I am reborn and just want to concentrate on my studies - Chapter 114 Golden Age (Part 1)

That’s probably how the band was formed.

In the next week or two, they went home to practice, and practiced at Jiang Lili’s place on weekends… But after the neighbor knocked on the door twice, they had to change places. Even though sound-absorbing cotton has been posted in many places in the house, it is still too much to use three musical instruments at the same time.

Zhang Bushou really asked his father to buy a drum set, but he didn’t know how to persuade him. His father is also an indigenous resident of the county. He owns a small slaughterhouse. The family lives in a self-built house. There are several messy houses with no tenants. After a little tidying up, they can be used for rehearsals. It’s a self-built house anyway, so you don’t have to worry about the sound being too loud and disturbing other people, which is pretty good.

Zhang Bushou’s father was surprisingly supportive of his son’s interests and hobbies, which almost made the fat man shed tears. He couldn’t help but say: “It turns out he is really his biological father… I wrongly blamed you before.”

Butcher Zhang silently lit a cigarette and then beat Zhang Bushou.

After solving the venue problem, the next step is to have a happy rehearsal

Except for the drum set, all other equipment belongs to Jiang Lili. She had an arranger keyboard of her own. Although the school provided an electronic keyboard when she was in class, it was only for basic teaching purposes, and the effect was naturally poor, so she simply used the Yamaha arranger keyboard she bought in college. I brought it here, it is just ready for Ning Zhixin to use.

Those expensive musical instruments cannot be moved to Zhang Bushou’s house. So every day everyone gathered at Jiang Lili’s house, then loaded their things into her cute Beetle, and then went to Zhang Bushou’s house. Although it was a bit troublesome, Yi Yang and Zhang Bushou were extremely careful when moving around. Of course, it was unlikely that the two ladies would waste any effort.

Jiang Lili said with a smile: “Not bad, not bad, quite gentlemanly.”

If it is a serious band, the drummer can probably be regarded as the skeleton. On top of the skeleton, the bass, guitar and keyboard can be regarded as flesh and blood… and the lead singer is the soul. In the beginning, this band could only be regarded as a piece of rotten meat with a soul.

Naturally, it is impossible for a newly formed band to practice too complex music.

Jiang Lili said: “The band rarely uses music scores. But our current level is not high enough, so let’s make it simple first, layer by layer, how to play the drums, and Zhixin’s bass sound on the basis of the drums.” How to play the solo between the intro and the intro, how to play Yi Yang’s rhythm guitar, I’ll give you the sheet music…”

These past few years have been a battle between gods in the Chinese music scene, with all kinds of fairy songs emerging one after another. At Jiang Lili’s suggestion, she decided to start directly with a song and learn about the band while rehearsing.

Jiang Lili said: “The priority is the drummer and the lead singer. The lead singer decides which songs you can sing, and the drummer almost decides which styles of songs you can sing.”

Yi Yang said: “Well… I am the little prince of KTV singing songs.”

Ning Zhixin giggled on the side.

Zhang Bushou said: “It’s over, I have no style. Our band has no style either.”

In the end, I chose Mayday’s song. On the one hand, it is more popular, and on the other hand, their songs are more popular. Burning means that the rhythm is very simple. Jiang Lili said: “The movement of four-four beats is a little simpler, but it is definitely better than the jump-cha-cha of four-three beats.” You want to burn it, right?”

Anyway, the arrangement was re-arranged by Jiang Lili, so you don’t have to consider the complicated solo, drum beats, or even the key of the original version.

In the end, they chose “Embrace” as their debut song.

Under Jiang Lili’s guidance, everyone probably understands what the band is about, but everyone’s foundation is too different to generalize.

After all, Zhang Bushou had never touched a musical instrument before, so he was not so stable when making beats. However, under Jiang Lili’s arrangement, the places that needed to be added have been replaced. Basically, the whole process is done with a few movements, which is quite simple. .

