Chapter 39: Dog Eyes Look Down on People
Tang Shuo lost interest in continuing as his brewing emotions were interrupted.
Although he was a little unhappy, he also knew that it was wrong for him to enter without asking, so he stood up and said apologetically: "I'm sorry, I just saw this Youweiqin and came to take a look."
"Get out of here! Is this the place you're supposed to be?" the woman in silver high heels yelled. "This zither costs over 300,000 yuan. If it gets broken, can you afford the damage?"
Tang Shuo naturally wouldn't argue with a menopausal woman. He rolled his eyes at her and walked straight to the door.
"Little brother, wait a minute." The man next to the woman in high heels said.
The man was probably around forty years old. As he had entered middle age, he was a little overweight.
Tang Shuo, who had just taken two steps, turned back and asked dissatisfiedly, "Are you talking about me?"
He was a little angry. Even though he was wrong in this matter, he had already apologized and was very humble. It was a bit too much for the other party to keep harping on it.
The portly man nodded and asked, "Can you play the guqin?"
"Yeah." Tang Shuo frowned.
"You try it." The fat man said with a smile.
As soon as the man finished speaking, the women around him immediately said, "Old Wu, how can you let people touch it casually? What if it gets broken?"
"It's okay." The fat man Old Wu replied.
He is Wu Le, the captain of the classical band Shengge Fumeng. His classical band is also well-known in the industry. In addition to frequently releasing some original soundtrack albums, he also undertakes some accompaniment work.
This time he came to cooperate with Shijia Music to provide live accompaniment for Xiao Ran's new song "Mi Bu You Chu".
However, the agreed time has arrived, and Zhou Tong, who played the guqin in the team, could not be contacted for some reason. He still hasn't shown up, and he is very anxious now.
The remuneration for this accompaniment activity is not low. It would be bad if Shijia Music decided to change the band at the last minute.
When he came in, Tang Shuo was auditioning. Seeing that the young man seemed to have some skills, he suddenly had an idea and wanted to let him try it.
Tang Shuo didn't want to pay attention to it, but seeing the middle-aged woman's expression, he sneered and walked to the guqin and sat down again.
He hates people who look down on others the most, and to deal with these people, he must fight back harshly with reality.
Tang Shuo placed his hands on the strings, brewing his emotions, and suddenly swept across the strings.
When a few notes floated out from the guqin, the expressions of the two people listening in the room changed instantly.
Tang Shuo only played a short passage, which was the first section of "High Mountains and Flowing Water", one of the ten famous guqin pieces.
The melody appears and disappears from time to time, as if you can see the top of a mountain, surrounded by clouds and mist, floating and uncertain, fully interpreting the emotions expressed in this song "High Mountains and Flowing Water".
Wu Le looked at Tang Shuo excitedly and nodded, while the woman beside him stood there with her face turning pale and red.
After Tang Shuo withdrew his attack, Wu Le immediately clapped his hands and said, "Brother, that's amazing."
Judging from Wu Le's professional qualities, Tang Shuo's skill would definitely not have been possible without several years of hard practice, and he must have had the guidance of a famous teacher.
He had heard Zhou Tong play "High Mountains and Flowing Water" several times. Although Zhou Tong's expressiveness was also very good, it was far inferior to that of the young man in front of him.
You know, Zhou Tong has been practicing piano since he was a child, and it has been almost ten years now!
The woman next to him looked at Tang Shuo with a gloomy expression, somewhat surprised that Tang Shuo not only could play the piano, but also played it so well.
"Young man, are you a staff member here?" Wu Le asked hurriedly.
"No." Tang Shuo stood up and shook his head, saying, "I'm Xiao Ran's assistant."
"Great." Wu Le was overjoyed. He hurried over to pull Tang Shuo over and said, "Sister Jiang, go get the others. This little brother can definitely take Zhou Tong's place."
The middle-aged woman looked at Tang Shuo with a complicated expression, then turned and ran out of the practice room.
Tang Shuo was a little confused. When did he say he wanted to replace Zhou Tong's position?
"What is this?" Tang Shuo asked.
"Little brother, what's your last name?" Zhou Tong asked back.
"Tang."
"Brother Tang." Zhou Tong stepped forward and said, "We came here specifically to accompany Xiao Ran. We can't contact the guqin player, and we've been delayed for two hours. I'd like to ask for your help later. Let's go through it first."
Tang Shuo stood there and thought about it, and finally nodded.
Wu Tong is a nice guy, so it's not a big deal to help him. The most important thing is that if the delay continues, Xiao Ran can't leave, and he has to wait here.
Soon, several people came in led by a middle-aged woman. Judging from their uniform clothes, they should be from the accompaniment band.
A refined man wearing glasses walked in and looked at Tang Shuo, who was talking with Wu Le. He asked in confusion, "Captain, is he the one replacing Zhou Tong?"
"Yes." Wu Le replied.
"Is he good enough?" a young girl chimed in. "The guqin accompaniment is the main point this time; everyone else is accompanying the guqin."
She had fake nails made of tortoise shells on her fingers, from which it was not difficult to tell that she was a guzheng player.
