Zhou Yan didn't shirk anymore, he hugged the guitar and started to ponder.
His guitar skills are average, and he doesn’t practice, so there aren’t many songs he can play live. After all, he can’t sing, so he can only play solo.
If he could sing, strum a few chords and sing a verse for the audience, the difficulty would be much lower.
After thinking for a while, he finally said, "At this point in time, it should be dawn in the United States, and today happens to be the premiere of another song I wrote for Mariah Carey. Since it’s such a coincidence, let me play this song for you.”
Before Zhou Yan could say the title of the song he was going to play, someone from the audience shouted out, “Someone like you.” ”
Some people also shouted the English name of this song, "someone like you!"
Hearing the audience shouting the name of the song, Zhou Yan also laughed, "Yes, it is this song "Someone Like You!" "People". This song was not only included in the movie "Sense and Sensibility", but it was also included in the album "Yu Linglin". You haven't heard the song version yet, but it shouldn't take long. , this song will spread to China. As for me, I don’t sing well, so I’ll give you a solo.”
Zhou Yan has compiled a solo for this song, so you can play it directly. It takes a lot of brains.
In fact, with Zhou Yan's ability, he can improvise solo on any song. This is a very simple thing for him.
It’s just that his guitar skills are not good enough. Even if his brain can keep up, his hands can’t keep up.
After Zhou Yan finished speaking, he began to adjust the guitar in his arms and prepare to play. At this time, the audience in the audience also cooperated very well and made no more noise, waiting quietly for his performance to begin.
It was completely dark now, and the sound of waves came from the sea, mixed with the sound of the wind, always reminding everyone that they were at the beach.
The guitar solo compiled by Zhou Yan is actually quite complicated technically, but now that he plays it himself, he must reduce the difficulty. Some of the more complicated techniques have been directly simplified by him.
Of course, even a simplified solo can still conquer the audience's ears.
Compared with the soundtrack in "Sense and Emotion" and the live recording version of "Yulinling", Zhou Yan's solo is much simpler. After all, he only has one guitar and can do a lot. few.
But simplicity is better than simplicity. The audience doesn't understand that much, so they think it sounds good. As for the harmony and texture, they don't understand and don't care.
Since the 1980s, the trend of learning guitar has become popular in China, especially in Pengcheng. At that time, young people holding guitars and wearing bell-bottom pants could be seen everywhere on the streets.
Many young people learned to play the guitar with a fire stick and full of enthusiasm.
Although these people are wild in their ways, their feelings are sincere.
It can be said that the guitar is the most familiar instrument to the general audience, and its popularity is even higher than that of the harmonica.
So when they saw Zhou Yan playing solo, the audience was naturally very happy and very kind.
If Zhou Yan was playing instead of holding a guitar, but holding a violin, the melody might be better, but the feeling to the audience would be different.
Xu Guanwen had already retreated to the side of the stage at this time, with his hands behind his hands looking at Zhou Yan in the center of the stage who was seriously soloing.
He had also learned about Zhou Yan’s music, and when he learned about Zhou Yan’s music, he was deeply moved because Zhou Yan’s music style was too avant-garde and special.
In the past 20 years or so, pop music in Hong Kong has developed rapidly. Although songs like "Iron Tower Ling Yun" have special meaning, to be honest, they are too simple and old-fashioned. Even Xu Guanwen himself admits that .
Xiangjiang's music development over the years has actually been following the path of Neon. Many of their songs imitate Neon's style.
Most of them are like this, some are imitating Europe and the United States, and the remaining small part are innovating on their own.
Unfortunately, even if you are innovative, it is difficult to be very new.
As a creator, Xu Guanwen deeply understands that when a person creates, he will always be influenced by his predecessors.
Every walk of life, as long as it involves creation, is basically like this.
No one can create something out of thin air. Many things created by people have the shadow of others.
The development of music is naturally the same. It is usually learned, imitated, and then improved, so the development of music is step by step.
But Zhou Yan’s music is different. His music seems to have appeared out of nowhere, and its style is different from other songs at the moment.
His music not only does not follow neon music, nor does it imitate Europe and America.
Although Zhou Yan's music is not a new music form, the way it is produced is different from other songs.
For example, the song "Yellow" is a typical British rock song and does not escape the major category.
But when you listen to "yellow" together with other British rock songs, you can hear obvious differences.
Xu Guanwen does not study music, and he does not know why. He only knows that the music written by Zhou Yan rarely has the flavor of the times.
This song "Someone Like You" is the same. It is an obvious pop song. You can hear blues and gospel in it. These are all existing things.
When many people mention Zhou Yan, they don’t mention subversion because the things Zhou Yan makes do not subvert anything.
The "avant-garde" nature of his works lies more in the details, and these details are not easily imitated.
Just when Xu Guanwen was listening carefully to Zhou Yan's solo arrangement, he suddenly heard that Zhou Yan played a wrong chord.
Obviously I pressed it wrongly, not intentionally, because it sounded very disharmonious, and I had played the same place just now, and it was different from this one.
Xu Guanwen smiled. Zhou Yan's guitar skills were not very good, just at the level of an amateur. At this level, I'm afraid most bands wouldn't be able to get into it.
However, although Zhou Yan's guitar playing level is average, Zhou Yan's guitar playing posture is very beautiful.
First of all, Zhou Yan knows how to hold a guitar handsomely, and his holding posture looks like a master.
Secondly, Zhou Yan has a good figure and handsome appearance, which adds to the effectiveness of his performance.
Xu Guanwen believed that if Zhou Yan could still sing, he would become famous all over the country just by holding the guitar.
You are good-looking, but you take advantage of him. His younger brother Xu Guanjie is a typical example.
Zhou Hong watched Zhou Yan solo on the stage with a smile on his face. He came over to join in the fun tonight. What he wanted most was to see his younger brother perform on stage.
