Wu Hongrong is indeed a good partner.
As soon as Chen Minhao proposed the idea of adjusting the number of songs in the album, he immediately reorganized Chen Minhao's album production project schedule and determined the key tasks for the next two weeks:
Currently, Chen Minhao's song writing and composing progress is 4/6, song recording and mixing progress is 2/6, and MV progress is 0/2.
Chen Minhao's focus in the next two weeks will still be songwriting.
In Wu Hongrong's view, Chen Minhao's album has been 80% successful. Excluding a small number of ardent fans, the popularity of an album ultimately depends to a large extent on the quality of the album and the preferences of the audience. As for publicity and promotion, it is just a means to let more people know about the album.
Chen Minhao has created 4 songs so far, each of which is a classic. Therefore, even if the songs Chen Minhao writes next are relatively mediocre, it will not affect Chen Minhao's first album "Farewell" from hitting platinum records and even becoming a classic.
However, in Chen Minhao's view, the four songs he presented are only the first step in a long journey of thousands of miles, and the next arrangement is a tough battle to be fought.
Perhaps in the eyes of Wu Hongrong, and even most musicians, the most difficult thing about creating an album is writing songs and composing music. But for Chen Minhao, the really difficult job is arranging music.
Chen Minhao also has hundreds of songs from the earth in his head as a backing. But his knowledge of arranging was almost zero.
Composing and arranging are two completely different things. A person may not have a musical foundation, but he may be good at composing and writing lyrics, but he may be good at composing. After all, all he needs to do is have a feeling. But arranging is not like this. To arrange music, you must know a lot of things:
You need to understand the most basic music theory, you need to understand harmony, you need to understand orchestration, you need to understand music style, you also need to know how to make music in general, and the most important thing is to train your ears very well.
In fact, in modern music, especially pop music, different people are often responsible for composing and arranging.
What matters to the composer is the grasp and inspiration of the melody, while what the arranger considers is how to use techniques to embody the melody. To put it simply, the composer gives the skeleton, while the arranger gives the flesh and blood.
The world after Chen Minhao's time travel is not a wasteland of music. There is no shortage of master arrangers here. All of Chen Minhao's previous songs were arranged by Wu Hongrong. Judging from the effect, there are not many. Chen Minhao originally didn't have to worry about the arrangement of the songs. The problem of music.
But the Chinese style in this world has not grown up. The so-called Chinese style is just that the lyrics have become more formal, or the lyrics contain some traditional Chinese allusions. But the soundtrack is no different from ordinary pop music: violin, piano, guitar, etc.
This is not the Chinese style song that Chen Minhao wanted.
The Chinese style that Chen Minhao wants, or in other words, what he wants to convey with "Thousands of Miles Away" and "Fireworks Easily Cold" is actually a classical flavor, by adding some oriental musical instruments: such as erhu, guzheng, Xiao, pipa, etc. Let the tune be melodious and loopy, reflecting the traditional oriental beauty.
A thousand pieces of gold are hard to come by, but a general is even harder to find.
In his previous life, Zhou Jielun's "East Wind Breaks" opened the door to the Chinese style. His "Hair Like Snow" and "Thousands of Miles Away" are its extensions, and "Blue and White Porcelain" takes the Chinese style to the extreme.
After Zhou Jielun opened up this path, more people began to get involved in this field of music.
Because there is no Zhou Jie Lun in this world, no arranger has had similar experience, and no one can even intuitively understand what Chen Minhao wants.
Chen Minhao seemingly agreed casually and asked Qian Jinyun to arrange these two songs, but in fact it was after careful consideration:
First, lack of experience in Chinese style is a common problem among arrangers in the world, and another person will not be better.
Second, Qian Jinyun has good experience and ability in arranging pop music. Chen Minhao, the arranger of his "Later" and "Li Ren", is quite satisfied.
Third, Qian Jinyun pursues perfection in his work. From the arrangement of "Li Ren", it can be seen that Qian Jinyun is an expert in details. This song was originally taken out first, but Qian Jinyun was so obsessed with details that he asked "Li Ren" to record the song after "Later". When exploring a new field, it is very important to pursue the ultimate attitude.
Fourthly, Qian Jinyun is a rather down-to-earth and optimistic person. To put it bluntly, he is "resistant to fuck". He is the type of obedient Party A who will still obediently change his manuscript when he encounters a perverted Party A who asks Party B to revise the manuscript 200 times.
And Chen Minhao will soon play the role of pervert Party A. w(゜Д゜)w
Taking these points together, Chen Minhao could not find a more suitable candidate than Qian Jinyun.
Thinking of this, Chen Minhao looked at Qian Jinyun and smiled warmly at him.
Qian Jinyun looked excited when he saw Chen Minhao looking at him, and responded to Chen Minhao with an eight-tooth smile, thinking: It feels so good to be recognized.
Chen Minhao doesn't have procrastination, at least not in his work. He started preparing the arrangement of two songs with Qian Jinyun that afternoon.
The place where the two discussed was in the office that Chen Minhao had just rented with a monthly rent of 150,000 yuan. Now there were only the two of them on the entire floor. It was very empty. Chen Minhao even felt that there was an echo of the two people talking.
Chen Minhao said with a smile: "I hope that these two songs can use more traditional Chinese instruments in the soundtrack, because I understand that Chinese-style songs do not just pursue superficial lyrics. I think, I used the guitar in the morning Playing these two songs takes away at least half of their charm.”
Qian Jinyun tilted his head, but his eyes were shining, and said: "Brother Chen, the idea you mentioned this morning about using traditional Chinese musical instruments to score music is really great. It will definitely make the audience's eyes light up, no, their ears. It’s a bright feeling. But there are too many Chinese musical instruments, and the skills of using a single instrument are also broad and profound. Which instruments do you want to use?”
Chen Minhao was stunned for a moment and thought: This question is a bit too high for me.
Chen Minhao was worried about Qian Jinyun's arrangement problem and continued to ask questions but he couldn't answer. He decided to change his passiveness into activeness once and for all. He leaned back in his chair leisurely and said:
"Using Chinese musical instruments is a kind of innovation in itself. Innovation requires giving yourself the wings of imagination. I don't want my ideas to limit your performance."
Qian Jinyun looked touched. This sense of trust that was fully authorized was so good.
As soon as Chen Minhao finished speaking, he didn't give Qian Jinyun any time to ask questions, and continued: "Of course innovation is not just imagination without any foundation. We can draw some nutrients from Chinese opera."
Qian Jinyun showed an expression of sudden enlightenment, thinking that he had keenly interpreted Chen Minhao's hint: "Brother Hao, you are so right. The long turn in the drama and the modern RNB turn singing can actually be well integrated. .”
Chen Minhao nodded slightly in agreement.
Some people seem to have the overall situation in hand, but in fact they are confused.
(End of chapter)