Respawn Entertainment: Days of Glory

Chapter 399 At the Fingertips—Rock Strings

While Bian Lang was thinking about the Mongolian band, Li Li had already replaced the previous white Fender with a burgundy tiger skin pattern.

It's also a humbucker, but the volume knob has been changed from two to three, and there is an extra knob to adjust the tone. The pickup has also been changed from one to two.

The purpose is to achieve smooth switching between using Ebow to simulate cello timbre and using a bow to simulate violin timbre during performance.

Bian Lang spent two or three days in Europe when he was restoring this section. When it finally took shape and was covered up by Di Li, Di Li couldn't help but admire Bian Lang's imagination and awesome arrangement!

The string orchestra that Olaf borrowed to help rehearse looked as if they had seen a ghost.

In Europe, they have many opportunities to cooperate with rock bands, but this kind of performance, which in the past seemed to them to be a pure show of skills, can convince them, and there are even fewer people who are willing to rehearse with 100% enthusiasm!

The key point is that there is also a new song that they have never heard before, written by the Chinese in front of them.

On the stage at this time, Di Li was slowly walking towards another area of ​​the stage with his guitar on his shoulder and a blue-light Ebow in his hand.

The moment the lights illuminated this area, a female cellist in an evening dress slowly drew her bow and played a soothing song with the residual warmth of the sunset, using the sound of the piano to reach the hearts of every audience present. in the ears.

At the same time, the orchestra, which had been hidden in the darkness, officially revealed its true appearance on the stage.

Only those who are really at the top will spend time and energy studying these weird things.

Another theory is that Jin Zhuonan, a guzheng master from Shandong Province, adapted three traditional folk songs from his hometown in his early years: "Double Banner", "Three Rings to Set the Sun" and "Flowing Water Stimulating Rocks". The first half of the now widely circulated Lou version is the same as the Jin version, while the second half is unique to Lou version.

The key is that they have never heard of this song either!

At the same time, my left hand pressed the frets, and my right hand used an Ebow instead of a pick to play on the strings.

Even the Little Witch, who has been accustomed to the Stones taking an unconventional path, found this transition from folk music to orchestral music a bit difficult to adapt to.

Ebow, known as a handheld electronic bow specifically for guitar, allows players to extend the sound of their electric guitar indefinitely, thereby simulating the sound of a violin. Similarly, some pianists use this gadget to add fuel to the piano to achieve a sustain effect, but the bass part of the piano usually cannot be triggered by Ebow.

To be more intuitive, from the music score, there are only do, re, mi, fa, so, la, but no si.

There are different opinions about the origin of this tune and there is no conclusion yet. One theory is that it was adapted by Lou Shuhua, a guzheng master in the mid-30s, based on the ancient song "Return to Come" from the Ming and Qing Dynasties.

The most senior of these music bloggers have seen it before, but they have never seen anyone use it with their own eyes, but this does not prevent them from being completely conquered by their hard-working performance!

Looking at this point alone, the cumulative popularity and playback volume of "Fishing Boat Sings Late" may not be comparable to all Jay Chou's songs combined!

After all, there may be many people who have never heard Jay Chou's songs, but there are almost no people who have never heard of weather forecasts!

Bian Lang remembered that when this section was played on the original Earth Station, the screen was full of bullet screens reporting the weather conditions in their respective locations.

After all, in people’s inherent concept, those who play new things are the big guys who can lead the change!

That proves that this tune was originally an ancient Chinese tune, and now this arrangement is a violin tune adapted from the ancient tune.

As soon as this tone, which was no different from that of a cello, came out, and as the two came and went, a beautiful scene of the sunset reflecting on the vast expanse of blue waves, the fishermen enjoying themselves leisurely, and the fishing boats drifting away with the waves was filled in everyone's mind.

In 1984, the famous electronic keyboard master Pu Qizhang adapted it and played it perfectly on the electronic keyboard. CCTV selected 1 minute 36 seconds to 2 minutes 43 seconds as the background music of the weather forecast, which has been used ever since. The background music that has remained unchanged for more than years has become the most familiar and favorite music to billion people.

