Chapter 182: "I Don't Want to Say I'm a Chicken"

"Chickens are not good at divergent thinking, right?" Lin Zaishan was laughed at by Shi Feng.

Guan Yaling said: "Chickens are easy to create, right? Chickens have a lot of meanings - auspicious wishes, warding off evil spirits and suppressing demons. How positive the image of the rooster is announced, and the creative space is very large. ”

"Extravagating outwards - eggs, chicken feather letters, this can be the scope and creative direction of our divergence. There is also cockfighting, which can also be written as a very passionate song. ”

Lin Zaishan suggested: "For a proposition with a big image like a chicken, I personally suggest that we should not limit it to a single and very general image when creating - of course, this kind of creation is also possible, but the time left for us to prepare is too short, and it takes a lot of effort to write the big image in place." Therefore, I think that when you prepare a proposition of this kind of big imagery, you should diverge and narrow it down to a very small point or surface, and create it according to one of its characteristics, and never write about those general concepts. Grab a small spot and dig deeper, so it's easier to create something that catches the eye. ”

Qiu Zhenhai, Tang Yaxuan and the others all nodded and were taught, and wrote down the main points that Lin Zaishan told them on a piece of paper.

Wu Yifan saw that Lin Zaishan was discussing chickens, and said to the musicians who were chatting in the house: "You all have made speeches and made suggestions to our singer-songwriters, about chickens, in which direction can they diverge to create." ”

A musician suggested: "The white rooster town demon, the rooster announces the dawn, how easy it is to create!" ”

There is a custom of white chickens to drive away ghosts and ward off evil spirits in Minzhou, so when it comes to chickens, Minzhou people will think of the image of white chickens to ward off evil spirits.

Wu Yifan said: "These are too ordinary, and it is difficult to write characteristics." Lao Lin, you can diverge one for everyone, and let everyone learn how you diverge. ”

"I don't have any special divergent methods, so I just think of whichever direction I want, just go down in that direction."

In Qiu Zhenhai, they listened. The main points that Lin Zaishan said were so precise that they were all memorized on paper.

Li Xiaoni on the other end of the phone, lying on the sofa, holding a small notepad, is also remembering the main points of Lin Zaishan's "class", she knows better than these people in the Caidie piano room how strong Lin Zaishan's creative strength is. Today, she wants to study with Lin Zaishan.

"Mention chickens. What's the first thing that comes to your mind? Lin Zaishan guided everyone and asked.

"It has to be Miss!" Zhao Chengdong, a 35-year-old senior recording engineer, didn't know if he was joking, but he told such an answer.

Wu Yifan bit the other party: "You owe it, right?" Lao Zhao, you can't do it seriously! ”

"Hehe, I'm quite serious, everyone has their own opinions. I believe that the men present, including women, when they mention chickens, the first thing that comes to mind is Miss, right? ”

The crowd burst into laughter.

Zhao Chengdong gave Lin Zaishan a problem with thick skin: "Teacher Lin." This direction can diverge from creation, right? ”

Lin Zaishan was not surprised: "Divergence is definitely divergent, Miss is also a person, she is a person, and she has a story on her body." But I would advise you not to go in this direction, after all, this is a work that is going to be on a TV show. ”

Wu Yifan also told several singer-songwriters: "When you create, you must make works that can be accepted by the mainstream and will not be killed, and don't do songs in too crooked directions." Don't make trouble for the TV station, and don't trouble yourselves. ”

Shi Feng and the others all understand this. He nodded knowingly.

"I'm not on TV now." Zhao Chengdong is still instigating: "Teacher Lin, Xiaowei said that you are very good at improvisation. You can improvise a song of Miss and let us open our eyes. ”

Everyone threw helpless and even disdainful glances at Zhao Chengdong, a bit of a ruffian recording engineer.

Wu Yifan said angrily: "You're looking for fault, right?" Lao Zhao. ”

Zhao Chengdong snorted and said, "No, I'm just learning from Mr. Lin to see how he creates." ”

Lin Zaishan smiled and said, "If you want to learn, I will give everyone a divergence in other directions." Diverging in the direction of Miss makes no sense to the preparation of a few of us singer-songwriters, and is a waste of time. I have to leave at half-past six, so let's cherish our time and talk about something meaningful, okay? ”

"That's fine. So what about bird flu? Zhao Chengdong changed another problem: "I think of chickens in my head, and the second one is bird flu." ”

Some time ago, there was a bird flu in the south, and everyone smelled the chicken. When I first talked about the proposition of chickens, many people really remembered bird flu in their minds.

