Chapter 57 The first song
Yang Jingxing originally wanted to refuse, but Qi Qingnuo reminded: "Uncle Chen knows many people, and many companies and singers order equipment from him."
Yang Jingxing fawned over her, and the three of them went to have dinner together.
Uncle Chen's real name is Chen Xiaoqiang. He is forty-five years old this year. When he was young, he also played in an underground band. It was not as popular as Qi Qingnuo's father Qi Dawei's Chenghuang Band.
Chen Xiaoqiang told Yang Jingxing that when he was young, he was so poor that he couldn't even afford a guitar. How could Yang Jingxing have such a good life when he could earn hundreds of thousands at once. In order to make a living, Chen Xiaoqiang later turned to working behind the scenes. Unfortunately, he gradually found that he
The pursuit of music could no longer keep up with the times, and the various behind-the-scenes things were difficult for him to accept, and he gradually became an equipment seller.
The people Chen Xiaoqiang knew when he was young are now in all walks of life, but there are still many who are engaged in music work, who are their own bosses, producers, and also singers.
Chen Xiaoqiang and Qi Dawei are good friends and have known each other for more than 20 years. Qi Dawei now runs a bar, which is a frequent gathering place for old friends. Chen Xiaoqiang also asked Yang Jingxing if he had been there.
After all, Chen Xiaoqiang still has a deep love for rock and roll. He even blames his generation for not developing rock and roll, which is why today's musical instruments have fallen to this point. But he also said that they are really very good.
Tried hard.
Chen Xiaoqiang didn't know whether to encourage Yang Jingxing or look down on him: "Your generation is both lucky and unfortunate. Most of the students in the Conservatory of Music are from your kind of family background. Without rich life experience, it is difficult to make good achievements.
music."
Chen Xiaoqiang also listed some of the outstanding figures of his era. Only a few of them came from majors, but they gradually worked hard. At that time, everyone was poor. And those who did not come from majors, although they were full of passion
, but still limited by creativity, they are basically short-lived, and there are basically no people who can make cultural achievements.
Chen Xiaoqiang is obviously educating the next generation, saying that to make music, one must be able to endure hardship, endure loneliness, and never give up. Money is like dirt. Some people write and sing one or two songs in their lifetime, and then dozens of
It's so boring to rely on this little money to jump up and down and show off your face everywhere. How can you be called a musician?
In this regard, the Chenghuang Band is obviously a positive example. Although they were once so popular, there was no market for them later, or their music could not keep up with the needs of the times. However, they did not kowtow or compromise. They went to fend for themselves, and
Old friends can still get together from time to time and continue to make the music they want to do. Although there are not many listeners, they live with dignity and their music is also dignified!
Like an old angry young man, Chen Xiaoqiang said, "One bucket and another bottle." Yang Jingxing and Qi Qingnuo listened. Later, Chen Xiaoqiang was a little embarrassed: "Don't think I talk too much, I just heard Nuonuo say that you are a person who concentrates on making music."
, I’ll just talk about my own experience, and hope that your generation will make fewer detours and achieve more.”
Yang Jingxing thanked him: "Listening to your words is worth ten years of reading."
Chen Xiaoqiang said: "Among the younger generation, Nuonuo is amazing and has lived up to her father."
Yang Jingxing smiled: "You have said so much, and I have a deep understanding of this."
Qi Qingnuo was still eating and looked at Yang Jingxing: "Don't do this with me, I only eat vegetables."
Chen Xiaoqiang added: "Don't talk about being handsome... Can a man rely on his appearance to make a living? He has to rely on his ability and talent, right?"
Yang Jingxing rejoiced: "Fortunately, I'm not that good-looking."
Chen Xiaoqiang disagreed again: "This is about packaging. I've seen it a lot. Those pretty boys are much worse than you."
After saying goodbye after dinner, Chen Xiaoqiang asked Yang Jingxing to go to Qidawei's Huihuang Bar when he was free on weekends. It would be beneficial to get to know more of his senior colleagues. He also explained that Huihuang Bar was very different from the bars that most young people go to nowadays. Then
It is a place that attaches great importance to literary and artistic exchanges.
