don't call me singer

chapter 196
"Sing a song?" Everyone present was stunned.

Xiaobai, although we look relaxed, we are actually bidding, okay? Please be serious!
However, listening to Xiaobai sing...

While Elder Zou was still debating whether to applaud or scold, someone was already applauding.

Gu Xiaobai is also a big star among historians.

There were many fans of Gu Xiaobai at the scene.

"Good!" A young historian was so excited that he applauded.

"Professor Deng?" Elder Zou looked at Deng Shunyang and asked for his opinion.

What can Deng Shunyang say?
With permission, Gu Xiaobai and the two bald-headed salted fish looked at each other, stood up, turned around, and pulled a box over from behind.

Everyone looked at each other, a little puzzled.

The box had been in the room for a while, and everyone looked at it for a few moments, but didn't pay much attention to it, thinking that someone temporarily put it in the conference room.

Two salted fish stand on the left and one on the right, stand up the box, open it, and see two drums protected by hard sponge foam, appearing in front of everyone.

One is tall, one is short, one is thick, and one is thin, with a bronze hoop surface, the body is inlaid with shell and animal face patterns, the drum surface is like a crocodile pattern, and the vermilion lacquer is slightly mottled with age.

"Drums!" The moment they saw the two drums, several historians couldn't help shouting.

The wooden shell and leather covering of the drum cannot withstand the baptism of time.

After being buried underground for more than 2000 years, most of them were completely decayed by the time they were unearthed.

The drums discovered in recent decades have all decayed to the point where only the animal-face decorations inlaid on the shells and the remains of crocodile bone plates remain.

For a while, historians once thought that this was actually some kind of "clam lacquer decoration", but later discovered that this may be the legendary drum!
The textual research on the drum is extremely difficult. Sometimes, its size and height can only be inferred from the traces left on the ground.

Even if this relic of Dongyuan University is the best preserved, there is only half a tree stump left, and everything else has decayed.

The basic data is based on the information of more than ten drums found comprehensively, but how to restore them and how to make them sound again is still a big problem.

But now, when they saw this luxurious drum, they all had a strong feeling.

drum!It can only be the drum!

What else could it be?
So, what does the restored drum look like?

I really want to know what it sounds like.

Then, they saw Gu Xiaobai stretch out his hand, and took two drums out of the alley, and put them on two wooden drum blocks.

"Fengfeng" twice, Gu Xiaobai stretched out his hand and tapped lightly on one side twice.

A sound like the cry of a crocodile sounded, and the peculiar timbre of coexistence of low frequency and high frequency resounded throughout the conference room.

As Gu Xiaobai said, the timbre of the drum is like a plate vibration with a membrane vibration in the middle. The smaller the vibration surface, the higher the frequency, and the larger the vibration surface, the lower the frequency. The timbre of the drum is a mixture of high and low. made.The treble is very penetrating, but the bass can be transmitted very far.

This sound is completely different from almost all modern drums.

Hearing this sound, there was a "wow", and almost everyone present stood up immediately.

The drums meet every time, and the boats play meritoriously.

In the Book of Songs, the sound of the drum was once described in this way.

The crocodile, also known as the alligator, was called the crocodile dragon or pig dragon in ancient times. In fact, it is the origin of Chinese dragon culture and dragon worship.

Four-legged, long-tailed, short-snouted, if you look carefully, you will find that most of the dragon heads in the totems are very similar to the heads of alligators, except that they have no horns.

Its sound can be heard as far as one kilometer, like thunder; it always sings before it rains, so people think it can make clouds and rain; when floods come, it is always very active, so people think it can They make waves; they always dig out caves and build nests under the water, so there is a legend about the Dragon Palace under the sea;

In other words, the so-called drums are actually covered with dragon skin.

How honorable this is.

Of course.The reason why the alligator was born is also because the alligator was widely distributed at that time. There were branches from the subtropical zone to the temperate zone, and there were branches in the Yangtze and Yellow River basins. It's common for a dragon to lie on its stomach at the door of its own house, not even blinking its eyelids, but to stamp its feet at most twice, to scare the dragon away.

