Open the song on Suno to listen to this edition.
Attend to the roots before asking a tree to flourish. Creative direction: guqin, guitar and cello ensemble · clear foreground voiceWhat do these music words mean? ↓
The passage moves from flourishing trees and distant streams through the difference between gaining and keeping power, ending with water that carries or overturns a boat. Changing images sustain one question about neglected foundations.
Sparse describes an uncluttered arrangement, not an incomplete song. Forward vocal requests a prominent place for the voice in the mix, not necessarily louder singing. Hear the texture as narration and accompaniment, keeping the proposed 70 BPM separate from sentence length and measured tempo.
Texture concerns how parts combine, not recording clarity. Follow the roots and spring images, then the sounds around the narration. The requested 70 BPM counts beats, not sung words.
Texture · how parts fit together · a little more Texture is how musical parts combine. Notice what leads and what accompanies it, then how the space around a melody changes as parts enter or leave.
Carnegie Hall · Listen and Learn ↗ Tempo / BPM · how quickly the beat moves · a little more Tempo is musical speed; BPM means beats per minute. Counting the same beat unit, 60 BPM gives one beat per second and 120 gives two, not a count of sung words. Speed differs from loudness, pitch and rhythmic pattern. A number in a Suno brief is a request, not a measured tempo for this recording.
Try listening: Tap a steady beat, then notice how voice or accompaniment moves around it. If no clear beat emerges, follow sustained sounds and their decay instead of forcing a count or treating the prompt number as an answer.
Yamaha · Playing With Tempo ↗ Read the lyrics [Instrumental Intro]
[Verse 1]
臣聞求木之長者，必固其根本；欲流之遠者，必浚其泉源；思國之安者，必積其德義。源不深而望流之遠？根不固而求木之長？德不厚而思國之治，臣雖下愚，知其不可，而況於明哲乎？
[Verse 2]
人君當神器之重，居域中之大，將崇極天之峻，永保無疆之休。不念居安思危，戒奢以儉，德不處其厚，情不勝其欲，斯亦伐根以求木茂，塞源而欲流長也。
凡百元首，承天景命，莫不殷憂而道著，功成而德衰。有善始者實繁，能克終者蓋寡，豈其取之易守之難乎？昔取之而有餘，今守之而不足，何也？
[Instrumental Interlude]
[Verse 3]
夫在殷憂，必竭誠以待下；既得志，則縱情以傲物。竭誠則吳越為一體，傲物則骨肉為行路。
雖董之以嚴刑，震之以威怒，終苟免而不懷仁，貌恭而不心服。怨不在大，可畏惟人。載舟覆舟，所宜深慎，奔車朽索，其可忽乎！
[Instrumental Outro]
