Chapter 69: In the Name of the Father
The family stayed in Beijing until the second day of junior high school and returned to Shanghai, and the original ticket was to return to Shanghai on the fifth day of the new year. Although Su Changhe didn't say it, it was obvious that he was also very unhappy in the capital.
Cheng Xiaoyu didn't need to ask, and he knew that it was probably because of him. Before leaving, Cheng Xiaoyu made an appointment with Wang Dongliang again. Because of the Chinese New Year holiday, Wang Dongliang did not find out too much valuable content about the alumni directory. I just asked an executive of Slender Fox about the handling plan for the alumni directory. Because now the alumni directory often can't log in, and there are also rumors that Slender Fox will shut it down completely.
The executives of Slender Fox Network are not shy about the status of the alumni record, after all, people in the circle also know about this situation, but they did not say much about Wang Dongliang's inquiry, saying that they were researching. It is possible to cut this project, but the nourishment is large, and the final result is not easy to say.
When Cheng Xiaoyu and Wang Dongliang separated. carried a black bag containing 200,000 cash and stuffed it into Wang Dongliang's hand, Wang Dongliang refused for a long time with some trepidation, and finally Cheng Xiaoyu threw it down and left, Wang Dongliang had no choice but to continue.
As for why Cheng Xiaoyu didn't transfer money, but withdrew cash, because he knew that 200,000 was just a number on the account, but a pile of banknotes was a real impact.
When leaving, Wang Dongliang didn't know how much money was in the bag, and when he opened the bag in the car, he counted 200,000 yuan, and was surprised. It is equivalent to saying that although Su Dongliang was a little frightened, he gained 200,000.
Wang Dongliang thought about it and felt that it was inappropriate, not to mention that he felt that it was an honor to know a ** like Cheng Xiaoyu, and he didn't want to make the relationship too cheesy. I also feel that the money of ** must not be so easy to collect. So he called Cheng Xiaoyu, hoping to return the money.
Cheng Xiaoyu said something from the bottom of his heart, which moved Wang Dongliang a little, Chinese literati have always had the idea of "learning to become a literary and martial arts and an emperor", Cheng Xiaoyu for the first time because of his own halo, Wang Dongliang's loyalty and trust have been improved.
Wang Dongliang once again dissuaded Cheng Xiaoyu not to waste money on buying alumni records, Cheng Xiaoyu had already thought about how to answer Wang Dongliang, and now naturally he can't tell the truth =. He told him that he had a project in his own hands, which belonged to a website project jointly run by the Ministry of Culture and the Ministry of Chinese Propaganda. What Cheng Xiaoyu wants to do is to buy the campus network packaging, and then conditionally "hand it over to the state".
Wang Dongliang suddenly realized that this kind of thing can only be done by a related ** like Cheng Xiaoyu, and ordinary people don't even think about it. Wang Dongliang immediately took care of the whole thing, and said that he would definitely find a way to negotiate the alumni record with Cheng Xiaoyu.
Cheng Xiaoyu promised again that he would be rewarded heavily after the matter was completed. asked Wang Dongliang to keep in touch with him at any time.
When she returned to Shanghai, Aunt Zhou cashed out the check for three million paid by Zheng Jun that Su Weilan handed over to her, transferred it to Cheng Xiaoyu's card, and told Cheng Xiaoyu that if she didn't do well in the college entrance examination, she would have to change the car by herself.
Aunt Zhou has always looked down on money, although her life is very materialistic, but in her point of view, if you have money, you can do a rich way of living, and if you don't have money, you can do a life without money. I will not envy the luxury of others, and I will not refuse what I can consume.
She is also more at ease with Cheng Xiaoyu, although Cheng Xiaoyu has caused two major incidents. But in addition to poor grades, I never mess with trivial things, and I have never spent money indiscriminately, and I rarely use a credit card with a limit of 500,000 yuan. And the final exam results also improved quickly. So Aunt Zhou gave the money to Cheng Xiaoyu very relieved, she always felt that boys should control money, not be confused or enslaved by money.
And Cheng Xiaoyu is not only practicing these days, but also soaking in his own music studio.
He had to work hard to record a song "Sunny Day", and because he was the only one, he had to set up the mixer outside, record the audio track one instrument by one, and then record the vocal track. It took him a lot of time just to record the tracks of a single instrument, but I believe that he will increase the speed of recording as he becomes more proficient in the recording process.
After recording all the audio tracks, we are working on complex post-production, adjusting the sound (intonation, rhythm, etc.), adjusting the effects, and mixing and shrinking the audio tracks. He doesn't know how to play an instrument himself, and if he needs to make music, he can only do it with a guò synthesizer.
For the first time, Cheng Xiaoyu did not use Zhou Jielun's original rock arrangement, but combined the arrangement of Guan Shimin and Liu Ruiqi's version, with the piano as the main melody. This way the song has a more touching and heartfelt power.
The song "Sunny Day" accompanied Cheng Xiaoyu through the most golden student period, thinking that most friends of the same age as him, whenever they hear this song, they will think of your campus, your crush, youthful innocence, simple eternity and sad first love.
The beginning of "Sunny Day" is shocking, the three chords are upside down and stunned to play a god-like melody, and the score is sung directly behind, and it is even more difficult not to want it.
Time is too fast, life is too short, Cheng Xiaoyu always feels that every stage of life is a string of symbolic things, and "Sunny Day" is one of the most important symbols of his entire adolescence.