Therefore, drums have appeared in the early days of Dawenkou Culture (3500 BC). By the time of Longshan Culture (around 2500 BC), there were already wooden drums, and they existed for thousands of years. Then, at some point, it disappeared into the history of mankind.

But it is still a symbol of dignity. So far, almost all the drums discovered are the funerary objects of princes and nobles, and they are all placed next to the coffin, which shows that the owner attaches great importance to it.

At this moment, Gu Xiaobai stood in front of the drum and played the ancient musical instrument thousands of years ago.

He doesn't use drumsticks, but uses his own hands to pat, beat, knock, and cut. The rhythm has changed from simple to complicated.

Extra flowers!

Crazy extra flowers!

"Move-time-big-time-big-time, move-time-big-time-big-time, move-time-time-big-time-time-time-big-time-time..."

Then his right hand struck the female drum on the right like lightning, and his left hand joined the sound of the drum.

"Move-time move-big-(every) move time big-move big-time move big time..."

Gu Xiaobai's two hands, like butterflies fluttering, beat out a complicated and complex rhythm on the drum surface, two small drums, two hands, it feels like a group of drums are beating .

Listening to this rhythm, everyone subconsciously wants to move their bodies.

It's like the ancestors of the ancients thousands of years ago, dancing beside the fire, offering sacrifices to heaven and earth, and driving away wild animals.

On the opposite side, Zhao Xingsheng's eyeballs almost popped out.

what happened?Didn't Xiaobai play the drums yesterday?How did you learn to play drums so quickly?

What's the matter with this steady rhythm, this skillful technique?

Of course he didn't know that Gu Xiaobai had completed the restoration of the drum and was rewarded with "Basic Rhythm and Rhythm Passive Training".

The current Xiaobai is probably an existence that can torture and kill the black bear spirit drummer.

To Zhao Xingsheng's surprise, Gu Xiaobai finished warming up.

He beat the drum for a while, and when it sounded again, the drum sound became simpler.

Then sing:

"As long as I am interested in it, I will listen to it with the plain, and I will treat it with Qionghua."

"Work"!
Gu Xiaobai's new song!

Drums also have pitches. The human ear is not sensitive to non-periodic pitches, so it cannot produce melody, but it is different when it is paired with singing voices.Because of the pitch of the drum, it can also create harmony with the melody.

The delicate and melodious quaint melody, coupled with the peculiar drum sound with changing timbre, seems to have come from ancient times and traveled through the long years.

Elder Zou stood up solemnly and listened quietly.

The boss has stood up, what about the others?They could only stand up one by one, with serious faces, as if not standing was disrespectful to the song.

Deng Shunyang was also sitting, but now he stood up dumbfounded.

What the hell is this...worshiping ancestors?
But this is not the effect Gu Xiaobai wants.

After singing the first verse, Gu Xiaobai suddenly smiled, and the rhythm of the drum in his hand changed suddenly.

Simple, right hand twice, left hand once,
"Feng-tap, Fen-tap, Fen-tap empty."

Zhao Xingsheng's eyes widened, huh?Turned into a 2/4 backhand? !
Isn't that what black music feels like?
Then the drums stopped.

"When-I-Yu-write—almost→and↗——"

Then the drum beats again:

"Feng-tap, Fen-tap, Fen-tap empty."

Sing again:

"Fill-ear-yi-su—almost↗and→——"

The drum beats again:

"Feng-tap, Fen-tap, Fen-tap empty."

"Shang-zhi-yi-qionghua—almost↘er→——"

"Feng-tap, Fen-tap, Fen-tap empty."

"Hey-hey-hey-hey—huh → and ↘——"

"Fun-tap, Fn-tap, Fn-tap empty, Fn-tap."

The melody has not changed, the rhythm has changed, and the feeling of the whole song has changed immediately!
This is the sense of rhythm!

This is the groove!

But, this is "Work"? ? ?
How could this be "Zhu"? ! !
At that moment, Zhao Xingsheng had an illusion.

The groom, he was so happy to be married that he was so stupid, he danced the crab walk in "uptown funk", and came out to welcome the bride!
If you are so profane, you will be beaten up!
But... so happy!
I want to dance so much!
Zhao Xingsheng couldn't bear it anymore, he jumped up while shaking his body.

(End of this chapter)