Devil's Music

Japanese Akita? Shizuka, born in the current town of Oga, was taken by her parents when she was four years old to learn the piano at a local small piano school. The black piano that first caught Shizuka's eye was huge and shiny. Shizuka's a little scared.

I burst into tears just by sitting on the chair, but I looked at the piano with round eyes that makes beautiful sounds to match the teacher's finger movements.

The first encounter with Piano was special to Shizuka, who grew up in the countryside and ran around in the fields, catching grasshoppers, and playing with Akita dogs in the farming house. At the end of every day in kindergarten, you grab your roughened mother's hand and run to piano school.

Sitting in front of a piano until she got tired became the daily life of a young Shizuka.

The principal who saw Shizuka's skillful skills suggested studying in Shizuka, and his parents eventually sent her to an aunt's house in Tokyo when Shizuka turned ten. Tokyo Suginami (

C. The aunt and uncle had a small ski house with a shop on the first floor of the house on the second floor and a residential space on the second floor. An aunt who felt like she had a kid built a small piano practice room on the roof for Shizuka, and the aunt asked the local piano studio to do it for her.

It could be equipped up to.

Young Shizuka was afraid of living in a big city, separated from her parents. It's filled with the sound of a car spewing smoke instead of a grumpy weeping grasshopper, and whenever I reach out my hand, I put out a shining collar for a bunch of scary foreign dogs I've never seen that lick my hand with their sticky tongues.

Seeing Shizuka walking with the owner, Shizuka did not leave the house except when she was going to school. Shizuka's only friend was the piano on the roof, and the girl loved the piano.

Shizuka, who had been educated for expensive lessons to good teachers with the money her parents had raised for farming, was different from other children. Because his only friend was the piano, there was no child of his age who would follow Shizuka around practicing piano all day long, and of course, in Japan.

Started sweeping the cone in. When the young girl first appeared in the Concool, the Japanese media paid attention to the girl as the prize from Shizuka was piled up.

When she became a high school student, she reached out to take her to Tokyo Art University, but her choice was American study abroad. Shizuka's parents, who had sold a piece of land to the country through the expansion of nearby air bases, finally supported her studies as she became financially affordable.

She could come to Julius' school of geniuses. She was confident, but the door of Julius tapped with a puffy chest filled with excitement immediately disappointed her in her skills.

In Juilliard, where musicians called geniuses come from all over the country, she's only a middleweight, and no one notices. She didn't give up, and the more frustrated she got after taking the test. A friend who always listens to the sound of his voice.

In the piano, she no longer seemed to listen to her words, and as she grew wearied, she finally stopped practicing the piano. Fortunately, New York had a lot of fun, so she didn't want to go to her third grade first class after spending her vacation at an art exhibition. Him.

The subject she chose was the band class, and she wanted to get away from the classics a little bit, and she headed to the studio with a nervous look. There, I met Anthony who looked more like a hip-hop rapper than a performer, and Anna who looked straightforward but honest.

In front of her who thought gold might be fun, a handsome man who couldn't be seen in her dreams appeared waving his hands.

“Hello, are you a little late? I'm sorry."

* *

After a beer, the group set out to meet tomorrow is scattered, and the rest of Shizuka sits on the sidewalk block staring at the cars speeding along the dark evening roads. She reflects on what she just said to herself.

‘Shizuka, play the drums. ’

Shizuka's face turned red as she looked up at the sky and then shook her head.

"Drums... what is it all of a sudden? There's no way you can suddenly pull something you've never done. ’

Shizuka, who was sitting there for a while, got up and headed home. Shizuka, who entered a house without any warmth to live alone, fell straight into bed with the spirit and asked her to sleep. The next morning, Shizuka awoke at the sound of a bird sitting by the window and looking at the clock.

La jumped out of bed.

"Huff! It's an hour before practice! ’

Shizuka quickly showered and roughly dried her hair. However, Shizuka hurried to leave the house with her hair still wet a few times. Luckily, I was living not far from the school, so the practice room arrived on time and no one seems to have arrived yet. in

When the golden Yamaha drum installed on one side of Shizuka's eye that sighed, I looked around and sat on the drum. The giant drum was much more intimidating than the first black piano you encountered.

Shizuka, who picked up the stick on the bass drum and slightly brought it to the snare drum, shuddered by the sound of the sound too loud.

"What the hell! It's really loud, isn't it? Is the drum supposed to be this loud? ’

In most performances, microphones are mounted on small sound instruments to similarly adjust the size of all instruments. Shizuka's reaction was not that surprising because he had never touched a drum before and was often surprised by the sound of the drum in a small practice room. String anyway.

