Although it was difficult to choose the songs, in the end, Yuan Zelang still selected the ten songs of his first album. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

The remaining six songs are preliminarily determined as: "Glass", "Love in the Dust", "Beige Shirt", "Lilacs", "Life with You", and "Spring Equinox".

Why ten and not a few? Because Yuan Zelang's heart hurts!

"Lilac", a classic sad song, was uploaded to the Internet in 2002, with an online hit rate of more than 20 million times, and became popular all over the country. The song is deeply touching and has moved countless fans, and the story behind the song has also caused many conjectures. The song won the 2004 Classic Internet Original Song Award.

"Life with You", sung by Shui Mu Nianhua, written and composed by Lu Gengxu, arranged by Li Yanliang, and included in a classic track in his 2001 album "Life with You". In 2002, the song won the Golden Melody Award of the 15th National Song Chart of the 9th China Song Chart, and Shuimu Nianhua also won the Best Newcomer Award, and it was also a song that was popular all over the country in his previous life.

"Childhood", a kind of memory and nostalgia for simple life, stupid things and silly children in childhood, in 1994, the album in which the song was performed won the "100 Best Albums of Pop Music". In 2009, Luo Dayou appeared on the CCTV Spring Festival Gala with this song.

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In good conscience, no matter which of these ten songs is a classic among the classics, any one of them can be used as the title song of an album.

And now Yuan Zelang has put them all on an album, an album that doesn't come out of the entity and doesn't sell money, you say that he is heartbroken or not.

However, heartache is heartache, Yuan Zelang still decided on this first album, which is these ten songs. Although some of the revenue from physical albums will be lost, Yuan Zelang believes that he can earn it back later.

Now the most important thing is to make a high-level, popular album, as long as you are popular, you don't have to worry about not making money later.

After the song selection is completed, it is generally time to arrange the accompaniment and recording, and the arrangement is an important step in perfecting the melody of the song. The choice of instruments and how to make the combination of different instruments sound more comfortable is the work of arrangement.

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. But most professional singers are very efficient in recording, and many top singers can record several songs a day.

However, Yuan Zelang 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 Yuan Zelang 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.

Yuan Zelang'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.

Open a Word document, write out all the titles of the ten songs, and then start trying to adjust the order of the songs.

After working for more than half an hour, Yuan Zelang finally decided on the approximate order.

1, "Childhood"

2, "You at the Same Table"

3, "Seventeen-year-old Rainy Season"

4, "Love in the Dust"

5, "Beige Shirt"

6, "Glass"

7, "Spring Equinox"

8, "The Brother Who Sleeps on My Top Bunk"

9, "Life with You"

10, "Lilacs"

In such a row, Yuan Zelang suddenly found a problem, nothing else, he found that this "Lilac" seems to be a little incongruous if it is placed on 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!" Yuan Zelang looked at the prelude of the entire album that was arranged by himself and muttered to 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 will you replace it?" After deleting "Lilac", Yuan Zelang fell into new troubles.

"Childhood, memories?" Looking at "Childhood" filmed in the first song, Yuan Zelang frowned.

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

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

Yuan Zelang first met Yu Dong and knew the song "Open-Air Cinema" 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 Yuan Zelang.

"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 Yuan Zelang listened to this song in his previous life, he often couldn't help but have red eyes.

"That's it!" Yuan Zelang knocked "Open-air Cinema" on the computer and said.

Expanding with a face and ending with a point, Yuan Zelang felt that with the song finale of "Open-Air Cinema", the whole album was perfect.

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