When Dave Battista came to Zheng Xudong, both of them looked at each other, "Sgut, this is the Chinese genius boy you are talking about!?

Zheng Xudong sees Dave Battista in his thirties, but it may be because of his long stay up late, he also has some hair loss, and his eyes are a little red, and he is only 1.73 or 4 meters tall, which is definitely a short man in the United States, and his voice is a little rough, but although his eyes are a little red, he is wearing a big vest and big pants, and his unkempt hair is a little "raunchy" for Chinese people.

He reached out and shook his hand, "Hello, Mr. Batista, it's a pleasure to meet you!"

"Okay, you're welcome, let's go, let's go into the shed. With that, he took the lead towards the recording studio.

At this time, in addition to the three of them in the studio, there was also a man, Scott said that this was the keyboard instrument and MIDI mixing master in this studio, everyone called him Mixing Jack, Scott said to Zheng Xudong, "You record with them here, I'll go out and make a few calls." Then he left.

Mixer Jack took the score from Zheng Xudong's hand and played it on ROLAND's electronic piano first, he and Batista immediately expressed their admiration for Zheng Xudong's creation, Batista took the initiative to stretch out his hand and said: "I'm sorry, Mr. Zheng, my attitude was a little sluggish just now, please forgive me!" Mixer Jack also got up from his chair and put away his cynical expression, and said, "Brother, cow man!"

The atmosphere in the studio is only harmonious from now on, Zheng Xudong began to talk to Jack about his understanding and thoughts on this "FADE", Jack listened carefully, and said after listening: "Brother, don't be in a hurry to add violin and double bass to this piece first, that thing has to be performed live to be good, but you have to record it in the record is not good, what do you think?"

Zheng Xudong's heart was also moved, he suddenly remembered that the song "FADE" was indeed added to the violin and cello during the live performance, and there were no two instruments in the original record, and sighed: "Jack, you are this!" and stretched out his thumb as he spoke.

The two spent nearly two hours in the studio tinkering with the piece, both played by Jack and mixed by Zheng Xudong, until the last version was recorded, only to find that Batista had been watching them quietly in the studio, but never made a sound.

ZHENG XUDONG LISTENED TO THE FINAL VERSION AGAIN, AND IT WAS EXACTLY THE SAME AS ALAN WALKER'S LATER. Batista stood up and said to the two, "Let's go, let's go out and rest for a while." ”

When they came out, they found that there were already seven or eight people sitting in the living room on the first floor, including Scott. Sgut stood up and said, "Adong, this is the accompanist I found for a while to record the song "BABY". ”

Batista came over and said, "Let's take a break, you take them to get acquainted with the tune, and let's have some snacks first." ”

At this time, the staff of the recording studio brought Zheng Xudong, Jack and Battista a few French breads and a few glasses of red wine on a plate, and Battista said to Zheng Xudong: "Because I have to record songs for a while, I can't eat anything too sweet, it will be bad for my throat, so let's eat some simply, I don't know what time I want to record? Maybe I'll have to stay up all night tonight." ”

Jack is obviously a veteran, he didn't say anything, he just grabbed the bread and ate it, and didn't drink red wine, but asked the staff to bring him a glass of milk, Zheng Xudong hadn't recorded it before, but when he saw Jack's appearance, he knew that he might have to fight a protracted battle tonight, so he grabbed the bread on the plate and started eating it. Batista obviously did not correctly estimate Zheng Xudong's amount of food, and saw that the bread on the plate was quickly "wiped out", so he quickly asked the staff to bring another plate of bread. Then he said to Zheng Xudong: "Mr. Zheng." ”

"Mr. Batista, just call me Adong. Zheng Xudong said.

"Okay, Adong, you can't eat too much before singing, otherwise it will affect your performance. Batista said.

Zheng Xudong actually didn't eat enough bread at all, thanks to what he ate on the plane, otherwise he wouldn't be able to hold on to it now, but since they reminded him, he had no choice but to do this, so he stuffed the bread in his hand into his mouth, "Okay, let's start again." ”

Recording a song is much more difficult than recording a song just now, because after making the song first, he has to sing according to the made song, just like singing karaoke.

He entered the studio and waited for another half an hour before the music was finished. Then he sang along with the tune to see if there was anything that needed to be improved, and sure enough, after singing, he revised the tune to his satisfaction.

Then Zheng Xudong put on a headset and began to officially record songs, at first he thought that recording songs was easy, and it was enough to sing twice, but in the eyes of insiders, it was still too far away. It was not recorded until 2 o'clock in the morning, and Scott also said that the song "BABY" should be added to a black rap to be more perfect, and it is more in line with the taste of Europeans and Americans.

Of course, he doesn't have to worry about it, just wait for him to find another black singer and record a separate part and add it.