I didn't know, so I saw Shizuka open the door and come in, looking at the snare drum.

“Ah! Ah, hello! ”

Gun smiles at Shizuka sitting on the drum and lowers the guitar bag.

“Sorry, I didn't hear anything. I thought there was no one there. I'm sorry I didn't knock. ”

“Oh, no. ”

“But why are you sitting in front of a drum and not making a sound? Let me try. It's like you're telling the truth. ”

“Oh, I don't know how to do that. I just sat there once. ”

When Shizuka tries to get up from the drum chair, her hands appear crossed after standing next to Shizuka.

“Stay. I'll tell you the basics. Now, put your arm like this. ”

As Shizuka crosses his arms, the gun grabs the stick in Shizuka's right hand and places it on the two symbols on the left.

“Now, this is called the High Hat. There's a pedal at the bottom of the high hatch, right? Put your foot on it. ”

Shizuka steps on the high-hat pedal as instructed, and the symbol is retracted. Gun looks at Shizuka's feet and shakes his head.

“Lift your heels. Step on it with your toes. If you step on your heels like that, you'll get a rat. It doesn't sound good. ”

When Shizuka lifts her heel, the two symbols snap tighter. After confirming it, he waves his right arm.

“Now, I want you to play four times with your right hand stick and say 1,2,3,4 for hitting the high hat. ”

Shizuka waves his crossed arm as he hits the High Hat four times, counting small.

“Come on, let's hit the high hatch by 1,2 and the snare drum by the left hand in 3. The closest drum to the bridge of Yogi Shizuka is Snair. Do you want to try?”

Tsk, tsk! Tick, tick!

“Like this? ”

“Yes, it is. Then I'll try this time. Beneath your right foot is the drum's largest northern bass drum. Is there a pedal in front of the drum? Put your feet up. Like the High Hat, you have to lift your heels. ”

Shizuka raises her heels and the bass drum makes a loud noise. Furious, he laughs as he sees her lift her heels without hitting the pedals and tightening her thighs.

“You step on the bass drum when you're not playing. Keep the pedals on the drums. You only have to move your feet when you hit them. ”

“Oh, I see. ”

“Now, one out of two, three, four is a bass drum, and three is a snare drum, right? Shall we try it?”

Knock, knock! Tick, tick!

“Oh!! You're doing great! Let's do it again. ”

Knock, knock! Tick, tick! Knock, knock! Tick, tick!

When the basic beat of the drum was played in his hand, Shizuka smiled with a surprised eye and looked up at the case with a happy face. I put my hands on my waist and looked down at Shizuka and said with a smile.

“That's the basic two-quarter. And then you can play all the two-thirds of the world's beats. Shizuka! You just learned to play 500 songs! ”

“Hahaha!!! It's funny."

“Haha, come on, keep going."

“Yes ~”

In less than 5 minutes after Gun told me about the drum, Shizuka was excited to play the correct beat, and she fell hard into the drum without knowing if she was sweating. The thing I watched with a smile told Shizuka that I could play about two-thirds of the beats.

“You've seen these two little drums on the snare called the Tom Tom, and the big drum at the bottom right is the Base Tom, and you've seen the drummers on TV wielding the Tom like crazy, right? ”

After Shizuka sweeps the tom, she nods with a bright face.

“Yes! It's so cool! ”

“Yes! Shizuka can do it, too. Look, you hit the snare drum four times. Four snares, four toms, two toms, four bass toms. Do you want to try?”

“Yes!”

Shizuka stared at the drum with a slightly nervous expression and started beating on the snare drum.

Shoe, shoe, shoe, shoe, shoe.

The gunshot screams quickly.

“Now! Symbol on top! ”

Chang!!

Shizuka was happy to play the climax of the drum for the first time. Gun smiles and nods.

“Now, why don't you play a two-quarter note, and then do what you just did? ”

“Yes, yes! ”

Knock, knock! Tick, tick! Knock, knock! Tick, tick! Pack shoes shoes shoes shoes shoes shoes shoes shoes!!

Shizuka, who played one perfect note, cheered like she did.

“Wow!! Awesome!!"

“Haha, yeah, cool. Shizuka's pretty good. ”

“Hoho, thank you. ”

“Yes, keep practicing. ”

“Yes, Kay! ”

Looking down at Shizuka, who practiced hard on her own, opened her guitar bag and took Haku out. After taking out Jack and connecting him to the amp, he sits down with the chair and gives a small smile, looking at the excited Shizuka.

‘Yes, you should be excited. It should be fun. That's how you make good music, Shizuka. And it will be the strength to support you. ’

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