Musical originality is not a simple matter. In the 80s of the last century, Chinese pop music once fell into a trough, music companies in order to make money as soon as possible, some singers in order to become famous as soon as possible, plagiarism and cover songs are endless, but there are very few real Chinese original music. Why is this happening, the reason is very simple, it takes a lot of time and energy to invest a lot of time and energy in doing anything original, but sometimes, it is not that you can get a return for your time and energy, it is likely that a song you worked hard to make is not popular when it is put on the market, then the cost of time and energy is wasted. It is precisely because it is time-consuming and labor-intensive to engage in original music, and there are certain risks, that music companies would rather buy some song copyrights that have been tested by the market from Dongying and Europe and the United States, which can not only save a lot of time, but also ensure that a singer's album will definitely make money.

Therefore, in the eighties and nineties, many of the popular songs sung by singers were from Dongying and Europe and the United States, and even if there were some original songs, most of them were "inferior products" imitated by popular songs that were very popular in the West, and the few fine works were all painstakingly saved by master songwriters. So don't look at the music industry in the eighties and nineties that seemed to be very prosperous, in fact, most of them were glamorous on the surface, but in fact they were false appearances.

I still remember that in the early 90s, the BEYOND band went to Dongying for development, and the reporter once asked: "Why are you dissatisfied with the Xiangjiang music scene and choose to go to Dongying for development?"

Huang Jiaju replied, "There is no "music scene" in Xiangjiang, only "music scene". You go and see who is the best singer at the music awards ceremony every year? What songs are selected? It's all cover version songs. ”

When Huang Jiaju died in an accident, Luo Dayou, the godfather of music on Taiwan Island, once said, "So far, there are no real musicians in Hong Kong, except for Huang Jiaju." ”

It can be seen from this that how difficult it is to make original music, not only the various temptations brought by commercialization, but also the originality itself requires great talent to support, why Huang Jiaju and Jay Chou were in a mess back then, why Luo Dayou and Cui Jian are called the godfathers of music, this is because they are original singers, and they have found their own style and found a new development direction for the music world, this is the person who really creates music.

So today, if a singer wants to really gain a foothold in the music world, whether he can create is also one of the key factors, why Mao Buyi, who wrote "Dispel Sorrow" and "People Like Me", can become popular for a long time, and other stars who have come out of the draft are fleeting, in addition to the publicity of the brokerage company, the more important reason is Mao Buyi's own creative talent, which also marks that the Chinese music scene is developing in a direction that attaches importance to talent.

It's far away, back to the point.

When Shan Bao and Lao Zai heard that the two chose to be original, the two teachers did not object, and directly changed the topic, and began to provide some directional suggestions to Zhang Wei and Qin Mengmeng, and pointed out some problems that newcomers are prone to in creation, and gave help to the two students from a macro perspective, and even said that after the works of the two came out, they could help guide without signatures, and this kind of support is a rare opportunity for newcomers.

At lunchtime, Teacher Liu Huan said to Zhang Wei and Qin Mengmeng: "Since you want to be original, then let's do this, I will give you two a holiday this afternoon and tomorrow, you can get a song sample first, I will see how you are capable of originality, if you lack the ability in this area, then it is best to choose the adaptation as soon as possible, because our time is indeed very tight, and there are only five days left." ”

Since the mentor said so, the two also chose to accept this test.

For originality, Zhang Wei is not false at all, because he has hundreds of millions of songs and music inherited by the elves in his mind, although these songs are very different from the original music style of the earth in terms of style, but as the old saying goes, music has no borders. Music is a special "language", and this art is probably the only language on the whole earth that can appreciate the charm and ideas without knowing the language and culture of the other country. For example, the "Qin King Breaking Array Music" of the Tang Dynasty in China, no matter which country in the world is put to perform, people can appreciate the magnificent style of the prosperous and prosperous country in the heyday of the Tang Dynasty thousands of years ago through this majestic music.

Most of the music of the elves is close to nature, and the style is mostly based on beautiful melodies, wide breath, pure emotions, and distant tunes, which are somewhat similar to the song styles of Tibetan and Mongolian ethnic groups, but they are more pure and pure than them. Therefore, Zhang Wei is not afraid that the copied elf music will not be popular.

After eating, Liu Huan took Zhang Wei and Qin Mengmeng to say goodbye to Shanbao and Lao Zai, and returned to the hotel. He asked Zhang Wei and Qin Mengmeng to go to a small training room assigned by the program team to their team, and there were electronic organs, guitars, drums and other musical instruments in the training room, which was convenient for singers to write songs and arrange songs. I don't want there to be a small problem here, the program team rented a total of four small training rooms from the Xingmang Film and Television Base, corresponding to four mentors, that is to say, the two players in each mentor team want to share a training room, but Qin Mengmeng proposed to Zhang Wei that she didn't like to be disturbed when creating, so she hoped to use this training room with Zhang Wei in turn, and pretended to be generous that she could let Zhang Wei use it for two hours first, and then use it at three o'clock.

