Respawn Entertainment: Days of Glory

Chapter 417 The Most Underrated Song

Anyone who can sing heavy metal has a good voice. Although Tang Dafeng is not as abnormal as Bian Lang, the four sets of high notes are still stable.

In addition, the articulation and breathing points are quite clear and not long, so the desolation of this voice gives the sad main melody in the lyrics a soul-stirring feeling.

Then he strummed the electric guitar in his hand, bringing out a strange distorted sound effect, and then continued to sing: "Luxury turns into spring dreams, leaving behind the sorrows of the past and present..."

The music fans at the scene are also very knowledgeable and talented people. When singing this artistic conception, some people recognized what they were singing!

"This is Kang Yu's "Revelation of Heartfelt Love: Nostalgia for Chang'an"... Bian Lang's head is really convincing!"

As for netizens on the Internet, even if they don’t have knowledge reserves, they can check it out.

You don't know if you don't check, and you still don't know if you check... He is also a relatively unpopular poet of the Song Dynasty. The only thing that can make everyone familiar with him is that he is Qin Hui's disciple. The key point is that this song "Revelation of Heartfelt Love·Changan Nostalgia" is not yet a masterpiece!
Therefore, many netizens are not aware of it:
"In order to write a song, Bian Lang probably tore through 300 Tang poems!"

"Fart, the author is from the Song Dynasty. How can this be included in 300 Tang poems!"

"Huh! Now it's true plagiarism! Why aren't you here to attack?"

As soon as these words came out, netizens were slightly stunned, then smiled softly and continued to listen to the song.

"Hahahaha, I'm laughing so hard. According to what you said, a doctorate in history and Chinese language and literature combined is not as good as an undergraduate student from the sculpture department who plays rock music? So the question is, who is better in rock music or the sculpture department? "

The reputation of "Gaixia Song" is more than a little greater than that of "Revelation of Heartfelt Lings·Changan Nostalgia", whether it is the author or the poem itself.

"A doctorate in history may not be enough. I think you should have a degree in Chinese language and literature!"

At the end of the sentence "The Wei River flows eastward", Tang Dafeng's high note almost broke 5, but it was this feeling of being broken but not broken that made it feel fitting to the situation.

In order to practice this section, Tang Dafeng practiced hard for a whole month, and his ears got calluses after listening to the demos given by Bian Lang. Only then did he achieve his performance today!
Although it is only 44 words, the difficulty of this singing can be said to be hellish.

So Tang Dafeng was really tortured, but after the effect came out, Tang Dafeng really worshiped Bian Lang as a heavenly being!

Because the singing style of this section is completely inconsistent with the beat of the instrumental accompaniment, it is quite uncomfortable for the lead singer of a heavy metal band who is accustomed to strong rhythms.

After that, the folk instruments disappeared completely, and the lead guitar of the Gale Band started playing a highly distorted solo, and the iconic heavy metal sound wave came.

Pan Xiulong, who was at the scene, stared blankly at the stage. He wanted to hum along several times, but he couldn't find where the beat was.

In that high-distortion sound, Tang Dafeng's melody was also rising steadily, giving people the impression that it was Xiang Yu himself who was singing this Gaixia song.

It feels like this section is like an antelope hanging its horns, with no trace to be found!

"Well, there's nothing wrong with that, but if you don't have a PhD in history, you probably don't know where to get it!"

When the distortion reached a point where it felt like an arrow was on the string and had to be released, Tang Dafeng's singing came again: "Strengthening the mountains, overwhelming the world... Times are not good, and the glory will not fade away... The glory will never fade away, But there is nothing you can do... Yuxi, Yuxi, there is nothing you can do..."

Pushing one section after another, everyone finally realized: "This is a heavy metal song!"

"Don't come up to me. I can't hold back my tears at Guyuantou... The sun sets in the west, the wild geese fly south, and the Wei River flows eastward..."

They are all able to write their own songs, and they all know how difficult it is to write a song whose tempo does not follow the melody...

Bai Dao, who was revising the manuscript, instinctively typed out a line on the document: "It's so difficult to sing! This is so damn difficult to sing! I really don't know how Bian Lang came up with this arrangement!"

When Bian Lang was studying this word, he was also surprised by Ding Wu's reserve of ancient poems.

To put it simply, singing is composed of two elements. Only when the key and the beat are integrated can the baseline of singing be achieved. But in this section, the key itself is high, but the tempo is either fast or slow. There is little correlation between the melody and the tempo. It sounds like a bit of improvisation, but in fact it is the result of careful arrangement.

It can be said that there are many songs in the palace, and the beauties are harmonious with them. King Xiang wept for several lines, everyone on the left and right wept, and no one could look up.

