Chapter 18 Facing the Sea, the Spring Is Warm and the Flowers Are Blooming

After school in the afternoon, on the roof of the No. 13 Middle School teaching building.

Li Qian plucked the guitar a little jerky, trying hard to find the feeling of "Love Me or Not".

This "Love You or Not" is not the "Love Me or Not" he was familiar with in his last life, and it's not rock and roll at all, it's just an ordinary popular love song. It should be pretty hot this year.

The song is well written, the lyrics are top-notch, and the melody is excellent. In this era, it has all the qualifications to be popular, not to mention that it is a song by the famous singer Huang Yuqing.

Although it is unfamiliar, but after practicing several times according to the chords I re-arranged, I gradually become proficient.

Of course, he knew that it was not enough just to be familiar with it. To use it as his own performance song, he had to practice it extremely proficiently, at least to get it right at his fingertips.

And "Love Me or Not" is just the beginning.

After carefully listening to the tapes in his hand several times, Li Qian selected some songs that he could and should be able to sing well, not many, there are only about a dozen songs at present. Then, he made guitar arrangements one by one, and he planned to practice them all in the next time.

And next, he plans to expand the scope of listening to songs, and then slowly select some songs to fill in, and finally form his own music library with a total of about 20 to 30 songs.

Only then can he talk about finding a place to be a resident singer.

Make no mistake, this is not something to rush into.

Because... the song is not easy to choose.

Those familiar songs in the previous life, including those he wrote himself, he is not going to release in this period, the prevention of plagiarism is one, and the most important thing is that he knows that some key bars currently have no bands and no fame It is impossible to get in, but he himself has no plans to form a band at the moment. Therefore, he can only choose some downstream bars and some mid-range restaurants to perform in the future, and if he performs in these places, singing some songs that everyone is familiar with is a must.

Of course, familiar songs must be sung with a little new meaning.

But the problem is, it is not an easy task to choose a song that suits one's appetite and can be grasped among the songs in this world.

Based on his gradual and in-depth understanding these days, Li Qian has roughly understood the current status of the domestic music market.

Because the reform and opening up in this time and space was much earlier than the time and space that Li Qian experienced, so many changes have taken place in the domestic music market.

From the current point of view, the mainstream of the domestic music market is no longer the folk songs and opera arias of the early years, and even the status of rock has dropped a lot. Popular love songs, campus folk songs, personal feelings, sweet songs, including electronic music and other subcategories, have already appeared their own representative figures and masterpieces, and they have begun to prosper just like folk songs, opera records, and rock, and even some R & B genre has begun to appear.

It can be said that the entire market is step by step towards a hundred flowers blooming.

From this point of view, the domestic music in this time and space is much more developed than the domestic music in 1995 in that time and space that I experienced.

But here's the problem too... This is 1995 after all.

The times are advancing, and so is music.

In fact, there are not many songs that can really be a smash hit, and can still be sung and loved for decades. Taking Li Qian’s previous life as an example, including the music of Baodao and Xiangjiang, and the works of the entire Chinese music circle, it is truly a song that is still considered a classic in the second decade of the 21st century. , how much can there be? And how many years and how many songs have they been washed away by the waves?

There are so many songs that were popular all over the country back then, and I loved them very much, but after listening to them a few years or more than ten years later, my first reaction is: this song is really earthy and outdated!

Therefore, after experiencing the influence of the more mature and diversified music development in the previous life, Li Qian still can't find the feeling of liking for many songs that are popular with the audience of this era.

Even, Li Qian was ready to go back and ask Wang Jinglu for a playlist.

Maybe she can recommend some good songs?

The two sisters are professional!

I practiced "Love Me or Not" six or seven times in one breath, and initially found some feeling, Li Qian stopped to drink saliva, rested for a while, and then, he turned to the next page of his "acting herbs" .

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After school, Qi Jie stayed in the office as usual.

She opened her laptop and went online to find the book she hadn't read at all yesterday. She was about to read it when she suddenly heard a familiar guitar sound.

Yes, a few floors away, when the sound of the guitar reaches the office, the sound is really small and ethereal. If it is not because the environment is extremely quiet, if you are not careful, you may not even be able to hear it. arrive. But Qi Jie heard it right away - it was just a simple plucking of the strings, not even a tune!

With a whimper, she stood up with a surprised look on her face.

Without the slightest hesitation, she closed the notebook with a "snap" and walked out the door.

It was still the same place, she took out her handkerchief and wiped the steps, then sat down carefully.

After sitting down, she wanted to laugh again.

"What's the matter?" She asked herself, "It seems that if I don't hear him sing for a day, I feel that there is a big piece missing in the day! I am very happy when I hear the slightest movement, so I hurried over to listen..."

Thinking about it, she couldn't help teasing herself in her heart, "Perhaps in the past, those ladies and wives and wives, that's what they enjoyed? Singing in person and face to face! This is much more advanced than listening to tapes or CDs! It’s just that the person who sings doesn’t know that there are more people eavesdropping...”

Today, the guitar playing on the roof was a little messy and jerky, and it lasted for seven or eight minutes, and then the singing began to cut in. After listening to a few words, Qi Jie recognized it, it was "Do you love me".

