Chapter 900: Wonderful adaptation
Jason asked Liu Yan, "Have you adapted your tune?"
"Well, the score is here," Liu Yan took out a piece of paper from her school bag.
Jason looked closely, and he noticed that there were many Chinese characters written under the score, "What is this?"
"I added a poem from an ancient Chinese text as a harmony lyric to the adapted paragraph," Liu explained to Jason the meaning of "Guan Ju".
Jason raised his eyebrows, he understood Liu Yan's intentions, and he also found it interesting, "I collided with the ancient Chinese poems?
"I'm sorry, I added harmony on my own initiative, if you think harmony is redundant......"
"It's okay, you can perform for me and Scott now," Jason had never added Chinese harmonies to his songs, and he had a vague expectation.
Liu Yan nodded, no longer delaying time, Jason very gentlemanly helped her move a chair, so that she could sit in front of the coffee table and play the piano, but the coffee table was too low to sit, and it was difficult to stand and play. If you don't have a professional piano stand or table, you might as well play it on your lap. Liu Yan picked up the guqin from the coffee table and sat on the ground.
As soon as this solemn posture of stroking the qin came out, it was full of aura, which made Jason and Scott also serious, and the two of them sat down on the chair opposite Liu Yan.
Liu Yan didn't say polite words such as "offering ugliness" to the two of them, her fingers plucked the strings, and the adapted melody immediately sounded from her fingertips, long and deep, it was a completely different style from the original song, if you were a layman, you wouldn't be able to hear it at all, they were the same song.
Liu Yan opened her mouth and sang: "Guan Guan Ju Dove, in the river island." My Fair Lady, Gentleman ......"
He Lushen only uploaded a video of Liu Yan playing a musical instrument on YouTube, Jason didn't expect her singing voice to be so good - although he didn't understand what Liu Yan was singing at all, the unfathomable Chinese was the same as chanting a mantra in his ears, but it was a pure heart mantra, Jason was just like Peter, who had just heard Liu Yan play the piano, and those few impressions of China flashed in his mind, Chinese-style palaces and temples, bronze and ceramics in museums, girls in wide-sleeved and long skirts, and men who liked her...... Imagery is automatically formed in consciousness without understanding the lyrics, and this is the charm of music.
The last trace of doubt about Liu Yan in Jason's heart disappeared.
He remembered that he and Peter talked about Liu Yan, Peter was full of praise for her, he was a little unimpressed at the time, it turned out that Peter didn't brag for Liu Yan at all, a girl like Liu Yan is like a kaleidoscope, every time she shakes a circle, there are new patterns in front of her eyes.
Jason is also proud of his unique vision, his initial love at first sight for the princess of the Han Dynasty is not wrong, not so much that he likes Liu Yan, but that he prefers the inner agitation brought by talented girls, so that he can pick up pen and paper again to write this new song after being rumored to be exhausted by Jiang Lang's talent.
Liu Yan was engrossed in playing the piano and singing this poem that was familiar to her, and she wanted to show her best side in front of Jason and his agent, it is said that before Jason's debut, he also took a guitar and walked to Scott's office, played and sang a tune by himself, and won his appreciation.
Don't look at Scott's greasy uncle, he was also a professional musician when he was young, and his alma mater is still the Juilliard School, but he gave up music halfway to start business, of course, he also has a mine at home, so he can do business without worries.
In addition to Jason, Scott's record company has also discovered many well-known American singers, Scott has a keen ability to recognize voices, whether a singer can make money, he can listen to the other party sing a sentence or two.
Now, he can be sure that Liu Yan can not only make money by playing the piano, but also by singing.
There was a soothing magic to her soothing voice, and Scott's impetuous disagreement with Jason over the price in the morning, as well as his haste to come to China and disrupt other work, gradually calmed down. He faced Liu Yan's face, which had not been very expressive, and smiled slightly.
After Liu Yan finished playing her arrangement, she looked at Jason and Scott with some trepidation, like a student finishing his homework and waiting for the teacher's guidance or criticism. It's not that she doesn't have confidence in her guqin skills, but she doesn't know if foreign musicians can appreciate the charm of Chinese instruments and understand what she wants to express.
Moreover, an adaptation is just an adaptation after all, Liu Yan feels that good is only self-esteem, as the original author of the song, whether Jason is satisfied or not is the most important thing.
To her surprise, Scott applauded before Jason, "It's great, oh no, it's amazing, I never thought that Chinese style can be so cool, I can already imagine how amazing this new song with Chinese style can do in the hearts of J's fans." ”
"Yes, I want to see that scene more than you do," Jason said he wanted to grab Liu Yan with the guqin on his back and go back to the United States with him to his exclusive recording studio to record the song.
Seeing that two foreigners liked her performance, the corners of Liu Yan's mouth couldn't help but curl.
Shen Mozhen told Liu Yan before that when she was in the National Chinese Orchestra, she toured Europe with the orchestra, and the audience attendance rate for each performance was less than one-half, and the audience was mostly Chinese and other Asians.
However, if foreigners are really not interested, why did "Autumn Moon" and Liu Yan and Li Xiaoru's YouTube music videos become popular? Why did Jason make a special trip from the United States?
Perhaps it was because of the difference in the form of performance, that foreign audiences were not interested in the kind of orthodox Chinese music performances, or maybe it was just the bad luck of the Chinese orchestra, they did not get good publicity.
However, if you want to officially cooperate with Liu Yan, with her accompaniment and her harmony, you must not continue to rely on yourself as a victim of the scam and let Liu Yan work for him for free. They had to sign a contract with her, finalize the details of the cooperation, and negotiate the price.
It's time for the key price issue again, how much is the right amount to invite Liu Yan?
The two discussed in a low voice, and the experienced Scott said, "$1 million is enough, and with you, she can reap greater benefits." ”
In the entertainment industry, whether at home or abroad, the cooperation between the big coffee and the small coffee is definitely the one who takes advantage, and some small stars are not a few who serve big stars for free in order to rub their thighs.
Jason felt that 1 million was a bit less, but Scott was adamant, he conceded 7 million, how much more? Jason looked back and looked at the girl who deliberately avoided them, standing in the corner of the room and looking down at her phone.
An idea popped into my head.