Chapter 22: Perfect Vocal Range
What makes Shen Ning want to see the most in Huang Jiandong's dormitory is a special large room, one is a musical instrument room, the musical instruments are dazzling, neat and tidy, and the other room is a little empty, but it gives people a more shocking feeling, that set of gorgeous equipment, people have no doubt that this is an extremely professional recording studio, this is simply the ultimate dream of every music lover!
Huang Jiandong appeared in the recording studio, and when he saw this kid excitedly touching there, he couldn't help but smile and said, "Want to try?" After taking the admission materials handed over by Huang Jiandong, Shen Ning just glanced at it and put it aside, looked up and asked: "I've been mixing for so long, I really have never tried to record sound in a professional recording studio, and I kind of want to taste what it's like." ”
"Can music be described as mixed!" Huang Jiandong glared at him, then nodded and said, "Then let you try it now, your voice seems to have changed a little now, let's test the vocal range for you first." ”
Shen Ning couldn't help but secretly give a thumbs up, this subtle difference can be detected from the accent, just for this Huang Jiandong lives up to the name of a music master. "This is my twenty melodies excerpted from the world's famous songs, you can familiarize yourself with them first. Huang Jiandong took out a thick loose-leaf diary, took out a few pages and put them in front of Shen Ning.
Shen Ning looked at each one very carefully, and hummed intermittently in his mouth, and soon he found that the melody of these 20 sections was quite extraordinary, worthy of being a world-famous song. Looking at the clear but somewhat dated handwriting on the paper, Shen Ning was in awe of Huang Jiandong for the second time, he quickly put away his mentality, he had absolute reason to believe that Huang Jiandong could help him have a bigger picture on the road of music Shen Ning looked at every note seriously, just proficient in the composition of each melody, which took him more than an hour.
However, Huang Jiandong is very satisfied with this, first, Shen Ning's serious attitude, and second, his speed is also amazing, no one knows the difficulty of these 20 melodies better than him, and he can be familiar with them within an hour, even ordinary music teachers may not be able to do it. "Is it okay?" asked Huang Jiandong through the microphone while carefully adjusting the instrument.
"No problem. Shen Ning's expression was equally rigorous, no matter what world he was in, the recording studio was a sacred place for him, even if it was just a vocal range test. "6th prelude, begin. "53312323......" Shen Ning began to hum without much preparation, because there was only a melody, and what he hummed was only a simple notation, but it did not prevent him from being moved by this beautiful melody, and his mood also changed with the melody.
This is the quality that a professional singer should have, singing, acting in front and singing in the back, a singer who can't "enter the play" will definitely not be an excellent singer. Of course, entering the play also requires deep understanding and life experience, which is a very valuable ability, and this guy's singing talent is also good. In fact, Shen Ning did not disappoint him, the melody of the alto medium speed under this song is completely at the stage level, he is naturally not satisfied, but the range of this melody is in the alto, that is, the tone of ordinary people's speech, which is the sound that most people can make.
In other words, this melody can only be regarded as an appetizer, and then he has to test Shen Ning's performance in other vocal ranges, and before Shen Ning finishes performing this melody, he says: "The first prelude." Shen Ning didn't ask why, immediately cut off this melody, and ventilated into the melody of the first sequence, which was a melody with a middle and high notes......
"Thirteenth preface". ”
“9!”...... Huang Jiandong recorded more and more symbols, and his expression changed with the progress of Shen Ning's singing, from initial satisfaction, then surprise, and finally surprise, until he felt that it might be the last melody, his face was already covered with horror.
"Stop singing, drink tea to moisten your throat, don't swallow it. Huang Jiandong said without raising his head, he was checking the symbols he had written down, and soon he exclaimed: "How is this possible!"
"Lao Huang, what's impossible?" Shen Ning walked out with a teacup and asked curiously. "See for yourself. Huang Jiandong handed him the notebook in his hand, pointed to it and said, "Look, your vocal range can reach 4 and a half octaves!" "Uh, isn't this normal, I'm a genius after all." Shen Ning was stunned for a moment, and then looked arrogant, in fact, he was secretly shocked, how could he reach 4 and a half octaves, he remembered that he used to be about three octaves at most, right? Is it because he changed his body, or is it the sequelae of aliens?
