The two students who came in, a man and a woman, were both students in the sixth year of Qi'an Conservatory of Music. The man's name was Thomas. He asked Fang Zhao for help after class today. The woman's name is Cheng Lan. She has short, heavy hair and flat bangs. She has a lively temperament.
According to the two of them, next Tuesday is Cheng Lan's birthday, but there is no time for the whole day of classes and various tasks on Tuesday, so the birthday is moved to today, which is just the friend of the two of them. We also have time, and come here for birthdays after school.
The private room they booked was not far from here, and the others hadn't come yet. Thomas and Cheng Lan had just arrived and were about to go to the private room they booked. When they were passing by, they saw Fang Zhao, so they came in to say hello.
Seeing Fang Zhao taking notes so seriously, the two people who were approaching graduation suddenly felt a sense of guilt. Compared with Fang Zhao, they were simply wasting their time!
"Alas, it's so stressful!" Thomas sighed. "It's rare to find time to play."
A six-year university, the better the university, the stricter the graduation requirements. Qi'an Conservatory of Music, the best music conservatory in Yanzhou, naturally has stricter graduation requirements.
People with excellent grades and a solid foundation usually don’t worry about the various assessments for graduation at this time, but have already started looking for internship companies, but Thomas and the others don’t pay much attention on weekdays, so they have to use more Time and energy to save it, at least make my various assessment results in this critical year a little more beautiful, after all, when looking for a job, I still have to show my transcript.
Thinking of something, Thomas paused his eyes on the electric guitar hanging on the background wall, and asked Fang Zhao: "Brother, how much do you know about ancient musical instruments? Are you not good at composing music with symphonic structure? Although the musical instruments used by the orchestra are not ancient Musical instruments, but they are all developed from ancient musical instruments. I heard that you are relatively familiar with them. Have you come into contact with some ancient musical instruments?"
"Ancient musical instruments?" Fang Zhao nodded, "I understand part of it."
The so-called "ancient musical instrument" is actually a general term for all musical instruments before the extinction of the century by people in the new century. According to the rules, it should be called "old-fashioned musical instrument" or "old-style musical instrument", but the words "old" and "old" are academic. People who don't want to see or hear it, feel that the artistic style has been lowered, and they can't decorate the facade, so the word "ancient" is used.
"What do you want to know?" Fang Zhao asked.
Thomas smiled, sat on the sofa nearby, rubbed his hands, then raised his fingers and pointed to the electric guitar hanging on the wall, "That's it, according to reliable sources, in our final exam this semester, the test center for ancient musical instruments, I just took the 'electric guitar' exam, but in our six years of college life, we didn't have a class on ancient electric guitar at all."
"Yes, yes!" Cheng Lan also smiled and poured a cup of tea for Fang Zhao diligently, "Brother, we actually chose this place to get close contact with electric guitars. You know, ancient musical instruments, even if they are Imitations are also more expensive, especially electric guitars. There is no small one that can’t be bought for 10,000 yuan. However, ancient electric guitars with high quality and good imitation are even more expensive. Affordable. The electric guitars in 'spae' are made of antique electric guitars, not the evolutionary versions at the beginning of the new century. Pure ancient musical instruments are made of medium and high grades, so we thought, come here … research research.”
Fang Zhao can also understand the thoughts of Thomas and Cheng Lan. The 100-year era of extinction has almost formed a fault. Even if there are many videos, electronic archives, etc. that can be preserved through various means, after the establishment of the new century, the archaeological team has continued to make new discoveries, but in terms of musical instruments, the ones that can be preserved Extremely limited. In that special period, musical instruments were relatively not important enough, so there were fewer videos on musical instrument instruction in the new century, and musical instruments from the old century were hyped up by antique dealers. In times of peace, these things are more maneuverable.
The quality of the video teaching in the old century is definitely not as good as that in the new century. It is not much, and it is not perfect. There are even fewer musicians who can survive the era of destruction. Even if they survive, after a hundred years of struggle, Not everyone can remember the knowledge and skills of the past, not everyone can simulate the musical instrument playing scenes in their minds like Fang Zhao.
Other Fang Zhao didn't dare to say, but the ancient musical instruments, the two of them asked him, and they really asked the right person.
"What do you want to know about electric guitars?" Fang Zhao asked.
