Chapter 194: The drums meet, and I am in the court

"Singing a song?" everyone in the audience was stunned.

Xiaobai, although we seem to be relatively relaxed, we are actually bidding for good, please be serious!

However, listen to Xiaobai singing......

When Zou Lao was still struggling over there whether to applaud or scold, someone had already applauded.

Gu Xiaobai is also a big star among historians.

There were many fans of Gu Xiaobai at the scene.

"Good!" said a young historian, applauding with excitement.

"Professor Deng?" Elder Zou looked at Deng Shunyang and asked for his opinion.

What can Deng Shunyang say?

With permission, Gu Xiaobai and the two bald salted fish looked at each other, stood up, turned around, and pulled a box from behind.

Everyone looked at each other, a little puzzled.

The box had been in the room for a while, and everyone had taken a few looks, but they didn't pay much attention to it, thinking that someone had temporarily placed it in the conference room.

Two salted fish, one on the left and one on the right, stood up the box, and then opened it, and saw two drums protected by hard sponge foam, appearing in front of everyone.

One is tall, one is short, one is thick, one is thin, the bronze hoop face, the body is inlaid with shell animal face patterns, the crocodile pattern on the drum surface is like that, and the vermilion lacquer is slightly mottled when it is old.

"Drums!" several historians couldn't help but shout the moment they saw these two drums.

The wooden shell and masked leather of the drum will not stand the test of time.

After more than 2,000 years of burial in the ground, by the time they were excavated, most of them had completely decayed.

The drums discovered in recent decades have decayed to the point that only the animal face ornaments inlaid on the shells and the crocodile bone plates left in the ruins.

There was a time when historians thought that this was actually some kind of "inlaid clam lacquer plaque", only to find out later that it might be the legendary drum!

The study of the drum is particularly difficult, and in some cases, its size and height can only be inferred from the traces left on the ground.

Even the best preserved ruins of Dongyuan University are only half a stump, and everything else is decaying.

The basic data is only available after the information of more than a dozen drums discovered, but how to restore it and how to make it sound again is still a big problem.

But now, when they see this magnificent drum, they all have a strong feeling.

It can only be a drum!

What else could it be?

It turns out that the restored drum looks like this?

I really want to know what it sounds like.

Then, they saw Gu Xiaobai stretch out his hand, take the two drums out of the alley, and put them on the two wooden drum piers.

"Every time" twice, Gu Xiaobai reached out and gently tapped on one of the sides.

The sound of a crocodile's cry sounded, and the strange timbre of the coexistence of low and high frequencies resounded throughout the conference room.

As Gu Xiaobai said, the timbre of the drum is like the vibration of the plate and the vibration of the membrane, the smaller the vibration surface, the higher the frequency, the larger the vibration surface, the lower the frequency, and the timbre of the drum is a mixture of high and low. The treble is very penetrating, but the bass can travel far away.

This tone is completely different from almost all modern drums.

Hearing this voice, there was a "whoosh", and almost everyone present stood up directly.

The drums meet, and the hazy ships play.

In the Book of Songs, the sound of the drum was once described in this way.

The dragon, also known as the Yangtze crocodile, was called the dragon and the pig dragon in ancient times, but it is actually the origin of Chinese dragon culture and dragon worship.

Four-legged, long-tailed, short-snouted, if you look closely, you will find that most of the dragons in the totem resemble the head of a Chinese alligator, except that there are no horns.

Its sound can be heard from a distance of one kilometer, like thunder, the ray always chirps before the rain, so the world thinks it can travel through the clouds and rain, when the flood comes, the ray is always very active, so people think that it can make waves, the ray always burrows out of the hole underwater to build a nest, so there is the legend of the underwater dragon palace, it has all kinds of miracles, so that human beings are puzzled, and worship.

In other words, the so-called dragon drum is actually a drum covered with dragon skin.

What a privilege this is.

Of course. The reason why the drum was born is also because the Yangtze crocodile was widely distributed at that time, from the subtropical zone to the temperate zone, the Yangtze River and the Yellow River basin have branches, the phenomenon of human and yellow river basins are very common, as long as they live by the water, go out and see a few dragons lying at the door of their own house, even the eyelids will not blink, at most stomp their feet twice, the kind of common that scares the dragon away.

