Chapter 34: Drummer Liu Jie
Jiang Linfeng has been mixed here for so many years, just like Bai Xiaosheng in the local music circle. Knowing that Ye Gui's recording was still missing a horse-head violin, he immediately contacted a local musician.
"Ye Gui, the man said he would come later." Jiang Linfeng finished the phone call, went back to the house and said, "Let's record other tunes first, and then record the song "Silent Sky" when he comes." ”
Ye Gui nodded and agreed, it was really unexpected for him to be able to contact a musician who played the horse-head qin immediately, originally he thought that the horse-head qin of this song might only be written into a general score, and the adapted sample was given to Yue Sitong.
I didn't expect Jiang Linfeng to be so powerful, which made Ye Gui a little more confident about the next recording sample.
As soon as he said to do it, Jiang Linfeng immediately began to prepare the things that needed to be used for recording.
After listening to Ye Gui's songs, Jiang Linfeng certainly wouldn't treat the next recording with that casual attitude, and at this time, these samples even rose to the same level of importance in his heart as the queen of songs.
And when everyone listened to Ye Gui's guitar music and the songs they wrote, they all had a new understanding of him in their hearts.
This student is not simple.
Jiang Shan and the others realized that maybe they were participating in a meaningful sample recording at this time.
So everyone mobilized, and the recording engineer Jiang Linfeng sat behind the expensive digital mixer to take charge. Lu Haoming obeyed Jiang Linfeng's orders, responsible for setting up the equipment in the recording studio, and switching lines by the way.
And Ye Gui and the rest of the people went downstairs first.
The fifth floor of the Lejia recording studio is mainly a recording studio for recording vocals and small instruments, while on the fourth floor there is also a rehearsal room for band rehearsals.
They came to the fourth floor for the drum kit that was placed in the rehearsal room.
When the song is recorded in the studio, it is not a complete record of the singer's performance as in a concert, but each sound is recorded separately.
That is to say, each instrument and singer in the track are recorded separately, and the recording engineer will process the tracks separately after all the tracks have been recorded, and then mix them together to make a complete song.
When it comes to split-track recording, there are some unwritten rules in the industry, that is, first record rhythm instruments, harmony instruments, then melodic instruments, and finally record singers singing and vocal harmony.
The drum kit that Ye Gui and the others were going to use at this time was the most important rhythm instrument in pop songs.
Rhythm instruments are the drums, bass, and rhythm guitars in the band. These instruments set the benchmark for the rhythm of the whole song, especially the drum kit, which is an important reference for other instruments when recording.
So Ye Gui told Liu Jie about the idea of a few songs at this time, and then hummed the drum, wanting Liu Jie to record the drum kit of the song first.
If it was a later generation, Ye Gui could have used music software to write electronic drum scores, and then used effects in the software to make the sound effects of the drum kit, and finally incorporated them into the song.
It's a pity that the software is still very simple and not enough to realize Ye Gui's idea, so I can only ask Liu Jie to help record it on the spot.
Fortunately, Liu Jie, a rock veteran hidden in the city, is worthy of being a person who has experienced the glorious era of music back then, and after listening to Ye Gui's drum beat, he quickly played the basic appearance of the drum kit in the song.
"How?" Liu Jie finished playing the first song, and felt that there were still some things that were different and smooth, so he asked Ye Gui: "I think it seems that the crossing feels a little wrong, you can hum it for me again." ”
Crossing the door, in the accompaniment of the song is also called the bridge.
In layman's terms, it can also be called an interlude, which is a transitional accompaniment after the chorus.
Because it is played as a pure instrument during the interlude, the accompaniment instrument will add some flowers and make some different accompaniments in the general passage, so as not to make the whole song too monotonous.
This is the most outstanding part of the accompaniment of ordinary pop songs, except for the intro and the instrumental solo, so it is more difficult than ordinary places.
