Becoming a Global Superstar Starting as an Idol Trainee

Wu Hongrong is indeed a good partner.

As soon as Chen Minhao proposed the idea of ​​adjusting the number of songs in the album, he immediately reorganized the album production project schedule for Chen Minhao, and determined the key tasks for the next two weeks:

Currently, Chen Minhao's song writing and composing progress is 4/6, song recording and mixing progress is 2/6, and MV progress is 0/2.

Chen Minhao's focus for the next two weeks is still writing songs.

In Wu Hongrong's view, Chen Minhao's album has been 80% successful. Except for a small number of fanatical fans, the popularity of an album depends largely on the quality of the album and the preferences of the audience. As for publicity and promotion, it is just a means to let more people know about the album.

Chen Minhao has created 4 songs so far, each of which is a classic. Therefore, even if Chen Minhao's next songs are relatively mediocre, this will not affect Chen Minhao's first album "Farewell" to hit the platinum record and even become a classic.

However, in Chen Minhao's view, the four songs presented are only the first step of the Long March, and the subsequent arrangement is a tough battle to be fought.

Perhaps in the eyes of Wu Hongrong and even most musicians, the biggest difficulty in creating an album is writing songs and composing music. But for Chen Minhao, the really difficult job is arranging.

Chen Minhao still has hundreds of Earth songs in his mind as a backup. But his knowledge of composition is next to zero.

Composing music and arranging music are two completely different things. A person may not have a musical foundation, but writing lyrics is okay, and composing music may be okay. After all, it is enough to have a feeling. But composition is not like this, you must know a lot of knowledge about composition:

You need to understand the most basic music theory, you need to understand harmony, you need to understand orchestration, you need to understand music style, and generally you need to know how to make music. The most important thing is to practice your ears very well.

In fact, in modern music, especially pop music, the composer and arranger are often different people.

The most important thing for the composer is the grasp and inspiration of the melody, while the arranger considers how to express the melody with skills. To put it simply, the composer gave the skeleton, while the arranger gave the flesh and blood.

The world after Chen Minhao travels is not a wasteland of music. There is no shortage of arranger masters here. All the songs before Chen Minhao were arranged by Wu Hongrong. Judging from the effect, there are not many. Chen Minhao originally didn’t have to worry about song arrangement. The problem of the song.

But the Chinese style in this world has not grown up. The so-called Chinese style is just that the lyrics have become more literary, or the lyrics contain some traditional Chinese allusions. But in terms of soundtrack, it is no different from general pop music: violin, piano, guitar and so on.

This is not the Chinese style song that Chen Minhao wanted.

The Chinese style that Chen Minhao wants, or in other words, what he wants to convey with "Thousands of Miles Away" and "Fireworks Are Cold" is actually a classical taste, by adding some oriental musical instruments: such as erhu, guzheng, Xiao, pipa, etc. Let the tone of the song be tactful and looped, reflecting the traditional oriental beauty.

A daughter is hard to come by, and a general is even harder to find.

In the previous life, Zhou Jielun's "Dongfeng Po" opened the door to the Chinese style, and his "Hair Like Snow" and "A Thousand Miles Away" are its extensions, and "Blue and White Porcelain" has brought the Chinese style to the extreme.

After Zhou Jielun opened up this path, more people began to dabble in this field of music.

Because there is no Zhou Jielun in this world, no arranger has a similar experience, and no one can even intuitively understand what Chen Minhao wants.

Chen Minhao seemingly casually agreed to let Qian Jinyun arrange the two songs, but it was actually after consideration:

First, the lack of experience in Chinese style is a common problem among arrangers in the world, and it will not be better to change someone.

Second, Qian Jinyun has good experience and ability to arrange music in pop music. Chen Minhao, the arranger of his "Later" and "Li Ren", is quite satisfactory.

Third, Qian Jinyun pursues the ultimate in his work. From the arrangement of "Li Ren", it can be seen that Qian Jinyun is a detail-oriented person. This song was originally released first, because Qian Jinyun was so entangled in the details that he asked "Li Ren" to record the song after "Later". To explore a new field, the attitude of pursuing the ultimate is very important.

Fourth, Qian Jinyun is more down-to-earth and optimistic. To put it bluntly, he is "resistant to shit". He belongs to the obedient type who encounters a perverted Party A who asks Party B to change the manuscript 200 times, but will still obediently change it.

And Chen Minhao is about to play the role of Party A. w(゜Д゜)w

Looking at these points comprehensively, Chen Minhao couldn't find a more suitable candidate than Qian Jinyun for a while.

Thinking of this, Chen Minhao looked at Qian Jinyun and smiled kindly at him.

Seeing Chen Minhao looking at him, Qian Jinyun was excited, and responded to Chen Minhao with a smile showing eight teeth, thinking: It feels so good to be recognized.

Chen Minhao didn't have procrastination, at least not in his own work. He and Qian Jinyun started preparing the arrangement of two songs that afternoon.

The place where the two discussed was in the office that Chen Minhao had just rented for a monthly rent of 150,000 yuan. Now there were only the two of them on the whole floor, and it was very empty. Chen Minhao even felt that there was an echo of their words.

Chen Minhao said with a smile: "I hope that these two songs can use more traditional Chinese musical instruments in the soundtrack, because the Chinese-style songs I understand do not just pursue superficial lyrics. I think I use guitar in the morning Playing those two songs at least cut their charm by half."

Qian Jinyun tilted his head, but his eyes were shining, and said: "Brother Chen, the idea of ​​using Chinese traditional musical instruments to make music is really great when you mentioned this morning, it will definitely make the audience's eyes shine, no, their ears It's a bright feeling. But there are too many Chinese musical instruments, and the skills of using a single instrument are also extensive and profound, which instruments do you want to use?"

Chen Minhao was stunned for a moment, thinking: This question is a bit out of line for me.

Chen Minhao was worried that Qian Jinyun would continue to ask questions about the arrangement, but he could not answer. He decided to turn passive into active, once and for all. He leaned back in his chair leisurely and said:

"Using Huaxia musical instruments is itself a kind of innovation. Innovation requires you to have the wings of imagination. I don't want my ideas to limit your performance."

Qian Jinyun's face was touched, this kind of fully authorized trust is really good.

As soon as Chen Minhao finished speaking, he didn't give Qian Jinyun any time to ask questions, and continued: "Of course, innovation is not just imagination without any foundation. We can learn some nutrients from Chinese opera."

Qian Jinyun showed an expression of enlightenment, thinking that he had keenly interpreted Chen Minhao's hint: "Brother Hao, you are too right, the long-turned voice in the drama and the modern RNB-turned singing method can actually be well integrated .”

Chen Minhao nodded slightly, expressing his agreement.

Some people seem to be in control of the overall situation, but in fact they look confused.