"Little Hands Holding Big Hands" and "The First Dream" are two different styles of songs, and this song is completely a little sweet song.

Whether it's the melody, the lyrics, or the arrangement, the song is very light.

After listening to "The First Dream" just now, the girl thought that Shizuka Kudo originally walked in an inspirational and independent style, so Zhou Yan wrote such a song for her.

But after listening to "Little Hands Holding Big Hands", the girl found that Shizuka Kudo's interpretation of this song was even better than "The First Dream".

Listening to this song, you can really feel the sweetness emanating from the song, as if every word sung by Shizuka Kudo is full of sweet love.

It seems that Shizuka Kudo is very good at mastering this kind of light and sweet song.

And the lyrics of the song "Little Hands Holding Big Hands" are more simple and the picture sense is stronger, and after listening to it, it feels like watching a short film.

Concerts, fireworks, small hands, big hands, amusement parks, these images of reality are easy to weave in the listener's mind.

After listening to it, the girl couldn't help but reverse the tape and listened to "Little Hands Holding Big Hands" again, she really liked this song very much.

There are actually very few such sweet songs in Chinese orchestras, and most of the love songs are bitter, especially the songs of those female singers, each one is more bitter than the other.

It seems that if you don't make the listener cry, you won't stop.

Even some relatively cheerful love songs are similar to the style of dance music, such as "Little Hands Holding Big Hands", which cannot be found at all.

So when she heard "Little Hands Holding Big Hands", the girl was surprised and delighted.

Sure enough, Zhou Yan made a move, but it was different, the songs he wrote were completely different from the current pop songs.

After the boy and the girl stood like this and listened to both "Little Hands Holding Big Hands" and "The First Dream" twice, the girl walked to the front of the new product shelf and picked up the CD on it.

"For these two songs, I'll have to buy a CD and listen to them."

At this time, a little girl next to her asked her, "Sister, is this album good?" ”

"It's good, it's very good, Zhou Yan wrote two songs for Shizuka Kudo, both of which are very good. I haven't listened to the other eight songs yet, but with Zhou Yan's two songs, I have already earned it, little sister, don't hesitate, just get it. ”

Hearing her say this, the little girl also made up her mind and nodded, "Well, I bought it too." ”

In just a few moments, the three copies of "The First Dream" on the shelves were sold out.

The girl saw that there was no "First Dream" on the shelves, and kindly shouted to the boss, "Boss, it's time to restock." ”

……

Zhou Yan originally wanted to take Shizuka Kudo to have a big meal, but she had to eat mixed sauce noodles.

Shizuka Kudo's favorite food here is mixed sauce noodles, followed by dumplings.

Dumplings are usually eaten as a staple food here, but Shizuka Kudo likes to eat dumplings as a dish, and eat dumplings with rice.

In the studio cafeteria before, Shizuka Kudo did it once, which greatly reduced Zhou Yan's appetite. The last time he felt this way was when he went to Xicheng and saw locals pouring sugar into their noodle bowls.

Now Shizuka Kudo wants to eat mixed sauce noodles, and Zhou Yan will be satisfied, but if she wants to eat dumplings, Zhou Yan will not do it.

After eating, Shizuka Kudo wanted to go to the audiovisual world again to see if anyone bought her new album.

However, Zhou Yan grabbed her arm, "Don't go to the audio-visual world, I'll take you to another audio-visual store." ”

Shizuka Kudo blinked, puzzled, "Is there a video store that's bigger than that?" ”

Zhou Yan shook his head, "No, that video store is much smaller than the big video world." ”

Shizuka Kudo looked skeptical, "No one buys a big video store, will there be a small video store?" ”

Zhou Yuan said with a smile, "Trust me." ”

Seeing that Zhou Yan was so confident, Shizuka Kudo didn't ask again, and let Zhou Yan take her hand and walk forward.

Zhou Yan's destination was the north gate of Yanshi University.

Xidan is not close to Yanshi University, there must be several kilometers, but the traffic is also convenient, there is a big straight road in the middle, and it will take a while to get there.