Chen Xiaoqiang asked: "Do you know Nono's mother?"
Yang Jingxing shook his head.
“The editor-in-chief of Qunwen Publishing House knows all great writers!”
Chen Xiaoqiang said that he could send Qi Qingnuo home, but Qi Qingnuo was not in a hurry and said that he wanted to get Yang Jingxing's new equipment to enjoy himself. When the two returned to school, Yang Jingxing asked: "Does your father still have long hair now?"
Qi Qingnuo smiled: "Yes, but I have gained weight... But isn't my dad's hair disgusting?"
Yang Jingxing said: "I also wanted to grow my hair long when I was in junior high school."
Qi Qingnuo looked at Yang Jingxing, as if imagining what he would look like with long hair, and shook his head and said, "I advise you not to think that way again."
Yang Jingxing asked business: "Are you willing to let 306 act in something I wrote?"
Qi Qingnuo said: "In principle, it's not possible...it depends on how well you write."
Yang Jingxing asked again: "Have you considered adding vocal music?"
Qi Qingnuo said: "I tried it, but it didn't work. Take your time... Don't think of yourself as a 306 person!"
Yang Jingxing was reasonable: "Who asked you to seduce me?"
Qi Qingnuo smiled: "Who seduced you? I will remove you!"
"you!"
Qi Qingnuo said: "Then you should give up early, you are really not my type."
Yang Jingxing was sad: "Why?"
Qi Qingnuo was very decisive: "First of all, I really don't like your appearance."
Yang Jingxing nodded and covered his face: "Well, this is also my knot."
Qi Qingnuo smiled: "Handsome men, no matter what they do, always give me a very impure feeling and make me feel very frivolous, especially you...you don't feel inferior, right?"
Yang Jingxing was very angry: "You are allowed to be beautiful, and others are guilty if they are not ugly!"
Qi Qingnuo comforted: "Personal taste, I like you a lot, don't take it to heart."
Yang Jingxing asked: "There seems to be another reason?"
Qi Qingnuo chuckled: "It's not just the second thing! Secondly, I don't like rich men, I really don't like them, especially the rich second generation."
Yang Jingxing rejoiced: "That's okay, I'm not."
Qi Qingnuo attacked: "Don't hide it, you are already established in my mind."
Yang Jingxing got angry: "Don't go too far!"
Qi Qingnuo was very proud: "Third, like all women, I don't like men who are philandering."
Yang Jingxing was surprised: "Have you seen through all this?"
Qi Qingnuo said: "Skills have specializations. Do you think you are like a monkey breaking corns? Today you play erhu and tomorrow you play guzheng. What do you like?"
Yang Jingxing said passionately: "I like music!"
Qi Qingnuo said: "Forget it. Fourth...forget it, I see you can't stand it. Let's talk about it next time."
Yang Jingxing praised fiercely: "You are so kind!"
Cheers to Qi Qingnuo.
Yang Jingxing called Yu Xinting and said, "Let's go and clean up."
Yu Xinting said: "I mopped the ground at noon."
Yang Jingxing said: "I'm going to criticize you for not cleaning up!"
Yu Xinting said: "Definitely not, I will come down right away."
Yu Xinting came over and saw Qi Qingnuo and Yang Jingxing together, and asked, "Have you eaten?"
Yang Jingxing said: "I'm so full, so full, and so angry."
Yu Xinting asked: "What's wrong?"
Qi Qingnuo laughed happily and hugged Yu Xinting's shoulders: "Ignore him and let him be full for a while."
Opening the door of No. 402 and looking inside, Yu Xinting screamed and jumped into the classroom: "When did you come? I don't even know!"
Qi Qingnuo said: "You have a surprise, the drumstick is in that box."
Yu Xinting hurriedly dug it out, opened the drumstick bag, took out the drumsticks, and beat them excitedly with both hands, looking at Yang Jingxing and smiling.
Yang Jingxing said: "Let's improvise." He ran behind the double row of keys to turn on the computer.