Although Zhou Yan has given many concerts, Zhou Hong has not seen a few of them. Most of them he saw on TV.
It is a rare opportunity to watch my brother perform up close like this.
Zhou Hong suddenly remembered that when he was a child, his mother always liked to stand at the window of her house and play the bamboo flute in the evening. At that time, he was his mother's most loyal audience.
Now that his mother is gone, he has become his younger brother's audience again.
Wang Zuxian, who was sitting on the other side, held his chin and quietly enjoyed his boyfriend's performance.
Although they have been together for several years, Wang Zuxian is still fascinated every time he sees Zhou Yan playing an instrument.
As long as Zhou Yan has an instrument in his hand, it seems to glow. It was as if there was an invisible and intangible realm around him that could control people around him, making them unable to move.
A solo is very fast, only about four minutes, and Zhou Yan finished the performance quickly.
At this time, the enthusiasm of the audience has been completely ignited.
To be honest, before Xu Guanwen came on stage, the tourists at the scene were still a little disappointed.
A few of the previous eight programs were remarkable, but overall they did not meet their expectations, especially the sketch and the stand-up comedy. They really had no way of feeling it. charm.
Of the eight previous programs, the Peking Opera sung by Jiao Huang was the most popular among the audience, but what impressed the audience the most was the scene when Li Xiaoran danced on stage. After all, beauties are really eye-catching.
Later, Xu Guanwen came on stage to sing a song "Tower of the Clouds", which really excited the audience and finally made them feel like they were watching a show.
They came here today mainly because they wanted to see the performances of celebrities.
At this moment, Zhou Yan's performance pushed the performance to a climax.
No one was required to lead the rhythm. The audience shouted in unison, "One more, one more!"
Many of the audience at the back had already stood up and waved to Zhou Yan excitedly.
Zhou Yan looked at his watch and smiled, "Thank you everyone for your enthusiasm, but it's really getting late. We haven't eaten yet, and tonight's performance is about to begin..."
Before he finished speaking, the audience's shouts started again, covering up his voice.
"One more, one more."
Seeing the enthusiasm of the audience, Zhou Yan smiled helplessly, then patted the microphone and said, "Ahem, everyone, be quiet."
After the voice calmed down a little, Zhou Yan spoke again, "Let's do this, I'll play one more song, and then we'll end it."
"Come on two."
"Come three."
"One hundred."
Hearing someone shouting one hundred, Zhou Yan couldn't help but roll his eyes. He was really being treated as a donkey for the production team.
"Well, I'll give you a multiple-choice question."
Multi-choice question?
Hearing Zhou Yan’s words, the audience at the scene became confused. What does it mean to give them multiple-choice questions?
Could it be that Zhou Yan wanted to silence them and give them two choices, listen or not?
“You have two options to choose from. First, I can continue to play three pieces of music for you.”
“Three pieces!”
Quite a few. The audience exclaimed.
Although someone shouted a hundred songs just now, they were just booing. They all knew that the celebration banquet was about to start soon, and it was impossible for Zhou Yan to play too many songs. If he could play one or two more songs, they would have already made money. Big hair.
Now Zhou Yan actually said that he could play three pieces of music for them, which naturally made them overjoyed.
If we play three more songs, we will play a total of four songs today. You must know that even in Zhou Yan's concert, he will not be able to solo that many songs live.
Some people couldn't help shouting, "I will choose the first option."
But some people are calmer. Since it is a multiple-choice question, are there other options? As attractive as this option?
"What about the second option? What is it?" someone asked.
Zhou Yan smiled and said, "The second option is that I will play a piece of music for you."
"One?"
The audience showed doubts? They all wondered if they heard wrongly.
One option is one song, and the other option is three songs. With such obvious differences between the two options, even a fool knows how to choose. What is the point of such a multiple-choice question?
"Yes, one." Zhou Yan smiled and nodded, "Of course, since it is one, it must be something special. If you choose the second item, then you will hear A song I’ve never heard before.”
After Zhou Yan finished speaking, the scene fell into a brief silence, but soon, warm cheers erupted.
“New song!”
Hearing this cheer, some belated viewers realized that Zhou Yan was going to play a new song.
"Let's choose the second one." Someone shouted.
“Yes, we choose the second one.”
Soon, more and more people were shouting that they would choose the second one.
That's a new song. Fools all know how to choose the second one. If they choose the second one, they will all be the lucky ones to witness the release of the new song.
Don’t just choose between three songs and a new song, even if they choose between a hundred songs and a new song, they will also choose the new song. After all, the next song will always be better.
Zhou Yan nodded, "Since everyone's opinions are so unanimous, then next, I will bring you this song..."
At this point, Zhou Yan paused and finally Say two words, "waves."
Obviously, this was a name that came up on the spur of the moment, and many viewers also realized this, and many even looked back at the waves behind them.
Of course the song Zhou Yan is about to perform is not called "Waves". Its original name is "bleedinglove", which translates to "Bleeding Love".
Listening to this name, you can feel the pain and sadness conveyed by this song.
The reason why Zhou Yan did not use the original name was because the version he played next was not too sad.
Zhou Yan rearranged the chords of this song to make it lighter and lighter. It sounded like waves. They happened to be on the coast again, so Zhou Yan named it " Waves".
...
The "bleedinglove" modified by Zhou Yan does not sound like bleeding love, but rather like "spreading love".
The content of the lyrics of this song is that love is too painful, just like bleeding after being cut open.
But Zhou Yan’s modified version sounds more like the feeling of lovers loving each other deeply and wanting to see each other all the time.
Although it cannot be called a sweet song, it is indeed very romantic. This is also a rare romantic piece by Zhou Yan. (End of chapter)