I'm a pirate in Tokyo

"Brooke, you don't really want to go down this road, do you? Seriously?"

"How can such a thing be successful?"

"Why do some people really take high school club activities seriously?"

"We went to different universities, so how could we form a band again?"

"Give up, Brooke, you didn't even get into the conservatory of music, why are you just thinking about music..."

"Senior Yueji said that, right? Unless a company is willing to sign us, we shouldn't have such daydreams. Studying honestly and surviving are the most important things, right?"

Brooke bowed his head and remained silent in front of his friends who had spent three years together: "We just form a team to perform 'underground' in our free time at university, wouldn't you be willing?"

"We don't want you to have any unnecessary expectations. You can go to college to find your new partner." A red-haired boy patted his shoulder.

"University, I heard it's a new world..." The silver-haired boy next to him looked out the window at the blue sky with a longing look on his face.

"Senior, I've had enough of failure." A female voice said behind Brooke: "It just so happens that the seniors have graduated, so I can retire with peace of mind and prepare for the college entrance examination."

"Xiao Lin..." Brooke said sadly.

Yes, since the 1980s, the band wave has started in Neon. Young people in every place and school in the country are forming bands. Countless bands are formed every day, and countless bands are disbanded every day, but more than 95%

The orchestra couldn't even stir up a small ripple, so it dissipated in time and space.

Countless people have abandoned their dreams in this cruel and wonderful world.

In the end, some people stay and continue to suffer, longing to soar into the sky, while some people escape towards reality and return to the earthly world.

And they were just a group of high school clubs formed to kill time. They sent out countless copies of the DEMO they recorded, but they all seemed to have fallen into an abyss and never returned.

After his ambition to become famous finally turned into ashes, what qualifications did he have to let his friends risk their lives to accompany him to realize his dream?

He firmly believes that he should become famous as early as possible and hopes to find like-minded partners in high school.

And because of his partner's "abandonment", he was afraid of the university, fearing that there would be people like this there, and then his dream would be truly finished.

So, he stayed and chose to repeat the grade in order to get into his dream music university.

However, a more cruel reality is waiting for him ahead. Their school is a prestigious school famous for its sports clubs.

Under the strong influence of Aaron's Olympic medal reputation, the light music department was abolished due to insufficient numbers.

He couldn't even keep his own club after he stayed. In despair and with no way out, he once picked up a book and studied hard, and really put his hope in college.

He told himself that it is normal for band members to change. Even well-known bands have experienced substitutions. What's more, a band like his is not even considered a high school student.

But many times, many things always turn around through inadvertent persistence.

After Aaron surrendered, many sports clubs experienced a wave of withdrawals. In order to give these students a place to go, the school allowed all clubs in the school to open new ones.

And Brooke met people at this time who he thought could change his life.

...

"Although I want to practice the guitar, after memorizing the tunes, I still don't know where to start." Usopp held the guitar for practice with a headache, unable to start.

Brooke heard from the side and pulled out a booklet from the bookshelf in the corner of the activity room: "Let's start with the chord chart."

Usopp opened the booklet and glanced at the various chord fingerings and musical notes printed on it. His eyes widened and he laughed dryly: "Well... how about we start with how to read music scores?"

After the martial arts performance was over and everyone had a lively lunch, Zoro hurried to the Kendo Club to determine the ranking for the Jade Dragon Flag during the summer vacation.

Sanji and Nami thought they would have to wait until 2 or 3 pm.

As a result, Usopp didn't even finish reading a few pages and only recognized one chord. Zoro came back and invited them to practice.

Usopp originally wanted to stay here with Keya, but after seeing the looks Sanji and Wu Sheng gave him, he finally decided to train. Not to mention immediately catching up with Wu Sheng and Luffy's combat power, at least he would not be held back.

Just fine.

A few people who didn't understand left, and the remaining people began to choreograph intensively under Brook's burning fighting spirit.

Wu Sheng and Brooke were gesticulating with guitars and basses, while Luffy followed the drum beats along with their discussion.

Keya thought Usopp had other business matters and didn't follow him. She was taking a walk in the activity room of the light music club. Although she didn't have many arrangement suggestions as a new member, it was her first time to form a band with her classmates.

I am anxious to join the performance immediately, but I want to observe the environment and new partners.

The activity room is not big, with a large blackboard and a small whiteboard. The blackboard has a music score printed on it, but there is no content on it. The small whiteboard does have something, it is a Q version of a little person that Nami drew with oil-based pens when she has something to do.

The rest is a small bookcase and a long table made up of several desks. There are some magazines, some music teaching materials, and some music scores on the bookcase. These colorful, red and white books are piled together in a disorderly manner, which makes her a little confused.

Uncomfortable.

The long table had been cleaned up by Nami, and Keya was strolling around, eyeing the three people who were tinkering around, and pulled out a magazine about rock and roll to read.

She received a classical music education since she was a child and doesn't know much about rock music. But since she joined the light music section, she still needs to understand the type and style of music they are about to perform.

Especially after hearing such an interesting song just now.

Ordinarily speaking, Wu Sheng's song is actually pop music, not pure rock.

After all, the core of rock and roll is a summary of a rebellious spirit, an all-round rebellion against tradition in terms of ways of thinking, lifestyles and personal values ​​after World War II.

Rock music has flourished in Europe and the United States since the 1940s after World War II, and through the "British Invasion". Until now, almost all music genres have been affected by this music to varying degrees.

