Chapter 9: The Most Beautiful Melody
A full-length music album generally includes at least ten songs. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 According to the contract, by the end of this year, Xiao Siqi's album must be produced. Excluding the almost one-month recording and production time in the studio, Xiao Siqi will have to submit the scores and lyrics of at least ten songs and song samples to the record company for review in a little more than a month. Writing ten songs a month is of course an almost impossible task for Xiao Siqi, but Xiao Siqi has been preparing for this album before. The time after the car accident for half a year is not counted, and Xiao Siqi was not out of stock for more than a year before.
For this album, Xiao Siqi also wrote more than 20 new songs in more than a year. But Xiao Siqi, who has suffered two consecutive defeats, attaches great importance and strict requirements to this album, which is also extraordinary. Among the more than 20 new songs, Xiao Siqi thinks that the level can be selected into the new album, and so far there are only seven. So what Xiao Siqi needs to do now is to write three more songs with quality that can be selected for the new album in this month's time, and this does not seem to be an impossible task.
After a few months of studying with Xiao Siqi, Xiao Yao has now mastered the basic knowledge of music theory, the basic skills of vocalization and exercising his voice to expand the vocal range, and the basic playing methods of the three musical instruments, and has entered the stage of a lot of practice. Xiao Siqi shifted his energy to the creation of new songs on his album, which did not have much impact on Xiao Yao.
In order to give Xiao Siqi an undisturbed creative space, Xiao Yao moved the instruments he usually used to practice out of the music room, and moved the place where he practiced from the music room to the living room. Anyway, the sound insulation effect of his house is good, even if he practices in the living room, as long as he doesn't press like crazy, he generally won't make noise to the next-door neighbor. As for why he didn't just move to the fitness room, which was about to become Xiao Yao's exclusive room, it was because one of the three musical instruments he had to practice was the piano in the living room, which couldn't be moved.
Xiao Yao's current musical instruments are the electronic organ, piano and ukulele. The electronic organ is currently the most suitable for Xiao Yao's physical condition to learn, and it is also the earliest instrument he learned. After mastering the playing skills of the electronic piano, Xiao Yao hit the idea on the piano, known as the king of musical instruments, and the guitar, which is a flirtatious artifact.
The piano is better to say, after all, the posture and fingering of the electronic organ are almost the same, although his height can not effectively reach the pedal at the bottom, but familiar with the different key feel and timbre differences between the piano and the electronic organ also have a role, and when the physical condition is enough in the future, it is natural to be able to use the piano faster and better to play completely.
The guitar made Xiao Yao a little difficult, his height was not as tall as an ordinary acoustic guitar, and his palms were too small for his fingers to completely cover the six strings on the guitar. Just when Xiao Yao was depressed and prayed that he would grow up soon, a chance mention of the word Hawaii on TV made him think of something else. Ukulele, also known as ukulele. It is very similar to the guitar in terms of shape and playing technique, but the overall size is much smaller than the guitar, and the strings are only four, which can almost be covered by his current small hands. So, Xiao Yao asked Xiao Siqi to learn to play the ukulele.
As a professional musician, Xiao Siqi has never played ukulele, but he also knows about this instrument. Thinking of the size and number of strings of this instrument, he also knew that Xiao Yao was preparing for learning to play the guitar in the future. If a child wants to learn, he is naturally willing to teach. As a person who plays the guitar very well, although I have never played the ukulele, it is naturally easy to learn this kind of instrument that is very similar to the guitar but much simpler, and it is certainly not difficult to teach Xiao Yao after learning it.
Xiao Siqi, who plunged into the music room and devoted himself to creation, originally belonged to taking care of each other with Xiao Yao in life, but now he simply handed over all the trivial things in life to Xiao Yao. For example, Xiao Siqi's cooking skills are very poor, and Xiao Siqi would take Xiao Yao out to eat, but occasionally he was too busy and missed a meal before he called to order takeout. Now it is three meals a day, and Xiao Yao calls to order takeout to solve the problem. Xiao Yao didn't have any dissatisfaction with this, anyway, he just cleaned up the house, he had been living alone in his previous life, and he was very good at doing these jobs.
Of course, Xiao Siqi did not completely isolate himself from Xiao Yao. Whenever he thought he had written a good melody, he would bring Xiao Yao to play it for him. Only when Xiao Yao nodded and said that it was good, he would continue to expand and improve the melody into a complete tune. It's not that Xiao Yao's music literacy is high now, he can only simply tell Xiao Siqi that he is good, average, not good and a few other very subjective evaluation words.
The reason why Xiao Siqi takes Xiao Yao's judgment as a criterion for whether to continue is because Xiao Siqi was deeply impressed by Xiao Yao's extraordinary performance, in order to test his most intuitive feeling for musical works, he once interpreted Xiao Yao's more than 20 songs that he had completed one by one, and let him sort them according to how good they sounded。 Therefore, Xiao Siqi, who thinks that Xiao Yao's musical taste and aesthetics are very positive, regards Xiao Yao as the first inspector of his music.
Xiao Siqi seems to be a bit childish in doing this, but he has a somewhat childish personality, once he becomes willful, he is... It's that capricious.
However, making music is really not something that will pay off after hard work. More than ten days have passed, and Xiao Siqi still hasn't created a song that satisfies him enough to put it on a new album. Seeing Xiao Siqi getting haggard day by day, Xiao Yao felt a little unbearable. He has seen Xiao Siqi's performance during this time, he has worked hard enough and worked hard enough. Xiao Yao wondered if it was time for him to open his golden finger and help him.
