Respawn Entertainment: Days of Glory

Chapter 261 The puzzling truth (please subscribe, please vote)
And Liu Ziyang, who knew more about history, connected it all in an instant.

“The lyrics sounded a bit harsh at first, but I really can’t think about it too carefully!”

Many of the audience at the scene were confused about the lyrics, but that didn't stop them from finding the song powerful, especially the last three lines.

And now the outro on the stage continues. Under the background of the highly distorted guitar sound, Bian Lang's strumming is like Zhuge Kongming on the wall of the West City, rising up from the railing, full of momentum.

Then the bass drum continued steadily "dong dong dong dong dong...", just like the drums in front of the two armies, which made people awe and passionate at the same time.

For those fans who like pure folk music, their previous impression of rock music was that it was boring and not shocking at all.

But now this outro really allowed them to truly experience the shock of playing an instrument within their own acceptable range.

Among those who listen to folk songs, most are attracted by the lyrics and rarely pay attention to how awesome the music and arrangement are.Of course, it is also because the chords of folk songs are relatively simple and the arrangement is not complicated. Over time, the audience will pay more attention to the lyrics than the music and arrangement.

But after listening to Bian Lang's two arrangements today, many people began to discover that in addition to the lyrics, just listening to the performance of the instruments can also bring people into the song.

When the last three sentences appear in the Sino-Japanese War, most people’s inherent thinking must first think of the Sino-Japanese War.

And the artistic conception brought out by the ending is exactly the feeling of chill and tension before the war.

When the electric guitar and drum set were removed, Bian Lang started humming with a vague human voice: "Woo..." which immediately brought people into the desolate mood after the war...

When the song ended, the bar owner was the first to take the lead in applauding!
"listen well!"

Liu Ziyang looked at the scene of constant applause and cheers, and said to the two agents beside him: "In other words, these two are a couple. Otherwise, how can you accept this..."

There was something else he didn't say, which was: "This is a folk venue. If Bianlang starts to rock, it will be embarrassing for the people behind the performance."

On Ding Tong's side, a group of veteran cannons all nodded and stood up to applaud.

In their opinion, this song is somewhat different from Bianlang's hard rock, and this difference is only due to personal preference.

They absolutely recognized the unyielding and upward energy of rock and roll in the song, and they also had an answer in their hearts to Ding Tong's purpose of inviting them here today.

Originally, Ding Tong and Zhang Ting discussed that the commemorative performance should be done slowly, but after getting the song, they felt that waiting even one more minute would be a sin.This song must be released as soon as possible, so that the rock people who have not forgotten Jie Ke can take this opportunity to have fun together as soon as possible.

After all, many of them are rushing to reach 50, and the oldest rafters among them have passed the age of knowing their destiny. The decline of physical function has caused the musicians to be further and further away from their peak period. Several The lead singer's voice function is also deteriorating. If he doesn't take advantage of it early, he may miss some opportunities completely.

So I took this opportunity today to call everyone over, discuss the division of labor with Bian Lang, and get started as soon as possible.Because Ding Tong knew that Bian Lang had basically written the lyrics, music, and arrangement of his songs so far, but the people they invited were all top-notch in their respective fields of performance, and they would inevitably have their own ideas.

Before we officially start working on it, we have to unify everyone's thoughts so that the rehearsal speed can be improved later.

If it's like usual arrangements, Zhang Ting will do a keyboard part today, and Rafer will do a solo part tomorrow, and then it feels wrong when combined, and you have to go back and forth between changes, then there is no fixed time point.

After singing this song, Bian Lang came off the stage and returned to Ding Tong and the others. At this time, Zhang Ting had just finished telling everyone about "Goodbye Jack". While the veterans were impressed, they also asked about Bian Lang: "Bian Lang" Lang, did you really write this song "Crazy Land" the night before yesterday?"

"Well, I had some inspiration pieces before. I was a little drunk the night before, so I wrote them when I was inspired."

After hearing this, Zhou Kun, who was more concerned about the lyrics, asked: "Why did you contact Zhang Zizhonglu?"

Faced with this problem, Bian Lang combined his two lifetime experiences of drifting to the north and said with some regret: "There used to be a lot of live and rehearsal rooms in this area. I used to hang out here when I was drifting. The music atmosphere in this area at that time was... It’s much better than now…”

Bian Lang's words are true. Whether it was the original Earth or now, if we push forward more than ten years, the area around Drum Tower and Di'anmen has a very concentrated concentration of music shops, rehearsal rooms, and live events.Now that land rents are getting higher and higher, the music soil in the BJDC area can no longer provide nutrients for impoverished independent music.

Although industry-related industrial chains are getting bigger and bigger, they are becoming more and more fragmented.

"Who says it's not the case? I used to walk around the flower shed and I could find everything I wanted. Now, if I want to get a set of equipment I like, I have to go to several places."

After Zhou Kun's words, Rongzi also said: "Indeed, if you go to Shucun before, you can find all kinds of musicians for you. After a live, a lot of musicians will be communicating underground. Something like that, we don’t have that atmosphere now!”

"Rafter, you have already started playing health rock, can this world remain unchanged?" Zhou Kun pointed to the thermos cup in Rafer's hand when he spoke.

The rest of the performance was all Dong Youbian's own old songs, until the last song "Miss Dong". Under the cheers of the audience, Bian Lang was pushed onto the stage to sing with Dong Youbian.

