Chapter 56: Album Making
Teacher Sanbao is an anxious person, and he is so excited that he pulls Bi Xia into the recording studio and drives everyone out, except for Zhang Jing, a delicate beauty, which makes her angry and funny.
Needless to say, Bi Xia's music skills are needless to say, Zang's mother is a music teacher, and he has learned musical instruments under Zang's mother's education since he was a child, and his piano skills are solid and profound; The guitar is also quite good, and when I was a teenager, I played and sang one or two songs by myself with the guitar on my back, which was an extremely free musical atmosphere and a popular pastime at that age.
In terms of singing skills, Bi Xia can be described as unique, his vocal range is extremely wide, his voice is clean, his breath is thick and long, and there is no place where he is not enough to breath after a song.
It's just that after all, he is not from a professional class, and there are still some deficiencies in tone conversion.
Since participating in "Avenue of Stars", Bi Xia has been teaching himself lyrics and composition, and after accepting the huge amount of songs in his memory, he is also very interested in lyrics and composition, but he has just learned, and he can only say that he understands a rough idea and is not very proficient.
However, his sensitivity to music is still good, he has his own ability to appreciate, although the songs he sings, although they are all from memory, but on a certain basis, Bixia has added his own understanding, or in the intonation, or in the arrangement, or in the meaning of the songs, which also makes his songs are branded by him.
Huayi's recording studio is the most professional in the country, and there are many equipment in it, Bi Xia has never touched, he is like a curious baby, looking around.
"Well, I'm interested." San Bao looked at the inactive curiosity and desire for knowledge in Bi Xia's eyes, and smiled heartily.
"Yes!" Bi Xia nodded vigorously, maybe it was because of his personality, Bi Xia preferred to be a producer and creator than being a singer, maybe he had a certain desire to control in his subconscious.
"We'll learn this slowly in the future, let's try to record the song today, I have a good idea." Teacher Sanbao interrupted Bi Xia's observation and said angrily.
In the next few days, Bi Xia fully understood the first sad part of the singer industry, that is, recording songs.
For singers, the studio is sacred, and every album, whether good or not, comes from here. The studio is magical, he removes all the impurities from the singer's voice, leaving only the perfect finished product.
But no matter how perfect a machine is, it also needs a human factor. Therefore, in the studio, singers often need to record over and over again, leaving the best one again, and then processing it with equipment.
Bi Xia's singing skills have long been affirmed by everyone, originally he thought that recording songs would not take him too much time, but he didn't know that he suffered as soon as he entered the recording studio.
Recording in the studio is completely different from singing on stage. It's a strange feeling to be in a small, fully enclosed room with a headset and listening to your own voice. And without any atmosphere rendering, if you want to express the emotions of the song, you need Bi Xia to imagine in her heart, and try to let herself appear in front of her eyes one by one when singing, so that she can immerse herself in it.
Mr. Sanbao is very easy to get along with on weekdays, very easy-going, bohemian, and informal, but when it comes to work, he becomes indifferent, picky, and unkind when faced with music.
In just a few days, even Bi Xia's body felt a little unbearable, and his throat was dry and uncomfortable. Hu Yu was very distressed when he saw it, and every time he soaked in a big cup of fat sea and waited for him.
"Teacher Sanbao is so hateful, I think it's perfect, he just said no, I think he deliberately found fault." Hu Yu was angry and hugged Bi Xia, looking very cute.
"Xiaoyu, don't talk nonsense!" Huang Xiaoyong hurriedly grabbed Hu Yu, how can the identity of Teacher Sanbao in the music world be discussed casually.
"Hehe, don't be angry with Xiaoyu. This spirit of the teacher is the spirit of a true artist, meticulous and striving for the best, which is the real work ethic. Bi Xia smiled and explained to Hu Yu, and at the same time agreed with Mr. Sanbao's approach very much, he himself is like this when he requires the quality of the movie, he can't tolerate a single flaw, and only with such quality, he can give the audience the best albums and movies.
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In the midst of the scolding and encouragement of Teacher Sanbao, Bi Xia finally finished recording the song, which took a full twenty days. These days, he eats and drinks in the recording studio every day, and if it weren't for the fact that Sanbao took care of Zang's mother's poor health, he might have to sleep in the recording studio.
But fortunately, the effect of this recording was affirmed by Mr. Sanbao, who said that the quality of this album can rank in the top ten among the albums he has handled.
As soon as these words came out, Huayi was like being beaten with chicken blood, and their confidence increased greatly.
Even Bi Xia agreed to the request that the MV should be filmed by himself. Of course, Bi Xia's identity as a student of the directing department is not a small factor, and his first short film "Old Boy" set off huge waves on the Internet.
In addition to the songs Bi Xia sang on the "Avenue of Stars", there are also two songs "Birch Forest" and "Fireworks" that he sang when he was Radisson, as well as "I Want to Blow the Wind with You Again" and "A Letter to Home" that he wrote later.
The whole album is on the heavy side, outlined in gray tones.
Whether it is the desperation of "In the Spring" or the vigilance of "Existence". For the first time, he aimed the camera at the people on the streets and alleys, and used their reality to set off the meaning of the songs.
When writing for "I Want to Blow the Wind with You Again", Bi Xia borrowed a MV from his memory, a child and an old man, which is all of this MV, which is a story of childhood and commitment. Bixia named it "The Light and Shadow Years of True Promise".
Huayi specially invited the big brother in the film industry for Bi Xia, the old drama bone - Qin Feng, to star in friendship, which can be described as painstaking.
The filming of "Birch Forest" also cost a lot, just this piece of birch forest made Huayi easy to find, and finally they flew to the junction of China and Russia, in that ice and snow, white land, lonely birch forest, buried this poignant story.
And the MV heroine Hua Yi also invited Jiang Lu, a newcomer in the film industry who has a lot of fame, to perform. This beautiful woman with red lips and white teeth, eyes bent into crescents when she laughs, and a big maroon wave, full of charm.
She is very good at performing a woman's feelings of prayer, expectation, bad news, despair, longing, and being buried here after her lover's expedition.