"Yes, Captain, if the guqin is messed up, then the accompaniment will be ruined."
It's not their fault for being skeptical. The sound of the guqin is very unique, quiet, distant, ethereal and changeable. Unlike other instruments, it does not have a fixed rhythm. Guqin music is usually performed live by the performer who figures out the mood of the music.
Moreover, the guqin community uses the phrase "three years for major pieces and three months for minor pieces" to describe the process of learning the guqin. Without a few years of practice, it is impossible to play the guqin well.
But Tang Shuo is really too young, which makes people doubt his own abilities.
"No problem, let's try it first." Wu Le took a sheet of musical notation from the side and handed it to Tang Shuo, saying, "This is the song we'll play later."
Tang Shuo ignored the ridicule of the group. After taking the musical score and looking at it, he said to Wu Le helplessly, "I don't recognize this."
"Ah." Wu Le obviously didn't expect Tang Shuo to not know the music, and immediately asked, "You don't know it?"
"You don't even know the musical notation. You're obviously a complete layman," the zither girl said. "Captain, where did you find these people to fill the gap?"
The other members of the band also frowned, obviously not optimistic about Tang Shuo.
"When I was learning the piano, I only used reduced notation. I've never come across this before." Tang Shuo said to Wu Le, "How about this? You guys practice it first, and then I'll add in."
Jianzi notation is a type of notation that has been used in ancient China to record guqin music. This type of notation mainly records fingering movements, chord sequences, and fret positions, but not pitch and rhythm. Therefore, it is a tablature notation and is far less detailed than the five-line notation.
When Master Zhuge taught him, he used the abbreviated notation, so Tang Shuo had always been learning using the abbreviated notation and had never been exposed to the five-line notation.
"That's the only way." Wu Le said, "Come, let's go aside first, and Guzheng will be the center."
The captain had already spoken, and the others had no choice but to follow his orders. Soon, the melody of the Guzheng version of "Mi Bu You Chu" was heard in the practice room.
After listening to the accompaniment of the first section, Tang Shuo started playing directly in the second section.
When everyone heard the interruption of the guqin, they wanted to stop, but then they were surprised to find that the sound of the guqin did not destroy the melody of the accompaniment, but instead added a sense of ethereal elegance to the song, making the artistic conception even better.
The song is over.
The way everyone looked at Tang Shuo again was completely different from the beginning. If they had doubted Tang Shuo at first, now they were only shocked.
Wu Le was now somewhat surprised at Tang Shuo's ability to comprehend. If this song had not been released to the public yet, he would have thought that Tang Shuo had secretly practiced it in advance.
"Is it okay now?" Wu Le said to Tang Shuo.
"It should be fine." Tang Shuo replied.
"Okay, let's do it again."
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Xiao Ran came over from the practice room next door after being notified by the band.
He received a notice from the band saying that they had found a temporary replacement and they could start to get used to each other.
But after entering the room, he saw Tang Shuo sitting in front of the guqin and chatting with Wu Tong. He hurried over and asked, "Tang Shuo, why are you here?"
"Miss Xiao." Wu Tong said to Xiao Ran, "I didn't expect you to have such a guqin master by your side. If we had known Brother Tang was here, we wouldn't have delayed any longer."
Guqin master? Brother Tang? What's going on?
"I'll accompany the band." Tang Shuo said with a smile.
"Can you also play accompaniment?" Xiao Ran asked doubtfully. "Can you play the guqin?"
Tang Shuo glanced at Xiao Ran and said sarcastically, "What do you think?"
"Why didn't I know this before?"
"You haven't asked." Tang Shuo replied.
Xiao Ran looked at Tang Shuo with great suspicion, then took a microphone and began his first run-in with the band.
When the accompaniment sounded, Xiao Ran quickly got into the mood.
Where are the mountains and rivers in the dusk with the rain all over the sky?
I watched the seven sea dragons dancing on the water.
He plays the sword, sings a song and remains as romantic as ever.
Every journey to the end of the world has its beginning.
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When the song ended, the band members put down their instruments and began to applaud.
Both Tang Shuo's accompaniment and Xiao Ran's singing are of a level that can be performed directly on stage.
Wu Le nodded in satisfaction and said to the staff beside him, "Did you record it?"
"It was recorded." The other party replied.
"Ms. Xiao, this time it was perfect." Wu Le walked up to Xiao Ran and said, "Let's do it again."
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After everyone practiced a few more times, it was already very late.
After much persuasion from Wu Le, Tang Shuo exchanged contact information with him and took a car home with Xiao Ran.
As soon as Tang Shuo left, the elegant man wearing glasses said to Wu Le, "Captain, if our band can get that guy in, our strength will definitely be taken to the next level."
Wu Le looked at the contact information in his hand and said with a wry smile: "If his strength was a little weaker than it is now, I would also try my best to recruit him. But now..."
"What's wrong?" the guzheng girl interrupted.
"This level is beyond the capacity of our band." Wu Le shook his head and said, "Besides, the other party is not interested in this!"
"What a pity."
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