"Not much, just want to figure out how it should be used." Thomas was afraid that Fang Zhao would find them troublesome, and quickly said, "The knowledge about ancient musical instruments should not be too detailed, anyway, the actual operation is absolutely There won't be, so senior brother, you just need to talk about the correct usage of it."
Although the musical instruments used by the New Century Symphony Orchestra have the same timbre as the ancient musical instruments, their appearance is quite different. With hundreds of years of development and the promotion of science and technology, the materials are changing, and the shape of the musical instruments is also changing. It is to make the operation simpler and the musical instruments more convenient to carry. Otherwise, these musical instruments will withdraw from the historical stage under the impact of the increasingly perfect electronic musical instruments, and truly become "antiques" that are not useful.
Just like now, many music college students only need a musical keyboard for creation, download some materials, and they can simulate the pronunciation of almost all the musical instruments they need. That's it.
In contrast, the electric guitar of the old century, in the eyes of these students, is really super difficult to learn! Fortunately, their ultimate goal is just to understand some basic operation and theoretical knowledge, and it is enough to cope with the exam. If they really want to let them learn the techniques of ancient electric guitar, they are not willing.
Cheng Lan also echoed, "Really, we have purchased some teaching videos, and watching the operation of those people in them is too difficult, and many knowledge points are difficult to remember. Brother, can you explain it to us?"
"I remember that there are many teaching videos on the Internet." Fang Zhaodao.
Fang Zhao knew from his memory that the original owner of the body used to download free videos and materials from the school library to cope with the exam. He relied on a stronger memory than others, rote memorization and a little luck to get a high score in the exam.
"Those are not necessarily reliable. You can only read more, compare them, and then summarize them yourself." Thomas said with a bitter face. This is the source of their stress, the workload is huge!
The explanations of those videos that are downloaded for free are obscure and difficult to understand, and the people who explain them probably don’t understand so well, and the truly authoritative instructional videos also need to be bought at a high price. In addition, even if you spend so much money, you may not really get what you want to know, and the things in the video may not be really correct. A few years ago, someone confirmed a very popular musician and ancient instrument researcher. , there were two critical errors in the released instructional video.
Although the musician in the end returned the money for the video to the buyers, many students have written the wrong knowledge points in the exam, and the points that should be deducted have already been deducted, and there is no way to regret it. Therefore, generally speaking, test sites involving ancient musical instruments are very easy to lose points.
For hundreds of years, it is not that no one has understood the ancient electric guitar, but those people will not disclose the knowledge they have finally researched, and only their direct disciples and successors can learn that knowledge from their mouths. People, other students can't understand. This is the norm in the industry, and it is also the reason why Xue Jing was so surprised and relieved when he learned that Fang Zhao was willing to disclose his insights and knowledge of various techniques when he was writing "New Symphony".
Fang Zhao nodded and understood the feelings of the two, but, "If you only explain it verbally, you may not be able to remember it. In this way, take the electric guitar off the wall and I will show it to you."
"Act... Demo?" Thomas was stunned for a moment, then happily quickly got up to get it.
When taking the electric guitar off the wall, Thomas was careful, for fear that it would bump into something. Even if it was placed here for decoration, any damage would be accounted for, and he would have to pay for it when he left the venue.
The price of this antique electric guitar in his hand is estimated to be in the six figures. The people who open the store are rich and like this kind of musical instrument, even if it is decorated, it will not be decorated with inferior products.
When he handed the electric guitar in his hand to Fang Zhao, Thomas's hands were shaking. After confirming that Fang Zhao caught it, he slowly released it.
"Senior brother, be careful, this thing is very expensive." Thomas remembered after speaking, Fang Zhao is not short of money! As far as how much the copyrighted music was made in the past, even if it is not public, they can guess.
Since Fang Zhao was not short of money, Thomas and Cheng Lan had enough confidence. They were not as restrained as they were just now, and they reached out and touched them curiously. Before they came here, they didn't dare to touch the electric guitar on the wall, for fear of breaking it. It's okay for them to play here occasionally, but if they were to compensate, they would have to bleed a lot.
"Today, senior brother, we will help you pay for your consumption here today!" Cheng Lan is also happy today. No matter if Fang Zhao can teach them what they want to know, it depends on Fang Zhao's willingness to help them. .
"You don't need to pay for it." Fang Zhao took the guitar and looked at Thomas, "The rest are also taken out."
"Other? What else? Isn't it just a guitar?" Thomas wondered.
