I'm a pirate in Tokyo

Wu Sheng finally chose the most restrained song and handed it to Keya, just to satisfy her curiosity.

After she sent it back with a blushing face, he quickly explained: "The others are worse than this one, so let's not read them..."

"good......"

"Uh-huh."

Wu Sheng handed these music scores back to Brooke: "Senior, we can't use these."

"Alas." Brooke sighed, feeling so depressed that he ran to the corner and started drawing circles: "I'm really not suitable for music. I should listen to my elder brother and go to college to be a doctor... My dream, goodbye.

..."

...

"Takeda, are these songs really unusable?" Luffy looked at Brook sympathetically.

"It's really useless. Maybe after graduation, I can play in an underground band and sing. But now... we are still students and we can't perform this kind of song at the campus festival." Wu Sheng regretfully said.

Shake his head.

"Oh!" Brooke pricked up his ears and heard Wu Sheng's words, and turned around suddenly: "You mean my songs are actually okay, but they are not suitable for students to listen to!"

Wu Sheng met his fiery gaze, smiled awkwardly, and said reluctantly: "Ah ha ha ha ha... it's..."

"Oh, then I'll put them away first and use them later!" Brooke excitedly put the stack of song sheets back into his schoolbag: "Come on Takeda then! The song Luffy just sang seemed quite interesting.

of."

After listening to the song sung by Luffy, Brook put aside his doubts. This song was good, and he had never heard it before. If it was really written by Wu Sheng, it would be really great.

"All right."

Wu Sheng also found it quite interesting. Although the excitement of his youth would be healed by time, walking in the streets or suddenly hearing certain music would always remind him of the happiest time in his life. That was his original intention.

It is also youth, but also a treasure.

Those treasures will always stir up ripples in his heart. Now he has experienced an incredible time travel, survived countless incredible battles in another incredible world, and now forms a band with these incredible people. Anyway, there is no plan.

Just make money and have fun!

He picked up a pen and paper and was about to write, but he remembered that he was really not good at writing music scores...

"You can write down the lyrics first." He wrote the lyrics and pondered for a moment from time to time. The original artistic conception of this song was a little different from the current one. The translation back to Japanese at noon also needed to be refined.

The young man sat on the table by the window and wrote down the classics in his memory smoothly.

Brooke pursed his lips attentively, staring at Wu Sheng in shock for a while, and then looking at the manuscript paper on the table.

Luffy and Keya on the side looked like two interested children, with surprise and curiosity in their eyes.

As Wu Sheng wrote, he began to sing the song silently in his mind. The notes were jumping and surging, as if they couldn't wait to appear in this world.

He shook his feet, stepped on the rhythm, and wrote bit by bit, looking like a spring of inspiration.

Several people over there saw the three people surrounding Wu Sheng, and they became curious and ran over to see what these people were doing.

"Done!" Wu Sheng raised his head and found that everyone was surrounding him.

"What? Takeda can also write lyrics? Let me see, Butter-Fly?" Sanji squeezed in, picked up Wu Sheng's manuscript paper, and wanted to express his own opinions in return for showing off the love letter.

"It's so well written! I love this song!" Luffy's eyes sparkled and he smiled with two rows of neat white teeth, excited.

"Yes!" Keya was also excited: "I feel there is a power in the lyrics!"

"Ha!" Wu Sheng stretched out and found the happiness he had in his previous life when he formed a band with his friends in middle school and finished dictating the lyrics of BEYOND.

Sanji held the song sheet so that Nami and Zoro Usopp could see it, and he said: "Takeda can only do comic storyboards. Is writing songs so easy?"

He rambled on, saying that he once knew a big brother who was a musician and told him how difficult it was to write songs. He read each line and then fell silent.

"There's something."

"Where's the music?" Brooke asked excitedly: "Or is it just the lyrics, not the composition?"

Wu Sheng scratched his head: "There is a song. I have never learned to write music. How about singing it live? Then you compose it and arrange it. Let's perfect it together."

"Okay, okay." Brooke nodded, quickly took out his phone and turned on the recording function: "Come on, come on."

Seeing that Wu Sheng was about to sing, everyone's discussion fell into silence.

Wu Sheng took the manuscript paper from Sanji's hand. Although the lyrics were already in his mind, he was a little embarrassed to be surrounded by so many people. He took the manuscript paper just to give his eyes a place to put it.

"Ahem..." He pretended to cough and looked around: "I'll sing."

"Yeah." Everyone nodded, indicating that you would start your performance.

Wu Sheng does not have any particularly good singing skills, but he has all five notes. Although this song is in a high key, he can still sing it with his voice. Because it is a cappella, Wu Sheng does not plan to follow the original version, but is going to go directly to the chorus.

.

It was noon in early summer, and the sun shone through the glass windows, making the activity room very bright:

"Behind the infinitely extending dream,

Travel through a ruthless world.

I don’t want to lose to myself,

Having your beautiful memory will make me work harder.

I believe that hope will come true one day,

Even if you encounter difficulties occasionally, keep moving forward towards your dreams.

Oh~my love!”

As soon as the first lyrics came out, everyone seemed to have been shot in the heart, their heartbeats skipped a beat, they all held their breaths and stared at Wu Sheng in the sunshine with wide eyes.

Even though they kept raising Wu Sheng's talent limit due to various things in their hearts.