Qi Qingnuo did not fight with Yang Jingxing, picked up the guitar, hung it up, turned on the stereo, and tried the sound effects for a while. Yu Xinting quickly sat behind the drums, adjusted the bench, and found: "There are two more cymbals."
Yang Jingxing also fiddled with it for a while and set up the sound. The main keyboard was for brass and string instruments, and the auxiliary keyboard was for solos and so on. Fortunately, he had learned from Cheng Hao, otherwise it would have taken him a long time to understand just those settings.
After he finished it, Yang Jingxing asked: "Are you ready?"
Qi Qingnuo said: "It's been a long time, let's get started."
So Yang Jingxing started, and it started with a brass unison. Generally speaking, the brass unison is used to express grandeur, but Yang Jingxing's prelude was more melodious. I don't know if he was unfamiliar with the equipment or did it on purpose.
This brass intro was repeated three times. Qi Qingnuo and Yu Xinting looked at Yang Jingxing, both surprised. It's such a good melody, it couldn't have been improvised.
Then, Yang Jingxing's string unison followed again, which was a variation of the previous melody, but the brass hadn't finished yet, and it turned into an orchestral unison, which was grand and graceful. In just a few seconds, it gave people goosebumps.
Qi Qingnuo and Yu Xinting both forgot their responsibilities and looked at Yang Jingxing, expecting him to finish playing the music. But Yang Jingxing repeated the prelude and signaled to Yu Xinting with his eyes: "There is no drumbeat, hurry up, improvise,
Hit whatever you want."
Yu Xinting was a little anxious while listening to Yang Jingxing's amazing orchestral melody and rhythm. She raised the drumstick several times without falling. After Yang Jingxing repeated it again, she finally found the feeling and stepped on the bass drum.
"Very good!" Yang Jingxing praised: "Add the snare drum."
Trying it again, Yu Xinting added a snare drum, and the rhythm was pretty good. Qi Qingnuo had a feeling: "Add a tom here, beat four or three! Come again, come again!"
Is this requirement too high for Yu Xinting, a beginner, but the little girl is also very excited and eager to try it.
Next, although the drum beat and orchestral rhythm were not very closely coordinated, Qi Qingnuo still clenched his fists: "It's so exciting!"
After the prelude was over, Yang Jingxing said, "It's your turn."
Of course Qi Qingnuo used Yang Jingxing's melody, but added the chords himself, which felt very good. Although it was very short, it was such a wonderful solo.
Yang Jingxing was still not satisfied and said, "Isn't it fuller to use the minor ninth chord here and then add the minor seventh inversion?"
Qi Qingnuo couldn't wait: "Come again, come again, you start."
This time it is relatively complete, with the brass unison repeating the melody three times, then strings and drums cutting in, repeating it again, and then the orchestra, drums, and electric guitar.
It's not perfect, but the feeling of melody and rhythm has come out. Thanks to the melody, the effect is very good, it is grand without losing emotion, and it can make the auditory nerves excited immediately.
The song was less than half a minute, but Qi Qingnuo was so excited that she held her guitar in circles, walked up to Yu Xinting in two steps, and ordered: "Stand up!"
Yu Xinting was a little scared and stood up. Qi Qingnuo was very rude and hugged Yu Xinting's head and kissed her hard on the face.
Yu Xinting was so frightened that she almost poked Qi Qingnuo with a drumstick. After Qi Qingnuo let go of her, she conditionally wiped the kissed area on her face with the back of her hand.
Yang Jingxing was anxious: "Where's me? Where's me!"
Qi Qingnuo calmed down and called Yu Xinting: "You go."
Yu Xinting looked at Yang Jingxing.
Yang Jingxing smiled: "Looking at you, your face is red with fear."
Yu Xinting angrily denied: "No!" and beat each other with drumsticks.
Qi Qingnuo abandoned Yang Jingxing and played a half-minute solo on the guitar. It was not bad, but the momentum was still worse than the orchestral unison.
Qi Qingnuo was still very satisfied and sighed: "I haven't felt like this for a long time!"
Yang Jingxing boasts of himself: "I am repaying evil with kindness."
