After the song selection is completed, it is generally time to arrange the accompaniment and record.

Arrangement is an important step in perfecting the melody of a song, and it is the job of arranging which instruments to choose and how to make the combination of different instruments sound more comfortable.

After recording the accompaniment tape, it officially enters the recording session of the singer.

The speed of progress at this stage has a lot to do with the quality of the singer itself, and usually the producer will record some samples for the singer and tell them what the song wants to achieve.

However, due to the difference in the level of singers, the efficiency of recording will vary greatly, and some singers even need half a month to record a song. However, most professional singers have a high recording efficiency, and many top singers can record several songs a day.

However, Lin Mu did not carry out this step immediately, this is not in a hurry, the recording is nothing, but the arrangement and accompaniment require too much time and energy.

So Lin Mu skipped this step and proceeded to the next step first, arranging the album's song order.

There are two types of arrangement, one is that the record company and the producer make a pure concept album, regardless of the "play" concept and "play" style of market returns, and the sequence arrangement is carried out according to the concept or specific story.

This situation accounts for a relatively small proportion of the record market, and singers who make such concept albums generally have a certain fame and economic foundation.

In the production and operation model of commercial records, the sequence must take into account the market response and rate of return. The first song of the album is responsible for giving the listener a "first impression", and if the song is not well chosen, the listener is likely to stop listening to it.

Therefore, the production team will often conduct careful and scientific research on the popularity of the songs, and then decide the order of the first, second, and third wave of title songs.

As for how to research, the method is generally to ask the target consumer group, such as students, white-collar workers, to listen to the recording studio after the song is produced, and then let them choose the three favorite songs, and then arrange the track order according to the results.

Lin Mu's album itself is a digital album, which naturally belongs to the first situation, not for commercial albums, how he wants to sort it all depends on his interests.

But although he didn't go for a commercial album, he wanted to be popular, although each of these songs is very classic and very good, he still decided to arrange these songs well.

Sitting down on the chair and opening the notebook, Lin Mu first wrote out all the titles of the ten songs, and then began to try to adjust the order of the songs.

After working for about half an hour, Lin Mu finally decided on the general order.

1, "Dispel Sorrow"

2, "City Capital"

3, "Let's Listen to the Wind"

4, "Love in the Dust"

5, "Escape from the Tiger's Mouth"

6, "Southern Girl"

7, "People Like Me"

8, "Childhood"

9, "Life with You"

10, "Lilacs"

In such a row, Lin Mu suddenly found a problem, nothing else, he found that this "Lilac" seems to be a little incongruous if it is placed in this album.

"This song is so sad, the main body of the whole album is still a ballad, singing about memories, singing about youth, if you insist on putting it in, it's really not suitable!" Lin Mu muttered to himself as he looked at the prelude of the whole album that had been arranged by himself.

Although he liked the song "Lilacs" very much, it really didn't fit well, so he decided to replace the song.

"But if you change this song, what can you replace it? After deleting "Lilac", Lin Mu fell into new troubles.

"Childhood, memories?" looked at "Dispel Sorrow" filmed in the first song, Lin Mu's brows furrowed.

"Hey, there you have it, let's use "Open Air Cinema", since it starts with memories, let's end with memories. Lin Mu said.

"Open-air Cinema" is also a folk song that Lin Mu particularly likes, published in Yu Dong's solo album in 1995, and became the golden song of the year and won the National Best Singer-Songwriter Award.

Lin Mu knew Yu Dong at the beginning, and the song "Open-air Cinema" was on CCTV.

He remembered that CCTV's "Oriental Time and Space" had a column called "Oriental Time and Space Golden Melody List", and there was an episode of MTV of "Open-air Cinema".

The old hand-cranked movie projector, the couple on the screen, the children running around under the screen...... Every picture, every lyric, and every melody left a deep impression on Lin Mu.

"Open-Air Cinema" is a song without climax, Yu Dong uses unpretentious vernacular and harmonica-based soundtrack to slowly tell people about the joy of childhood.

This song is very picturesque, and when you listen to it, you will be unconsciously brought into it, and the memories of your childhood come to your heart, which is endlessly memorable.

"Open-air Cinema" is Yu Dong's most obvious label, and he delicately chooses "open-air cinema", a specific thing and specific phenomenon in a specific period, as the theme, showing the memory characteristics of the low chant that he is best at.

The childhood sung by Yu Dong is not Luo Dayou's big and complete childhood: by the pond, under the banyan tree, the welfare society, Zhuge Shilang, the devil's party, the green rice fields, watercolor wax pens, kaleidoscopes......

Luo Dawei's childhood includes almost every childhood memories, but Yu Dong's childhood is only detailed to a certain person, a certain moment or just a certain event, such as "Open-air Cinema".

This kind of childhood happens to be the most touching childhood, and it is precisely because of this that when Lin Mu listened to this song in his previous life, he often couldn't help but have red eyes.

"That's it!"

crossed out "Lilacs" and wrote "Open-Air Cinema" at the back, and "Childhood" and "Life with You" dropped a place.

picked up the notebook and looked at it for a while, the more Lin Mu looked at it, the more he liked it, and he flicked the notebook with his middle finger and said, "Perfect!"

"Hey, come and see, how about this modern poem?" was thinking about the scene after the release of this album, Song Yicheng handed over his notebook.

Needless to say, this product wrote love poems to Wang Lili again.

"Well, you're not fit for literature. Lin Mu took his notebook and looked at it, he wanted to say that it was terrible, but in the end it didn't hit him.

"Hmph, you're obviously jealous of my handsomeness!" Song Yicheng snorted and said.

"......" Lin Mu was speechless.

"It's really not bragging, I casually write that the capital is a hundred times stronger than this "Slightly Sour Rainy Season". Lin Mu pouted.

"Hehe, you're amazing. Song Yicheng smiled disappreciatively, his eyes full of disbelief.

Looking at Song Yicheng's contemptuous look, Lin Mu opened his mouth and said, "What, you don't believe it?"

"No, I'm convinced, you're a big guy who buys 4 million for a book. Song Yicheng said "very seriously".

"Okay, since you don't believe it, then I'll prove it to you, do you want to make a bet?" Lin Mu said.

"Then you write, as long as your poems are better than mine, I will directly wash your pants for a month. Song Yicheng said disdainfully.

"What if I lost?" Lin Mu asked.

"Invite me to eat for a month!" Song Yi said with a smirked smile.

Saying that, he was afraid that Lin Mu would not agree, so he deliberately used the method of agitation: "What, don't you dare?

"How can you compare?" Lin Mu said with some tears and laughter.

Song Yicheng is obviously very confident in his song "Slightly Sour Rainy Season", and when he heard the words, he said: "Put it in the school post bar and get a vote for people to evaluate." ”

"Hehe, just your point, if you want to make it big, just hang it on Weibo, I'll let you see what it means to be touching. Lin Mu opened his mouth stinkily, and then continued: "Moved the entire network!"

"Okay, then you can write it, remember it's a love poem. Modern poetry!" Song Yicheng said.

"Wait, let you lose convincingly!"

Lin Mu said, picked up the pen and wrote three words on the paper - to the oak tree.