The final result was that Dong You stopped singing and sat on the high stool next to him, swaying and quietly listening to Bianlang's playing and singing.It wasn't until Bian Lang sang the last line: "Get cool, Miss Dong..." that she joined in.

Those who have listened to Dong Youbian's performance at the music festival feel that the song Dong Youbian sang is not bad, but it just lacks a bit of flavor in it. It has to be sung by Bian Lang, the real person, to get the right flavor.

After that, there are all the cliché aspects of celebrating a birthday on-site.

Seeing Dong Youbian surrounded by flowers and gifts sent by fans, Bian Lang silently stepped back and returned the stage to tonight's protagonist.

After coming down, he first briefly explained the situation of the gift to Ding Tong and the others: "I already have an idea for the arrangement. I will record a version of the accompaniment sample in the next few days and give it to everyone to listen to, and then we will discuss it. Let’s break down the lyrics into paragraphs.”

Bian Lang didn't say anything about the arrangement that he had any opinions to discuss, because he felt that the arrangement of the live version of "I Am a Singer" composed by Luan Shu and arranged by Long Long, Bian Lang felt that no matter from which aspect It's enough to express the emotion of this song.

Although they are not the same people, the emotions are the same...

If they had not listened to these two songs tonight, a few veterans might have had other ideas, but after listening to the two scenes of Bianlang tonight, especially the previous song "29", they were completely This fully demonstrates Bian Lang's arrangement skills.

Therefore, after Bian Lang said this, several people had no objections.

Rongzi was so impatient that he said directly: "I don't think you need to record a demo. Just take out the sheet music and we can practice it ourselves."

"Okay, then I'll take out the score first when I have time..." After chatting for a few more words, Bian Lang excused himself and went to see Chen Shuting.

Seeing Bian Lang coming in, Chen Shuting, who was about to open up the topic, had not opened her mouth to guide her, but Liu Ziyang started: "After the music festival is over, I don't have time to talk about music with you, so I just want to play these two songs today. Please tell me how you get creative inspiration, especially this part of writing lyrics."

Now that Liu Ziyang had talked about it, Chen Shuting couldn't start the topic anymore, so she wanted to hear Bian Lang's response.She also wanted to know a little bit about Bianlang's real songwriting situation, so that she would have something to respond to when asked by the media in the future.

"Where do we start?"

"Let's start with "29"!"

Speaking of "29", when Xu Jun performed "Our Folk Song" live, Bian Lang was in the audience, otherwise he wouldn't have remembered his live arrangement in such detail.

The sustain of the arpeggios, the resonance of the steel strings and the reverberation of the piano box...

You may remember that Xu Jun himself said at the time that the song was composed when he was 29 years old, when he had just moved to BJ.

He is about to enter his thirties and is trying to welcome the changes in his life. He uses this song to review the past, sort out himself, and look to the future, trying to find a definite answer, but there is still "no answer, only smoke filling the air". He is struggling to live in the world. During the process, stay true to what your heart desires.

Thinking of this, Bian Lang said: "Because I myself have experienced the age of 29, when I was about to enter my thirties. A little-known musician came to BJ with great ambitions but finally left in despair. I can’t find the answer to life either! But comparing it to my current situation, I think this song for You Bian and friends of this age will give them some encouragement!”

When I was 29 years old, Bianlang, let alone breaking out of the circle, was still a little transparent even within the circle!Today, three years later, probably no one in the rock circle will despise him anymore. As for the entire music circle, no one who truly values ​​music itself will despise Bian Lang's existence.

What more convincing encouragement can there be than speaking out from your own experience?
Thinking of this, Liu Ziyang felt that Bian Lang's sudden rise was not unreasonable.

He put all his years of accumulation into this point in time and focused on one explosion.

This may be what our ancestors meant by "enlightenment".

And there are some issues that he couldn't figure out before. For example, in terms of lyrics, some songs have a strong youthful atmosphere, as blazing as the sun at eight or nine o'clock in the morning, like "Shameless"!
The thinking in some songs makes people afraid to think about it, such as "Crazy Land".

Thinking of this, he asked: "In the lyrics of "Crazy Land", what does it mean to walk 3100 meters in Jiawu?"

This question was asked because he and Liu Sen met on Midi once, and he specifically asked about this matter.

Liu Sen's original words to him at that time were: "In the year of Sino-Japanese War of 2014, I was seriously ill and had an operation on my neck. I couldn't speak clearly for almost half a year. As for the 3100 meters, that was the distance from Zhutianmen to Di'anmen. The distance, it took me 10 years to walk this distance."

Thinking of this, combined with the original owner's somewhat coincidental situation, Bian Lang responded directly: "I came to BJ in 2014, the year of the Sino-Japanese War of 3100. Tiananmen to Di'anmen is a total of [-] meters. I walked it many times..."

Hearing this, Liu Ziyang was stunned on the spot... He never expected that the meaning of the lyrics that he had tried so hard to decipher would turn out to be this!
It feels like the Nine Links in "The Magic Hand Unlocking the Links", faced with a whole piece of jade carving, all the ministers racked their brains but couldn't solve it, but the young King Qi, under the guidance of the Queen, directly used a hammer to solve it. Knocked to pieces.

He felt that he was one of those ministers who racked their brains to come up with a solution. Is Bian Lang the ignorant young King Qi, or the queen who is witty and courageous?
He couldn't explain this question clearly...

(End of this chapter)