Qi Qingnuo raised his palms: "I don't accept it!"
Yang Jingxing said: "I'd better continue." Then he said to Yu Xinting: "Be careful, don't let her succeed again!"
Yu Xinting knows how to laugh.
Qi Qingnuo said: "It's not your turn!"
This piece is the piano piece that Yang Jingxing wrote recently. Of course, he also conceived the orchestra's performance version. The brass intro just now was just a whim, and I didn't expect that the effect was very good.
Yang Jingxing first played a five-minute piece of music on the grand piano to give Yu Xinting and Qi Qingnuo a general understanding. The two girls were fascinated by the music. The whole piece had two parts, one passionate and one melodious.
They support each other, complement each other, and have a bit of a Chinese style.
Yu Xinting said: "It sounds so good."
Qi Qingnuo looked at Yang Jingxing: "I take back the thousandth item."
Yang Jingxing was angry: "Not that much, right?"
Yu Xinting asked: "What a thousand?"
Qi Qingnuo said: "His shortcomings."
Yu Xinting hehe.
Then the three of them started arranging the band together. In this regard, Qi Qingnuo was able to discuss this with Yang Jingxing, but Yu Xinting was a bit shy and did not dare to express any opinions. Fortunately, Yang Jingxing valued Yu Xinting's weight and added a lot of drumbeats.
There is also a double row of keys to imitate the effect of timpani, which feels really good and is not difficult.
Yu Xinting was a little scared: "I'll just listen, you guys come."
Yang Jingxing lectured: "Why do you think you are called here! Don't say no!"
Yu Xinting felt a little aggrieved: "I didn't say that."
Qi Qingnuo chuckled: "I am taking advantage of you."
Yu Xinting shook her head: "No!"
Yang Jingxing said: "It's true that you took advantage of her."
Qi Qingnuo was even proud: "Come on, give me a kiss."
Yu Xinting quickly ducked away.
Although Yang Jingxing had already had a relatively specific idea before, the three people still discussed and experimented for an hour. After the draft was almost finalized, Yang Jingxing adjusted the equipment and played it again.
As for the double-row keys, Qi Qingnuo is still much more proficient than Yang Jingxing, so he can give him a lot of advice and help him press the switch button. The whole piece is the brass playing in unison repeating the prelude, and then the strings playing in unison follow. After the intro,
The music suddenly becomes quiet, with string pizzicato introducing the theme, and then the piano plays the leading role, and the electric guitar plays the supporting role, with string ensemble and drum accompaniment. The whole song has a clear theme, a grand and beautiful melody, and the atmosphere echoes back and forth.
This is Yang Jingxing’s first composition!
Yang Jingxing played it again alone. Qi Qingnuo was no longer excited: "You are still close, come together!"
Yu Xinting disagreed: "So good!"
Qi Qingnuo laughed: "Don't you see? He doesn't like others saying he's good." Then he taught Yang Jingxing how to add a synthesizer sound to make the effect richer.
Three people should do it together. Because Yu Xinting only needs to play one or two drums well, it is not difficult, and Qi Qingnuo's electric guitar is no problem. Yang Jingxing is a genius with a background in classical piano, and the double row keys are also qualified. And the three
Everyone is very serious.
At the end of the song, Yu Xinting put down her drumstick and clapped vigorously, but when she saw Qi Qingnuo rushing towards her, she quickly covered her face to avoid it. Qi Qingnuo was just trying to scare Yu Xinting and didn't really want to kiss her.
Yu Xinting said: "I want the music score."
Yang Jingxing promised: "I'll give it to you tomorrow."
Qi Qingnuo said: "I want it too."
Yang Jingxing held a grudge: "No!"
Qi Qingnuo said: "I dedicate myself to music, come here!" He closed his eyes tightly while facing Yang Jingxing, with a twisted expression and an ugly pout.
Yang Jingxing was scared: "I'll give it, I'll give it."
Yu Xinting giggled and asked Yang Jingxing: "What's the name of the music?"
Yang Jingxing said: "I haven't taken it yet, what do you think?"
Chapter completed!