Chapter 290: Change of Song
After dinner, Tang Shuo and his group went to the recording studio with Xie Erfu as planned.
Since Mingzhu Conservatory of Music had all the necessary professional equipment, Xie Erfu and a few others drove directly to the conservatory of music.
"This film is a pure action film, so I planned to make the theme song reflect the actual fighting scenes in the film," Xie Erfu explained to Tang Shuo. "The transitions in the melody describe the beauty of the mountains and rivers. You need to control the gentleness and speed of the melody yourself."
Tang Shuo nodded. What Xie Erfu said could actually be fully understood from the reduced notation.
According to the other party's meaning, the prelude and the transition part in the middle should be paved with a slow-paced song like "れ高山流水ろ", while the description of the fighting scene should suddenly become fast, forming a relatively clear gap.
These may seem simple, but in fact, the span is quite large. And unlike the last time he helped Xiao Ran with "Mi Bu You Chu Luo", this piece does not have a classical band to provide accompaniment. The xiao is the only embellishment. So it is still a test of Tang Shuo's ability.
However, Tang Shuo was not worried at all. For a piece of music like this that was made on the spur of the moment, it usually took some time to score it and make it playable.
Last time, Remibuyouchuro's accompaniment was so smooth because it was relatively simple and the span of the melody was relatively small.
Even if he can't play this song, it's not his fault. Besides, he is just there to help, so he just needs to try his best.
Lu Wanqi handed Tang Shuo a bottle of water and said, "Have a drink."
Tang Shuo actually drank a lot right after he finished eating, but after Lu Wanqi said that, he really felt thirsty again. This was because the stir-fried crab roe was too powerful.
Soon the car drove into the Pearl Conservatory of Music. Under Xie Erfu's guidance, the car stopped in front of a white teaching building.
In fact, when studying at a music school, the teacher will only tell you a general method, and the rest depends entirely on the students' own exploration and practice, which leads to the fact that there are many practice rooms in music schools.
After Xie Erfu made two calls, she said, "It's all arranged. Come with me."
Tang Shuo and the other two followed Xie Erfu directly to a practice room on the second floor. Inside, a young girl holding a xiao was already waiting for them. Seeing Xie Erfu come in, the girl smiled and said, "Hello, teacher."
Xie Erfu smiled and introduced Tang Shuo and others to the girl.
After she introduced Xiao Ran and Lu Wanqi, the young girl looked at them a few more times, but did not show the enthusiasm of other girls seeing celebrities.
Then Xie Erfu introduced her to Tang Shuo and the others, "Her name is Xiaoxi." Tang Shuo and the others greeted her.
"If you're ready, we can start now." Xie Erfu pointed to a guqin in the corner and said, "You can use Xiaoxi's guqin!"
Tang Shuo nodded and sat down in front of the guqin. He tried the sound and adjusted the pitch.
The girl frowned in confusion when she saw Tang Shuo sitting down. Xie Erfu called her and asked her to bring her guqin and wait for her in the school's recording studio, saying that she would bring a guqin master with her. However, the level of the person in front of her was quite different from that of the master!
Putting aside other things, the fact that the other person is wearing casual clothes and sitting in front of the guqin gives people a strong sense of incongruity.
Even if you don’t wear a long robe, you should at least wear a Tang suit to pretend it’s your thing!
If the other party's tuning technique didn't look very skillful, she would have doubted whether this guy even knew anything about the guqin.
Tang Shuo certainly didn't know what others were thinking. After tuning the instrument, he said to everyone, "Let me familiarize myself with it first."
Xie Erfu nodded expectantly, motioning Lu Wanqi and the others to find a place to sit down. She then turned on the professional recording equipment in the practice room and nodded to Tang Shuo.
When the first note came out from the guqin, Tang Shuo's expression became extremely focused.
His hands danced back and forth on the piano like flowing water, and the soft and elegant piano music instantly filled the entire practice room.
The bluebird is crying. Deep and elegant.
Even though she had been well prepared, Xie Erfu still lost her mind for a moment. Tang Shuo's playing style was different from anything she had seen before. If she had to find a word to describe it, it would be that he didn't treat playing as a performance at all, but was purely enjoying the process.
Lu Wanqi was also a little surprised. She knew Tang Shuo could play the guqin, and was quite good at it, but she had only seen it on TV or on the computer, never having experienced the feeling of being there in person. Hearing Tang Shuo play in person now gave her a different feeling.
The young girl holding the xiao was stunned. She had never expected that someone could play the guqin music to such a touching level.
Thinking about how she had doubted the other party's level before, the young girl felt that she was too superficial.
The person in the room who was in the best condition was Xiao Ran. After all, he had witnessed Tang Shuo playing Guangling San with his own eyes and had a better understanding of it.
When the preparation of the first measure ended, the piano music quickly became intense, and the picture that automatically appeared in everyone's mind also changed suddenly!
If the first section describes the beautiful scenery of clear wind, bright moon and pleasant scenery, then in the second section this beautiful scenery is suddenly interrupted, as if two men suddenly broke into this beautiful scenery, fighting for their lives, with swords flashing and knives, and it was extremely dangerous.
At this time, Tang Shuo's hand movements suddenly became much faster. From the surface, no one would think that he was playing the guqin. This technique appears more frequently in pipa playing.
When playing the third overtone in this piece of music, Tang Shuo's hands suddenly stopped moving, and he frowned as he looked at the reduced score in front of him.
Xie Erfu immediately stood up and asked, "What's wrong?"
"There's a problem with this." Tang Shuo replied, then asked, "Do you have a pen?"
The guqin generally has three types of timbre. The first is the harmonics: lively and ethereal, like celestial music. The second is the open notes: solemn and majestic, with a majestic momentum. The third is the pressed notes: subtle and vivid, like a plaintive cry or a wild wail.
In terms of expressiveness, the overtones are the most difficult to control because they are so ethereal. The transition between the scattered notes and the overtones in this piece is quite flawed.
Xie Erfu had no doubts about Tang Shuo's abilities at this point. She took out a pen from her backpack, handed it to him, and asked, "What's the problem?"
Tang Shuo pointed to a spot on the reduced musical notation and said, "The span here is a bit inappropriate."
Then he made some changes to the song.
"Are you okay now?" Shelf asked.
In her opinion, there was nothing wrong with the song itself. After all, she had decades of experience in the industry and would not make such a low-level mistake.
She also believed that anyone with a little skill in playing the guqin could perform this piece of music, but for some reason she still chose to believe Tang Shuo's words.
"I'll try."
Then Tang Shuo played it again from the beginning, but when he reached this part, he frowned and stopped.
"Is there something wrong again?" Shelf asked again.
Tang Shuo did not answer Xie Erfu's words, but concentrated on recalling them.
If he followed the revised score, he could complete the piece smoothly, but for some reason he always felt that something was missing.
After frowning and thinking for a long time without any result, Tang Shuo could only choose the dumbest way and play the song again from the beginning.
Tang Shuo repeated this process over and over again, and soon he had played it nearly ten times. Without exception, he would stop every time he reached the overtone.
Xie Erfu suddenly felt that she had some understanding of why Tang Shuo's playing was different from others. When Tang Shuo stopped again, she smiled and walked over to him and said, "If you have any questions, take a break first."
Lu Wanqi also took a bottle of water and handed it over.
Tang Shuo nodded, took a sip of water, thought for a while, and then said again: "Try again."
Just as he was about to start playing, the door of the practice room was suddenly pushed open. A bald man walked in and said to Xie Erfu, "Dean Xie, what are you busy with?"
As soon as the man finished asking, he added, "If you're not busy, give up the practice room."
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