For Qi Jie, who is used to sitting here every day and listening to songs for half an hour, and has listened to them at least a dozen times, she suddenly felt a little excited when she heard a song she was familiar with—— You know, before that, she had heard no less than 30 songs sung by people upstairs, but she hadn't heard any of them, which made her almost wonder if she had been eliminated by this era.

However, this excitement only lasted for a minute or two.

It is undeniable that although it sounds like he is really just practicing, and the chords of the songs and guitar are a little unfamiliar, in short, the listener feels that he is not smooth, but he still sings very well.

Qi Jie doesn't understand music, but she thinks that the voice of the person upstairs should be considered very good, and he is very good at using his own voice, high notes, low notes, true and false notes, all are effortless, and he is completely at ease. And when you listen to him sing, it's easy to feel the right amount of emotion he puts into the song, into each note.

His voice, together with his emotion and his interpretation, make his songs very beautiful.

Even though Zhuyu is the first, Huang Yuqing's original singing is already very good, but listening to him sing, I still feel very good.

In other words, it has a different flavor.

But that's all.

Qi Jie has long been used to hearing completely different songs every day, and songs she has never heard before. Especially, those songs are still so good! Now I suddenly changed to the one I was familiar with, and once the novelty wore off, I was inexplicably dissatisfied!

Moreover, he sang "Love Me or Not" seven or eight times!

Practice repeatedly!

If it wasn't for the fact that she was just "eavesdropping", Qi Jie could hardly bear to shout at the people upstairs, "Hey, change the song, change the song! I want to listen to the songs you used to sing! "

Or - "Refund!"

Thinking of this in her mind, Qi Jie couldn't help but want to laugh out loud.

Covering her mouth tightly, she struggled to hold back her laughter, but she still blushed from that smile.

Every time when listening to his singing, Qi Jie always felt as if she suddenly became younger, and suddenly returned to those carefree youthful years - even though in fact she is still young now!

Stopping her smile, she sat obediently on the spot, raised her hands and rested her stomach, and patiently waited for the next song from the person upstairs.

Finally, the people upstairs really changed the song, but this time, it was... "I Love You, My Hometown".

Another song that I have heard and is still very familiar with!

"It's so boring today!"

Qi Jie, who had already been fed up with her appetite, could only shake her head helplessly, not being able to accept it in her heart.

Of course, he still sings very well. Compared with the original singing, the rhythm has changed to a certain extent, and it doesn’t look like a folk song. It seems that there is a strange but interesting melody added, which makes the whole song suddenly change. , Full of fun.

In short, very novel.

So novel that Qi Jie couldn't help but think "so this song can still be sung like this".

It was this novel feeling that made her listen patiently to him singing three times in a row.

Then--

"I can't take it anymore, today is really perfunctory, get out of the game!"

She slandered in her heart, but with a brisk smile on her face, she went downstairs cautiously.

Most importantly, it seems that his pursuit of girls has not been successful!

This is a good thing?

This is a good thing!

Because you can continue to listen to songs in the future!

"I can't believe he will sing these songs I've heard every day!" she thought.

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Today's songs are very fresh, and the practice time is a little longer without knowing it. By the time Li Qian returned home, it was already almost dark, and the meals that Mama Li had prepared had begun to cool down.

While Li Qian was taking a bath, Li's mother reheated the food and served it on the table, and the family had dinner.

After dinner, Li's mother didn't care about washing the dishes, so she soaked the dishes and chopsticks in the sink first, washed her hands and sat down to watch TV dramas, while Li's father sat in his study for a while, and then ran to Li There was a knock on Qian's bedroom door.

Pushing the door open, he saw that Li Qian was really serious about reviewing his homework, and that it was his worst grade in Russian, a gratified and satisfied smile immediately appeared on his face.

"Dad, what's the matter?" Li Qian asked.

Father Li said: "Well, I have nothing else to do, just come to see what you are doing!"

Li Qian curled his lips, "No way, we have already agreed on the terms, and we still need supervision?"

Father Li glanced at him disdainfully, "Supervise you? Cut, you have been in school for so many years, and your grades have been better or worse. When did Dad supervise you?"

"That's right!" Li Qian thought for a while and said, "So...is there something wrong?"

Father Li paused, and asked, "Well, Xiaoqian, have you made any other works recently?"

Li Qian frowned, wondering: "New work? No, Dad, don't you object to me doing this?"

Father Li quickly waved his hands when he heard the words, and explained seriously: "Dad is not against you making music, but just against you taking music as your main business... I don't understand it? As for your likes to write songs, lyrics, etc. , Dad is still very supportive! That, um, like the lyrics of your last song, that is "Dark Fragrance", that word is not bad! You are a high school student, only seventeen years old, you can write that This artistic conception is already very good! Since you are good at this and like this, you must continue to work hard!"

Li Qian frowned: Yes, now I understand!

What Dad meant was that the lyrics are just another form of poetry. You can write more of this!

He thought for a while and said, "Dad, I'm afraid you won't be too interested in the songs I wrote."

