I really don't want to fight with gods

Chapter 867 Missed the threshold and wasted time

There is no need for reporters, and the house is full of people.

The photographers from the advertising company on the second floor took the lead in filming the audience, and the music newspaper on the third floor was even a bunch of college student reporters.

I was notified in advance, and anyone who is interested can come to listen to the creative backbone of the Pingjing University Rolling Club. There are probably 600 people.

All crowded in the office area of ​​more than 400 square meters, looking up at the old fairy.

Of course, there is also my own boss who is a teaching assistant.

Bai Lianting arranged the camera, video and recording equipment, and leaned against the door quietly with Pan Yunyan.

Don't care about the quarrel before, but seeing such a talented man, you just feel envious.

Uncle Huang's simple white old man's shirt is covered with a gray cardigan, loose cotton trousers and cloth shoes, which are the daily wear of 80s martial arts movies.

Gray and unkempt crew-cut short hair, black-rimmed glasses exuding wisdom: "Why do I say that the future must be in the mainland? The theme of young people in Hong Kong is the worship of European and American culture. Many of them can't even speak Mandarin well, and they can't even communicate well." The question is, can this young generation still write works that are familiar with Chinese culture? If you don’t read books, don’t sharpen your skills well, and you can’t even achieve the most basic writing skills, what do you use to write words?”

The college students in the mainland in the 90s and [-]s just came into contact with unprecedented new things from a tight mental state, and their previous barren spiritual and cultural life made them treat any few traditional classics and martial arts novels as treasures. I can't put it down over and over again.

In short, it is more literary works than before, and there is no bottom line for HK youths to directly embrace European and American languages ​​and abandon traditional culture.

Jing Xiaoqiang was startled all of a sudden, he knew that understanding the sense of the times is another way of saying it.

But I didn’t expect that the watershed that Uncle Huang felt was here. If he missed this protection and continuation of traditional culture, this generation of songwriters also fully embraced European and American music culture, and they might follow in the footsteps of Hong Kong songwriters.

He is not very clear about how Hong Kong and Taiwan songs will be in 30s, but at least it does not have the glory of the 90s. It seems that there are only one or two people supporting them alone.

Let’s listen to Uncle Huang first: “Ancient poems are actually half dead after leaving the music. No matter how well the Ming and Qing poems are written, the Tang poems and Song poems have no flavor, and the music taste is gone. Poems are meant to be sung…”

While talking and demonstrating direct tunes and singing poems, the eyes of college students are so bright.

For various reasons, music colleges either overestimate bel canto and classical music, or emphasize folk music and folk singing.

The academic taste is more than this kind of down-to-earth discussion of musicians.

The old fairy in front of the big blackboard is like the water of the Yellow River coming up from the sky, and he has been talking endlessly for 5000 years: "Yuefu Poems originally meant music demonstrations, and Fengya Songs are all about singing, singing when you are working, and singing when you are in love. , walking for a long time, singing when welcoming and seeing off guests, Mr. Confucius himself is also a musician..."

The studious college students couldn't help but ask, why hasn't it been handed down?

Uncle Huang explained: "Wars and chaos are only one of the main reasons for the loss of poetry and music. Another main reason is that the pronunciation of words has changed too much over a long period of time. It is getting more and more serious. For example, the seven rhythms of Jiangyang rhyme are one kind of tune, and the seven rhythms of flower rhyme are another kind of tune. According to today's saying, it should be the main melody part of the melody..."

As he spoke, he picked up a tune, asking Jing Xiaoqiang to sing "Send Yuan Er Envoy Anxi": "The morning rain in Weicheng makes the dust light..."

This is not difficult, but he also asked: "In Datang, it is called Yangguan Sandie, which means not only singing three times in a row, but also singing it higher each time..."

Well, without Jing Xiaoqiang's high-pitched ability, I really can't sing well.

Uncle Huang also explained that because the blood of Hu people entered in the Tang Dynasty, it is similar to the pronunciation of Mongolian today, which leads to the higher pitch of Mongolian folk songs, so Tang poems are all high-pitched songs.

Sitting or standing in the space crowded with college students, following Jing Xiaoqiang's demonstration singing, it seemed that they all returned to the desolate world outside the pass.

Involuntarily wandering in the world of poetry.

Bai Juyi was the most popular singer of that era, and his singing was easy to catch.

Wang Wei is a master of music, Li Bai's is full of wandering and ghostly, and Lao Du's is the worst.

After talking about history, talk about skills.

This made Uncle Huang even more angry. For example, the young people nowadays, the lyrics don't rhyme, and if they can't rhyme, they will sing in a rhyme.

"No one stipulates that when we write lyrics, we must rhyme, but the existence of rhyme has its own reasons. If we rhyme, we can sing well and have the beauty of rhythm. This is what we have extracted from our lives for thousands of years. , slowly accumulating grammatical skills, if you can't learn it, you will mess around, and you will say that you are playing with your personality, so the lyrics you write are neither good-sounding nor easy to remember. No one remembers the lyrics, so no one will sing your songs ?”

