Entertaining Children

  Chapter 265 is necessary to explain to you?

The new album has been released, and the music videos are all done. Xiao Yao, who doesn’t need to participate in variety shows to help promote the album, is suddenly lighter. At present, there are only adaptations of the script and the women’s folk band "Women". Band" wrote these two tasks.

  There is no hurry to adapt the script, and Xiao Yao himself does not have a lot of work. Ye Jiaying invited a young female screenwriter with great potential in the circle to take charge of the adaptation of the script. Xiao Yao only needs to contact this female screenwriter named Feng Jing regularly, tell her some classic scenes and plots in his mind as ideas, and then wait to see her play. So for most of the remaining free time, Xiao Yao started to prepare songs for the "Women's Band".

  "Women's Band" was originally inspired by Xiao Yao's previous "Twelve Women's Band". Even the name, Xiao Yao just dropped the number twelve. Because Xiao Yao remembered that this orchestra clearly had more than twelve people, but he didn't know why it was called the "Twelve Women's Orchestra", so when he named it in this life, Xiao Yao dropped this number.

  In one week, Xiao Yao moved three songs from the "Twelve Women's Band" in his previous life, namely "Jasmine", "Kangding Love Song" and "Dream of Water Village".

  The first two songs were folk songs from Jiangsu Province and Sichuan Province in the previous life. They became famous all over the country after being adapted and performed by modern musicians in the 1940s and 1950s. In this world, these two folk songs are still well-known throughout the country, but the musicians who adapted them are different. Therefore, Xiao Yao's modernization of these two folk songs can be regarded as a certain degree of opportunism.

  The other song "Water Village in Dreams" is a song sung by Jiang Shan in the previous life. As a successful actor, Jiang Shan has released several music albums, but the songs that can be remembered, Xiao Yao feels that apart from the theme song of the TV series "Cross Addiction" that made her popular, "Confused Love" In addition, the only thing that can be remembered is the song "Dream Water Country", which was popular all over the country. At the same time, this is also the first modern pop song that Xiao Yao heard in his previous life with many ethnic musical instrument soundtracks, so he was very impressed.

After the three pieces were produced, Xiao Yao didn’t just throw it at Xiao Siqi. For this kind of large-scale performance, you still have to listen to the actual effect with Xiao Siqi and Shen Yinan to see if there is any need to modify the soundtrack. The place. So after Xiao Yao discussed with Shen Yinan and Xiao Siqi, he decided to find a time to record a demo to hear the effect.

In recent years, there have been too many talent shows from various TV stations. Although the content of a sea-selected folk musician’s program is novel, the form is old-fashioned, and it is not very attractive to the audience. It is easy to be regarded as a follower of the dog's tail. Shonan TV The marketing department of the company evaluated the prospects of the show not very well, so in the end Xiao Siqi could only choose the second method that Xiao Yao mentioned at the beginning, using a form similar to the company's recruitment to select the required folk musicians.

Nowadays, the establishment of the Women's Folk Orchestra is still in preparation, and the studio is still in the stage of placing job advertisements in various places, so Xiao Yao wants to hear the actual effect of the music, so he can only ask Zhou Jin and others to help him. The girl who recorded "The New Drunken Concubine" came to help.

  Because they have had a good cooperation with the studio before, these folk music girls are also within the consideration of candidates for the studio to form a women's folk orchestra, and they have mentioned the studio's plan very early. Several girls were also very interested and expressed their desire to participate. As one of the options for the Future Orchestra, I heard that Xiao Yao had written a piece for the Future Orchestra performance, and when they were asked to come over and perform the audition effect, the few girls naturally agreed without hesitation.

  The instruments played by the four girls are Guzheng, Pipa, Xiao and Dizi. Among them, the girl who plays Dongxiao, Peng Weiwei, can also play the flute, but none of the four girls can play the erhu. Therefore, only Xiao Yao played the erhu part. As for the Yangqin, Shen Yinan, a veteran who happens to be able to play the Yangqin, played the role.

  Modern Western musical instruments are not worried about this aspect. There are many musicians in the studio who have cooperative relations in this aspect, and they can be on call.

  The National Day holiday has passed. Because Xiao Yao is going to school, recording can still only be done on weekends.

  Getting Xiao Yao's three songs, Shen Yinan was immediately opened up by Xiao Yao.

"You are adding a soundtrack of modern Western musical instruments to traditional folk songs," Shen Yinan said with a smile to Xiao Yao holding the music score, because Xiao Yao arrived early, and several musicians have not arrived yet, three of them Let's discuss the few songs by Xiao Yao first. "There are a lot of folk songs from various nationalities in our country that have a long history and national fame, and there are certainly many of them that can be adapted according to your thinking."

   "Why must it be domestic or foreign?" Xiao Yao added with a smile, "There are also many foreign folk songs that have a very high reputation in China. You can also change it according to this model."

"Yes," Xiao Siqi also nodded, "This orchestra is very characteristic of our Chinese nationality. If it is really done, there will surely be a market abroad, and there will definitely be opportunities to perform abroad at that time, so prepare for a few overseas songs. The well-known tunes are also very necessary."

"Actually, it's not just folk songs," Xiao Siqi said while holding the song "Water Village in Dreams", "August Yi, are all this song newly written? I think I can fill it in with words and make it too. A song, and then find someone to sing it."