In his previous life, Cheng Xiaoyu also sang his first love completely because of "Sunny Day", and he had a paranoid love for this song, so he recorded a version of Dong Chou's own arrangement. It's time to hone your recording skills and post-production skills.
Cheng Xiaoyu returned to Shanghai after the New Year and recorded another song "In the Name of My Father". The prelude to this song, including the violin and the Italian soprano's cavity, Cheng Xiaoyu can only be completed by a synthesizer, (the vocal synthesizer is not popular science here, Hatsune Miku, everyone should know that it belongs to the use of vocal synthesizer.) The advantage is that the singing technique of practicing real singing for decades will be completely meaningless in front of them, for them there is no limit to the vocal range, no breath limit, no intonation, rhythm problems, the disadvantage is that due to the limitations of technology, the singer's voice will inevitably appear stiff and lack subtle emotional changes, which also directly leads to many people who can't accept this kind of music at all, and prejudicefully think that this is a problem with the music itself. )
Although the effect of the vocal synthesizer is not as good as the effect of recording real voice in the studio, after his meticulous work, the whole song feels a vague mechanical sense after mixing, and it has a unique charm.
"In the Name of the Father" was regarded as a masterpiece of Western ancient music by Cheng Xiaoyu back then, and even felt that "In the Name of the Father" was the pinnacle of music in Zhou Sheng's life, and it was arbitrary to say that even he himself would never be able to surpass it in the future!
When Cheng Xiaoyu made the song, because the arrangement of the song could also be said to be perfect, Cheng Xiaoyu did not hesitate to take the original arrangement.
In order to restore this song 100%, Cheng Xiaoyu really racked his brains, and the background sounds interspersed with the prelude first, such as prayers and gunshots, were used as a rendering of the musical atmosphere. The prelude opens with an exaggerated Italian operatic feel.
For the Italian prayer of the prelude and the opening of the Italian opera, Cheng Xiaoyu traveled all over Shanghai to find an Italian priest and opera singer. Unfortunately, the priest was eventually found, but the flowery soprano who could perform Italian opera was too rare. Cheng Xiaoyu had no choice but to choose a vocal synthesis. As for the Italian Bible monologue, Cheng Xiaoyu went to all the churches in Shanghai, and finally found an Italian pastor, and finally used it for worship in exchange for this authentic Italian prayer.
The main song uses a simple and bright rap, and the melody of the chorus part is also concise and clear, deliberately abandoning the melody ups and downs of most of the pop songs, and laying a gloomy, playful, and black tone for the whole song.
Fortunately, the difficulty of singing this song is not high, and the difficulty lies in the recording of the arrangement.
Cheng Xiaoyu also did all his best in RAP, not only spent a lot of time practicing, but also made a lot of detailed adjustments with sound correction.
Of course, after the final recording and mixing were completed, Cheng Xiaoyu was also quite satisfied.
"In the Name of the Father" is more like a movie with only sound than a song. There is no particularly obvious chorus in the composition part, and the melody loops low, supporting Cheng Xiaoyu's RAP, whether it is piano solo or bel canto, or the prelude prayer, or the sound of gunshots, it is more like the bridge and soundtrack in the movie.
In the middle piano solo and female bel canto part, with a technique similar to "John Woo + pigeon", the picture sense of the song is expressed in a static conflict. In the past, we could only see it in movies, but this song can clearly feel this kind of thing.
At that time, some people said that Zhou Jielun's "In the Name of the Father" was ahead of pop music for a whole era, and Cheng Xiaoyu wants to use this divine comedy today to open a new door for pop music in this era.
After recording "In the Name of the Father", Cheng Xiaoyu felt that his post-production skills had risen to a new level, including the qualitative improvement of his studio recording skills.
Later, I recorded a song "Three Years and Two Classes", and it took almost no effort.
After recording two songs, Cheng Xiaoyu opened the GG Music website, opened JAY'SPoisoN's account, and uploaded a total of four songs, two of which are different versions of "Sunny Day".
After uploading, Cheng Xiaoyu looked at the copyright agreement page by page on the computer and the dispute resolution, but he couldn't help but look at it carefully. The copyright belongs to the creator, but GG Music has the exclusive right to play, and the download fee and on-demand fee are determined by the creator.
The income obtained by GG Music Network is divided into 73 with the creator, and if you become a contracted musician, you can share 55%.
After the music work is set, the cloud computer will roughly compare the music melody library, and if there is any copyright question, it will be manually reviewed.
If there is no copyright issue, it will appear on the artist charts of GG Music after one business day.
The rules for playing the list were also introduced in detail later, and Cheng Xiaoyu did not study them in detail.
When it came time to download and set up on demand, Cheng Xiaoyu was already a little dizzy, and he didn't care about the taboo of watching newcomers hit the list in front of him, and he didn't plan to promote his works deliberately. The download was closed, and 0.5 yuan was entered at the end of the audition.
Of course, he also knows that newcomers can only attract people to audition for free, but he feels that his idol Chou Dong's music is good enough, and he doesn't want his hard work to be cheap. In line with the principle that the aroma of wine is not afraid of deep alleys, he still chose to pay for the audition, saying that he also thinks that the paid audition may be more noticeable.
However, when I was dizzy, I accidentally put a comma out of the dot in the middle of 0.5 yuan. He didn't look closely, he chose to complete the setting, upload it was completed, and closed the browser.
But I don't know that the system defaults 0,5 to 5. So the four songs recorded by Cheng Xiaoyu became 5 yuan per song and each audition, and downloads were prohibited.