There are many gates in Yanshi University, seven or eight large and small, and there is a small street next to the north gate, where there are eating, drinking, and playing, and students usually love to go here.

Zhou Yan and Wang Xiaoshuai met the people of the support club before, and they were also at the north gate.

Originally, the office of the crew of "The Sixth Sense", which is now the Yanjing station of Zhou's company, was next to that street, and Zhou Yan used to wander around the neighborhood before, so he still knew a lot about it.

There is a video store called "Feihong" next to the north gate, which usually gathers many music lovers, among which there are naturally many fans of Zhou Yan.

Normally, it's hard to say who has the most music fans in the store, but today is the day when "The First Dream" is on the shelves, so there is no doubt that Zhou Yan has the most music fans in the store today.

Because of the existence of the Yan Shida Zhou Yan Support Association, the news about Zhou Yan always spreads quickly here.

Zhou Yan's song for Shizuka Kudo has been widely known in Yanshi University for a long time, and they also know the exact time when the album will be released.

Therefore, early this morning, Feihong Audiovisual Store gathered a large number of Zhou Yan's music fans, just to come and see the album "The First Dream".

The boss Wu Daoyou had long expected this situation, so as soon as the album arrived in the store, he made a new product consultation board specifically for "The First Dream", and there was only one album of "The First Dream" on the entire information board.

At the same time, on the hot selling shelf near the door, there are 20 "First Dreams" tapes and 5 CDs, which are very generous.

This is not the end, since the morning, Feihong video store has been playing the entire album of "The First Dream" on a loop.

In just one morning, Feihong sold more than 30 "First Dreams" cassette tapes and six CDs, which is a very good result for a video store of this size.

When Zhou Yan and Kudo Shizuka arrived at the video store, there was no one in the store, and the first wave of peak traffic had passed in the morning.

The boss, Wu Daoyou, was putting new goods on the shelves of new products, and when he saw the two of them entering the door, he greeted with a smile, "What do you two need?" ”

Zhou Yan pressed his voice and asked, "Boss, is there still "The First Dream"?" ”

"Yes, isn't this on the line, you're also a member of the support club, right?"

"I'm from the support club." Zhou Yan nodded, then pointed at Shizuka Kudo and said, "She hasn't joined the club yet." ”

"Your president and vice president have been here this morning."

After the boss put the album on the shelf, he smiled and said, "You look at yourself and take it, if you are not sure whether to buy it or not, I have a walkman and a trial pack, you can listen to it first and then make a decision." Just now at dinner, the speaker was turned off for a while, and it had been put on all morning. ”

Shizuka Kudo asked next to him, "Boss, album, is it good?" ”

The boss glanced at Shizuka Kudo, he only felt that the girl's pronunciation was a little strange, but he didn't hear that it was a neon person, after all, he said these words.

"It's good, I didn't say that just to sell your albums, the guests who came here today said it was good."

Saying that, in order to increase the persuasiveness of his words, Wu Daoyou shouted at a customer in the store again, "Fang Zhou, did you say?" ”

Fang Zhou is a young man with glasses, who should also be a student of a nearby school, when he heard Wu Daoyou ask him, he pushed his glasses, nodded with a smile, and said, "Boss Wu is right, this album is really good, mainly because the two songs written by Zhou Yan are good." One song "The First Dream", one song "Little Hands Holding Big Hands", both of which are very good. ”

"Did it sell well?"

"Okay, I sold thirty or forty copies in the morning, and I put the rest of the goods on the table, and I have to call to buy them immediately, and the goods in my store will last until tomorrow at most." Wu Daoyou smiled, didn't say much to Zhou Yan, and entered the counter by himself, "Look for yourself, what is the need to call me." ”

Zhou Yan nodded, "Boss, you're busy, let's see for ourselves." ”

After the boss returned to the back of the counter, he turned on the speakers in the store again, and the album "The First Dream" was playing.

It should have been played before, so the album was played from the middle.

