Respawn Entertainment: Days of Glory

After hanging up the phone, Dong Youbian was a little confused. She didn't expect that Bian Lang would express his support without hesitation before she had laid the groundwork.

All the rhetoric she had prepared was in vain, making her feel that it was a bit unreal.

But not long after, Chen Manman answered the phone and said to her: "Guo Sichu is sure to refuse the fruit stage, she will not participate..."

When Dong You thought that Bian Lang was with Guo Sichu, he couldn't help but think of many possibilities behind this matter.

But she was just thinking about it and didn't intend to tell anyone her thoughts.

"Reply to the fruit counter, we will participate! We must come back with the top three this time!"

Chen Manman has been following Dong Youbian for a long time. It is not that no music magazine has invited Dong Youbian before, but Dong Youbian's attitude was quite perfunctory, so that in the end he either didn't go or just went on a tour. of.

That’s not to say that Dong Youbian isn’t ambitious, but she prefers to spend her time and energy on music creation and tours.

It was really the first time that she, Chen Manman, had seen a variety show taken so seriously.

But she thinks this is always a good thing. After all, from a personal relationship point of view, she sincerely hopes that Dong Youbian and Bian Lang can support each other until the end.

Dong Youbian is not the kind of little woman who is willing to be a canary for others, so she has evenly matched capital in some aspects, which Dong Youbian urgently needs to complete now.

With Bian Lang's current reputation and ability, there will never be a shortage of crazy bees and butterflies swooping around him. The sight of those female Bodhisattvas that night made Chen Manman tremble with fear, not to mention the female artists in the circle who were bent on advancement.

Although Bian Lang doesn't seem to have any such thoughts now, she always maintains the suspicion and awe that a woman should have towards creatures like men.

When it comes to music creation, she is somewhat pessimistic and thinks that Dong Youbian will never be able to catch up with Bian Lang in this lifetime, but his status can be surpassed through the efforts of herself and Dong Youbian.

"Well, Yubian, let's work hard together and try to get the first place back!"

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Last night's scene caused a huge uproar in the rolling circle, and the sequelae really confused the entire entertainment industry.

At the same time, 14 hot searches were on the list. Looking at the entire entertainment industry, this kind of achievement may not be considered earth-shattering, but when they found out that they didn’t spend a penny, many entertainment companies that pride themselves on top-notch marketing felt that this was too big. Untrue.

Especially some variety shows that lack marketing and topics, they immediately started sending invitations to those who participated in the performance that night.

Especially some interview programs, they want to take the theme of rock and roll feelings and interview these old guns.

The commander and the oldest members of the generation didn't rush to agree. They all called Pan Jianhu. As a result, Pan Jianhu smiled and said: "It's time to go, it's time to talk, just ask for more money, and increase the value of us rock and roll players." Just mention it. But my wife is currently planning a rock documentary, so you should save some of it and don’t give it all to the media. "

"Ahem, let me and everyone say that we should keep what should be reserved for documentaries. After so many years, these programs have been shown once and passed. How can they be compared with the documentaries produced by our own people."

Speaking of the documentary, Mrs. Hu discussed this matter with their Lao Pan, and then Lao Pan called Bian Lang and Qiu Luo respectively, and then the matter was settled.

As for Qian Laopan, he really isn't too worried. This kind of documentary is definitely unlikely to make money at the box office. With the name Rolling Stone, it's not a problem to find some sponsorship.

He was working on the planning document with his wife, and he already had some alternative projects in mind.

As for Shaomi, after receiving the private message from She Juan, of course he immediately introduced her to the job of ghostwriting for Mrs. Hu.

After all, written works are different from film and television works. Even if it is a documentary, some things cannot be photographed after all, but written works have more room!

Chao Mi has an almost magical obsession with those colorful years.

Although there are many embarrassing things and things that run counter to normal moral values, you have to admit that it will always make people dizzy when recalling the feeling of being addicted to it.

Just like in his previous life, Bian Lang remembers what a woman told her when she was young: "When it comes to falling in love, you need to find scumbags, because only scumbags can make you feel what love is!"

The rock circle at that time should be like the scumbag men and scumbag women that Bian Langfa said were very suitable for love. Although they knew that the end would be sad and tearful, for the sake of that extremely satisfying process, who among the young men and women would not Are you willing to go there once?

