[Phoenix PEN] Tintin: Guitar and Violin

[Phoenix PEN] Tintin: Guitar and Violin Phoenix City Tintin The guitar is an instrument that has been completely overused. Rock musicians play the guitar, and pop singers play...

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The guitar is an instrument that has been completely overused. Rock musicians play the guitar, pop singers play the guitar, students play the guitar, homeless people play the guitar... So much so that I once saw a few things that could barely be called guitars piled on a tricycle in a Chengdu wet market, costing 20 yuan (RMB) each! Another time I saw a blind man performing a show on Chunxi Road in Chengdu using a dirty electric guitar. The sound of six steel wires squeaking at the same time was infinitely amplified by the effect device. People couldn't help but cry for this kind of music, if this is also music.

It really makes me cry. From then on I hated electric guitars and pedals, deeply.

Please forgive me for mentioning Chengdu again and again. My intention was not to belittle her. After all, it is a city where the sun is always covered by clouds. The water of the Funan River flows silently through the moss, and everyone will be filled with a kind of sadness from the heart. This is a good place to pluck the six strings. How long ago was it that I first picked up a guitar...? More than ten years ago? It was a voice that came from the deepest part and has been ringing in my heart until now.

There is a qualitative difference between playing guitar and real guitar music, and only a quiet heart can understand six-string music. Tommy Emmanuel is an eternal hero in my heart and a poem that cannot be missed in life. He certainly wasn't the hot pop kind, and never showed off his skills too much in the limited guitar space. I have played almost all of his scores, and I don't think they are very profound; however, when compared with his performance, I will find that the various techniques I am proud of are pale and insignificant. He has the typical style of Fingerstyle, but still has scenery of various colors, like the colorful maple leaves falling in the wind. Unfortunately, I only have a copy of his "Only" and a few live performances that I occasionally downloaded. In 1994, he filled every soul gap in Blues with his 10-minute last song; but in 2004, he had gray hair and no longer had the humor that was common among young jazz musicians. Ten children from all over the United States sat with Tommy with pure eyes and listened to 'Angelina' - the namesake of his little daughter - with pure ears.

The guitar is one of the few instruments you can sit next to and listen to. However, I only have Tommy’s ONLY. If skill must be used to show off, Justin King is one of the few guys who can play strings on an acoustic guitar. In other words, he can play all the music you can imagine with just one right hand. If you must use Van Halen's artificiality on the electric guitar to underestimate the string picking on the acoustic guitar, then you can try it yourself - after all, what I get in exchange is the fingertips that look like stepping on the steel wire upside down. When Justin played "Knock the Wood" live, he used a double guitar, with both hands playing the strings dizzyingly, like ten dancers dancing rapidly. In "Le Bleu", his talent at just thirty years old is fully displayed, from the morning song and dance in Paris to the ashes of time. Regarding this work full of talent, a little-known female critic in Spain wrote: "Every finger of Justin has a sexiness that makes me faint."

And time leaves more than just ashes.

It's a pity that a lot of space was wasted, and the heroine in my heart has not yet appeared. If there must be some background music to transition, there is nothing more suitable than "Duos for Violin and Guitar" by John Williams and Itzhak Perlman. Both of them are very agreeable characters, barely trying to please both sides of the spectrum between music and pop. But in this CD, you will see a figure that is so majestic that it cannot be seen: Niccolo Paganini.

No words can be used to describe him. Only those who have sold their souls to the devil can have such a dazzling light. I can play fiddle music that is barely audible, but his score is a book addressed to the devil. I am completely at a loss in the maze of jaw-dropping cross-string octaves. Double overtones, double vibratos, the left hand plucking the strings while the right hand continuously skips the bow, so that his score does not look like a violin score at all. His Fantasia was said by a well-known performer at the time: "You're wrong, this could only be a piano score for four hands."

But it wasn't Paganini who was wrong. Never. "If he is not the devil, then he must be God himself." This is the most profound evaluation of him.

Such a violin devil actually gave up public violin activities for several years to study guitar, and the story behind this seems to involve love. The specifics will never be known, but Paganini's guitar music is surprisingly clear and simple, and his major works have a special lyrical flavor. The combination of guitar and violin seems to have been hidden in his heart along with his love story. However, from the remaining music scores, you can always hear this extraordinary ensemble.

>Heifetz, the violin that must be mentioned. He was so strict and perfect that he never smiled. "I am music, not a clown." He has never used a smaller piano to pretend to cross an octave like Perlman did, nor has he played music at other speeds. He didn't miss a note, not a single one, even when he was practicing. Bach's various violin pieces completely turned into a timed piano in his hands: Bach didn't understand the violin, and Heifetz didn't bother to understand the piano. Even playing with a robot can't replace Heifetz's uniqueness. After remembering the song "Girl with Flaxen Hair", he didn't smile. But his eyes were smiling, smiling slightly.

In memory of a good friend, I played the trumpet by the Yangtze River. And to remember my dusty violin. Pick up the sheet music and play Tommy's "Question" gently.