According to the cost of one dollar per hour, the cost of Triangle Studio was calculated, and in less than seven hours in total, Zheng Xudong directly paid $70,000 and came out of Batista's studio.

Scott said to him: "Adong, you find a place to rest in the past two days, I have to contact a shooting team to make a music video, and you have to think about designing a name for yourself." Wait for me to call, and I'll call you when I'm ready. ”

Zheng Xudong said to him: "Sgut, I have already thought of my name after my debut, and I will be called Anton." As for the design signature, I thought so, I combined the initials of the two words Anton. ”

Scott touched his chin, thought for a while and said, "Anton, Anton, the name is okay, catchy, and easy to remember, but what do you say about the combination of two letters." ”

"I put the horizontal line in the first letter A slightly upwards, and then the horizontal line above the second letter T shares the horizontal line in A. What do you think?", he said, taking out his pen and drawing it briefly in his hand, and then showed it to Scott.

After reading it, Scott nodded his head and expressed his satisfaction, "This logo is very good, so I can just make some costumes for this logo and use it when I shoot the MV in two days." Okay, it's not too early, you find a hotel to rest, don't go far in the past two days, I'll call you after contacting the shooting team. After saying that, he got into his car and left.

Zheng Xudong took a taxi to find a Hilton hotel nearby, opened a business suite and checked in. Although he opened a room in the hotel, it was impossible for him to stay here, he had to return to China, return to the magic capital, and Liu Yifei would call him at any time to arrange to meet her mother. Opening a room is just to hide people's eyes.

He took out his small plane and sat on it, and today he was busy for nearly nine hours from the time he arrived at Sgut's house to the end of the recording just now, and he felt a little tired in his body, it was that kind of tiredness! He let Xiaoqiang fly automatically, it was less than three o'clock in the afternoon in the magic capital, and he hoped that he could rush back for dinner before seven o'clock, just so that he could use this time to sleep on the plane.

"I could fly to the magic capital in an hour. Xiaoqiang said as if playfully.

"Xiaoqiang, I know that your Gamma Galaxy plane is very good, really, and it is also a children's toy, but I want to sleep for a few hours!?" Zheng Xudong said.

Xiaoqiang didn't speak when he heard that his tone was wrong, "By the way, don't disturb my sleep if there's nothing important." Damn, I didn't expect this song to be more tiring than ordinary physical work, and I said that those celebrities love drugs!

When he went to sleep, he changed his study plan, he thought that folk music such as flute and flute could be played first, and today he found out through recording that the current mainstream instrument is still piano keyboard music. Even percussion, such as drum kits, is used in more places than folk music. Now he can basically master other keyboard instruments as long as he learns the piano.

Of course, keyboard instruments also have their obvious disadvantages, that is, the player cannot directly control the articulator, and most keyboard instruments have a fixed pitch, and the player cannot change them, so there are certain restrictions on playing, such as it cannot produce portamento. However, some instruments use special constructions and structures that allow the player to change the articulation performance of the instrument to a certain extent. For example, Zheng Xudong is just going to learn the flute or flute, the pitch of these two instruments depends to a certain extent on the ability of the player, not the instrument, unlike the piano, no matter how powerful the player is, its pitch is fixed. In addition, although the piano can change the sound by playing the speed, and to a certain extent, the timbre can also be changed by the footboard, but the change of the sound length is very limited. Of course, although keyboard instruments have disadvantages of one kind or another, they are still modern mainstream instruments and must have their advantages, and one of the most obvious advantages is that as long as you learn a common keyboard instrument, most keyboard instruments can be played.

The representative of the keyboard instrument is the modern piano, which is characterized by a wide range, a grand volume, rich timbre changes, can express a variety of different musical emotions, or rigid or soft, or rapid or slow can be just right; the treble is crisp, the middle is full, and the bass is strong, which can imitate the effect of the entire symphony orchestra.

Nowadays, the modern piano has a very wide vocal range, which is enough to accommodate all the sound space required by human excellent music creation; the volume of the piano can be freely controlled by the performer, and its variation range can be freely controlled by the player, from faint and hazy, delicate as silk, to magnificent and magnificent; with the hands of a well-trained pianist, the composer's most abundant and complex multi-vocal thinking music works can be played on the piano; without the cooperation of any other conditions, a piano and ten fingers can form a three-dimensional, A complete, colorful, and infinitely wonderful musical universe.

The modern piano is also the only instrument that can combine all of the above in one place. This is why only the piano has the title of "King of Musical Instruments". The so-called "king" does not mean that other musical instruments should submit to it, but refers to the unique infinite expressiveness, huge artistic function, perfect artistic realm and highly developed musical thinking of the piano.

Through Xiaoqiang's more than four hours of study while sleeping, Zheng Xudong has a preliminary understanding of the piano, but it really takes forty or fifty hours of dream learning to learn to master, which is much more difficult than learning to shoot and drive!