Immediately on the barrage in the live broadcast room, some netizens typed: "The Han soldiers have captured the territory, and there are songs of distress from all directions. The king is exhausted, how can I survive for this humble concubine?"

Then someone commented: "Yu Ji committed suicide!"

Immediately afterwards, there was the incarnation of Zhu Xi who said, "He is generous and fierce, and has the anger of thousands of years of injustice."

In the lingering lingering sound of the song, the accompaniment style changed again.

No one knows how to define the first section. The second section is undoubtedly heavy metal, but by the third section, it feels like it has become psychedelic metal!

During the interlude of the electronic keyboard and the main drum set, Pan Xiulong felt that Bian Lang was playing in a field that he could not understand at all.

The first two sections are indeed exactly the same as "Dream Back to the Tang Dynasty", but the arrangement feels much better, but this section is obviously different. Although it is still within the system of Bian Lang's works, it is infinitely close to "Comfortably Numb" That style.

Pan Xiulong felt right, and Bian Lang felt the same way when he listened to it. This short interlude was basically the shadow of Pink.

Then Tang Dafeng's singing was like an accompaniment, saying "Ou...Ou...Ou..." one after another, making it difficult to tell which one is the protagonist, the human voice or the musical instrument.

When this section ended, the familiar heavy metal rhythm started again, and this section was even more incomprehensible!

At 3 minutes and 50 seconds, as the lead guitar climbs up, it feels like a sports car accelerating violently after adding oil to the floor.

In the listener's mind, there seems to be a racing car speeding by with no taillights visible. If you want to describe the speed of the car, it would probably be Z.

No, if you extend your hand out of the car at this time, it may break!
After that, it’s the lead guitar and drums dancing wildly. The drum set was okay. Dayong practiced it more than 10 times and was able to master the beat smoothly.

But for this lead guitar solo, I really had to practice it to the point of vomiting before I could record this demo with it.

Similarly, Bian Lang, who seems to be easy to pick up now, practiced until he vomited in his previous life. Looking back at Bian Lang today, this song is definitely the most underestimated among all the songs by the Tang Dynasty band. Compared with Dou Xian of his generation, Ding Wu is also seriously underestimated by people. Dou Xian's music is crystal clear, Ding's music is vast and majestic, and Ding Wu's music has such grandeur that Dou Xian's music does not possess.

Moreover, among the singer-songwriters in the Chinese music scene, there are not only 100 but also 80% who use ancient poems and lyrics to set music. But the only one who can really understand the four words of "generous and horizontal", besides Ding Laoguai, is Wu Lunsamsara.

As for Su Yang's later "Liangzhou Ci", it is still only grand, without vertical and horizontal!

Bian Lang remembered that there was a joke in the original earth that said: "If the Tang Dynasty band failed in the later period, it would definitely cross-border music, because their music has spread from the Qin and Han Dynasties to the Three Kingdoms, Wei, Jin and Tang and Song Dynasties. BYD has also done this! "

With such a breadth spanning history, Bian Lang feels that it is no exaggeration to say that the Tang Dynasty was ranked in the history of Chinese rock and roll!

Looking at Dafeng's lead guitar at this time, he only had four words to comment on Bian Lang: "The mountains will stand tall!"

If you compose this kind of solo for him, it would take him ten and a half days and two months to practice it, but he would be in trouble if he had to compose it by himself.

Now in this section, he felt that the effect of all the instruments working together was already approaching the feeling of a symphony. Their Gale Band wanted to arrange this kind of arrangement, but they couldn’t do it...

After he made a beautiful portamento, Tang Dafeng continued to speak in four sets of high notes: "The wind is blowing, the clouds are flying..."

As soon as this sentence came out, the Internet and the scene burst into joy:
"It's really Liu Bang!"

"Emperor writes lyrics, strong wind, strong wind!"

"The wind is blowing, the clouds are flying... The Gale Band really took off this time!"

There were naturally a lot of fans at the scene, but those fans at night were uncontrollable.

As I said before, not everyone likes heavy music, but if there is something in the work that can touch the sensitive nerves of the listener, then those who rejected it before will try to accept it, and those who were indifferent will start to like it, and those who already like it will That's going straight to the climax.

What's more, the theme of this song happens to hit the Chinese people's most unspeakable feelings about family and country.

So if you didn’t know that the “strong wind” that filled the screen in the live broadcast room was just coming in, you would have thought you were watching a live broadcast of a typhoon.

"Weijiahai is here, returning to his hometown..."

Another sentence, and many people at the scene have already followed it.