Therefore, the drum has appeared since the early days of the Dawenkou culture (3500 BC), and by the time of the Longshan culture (around 2500 BC), there were already wooden drums, and then they existed for thousands of years, and then disappeared into the history of mankind at some point.

But it is still a symbol of dignity, and almost all the drums found so far are the funerary objects of the princes and nobles, and they are all placed next to the coffins, which shows the importance that their owners attach to them.

At this moment, Gu Xiaobai stood in front of the drum and played the ancient musical instrument thousands of years ago.

Instead of drumsticks, he clapped, beats, beats, and cut with his own hands, and the rhythm began to become complicated from simple.

Add flowers!

Crazy flowers!

"Moving-times-large-times-large-times, moving-times-times-large-times-times, moving-times-times-large-times-moving-large-times......"

Then his right hand, like lightning, struck on the female drum on the right side, and his left hand joined the drum as well.

"Moving-moving-large-(everyday)-moving-moving-moving-moving......-moving

Gu Xiaobai's two hands, like butterflies flying, struck out a complex and complex rhythm on the drum surface, the small two drums, two hands, actually felt like a group of drums were beating.

Listening to such a rhythm, everyone subconsciously wants to swing their bodies.

Just like the ancestors of the ancients thousands of years ago, beside the fire, danced, sacrificed to heaven and earth, and drove away wild beasts.

On the other side, Zhao Xingsheng's eyes were about to pop out.

What's going on? Wasn't Xiaobai still playing the drums still rotten yesterday? Why did he learn to play the drums so quickly?

What's going on with this steady rhythm and skillful technique?

Of course, he didn't know that Gu Xiaobai had completed the restoration of the drum and was rewarded with "passive training of basic rhythm and rhythm".

The current Xiaobai is probably already an existence that can torture and kill the black bear spirit drummer.

In Zhao Xingsheng's surprise, Gu Xiaobai warmed up.

He beat the drum for a while, and when it sounded again, the drum beat became simpler.

Then open your mouth and sing:

"I am in the care, in the ears of the plain, but also in the Qionghua. ”

"Writing"!

Gu Xiaobai's new song!

Drums actually have pitch, and the human ear is not sensitive to non-periodic pitches, so they can't produce melody, but it's different with a singing voice. Because the pitch of the drum can also be in harmony with the melody.

The delicate and tactful quaint melody, coupled with the peculiar drum sound of timbre changes, seems to have come from ancient times and passed through the long years.

Zou Lao stood up solemnly and listened quietly.

The bosses all stood up, what should the others do? I could only stand up one by one, with a serious face, as if not standing, as if I was disrespectful to the song.

Deng Shunyang was also sitting, but he also stood up crying and laughing at this time.

What the hell is this...... Worship the ancestors?

But this is not the effect Gu Xiaobai wants.

After singing the first paragraph, Gu Xiaobai suddenly smiled, and the rhythm of the drum in his hand suddenly changed.

It's simple, two times with the right hand, one with the left hand,

"Every time, every time, every time, every time. ”

Zhao Xingsheng's eyes widened, hey, it became a 2/4 backshot?!

Isn't that what black music feels like?

Then the drumming stopped.

"I-I-Yu-β†’β†—-"

Then the drums beat again:

"Every time, every time, every time, every time. ”

Sing again:

"Filling-ear-to-elementβ€”and β†— β†’-"

The drums beat again:

"Every time, every time, every time, every time. ”

"Shang-Zhi-Yi-Qionghua--β†’β†˜-"

"Every time, every time, every time, every time. ”

"Roar-hey-hey-hey-hey-β†’ β†˜ and-"

"Every time, every time, every time, every time, every time, every time, every time, ”

The melody hasn't changed, the rhythm has changed, and the feeling of the whole song has changed immediately!

That's the groove!

That's groove!

However, this is the "Writings???

How can this be the "Writings"?!!

At that moment, Zhao Xingsheng had an illusion.

This groom, he was stupid because he was happy to get married, and he danced the crab step in "Uptown Funk" and came out to greet him!

You're such a prodigal person, will you be beaten by someone!

But...... So happy!

I want to dance!

Zhao Xingsheng couldn't help it, he jumped up after shaking his body.