Whoever you are, if you can play a thing to the extreme, then you are an expert.
When a musician can do the icing on the cake and ignite the whole scene no matter who he helps, I think this person is undoubtedly One of the best guitarists in China, Li Yanliang.
Many people may not know why we call Li Yanliang "Captain", and many gossip say that he was Han Hong's first love, is it true?
Today, let's get close to Li Yanliang and see how he has become the captain of today's "cloud" step by step.
One
Li Yanliang was born in Luoyang, Henan in 1969, his father was a drummer, so he had a great influence on his musical path, and his father cultivated Li Yanliang's courage to express his feelings from an early age, free and simple and frank.
Li Yanliang inherited his father's musical talent very well, and once learned to play drums with his father, not from a young age to learn guitar.
It was not until after middle school that Li Yanliang was deeply attracted to this musical instrument. But at that time, the materials that could learn guitar in China were very scarce, so he went all the way and followed the path of "threesomes must have my teacher" on the road of learning guitar.
Li Yanliang as a teenager
After a few years of self-study, at the age of 14, Li Yanliang participated in the first guitar competition held in the city, and unexpectedly won the third prize, which was a very big encouragement for Li Yanliang, and strengthened his confidence in learning guitar and moving to a higher stage.
After graduating from high school at the age of 18 in 1987, Li Yanliang joined the army with honor and became a literary and artistic soldier, and in the army, he began to learn orthodox music theory knowledge, and after several years of careful study in the army, he got rid of the wild road of the past.
Li Yanliang when he was in the army
But there is still an important decision to be made before becoming a guitarist.
Two
First love in the army, young Li Yanliang met Han Hong, who was also a literary and artistic soldier, Han Hong at that time was not what she is now, she was a military flower in the army at that time, and her current body shape was caused by a serious illness at the age of 18 and too many hormone injections.
Han Hong when he was young
The study and performance in the army enriched Li Yanliang's life, Han Hong was the lead singer, Li Yanliang accompanied by the piano, so the two young people gradually became secretly in love, but the discipline in the army was strict, and no one broke through the layer of window paper.
In the army, Li Yanliang had the privilege of being exposed to many famous rock music materials abroad, and those free-spirited musical melodies filled his heart like crazy weeds.
However, the rules and regulations in the army greatly limited Li Yanliang's yearning and love for rock and roll. In order to further learn rock music, Li Yanliang made an important decision: to retire from the army and realize his guitar dream.
At that time, he and Han Hong agreed to make better music together in the future, but he did not expect that this part would become a regret of forever passing by, and later a song written by Han Hong called "Passing By" was written to Li Yanliang, indicating that there was a fate and no part of the year.
Han Hong and Li Yanliang met again, and they were no longer human
Li Yanliang's behavior in that year was undoubtedly to give up the iron rice bowl and come out to ask for food. After retiring from the army, he took a guitar on his back and went to Beijing alone to chase his musical dreams.
Three
Like many young people who have come to Beijing with dreams, imagination is beautiful, but reality is often cruel. After arriving in Beijing, Li Yanliang, who was not familiar with the land, had to rent in the basement at first in order to save money.
He soon experienced the hard and cruel life of "North Drift", but even in the cold and dark basement, he still practiced for more than 8 hours a day.
Li Yanliang of the North Drift
It is precisely because of this experience that Li Yanliang will warn some young people who also have musical dreams in a serious way when he was interviewed later.
Li Yanliang said: If you only want to play guitar as a hobby, you need teachers and your own efforts, but if you want to use the road of music as a means of livelihood, hard work is not enough, first of all, you need to find a good teacher, but also to see if you have talent in this area.
Making music requires great talent, talent, and ideals, so you should stick to it, but if you lack talent, I recommend not using music as a means of making a living.
Saying these words is not that Li Yanliang wants to hit those friends who like to play the piano now, because only after experiencing suffering can we know how difficult this road is, and no one can succeed effortlessly.
One of the phrases we often hear the most is that opportunities are always left to those who are prepared. Everyone knows the truth, but are we really ready for our dream moment?
Talent and perseverance are important, but a little bit of luck is needed. Because no one knows what the meaning of perseverance is, endless waiting, long persistence, at any time may destroy people's will, let people collapse.
When we want to enter any circle, we must have the same strength as this circle to be recognized.
It was li Yanliang's dedication to rock and roll and his exquisite piano skills that gave him the opportunity to meet some of the top musicians in the Beijing rock circle at that time.
Acura and Tang Dynasty "Old Five" Liu Yijun are among the best in the guitar era, and under the guidance of the two big men, Li Yanliang has benefited a lot.
Then he became acquainted with lao wolf, Gao Qi, Xu Wei, Pan Jindong, Wei Wei, Hua Zi, Mizuki Nianhua and other well-known musicians, who left Li Yanliang's wonderful guitar sounds in their later music albums.
Among these people, the person who played a role in changing Li Yanliang's fate was Gao Qi.
The old version of the "Overload Band"
In 1991, Gao Qi withdrew from the "Breath" band, and formed the "Overload" band in September of the same year, when the lead guitarist of the band was not Li Yanliang, Gao Qi was both the lead singer and guitarist, and the other musicians in the band constantly changed over the next two years.
