Chapter 1339

Langley didn't mean to play a trick on Johnson.

To be exact, he didn't care what Johnson was thinking at all. For him, it was all about drums, just drums.

Anyone who has really studied a musical instrument skill should know that solid basic skills are crucial for follow-up learning. The more professional and experienced people are, the more humble their attitude will be and the more aware that basic skills are irreplaceable. As the saying goes, a full bottle doesn't ring, and a half bottle clangs. That's what it means.

Take the piano as an example. If it's just for one or two performances, playing a piece of music and practicing music scores temporarily, then they can start directly. They can memorize the location of the keys and fingering by rote, and they can get out of the piano quickly in three or five days. Next, practice makes perfect.

Then, there is no problem in keeping everything simple.

But if it's for professional study, it's a required course every day to cultivate rhythm and sense of music with metronome and repeat it over and over again. Only by persisting for many years can we achieve initial results. Every master has been trained in this way, and no one can be an exception.

The foundation part must be solid, in order to lay the foundation for later high-rise buildings.

The same is true of the shelf drum. Dumb drum is a necessary basic skill. If you are a novice without any foundation, you must accompany dumb drum for at least the first three days, or even longer.

From the content point of view, the basic skills of drumming can be divided into five categories: click, drum, repetition, decorative sound and bounce decoration. These five types of exercises can evolve into endless practice content through different permutations and combinations, and polish the basic skills bit by bit. From this point of view, the practice content of dumb drum is endless.

In addition, the basic skills of drumming can also be divided into two categories: limbs skill practice and limbs coordination practice. Coordination practice is the literal meaning; Skill training is similar to fitness. The difference is that fitness focuses on large muscle groups, and the effect is obvious. Dumb drum is a small muscle group for training limbs, which is difficult to capture with the naked eye.

Through long-term continuous practice, joints, fingertips, wrists and so on become more flexible and more coordinated, and the result of more developed muscles is that the speed and strength are the first to improve the control force, as well as the stability of continuous hitting, always maintain constant speed control, and then improve the control ability of the drum.

In fact, the so-called control ability is similar to the piano. It can be used freely in the light and speed, four different rhythm changes and durations. More importantly, according to the mood of melody, it can penetrate its own understanding and perception into the performance, and then give the music fresh vitality.

For the really top conductors, they can keenly capture the nuances of a quarter beat, especially for classical music. When they need to endow the symphony with more generous or sad emotion, it can be presented through the change of weight and speed; And the drum as a metronome is the initial source of power.

It needs not only stability, but also outbreak; It needs not only control, but also delicacy.

And all of these abilities come from dumb drum practice.

Of course, all the dumb drum exercises can be completed on the real drum, but the sound of the real drum is easy to cover up the lack of details, especially in the practice of what has been mastered, the purpose of repeated practice is to correct and perfect, and the importance of dumb drum is more prominent; Moreover, dumb drum is not easy to affect hearing——

For drummers, long time immersed in the drum, hearing loss is inevitable. This is the meaning of dumb drum. It can protect hearing and plays an irreplaceable role in practice.

Although he is not a talented pianist, there is no doubt that his basic skills are solid; Now that he is engaged in the study of drums, there is no need to say the importance of basic skills. He can completely calm down and practice slowly.

Of course, lanli's study time is really limited, and he knows that he can't grow into a top drummer in just a few months; But sharpening the knife does not miss the woodcutter. He needs to become a drummer before he enters the cast. He is not necessarily the best, but he must be the most real and solid.

What's more, there are so many things that have been going on in recent years. Lanli himself is inevitably impatient. It's not so easy for him to try to control his emotions. Therefore, it's also a way to cultivate his moral character by calming down and honing his basic skills of dumb drum. He completely plunges into the rhythm and gets rid of all interference.

It doesn't look difficult because it's just a beat, but lanli knows that it's not so easy to operate in practice. It's true of any musical instrument.

In the next seven days, Johnson found a strange thing, even a strange thing.