Father Li's eyes lit up, and he said, "That's not necessarily true, let's hear it."

Li Qian hesitated for a moment, grabbed an exercise book, turned to the back, tore off a blank sheet of paper, took a pen to write, but stopped there. After hesitating for a moment, he put down his pen, turned around and said, "Dad, shall I sing it to you?"

Father Li nodded and said "OK" when he heard the words, then walked to the bed and sat down.

Li Qian took the guitar, closed his eyes and thought about it for a moment, with some apprehension and hope, he gently plucked the strings——

"Be a happy man from tomorrow on,

Feeding horses, chopping wood, traveling the world,

From tomorrow, care about food and vegetables,

I have a house, facing the sea, spring is warm and flowers are blooming.

From tomorrow onwards, communicate with every relative,

tell them of my happiness,

That happy lightning told me,

I will tell everyone.

Give every river and every mountain a warm name,

Stranger, I also bless you,

May you have a bright future,

May your lover be married in the end,

May you find happiness in this world,

I just want to face the sea, the spring is warm and the flowers are blooming.

..."

Crisp guitar, gentle melody, moving singing.

Beautiful poetry.

Li Qian sang very seriously, very seriously, very seriously, very emotionally, very emotionally, very emotionally.

After the whole song was sung, he didn't even dare to open his eyes.

This is of course Haizi's poem.

This is of course one of Li Qian's favorite poems.

In the last life that Li Qian experienced, this poem had a very high status in the hearts of their generation. In the underground music circle, there are ninety-nine bands and singers who compose music for it. But in the end, none of the works reached a relatively mature level, and none even passed the producer's level. Therefore, there are many underground works produced to compose music for this poem, but none of them can really go to the market in the end.

Among the tens of hundreds of songs "Facing the Sea, Spring Blossoms" that may never see the light of day, there is one whose composer is Li Qian.

That was his work when he was in his twenties.

What he sang was a dream in his previous life.

But after singing, he closed his eyes for a long time, and then he opened them suddenly, put down the guitar quickly, did not look at Father Li's expression, but hurriedly picked up the paper and pen that he had just prepared, and said, "Dad, I To change it, you wait."

Dad Li came back to his senses in astonishment, "Oh, okay, you change it, you change it, Dad waits!"

Li Qian took the pen, quickly drew the simplest stave on the white paper, and then quickly wrote the score with the pen - just now, in the middle of singing, he suddenly had some other ideas.

Then, that thought is like a spring, when the first stream of clear spring water gushes out, it is no longer controlled by anyone, it gushes out and becomes a river in the blink of an eye!

A young man in his twenties, with a great love for rock and roll, and a great love for this poem, wrote a smug song after a night of fighting, but what he had in his heart at that time, In addition to enthusiasm, only enthusiasm!

Enthusiasm that can burn everything like a fire!

That's the love of rock and roll!

However, facing the sea, the spring is warm and the flowers are blooming... that's not how it is sung!

It can be rock or lyrical, but it can't be irritable or violent!

It should be like a river, gurgling and flowing, it should be like a lake with ripples and wrinkles, it should be a childlike heart, pure and transparent, it should be the color of a hillside full of flowers blooming brightly like a dream, like a dream The color of the clear and simple sea...

Pure joy, transparent kindness, dream-like longing...

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I don't know how long it has passed, Li Qian wrote vigorously, and Li's father sat there, completely motionless.

When Li Qian heaved a sigh of relief and turned around, Father Li's face was full of solemnity.

"Corrected?" he asked.

Li Qian nodded and said, "It's changed!"

Then, he picked up the guitar, looked back at the score again, and plucked the strings gently.

The melody is very simple, so simple that there are only a few basic rhythms, but it is surprisingly tactful and bright.

Li Qian opened his eyes, smiled, sang, laughed, and shook his body.

But this time, it was Father Li who closed his eyes instead.

Singing for the first time, new score, a little bumpy, but overall smooth.

When the guitar sounded, Dad Li took a deep breath and opened his eyes.

He reached out his hand to feel in several pockets, but found no cigarettes, and his Adam's apple moved slightly, "Mmm, um.", he said.

As he spoke, he nodded slowly.

Um.

The simplest one syllable, one word, but when he said this word, his expression was solemn, as if he was facing an extremely serious and important matter, which even made him a little nervous.

For a long time, Li Qian just looked at him.

After hesitating for a while, he finally spoke, but his voice was a little hoarse, "This is the second time, it sounds better than the first time!"

Li Qian nodded and smiled.

Dad Li also wanted to smile, but in the end, he didn't laugh.

"Nice work... what's the name?"

"It's called Facing the Sea, Spring Blossoms!" Li Qian said.

Father Li nodded, and said "hmm" again.

Then, he lowered his head and sat there motionless, as if he was in a daze or in deep thought.

After a while, he suddenly came back to his senses, said "um", then stood up, was about to go, stopped again, took two steps, he held the doorknob, turned his back to Li Qian, and said: "Turn back you Give me a copy of the lyrics. For works like this, you should write more...well, just don’t forget to study.”

Then, standing at the door for a moment, he finally went out and closed the door softly.