Perfect Life

In the bedroom, Li Qian was lying in front of the desk, writing on the notebook with his right hand, taking the guitar from time to time to play a few chords, and then leaning over to write for a while.

He is arranging the five songs that he sold to Liao Liao.

When it comes to arranging, it may seem insignificant to outsiders, but those who are really engaged in the music industry, without exception, attach great importance to it. Just like a famous actor who has become popular in opera, there must be a "string" by his side. If he can't get one string, he will even refuse to appear on the stage. Most famous singers often have several arrangers who have a good relationship. , every time you want to release a new song, you will find a suitable person to arrange the music for yourself according to the different styles. If you ask him to change someone, he will not be at ease - the so-called string, the so-called arrangement, in fact, roughly Very approximation, in a nutshell - tortoise!

A good string can always bring out the voice of the famous actor and the unique charm of the singing to the extreme, and a good arrangement can always bring out the artistic conception and theme of the whole song to the greatest extent. , to the greatest extent to help the singer to push out the emotion of this song and push it in place.

In reality, this situation often occurs: you have heard a certain song, but you don't think so. One day, you hear this song again on a certain program, but suddenly you feel a strange feeling in front of you. Liang, I think this song is really good!

Don't wonder, it must be a re-arrangement!

Therefore, good songs and good singers are of course the most important and the most basic, but a song or an album must become popular, it must be sung and heard by more people, and it must become a classic in the hearts of the audience. A good composition is absolutely essential.

In fact, this is also one of the reasons why Liao Liao asked Li Qian to arrange the songs even though she paid a high price for the songs. As a singer who is particularly sensitive to emotions, although she only listened to Li Qian playing the guitar and sang it, she was not I understood at the time that Li Qian was very keen to capture the soul and temperament of those two songs.

And from her point of view, it is obvious that Li Qian is the original author. Even if his arrangement is useless in the end, it will definitely be of great reference value!

……

It should be admitted that as long as music is involved, Li Qian's memory is absolutely outstanding. After all, I am familiar with this every day, so I naturally remember more and more accurately about this aspect.

But even if he remembers it accurately, "Perseverance" and "Wild Flowers" are indeed classic enough, but after all, they are songs from twenty years ago. By the time he falls off Weiya and hangs up, there must be at least ten songs. I haven't heard it for a few years, so it's not a problem to remember the lyrics and music, but he can only remember some of the most critical things about the arrangement.

For example, he probably remembered that the arrangement of "Wild Flowers" was mainly based on guitar and violin, and he also probably remembered that the arrangement of "Perseverance" was also mainly composed of guitars - in fact, the album of Tian Zhen back then was a light rock. And the style of folk songs, it's not too difficult to remember this - plus "Cheers, Friends" is probably the same way, so even if you can't remember exactly, it's not too difficult to re-arrange for them. Disaster.

The relatively difficult ones are "Unfinished Love" and "My Hometown I'm passionate about."

Among them, "Unfinished Love" is obviously a song with a Chinese style, and with the appearance of Jay Chou in later generations, most of Li Qian's research on Chinese style is inclined to his works with Lin Junjie, Wang Leehom and others. So that although I can recall the lyrics and music of "Unending Love", I don't have the slightest impression of what the original arrangement looks like.

As for "The Hometown of My Love", although this song was really popular back then, but because the age is so far away, although Li Qian has heard and liked it, he still has only memory of it today. words and songs.

So, these two songs are the key points.

Of course, what made Li Qian the most difficult thing was that he had too few tools at hand.

Not to mention that there is a material library that can be called from the computer at will in later generations. Now he only has a guitar, not even a keyboard!

Therefore, his current so-called arranging is purely gnawing at his brain—there is not enough stuff, so imagine to make up.

In line with the principle of first easy and then difficult, Li Qian recalled and searched for feelings. It only took him an hour or so, and without waiting for dinner, he put the three songs "Perseverance", "Wild Flowers" and "Cheers, Friends". After dinner, I took out more than half an hour to go through it carefully twice, and adjusted some details appropriately, even if it was basically finalized.

Then, he tore off a few clean sheets of white paper from the performance draft, and carefully copied his own arrangement version. And that's the end of his arrangement today.