It was not until 1993, the addition of Li Yanliang, Wang Xuexue and Wang Lan, that the "overload" constituted a relatively stable lineup in one stage. After taking over the guitarist position, Li Yanliang, with his super understanding of music and cool playing skills, quickly sat in the position of lead guitarist.
In 1996, with the overload band launched the self-titled album "Overload", the overload band became a hit, and After Li Yanliang took the "overload" train, he also let his popularity slowly become famous in the circle.
In 1997, Li Yanliang was named the best guitarist by Beijing's New Music Magazine.
Four
After joining the "overload" band, Li Yanliang was not too constrained by the band, in addition to his usual normal performances, he spent more time to produce his own music album, he was the first chinese to hold a personal electric guitar concert and also the first diy music album in China.
Li Yanliang's outstanding guitar skills and ability to control the stage make him often receive many invitations from celebrities to concert as the lead guitarist, and he is jokingly described by everyone as a "public musician", which is a recognition of his strength in the industry.
Among the musicians who have cooperated with many, it is necessary to mention a person, who is also the one who has cooperated with Li Yanliang the most times at present, and has the best relationship in private, this person is: Xu Wei.
The same 1987 enlistment, and the same as the literary and artistic soldiers, and then together to experience the "North Drift", the two almost similar musical journey, let them especially cherish this friendship, the two in the music cooperation is even more intimate.
On December 12, 2012, Xu Wei released his solo album "At This Moment", which has a song called "Empty Valley Youlan", "Rock poet" Xu Wei wrote this Zen song with his own perception of life.
Of course, what impressed us the most was the guitar tail solo of this song, Li Yanliang with a strong sense of music and the perfect arrangement of the artistic conception that Xu Wei's song wanted to express, and finally showed her to us vividly, and it was this epilogue that made more people know Li Yanliang.
Two years after the album's release, Lee Yan-leung released the album-matched book "Lee Yan-leung At This Moment: Complete Guitar Scores and Deep Analysis", which contains guitar scores for all guitar parts of all 10 songs on the album.
There is a link to this book at the back of the text, and friends who like it can buy the guitar scores in the book by Li Yanliang himself to explain the arrangement ideas of each song, guitar playing instructions, and share precious manuscripts and picture materials with readers. This is a domestic book that completely analyzes the guitar performance and arrangement of an album.
Different from the general guitar textbook, it is also different from the ordinary singing book, it not only accurately presents all the guitar performances of the players in the album, but also covers the creator's comprehensive analysis and in-depth sharing of his new music creation.
From the generation of musical motivations, the selection of timbres, the allocation of playing equipment, and how to adjust the mood of the guitarist when playing, Li Yanliang showed every important detail he experienced when making this record.
Through this book, not only will many readers who love to play the guitar learn to play these 10 songs, but also get more valuable experience in music composition and guitar playing.
Li Yanliang said that in foreign countries, this situation is very common, and as soon as the album of a well-known band is released, the corresponding music score books will be released.
This saves many guitar lovers from picking up the sound themselves, because everyone's perception of the sound is completely different, and there may be incomplete sound under the pickpocket, or the position is incorrect, and every detail will affect the overall performance of the whole song.
From these tiny details, we can feel Li Yanliang's meticulous spirit towards music.
Five
When playing an instrument to the extreme, some people may switch to other instruments, Li Yanliang is not only proficient in classical guitar, acoustic guitar, and even bass and drums, which he can play well.
Li Yanliang has created a kind of "bright horizontal playing" method of placing the piano flat and playing horizontally, which fully utilizes the overtones on the guitar and the fusion of antique rock electric beats, perfectly interpreting the spirit of east-west fusion, Chinese and Western fusion.
Bright horizontal bullets
In June 2015, Li Yanliang released a new album "Clouds", and when he filmed the album MV, he was dressed in a cool captain outfit, his eyes were cold and handsome, and he called himself the captain.
"Cloud" publicity photos once Li Yanliang Weibo posted, immediately ignited the entire guitar circle, Li Yanliang's cold captain appearance deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, over time everyone has become accustomed to calling him "captain".
With the MV at the beginning of a captain's monologue: "Gentlemen, ladies, welcome to the Cool Lion Airlines flight, I am the captain of this flight, this flight will be going to the Mars Ski Resort, please fasten your seat belt, the flight will take off immediately." ”
Li Yanliang posted a picture on Weibo
"Cloud" slowly sounded after the captain's fingertip crossed the overtone point, as if the plane rushed into the sky, and the captain Li Yanliang led us to take off, soaring on the endless clouds together, feeling the top of the clouds, bringing us different feelings...
Life is not easy, we all want to live as we want to live, but we can't eat the pain that we want to be in our hearts.
Persistence is not terrible, persistence without direction is the most terrible, what do you want to get, you must first understand what you can do?
There is pay, there will be results, but sometimes there are pay, not necessarily good results, anything is not waiting for the results to talk about paying, this is the end of the upside down.
This article is for the most beloved captain, but also to friends who like to play guitar, I wish the captain can make more music that can touch our hearts in the future, and I also wish that you who have dreams and talents can one day soar in the clouds as you like captains.
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I was first a child, experienced the pains of life, became a man, saw through many things, had a transcendent view, and then returned to being a child. --Li Yanliang
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