Chapter III: Military Orders
"When you encounter a song with a long main theme, you can break it down into several small sections, which are what we often call musical phrases, and each musical phrase will be played slightly differently, such as this one......"
The next morning.
Composition Department Specialized Course.
Lin Yuan listened to the teacher's explanation while making class notes in his notebook.
Although the original owner has transferred from the vocal music department to the composition department, and the composition talent is not high, the fields related to music are within the scope of the original owner's interest.
And Lin Yuan is now just like the original owner, full of interest in music.
He didn't want to come up with a bunch of songs in the future, and end up not even being proficient in the staves.
It's just that Lin Yuan didn't expect that there would be an unexpected gain from taking professional classes seriously-
A prompt suddenly sounded in his ears: "Ding Dong, the host has been detected to be learning composition knowledge, triggering the novice task." ”
Followed by.
In front of Lin Yuan's eyes, a few lines of shimmering blue font appeared:
[Task Name: The student's task is to learn]
[Task content: In the next examination arranged by the college's professional class, the total score will enter the top 25 in the class]
[Reward: Get a Bronze Treasure Chest]
This novice task came quite abruptly, but Lin Yuan was not too surprised.
Is a system that doesn't publish tasks still a system?
Then he thought about the difficulty of the task:
The composition department of the Qinzhou Conservatory of Music alone has ten classes, and each class has about fifty people, and Lin Yuan's class is just fifty people.
But this has nothing to do with Lin Yuan.
Because he doesn't have to compare himself to other students.
The novice task only required Lin Yuan to be able to enter the top twenty-five in the class in the next exam.
This is not a big problem for Lin Yuan.
Because Lin Yuan's usual ranking in professional classes is around thirty in the class, as long as he works a little harder, he should be able to enter the top twenty-five in the class.
"What happens if the mission fails?"
Lin Yuan asked the system curiously in his heart: "Will you be shocked by the system, or will you be wiped out by the system?"
Lin Yuan's face changed slightly: "Shouldn't you have to deduct money, right?"
[System First Rule: Never Harm the Host]
[In addition, friendly reminder: electric shock, obliteration, everything is more terrible than deducting money, please distinguish the host from the secondary]
"Just don't deduct money. ”
Lin Yuan breathed a sigh of relief, but immediately he suddenly realized that even if the system wanted to deduct money, he didn't have the money to deduct it from the system......
This discovery made him a little excited.
......
After class.
Lin Yuan didn't go back to the dormitory, but found a quiet place, took out a number from his mobile phone and dialed it, and the remarks of the number were:
"Agent Zhao Yu".
The phone rang twice and it was connected.
On the other end of the phone, there was a somewhat tired woman's voice: "Lin Yuan, is there something wrong with you?"
Lin Yuan said: "I have a song I want to post." ”
The voice on the other end of the phone suddenly became a little excited: "Do you want to sing? Your voice has recovered? Can you sing again?"
"It's not. ”
Lin Yuan said: "I have now transferred from the vocal music department to the composition department, and I recently have a song in my hand, I want to see if the company can help find a singer to sing and publish?"
"That's right. ”
Zhao Jue was a little disappointed, and his voice became low again: "You also want to participate in the rookie season in November, right?"
"Yes. ”
"I have to remind you, you are a singer signed by our Xingmang Entertainment, not a songwriter signed by the company, the company has a songwriting department dedicated to docking with singers, and most of the singers also have their own songwriters...... Zhao Jue refused very tactfully.
Lin Yuan didn't give up: "Then can I transfer to the songwriting department now?"
He was in need of the company's distribution channels.
Without the promotion of resources provided by the company, even a very good song is easy to sink into the sea, and the newcomers who have emerged in the rookie season in previous years are all supported by the resources of entertainment companies.
"Can't!"
Zhao Jue refused.
The air was quiet for about ten seconds, Zhao Jue suddenly sighed, and said helplessly: "Forget it, you use the company's internal channels to encrypt the song and send it to me, if the quality is okay, I'll find someone to help you send it, of course, if the quality is not good, let's treat it as if this hasn't happened." ”
"Thank you. ”
Lin Yuan thanked him seriously.
Zhao Jue was the one who signed Lin Yuan at the beginning, and she once had high hopes for Lin Yuan, but unfortunately Lin Yuan's throat had an accident and lost its value.
In such a situation, Zhao Jue is still willing to help Lin Yuan, which is already a great affection.
"That's it, hang up. ”
Zhao Jue cut off the phone with some irritability.
......
Zhao Jue's irritability was not aimed at Lin Yuan, but it originated from Lin Yuan.
is also because next month is the rookie season in the music industry, and Zhao Jue has too many things to do.
There are still a few newcomers who have just signed a contract to try to rush up with the annual rookie season.
Originally, Lin Yuan should also be one of this batch of newcomers.
Zhao Jue even wanted to invite a few of the company's biggest songwriters to help Lin Yuan tailor a few songs, so that Lin Yuan could be a blockbuster in the rookie season, because Lin Yuan's voice talent was really amazing.
The results were unsatisfactory.
"The path of a singer is not working, so you want to change the path of songwriting?"
Zhao Jue smiled bitterly and shook his head, if creation is so simple, why don't some king-level diva-level singers write their own songs, but also ask professional songwriters to write songs?
Is it that they don't want to?
It's not that they can't write good songs that listeners love to hear.
In today's era, the status of a song's composer is much higher than that of a singer, especially in the current pragmatic industry ecology.
The composer is the big daddy!
Because a company, if it has a great composer, it can feed a bunch of singers.
In fact, in recent years, listeners have begun to pay more and more attention to the names of composers.