Everyone thinks that the topic of avian flu is not so biased.

Shi Feng actively discussed: "With bird flu as the background, I can imagine some love stories of life and death, which are going to be written into songs, and they must be very affectionate!" ”

Guan Yaling frowned slightly, and questioned: "It's okay to talk about this kind of love of life and death?" ”

Lin Zaishan expressed his opinion: "It's not good or bad, these are all themes and directions that can be created, I think Shi Feng's idea is good, but the bird flu has only passed for a long time, if you create in this direction now, the works that come out are likely to be heavier." Our creations are meant to be listened to by millions of viewers in front of the TV, and we must take into account their moods. ”

As soon as Zhao Chengdong heard this, he immediately said: "Bird flu can't be written?" This theme can be written with positive energy! Why don't you write some educational songs? ”

Lin Zaishan nodded: "Well, what you said makes sense. But if you want to write a song that is too orthodox and educational, the audience may not particularly like and accept it after listening to it. After all, this is a variety show, and everyone still wants to be happy and relax and enjoy music when they watch the show, rather than listening to songs and being educated. ”

"What do you mean? Even bird flu can't be written? Zhao Chengdong was a little vindictive.

"You can write, but you have to find a good creative angle." Lin Zaishan specially told a few young people: "We have to prepare so many propositions in a short period of time, we must not think of one direction, just go one way to the dark, and we have to write songs along this direction." When you hit a creative bottleneck, you stop, go back to the starting point, try to think differently, and maybe a better inspiration will appear. ”

Qiu Zhenhai and the others seemed to be listening to the master's click, and nodded their heads again and again to record.

"It's like the idea of bird flu. If we diverge to write an affectionate story, writing and writing, we may feel that such a story is too heavy to write. At this time, you go back and look at this proposition from another angle, and then everyone can be like Lao Zhao said. Think in the direction of educational songs. But if you feel that this direction is too orthodox and not very good to create, then everyone will change the direction again, make a 180-degree turn, and look at it from a completely opposite direction. ”

"Exactly the opposite direction?" Everyone was a little confused.

"We are looking at bird flu from the perspective of people now, and the main body of this proposition is chickens, let's change our thinking, can we look at this bird flu from the perspective of chickens? Write this song from a chicken's point of view. ”

Everyone's mind moved. It's a bit of a village. This uncle can actually think of writing a song about bird flu from the perspective of chickens, which is obviously more pertinent!

Li Xiaoni also felt a kind of secret shock when she heard it, how could this brother think of seeing bird flu from the perspective of chickens? His creative ideas are really open now!

Lin Zaishan himself can't say what he is suffering, where is his open-mindedness, it is clear that the direction of his creation is limited by bird flu.

On the other hand, the only song he can think of about bird flu is the children's song "I don't want to say I'm a chicken" with the theme song "I Don't Want to Say" of "Alien Girl", so he can only rely on his own wisdom to turn in this direction.

Guan Yaling said with interest: "Teacher Lin." Your perspective is very novel, looking at bird flu from the perspective of chickens. It should be fun to write a song, right? ”

Duan Yuenan said sensitively and in a low voice: "How can it be interesting? For us humans, avian flu is just a disease, but for chickens, avian flu is the end of their slaughter. Looking at bird flu from a chicken's point of view would be cruel to write a song. ”

Listen to Duan Yuenan say this. Many people nodded their heads in agreement.

"You said it very well, looking at bird flu from the chicken's point of view, this is indeed the end of the world for them. But if we follow this direction, we can try to personify the chickens cutely, creating a weaker, helpless, and sympathetic image. A chick. Like a child, it longs for our human understanding, for being treated fairly. Starting from this image, you may be able to make a work that is not shallow, but also interesting and eye-catching. ”

Everyone listened to it a little blindly, they are not like Lin Zaishan has a formed work in his head, and it is very difficult for them to imagine such a work.

Lin Zaishan saw that many people didn't understand, so he said: "Let me make this proposition a little bit to help you enrich your thinking." ”

"Great!"

Seeing that Lin Zaishan was going to create on the spot, Shi Feng was excited again.

Guan Yaling and others are also looking forward to it.

