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In three days, I met Li Zongsheng and Li Jianqing twice, once at a lecture at the Central Conservatory of Music, and once at the Wuhan Simple Life Festival.
Everyone doesn't have to envy me too much, because Li Jianqing who I saw this time didn't seem to be too happy.
The day before the Wuhan Simple Life Festival performance, The team rng supported by Li Jianqing lost the game, and he posted it on Weibo in a sullen and unhappy way, and even told the story again on the day of the performance.
However, two days ago, li Jianqing was excited again on Weibo when ig won the competition, and it seems that he should be able to concentrate on writing songs or performing.
Recently brushed by one good news and another obituary, ig's victory & Lan Jieying's death, it is clear that there is a deep generation gap between the people who brush these two topics, on the one hand, do not know who Lan Jieying is, on the other hand, ig and Egyptian fools are not clear.
Originally thought that Li Jianqing, who was born at the end of the 70s, would not be interested in ig, and as a result, he was a heavy fan uncle who could not extricate himself from the opponent's swim, and I wondered if under his influence, Li Zongsheng's big brother would occasionally play with these young people's things?
However, Brother Li Zongsheng is more concerned about the melody creation characteristics of young singer-songwriters at present...
1. How Li Zongsheng's "Wild Road" creative method was formed
In that exchange at the Central Conservatory of Music, the theme was called "Two Musicians with The Same Destination". Meaning:
Brother Li Zongsheng has never studied the creation of popular music professionally, and has become the premier creator of the Chinese music scene by relying on the creation of "Wild Road";
Li Jianqing, because of his professional symphony orchestra background, also finally threw himself into the camp of popular music, creating some popular songs that were not so good to sing.
However, when it comes to Li Zongsheng and Li Jianqing, there is always a reputation of zero bad reviews, which is probably a kind of persistence and "quality" in their music.
As mentioned earlier, Brother Li feels that the problem of the melody creation of young singer-songwriters at present is that it is too broken and the melodic segments are too scattered, so that if you want to express the emotions with words, it is always difficult to express clearly in this short melody segment, which eventually leads to the immobility of many new songs now.
Li Zongsheng is a person from Taiwan in the 70s and 80s of the last century folk song movement period, so for the narrative and melody of folk songs, there is a high degree of persistence and deep study, compared with European and American pop music, the content of the creator in the melody can not be worse, so we will often see an English dance music, always launch an acoustic version later, to prove the quality of the melody, even after the complicated arrangement is removed, a guitar or a piano can still set off the melody moving.
Sanshi remembered many popular songs of the 90s that could tell good stories with long melodic lines, such as Wu Qixian's "Too Silly", Zhou Huajian's "The Difficult Scripture", and the opening song that Li Zongsheng sang last time at the Wuhan Simple Life Festival, "I Finally Lost You" he wrote to Zhao Chuan in 1991.
Only in those long melodies and long moving notes can you fill in the words that have been carefully considered, which has impressed many listeners.
Brother Li Zongsheng is very sensitive to melody, he will be driving, when he hears an old song broadcast on the radio, he will emotionally surge into his heart, stop at the side of the road to listen to the song, and then think of the problems of today's young singer-songwriters.
Big Brother Li gave an example of a very good melody line and very conducive to using song narratives, that is, carpenters sang "yesterday once more", and the eldest brother said that it was the level that he wanted to be able to write, but in fact, compared with Li Zongsheng's creation over the years, his characteristics are also very good.
The first is the characteristics of The creative structure of Brother Li's fragmented thoughts, which hovers between singing and speaking, making it difficult for many people to k up his songs according to the traditional routine, "Because of Singleness" written to Yang Zongwei over the years, "Songs for Myself" created during the vertical line period, "The Twelfth Floor" written to Karen Mok more than ten years ago, and so on, are all such characteristics.
Brother Li said that it was because he had not studied well in middle school, and he failed to pass the secondary school examination several times, so he shut himself at home and silently wrote songs.
But at the beginning, he did not understand how to get started with the melody, many times, the young Li Zongsheng often talked to himself, read and read, the melody came out, he found that such a song, is also a form of music, so he formed the later musical characteristics of the seamless switching between the recitation and singing.
Another creative feature of Brother Li is the increasing expression of the song paragraphs - of course, this statement is not the official statement of Brother Li, but a small summary of Sanshi listening to Li Zongsheng for so many years:
With the progress of the meaning of the song, the melodic structure and beat characteristics have gradually changed significantly, such as Li Zongsheng's "Three Things about Azong" written by Li Zongsheng in the early years, and his newly published "Newly Written Old Songs" this year.
