BEER will?

Ye Zhaozheng was confused, and Oda Tetsuro spoke first, "Meixiang, be reserved, don't pull people as soon as you meet." ”

Dahei Moji explained to Ye Zhao: "BEER will be an internal party initiated by Meixiang in the company, and the characteristic is that, as the name suggests, you can only drink beer during the party. The two big brothers, Brother Oda, Noboru Uesugi of WANDS, Takahiro Matsumoto and Hiroshi Inaba of B'z, Mirei Takahashi and Mari Nishimoto of MANISH, and of course me, are all members of this association. ”

"Didn't Miss Sakai Izumi participate?" After listening to the names of the big stars, but not hearing the most familiar name, Ye Zhao couldn't help but blurt out.

When Oda Tetsuro heard this, he laughed and said, "Moji, have you seen it, sure enough, this kid is also thinking about the spring water." While looking at Ye Zhao, he said: "Let me tell you, since Quanshui announced that she would no longer be on TV, many people want to come to the company as employees and see her beauty." Sure enough, in this world, appearance is justice!"

Ye Zhao looked away a little embarrassed. He didn't sign a contract with BEING because he was worried about Sakai Spring, although it was good to see Sakai Spring...... Ahem.

Daihei Moji relieved the siege and said: "Don't care, Brother Oda is just teasing, Izumi doesn't participate because she doesn't drink beer." Later, Daihei Moji once expressed dissatisfaction with a certain actress who was "average in strength and popular by appearance" on a talk show, and as a result, many people thought she was talking about Sakai Spring Water, and the matter became more and more mysterious, and finally derived gossip such as "Dahei Moji and Sakai Spring Water have a very poor relationship". In fact, these two entered BEING almost at the same time, and their private contacts are more frequent, although the relationship is not to the level of good sisters, but they are also good friends.

"Well, do you want to participate?" asked Mika Kawashima again.

Ye Zhao smiled, "Sister Meixiang spoke, of course I have to participate." But I'm only 19 years old, not yet the legal drinking age, okay?"

"Of course, if you're 17, I'll wait until you're an adult before I take you to play, but what's the difference between a 19-year-old and a 20-year-old? Mika Kawashima blinked, "It's good to mix in the circle and get to know a few more people." ”

At this time, the gray-haired man finally spoke. "Ye Zhao, right? I'm Masao Akashi, the arranger of BEING. ”

Speaking of Masao Akashi, he has been the company's chief arranger since he joined BEING in 1988, serving as the arranger for most of the songs in the early stages of B'z and ZARD, and later produced songs for Nakamori Naina.

Facing the seniors, or this kind of seniors with dry goods, Ye Zhao's posture was very low, "Hello Mr. Akashi." ”

Masao Akashi nodded, and instructed Mika Kawashima to say, "Mika, don't chat yet, bring me a CD player." He pulled out a CD with the number 135 written on it from the mountain of CD samples on the table.

"I've heard your two songs, what do you say about the arrangement, it's really rough, full of wilderness. Masao Akashi pointed to the chair next to him and motioned for Ye Zhao to sit down.

"I only taught myself a little bit of arranging when I was the lead guitarist in the band, and the musician friends who helped with the accompaniment were not from professional backgrounds, if I didn't have enough funds to hire a professional arranger when I released the single, I wouldn't have contributed to this ugliness. ”

Mika Kawashima went out and came in quickly and handed the CD player to Masao Akashi. Masao Akashi put the disc number 135 into the CD player and handed it to Ye Zhao: "Listen to it." ”

With a little curiosity, Ye Zhao pressed the PLAY button, and when the familiar melody sounded, Ye Zhao understood: Masao Akashi rearranged his two songs!

As a professional arranger, Masao Akashi is best at rock music, the first summer color, under his arrangement, became a folk rock, which not only retains the freshness of the folk song, but also strengthens the sense of rhythm, because there are not many changes, Ye Zhao does not have that feeling superb. Until "Secret Base" began to play, this song, which he and Watanabe Lu and others had worked so hard to compose, was rearranged by Masao Akashi, and it was like being reborn and glowing with rock music.

"Good...... It's amazing!" Ye Zhao said with a sincere sigh.

Hearing his emotion, Masao Akashi snorted a little proudly, "How about it? This is the real arrangement, and the ones you play in the single are just scratching the surface." ”

In modern pop music, a good composer is not necessarily a good arranger, and many singer-songwriters just write the main melody and give a skeleton, and then the arranger fills in the flesh little by little. Although the arranger's effort is no less than that of the composer, because the arrangement itself is a secondary creation and does not generate copyright, the average arranger only gets a buyout money, and the status is as high as Akashi Masao, although he has the right to take a share, but he can only get a small amount. After knowing these things, Ye Zhao also has more respect for the profession of arranger.