Shizuka Kudo looked at the dozens of albums on the shelves and was a little curious, "Why is it different here?" Does it have anything to do with that support club? ”

"It's not just about the support club, it's next to Yenching Normal University. The market for college students is different, and they receive information faster. For example, the scandal between the two of us is generally a point that college students pay more attention to. ”

Now in this year, there are more college students chasing stars, because generally only college students have this channel and time.

Unlike twenty or thirty years later, middle school students are the main force chasing stars on the Internet.

"Oh, that's right."

Zhou Yan picked up a cassette tape from the shelf and looked at it, and said with a smile, "Actually, you don't have much reference value to watch whether the album is popular in this kind of video store, unless you can run through most of the video stores in Yanjing, otherwise the data you get is not accurate." ”

"I know, I can wait for the sales data to come out."

"That's not necessary, the data on the Chinese side is relatively slow and inaccurate. If you want to know if an album is a hit, go to those small stalls, and if eight out of ten vendors have pirated copies of the album in their bags, it proves that the album is hot. ”

Shizuka Kudo showed a surprised expression, "You mean, piracy?" ”

Zhou Yan nodded, "It's piracy, the sales of "Piano Boy" in the mainland are actually less than a million copies, I'm talking about tapes and CDs together." But in the case of piracy, 10 million tapes were sold, to say the least. ”

"A million, ten million? So exaggerated? ”

Zhou Yan smiled, this is not an exaggeration, it is said that the pirated tapes of "Black Panther 1" have sold more than 100 million.

Although the data of more than 100 million is not necessarily true, the number of pirated tapes of "Black Panther 1" must be far more than 10 million, and the genuine sales of "Black Panther 1" are just over 1 million, which is a very big difference.

There is still some copyright awareness in big cities, and some people will pay money to buy genuine copies in order to support their favorite music.

In some small cities or rural towns, there is basically no awareness of copyright, and even if you want to buy a genuine copy, you can't buy it.

If you want to buy the genuine version, you also need the owner of the video store to be willing to enter the genuine version.

Sometimes it's not that customers don't want to buy genuine copies, it's that they simply can't distinguish between genuine and pirated copies.

Conscientious bosses will sell genuine and pirated copies together, but they will also tell customers which ones are genuine and which ones are pirated, and let customers choose for themselves.

If you have no conscience, it is too normal to sell pirated copies as genuine.

Pirated tapes come into the store for a dollar or two, price eight or nine dollars, and then ask customers to cut four or five dollars.

While earning customers' money, customers should also say thank you.

The most outrageous piracy that Zhou Yan has seen before is that someone mixed his two albums together and made an album called "Mysterious Boy".

The shopkeeper also told him that the album was a collector's edition and that it would cost twelve dollars for a copy.

What's even more outrageous is that Zhou Yan spent three yuan to buy one, and now he still has a copy of "Mysterious Boy (Zhou Yan Hardcover Album)" at home.

The Feihong video store where they are now actually sells pirated copies, but they are all clearly marked at three or four yuan a piece.

"The First Dream" has just come out, so it hasn't been pirated yet, but it's hard to say after a while.

Those who engage in piracy are very powerful, and sometimes the pirated version has been made before the genuine album has come out.

Of course, some of these pirated tapes that leaked out in advance were actually leaked, while others were made up by pirates.

Compared with a certain king and queen to release a film and announce the name of the album in advance, some pirates will make their own covers, put photos of singers on them, and then print the album name to be sold.

When customers buy it back, they find that it is basically all old songs that have already been released, and some of them are not even songs by the singer himself.

Shizuka Kudo actually knew in advance that the copyright awareness on the Chinese side was not very good, but she didn't expect it to be so outrageous.

"Are you distressed?" Shizuka Kudo looked at Zhou Yan, "With so many pirated copies, you make a lot less money." ”

Zhou Yan said with a smile, "It's good to get used to it." ”

Of course, it is false to say that he is not distressed, and if there is no piracy, he will definitely be able to make a lot of more money.

But piracy exists for a reason.

Most people in China now don't earn more than 200 a month, so how can they be expected to spend too much money on entertainment? This is true of music, and so is literature.

At this stage, not to mention genuine, even if it is a pirated tape, many people cannot afford to consume it.