She Juan never thought that her tentative question would actually attract the attention of Zhao Mi and Hu Sao, two old "bigwigs" in the rock circle. The three of them made an appointment to meet at Noodles in that night.

Bian Lang, on the other hand, couldn't resist Gong Qian's warm invitation, so he and Dayong, who had nothing personal to do, went to eat the sheep scorpions cooked by Gong Qian himself.

The place was in a small courtyard on the other side of Miyun. Bian Lang thought he would see more people from their club, but he didn't expect that apart from Gong Qian and Wang Yunfei, there would only be Wang Yunfei's companions for company. However, Commander and Zhou Kun were also invited.

After that scene, Bian Lang became more familiar with several people. Bian Lang, the food he talked about, was kicked out after walking around in the kitchen. Then he and Zhou Kun were in the yard. Drinking tea and chatting.

Zhou Kun held an old acoustic guitar that had not been used for a long time, and plucked the strings one after another. He asked Bian Lang with some envy: "Bian Lang, I just want to ask you about your Chinese-style rock music." Songs, what do you think about when composing and arranging them?”

Of course, Bian Lang didn't know how to answer this question. How did he know what big guys like Ding Wu and Wu Tong were thinking, but he could hear the real meaning behind Zhou Kun's words.

"You want to try singing ancient lyrics using folk songs, right? In fact, the chord patterns of folk songs are simpler, so it shouldn't be difficult to create."

This double-entendre sentence directly hits Zhou Kun's pain point: "Then I just want to come up with something new. If it's still those simple things, what's the point of singing it? We Chinese The rhythm of ancient poems is peaceful, and you can sing it by just playing folk chords...

I have been playing folk songs for so many years, and I want to be like you and open up a way for the Chinese folk song circle to create Chinese folk songs. Don’t spend the whole day just being far away, having wine, meat, and girls..."

Hearing this, Lang laughed: "Folks are poor, guitars are expensive, girls are beautiful, boys are not worthy!"

Zhou Kun was slightly stunned, then smiled helplessly and said: "The story is long, and not difficult to tell. It's about being unable to love someone, but reluctant to give up. I really don't want our audience to be lonely, mediocre, and down and out."

Bian Lang deeply agrees with this statement. At a certain point in time in China, folk songs were created with the three major themes of "love, ideals, and distant places", and they attracted a large number of lonely, mediocre, and down-and-out social animal listeners.

However, after the same trend has been blowing for a long time, people began to stop liking it after they got tired of hearing it, and labeled such songs as moaning for no reason and complaining about compiling new lyrics.

It was around that time that Yan Chi, who was known as "Yan Yan Yu Fei, was inferior to her own feathers", appeared with her "Yan Ge Xing".

She composed music for Li Bai's "The Wine Is Coming", Li He's "Bitter Days Are Short", and Mu Xin's "Once Upon a Time Slowly", which are either bold, free and easy, or nostalgic...

All in order to highlight the original meaning and sentiment of the original poem, we select musical instruments with matching attributes and create a suitable musical form.

Ancient Chinese poetry has the attribute of long words in ancient times, so it is not difficult to find suitable folk chords to sing directly. Anyone who knows some music theory and can play an instrument will be able to sing it and it won’t sound bad.

But if it is to be spread, it is not a simple matter.

Otherwise, if there are so many lyrics left by our ancestors that can be used directly, why have so many classics been adapted over the years?

On the original earth, there were not many folk singers who were good at this. In Bian Lang's memory, apart from Yanchi, there were also some famous works by Zhou Yunpeng.

What impressed Bian Lang the most was Brother Yunpeng's "Three Chapters of Du Fu". In the end, the song was very simple, but the excellent arrangement and Yunpeng's low-breathing singing style created this song. The song's place in the genre.

Compared to Yanchi, Bian Lang thinks this song by Brother Yunpeng is more suitable to take out and explore the creative path of ancient folk songs with Zhou Kun.

Because although it is one song, it has three poems, three paragraphs, and three different interpretation methods. Basically, the arrangement of chanting, vocals, effects, harmony, and instruments is used to the extreme.

The whole song starts with Brother Yunpeng's recitation, and then adds guitar accompaniment. With the ups and downs of the melody, more ethnic instruments gradually join in, the recitation turns into loud singing, the body of the music begins to become richer, and the atmosphere continues to heat up.