But there are several basic rhythm patterns involved, which allows Zhang Bushou to get started by practicing this song.

The most powerful among them is undoubtedly Ning Zhixin… After all, she has been studying piano systematically for six or seven years. Even if she modestly says that she slacked off later, she cannot believe it… When she was elected to the literary and art committee, her speech to canvass for votes was: ” Please don’t choose me…” Then it’s possible to be as humble as you want.

Sure enough, as soon as Jiang Lili talked about it, Ning Zhixin understood what was going on.

“Zhi Xin, the intro, interlude and ending of this song are very simple. They are just a few basic chords. In the original version, it was played with an electric guitar. Here we just use the keyboard to adjust the tone.”

“Hmm… I think we can add a bass progression here…”

“Huh? That’s okay… wouldn’t it be too difficult?”

“Ah… not bad.”

Zhang Bushou couldn’t understand the conversation between the two following them. But after all, Yi Yang had been studying for half a semester, so naturally he could understand what they were talking about. I couldn’t help but sigh, no wonder Jiang Lili said that the great masters in a band are often keyboard players.

Ning Zhixin is keeping a low profile.

Therefore, Ning Zhixin’s position is clear. She is responsible for the bass sound and solo part.

The work Yi Yang does is relatively simple, rhythm guitar, a few chord changes until death, don’t make it too simple.

But he still has to sing.

Although every band member, except for the bassist who fainted from crying in the toilet, the rest are cool, but singing is the soul.

This song was arranged in a lower key by Jiang Lili. Although the original version is not that high, this key is currently the most suitable for Yi Yang’s timbre.

It’s mostly taken shape.

However, the rehearsal process is rarely smooth sailing. At the beginning, Zhang Bushou was naturally the one who made the most mistakes. He took Yi Yang and Ning Zhixin into the ditch with every move. Then there was a lot of laughter and play, and no one would get weird because of this… it was just for fun anyway. Every time during practice, Zhang Bushou’s mother would bring something in, sometimes it was braised pork, sometimes it was fruit, and one time, the most outrageous thing, she brought a pot of stewed pig’s feet.

Jiang Lili complained: “I have gained weight…” and then asked Zhang Bushou before the next rehearsal: “What delicious food did your mother make today?”

However, I have to say that Zhang Bushou is talented… According to Jiang Lili: “In fact, there is not so much talent to play drums. As long as a normal person is not talented, there should be no saying that he has no talent. If he can’t play well, It’s just that I don’t practice enough.”

After just a few rehearsals together, it was difficult for Zhang Bushou to make mistakes when he hit those basic rhythms. Of course, Yi Yang later heard from Zhang Bushou’s father: “That boy… was so crazy that he was still playing drums at two o’clock in the morning… and covered the drummer with a foam pad.”

Yi Yang was worried that Zhang Bushou’s father would be angry, but he said with a pleased expression: “It’s incredible… this bastard has grown so big… and he has never done anything serious before…”

Yi Yang asked in surprise: “Uncle, do you think this is a serious matter?”

“Isn’t this serious business? You think of us too conservatively…”

Yi Yang felt a little ashamed at that time, but when he looked at Zhang Bushou’s father, his eyes showed more respect.

Zhang Bushou really felt that his efforts were rewarded. In his ears, a song is like what Jiang Lili said: “In the ears of a drummer, music is four-dimensional.”

First of all, there is the drum, which determines how many parts of the song will be sung. It is at the bottom and carries the entire song forward. Then the upper layer is the bass sound, which determines the chord direction and emotional trend of the entire song… The upper layer is the rich and beautiful guitar and keyboard sounds, and sometimes vocal harmony, and these three layers are Commonly known as “accompaniment”.

The top one is Yi Yang’s singing.

Yi Yang is the most eye-catching talent at the top of the Oriental Pearl Tower. He is holding up his brothers and shining below…ah, I am so moved!

Just as rehearsals were in full swing, the school sports meeting also started…