But time is a sharp knife that wears away everything. As time goes by, when the once rebellious young generation completely naturalized into the mainstay of mainstream society after the 1980s, the new generation of rock music has evolved from rebellion and revolution to one that embraces technology, is willing to consume, and is constantly being criticized.

Assimilated by various mainstream consumer cultures and then dismembered by various subcultures, the early rebellious core has long since been disintegrated by the new era.

Today's rock music focuses more on small and broad concepts such as individual equality, racial equality, mainstream value pursuits, and unconventional subculture fragments.

Many bands claim to be rock and roll, but even the objects of their rebellion are vague and vague, and they even resist just for the sake of resistance. Therefore, in a consumerist society with rapid development of productivity, there is not much foundation for rock and roll to survive.

Therefore, band culture does not mean that it is rock culture. This is to be distinguished: bands play music, and rock and roll is a kind of spirit. This is the stereotype that many people have about bands now, and they think that bands are equal to rock and roll.

This is unfair to the band and to rock music.

But good music spans the world, spans eras, spans genres, spans everything, and this is especially true for inspiring music. It is meaningless to always argue about what music is what genre.

Keya was sitting at a long table made up of several desks. A few music magazines could not help her build up her understanding of rock music, but she did get to know a few famous bands and know a few songs.

Then I picked up my phone, searched it out, put on my headphones and listened.

After hearing a few words, her beautiful crescent eyebrows wrinkled: "What are these, noise?"

Cut song, next song, saliva song.

The frown deepened.

Cut again...

Keya sighed, unable to appreciate it, unable to appreciate it.

After repeating this, she had a deeper understanding of Wu Sheng's songs: "I feel that the songs written by Takeda-san are better than these..."

Keya nodded confidently, put the magazine aside, took out her mobile phone and searched for relevant popular science knowledge - keyboard player.

...

Wu Sheng really felt Brook's talent and level, no wonder

You have to dare to work hard towards your career and dream of becoming a professional musician. Those who dare to dream will eventually have such a talent.

In half the afternoon, they had already completed part of the guitar accompaniment, half of which Wu Sheng hummed from memory, and half of which Brooke recreated.

"How did you come up with such a song?" Brooke put the guitar on his lap, picked up the music score, wrote and drew, and did not forget to ask Wu Sheng for his creative experience.

"Huh? It's not appropriate to think about it." Wu Sheng touched his nose.

"What do you mean?" Brooke was stunned and raised his head.

Wu Sheng put his index and middle fingers together and tapped his temple: "It's in my head."

???

"What do you mean, making something out of nothing?" Keya, who had been paying attention to them, heard them chatting and came over to ask.

"It doesn't count. Is it just something you feel?"

Brooke and Keya were a little confused, but Luffy looked understanding. After all, they had another identity in private.

"Then how can I create this kind of work with emotion?" Brooke asked.

Wu Sheng recalled Brooke's little yellow songs and said: "Don't follow your desires, follow your life."

Brooke was thoughtful, but did not fully understand, but creation was indeed a very personal matter. Wu Sheng himself was a dabbler and could no longer provide detailed guidance.

"Take your time...the most important thing is to continue creating, little by little. Every time you take a step forward, the fog ahead will dissipate a little. Come on." Wu Sheng patted him on the shoulder.

"Well..." Brooke stopped worrying and got back to the topic: "Then the next step is drums and bass. Does Kamijima want to join in?" After all, he is a new friend, so he still has to ask.

"Yeah!" Keya nodded quickly: "I'll go back and buy a keyboard tonight."

"Okay! This way the arrangement will be richer in level!"

When focusing on one thing, people always feel that time flies like an arrow.

Because Wu Sheng was a cheater who had the original song in his mind, the arrangement progressed very quickly, and he came up with the drum beats and guitar accompaniment in one afternoon.

The orange sunset filtered into the activity room. Brook put down his guitar and stretched contentedly: "Ah, it's already dusk."

"It's getting late, I should go home." Keya also yawned. Today was her first time "creating" music with others, and it was very interesting.

Luffy touched his belly and looked at Wu Sheng: "Shall we go to eat together? I want to eat ramen!"

Wu Sheng's eyes lit up: "Aren't you going home to eat today?"

Luffy nodded: "Ace recently participated in some closed training and was not at home."

"Okay, a ramen shop near my home is doing an event. If you finish a huge bowl of ramen within a limited time, you can get a free order! It's all up to you today!" Wu Sheng gave a thumbs up. He only dared to go there if Luffy was there.

Participate in this kind of activity.

"Is ramen the noodles with soup?" Keya asked from the side.

"Huh?" Wu Sheng was stunned. She didn't even have ramen, so she said, "Yes."

"Can I go eat with you?" Keya's eyes sparkled with curiosity.

"Okay." Wu Sheng nodded in agreement without much hesitation.

This is the real boudoir lady, right? She has never eaten out, but Usopp didn't even take her to eat. What are they doing?

He thought about it, packed his things, and asked casually: "Senior Brooke, do you want to come with us?"

Brooke's mind was now full of music scores, and he had no intention of eating. He put the guitar into the piano case: "No, I think there is room for improvement in the accompaniment and arrangement. While the inspiration is still there, hurry home and get it out."

After that, he muttered something and walked away with his guitar on his back.

Luffy shrugged and patted his chest towards Wu Sheng: "Don't worry, Takeda, as long as I'm here, you can definitely get the order waived!"

Wu Sheng smiled and picked up his schoolbag: "I have nothing to worry about."