Xiao Yao, who has been in this world for more than half a year, already knows the world quite well. Especially after returning to his own home, after getting a higher family status in getting along with Xiao Siqi, he has already gained a tablet of his own and the right to surf the Internet at any time. During his time studying music, he naturally learned about the entertainment industry in today's world. I learned that this world has turned a corner a hundred years ago compared to the previous life, the historical trend is the same, the events are still there, but the characters and time have changed. The same is true in the entertainment industry, the history and trend of the development and evolution of pop culture and pop trends have not changed, but those who lead the trend are different, and those trend-setting classics are also different, that is, those classic music and film and television works that I heard in my previous life have not appeared in this world. The same culture, the same trend, the same aesthetics, then the classics of the past life are moved to the current world, and they are naturally still classics. The classics in my memory are equivalent to a private treasure trove.
After rebirth learned about his family, Xiao Yao once lamented that his life had entered a simple mode after reading the file. Later, he took the initiative to learn all kinds of things and set various learning goals, but Xiao Yao forcibly increased the difficulty of his life, and when he felt that his life exceeded the ordinary mode and moved closer to the difficult mode, this discovery undoubtedly made his life seem to return to the simple mode. In order to make his life less boring and boring, Xiao Yao originally didn't plan to open the gold finger so early, but seeing Xiao Siqi's miserable appearance, he felt that it was okay to open the gold finger in advance and take something out of the clip bag.
Xiao Yao naturally has a lot of classic songs from his previous life in his mind, but he still has to think of some ways to give the songs to Xiao Siqi. Xiao Siqi insisted that the songs in his album must be his own original. Whoever threw him a finished piece of work, he wouldn't ask for it. So Xiao Yao still has to think that the classic songs he chose were "created" by Xiao Siqi himself. As a result, it seems that there are not so many songs to choose from.
"Dad, rest for a while and talk to me. ”
On this day, Xiao Yao, who finally came up with a way, pulled out Xiao Siqi, who had been soaking in the music room for more than an hour, and sat down on the sofa in the living room. I sat in the seat where I usually practiced.
"What is there to talk about. Xiao Siqi smiled helplessly.
"Let's talk about it. Xiao Yao smiled and said, "Look at your light bubble music room every day." Grandpa taught me a word called relaxation, and also taught me a sentence called speed is not enough, so I let you relax properly. Take a break, change your mind, and maybe get some new inspiration. ”
Xiao Siqi also understands the truth that if you want to hurry, you can't reach it, and seeing that her son is so considerate, she can't live up to her son's heart. I had to say, "Okay, what do you want to talk about? I don't have your grandfather's literary level." As he spoke, he adjusted a more comfortable position on the sofa, obviously wanting to relax.
"Let's talk about you and my mother. Xiao Yao tilted his head and thought for a moment, then asked, "Is my mother beautiful?"
"Of course it's beautiful," Xiao Siqi said with a smile: "There are photos of her everywhere in the house, and you can't see it." ”
"Then is my mother the most beautiful woman in your heart?" Xiao Yao continued. As Xiao Siqi answered, his fingers pressed a string of notes on the electronic keyboard.
"Of course, in my heart, your mother is the most beautiful woman in the world. Xiao Siqi sighed, as if recalling Chen Zilin. Then he found that something was wrong, and asked Xiao Yao suspiciously, "What song did you play just now?"
"It's not a tune, so I just played a piece of it. Xiao Yao smiled deliberately and said, "I heard you say that your mother is the most beautiful woman in your heart just now, so naturally I played it a few times." ”
"It seems to be very good, you wait, I'm going to write it down. Xiao Siqi said excitedly: "I also have the words all of a sudden." As far as I just said, you are the most beautiful in my heart. ”
Watching Xiao Siqi excitedly go to get the blank stave and pencil, the corners of Xiao Yao's mouth quietly curled an arc. What he just played was the melody of the first sentence of the chorus in Yuquan's highly sung song "The Most Beautiful" in his previous life. As a highly literate musician, Xiao Siqi can naturally hear the excellence of this melody. Even the lyrics that matched it popped out of Xiao Siqi's mouth under the guidance of Xiao Yao's deliberate language.
However, Xiao Yao only played the first line of the chorus, only two bars, which is far from a complete work. It takes effort to make this song take shape in Xiao Siqi's hands. Xiao Yao can't and doesn't plan to play the complete song to Xiao Siqi, so this song won't be Xiao Siqi's original. Xiao Yao's plan is to pick out a few impressive bars of the main song and the chorus, pretend to pop them out inadvertently, and let Xiao Siqi improve the rest. When many musicians write songs, they also have a great melody first, and then slowly and gradually add and improve it to form the main song and chorus, and then fill in the lyrics, and finally become a complete song, which is a normal creative process.
Watching Xiao Siqi accurately turn the melody he just played into notes on paper, and also add words below, Xiao Yao continued: "Dad, let's continue to talk, tell me what you and my mother were like when you went on a first date?
"Hey, I said you're a kid, how do you know so much? Forget it, you're not an ordinary kid anyway. Xiao Siqi threw the pen and paper on the coffee table, turned around and leaned comfortably on the sofa. "The first date, of course, is to send flowers, date, in addition to sending roses to girls, can you also send carnations?" Xiao Siqi said with a smile, as if recalling the first date with Chen Zilin.
Xiao Yao nodded seriously and said, "Judging from the performance of living with you in the past few months, I think it is quite appropriate for you to send carnations." ”
Xiao Siqi was stunned for a while before he reacted, Xiao Yao was saying that his life skills were too poor, and Chen Zilin was obviously taking care of everything in life. Chen Zilin is taking care of Xiao Siqi like a mother taking care of her son.
"Hey, isn't it begging for a beating, did you say that about Dad?" Xiao Siqi said angrily.