Ye Gui was worried that Liu Jie would not be able to complete the arrangement of his memory drum kit, so he didn't say some difficult rhythms.
As a result, after listening to Liu Jie's drum, Ye Gui knew that he still underestimated Liu Jie.
Several people had never rehearsed before at all, and Liu Jie had not heard this song before, but at this time, just by virtue of the drum beat he had just hummed, he basically played the feeling that this song needed.
Ye Gui sighed secretly, if it weren't for his own rebirth advantage, there were many classic melodies and arrangements in his head, and he would not even be as good as Liu Jie, an old musician.
Sure enough, none of these old guns who have been mixed in the circle for many years are good at stubble.
Although the drum kit is only Liu Jie's side job, it can be inferred from this that Liu Jie's guitar and the music he makes will only be better.
As soon as he thought of this, Ye Gui pointed to a whiteboard on the wall of the rehearsal room, and said to Liu Jie: "Brother Liu, you played very well just now, you can try it like this in the part where you don't feel much." ”
The whiteboard behind Ye Gui used a black pen, full of ABC and some numbers. The notation above is a simple representation of the structure of the song.
A is the main song, B is the chorus, and those numbers represent how many measures there are in the section.
At this time, Ye Gui's hand pointed to the position of the B section and the interlude, and then said to Liu Jie about the complete drum kit of this place.
Liu Jie listened to Ye Gui's rhythm, lowered his head and thought for a while, and then said with a smile: "I just said that when I played just now, that part didn't feel right, it turned out that you kid thought I was low and didn't give me the full version." ”
Ye Gui smiled: "No, I came up with it after listening to the drum kit you played just now, Brother Liu." ”
At this time, Jiang Shan, who turned on the computer outside the rehearsal room, walked over, listened to Ye Gui's words, and rolled his eyes.
He can understand it, Ye Gui, a student, looks young, but his face is not thin at all, and he dared to say to Teacher Jiang that your level is not enough, and this will be able to gag with Brother Liu again.
Coughing lightly, Jiang Shan said, "Ye Gui, this side is ready, the drum kit can start recording now." ”
It turned out that in the hall outside the rehearsal room on the fourth floor, there was a small mixing console, sound cards, computers and other recording devices. These are also simple recording devices, which are basically designed to record drum kits and some slightly larger instruments.
When Liu Jie played the drums for the first time just now, Jiang Shan was preparing recording equipment outside.
At this time, the recording was ready, but Ye Gui did not start recording in a hurry, but first asked Liu Jie to play the drum twice, and then listened to Liu Jie's drum kit, continued to say a few things that he was not satisfied with, and asked Liu Jie to play a few more times.
After a while, Liu Jie, who had practiced several times, was already able to hit the effect that Ye Gui wanted, and then Ye Gui signaled Jiang Shan to let him start recording.
At that moment, several people all exited the rehearsal room and came to the hall, and in the room of the rehearsal room, only the group of drums and Liu Jie who was sitting on a drum bench with headphones remained.
When recording a drum kit, use multiple microphones to record separately, and the two microphones are aimed at the kick drum and the snare drum respectively, and one stand is in front of the two drums. Another microphone hung down from the ceiling and hung in front of Liu Jie.
Several thick lines extend out of the rehearsal room and are connected to the mixer next to the computer in the hall, and after a while, the sound of the drum kit played by Liu Jie will be converted into electronic signals from these lines to the sound card.
Jiang Shan opened the software, created a new audio track, adjusted the electronic metronome, and then said to the microphone next to the computer: "Brother Liu, listen to it, is the sound level of this metronome in the headphones okay?" ”
Liu Jie in the rehearsal room adjusted the headphones, listened to the sound of the electronic metronome coming from the headphones, and then struck the drum twice.
Finding that the sound of the metronome in the headphones did not affect his perception of the drums, Liu Jie said to a microphone hanging directly above the drum kit: "The sound is fine, you can start recording." ”――
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