Obviously, the public is also beginning to realize that composition is the soul of songs, and singing is secondary!
Other parts such as lyrics and arrangement, although they are also very important, the core thing is definitely more important than singing.
Good tunes, any musical instrument is good!
It doesn't matter if you want to play guitar or piano or bass oboe, if you really meet someone who loves to play, suona can borrow music to play flowers.
"This boy is also a poor man. ”
recalled some of the past, Zhao Jue was a little embarrassed.
When Lin Yuan was hospitalized, Zhao Jue, as the agent who signed Lin Yuan, actually went to see him, but she finally stopped at the door of the ward.
Because through the door, she heard hoarse and whimpering cries coming from the room, like a wounded puppy......
Everyone has compassion.
This is the reason why Zhao Jue is willing to help Lin Yuan.
Regardless of whether it is successful or not, at least give the child a chance, so that the child knows that in this world, many things can be successful if you don't take it for granted.
"But you've hurt me. ”
Zhao Jue sighed, sorrow crept up on her face, this was the source of her irritability-
The annual rookie season in the music industry is a time when major companies promote newcomers.
During this time, the major companies can be described as swords and swords, fighting fiercely.
Even if you look at the eight continents, Xingguang Entertainment is also a company with a head and a face.
In Qinzhou, Xingmang Entertainment's comprehensive strength can be ranked in the top three!
However, Starlight Entertainment has performed poorly in the rookie season for three consecutive years.
In the past three years, the company's best results turned out to be the year before last when two newcomers squeezed into the top ten, and they were both ninth and tenth at the tail of the list......
Compared with companies of the same level, it is really stumbling.
One of the things that made Xingmang most angry was that the company's nemesis, Shahai Culture, accounted for four of the top ten sequences of the rookie season last year.
Among the four seats, there are also the second and third places with high gold content.
This made the senior management of Xingmang collectively unable to raise their heads, after all, several big entertainment companies in Qinzhou were very incompatible with each other, so the senior executives naturally put pressure on the company's chief agent Zhao Jue.
Zhao Jue was forced to be helpless, and made a military order in front of all the high-level officials:
This year's rookie season will have a top three!
If she couldn't, she asked for a demotion.
And the reason why Zhao Jue dared to make a military order was not only because the high-level was pressing, but also because Zhao Jue had just signed Lin Yuan, a young man whose voice shocked her, was full of ambition and ready to do a big job-
She felt that Lin Yuan could help her complete this task.
But now Lin Yuan's voice is invalid, but the military order is not invalid.
As long as the results are high-level, they don't care what happens to you.
Therefore, Zhao Jue has been frantically looking for someone who can replace Lin Yuan and help him complete the military order, and for this reason, he has reported nine newcomers in a row.
But Zhao Jue is also very clear in his heart.
The nine newcomers she has already reported have hope of hitting the top 20, and it depends on luck to hit the top ten.
Want to hit the top five or even the top three?
Let's wash and sleep, I have everything in my dreams.
The company's resources can allocate ten places, and now there is only one place left, but Zhao Jue still hasn't found anyone who can replace Lin Yuan.
She was already in a semi-abandonment state.
That's why she finally agreed to Lin Yuan.
Anyway, it's only the last place, if the quality of the songs written by Lin Yuan is barely qualified, why not satisfy that poor child?
That's when it happened.
Her phone rang.
This is the prompt tone of the mailbox, which was encrypted and sent through the company's internal channels, and the sender is Lin Yuan.
Open the mailbox.
After Zhao Jue decrypted it, he saw the audio sent by Lin Yuan, titled: "Born Like a Summer Flower".
Born like a summer flower?
Zhao Jue didn't understand the meaning of this sentence, but he could faintly have some imaginary associations.
She puts on her headphones and hits play.
Wandering through the music, I soon finished listening to a song.
Zhao Jue's expression was a little surprised and a little surprised.
is different from those very rough samples, the songs sent by Lin Yuan are very complete, in addition to the melody is already very complete, even the arrangement part has been done-
This is not something that can be done in the short term.
The singing part is a pure hum, a machine-synthesized sound.
It's just that the sound is less stiff than a normal machine-synthesized sound, and it seems quite natural.
However, Zhao Jue can judge from experience that this emotionless humming should be very interesting if it is replaced by a human voice.
"It's kind of interesting. ”
Zhao Jue is an agent.
She may not know much about composing music, but she has been immersed in the industry for many years, and her basic judgment is not bad.
Her eyes lit up faintly, and she felt that "Born Like a Summer Flower" might be a very good song, because she was already a little attracted to it, even if the song was currently only humming with melody and synthesized sounds.
"This guy really has a talent for composing?"
Raising his eyebrows, Zhao Jue made three calls in a row.
The first call was to the review department: "I have a song here, you can review it, expedited, and you must give me the result in the evening." ”
This is a necessary level.
The technical review is to prevent Lin Yuan's "Born Like a Summer Flower" from being too similar to other songs on the market in terms of melody and suspicion of plagiarism.
The second call was made to his agent.
As the chief, Zhao Jue's voice was resolute: "Record a song tonight, the last spot in the rookie season, give me a reliable one, don't be too embarrassed to cultivate the musician." ”
A newcomer whose voice is not top enough is not bad for Zhao Jue.
It's nothing more than the company's sound repairers working overtime.
The third call was to Lin Yuan, and her tone was the softest, far less powerful than the first two calls: "When will class end today?" I'll pick you up at your school, and let's record a song." ”
"Good. ”
Lin Yuan replied.
The tone seems to be ...... Not unexpected?