While the members of the folk music band were getting familiar with the songs "Swords Like Dreams" and "Left Finger Pointing to the Moon," Liang Liang was sitting in the car revising the lyrics of "Wishing You Prosperity."
Back then, cars didn't have antifreeze or anything like that. The hood was covered with an engine cover, and the engine was still running, so you didn't feel cold sitting inside.
The lyrics of the song "Gong Xi Fa Cai" (Wishing You Prosperity) contain some parts that would be considered "cool" by mainland Chinese audiences, and would have to be modified if the song were to be sung in mainland China.
Liang Liang spent more than half an hour revising and rewriting, and a new version of "Gong Xi Fa Cai" was created.
Congratulations on your fortune!
Congratulations on your wonderful performance!
May you always be smiling
May you stay young forever.
The God of Wealth arrives on a cloud
I wish all girls in the world...
Forever beautiful
Everyone loves her and flowers bloom for her
I wish all the boys in the world...
Smarter than a scholar
Handsome and dashing, incredibly cool
I wish all bosses in the world good luck.
imposing and majestic
With boundless confidence and surging emotions, I felt a surge of inspiration.
I wish the bosses good business.
Business is booming and thriving
Prosperity from all corners of the world
Swagger around, Lotte will take care of your troubles.
"Wishing you prosperity!" should be shouted with great enthusiasm.
May you be happy and prosperous
Congratulations on your fortune!
Congratulations on your wonderful performance!
May you always be smiling
May you stay young forever.
The God of Wealth arrives
This is a song that rhymes entirely with the Huailai rhyme scheme, but Liang Liang's revised lyrics have one section that doesn't rhyme, which somewhat disrupts the overall coherence of the lyrics.
It's the word "boss".
Liang Liang was somewhat dissatisfied with this.
After further deliberation, Liang Liang rearranged that section of lyrics, making it like this.
I wish the bosses good business.
Business is booming and thriving
Prosperity from all corners of the world
I wish all CEOs in the world...
imposing and majestic, full of heroic spirit
With boundless confidence and surging emotions, I felt a surge of inspiration.
This change makes the entire lyric rhyme.
Liang Liang hummed it twice and felt it was fairly fluent.
That's it!
After the lyrics were revised, Liang Liang went inside.
Next, he will make some arrangements for those two songs.
"Uncle Gao! Besides playing the suona, do you know how to play the flute or xiao?"
Liang Liang believes that if you can play the suona, you should also be able to play the flute, since they're both playing instruments!
His self-righteousness was actually correct; he was indeed happy to be able to play the flute.
Let's start with "Swords and Dreams".
The guitar provides the foundation, followed by the flute, then the pipa, and finally the guzheng begins to play.
The guzheng version of the piece "Swords Like Dreams" is all over the internet; Liang Liang had heard it countless times in his previous life.
Its arrangement is not difficult at all.
After Liang Liang set the main melody with his guitar, the members of the folk music band started discussing where to add which instruments with which melody.
Young people are indeed bold and daring; by nightfall, they had given this piece a completely different style.
After Liang Liang had the band familiarize themselves with "The Fake Monk" and "Swords Like Dreams" again, he said goodbye to Gao Xing and went home with Xu Mei.
"When you pass by my house on your way back, take that electric guitar with you. Starting today, it's yours."
As the car drove up the top of Dongshan Mountain from Dapuzi, Liang Liang said this.
He didn't realize the consequences of his words.
Xu Mei, who was sitting in the back seat, suddenly leaned her head out from between the two front seats, hugged him from behind, and kissed him on the cheek.
Liang Liang was caught off guard and swerved the steering wheel, sending the car heading straight into the ditch.
Fortunately, the mountain road was in poor condition, and they had just started up a steep slope, so their speed was quite slow.
Liang slammed on the brakes, bringing the car to a stop on the edge of the ditch.
I rolled down the car window and stuck my head out to look at the ditch by the roadside.
It's only a meter deep, so even if you fall in, the consequences won't be too serious.
"Xu Mei! What are you playing?"
Xu Mei's face was also deathly pale, but when Liang Liang asked her question, it turned red, and she lowered her head and remained silent.
"Look! We almost fell into the ditch. If the car had overturned, we would both be buried here."
"Someone likes you."
What's wrong with this little girl? We're talking about the car falling into the ditch, and she's suddenly acting like she likes me. What's she thinking?
You're not allowed to like me!
Xu Mei's lips parted, and she seemed about to cry.
"Okay, okay! I'm scared of you. If you're going to kiss me again, tell me in advance. This caught me completely off guard, and I didn't feel anything at all."
"So that means I can still kiss you in the future?"
Liang Liang was speechless for a moment. How could this person react so quickly?
"You're only fifteen. This isn't something you should be thinking about right now. It's too early for you to be involved in romantic relationships. It's not too late to think about this when you're at least eighteen."
Sigh! It's all the fault of rice, making them mature too early.
She knew about love between men and women at the age of fifteen.
Back home, Liang Liang took the electric guitar off the wall and taught Xu Mei how to use it.
The little girl immediately turned her attention to the electric guitar and played a solo.
"This guitar has the best tone. Compared to this guitar, the tone of that acoustic guitar is far inferior."
Isn't that nonsense?
They're not even in the same league, and besides, that acoustic guitar cost less than 200 yuan; how can the tone be compared?
"Alright! Go home and practice hard, then you can play it from now on!"
Xu Mei happily hugged her electric guitar, and before leaving, she gave Liang Liang a flirtatious glance.
Someone was almost petrified by that one glance.
What are girls eating these days? Do they eat fertilizer? They're so precocious!
Over the next two days, the folk music band practiced and became familiar with the three pieces that Liang Liang had taught them, and then they began rehearsing "Gong Xi Fa Cai" (Wishing You Prosperity).
The accompaniment of this song is mainly based on the melody of drums and suona, in a completely traditional style.
This song is a must-sing, and Liang Liang is naturally the lead singer.
"I congratulate you on your fortune, congratulate you on your wonderful life, wish you smiles always, wish you eternal youth, may the God of Wealth come to you on a cloud..." Liang Liang sang and played the cymbals in his hand.
"Stop! It seems like a gong is missing here. We need to fix that."
There is only one drum in China, and the drummer has nothing else to do besides playing the drum. He has to take on the task of playing the gong as well.
Liang Liang and Gao Xing spent half an hour making a frame and fixing the gong to it.
Then he explained the rhythm of the gong to the drummer, Halizi, in detail.
If we want to create a more comprehensive folk music ensemble, the drums must be reformed.
Could we also create a combination of bass drum, snare drum, and cymbals, just like in Western drumming?
Liang Liang remembered that there seemed to be a drum ensemble like this in the "National Music Grand Ceremony" program.
There are two large drums on the left and right, and some small drums in the middle that can be used as snare drums and tom-toms. Although there is no bass drum or hi-hat, there are other cymbals.
We will design something in the future to make up for the shortcomings of folk music bands in terms of drums.
"Congratulations on your fortune! Congratulations on your success! Congratulations on your prosperity!"
After many rehearsals, the rehearsal of "Gong Xi Fa Cai" was finally completed.
"Uncle Gao! I didn't expect the band rehearsals to go so smoothly. We've rehearsed all these songs in such a short time. But the band should have an official name. What do you think we should name it?"
"Hey! What's there to think about? We're all farmers, let's just call it the Farmers' Folk Band!"
Farmers' Band?
It seems pretty good.
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