guitar and drums.

When you hear electric guitars and drums, most people think of rock 'n' roll.

In fact, this Louis Jordan has several very famous nicknames, one of which is the "grandfather of rock and roll". This nickname also means that Louis Jordan's music already has some characteristics of future rock music. Louis Jordan also commented on Elvis Presley, who believes that Elvis's music is "the blues played by white people", as if to say that Elvis Presley's music is left over from his own play.

At the same time, Louis Jordan has another nickname, that is, "the king of jukeboxes". This title is equivalent to the future "King of KTV Singing", which means that whoever goes to KTV to sing, will order his songs.

Louis Jordan's career yellow period came in the forties, and in the forties American song of the year list, Louis Jordan had 18 singles in the top ten, an average of nearly two songs per year to reach the top ten in the United States. Especially from July 1946 to May 1947, Louis Jordan topped the American music charts for five consecutive songs, dominating the charts for a total of 44 weeks!

If five songs get the first place in the United States, it is already very powerful, and it is also something that only the king of music can do in the future, and five songs in a row can rush to the first place, which is equivalent to sending a song to rush to the first, and then sending a song to squeeze out your first song, and you have to do the same thing four times. There is no doubt that Louis Jordan at that time was the "lone loser" in the American music scene, and perhaps only superstars of the level of Elvis Presley and MJ could do this kind of thing.

And considering that Louis Jordan is black, it is even harder for him to be able to do that. You must know that in the United States at that time, racial segregation had not completely dissolved, and whites were inherently resistant to black music. However, Louis Jordan's music can be welcomed by white Americans, which shows that his music is really infectious and enough to move everyone.

However, in 1939, Louis Jordan was still a well-known musician, he was not yet the "king of the jukebox", he was not the "grandfather of rock and roll", he just formed a band in New York, this band only made two or three recordings, and the show company did not sign them to them.

Chen Qiang was not familiar with the American music of that era, if it was Elvis Presley or MJ, Chen Qiang would be very familiar, but Louis Jordan, Chen Qiang had never heard of it. The reason why Chen Qiang came to Louis Jordan to compose music for spinning is that he has heard Louis Jordan's music have some rock style, and he has a good grasp of the rhythm of drums, which is very suitable for spinning.

Chen Qiang even thought that if there was really no suitable music, he would only use a drum kit to beat some rhythmic syllables, which could barely be used to ride a spinning bike.

I have to say that Chen Qiang's luck is really good, he blindly met the dead mouse and found the most awesome figure in American music in the forties!

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