"If I continue to conceive and create in this direction, and I have the image of a chicken, then I will think about what kind of song form and what kind of performance form to use to present this song. If it is the affectionate cry of a chick in the face of humans, then I will definitely want to find a child or a very childish voice to sing this song, so as to get closer to the image of the chick. On the tune, it can be written as a pure children's song - the TV station does not stipulate our creative format, we can create music of various themes, and children's songs are also a direction, but considering that most of the audience in front of the TV are adult audiences, I will not write it as a pure children's song. Bird flu is a heavy burden on the world of chickens, so when composing, I may add some more mature or even soulful melodies, and use childish voices to contrast with soulful melodies to create an effect of intentional contrast. ”

Zhao Chengdong waited impatiently: "Teacher Lin, don't just talk about not practicing, you can improvise for a while." ”

"You have a voice changer, right? I can't sing a song with this theme that I have conceived, so take a voice changer and I'll try to become a child's voice. I'm also eager to hear about what my creation will look like when it comes out. ”

Everyone was really going into battle when they saw Lin Zaishan talking about it, and they were all very excited, someone brought Lin Zaishan a voice-changing microphone and took the initiative to help Lin Zaishan adjust the audio, so that the person who spoke into the microphone could become a high-frequency children's voice.

Lin Zaishan tried it, and because his voice was too thick and heavy, after turning into a high-pitched children's voice, the taste was very strange, like a robot. Not very emotional.

"Your voice-changing microphone is so bad, is there any better?"

Lin Zaishan's attitude of "picking and choosing" made some musicians have opinions, they think that Lin Zaishan is deliberately making excuses not to sing, or is he delaying time?

Wu Yifan smiled: "Lao Lin, you can make do with it." Just give everyone the meaning. ”

"What's the point? I still hope to make something that will allow people to better develop their musical thinking. ”

"Teacher Lin, do you need a children's voice?" Guan Yaling took the initiative to ask for help: "I can sing in imitation of children's voices, why don't you simply create it, and I will help you sing?" ”

"That's fine. Let's work together. ”

Lin Zaishan put down the voice changing microphone, picked up a pen and paper, thought about the lyrics and melody of "I don't want to say I'm a chicken", and it only took half a minute of thinking time to write the lyrics and fill in the music on the stave.

These musicians below saw Lin Zaishan writing so quickly. What a surprise! This white-headed uncle was led by Zhao Chengdong to think casually, what kind of chick anthropomorphism, and such a casual creation, can you listen to this thing?

Zhao Chengdong saw that Lin Zaishan was really going to improvise, so he excitedly cocked Erlang's legs and shook his feet, ready to test this uncle's on-site creative ability.

If Lin Zaishan was not as good as Li Wei said, he would definitely have to make a joke about Lin Zaishan.

In fact, if it weren't for Li Wei's previous excitement and admiration, the wild Kwalin was in the mountain. Or someone else is praising Lin Zaishan, and Zhao Chengdong will not find fault with Lin Zaishan.

This is Butterfly's top recording engineer. has always secretly liked Li Wei, and chased this beautiful Xiaowei girl, but was rejected by others, his heart has never died, and he still wants to chase Xiaowei. So when he saw Xiao Wei Quarin in the mountains, he was naturally unconvinced.

Guan Yaling has been watching Lin Zaishan write a brief score by the piano. Humming the simple score written by Lin Zaishan silently in her heart, the more she hummed, the more surprised she became, the melody written by Lin Zaishan was a smooth and moving river, slowly flowing on the stave. No stumbling at all!

Although Lin Zaishan stopped thinking and paused to mark music symbols in the middle, even so, Lin Zaishan's creative speed made Guan Yaling extremely shocked!

In less than three minutes, Lin Zaishan wrote the words and score and handed them to Guan Yaling: "I'll play the piano to help you play a simple accompaniment, this song is not difficult to sing, do you need to practice?" Or are we just going to practice together? ”

"Let's go straight to it, I sang it in my heart when you wrote the tune." Guan Yaling said with admiration: "Teacher Lin, this song you designed for the chick is very tactful, this is not a children's song." ”

"yes, didn't I just say that I didn't want to write a children's rhyme, I wanted to have a contrasting effect in this. When you sing, try to keep your voice as innocent as possible, and it would be better if it had a bit of humor and irony. You imagine yourself as a chicken plagued by bad luck, striving to sing about the animals' helplessness for disasters and their desire for a better life with their babbling voices. ”

Guan Yaling understands Lin Zaishan's intentions, and she is quite looking forward to her first cooperation with Lin Zaishan, and she can't wait to feel what it's like to sing such a song with a children's voice.