Generally speaking, beginners only need to spend three to five days to practice dumb drum. After that, they should continuously polish their basic skills with real drum as the main part and dumb drum as the auxiliary part. This is a kind of water grind, which is honed bit by bit.

But these seven days, Johnson did not mention the real drum practice, and lanli did not ask. For five days, he practiced for the camp step by step for four hours. He repeated the boring and boring practice repeatedly. Over and over again, even Johnson himself was sleepy, and lanli still maintained a high degree of concentration.

This... Is really strange.

"Sixty! Hold on, hold on... OK, one hundred and two, speed up, hold on, one hundred and two, hold on, one hundred and two, hold on, one hundred and two, hold on, hold on, hold on, strength, fingertips and wrists. The beat is weak... Very good, very good, hold on, hold on, now it's going to be two hundred and four... "

"A little, a little more, acceleration, fast, speed up, lift up! No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no! Watch the metronome! Do you hear me? Da da da, one, two, three, four! TA TA TA TA, one two three four

Johnson and Langley are starting the first phase of the basic skills summary exercise.

Speed change combination, from 60 to 240, speed up, speed down, speed change and so on. But when changing the speed, you still can't lose the rhythmic sense of rhythm. It's not just a random knock, but you must maintain the rhythmic sense of uniform speed, and can't break the stable framework of rhythm.

Although it's not a 360 or 400 degree challenge to speed change, it's also a high level challenge sprint in basic skills. From control to strength, from details to the whole, it reflects the thickness and depth of basic skills in an all-round way.

This is lanli's 19th attempt. It's obvious that his arms, wrists and fingertips are becoming stiff, and his control is beginning to slowly decline. The effect is not as clear as it was at the beginning. However, surprisingly, the effect of the drum rhythm is extremely gratifying, showing a sense of fluency and stability for the first time, A drum beat falls on the eardrum, which is really pleasant.

"Good! Good! Stabilize

Johansen always kept a high degree of attention to listen. The beating of Langley was perfectly combined with the sound of the metronome. There was a smile on his cheek, but it was only a moment. When he realized his expression, he quickly restrained his smile and interrupted Langley's beat rhythm with his applause.

"No problem. It's no problem this time."

Johnson gave a clear affirmation, "all the basic training of dumb drum is up to now. These basic skills need to be accumulated for a long time. You can start training anytime and anywhere."

On the whole, dumb drum is not bulky, and the sound is rather dull, which will not disturb the residents. Even at home, you can practice it.

"Starting tomorrow, we will officially enter the practice of real drum." Johansen finally took the initiative to put forward, "every day for real drum training at the same time, you can still carry out dumb drum training, in addition, you can improve the frequency, at present we recognized the highest level of demarcation is 400, you can try to see."

It's 400 strokes per minute, which means 6.67 strokes per second. It's impossible to imagine what level the wrist and fingertip control frequency needs to reach just by brain toning; What's more, the actual hit, not only need frequency control, also need power control——

Otherwise, it is useless to hit the drum without any sound. More strictly, the strength of each beat must be as uniform as possible to ensure that the timbre and sound quality of the drum rhythm can maintain high quality.

"No problem." Lanli continued the style of meeting on the first day. He was calm and low-key. He didn't exchange greetings or chat. He devoted himself to the study of drums. He seemed to be a diligent and studious art student. He polished his basic skills conscientiously, so that Johnson almost forgot his identity and career.

It's the same today.

Johnson didn't stay much longer. He turned around and left the practice room to keep busy with his own business.

Almost to the gate, Johnson suddenly realized that his mobile phone had fallen in the rehearsal room. He shook his head helplessly and walked back again. The light in the rehearsal room had gone out. Lanli sorted out everything and left the classroom. Turn on the light and find his cell phone. Johnson turns around and leaves again.

In retrospect, he just walked all the way back, but didn't see Lan Li's figure. Did he leave from another direction?

While wondering, he noticed that the light was on in the practice room on the other side of the corridor. He walked past habitually, and through the window he saw blue Li practicing dumb drum.

It was so unexpected and so frightening that Johnson's chin went straight down.