Probably because of the song of such a structure, it is too difficult for the listener to grasp the sense of beat, and when "Newly Written Old Song" was first sung in the Wuhan Simple Life Festival, the scene did not appear like the previous song "The Hill", and the scene of the chorus appeared.
2. How sad is Li Jianqing's nostalgia?
At least Li Zongsheng's big brother's songs, but there are k,000, there are depth and difficulty; and Li Jianqing's songs, most of them are left with depth.
"Even a friend of mine who has a good musical foundation, after going to KTV to order a few of my songs, shook his head and said to me, Jianqing, your songs are too difficult to sing."
——This is Li Jianqing's self-deprecation of his own creative characteristics
At a lecture at the Central Conservatory of Music, Li Jianqing was asked by the students present what was the biggest price of joining this profession, and he replied with two words: single.
As a result, Li Jianqing, who has little experience in love, in addition to occasionally singing in "Ordinary Stories" that his ex-girlfriend who married in Australia "that so-and-so had to become the wife of whom", more in Li Jianqing's music, he was painted with "nostalgia".
Hometown, distant places, relatives these contents, in Li Jianqing's music frequently appeared, we can also in the Spring Festival in recent years, intentionally or unintentionally accompanied by Li Jianqing's music back to their hometown, or travel far.
During the Spring Festival in 2015, Li Jianqing filmed a Spring Festival homecoming theme mv in "Hurry" published at the end of 2013, which was not too much publicity, and has triggered the likes and forwards of many tap fans. Later, every time Li Jianqing sang "Hurry", this difficult song still made most of the people present able to follow the chorus from beginning to end.
In the Spring Festival of 2017, Apple invited Li Zongsheng, Li Jianqing and Bai An to shoot a New Year advertisement;
In the Spring Festival of 2018, "In the Hometown" once again took the Spring Festival content as the main vision in the mv, "No matter how rich you are / How prominent you are / The threshold in the city is broken / No longer speak dialects / Mother's home always has to go back", a few words outline the intimacy between Li Jianqing and his mother.
On the one hand, the creative motivation of Li Jianqing, who wandered from Guangxi to Beijing as a foreigner, on the other hand, is also a characteristic plan of master Li Zongsheng for Li Jianqing's musical path.
Li Jianqing did not think of writing love songs, but the lyrics of the love songs he wrote would always be "shot" by the master, and when Master Li had time to modify or even refill Li Jianqing's melody, nostalgia was always the content framework that Li Zongsheng would pour into his mind for the first time.
Li Zongsheng wrote several poems for Li Jianqing, "Hurry" and "Out of the City", which are very similar to the way Li Jianqing will use his own words, this is because Li Zongsheng is familiar with Li Jianqing's living habits.
In addition to music, Li Zongsheng is also like Li Jianqing's big parent.
Last year, at the Simple Life Festival in Shanghai, when Li Jianqing sang on the stage, Li Zongsheng secretly looked at the performance status of the apprentices from the backstage, and the look was like the class teacher "monitoring" the seriousness of the classmates from the back door of the classroom, until someone saw it, shouted "big brother" a few times, and Li Zongsheng left silently.
For Li Jianqing's family, Li Zongsheng's eldest brother will also care as much as his own family.
One year, Jianqing's mother fell ill in Guilin, Li Zongsheng personally went to visit Li's mother, but also let her old man rest assured of her son's life in Beijing; this year's Spring Festival, Li Zongsheng's eldest brother invited Li Zongsheng's mother to travel to Taiwan with Jianqing, Li Zongsheng personally served as a guide, took Li's mother to eat and visit many local attractions.
Such a strong sense of humanity is often heard in the music of Li Zongsheng and Li Jianqing over the years, which is mostly from the care in their daily lives.
At the end of the lecture at the Central Conservatory of Music, Li Zongsheng's eldest brother silently gave the audience a look and asked everyone questions with restraint, because he also wanted to set aside a little time to sing to Li Jianqing.
On that day, Li Jianqing still sang "Grandma" related to missing his relatives, a song that Brother Li insisted on composing music composed by Jianqing after hearing the poetry recitation on a stormy night, presumably for Li Jianqing's melodic creation ability and creative characteristics, Brother Li was already very satisfied in his heart.
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