Although there are no obscure harmonic connections or complex playing techniques in guitar playing, you can still feel that Yunpeng Ge has a deep and independent understanding of the guitar, and he can create the tone of the guitar, create an atmosphere, and transform emotions during the performance. Take control.

After listening to it, people will understand that the flowers of youth are so gorgeous, but they don't know that the downhill road of prosperity and decline must be endured hard, otherwise they will fall down, just like the endless falling trees.

Everyone thinks that singing during the day requires drinking too much, but there is still a glass of wine that is full of wine.

Thinking of this, Bian Lang took the guitar from Zhou Kun's hand, pressed an E chord with his left hand, and then said to Zhou Kun: "Actually, I still need to find some breakthroughs in the arrangement. I always play the A section and the B section. The C section is strummed, and this kind of guitar arrangement is really nothing new.”

Then I saw Bian Lang sweeping his fingers and singing directly: "Suddenly there was a message from outside the sword to collect Jibei. When I first heard it, my clothes were filled with tears..."

The blank space after strumming amplifies the vocal effect to the extreme, giving the listener a desolate and ancient beauty in this small suburban courtyard.

This voice directly attracted all the people who were cooking in the kitchen.

Gong Qian, who was in charge of the dishes, couldn't leave the stove, so he could only stick his head out of the window, a little away from the noise in the kitchen, so as to enjoy this new piece of music by Bian Lang.

"Sounding the Army's Takeover of Henan and Hebei" is Du Fu's first quick poem in his life, and it is quite famous. Just when Zhou Kun was waiting for what kind of artistic conception Bian Lang would sing about "But see where my wife is worried", who knew it would actually happen? I heard a sentence that was not from the original poem: "But ask the old woman and children where your sorrow has gone?"

As soon as this sentence came out, not only Zhou Kun, but almost everyone in the audience was wondering: "What, what is this?"

Only Gong Qian, who is very sensitive to words and paragraphs, laughed in his heart: "This sentence is very interesting!"

Gong Qian felt that Bian Lang was trying to understand and retell Du Fu's mood at that time: "Look at how happy Du Fu is. He can't type out rhyming poems at all, but instead comes out with a vulgar old woman's child! It's really wonderful."

He felt that by following Bian Lang's idea, he could write a very vivid new paragraph.

Just when he was looking forward to how Bian Lang would adapt the next sentence, he heard Bian Lang continue: "The poems and books are full of joy..."

In the open sound field of the small courtyard, Bian Lang's singing naturally cannot achieve the self-reverberation effect of the original Earth Yunpeng brother.

But for Zhou Kun, who has opened up new ideas, his mood at this moment is really "overwhelming with joy..."

After Bian Lang strummed the guitar again and sang the section again in the same way, the few people who had not recovered before began to understand the beauty of this blank space.

Zhou Kun especially understands this. The past arrangements of ballads full of music have made everyone feel aesthetic fatigue. But this also requires the singer's timbre and singing skills, as well as the understanding of poetry to be improved to a higher level.

Especially in the first line, Bian Lang really sang out a feeling of "the sun rises in the east, the heaven and earth are majestic".

Then I saw Bian Lang changing another Em chord, and continued to sing while strumming freely: "You have to indulge in drinking when singing in the day, and you can return home with your youth. That is, from the Ba Gorge through the Wu Gorge, straight down to Xiangyang to Luoyang... "

The original version of this song includes not only the guitar, but also drums, keyboards, guqin, kazoos and other instruments. However, the arrangement of these instruments without exception has key points and blank spaces.

There were no such instruments or musicians at the scene, but Bian Lang believed that after playing like this, Zhou Kun would understand what was going on.

Sure enough, after he pressed the strings with his hand to stop them vibrating. After coming back to his senses, Zhou Kun sighed: "Bai Juyi once said in a poem: Don't be sad and resentful. Silence is better than sound at this time. This is just your song, but it still has a long aftertaste."

After listening to it, Bian Lang laughed and said: "This is the introduction. It will be complete after adding some other musical instruments. Also, I think one poem is a bit short, and two more poems should be added."

Hearing this, Gong Qian, who was "eavesdropping" by the window, shouted: "Is this relationship good? Lao Zhou, why don't you hurry up... Ouch, why does it smell like paste, my sheep and scorpion..."