After Wu Yifan told everyone to quiet down, Lin Zaishan and Guan Yaling were going to cooperate for the first time.

Lin Zaishan glanced at Guan Yaling, and Guan Yaling smiled and nodded, he got off the piano.

The intro is slow and melancholy, with no sense of a nursery rhyme at all, and no conjuring up images of chicks or bird flu.

Everyone just thinks that Lin Zaishan plays the piano really well, and the timbre is quite touching.

Guan Yaling's music skills are very solid, and when she saw that Lin Zaishan had left an incision for her, she immediately pinched her throat, learned the anthropomorphic voice of a chicken, and sang this song "I don't want to say I'm a chicken"-

……

I don't want to say ~ I'm clean ~

I don't want to say ~ I'm safe ~

But I can't refuse people's misunderstanding~

Look at the closed circle ~ count the eggs that have just been laid ~

Waiting for the danger of being culled~

……

After a while, many people laughed.

Even Li Xiaoni on the other end of the phone laughed, thinking that Guan Yaling is getting thicker and thicker now, and she dares to sing in front of so many people, pretending to be tender and pretending to be a child. If she were this, she probably wouldn't be able to pull this face.

When Guan Yaling sang the first line at first, she was laughed at, and she herself felt a little embarrassed, but Lin Zaishan's romantic piano was like a pair of big hands behind her gently pushing her forward.

Feeling Lin Zaishan's profound intention in the song, Guan Yaling gradually threw herself into it, and regarded herself as a chicken who faced the disaster with a smile, tried her best to maintain her innocence, and continued to sing-

……

Eat my meat ~ I'm okay with it ~ Take my eggs~I'm willing~

But I can't tolerate being treated as pollution~

Think about the bitterness of fate ~ wipe your tearful eyes ~

I can understand people's feelings~

……

Guan Yaling sang the second paragraph, and there were fewer people laughing, and many people began to sigh that Lin Zaishan wrote it so casually, and the lyrics were quite rhyming.

You know, he wrote the lyrics in just a few minutes.

It is not an easy task to make the lyrics rhyme in such a short time, as long as anyone with creative experience will understand.

Not only rhyme, Lin Zaishan's lyrics are quite interesting, with a tactful tune, it has a unique flavor when I listen to it.

The more Guan Yaling sings, the more she feels-

……

The same chicken ~ the same egg ~

The same we~Why did we become the source of infection~~~~

Avian flu ~ is dangerous ~

Who let us have a bird ancestor~

……

The same chicken ~ the same egg ~

The same is not worth a penny~

The same to eat meat ~ the same to eat ~

People can't live without a world of chickens~

……

Lin Zaishan didn't write a complete song, so he directly collected the song with an A section and an ending.

When Guan Yaling sang the chorus, many people laughed again, because the lyrics were really interesting, and with Guan Yaling's childish voice and babbling singing, it was even more interesting.

However, while laughing, many producers with strong musical perception were touched by the tune of this song with a sour and helpless feeling that contrasted strongly with the children's voices - this is exactly the feeling that Lin Zaishan just told them.

After realizing this, these musicians are a little secretly shocked in their hearts! This white-headed uncle is really powerful! A humorous sketch written by hand can convey what he wants, what a genius!

As soon as Lin Zaishan's piano fell, Wu Yifan was the first to take the lead and praised: "Yaling, you and Teacher Lin have a very tacit understanding!" This song is fun enough! Mr. Lin, your creative angle is really special and eye-opening! ”

Many musicians are also discussing, thinking that Lin Zaishan's song is really not simple, especially the song, which can contrast the humorous lyrics with a very special sourness, which is not something that anyone can do casually.

"I'm not bragging! Mr. Lin's improvisation is very powerful! It's fun to write any song! ”

Li Wei excitedly praised Lin Zaishan with the musicians around her who just didn't believe her. Experienced musicians thought to themselves, this song is not only interesting, this song is really meaningful, this Lin Zaishan is really extraordinary!

Seeing that Li Wei was so excited, Zhao Chengdong felt unhappy, and said loudly: "Mr. Lin, your song is okay, but this style of music is difficult to get into the elegant hall, and it will definitely not be on TV." (To be continued.) )

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