"It's not that people with four and a half octaves have five octaves, but the quality of each of your registers is above the middle high, which is amazing, although your air singing ability is lacking, and the treble lacks burst...... But I can't fault anything in the midrange. Looking at the young man in front of him who was less than 20 years old, Huang Jiandong's mood was very complicated.
In fact, he also had other purposes for testing Shen Ning's vocal range, in addition to helping him test various data, he also used this to persuade him to give up singing and concentrate on creation, but he never expected that Shen Ning would hand over such an answer sheet that any musician would be crazy about! "Huang Lao, what do you mean by this?" Shen Ning is a little different, he takes a wild path in the exploration of music, and he doesn't know much about many professional data.
Roughly speaking, you need to use the chest, abdomen, and lungs to sing to the extreme, and you still have a lot of room for improvement in this regard, and in terms of commercial singing ability, you have reached my standard. Huang Jiandong said helplessly. Shen Ning didn't understand anything about this passage, but he only knew that he seemed to be lacking in physical fitness? He suddenly asked weakly: "Lao Huang, that, what is a commodity singing method?"
"It's the way young people like to sing their favorite songs, which can create huge commercial benefits, but lacks artistic things!" Shen Ning suddenly realized, feelings are popular singing, he is really good at it! He can understand why Huang Jiandong is not very happy, with this old man's achievements now, cultivating a pop singer is definitely not his goal, he probably wants to bring himself to the palace.
The master of the country, such an identity is very tempting, but Shen Ning will not choose to take such a path, who makes him hate the so-called authority most of the time. "If you choose to go the popular route today, you can choose lyric songs and rock, which will do more with less." Huang Jiandong had regained his composure at this time, and although he felt that Shen Ning had the hope of becoming a true palace-level music master, he could not force him to give up a more attractive future.
After a pause, he said: "But on the road of creation, you must not only pattern this, but also make good use of your talent, boldly imagine and try." Shen Ning immediately solemnly promised that he would not give up his attempts in other directions, because he was afraid that if he didn't agree, the old man would really go crazy.
After getting Shen Ning's assurance, Huang Jiandong nodded with satisfaction, and then unceremoniously pressed Shen Ning to continue tinkering in the studio, his purpose was very simple, he simply wanted the studio version of "Childhood" and "I am just as Huang Jiandong commented, Shen Ning's mastery of popular singing songs is perfect, I believe that "I believe" will be recorded once, only in "Childhood" There was a disagreement between the two on this song, and Shen Ning, the big man, naturally wanted to follow Luo Dayou's style, and came up with a very high-sounding reason: When I created this song, I was already satirizing.
But Huang Jiandong insisted that Shen Ning follow a simpler, more childlike style, and his reason was also very simple: "There is nothing wrong with your ideas and creative direction, and it also makes the work more in-depth, but I prefer it to be just a children's song." In the end, Huang Jiandong won, and the "Childhood" recorded by the two is a pure children's rhyme version. After recording and listening to it again, Shen Ning was too lazy to complain, it was no different from the children's rhyme version in his hometown!
"Huang Lao, are you in the recording studio?" said a respectful voice outside the door. Huang Jiandong carefully put away the two songs, and then replied: "I'm here!" "Who?" Shen Ning asked in a low voice. "It was a student who was recommended to me by the school over the years, and I would like to introduce it to you. The two walked out of the recording studio, and Shen Ning saw that there were three people outside, two men and one woman, the older one was a little older, and the other two were handsome men and beautiful women.
However, Huang Jiandong was sorting out the tape as soon as he came out, and he didn't introduce it at all, he could only stand aside and be a quiet beautiful man.
When they saw Shen Ning walking out of Huang Jiandong's recording studio, the three people outside were also startled, but they knew Huang Jiandong's temper, and they never let outsiders disturb them when they officially used the recording studio, even if it was a few of them, they were just allowed to go in in the form of classes.