But at this moment, this hopeful and uplifting melody suddenly penetrated into their minds like a cool breeze blowing into the sleepy afternoon and a beam of light shining through the gloomy darkness.

Wu Sheng continued to hum. Although the high pitch was forcibly raised, there was no problem with the pitch. In this silent classroom, the hope and courage in his voice did not discount at all:

"Behind the infinitely extending dream,

No matter how false and changeable the world is,

Deception should not be concealed,

The idea of ​​muddling along is too pitiful.

I believe that hope will come true one day,

I can truly overcome the many challenges and move forward bravely towards my dream.”

After two passionate choruses, Wu Sheng officially entered the song. The melody was slightly gentle, but still slowly heated up:

"I really want to be a butterfly

Fly high in the breeze

Right now, I just want to meet you as soon as possible

Put aside your worries

..."

Not to mention people like Brooke and Keya who have a certain level, even a "tone-deaf" like Zoro is a bit shocked at this moment.

The most powerful thing about this song is that it constantly nurtures upward hope from beginning to end. In combination with the slightly frustrated but still tenacious fighting spirit under strong pressure in the lyrics, people can ignite their dreams no matter what time.

desire.

Sanji, who was about to laugh at Wu Sheng, now opened his mouth slightly.

He originally thought, "What will happen if this high school student writes a song?" However, he never imagined that he would understand what hope is from such a simple a cappella song.

Hearing the first sound of this song live gave him goosebumps at the moment, and he was moved by the live music.

“…..

Behind the infinitely extending dream,

No matter how false and changeable the world is,

Deception should not be concealed,

The idea of ​​muddling along is too pitiful.

I believe that hope will come true one day,

You can truly survive the many tests and move forward bravely towards your dreams.

oh my love!”

Wu Sheng put down the manuscript, exhaled, and opened his eyes. After singing, his mind flashed back to his life, especially the several hard battles in the palace and the criminal world. He had just been completely immersed in it.

He didn't know how other people felt, but at this moment he felt as if he had just lit up a beam of light in this world, and in his mind, there were countless lights that could break through the darkness, waiting for him to appear.

This is a feeling that I have never experienced before when writing comic storyboards. This is probably the power of music.

Wu Sheng clenched his fists, feeling the sudden realization that he would die in the morning after hearing the truth.

"Pa pa pa pa pa pa pa!"

Luffy applauded first, and then everyone applauded one after another. The whole activity room suddenly became lively from stillness to movement.

"What a cool song!"

"I didn't expect it...it's so deeply hidden..."

"Is this guy still human?"

"I'm starting to look forward to this year's campus festival..."

"..."

Everyone gathered around Wu Sheng, expressing their complex emotions at the moment incoherently, and the scene was once out of control.

Brooke stood there blankly, his hands trembling, he was so excited, his brain was completely on fire: "Is Takeda encouraging me not to give up on my dream!"

At this moment, Sanji no longer has any thoughts about fighting with Wu Sheng. If such a song comes out, and Wu Sheng sings it at the school festival, the love letters will really come like snowflakes.

"Calm down, this song is still in the semi-finished stage." Wu Sheng comforted everyone: "The lyrics and music have been written, and there is still post-production arrangement and practice. I really don't know if there is enough time."

"Yes!" Brooke suddenly said from behind: "The arrangement of such a song must be perfect!"

When everyone calmed down, Luffy suddenly asked: "How many songs should we perform at the school festival?"

"It's not a few songs, but a 15-minute performance." Brooke explained.

"Then we need 2 more songs?" Luffy silently calculated the approximate time, then turned to look at Wu Sheng: "The monster song (Pokémon theme song), this Butter-Fly, write two more songs?"

Wu Sheng was stunned: "I can write, but it's too late for arrangement and ensemble practice, right? How about we just perform what we have practiced before, safety first."

"It's in time!" Brooke suddenly said loudly, and stepped forward to grab Wu Sheng's shoulders: "Believe me! Takeda, the campus festival will be in early July in two weeks. I will start from today and give out the arrangement of one song a day.

, there are still 10 days to practice the ensemble, and then revise while practicing! It will definitely be in time!"

"..." Wu Shengxu stared: "Don't you have to prepare for the final exam?" Their school has the final exam at the end of July.

Brooke was stunned and patted his chest: "I'm a repeater. I've learned all these things and there's no problem."

"Well, then you should finish the arrangement of these two songs first. I will go back and think about how to write the other two songs. I won't be able to write them for a while."

Wu Sheng decided to check out Brooke's level first, and then decide whether to release two more songs based on the progress. Brooke's musical literacy was naturally not to mention, including guitar, bass, drums, violin, cello, piano, and trumpet and saxophone.

Everything is fine.

But in modern pop music, good singers and instrumentalists are not necessarily good composers, and good composers are not necessarily good arrangers. Many singer-songwriters just write out the main melody, lyrics, and music and give them a structure.

,skeleton.

Then the arranger fills it in bit by bit with blood and flesh to complete a complete musical work.

However, because arrangers are secondary creations, many listeners tend to ignore the arranger's hard work and always focus on the skeleton of the songwriter, making the arranger's status in the music work as invisible as a god.

But Wu Sheng knew that just relying on his own memory to pick out the main melody was far from enough to perfectly present the song.