I Became The Chief Of A Primitive Village

Chapter 989, Su Bai Also Feels Shy

Translator: Silavin

Su Bai’s thick black eyebrows arched slightly as his mind began recalling various musical scores.

When he was alive, he had quite enjoyed listening to music, often humming a tune or two when he had nothing else to do. But ultimately, he was not a composer, and he needed a bit of time to recall the melodies.

Perfectly reproducing a musical score was somewhat difficult as well, but restoring the general outline posed no particular problems.

“Let me think about it first. Just continue showing me the next instrument,” Su Bai said calmly.

He was not particularly familiar with the xun as an instrument and wanted to see if there were any more familiar instruments coming up.

That way, to showcase what music was like, even if he had to perform something for everyone, he would have more confidence.

Who told him he carried such weight in everyone’s hearts? So he had no choice but to steel himself and perform a piece for everyone.

Even if he rarely touched instruments, as long as he was familiar with the melody and the instrument’s sound positions, he could still manage a thing or two.

However, Su Bai felt that this current way of doing things was very much like adults making their children perform in front of relatives.

“Alright, the next instrument I want to show the Shaman is this one.” Lu Lu immediately turned around and produced another instrument.

This instrument had been crafted according to the blueprint Su Bai had provided, on which the diagrams were drawn in great detail.

Lu Lu’s task of making it was not difficult. It was essentially a flute, and everyone understood the principle of flute-making.

The material she used was Hollow Tree, which was hollow in the middle, completely eliminating the need to carve out the internal material.

She only needed to carefully drill several holes on the surface, and a simple flute would be complete.

For the final step, she just needed to test repeatedly whether the sound it produced was pleasant or not.

It was nothing like the strict requirements of flute making back on Earth. In the primitive era, there were no such ideal conditions. Being able to craft a decent instrument was already quite impressive.

“Isn’t this a flute! From your confident expression, it should be quite easy, shouldn’t it?” Su Bai asked.

His heart began to secretly rejoice. [Finally, an instrument I am fairly proficient with…]

The flute was a simple instrument. Back in middle school, there had been various interest groups or clubs and the like. Under his friend’s encouragement, he had joined a club called the Flute Society. Since he had nothing else to do at the time anyway, he had messed about with everyone for a bit.

“That’s right. When I first saw the blueprint, Hollow Tree was the first material that came to mind. I only had to make about a dozen attempts before succeeding.” Lu Lu happily played with the flute, also beginning to demonstrate it in a presentable manner.

She did the same thing, blowing from the first hole to the last, producing sounds that varied from high to low.

“Alright then, I’ll use this flute to give you a demonstration.” Su Bai reached out and took the flute.

Holding the flute, he pondered for quite a while, his mind beginning to search through some relatively simple melodies.

Soon, he thought of a catchy, simple children’s song that one would never forget after hearing it just once.

That was ‘Little Bunny Be Good’ (小兔乖乖). The melody could not be simpler, and listening to it would make others feel cheerful.

After all, everyone’s understanding of music right now was at zero, so any melody with rhythm would make them think it was quite good.

Moreover, the song ‘Little Bunny Be Good’ was something both Earth adults and children could sing. even though it could not be considered a popular song.

“Yay!” Lu Lu’s ears twitched happily.

“The Shaman actually knows music too? How amazing.” Yu Ying’s large, watery pink eyes widened.

The others watched even more intently, all wanting to see what kind of music the Shaman would produce with the instrument.

“Good little bunny, open the door,” (小兔子乖乖，把门儿开开)

“Open it quickly, I want to come in.” (快点儿开开，我要进来)

“No, no, I won’t open!” (不開，不开，我不开)

“Mama isn’t home, I won’t open for you.” (妈妈没回来，谁来也不开)

Su Bai suppressed the urge to laugh as he continued playing.

“Good little bunny, open the door,” (小兔子乖乖，把门儿开开)

“Open it quickly, I want to come in.” (快点儿开开，我要进来)

“I will, I will, I’ll open right up!” (就开，就开，我就开)

“Mama is home, so I’ll open the door.” (妈妈回来了，我就把门开)

After finishing this children’s song, he felt thoroughly uncomfortable. Although it was quite catchy, having a grown man over 1.8 metres tall sing such a cute children’s song felt somewhat embarrassing.

This was one of the only simple songs he could remember.

Moreover, all the young women wore such expectant expressions that he could not make everyone wait too long. The only thing that came to mind was this ‘Little Bunny Be Good’.

“It sounds rather joyful. Listening to it made the corners of my mouth turn up.” Yu Ying kept swishing her pink fox tail.

For some reason, Yu Ying just felt this song was very pleasant and particularly cheerful.

“So this is a musical score. It’s really lovely. Shaman, I want to learn musical scores.” Lu Lu instantly became very earnest.

She had never heard a proper song before, much less heard proper music from an instrument.

The melody Su Bai had just produced, Lu Lu found particularly cheerful and especially comfortable to listen to. Moreover, it seemed to form a sort of muscle memory in her mind. She could not help swaying along with it.

“Before learning musical scores, you need to understand musical notes, as well as some basic beats.” Su Bai explained.

Broadly speaking, this meant perceiving fixed beats, perceiving rhythm, perceiving the strength and weakness of volume.

Also perceiving the brightness and darkness of tone, perceiving the pitch of sounds, perceiving the speed of tempo, perceiving the magnitude of dynamics, and so forth. These abilities were the most fundamentally important foundation. No matter what one was learning, the foundation was always the most important thing.

Su Bai certainly could not suddenly have them learn something like staff notation. Their heads would surely ache after hearing about it. Moreover, his knowledge of staff notation was not comprehensive either. He could only ponder it slowly in the future.

Or perhaps see whether the System could produce a staff notation book for him, or a music theory book of some kind.

After all, the things the System could produce were strange and varied. Perhaps one day, it would really appear.

However, before that, if the young women wanted to learn music, they would have to start learning from the most basic music theory.

Modern music was quite different from primitive era music. Primitive era music emphasized boldness, grand magnificence, as well as intimidation, deterrence, and such.

Su Bai certainly did not think this kind of music was bad, but he was, after all, a modern person. He also wanted to hear more modern music. That was, music with beautiful melodies and catchy tones.

“Shaman, what are pitch and tone?” Lu Lu completely did not understand these things.

She only knew how to make instruments. Pitches like do, re, mi, fa, sol, la, ti. She had absolutely no understanding of these.

“First, look at this instrument. Aren’t there many small holes underneath?” Su Bai was very patient. “If you want a particular small hole to produce sound, you cover that small hole…”

He knew this would be a lengthy process. They would just have to take it slow.