Chapter 35 Donkey’s Lips versus Horse’s Mouth

Crystal Flame finally accepted my suggestion and joined our guild, and Princess Crystal naturally joined us as her good sister. But this band is not so easy to form.

Currently we only have four band members. Bingbing uses the flute, Bingling uses the red harp, and Princess Crystal uses the organ. As for the crystal flame thing, it is said that it should have the function of a tambourine, and it is also a dual weapon for close combat and mid-range and long-range attacks.

Four-person music groups are not uncommon in reality, but not here. Others have electronic soundtracks, but we don’t have one here. Another problem is that the instruments are not compatible. Although Bingbing's flute and Bingling's harp belong to two musical instrument systems, they are still elegant instruments and can barely play together, but the flute and organ are completely out of tune. What's even worse is the deformed tambourine of the Crystal Flame. It sounds like a special instrument for Latin dance. The rhythm is so fast that the other three instruments can't match it at all. According to Crystal Flame herself, the previous battles between her and the princess actually did not match the rhythm. Although they were both musical instruments, they were completely out of sync.

I had no choice but to bring them all back to Essinger, and then invited all the Zhiduoxing from my guild to help. In order to let everyone get familiar with their specific characteristics, I first asked the four of them to play their own special music of this type.

Bingbing performed first. The melodious flute sound is elegant and beautiful, with a natural cultural atmosphere. If you close your eyes, you will feel as if you are in a bamboo forest. If you taste it carefully, you can feel a proud temperament mixed with the sound of the flute, as well as a cool feeling.

The second one is Bing Ling’s harp performance. The sound of the harp is somewhat similar to the guzheng, but the tone and color are much crisper and closer to the feeling of crystal.

The third floor is the princess's organ. The sound of this thing is so majestic. No matter what music is played with it, even if it is a children's song, it can make you feel like an angel has descended.

The final performance of Crystal Flame is something that I don’t know whether to call dance or martial arts. It looks like a dance. The posture is very graceful and the movements are quite gorgeous. The problem is that the pair of instruments she is holding are sharp and sharp. If she swings them so randomly, everyone nearby will definitely be hit. I finally understood what the small balls on her pair of weapons were for. The golden sphere outside that thing is indeed metal, but it is not gold, but something called fine gold. This thing is extremely hard. But it doesn't have toughness, but its function is not to attack, so it doesn't matter if it has poor toughness. There is a red crystal ball sealed inside these hollow fine mirror balls. When the pair of sound blades dance, the crystal ball will roll inside the fine gold ball and make a crisp sound with a high frequency. . The sound of these small balls can be controlled to form a kind of music by dancing. However, since the dance itself seems to be an offensive skill, the sound of the small balls also changes quickly with the rhythm of the dance.

After listening to these performances, Rose's brows knitted together. She waited for a long time before she said, "How should I put it? Listening to each one separately is perfect. But if you want to play it together... I can only say no way."

Hongyue also said: "I don't understand music as well as Rose, but I can still listen to it. The obvious rhythm and style of these instruments are too different. If they get hard, I'm afraid they will interfere with each other, especially the bell dance of Crystal Flame. The rhythm It's really too fast. It's not a question of whether it sounds good or not. It's simply impossible to play. The flute and harp can barely speed up to match you, but the organ simply can't keep up with the rhythm of your bells."

Xiaoyao, who was sitting with Su Mei, suddenly said: "I have studied music, and the problem here is obvious - the instrument is wrong. There is only one way to solve it."

"what way?"

"Split it." Xiaoyao said with certainty: "Four people can be divided into four styles, but it's not that they can't work together. It's that they can't work together most of the time. In fact, the musical instruments also have their own characteristics, and sometimes they don't match at all. Instruments can also cooperate with each other in a piece of music. I once heard a piece of music online that claimed to use an ensemble of 139 instruments. The other party used a very wonderful method-to make time differences. Throughout the During the course of the song, various musical instruments participated in the performance, but there was not an ensemble of one hundred and thirty-nine musical instruments in any one second. The other party used time differences to stagger the times of various instruments, and the wrong instruments would never sound at the same time. Even though they are both pronounced in one song, because they are not pronounced at the same time, the music is perfect.”

"You mean to let them also play time difference?" I asked.

Xiaoyao said: "The time difference is definitely necessary, but the time difference between the four instruments is definitely impossible. It's like riding a unicycle. In fact, the higher the unicycle, the easier it is to control, but the shorter unicycles are harder to ride. The time difference The same goes for the way the music is scored, the more instruments there are, the better the performance will be."

Seeing that we didn't seem to understand what she meant, Xiaoyao added something. "Don't you understand? Let's put it this way. Piano and harp playing together will be beautiful, and piano and organ playing together will be majestic, but the ensemble of harp and organ is very awkward. If the time difference is played according to the current situation, the harp will stop The organ has to be connected immediately, and if the connection is not good, the whole piece will be disconnected. Moreover, the alternation process of two instruments with great contrast is a bit too prominent. But if there are multiple pianos, it will be different. The harp performs first. Then the piano joins, and the harp can continue without stopping at this time. After the two instruments play together for a while, the harp stops, and the piano continues to play solo, and then find the right time for the organ to cut in and become an ensemble of piano and organ. This kind of over-coupling is simpler and more efficient wonderful."

We all nodded to express our understanding. It seemed that Xiaoyao had studied music and was indeed different from the rest of us who were tone-deaf.

I said to Xiaoyao: "You just want me to find a few more musical instruments, right?"

Rose corrected: "It's not about looking for musical instruments, but about finding people. We can make musical instruments, but it's hard to find players who can play music. I've already had people investigate. Musicians in NPCs can only be used for entertainment purposes, and they don't play any role at all." Auxiliary effects, so we must find players with the Magic Music Master profession, and they must be exactly the instruments we need.”