After the founding of the People's Republic of China, the famous musician Li Guoquan adapted and composed a violin piece based on the zither music of the same name, which has been widely circulated around the world. Performers such as Lu Siqing, Sheng Zhongguo, and Yu Lina have all performed it with great enthusiasm.

The piece "In the Original Earth" is the most widely circulated and influential Zheng solo piece in China since the 20s.

Ebow is a new thing that many UP owners present have never seen before.

After all, the span of changing clothes is too big!

But those folk music UP musicians didn't see it that way. Although this piece was played with Western instruments, the melody still followed the same hexatonic scale of F and D in "Horse Racing" just now.

For an ordinary guitarist, let alone using an Ebow, just to perfectly cover the rock songs that the Rolling Stones had previously played would be a huge project that would be measured in years!

The UP fans, who had previously been immersed in the sparks of the passionate collision of rock and folk music, all expressed the shock that this turn of events brought to them with applause and exclamations.

This judgment was confirmed by a UP master who is proficient in classical music. He shook his head like a rattle and seemed to be uttering negative words like: "Impossible, unscientific!"

Bian Lang thought it was funny at the time, so he also posted a message on it: "Spring City, sunny to sunny, southeasterly wind level 3!"

Then it attracted a large number of people to say that he lied about the weather. Of course, there were also some who supported him, because sometimes the weather in Yunnan Province is mainly unpredictable. Just take a look at the weather forecast...

However, there is no such collective memory of this song in Water Blue Star, so during the original performance at Earth Little Broken Station, only the weather forecast section was intercepted, but when it came to Water Blue Star, Bian Lang gave Li Li a complete version.

Just after the 16th bar, Dong Shuxian, the founder and principal violinist of this orchestra, also started to bow and string, and joined in this competition of instrumental performance.

Looking at his serious and enjoyable look, the other violinists who were still on standby were a little ready to make a move.

This orchestra is truly an elite motley crew. The main members are teachers and top academics from the Orchestral Department of Xinghai Conservatory of Music. The other members are Dong Shuxian, who used his many years of contacts to retire from the position of principal of major symphony orchestras in China. I got it from a musician, and the conductor is an old professor from the Conducting Department of the Central Academy of Music!

This lineup is usually just a thought. If you want to get these people to come together, even if it is a CCTV performance, it may not be easy to achieve.

In addition to Dong Shuxian's relationship, this is naturally due to Bian Lang's song "Fishing Boats Sing Late".

<divclass="contentadv">If it were an ordinary violin piece, even a new work would not be enough to pique the interest of these people, but for a violin piece adapted from a guzheng piece, the situation would be completely different!

This represents an opportunity for traditional Chinese music to spread in the world music scene. How could these big guys who have spent most of their lives playing foreign classical instruments let go of this opportunity?

After getting the music and practicing it, they all wanted to compete for the position of chief. However, Dong Shuxian had such a good daughter as Dong Youbian, so they could only be envious.

The performance of the three musicians went on equally for about 30 seconds, and then the other string players who were ready to move happily joined the performance under the "control" of the conductor.

The moment the bow jumped on the strings, everyone seemed to feel the joy coming from the instruments in their hands.

Driven by the lead melody of the three people, these piano sounds are like that one singing late, and the warm fishing fire is like the signal of returning home, reflecting little by little on the bottom of the river, twinkling with the stars...

The Aolong group who were monitoring at the mixer had excitement on their faces at the moment. This cross-border attempt at musical instrument performance would undoubtedly add a lot of color to their respective music careers.

As for the music director of this party, he is like a primary school student, standing behind these two big guys to observe and learn carefully. When he took this job, he never expected that it would be like this. If he was given another chance to choose, he would still come here, but he would definitely agree with Xiaopozhan in advance that he would come here to serve as his deputy!

But he hasn't realized it yet. These two are just Bian Lang's lieutenants. The real core should be Bian Lang!

At the end of the 1 minute and 39 seconds of performance, Li Li placed Ebow on the conductor's music stand. After the two exchanged a look, they saw the baton in the conductor's hand rise and fall, and the "Fugue in G minor" that was supposed to belong to the orchestra appeared, A new round of "weapons" competition has begun again.

