Chapter 603 "Fireworks Easily Cold"
As soon as the prelude sounded, the audience suddenly felt bad. The music seemed to be sadder than the story.
This song "Fireworks Easily Cold" won two awards for Best Composer and Best Lyricist in 2011. This is something Jay Chou has become accustomed to and is not a big deal.
The really great thing about this song is that everyone thinks it is a "Chinese style" song, which is the five-note scale corresponding to "Gong Shang Jiao Zheng Yu".
Even die-hard fans think so, but this seemingly Chinese-style song is very un-Chinese.
In Chinese-style songs, the two sounds 4 and 7 rarely appear, such as "Dongfeng Breaks" and "Lanting Preface", but "Fireworks Easily Cold" has a lot of 7s.
Of course, Xu Nuo did not tell the audience what style the song was. Firstly, people could not understand it, and secondly, it was not necessary.
There are still masters in the live broadcast room, and they have given up their expectations for Chinese style.
It turns out that this genre sounds very powerful, but it is really difficult to write good works.
The musical instruments promised to be used convinced everyone that this was not Chinese style.
Guitar, piano, drums, none of them are classical instruments, they are all Western instruments.
He put his hands on the piano, but did not play Zhao Lei's guitar that started first.
The audience didn’t think anything was wrong. In their opinion, the guitar was normal at first. Many singers rely on guitar accompaniment.
But in the live broadcast room, the master composers were a little confused.
Guitar playing and singing, I played it when I was solo. It was a serious arrangement, and no one knew how to start with a guitar.
They were all a bit confused about this operation.
Immediately afterwards, Xunuo pressed the keys with both hands, and a cold melody began to sound.
The piano is cold and sad, and the guitar is solemn and low, intertwined, making the whole atmosphere even sadder.
The story I just promised to tell has made many people unable to get rid of the sadness. Now that the music is playing, it is even harder for everyone to get rid of it.
“The bustling sound escaped into the empty door and shocked the world,
The dream is cold, and there are many love debts in a lifetime,
If you default to life and death, wait,
Wait for the growth rings one after another. ”
Xu Nuo’s tone is very clear, but when he sings, his voice is a little low, like a sad general.
The lyrics are poetic and picturesque, the melody is melodious, and the audience feels My heart felt like it was being gently grasped by something.
The faint melody fell on everyone's hearts like raindrops, causing ripples one after another.
In the live broadcast room, the eyes of the composers who were ready to leave were almost bulging out.
Their minds are full of question marks.
Why did the piano and guitar actually write a song with very "Chinese style" characteristics?
Why does the melody have so many "7"s, but it sounds like "Chinese style"?
There are no traditional instruments such as erhu, pipa, or flute, and there is no avoidance of 7 in the scale, but it still sounds like a "Chinese style" song.
The masters were a little dumbfounded. They had tried to use 12356 to compose music countless times, but then found that it was difficult to come up with good ideas.
Two notes missing is a huge challenge for most people.
But Xu Nuo, the originator, actually started using 7 himself. What does this mean?
Is he going to overthrow the genre he created?
"How many layers of the pagoda are broken and whose soul is broken?
He goes straight to the mountain gate where a broken lamp collapsed.
Let me wait for history to turn around.
Wait The aroma of wine is waiting for you to play the guzheng.”
The main song part vividly describes the Jialan Temple in the story with lyrics.
The general who fought for many years and went through life and death, when he came back, all he saw was the collapsed mountain gate, and under the ancient Buddha with green lantern, only a lonely soul of his beloved woman was left.
I can no longer wait for that glass of warm wine, and I can no longer wait for that guzheng song.
Coupled with the melancholic piano, solemn guitar, and sad violin, the audience collectively broke through.
At this time, someone noticed that Lin Wanqing was sitting in front of the drum set and had not played the drum set until now.
This is very unscientific.
Although the drum set appears in the song "Fireworks Easily Cold", it is not a normal thing.
The audience couldn't figure out how a passionate instrument like drums could be combined with sad Chinese-style love songs.
After the main singer finished singing, the music almost didn’t stop.
The next second, Lin Wanqing moved.
Everyone thought that the rhythm of the chorus might change a lot, such as becoming more exciting and more powerful.
After all, the song was sung in the tone of a general, so it makes sense that it would become impassioned.
However, many people subconsciously pray not to do it. The low and sad main song fits the atmosphere of the story very well. If the rhythm is suddenly changed, the artistic conception created by the song will be ruined.
Many people even wanted to let the drum set go.
Lin Wanqing beats the drum set with both hands.
The sound of the drum set gently joins the music.
It's not as intense as everyone imagined. This feeling is amazing.
Lifting it up heavily and putting it down gently, many people breathed a sigh of relief.
“The rain is falling in my old hometown and the trees are deep,
I heard that you are always alone,
The mottled city gate is surrounded by the roots of old trees,
What echoed across the stone slabs was wait. ”
In the chorus part, the voice of the promise did not rise substantially, but the mood went one step further.
I think of the generals who are fighting abroad, whenever the drizzle continues, they always I will think of that woman.
Ruthless is not necessarily a true hero. A caring general is obviously more humane.