The youths of the Rolling Club looked around in amazement, seeing ecstasy in the eyes of friends they didn't know.

Everyone is on their way.

How to write songs?

In the Conservatory of Music, there are major classes in the composition department, but most of the lyrics are written by non-music majors.

But just like the Chinese department and the literature department can't produce any literary masters or famous writers, no matter how much song writing skills are studied, there can't be a few masters.

To put it bluntly, this thing is to eat talent.

There are so many singers throughout the ages, but what they write and sing is actually talent.

Talented people seem to be born knowing how to write and how to do it. At most, it is just a little bit of expert advice on what genre to use, how to adapt to trends and rules.

A little bit of learning to get into the industry, and the rest depends on one's own talent.

I have never heard of such a large-scale popular science lecture on composition and lyrics, and the level is so high that everyone benefits a lot.

Obviously, this morning rain is scattered into the hearts of countless people like light dust, and grows everywhere like scattered seeds.

Originally, it was just a barbaric creation of Gunshe, but now it has a supreme benchmark and role model.

Countless young people were fascinated by it and were busy taking notes.

Actually, no need, Jing Xiaoqiang sang more than ten various songs from beginning to end, perfectly serving as a ruthless singing machine to accompany the teaching.

The good news was only delivered at the end of the show: "Everyone don't need to be busy confirming and copying the notes, but experience the feelings first. We made a video tape and sent it to the rolling club according to the school. What is the purpose, so that more people can participate in the study..."

In fact, the songs written by masters are not classics, and there is a certain rejection rate.

But Jing Xiaoqiang’s idea is that we have too many people, as long as everyone can write songs and love to write songs, there will always be outstanding talents who have their hidden talents inspired out of thousands or thousands of people.

Even if it's like "Hotel California", the band's lifetime is just such a top-notch song.

Enjoy this process, so many people will become beautiful as long as they immerse themselves in the world of music: "Life may be full of suffering, but music must be a colorful movement that can soothe the soul. It is good for everyone to learn from Uncle Huang today." I am lucky, but I want to pass this kind of luck to more people..."

Speaking of this, he also mentioned the sense of the times that he had just thought of.

"I will follow Uncle Huang's music poetry argument, and casually mention the watershed of the current era. Many of you should know that we have set up a film and television computer post-production base in Shanghai. Hundreds of computers calculate and modify movies. Brand new Even the teachers of the computer department have to learn the technology, because according to Moore's Law, every year and a half, the processing power of the computer will double, and the price and cost will drop by half in the same period. new technologies, including music..."

Speaking of which, he took out his Suony "audio-visual center" again, but it was not an advertisement, but a simulation of typing a few keyboards on it, how to make an audio track, how to make an arrangement...

In fact, this laptop is not up to this level, but Jing Xiaoqiang is very familiar with it, and behaves as if he is doing it.

A laptop can be used to simulate various musical instruments, so how can one person combine these musical instrument tracks into a band or orchestra, arrange the music by one person, and finally complete the accompaniment and singing.

Not to mention that the college students made a sensation in the audience, they really wanted to stand up and get closer to see if it was true, even Uncle Huang was stunned beside him: "Is it really possible?"

Jing Xiaoqiang nodded: "So this leads to the watershed I want to express. According to the judgment of Citi researchers, the human world will go through three stages of age knowledge. From 5000 BC to the 1980s, everyone is used to being taught by adults. Children, let’s start with what Uncle Huang taught everyone today. Because of the accumulation of time and the breadth and depth of knowledge, profound knowledge can be condensed. But from the 1990s to... probably the end of 2010s, children teach adults, just like me now Teach Uncle Huang like this, because the new computer age is coming, the ability to accept this new thing must be stronger for children..."

Thirty years later, this is a very famous statement.

He just took this opportunity to completely convey the importance of this computer age to everyone.

Don't be like him in the previous life, who missed this threshold and wasted years.

Everyone was shocked.

Uncle Huang talked about the details of specific operations, while Jing Xiaoqiang mentioned the evolution of the macro era.

It sounds like just music, it's creation, but it's actually life.

I am really more focused than when Uncle Huang was lecturing, for fear of missing a word: "This 20-year period is of course also a forecast, because the development is too fast. After these 20 years, the third stage is that adults and children learn together, and it will be like this from now on. , you have to learn all the time, once you give up learning, you will be abandoned by the times.”

Following Jing Xiaoqiang shrugging his shoulders, he spread his hands apart.

The audience was shocked!

really?
The 5000-year change point of human beings is actually in our era. Have we experienced it ourselves?

If Tianhai was here, he would definitely want to sit on Jing Xiaoqiang's mouth again, why isn't this kind of man charming.

(End of this chapter)