Volume 1, Heavy Life 02 Chapter 21 He Zijian

Regarding Hou Wenhui's question, Lin Ming told him that it was based on the story of a high school teacher when he was young.

Sometimes, other people's experiences can also be used as articles.

The Chinese people have always believed in the doctrine of taking it, and it is natural for good things to be used if they have something desirable. And Lin Ming just borrowed other people's stories, lyrics and tunes, so it depends on his literary background and musical talent.

So this answer not only made Hou Wenhui feel that it was so, but also made Lin Ming's parents feel logical. As for who that high school teacher is? No one would break the casserole and ask what the hell is going to do this kind of self-deprecating thing. What's more, no one cares about this, as long as the song is good, even if it's stolen, who cares?

After Lin Ming proved himself, Lin Ming's parents and the three shareholders of Peachwood Music went to the office again to talk in detail, while Lin Ming stayed in the studio with the New Era Band and asked them to teach him to play the popular score.

He only has one day, and if he is a professional guitarist, it may only take a few hours to play a complete sheet music. But for a novice rookie like Lin Ming, who has only studied for half a month, it is indeed a big challenge.

Anyone who has studied music knows that memorizing notation is actually a very headache, even if it is not too complicated in a guitar song, there are generally a large number of chords that need to be memorized, Lin Ming's memory is not bad, he can barely cope with it in terms of memorizing notation, and the rest is to practice more. But there is always something wrong with playing on the fingers, learning the guitar requires flexible fingers, he has not played the guitar for many years like He Zijian, he has muscle memory, and any kind of string can be played, just the cooperation of the two hands makes Lin Ming busy. Fortunately, the simple score that has picked up the wind is relatively simple, and Lin Ming can play slowly in the process of learning, and he can also slowly pop out the rhythm of the early stage.

All that's left is to gradually speed up the slow motion into a complete tune.

Lin Ming used He Zijian's electric guitar and practiced slowly under his guidance. The rest of the New Era Band continued to rehearse, and Ho Zijian was good-looking, looking five big and three thick, but he was very gentle. Under the patient guidance of He Zijian, Lin Ming gradually became proficient.

After studying for more than an hour, He Zijian saw that the time was ripe, and knocked on the side: "Lin Ming, what do you think of our band?" ”

"It's good." Lin Ming lowered his head and plucked the strings: "I think your voice is very distinctive, suitable for singing some songs with a fairly high climax." The band's cooperation is also good, and you often sing some loud music with heavy metal, are you rock 'n' roll? ”

"Uh......" He Zijian hesitated: "This is the song in the album that the company gave us, in fact, the definition of rock is very broad, if you do the hard calculation, these songs are actually rock, but not to the point of heavy metal." ”

"Oh. I didn't know much about any of that, I was only interested in ordinary pop, folk and archaic songs. Lin Ming continued to bury his head in practice.

It's a pity that I was interested in these three kinds of music in my last life, otherwise, the audience of rock music is still very large. Many of Mr. Wang's songs belong to the category of rock and roll, and there are not a few high-quality songs, and the high music and humanistic lyrics have inspired generations of teenagers.

"And what song do you think I'm suitable to sing?"

In fact, as a singer, the songs that suit your style must be clear in your heart. But He Zijian asked this, hoping that Lin Ming could give some just right advice. Because he himself is writing songs, he may have inspiration when writing songs, but sometimes it is quite embarrassing to write it in case it is not suitable for him to sing.

A genius like Jay Chou, who is suitable for singing mid-bass fast songs, still writes a lot of high-pitched fast songs that make people's lungs explode. Later generations have commented on some of Jay Chou's own songs on the Internet, and many of his treble parts are forced to squeeze in or even added in the later stage. The most powerful evidence is the early award ceremony of Jay Chou, there were quite a lot of car accidents during the live singing, not only the tone was seriously broken, but also the high note could not be sung and so on. Let him be as comfortable as many soprano singers, obviously unable to do it. But if you want to say that he can't write high-pitched songs, that's certainly not realistic. Like honey, that's not love, not only the treble is high, even the bass is very low.

Therefore, a songwriter can be a generalist, and he can summarize a very large range of voices and tunes, but it is difficult for a singer to do this.

He Zijian wrote some songs by himself, and found that he couldn't sing them and couldn't grasp the charm in them, which was very uncomfortable. So he plans to take out his work and show it to him, hoping that Lin Ming can give him some inspiration and give him some advice.

Lin Ming thought for a while and said, "When you rehearsed before, I listened to the songs you sang, to be honest, there were no bright spots. I heard Mr. Liang say that if the album can't be sold again, you will disband. ”

"Really want to disband?" He Zijian was surprised.

Lin Ming nodded.

