The shopkeeper at the stationery store hadn't cheated Liang Liang, and the department store didn't sell electric guitars or basses either, leaving him disappointed.
Around noon, Liang Liang met up with Ming Hongling and the others at the entrance of the Commercial World.
These women are really persistent; they spent the whole morning browsing around the World Trade Center without buying anything.
Back then, the Commercial World was still a makeshift building with only fabrics, clothing, and shoes for sale. There wasn't even a small general merchandise store, and the boutiques were still under renovation and hadn't opened yet. What was there to see?
It's absolutely true that women are born to shop.
Liang Liang kept his promise and took them out to eat at a restaurant outside the Commercial World. After the meal, they returned to their base for training.
"Sister Lanzhi, the most important thing for a beginner drummer isn't how many fancy tricks you can play. As long as you maintain a steady rhythm, you're qualified. Steadiness is the most basic element a drummer should have. You were a bit too eager with that last beat, and that disrupted the rhythm. It would have been better to hold back a bit. And with the hi-hat, the emphasis should be on the second half of the beat, like boom boom boom boom boom boom, understand?"
Lan Zhi nodded.
"You always want to know that the most important foundation for a drummer is stability and rhythm. No matter what the tempo of the song is, if you master these two points, you won't make any mistakes even if you don't excel."
As a drummer, only after mastering stability and rhythm can you then think about what fancy moves to play.
If you don't even master the basics, how can you expect the other musicians to blend your style into the music?
Liang Liang is acting as both father and mother, and he also has to teach these self-taught people to play drums and zithers.
Fortunately, their band, a blend of local and foreign elements, doesn't yet have electric guitars or electric basses; if they did, he would have to teach them guitar and bass.
That's when it's time to raise Mu Shuihua's salary.
Almost everyone in the song and dance troupe was self-taught; many of them couldn't even read sheet music.
It's easy to imagine how difficult it is for a band to play a single piece of music.
But this was no challenge for Liang Liang.
If we can't handle the complicated stuff, let's do the simple stuff.
His simple method only requires you to know the basics of Doraemon, Mimi, Soprano, and Lapis ...
Popular songs are all developed based on musical scales; as long as you know chords, you can compose music for a song.
The seven notes, do, la, mi, fa, so, la, and xi, can be represented by numbers. Ignore everything else; the simplest way is to use these seven notes alternately, forming a chord with three notes in a group.
Following this pattern, the most commonly used chords are the seven groups: 135, 246, 357, 461, 572, 613, and 724.
With these seven chord progressions, you can create chord progressions for a song as long as they are combined appropriately.
"I've told you guys so many times, the first and last chords of the whole song must be 135, and you can't use 724 when linking them. Why can't you remember? Is all you think about is finding a partner all day long?"
The women laughed and joked, completely ignoring Liang Liang's anger.
These women should be lined up and spanked in turn; the sounds they make might even be better than the sounds they play.
Liang Liang was coughing with these women when Mao Tou rushed in.
"Brother Liang! There's a stunningly beautiful woman outside looking for you!"
"Wow! What a stunningly beautiful woman!"
"I don't know! I think I should call her aunt."
Holy crap! Even the cat is calling her "auntie," this beauty is no child.
“You guys practice first. If you don’t practice well, I’ll go to the bus tonight and spank you one by one, and I’ll do it with your pants down.”
"Alright, alright! It would be a fool not to go." Lanzhi and Cuihua were the kind of people who enjoyed watching the excitement and weren't afraid of things getting out of hand, anyway, Liang Liang was just saying it casually.
After saying that, Liang Liang put down his guitar and walked out of the greenhouse. As soon as he stepped out, he saw a Volga parked not far away, and Mu Shuihua was chatting with a beautiful woman in front of the car.
The woman was wearing black leggings with laces, and her figure... how to describe it?
Standing tall and graceful, like a lotus emerging from the water, elegant and charming…
What's the female owner of the Oriental Arcade doing here?
Mu Shuihua saw Liang Liang beckoning: "Little Liang! Come here, Boss Qin wants to discuss something with you."
Liang Liang then learned that the other party's surname was Qin.
"Hello, Sister Qin!" Liang Liang is a polite and well-behaved child.
"Your name is Liang Liang? That's a rather strange name." Qin Wenju's eyes crinkled with laughter.
"Sister Qin! What do you want to see me about?"
Can I invite you to dinner?
Liang Liang thought about it carefully: "I'm afraid that won't work, we have a performance tonight."
"It won't interfere with your performance. I'll be watching your performance tonight too. I can take you back after dinner. I have something to talk to you about. I just spoke with your boss, and she said you can represent the dance troupe on some matters."
Liang Liang was a little confused. He was being asked to represent the song and dance troupe to make a deal?
Since it had escalated to the point of representing the song and dance troupe, Liang Liang felt embarrassed to refuse.
"Okay, but I have to be back before six o'clock."
"No problem, I'll pick you up at four o'clock, okay?"
"Can!"
Qin Wenju nodded, started the Volga, and drove off gracefully.
"Sister Mu! What is she going to do?"
"You've got your eye on me, huh? You want to... you know." Mu Shuihua has been with the song and dance troupe for many years. It's not unusual for an audience member to take a liking to a particular performer in the troupe, and if the two get along well, they could have a one-night stand.
"Stop joking! I'm still young, it's not the time to think about these things."
"Hehe! She means she wants our dance troupe to advertise for her arcade or something, something like that. I don't really understand these things, but I think you do."
Liang Liang's current status in Bi Sheng's dance troupe is second only to the troupe leader and his wife. In Mu Shuihua's heart, he is even more important than her husband, so she blindly trusts Liang Liang in some matters.
Is Oriental Game Hall going to put up advertisements on the dance troupe?
This female boss is quite interesting; her ideas are very progressive.
"Sister Mu, I understand. I will fight for the best interests of the dance troupe. I'm going back to rehearsal now."
When Liang Liang returned to the greenhouse, he found several girls staring at him like he was some kind of ghost.
"Where are you sick? You look a bit off."
"I heard a very beautiful female boss wants to invite you to dinner?" Cuihua asked innocently as she leaned in.
What fuels the gossip fire in a woman's heart that never seems to go out?
"You want to come along?"
"No way! We're not going to be third wheels!"
Lanzhi, Zhang Hua, and Cuihua all surrounded Liang Liang, teasing him, while only Ming Hongling was playing the zither.
Ming Hongling's attitude towards Liang Liang was subtle. Ever since that rainy night when the two slept on the same plank bed, she had always been distant from Liang Liang, and no one knew what she was thinking.
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