The right of these people to enjoy spiritual entertainment is invisibly exploited, and it is too harsh to make these people pay for copyright.

When a privilege that should be enjoyed by the majority of people becomes a privilege that only a small number of people can enjoy, it is not just a problem of a certain person or a group of people, but a problem with the entire social environment.

Putting aside the pros and cons of piracy, at this stage, China does not have the conditions to rectify piracy.

Zhou Yan believes that everything will be fine, but it will take time.

"Perhaps, you can take me there later and see the peddlers' bags."

"No problem, I'll take you to see it later."

The two stood in front of the shelves and chatted for a while, when they suddenly heard a guitar sound coming from behind the counter.

Zhou Yan followed the sound and saw the boss playing the guitar with headphones on.

After listening to it twice, Zhou Yan probably understood that this boss was picking up the score of "The First Dream".

This made Zhou Yan a little surprised, it is not difficult for him to pick up the score, but it does not mean that it is very simple, ordinary music lovers, it is very good to be able to pick up the score, the key "The First Dream" is not a guitar accompaniment, it is not something that can be picked up and played on the guitar just by listening, and it may also involve some adaptations.

It seems that this boss has something, otherwise he wouldn't even try.

However, Zhou Yan listened for a while, and found that the boss's level was not particularly high, the score was very slow, some places were not accurate, and there were mistakes and omissions in some places.

Zhou Yan wanted to correct it, but he still held back, this is a video store, not his class, so being a good teacher may be boring.

But after that, the boss became more and more chaotic, and Zhou Yan listened more and more anxiously.

In the end, Zhou Yan couldn't help it, so he took out a small notebook from his pocket and wrote a simple paragraph, he mainly wrote out the direction of a few harmonies, so that the shopkeeper could understand it when he saw it.

In particular, the key to the conversion of Ab to F is that the fifth-grade subordinate chord of Ab is the seventh-grade leading chord corresponding to the F key of minor, and Zhou Yan can't always teach people the role of the family chord and the leading chord, so he can only write this paragraph directly.

After writing, Zhou Yan tore off the two small pages of the score, silently put them on the counter, and then pulled Shizuka Kudo away.

Not long after Zhou Yan and the others left, Wu Daoyou raised his head.

He was scratching his ears and cheeks just now, and his attention was on the score, not noticing that someone had put the paper on the counter.

When I looked up, I noticed two pages lying on the counter.

"What's this?"

Wu Daoyou muttered, took two pages and looked at them, and then the whole person was stunned, there was a dense score drawn on it.

And the score on this perfectly solves the problem he just encountered.

Who wrote this? When was it here?

Wu Daoyou was confused.

He thought of the suspicious couple that had appeared in the store just now, and suddenly stood up and ran towards the door.

But when he ran out of the door, he couldn't find Zhou Yan and them at all.

Wu Daoyou touched his head and returned to the store, and the young man Fang Zhou before was puzzled, "Boss Wu, what's wrong with you?" ”

"I met a tall man."

"Superior? What is a high person? ”

"I don't know what a master is, but it's a master anyway." Wu Daoyou looked at the score again, "This score is really beautiful." ”

Although the paper is small and the score is very dense, it can be seen that the person who wrote the score is very skilled, almost in one go, indicating that this person should usually write the score.

Just when Wu Daoyou was looking at the score and wondering, two students happened to walk in.

Seeing the person coming, Wu Daoyou's eyes lit up, "Huang Nian, you came just in time, I will consult you about something." ”

"What's the matter?"

"Do you have any musicians in your support club?"

"A master musician? Does Senior Sister Xiaoting count. ”

"Shu Xiaoting, forget it, she's not as good as me."

Huang Nian thought about it sideways, and then said, "What about Senior Brother Qin Xu?" ”

Wu Daoyou shook his head, "I know Qin Xu, what I want to ask is what I don't know." ”

"Then it's gone, our normal school, what kind of music master can there be. And most of the people in our support club, you know. ”

Wu Daoyou patted his head: "It's strange." ”

The man clearly said that he was from the support club. (End of chapter)