That’s right, just recite it along with it! Anyone who has attended nine years of compulsory education can recite this word without any clutter.

Why not sing along? Because even Liu Yao in the audience would have a hard time finding the tune accurately when he was unprepared.

Moreover, at the end of the three words, the electric guitar sound is so sharp that it is about to pierce Tianlinggai. It is severely suppressed by Tang Dafeng's four sets of high notes, which makes people feel that they are gritting their teeth and insisting on listening!

At this time, Tang Dafeng was already in an extremely excited state. He grabbed the wheat stand and pressed it down fiercely. It felt like all the breath in his body was pressed on this sentence: " There are strong warriors here, guarding the four sides..."

At the end of this sentence, the lead guitarist directly performed the "Zhang Jie Waist" stunt, and when matched with the tapping of the 20th fret, it felt like another masterpiece.

But this is not over yet. In the last sentence, Tang Dafeng stood up and stepped on the return with one foot. The veins on his face popped out and his long hair was swaying. It felt like he had won the battle, but because the soldiers were too seriously injured, And the general fell into grief and anger.

"A strong warrior is here to guard the four directions..."

The last word is very long, and as the microphone gets further and further away from the mouth, it feels like there is an echo.

Then the big drum joined in and began the outro together with the keyboard and electric guitar. The desolate and distant artistic conception cannot be explained clearly by the simple word "tragic".

And although there is a big drum added, but unlike the pure folk music style of the intro, this outro is more psychedelic metal.

If we evaluate it in a very flattering way, this ending is very universal!
In this last period of time for people to reflect and think, Pan Xiulong felt that Bian Lang was really comfortable on the road of metal!

Previously, heavy metal bands in China were always focused on heavy music. It’s not that it can’t be done, but the threshold for selecting the audience is too high. Let’s not say whether it is good or not, but spreading it is a big problem.

But now Bian Lang has come up with "Song of the Wind", and the arrangement is so gorgeous that he, a musician who has been practicing for many years, can only compare and analyze it from Bian Lang's own works. Compared with those big names abroad, they are not giving in too much!
Let’s talk about the lyrics, there really isn’t much to say. What do you think of the combination of poet, overlord and emperor?

Compared with foreign ones? That's really like a Star Destroyer Cannon that smacks mosquitoes!

The lyrics of those foreign heavy metal songs, let alone compared with this three-in-one, even if you take out "The Train Sails to the Sky, the Dream Requies in the Sky", it will definitely kill the other party in an instant until no one is left. That kind of existence!
After all, English lyrics tend to focus on confrontation and neatness, often using simple sentences and clearly conveying what they want to express in a straightforward way. In contrast, Chinese lyrics pay more attention to the expression of content, often investing more words in emotion and artistic conception, rather than emphasizing the contrast and neatness of sentence structure like English lyrics.

The poetry and artistic conception in the lyrics are richer. Through delicate description and emotional expression, the unique charm of Chinese lyrics is demonstrated.

The operation of Bian Lang's song is equivalent to a formula for all musicians: quoting ancient poems and enhancing the arrangement equals a classic!
Of course there is no need to question the contrast between ancient Chinese poems, right? Coupled with the emotion and artistic conception, this is the king bomb that musicians in the Chinese music scene have!
Of course, the composition and arrangement must be worked hard...

On the original earth, there were many songs composed just by Liu Bang's "The Great Wind Song". Among the versions he had listened to, Bian Lang thought the one by Sun Nan and Fang Jinlong was also very good, and very rock'n'roll!
At this time, in the three rooms and one hall of a community in BJ, Guo Changxiong had not yet taken off his headphones. Under the background of the atmosphere of the ending, a sense of powerlessness of a hero in his twilight years came to his heart.

As an old rock fan, he had expectations for the Gale Band. Now with the help of Bian Lang, he heard "The Song of the Gale", and unknowingly, tears fell from the corners of his eyes.

At the same time, he shouted excitedly: "Gale! Gale!"

Today, his sister's family happened to be having a dinner together. His little nephew, who was playing with his daughter, saw it and pulled his daughter over to find out.

Guo Li has long been accustomed to his father's behavior, but he is a little curious about what song his father listened to again: "Dad, what song by Bian Lang have you been moved by again this time?"

If it were other songs, Guo Changxiong might have to think about how to tell his daughter, but there is no need to be secretive about this song: ""Song of the Wind", you should have learned it in Chinese class, right?"

When asked about this, Guo Li started thinking in his mind.

But at this moment, Guo Changxiong's little nephew looked at the father and daughter with a look of disgust and said: "Uncle, you are such an adult, why do you still listen to this? Isn't it just a big windmill whirling and squeaking..."

(End of this chapter)