读书笔记Bit of a Blur
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读书笔记Bit of a Blur
本来是抱着粉丝式考古的心态买这本书的，然而爬墙似跑酷的我当前关注点已经从Blur转移到其他地方了(不过我永远爱糊团，永远爱金牙，永远期待未卜的新专)，所以是抱着研究八十年代摇滚乐队创作习惯和日常生活的心态读这本书的。回顾去年的读书经历，觉得看个热闹就完了的读书习惯很浪费，所以要写点什么。
关键词(我在只有粉丝才感兴趣的内容里用他们外号)：
糊团-Blur;
Alex James, 本书作者，贝斯手;
Damon Albarn, 主唱;Graham Coxon，吉他;Dave Rowntree，鼓手。
我一直很好奇自己平时听的歌的创作过程，Alex平实直白而啰嗦的叙述满足了这一点(不过不一定靠谱，毕竟本书中像Dave过生日那天Damon只买到三张gig票所以和Alex、Graham三人扔下Dave去看gig这件事，被Alex隐去Dave其人，轻描淡写来夸赞Damon大方……)。
有音乐天赋和能力的人合作就是这么简单，各自平时准备一点素材，聚在一起合一下，再加些即兴的东西，歌就出来了。在创作的原始阶段不需要担心手头的东西是不是最好，能搭配起来就行了，不是什么精密严谨的过程。可能有人会觉得这理所当然，但是对于我来说不是，最近一年内才开始意识到并突破自己创作过程中思维层面无形的限制，而且很遗憾还没走多远。
首单She's So High创作
There were a couple of things that Damon and Graham had been working on together that we bashed around for a while. I showed them some chords that I’d been strumming in my room. Graham started to play them on the guitar, there was a drum machine going boom whack and I started grooving along on the bass that was lying around. Damon started jumping up and down and saying, ‘Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant! You’re a natural!’ He got his lyrics book out and started singing, ‘She is so high, she is so high.’
It all happened there and then. It was instantaneous, shockingly so. Graham wrote the lyrics for the verse, over the same chords, and sang a backing vocal on the choruses. I’d never been in a band with backing vocals. The two of them sang really well together, they’d been doing it for years. We made a tape and I went home for Christmas thinking, ‘I’m in the best band in the world.’
我想起Wolf Alice一个采访，主唱Ellie Rowsell说二专里一首歌(好像是Sad Boy)是要离开录音室收拾东西的时候她突然弹了一段旋律，大伙默默捡起自己的乐器加入，当场一块凑起来的，当时听起来就很有WA自己的风格。
十分向往这种经历，也想搞乐队——年纪太大了，只希望有朝一日重拾键盘技能、找到合适伙伴，作为非常业余的爱好。
喜爱的音乐人都是中学或更早就开始做音乐了，大学时候就正式入行了，无一例外;他们很多人把大学时候的专业当成后来的副业，比如Graham Coxon大学时候是美术生，后来给Blur和自己个专画封面、办画展啥的。说到这，就不得不摘Alex在大学第一次见到Graham的描写，非常有画面感，如果以后有人拍糊团传记电影请一定要加这个镜头(觉得Asa Butterfield或者Sing Street男主可以尝试一下演Graham，不过真的要拍的时候他们也超龄了)。
酪面初遇
Someone else was getting his stuff out of his parents’ car when I arrived at the student halls of residence with my own parents. I saw him unload a guitar. He was covered in paint, but even if he hadn’t been it would have been obvious that he was an art student: pale and skinny; National Health specs; huge trousers and a stripy, baggy jumper. It’s a moment that I remember very clearly. I liked him from the instant I saw him and I had the certain feeling that one of the main characters in my life had just walked onto the stage.
But seriously how can you know if this person is one of the main ones in your life when you just meet them? I think I’ll never have that kind of radar……不过倘若像几乎每年出专辑、混好几个乐队的Damon Albarn那样的创新型人才出现在我面前，我一定能认出来。事实上身边似乎有一两个，然而这种人和我八字不合注定不会走进我的生活，只能作为role models供观瞻。
He was much more direct, full of plans, schemes and determination to make things happen. He had so much energy. That’s what creativity is, really, that vigour. (P31)
接下来摘两条音乐创作的实用小知识。
小知识1：其实摇滚乐贝斯Riff大多数情况下不是循环的，但是他们在录I Know的时候，为了制作洗脑单曲，决定像舞曲和嘻哈音乐那样使用循环的八小节。Alex轻拢慢捻抹复挑试了很多次选了最有感觉的一段放进去。
The subtle pushing and pulling at the rhythm, the exact length of the notes and how hard the strings are hit and bent, mean that no riff is ever quite the same in different hands. Things played with clinical accuracy often sound quite lifeless and mechanical.( P51)
小知识2：There’s No Other Way里面有段吉他solo是Graham倒着录进去的。
We turned the tape over so that the track played backwards and Graham played a guitar solo, so that when the tape was back up the right way, the solo played backwards. (P65)
我对实体录音带的唯一印象是，听说皇后乐队的波西米亚狂想曲制作时，因为轨太多，带子被打得薄如蝉翼。之前听过用电脑做的所谓倒放音频，可能是有单位时间的那种倒放，都是断断续续不知所谓的噪音，所以对于真正的倒放以及实体录音带的操作没有概念。欢迎有研究的朋友留言探讨。
目前读完1/4了，是否待续视本篇数据而定。