实战口语情景对话 第475期:Music Man 音乐人

Todd: So Tres, you are a drummer.
托德：特雷斯，你是名鼓手。

Tres: Yes, I am indeed. And for all that negative baggage that comes with that term, yes I am a drummer.
特雷斯：对，我是鼓手。虽然好多人对鼓手有负面的看法，不过我确实是名鼓手。

Todd: Wait wait, so you say that there's negative terms that go with being a drummer?
托德：等等，你说鼓手总会得到负面的评价？

Tres: Well sometimes when people hear "oh they're a musician" you know, "oh you better watch out for them". Yeah, it's true.
特雷斯：有时你会听到人们说“哦，他们是玩音乐的”，你知道，意思是“哦，你最好小心点他们。”现实就是这样。

Todd: OK. Well, what kind of drums do you play?
托德：好，你打的是哪种鼓？ Tres: I grew up playing in punk bands, mostly because those were the only bands scouting for drummers at the time. However, what I enjoy playing is funk, jazz, blues and salsa, specifically Cuban salsa. 特雷斯：我青年时代是在朋克乐队里演奏鼓的，大部分原因是朋友乐队是当时唯一需要鼓手的乐队。不过，我喜欢演奏放克音乐、爵士乐、蓝调乐和萨尔萨乐，尤其喜欢古巴萨尔萨乐。

Todd: OK. Now, so for the different types of music that you play, do you always use the drum sticks, or do you sometimes just use your hands?
托德：好，这么多不同种类的音乐类型，你在演奏时是用鼓槌，还是有时就用手来演奏鼓？

Tres: When I play on a drum set, I either use drum sticks or a bundle of sticks that are really small called hot rods, or brushes. Usually if I'm doing a jazz piece or a very soft acoustic set, I'll use brushes. If I'm using other percussion instruments, for example a jimbei, then of course I use my hands.
特雷斯：我在打架子鼓时，我会用鼓槌或是一种小的束棒。如果我要演奏爵士乐或非常柔和的不插电音乐，那我就会用束棒。如果我要演奏jimbei这样的其他打击乐器，那我当然就会用我的手了。

Todd: What's a jimbei?
托德：jimbei是什么？

Tres: Jimbei is a large drum that comes from West Africa. And you play with your hands using various African poly-rhythms. And lately, a lot of Western drummers have picked up the drum, and have fused Western rhythms along with African and Latin poly-rhythms. So it's a very fun, but very difficult instrument to play.
特雷斯：是一种来自于西非的大鼓。你要用手来打鼓，而且会使用到不同的非洲复合节奏。最近有很多西方鼓手开始演奏这种鼓，他们将西方节奏和非洲及拉丁的复合节奏结合起来。所以演奏这种乐器很有趣，不过也很难。

Todd: What do you prefer, using the sticks, or the hot rods or using your hands.
托德：你更喜欢哪种，是用鼓槌，还是用你的手？

Tres: Again it depends on the music that I'm playing. I enjoy playing in general. My preference would be playing the drum set with the sticks, just because I really love the more rocky-fusion-type-jazz, the more avant guard type stuff. And I also like salsa, which usually, you know you have your clave, which is a little wooden-like block. And your cowbell, and you also have timbales, which are two drums that you hit on. Sorry for the bad description.
特雷斯：我要再说一次，这取决于我演奏的音乐类型。我喜欢打鼓。我喜欢用鼓槌打架子鼓，因为我更喜欢摇滚乐与爵士乐混合而成的音乐，那种更先锋的音乐。同样我也喜欢萨尔萨，你知道要用响棒，这是一种木制的打击乐器。还有牛铃，还有两个鼓连在一起的天巴鼓。抱歉我形容的不好。 Todd: That's OK. When you're playing the drums, do you ever lose a drum stick? 托德：不会。你打鼓的时候曾经有把鼓槌弄丢过吗？

Tres: I have in the past, yeah. Those question you're asking are very very embarrassing for a drummer to nswer. But yes, sometimes I've thrown them into the audience, usually on purpose. But occasionally, a drummer will lose a drum stick. So you usually have a pouch that you'll put either next to your hi-hat, which are two symbols that you open and close with your foot, or next to a fore tom which is the large drum that sits on the ground. So you have extra sticks that you can grab when you need them.
特雷斯：以前有过。实际上你这些问题对鼓手来说非常非常尴尬。有时我会把鼓槌扔给观众，通常是有意为之。不过有时候鼓手也会不小心弄丢鼓槌。所以你要准备个小袋子，放在踩镲架旁边，你在开始和结束时会用脚踩镲发出信号，或者放在立在地上的大鼓旁边。这样你在需要的时候就可以拿到备用的鼓槌了。

Todd: Sounds cool.
托德：听起来真酷。

Tres: Very cool.
特雷斯：非常酷。