In fact, Qin Mengmeng's careful thinking Zhang Wei is very clear, it is nothing more than to see that Liu Huan is not there now, so let herself use it first, and by three o'clock in the afternoon, Liu Huan should also get up, and she will definitely come here to see the situation, so that she can create under the guidance of her mentor.

Although he saw through Qin Mengmeng's careful thoughts, Zhang Wei didn't fight with her, but said lightly: "There's no need, since you like to create alone, then this training room will be given to you." ”

After speaking, Zhang Wei didn't wait for Qin Mengmeng to say anything, then turned around and left the training room. After Zhang Wei left, he went directly to the office of the program team and found Kong Junmin, the assistant director on duty, and said that he wanted to rent a separate training room, which needed to provide a piano, a guitar and pen and paper, and this cost would be paid by himself. Originally, it was a bit unruly for the players to rent the training room by themselves, but who let Zhang Wei have a background, Kong Junmin didn't say much about this, and took Zhang Wei to find the business department of the film and television base, helped Zhang Wei go through the rental procedures, and arranged it according to Zhang Wei's requirements. In the film and television base, the rent of this kind of training room is calculated by the hour, one hundred and eighty yuan per hour, and if it is rented by day, it is four thousand yuan a day, which is not cheap, but this money is nothing to Zhang Wei now, he is really too lazy to deal with a woman like Qin Mengmeng.

Coming to the rented training room, after communicating with Zhang Wei, Kong Junmin quickly arranged for the camera crew to install a full range of cameras and radio microphones in the training room.

In the training room, Zhang Wei put the pen and paper in place, sat motionless on the sofa, and was actually quickly searching for the songs of the elves in his head, preparing to directly select three songs from them.

After about half an hour, Zhang Wei found three songs from the huge music library of the elves, which were very close to the music style of the earth, and the names of these three songs were "My Hometown is in Tedamir", "The Battle of Kalimdor" and "The Light of Artemis".

Because of the camera, Zhang Wei couldn't directly get all three songs out at once, so he had to pretend to play the piano for a while, write a few times on paper, play the guitar for a while, and write a few times on paper, and from time to time jump on the sofa and yell a few times like a nervous disorder, or sit in the corner in a daze for a while, and then hum a few melodies gently. During this period, Zhang Wei even crumpled many pieces of paper into a ball or tore them into pieces in front of the camera to show the difficulty and difficulty of creation.

When Zhang Wei finally copied the melody of the first song "My Hometown is in Tedamire" on paper, a new problem arose, the songs of the elf clan are all sung in Elf, and it is not suitable to extend it in Chinese. Everyone knows that the words and songs of a song should pay attention to rhyme, for example, an English song sounds good, but you may become a little discordant or even difficult to sing when you directly translate it into Chinese, which is caused by the non-rhyme between the words and the song. So Zhang Wei had to rearrange the lyrics according to the melody of the song, which is not an easy task, because once the lyrics created cannot fit the original melody of the song, then the song will have bad words and ruin a good song.

Fortunately, Zhang Wei got the inheritance of the musical skills of the elves, and also had a certain experience in writing lyrics, even so, Zhang Wei also spent several hours to get a similar word, during this period, when there was really something that could not be bypassed, Zhang Wei was very decisive to modify a little melody, in order to make the lyrics more harmonious.

After Zhang Wei's re-creation, "My Hometown in Tardamir" was renamed "I Wish to Be the Wind", and some changes have also taken place in the tune, originally this song was with a faint sense of longing, but the main theme is full of a warm and distant feeling, after Zhang Wei's modification, this song retains the feeling of longing, but the melody has become sad and long.

Zhang Wei picked up the completed version of "I Wish to Be the Wind" on the table and read the words gently.

"I Wish to Be the Wind"

Words: Zhang Wei

Music: Zhang Wei

It all starts with the beginning,

Life and stories have a beginning and an end

We all know the predetermined ending

Why not relax and experience the process

It's all going to happen,

What can be done with melancholy and sadness?

People care about winning or losing

It turned out that there was still no control

The clusters of flowers on the other side of the Huangquan Road

The red is so poignant

I would like to be the wind and send the withered petals high

Let the past go with the wind

The parting in the life before the Sansheng Stone is bitter

The acting is so hard

I would like the wind to dissipate with the promise that once had

Finish the last mile

Zhang Wei read the words once, then sat in front of the piano, put the white paper on the music rack where the lyrics were laid out, and began to play the piano according to the pavement, over and over again, playing more and more fluently, Zhang Wei also entered the state more and more. When he played the song "I Wish to Be the Wind" again, Zhang Wei sang the lyrics along with the melody, although there was no sound effect, but it was like a natural sound.

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I haven't written lyrics, just for the needs of the text, I know that the writing is unprofessional, everyone is not surprised.

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