The audience was mesmerized, and the masters who watched the screen in the live broadcast room were thoroughly impressed. I was dumbfounded. Xu Nuo spoke clearly and they heard it clearly.
Li Zhengyi shook his head and sighed.
These sentences use "start, transfer, transfer" just right. It's nothing, it's just lyrics, and he also has the ability to write this kind of lyrics.
What really made him sigh was the lyrics and composition. The reason why the pentatonic scale does not include 4 and 7 is not that they are exclusive. The key point is that 4 and 7 conflict with the pentatonic scale.
The main reason is that 4 and 7 are not in tune, and writing the scale out of tune can easily cause an abrupt feeling.
Going from 4 to 5 is a big step up, but from 5 to 4, it comes down all of a sudden, the momentum is gone, and it is difficult to handle.
Can we not use 4 and 7? Of course you can. If not, just use the pentatonic scale. The cost is two less scales.
But "Fireworks Easily Cool" is very unusual. It not only uses 4 and 7, but also connects them perfectly. The use of semitones makes the whole piece natural.
“The rain is falling in my old hometown and the trees are deep,
I heard that you are still guarding the lonely city,
The sound of the pastoral flute fell in that wild village on the outskirts of the city,
It was us who were destined to take root. ”
The cold and desolate singing and the low and sad music exaggerated this atmosphere to the extreme.
The scene was very quiet. It was April, just after the Qingming Festival, and I heard it on the ancient road in the countryside. How can such a song not make people feel sad?
The gentle drums and sad piano play a classical style unique to traditional musical instruments such as erhu, flute and guzheng.
This is no longer a new style, this is a breakthrough of oneself.
In the live broadcast room, Li Zhengyi felt for the first time that he might not have a chance to catch up with Xu Nuo.
Originally, he wrote a "Chinese style" song during this period and planned to release it at some time. However, after listening to such a song that was more Chinese style than Chinese style, he felt that there was no need to release it. .
“Listening to the laughter that welcomes youth makes many people envious,
The history books are too gentle and unwilling to write,
Fireworks are easy to get cold, and people are easy to separate.
And you are asking me if I am still serious. ”
Personification is a commonly used technique in literature. Youth has become a young and beautiful girl, and history has become gentle.
Gentle history and lively youth are for everyone. It brings endless imagination.
However, the tragic ending has not changed. The more beautiful the imagination, the more sad the ending is.
Fireworks are easy to get cold, and people are easy to separate.
No matter how bright the fireworks are, they will be extinguished in an instant, and the same goes for beautiful love, which is fleeting.
Li Zhengyi kept lamenting that such words could not be written. No matter whether he looked through classics or racked his brains, he could not come up with such lyrics.
Cultural heritage is something that cannot be seen at ordinary times. Only when it is actually used do we realize its importance.
"After thousands of years of deep love, who else is waiting?
And how can Qingshi not be true to Wei Shu's Luoyang City?
If you are passing through the past life,
Follow me and wander around in the world of mortals all your life. ”
Not only Li Zhengyi, but other songwriters and songwriters who peeked at the screen also shook their heads and sighed.
The images of empty gates, annual rings, mountain gates, tree roots, and fireworks are nothing special. Anyone with education can write it, but Wei Shu Luoyang City cannot be written casually
The Wei here is not the Cao Wei of the Three Kingdoms, but the Northern Wei. Wei Shu Luoyang City, I can't even read it without any knowledge reserves.
The country is broken by mountains and rivers, and the city is springy with deep vegetation.
The old friend has passed away, and the general has no worries.
After half a lifetime of fighting and killing countless enemies, he failed to give his beloved a complete home.
Everything seems like yesterday, but yesterday can never come back.
The atmosphere at the scene was a bit too sad, the audience's eyes were wet, and the audience in the live broadcast room also broke their guard.
After two verses, the sadness has reached its peak.
At this time, Xu Nuo used a rap to dilute the sad mood.
“The rain is falling in my old hometown, the grass and trees are deep,
I heard that you are always alone,
The mottled city gate is entangled with the roots of old trees,
What echoes on the stone slabs is wait,
The rain is falling one after another. The old hometown has deep grass and trees,
I heard, I heard you Still guarding the lonely city. ”
The rhythm accelerated, the emotions became more intense, and everyone was suddenly pulled out of the sad atmosphere.
The Chinese-style melody, combined with Western rap, actually has no sense of dissonance.
It’s okay to be sad, but being too sad is not a good thing.
Many people don’t understand the principle that going too far is not equal.
When they heard this rap, many people were dumbfounded.
Incorporating rap into Chinese-style songs is a difficult thing to understand.
However, the artistic conception of this song has not been destroyed. It seems that the general and the lonely grave are still in front of him.
After the compact rap, the song finally comes to an end.
“The sound of the herdsman’s flute fell in that wild village on the outskirts of the city,
It was us who were destined to take root,
It was us who took root due to fate,
Jialan Temple listens to the sound of rain and looks forward to eternity. "
Repeated it twice in a row, and finally expressed his inner wish "Eternity. ”
(End of this chapter)