After seeing that Ye Zhao did not show dissatisfaction with his criticism, he nodded and said: "Your music is very well written, but if you want to become a more professional musician and not just be a singer-songwriter, it is necessary to learn including arrangement, mixing, etc." ”

Ye Zhao deeply believes in Akashi Masao's words, although he now has so many works of later generations, but with the passage of time, these things can be realized less and less, and by 2017, his golden finger will be completely abolished, if you don't enrich yourself in all aspects in the middle of these years, you can't choose to retire when you can't copy it, right? Thinking of this, Ye Zhao said to Masao Akashi: "Mr. Akashi, I also want to learn arranging and music production systematically, can you teach me?"

In the final analysis, the reason why Akashi Masao showed his hand in front of Ye Zhao was because he had a heart of love, and since Ye Zhao opened his mouth, he also said happily: "You have called me a teacher, can I not agree?"

Oda Tetsuro teased on the side: "Okay, Brother Akashi, this is the first to take this good seedling?"

"Are you greedy?" As a partner and old friend for many years, Masao Akashi did not speak so politely to Oda Tetsuro, "That's okay, if Ye Zhao is unsure about composition in the future, I'll let him go to you." ”

Oda Tetsuro is known as the Divine Comedy making machine, and the composition has sold more than 40 million copies, and unlike Ye Zhao, a person who relies on gold fingers, this is a real genius, and it is not a little bit to be guided by such a genius. As soon as Masao Akashi handed over the ladder, Ye Zhao hurriedly climbed up and shouted, "Mr. Oda!"

"The teacher can't talk about it, you have nothing to do in the future, and you will come to the company more, and we will learn from each other. "Tetsuro Oda has a very modest attitude.

In this way, in addition to vocal training, Ye Zhao added two more courses: composition and arrangement. Neither Masao Akashi nor Tetsuro Oda were specialized teachers, and there were very few times when they really had time to teach Ye Zhao, but in the continuous accumulation in the future, Ye Zhao still learned the knowledge of music that he would never have had the opportunity to come into contact with in his two lifetimes combined, which laid a solid foundation for him to get rid of the golden finger in the future and become a musician in his own right.

At noon, at the instigation of Daikoku Moji and Mika Kawashima, Masao Akashi and Tetsuro Oda went to the Sushuen Yakiniku Restaurant in Roppongi in the name of "celebrating the acceptance of apprentices". Although Daikoku Moji is a popular singer who already has a million singles, and the name Tetsuro Oda is even more unknown, due to BEING's no-exposure policy, no one will recognize the five of them even if they swagger down the street.

Speaking of this Xuxuyuan barbecue, Ye Zhao had a little mixed feelings in his heart, when the predecessor decided to commit suicide, he came to this restaurant to enjoy a final supper, that meal was an "end" for the predecessor, but for Ye Zhao, this meal symbolized a "beginning". From now on, he will continue to struggle in this chaotic and changing circle in order to be able to open his own era.

After the evening class, Ye Zhao had dinner at the ramen shop outside, and in the evening, he suddenly received a pager from Ye Qing. Calling back, Ye Qing reported to Ye Zhao excitedly: "Brother, your single has won the championship!"

"Champion? I read today's newspaper, and it's only the third place. ”

"It's not yesterday, it's today! Shizuka called me just now, and just now she heard today's daily list on the radio in the taxi, and the first place is your "Summer Color", brother, you won the championship!"

"Great!" The single finally reached its first number one after a month of release. Although it's only one day, the Japanese championship has been won, will the weekly championship be far away?

"Brother," after celebrating on the phone, Ye Qing's tone suddenly twisted a little.

"What's wrong?"

"Brother, since your dream of being a singer has come true and you have signed a contract with a company as famous as BEING, do you want to think about it and come back to meet your parents?"

"Let's talk about it. Ye Zhao said in a vague and perfunctory tone. Ye Zhao didn't have any sensual likes and dislikes for his predecessor's parents, the body he was using now was still given by them after all, but now although he replaced his predecessor to live in the world, he was not ready to get along with this pair of parents, so before adjusting his mentality, he felt that it was better not to meet.

Ye Qing only thought that Ye Zhao was still blaming his parents for kicking him out of the house in the first place, and it was not easy to persuade him for a while, so the brother and sister chatted a few more words and hung up the phone.