First, the string ensemble started, using four measures of uniform performance to "challenge" Li.

Then it was Li Li's turn to appear, with the same melody, and the electric guitar in Li Li's hand rose in tune and responded.

Watching this scene, Bian Lang remembered a line for no reason: "I want to hit 10!"

After four bars, the lights in another area of ​​the stage turned on, and Dayong's figure and the sound of electric drums appeared at the same time.

As the rhythm of "dong da dong da..." jumped, knowledgeable musicians could hear a hint of jazz mixed in it.

At this point, all the music students in the music UP master class who came from serious majors were all excited, and their memories were suddenly brought back to the scene of the Grade 9 piano exam.

But at that time, they were playing at full speed, but now the group of magic bosses fighting on stage are playing at 2x speed.

And looking at their relaxed and happy expressions, it feels like they are multiplying by 2 on top of this speed!

After another four measures, Huayan's keyboard and string violin group joined together, enriching the layering of the entire piece. Driven by the keyboard, he played the sharpened lead tone without giving up a large section of the complete RIff, and It's a dead sound that plays against the accent of Dayong's drum beat.

This angry tune made all the UP owners on the scene want to follow suit.

Seeing the relaxed state of these big guys, the music UP masters had to sigh: "This damn feeling of relaxation, this is the real music playing!"

When the word "play" is used in music, it has two very extreme manifestations. For those who are new to the industry, it is called "playing blindly", and for those on stage, it is called "playing at a high level". The arrangement that others could not come up with after racking their brains and efforts, became so simple in the hands of this group of people... no, it must be Bian Lang's pen.

At this time, all the musicians in the string orchestra except Dong Shuxian stopped their bows, leaving only Comrade Dong to "single up" to practice alone.

After frantically outputting 8 bars, Comrade Lao Dong looked at Lili with a disdainful expression on his face.

The audience imagined that the next scene should be that Ji Li defeated Comrade Lao Dong with a powerful solo, but who knew that Ji Li walked directly towards Comrade Lao Dong.

Under the gaze of Comrade Lao Dong with an expression of "What are you going to do?", he grabbed the bow from his hand with a smirk on his face.

"Is this? You want to play the electric guitar?"

"There's something about this guitarist!"

"Aren't you talking nonsense? I'm from the Rolling Stones! It's not unusual for me to do anything fancy!"

Under the starry eyes of all the UP masters, he strode forward with a horse step, and played the last 16 bars of "Fugue in G minor" like a bow and an arrow.

As soon as the sound that sounded like a violin and a matouqin came out, the music UP masters at the scene were all stunned, and then shouted: "Zhou Cao, this is awesome! From now on, I will be a dedicated fan and train to become a great master!"

Listening to these words, the little witch felt like a country bumpkin who had never seen the world. Although she had not seen them live, she was the only one present who was familiar with the Rolling Stones, so she immediately said: "Don't forget, No matter how good the master of training is, this arrangement must have been written by master Bian. If he can arrange it, he can also play it!"

After being told that, these people suddenly woke up and thought that the lineup of the Rolling Stones was simply terrifying!

As for today's scene of playing guitar against the heroes, I dare not say that it happened in their lifetime, but none of them had seen it before.

In the memory of these top music masters, guitar masters generally do not use these too fancy tasks in band performances. Such super-dazzling scenes usually only appear in guitar concerts of internationally renowned brands.

And even if it is a professional concert, firstly, there will be no competition with these other musicians, and secondly, the attention will not be high and almost all practitioners will pay attention to it.

But this time, Dili performed such a stunning and brilliant performance at the much-anticipated Xiaopozhan New Year's Eve party. At least it will allow those audiences who used to think that musicians are not important to have a relative understanding of musicians in the future. Correct understanding! Anyone who is not deaf or blind should be able to understand how awesome this section is!

"Fugue in G Minor" finally ended perfectly with the showy manipulation of the guitar, and at this time, three new people appeared in the area where Dayong and Huayan were standing just now.