He Zijian hadn't gotten the news before, although he did have a bad premonition in his heart, but when he really knew, his face still darkened: "I'm really not this material, I really don't have any musical talent, I can't write good songs, and I can't sing well, I am destined to not be able to embark on the road of music in this life." ”

Lin Ming smiled: "Don't be so pessimistic, I'm actually very optimistic about you." You just lack an opportunity, don't give up on the path of music, it's a long road, I think you can go a long way, just see if you're willing to go on. ”

He Zijian was not signed with Taomu Music when he was popular, but signed with China Entertainment, apparently He Zijian's band was disbanded when he was in Taomu that year, and he wrote songs and songs by himself for two years before he re-debuted as a newcomer in China Entertainment. Although He Zijian was very popular at that time and retired quickly, it is undeniable that he, like Daolang Adu, is definitely a cash cow. Just from the streets and alleys are their songs, you can see how popular these singers' songs were in the past few years. Not only adults are listening, but even junior high and high school students are learning their hoarse and rough voices to roar the first snow of 2002 in the classroom, which can be seen.

At the beginning of the 20000 years, when mainland music was emerging, a mature first-line singer could bring tens of millions of dollars to the company in just a few years. It may not be so exaggerated in 02, but in another two years, a music company with a first-line singer will be invaluable.

Because in the past two years, with the rise of mobile phones, the CRBT business will soon spread across the country. If you have an impression of that era, you will remember that there was this so-called RBT business at that time, and users could buy songs to make phone ringtones for 2 yuan a piece.

Don't underestimate the 2 yuan, if the number of downloads reaches the million level, an extremely popular song can even bring tens of millions of profits to the company and singers in just a few months, counting the network share and copyright agreement share. At that time, many online singers arose, just because of the CRBT download business. So much so that there were a lot of brainwashing divine comedies in that era, such as the Jiangnan style that later swept the world's brainwashing divine comedy, which belonged to the younger generations in this era. For example, four years later, the first generation of the Divine Comedy was worried, and two years later, the perfume was poisonous, the autumn did not come back, wait a minute, the mouse loves rice, the song of the pig, the Buddha and so on, these songs are the hallmarks of this era.

These old-fashioned songs with the current vision were really popular at that time, and the number of network downloads and CRBT business, just doing these shares can make a lot of money for singers.

If Lin Ming joins Peachwood Music and owns the shares of this company, then He Zijian, a potential first-line singer in the future, he will obviously not let go. Let's not talk about the profits that a first-line singer can bring to a commercial company, let's just say that the music website planned by Lin Ming also needs the songs owned by these singers to be licensed.

"Yes, for sure." He Zijian nodded hurriedly and said: "But I am also very confused now, I have written some songs, and I always feel that the songs are not well written." Hopefully, I can make two albums in the first two places, and the sales are dismal, and there are very few audiences, and I don't know how I should go down this road now. ”

Lin Ming thought for a moment and pondered: "In this way, if nothing else, I should soon become a shareholder of Peachwood Music." In the future, you will also be my employees, I have some songs at hand, I will definitely not be able to sing them myself, I can give them to you, but there are some conditions. ”

"On what terms?"

"It's not very harsh, the company has regulations on singers' commercial performances, concerts, private work and advertising, and I don't interfere with this. On my side, when I need your band to perform in the future, you can just help. ”

As a music website, if you can sign some singers to be resident, or take turns to invite some popular singers to be guests in the name of the website, it will definitely be beneficial to the development of the website.

"There's absolutely no problem with that."

He Zijian patted his chest and said: "Don't say it's just a little favor, even if you go up the knife mountain and go down to the sea of fire, it's a matter of your words." ”

Lin Ming waved his hand and smiled: "It's not so scary, after my parents and Mr. Liang negotiate, I may run to the company for a long time in the future, and I will arrange it for you at that time." Don't stop the rehearsed songs for the time being, and when the album is released, I will mention to Mr. Liang that he should stop first, and then talk about it later. ”

Lin Ming hasn't signed a contract yet, and he seems to be a senior executive of Peachwood Music Company. However, it is not that he is more than a substitute, without considering other factors, Lin Ming and Taomu Music Company are still quite satisfied with the cooperation between the two sides, as long as there is no accident, they should be able to negotiate.

He Zijian itched and said, "How long will we have to wait." ”

Lin Ming said: "Don't worry, I will discuss this matter with Mr. Liang as soon as possible and arrange your affairs." In fact, the main reason is that if you want to remake the album, you have to sort out the songs written for you, and then discuss your album with Mr. Liang. You also know the quality of these songs I wrote, if you take them all out and put them in one album, it will be a waste of a little, I want to discuss with Mr. Liang to get some okay songs, add one or two songs I wrote to be the main track of the album, and keep the quality of the work in the middle or upper. It's a great way to stay hot and keep going for the long haul, because I don't really write a lot of songs. ”

As I said before, no one would have thought that one day they would wake up and suddenly relive their youth. Lin Ming is not a prophet, nor is he a professional musician. So there are really very few songs he can bring, and now there are only more than 30 songs in total that are completely recorded and put in that black notebook.

As for many other good songs, he only remembered the tune of the climax and some of the lyrics. This is a missing song, which needs to be filled in by him and Liang Xiaoyue or other musicians in order to be complete. Therefore now the song in his hand is one less than one.

But this is not to say that it is not okay to take out such a few songs, in fact, many first-line singers' albums, there are only one or two songs that can be popular in the whole album, and most of the rest of the songs are foils.

As long as Lin Ming saves some use and does a long-term sustainable development path, more than 30 songs can still be used for a long time.