Chapter 3 Ask your classmates for help
In the next three days, Du Xinghe lived in the Yun World to create "The New Mandarin Duck Butterfly Dream". It was too easy for Du Xinghe to write the lyrics and music of this song, including arrangement.
In the past world, he was hiding in Chengtian for ten years and did almost nothing else. He studied pop music and music history every day, and studied pop songs from the past few decades.
Du Xinghe has studied why the songs that were popular all over the streets and how they became popular, just to absorb the advantages of those songs and take them for themselves.
Now coming to this new world, Du Xinghe has examined the pop music styles and trends of this world from the perspective of insiders.
The pop music in this world has come to this day, which is very similar to the early 1990s when he was in the world he had been in before. It has just passed a period of rapid development and gradually revealed the bottleneck of the single style of music.
Just look at the best-selling albums here, you will know that the same urban love songs are all products from the industrial assembly line. Not to mention the world before Du Xinghe traveled through, even compared with the music from this world ten years ago, it seems that the personality is getting smaller and smaller and the theme is getting more and more similar.
The signs of profit-seeking in the music industry here are too serious. Record companies pay attention to maximizing profitability and simplifying the process of songs, thus neglecting the cultural depth and exploration of the music itself.
It is true that the earliest group of original folk singers have gained a foothold in the mainstream music scene here, but their initial creative enthusiasm and creativity, as the commercial cake grows bigger and bigger, has already felt like they are hollowed out, and the songs they created are becoming more and more like boiled water.
It can be said that the mechanicality of the musicians here has long surpassed their earlier emotions and sensibility.
At this time, if Du Xinghe launched the ancient style "New Mandarin Duck Butterfly Dream", it would inevitably attract attention. After all, the pop music in this world needs to be injected with fresh blood to stimulate the ears of the audience.
If the TV series "Bao Qingtian" here can also be popular, then the sensation caused by this ending song may even be more intense than in another world!
With this idea, Du Xinghe devoted himself to the creation of "New Mandarin Duck Butterfly Dream".
For this antique work with the famous work of Li Bai of the Tang Dynasty poet Li Bai's "Farewell to the proofreader Shuyun at Xie Fenglou in Xuanzhou", the lyrics of half-text and half-white are modern in the classical classics, just right, and amazing, and there is no need to change them at all.
But the song has to be changed and the new one is called "Mandarin ducks and butterflies Dream".
Neoclassical styles do not need to be changed.
But Du Xinghe had to think about the arrangement and the arrangement himself. He could not have completely remembered how the arrangement of this song was composed.
He only remembers that this song, like another popular song "Waiting for a Thousand Years", used Westernized instruments to play classical oriental charm, and used string music to replace traditional national instruments such as zheng, Xiao and flute to interpret the atmosphere of the work, and the effect was very special.
Taking this direction, Du Xinghe quickly compiled the song.
Next is the trial recording and arrangement.
The arrangement of this song requires the combination of various instruments such as bass, electronic piano, drum set, violin, etc., and it is impossible for Du Xinghe to complete it alone.
The band in their company has terminated the contract, and Du Xinghe has no money to invite someone outside to play. As a last resort, he can only ask classmates from Huaguang Art School to help.
Previously studying at Huaguang Art School, Du Xinghe participated in an orchestra called "Chaos", and he served as the lead singer and guitarist; the bassist was Ma Qi, a big man in the theater class; the drummer and leader was Zhang Xiaozhe, the oldest senior among them; and the electronic piano was his classmate Liao Nan.
These people are not from professional musical instruments, but their musical skills are pretty good. As long as they write the score clearly, they can all play it.
The orchestration of "Mandarin Ducks and Butterfly Dreams" is not difficult. Du Xinghe can play the violin himself and use the main melody of the violin to bring other instruments, which can be easily completed.
In this era, students with a little money were equipped with BP machines. That afternoon, Du Xinghe called Liao Nan and asked him to call all Chaos members to Qingyun Building.
After putting down the phone, within an hour, three members of the group wearing a light blue shirt uniform of Huaguang Art School rushed to Yunshi Records.
As soon as they met, Liao Nan, who had Ah Fu's head, immediately hit Du Xinghe's chest and sighed to him: "Adu, you are really slacking off! I really admire you so much!"
Looking at the rock posters covered with rock and roll posters around the walls of the conference room, the big guy Ma Qi also felt that Du Xinghe was very arrogant and said stubbornly: "If my father can leave me such a record company, I will also drop out of school."
Zhang Xiaozhe gave Ma Qi a look and scolded him: "What are you talking about! Don't talk so much nonsense!"
Zhang Xiaozhe was worried that Ma Qi's words would hurt Du Xinghe. After all, Du Xinghe had just lost his father.
Du Xinghe smiled disapprovingly and said, "It's okay, I've survived it a long time ago. Don't worry about these things. I'll call you today, because I need you to do my best."
"What do you need to do? Just say it, why are you doing these words?" Half shorter than Du Xinghe, Liao Nan and Du Xinghe had a strong relationship. They beat Du Xinghe's thin chest and blamed him.
Seeing that other members expressed the same attitude, Du Xinghe smiled gratefully and stopped approaching him and said directly: "Huashi has a new drama called "Bao Qingtian", which requires our company to create the ending song. Originally, my father had to write this song, but my father had lost half of it, so I could only continue writing it for him. Now I have finished writing this song and need an arrangement and assortment. I asked you guys to come here to record the song."
"Damn, that's all? I thought you were going to care about us borrowing money, so I didn't even dare to bring my wallet, haha." Ma Qi smiled relaxedly.
"Does your dad have no band in his own company? Why don't you hire a professional bandmate?" Zhang Xiaozhe, who has the most rigorous style, raised a question.
"I'm not afraid of you making fun of it. My dad's record company is about to go bankrupt and all the employees have left. Now I am the only commander who has no penny on the account. How can I afford a band? Now I'm waiting to use this ending song to reverse the decline."
"It's so miserable?" Liao Nan's expression, who had always been happy, became solemn when he heard Du Xinghe's seriousness.
"No, I've been eating instant noodles for several days." He pointed to the three of them with his eyes at a pile of instant noodles buckets on the windowsill. These are his three meals and midnight snacks these days.
"I really didn't expect that your father's death would have such a big impact on your family." Liao Nan said sympathetically. Looking at Du Xinghe, who was lively and fussy in school in the past, fell to the point where he had to rely on instant noodles to survive now, Liao Nan felt uncomfortable.
"Adu, can we record it for you based on our level? Don't delay any more trouble." Realizing the seriousness of the matter, Zhang Xiaozhe took out his wallet and said to Du Xinghe: "If you want to be short of money, we will all make up for you. You might as well invite a professional band to record."
"No, no, let's record it yourself." Du Xinghe held Zhang Xiaozhe's hand that was asking for money and said, "I'll call everyone today, just to record a sample of the soundtrack. When Huashi decides to make a decision, I will invite a professional band to record it."
"That's it, that's fine, you both are energetic and help Xinghe with things!"
At the command of Zhang Xiaozhe, Liao Nan and Ma Qi were ready to enter the recording studio with special soundtracks.
Chapter completed!