Cheng Lan gave him an elbow, "Idiot, have you watched the instruction video for nothing? There are also speakers, cables, and effects!"
"Oh! That's right! There's something else. I've forgotten it. It's an old-fashioned classical guitar. Oh, my brain! Senior brother, wait a minute. Let's look for it."
Thomas and Cheng Lan found a few cabinets on the wall, what looked like decorative objects, and the doors of the cabinets opened automatically when they were pressed.
"This big one is a speaker... right?" Thomas looked at Cheng Lan.
"I remember." Cheng Lan looked at Fang Zhao, saw Fang Zhao nodded, and smiled happily. She remembered this correctly.
"I know the wires, so what about this? What are these?" Thomas looked at the blocky objects, looking from the front to the back, and was stunned. "There are no instructions on these."
Cheng Lan can't be sure this time. She really doesn't know. Did the recited materials mention this? I didn't mention it in the video I watched two days ago!
"That's the effector." Fang Zhao said.
"Effects? Are these... all? These are different from the video we watched. There is only one effect in the video we watched. It's not like this. What is it called a comprehensive effect."
"Well, there is that one, suitable for beginners. Here is a single-block effector." Fang Zhao explained.
"Oh, I see." Thomas brought the thing over, ready to start the installation.
"Wait!" Cheng Lan stopped Thomas and asked Xiang Fang Zhao, "Senior brother, can I record this process? I can't remember it after listening to it."
"Yes." Fang Zhao didn't care about this.
"Thank you, brother!" Cheng Lan winked at Thomas, "Seriously, I'm going to start recording now."
"Remember to pat my face." Thomas took the lead, paused, and turned to look at Fang Zhao, "Senior brother, how do you pick it up? Don't get up, you just sit there, you give orders, and I'll pick it up."
Fang Zhao did not refuse, Thomas could also deepen his memory by doing it himself, so he sat on the sofa and said: "The effector is placed between the speaker and the guitar wire, the guitar wire is connected to the input of the effector, and the output of the effector is connected to the The input of the speaker…”
Thomas followed Fang Zhao's instructions and connected them step by step. He used to think that ancient musical instruments were too troublesome, the various devices were too complicated, and the operation was difficult, but now he feels that when he actually does it, he also has a sense of accomplishment. Actually, it's not that difficult! Look, this is connected in series, how easy it is!
It's such a simple thing, but some people on the Internet talk about it in a complicated way, I don't know what it is!
Cheng Lan recorded the whole scene next to him, including Fang Zhao's explanation of each effect device, what "distortion compression noise delay reverberation"...
When chaining the effects, Thomas picked up one and read the words printed on it: "ah-ah? What is this?"
"Wah pedal." Fang Zhao said.
"Wah? Could it be the one that made the 'wow wow wow' sound?" Thomas' face was full of surprise, "That's the sound of an electric guitar!? I didn't know it!"
They usually use the "Wah" material directly downloaded in the musical keyboard, and they don't even know that it is the sound of an ancient electric guitar! If this is a multiple choice question, he can only rely on Mongolia.
After the connection was made, Fang Zhao demonstrated and explained, and Thomas stood by and listened carefully, and started when he needed to change the effector.
Fang Zhao will also let Thomas and Cheng Lan express their opinions and ask questions.
"Senior brother, the paragraph you just talked about is different from the reference video we saw last time." Cheng Lan asked.
"listen to me."
"...Yes." Cheng Lan responded.
Thomas is more willing to believe Fang Zhao, "I just said that the reference video I bought last time must be wrong. If I follow that record, I might lose points at that time! Not only is it bad, but it's the kind of misunderstanding. How did my teacher get the professional teacher qualification certificate? There must be some inside story!"
"Don't worry about the inside story or not, hurry up, I'm still recording it as my senior brother said." Cheng Lan interrupted Thomas' complaint, she was still waiting for Fang Zhao's explanation and demonstration, before she just held a test The mentality of trying, thinking that as long as you can get a little knowledge from Fang Zhao, who knows, Fang Zhao will surprise them too much! It's all-inclusive! Including all the basic knowledge points about electric guitar, it is absolutely enough for students who are facing the exam anyway!
This is the humanoid reference book!
If these can be posted in the class group, then in the class... No, then the entire Qi'an Conservatory of Music who needs knowledge of archaeological electric guitars will be crazy!