   "Dad's eyes on music are really poisonous." Xiao Yao sighed inwardly. "Water Village in Dreams" was originally a song from a previous life. Xiao Yao only took out the part of the song. He didn't expect Xiao Yao to see the essence of this song at a glance.

"Yes, who do you want to sing?" Xiao Yao asked with a smile, "This song is called "Mengli Water Country", and the whole song has a feeling of a water town in the south of the Yangtze River. The lyrics must also be related to the water town in the south of the Yangtze River. , Do you have a suitable candidate? It’s best to sing a girl with a soft and waxy voice, soft and charming, with the feeling of a Jiangnan woman." To be honest, Xiao Yao in the previous life felt that Jiang Shan sang this song. It’s not appropriate. Although she is from Zhenjiang, Jiangsu, she can be considered as a Jiangnan woman, but her most impressive image is the role of Du Mei in "The Addiction", such a person who can tie up her husband. , But there is no gentle and graceful Jiangnan woman at all, so when Xiao Yao listened to this song in his previous life, he always felt a little awkward.

   "How is Fan Linxuan?" Xiao Siqi smiled, "She is a southerner, she has no singing skills, her timbre is also suitable."

   "Fan Linxuan? Are you trying to sell the copyright of this song?" Xiao Yao was taken aback.

   "The tune is part of the song. You wrote this tune for the future "girls' band". How can it be sold to others?" Xiao Siqi said.

   "Then you want Fan Linxuan to sing? She is not a contracted singer in our studio." Xiao Yao said.

   "Who said that?" Xiao Siqi looked at Xiao Yao and said, "Didn't your studio sign whoever you said wins? She is the champion and you are the runner-up. Of course the studio will sign her."

   "But I heard that when she entered the top four of Teacher Chen Huan's team, a record company had asked her to sign." Xiao Yao said strangely.

"A record company has approached her, but only expressed the intention to sign a contract with her, and did not sign the contract in white and black, because the record company said it would set her final contract conditions based on her final performance on the show. After the show ended, I went to her. At the time, she was still negotiating the contract terms with the record company. Before signing it, I would cut it off." Xiao Siqi smiled.

   "Is it wrong with your method of robbing people? Isn't it bad for our studio's reputation?" Xiao Yao frowned with some worry.

"Oh, I don't think you are related to the reputation of the studio." Xiao Siqi gave Xiao Yao a thumbs up, and then continued, "My mother and I have been in this studio for two years. Wouldn't you think about this? Don’t worry, dad will definitely not do things like having a relationship with a big record company because of a new singer. As long as the job is done, the other party will not necessarily be disgusted."

   "Do your job well?" Xiao Yao still a little puzzled.

"Actually, in the music circle, the most scarce resource is not singers, but creators." Xiao Siqi explained, "It's not hard to find good singers. Good music works written by talented creators are the treasures. Let's do this. Although the studio is small, it has two important creators, your father, me and Teacher Shen. After the show, you can now be counted as one of you. I promised our studio to provide five songs for their company’s singers The quality of the songs is enough to eliminate their company's dissatisfaction with us.

Also, on the one hand, after our company appeared, Fan Linxuan herself was more inclined to sign with our studio. On the other hand, the Oasis Records who watched the finals also knew that although Fan Linxuan was the champion, no matter it was the light of the competition The reputation gained after the game, but it was all overshadowed by your runner-up. "

   "Why don't I know these things?" Xiao Yao said with some dissatisfaction.

   "You are not a management member of the studio, do you need to explain these things to you?" Xiao Siqi looked at Xiao Yao strangely.

  "I..." Xiao Yao was speechless.

   "You don't feel uncomfortable to stay in the same company as the person who defeated you?" Xiao Siqi smiled.

   "Of course not." Xiao Yao immediately shook his head.

"That's good." Xiao Siqi said, "After the release of your album, besides the establishment of the "Girls Band", the music department of the back studio will prepare the album for Fan Linxuan. The lyrics for this song will be handed over to you. Now, the song is included in Fan Linxuan's album and handed over to her to sing. Maybe the band and Fan Linxuan's album will be released at the same time, and there will be such a song at that time, and the two can also promote cooperation on many occasions. "

   "Okay, no problem." Xiao Yao nodded. The lyrics are already readily available, which is naturally not a problem for Xiao Yao.

"What you said seems to have given me another idea." Shen Yinan said, "We can not only change folk songs, add modern Western musical instruments to folk music, but also adapt modern pop songs and add folk music to modern Western musical instruments. At that time, you can also invite the original singers of those songs to perform with the orchestra. If this orchestra becomes popular, maybe some singers will come to us and ask us to adapt their songs like this."

Since Xiao Yao made sure that only a few songs are provided, Xiao Siqi is not particularly familiar with folk music, so the burden of creating music for the orchestra in the future will mainly fall on Shen Yinan, who also has a deep understanding of folk music, so he is concerned about this aspect. It is also more concerned.

   "This idea is good." Xiao Yao agreed. The "Twelve Girls Band" in the previous life has also performed several times with pop singers in the form of live accompaniment. Many things in music are all understood. Even if Xiao Yao doesn't mention it, Shen Yinan can think of it himself.

  (End of this chapter)