Next, he plans to take another two to three days to arrange the remaining two songs.

He didn't have the slightest impression of the original arrangement of "Unfinished Love", but it didn't matter. After entering the 21st century, with the rise of Jay Chou, along with songs such as "Dongfeng Broken", "Jiangnan", and "Snow Hair" It is popular all over the country. As a person who has been eating music for more than ten years, Li Qian has naturally studied the arrangement of Chinese-style songs. Therefore, he is going to do a good job of arranging "Unending Love". Quan Zuo is a test of his arranging ability.

As for "The Hometown of My Passionate Love", to be honest, when Li Qian grew up, especially after he started playing rock, arranging, and making soundtracks, this kind of song was not very popular. However, including this song, also included "My Family Lives in the Loess High Slope", the arrangement of this obvious representative work of rural folk style, all have obvious tendencies.

That is, warm and unrestrained.

So, as long as you use snacks, it shouldn't be too difficult.

And facing this song, Li Qian will definitely be very attentive.

Because in his prediction, although several songs such as "Perseverance" and "Wild Flowers" will become more and more popular with the passage of time, the one who will help Liao Liao's album hit the first shot is "I'm Passionately In Love" hometown".

In fact, there is not much reason to talk about this kind of thing. Several songs are good songs, and they are all classic enough, but according to Li Qian's understanding, the most popular music in the domestic music scene are folk songs, country songs and folk songs. style of. Among the first-line singers who are really recognized by the public, only Feixiang Band represents rock, Zhou Ai represents urban love songs, and the rest of the big-name singers are almost all in this category, at least in this category. .

Not to mention the Chinese style, even the songs of love and love are not the mainstream of the music world.

So, in one sentence: this song must be popular!

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After copying the sheet music, Li Qian stood up and stretched. After thinking about it, he picked up his mobile phone and sent a text message to Wang Jinglu: I have good news to tell you, go to the rooftop.

After sending the text message, he put away his mobile phone, got up and went to the bathroom to wash his face, then said hello to his parents, and then changed his shoes and went out.

In the afternoon, Li's father and Li's mother had already gone to the bank.

There is no problem with the check, it can be cashed at any time.

At that time, Dad Li had withdrawn 50,000 yuan and transferred it to Li Qian's bank card. The remaining 350,000 yuan. He was afraid that young Li Qian would not be able to handle it, so he deliberately opened a new account and deposited it into it.

When he came back, Li's father and Li's mother also stopped by an accounting firm and spent 60 yuan to inquire about the sales of song copyrights and taxation.

The results are very surprising: the income from the sale of copyrights of original works of the cultural industry such as songs and scripts enjoys the same treatment as the royalties obtained from the publication and publication of literary works: exempt from personal income tax!

In other words, no matter whether it is 30,000, 50,000, 400,000, or even more, it's all the author's, and the country doesn't want a cent!

According to Dad Li, he also consulted at the time. It is said that the derivatives of cultural copyright, such as the sales revenue of records, tapes, video tapes, and VCDs, as well as the box office revenue of movies, the ticket revenue of operas, the ticket revenue of dramas, Ticket revenue for concerts... etc. The derived income from these literary and artistic works is taxed, but the tax rate is also very low.

This news, for Li Qian, who is determined to revolve around music and movies for the rest of his life, is naturally too good news - this is not simply a matter of money and taxes, it represents a kind of national The attitude of vigorously supporting the cultural industry, with this attitude, it is difficult for the cultural industry to prosper!

The whole industry is prosperous, and the people who are in it can only rise!

……

Li Qian came to the roof and waited for a while, then Wang Jinglu came up.

"What good news do you want to tell me?" She asked when she came up, looking in a good mood.

Li Qian didn't give a shit, he said directly, "I sold five songs this afternoon, my original song, to a singer!"

Wang Jinglu paused when she heard the words, and immediately showed a look of surprise on her face, "Really or not? Selling songs?"

Li Qian nodded.

Wang Jinglu was really happy now, "You can already sell songs? I thought you were only able to sing other people's songs! Hey, hey, how much did you sell?"

Li Qian smiled, "In short, it's enough to treat you to rice noodles many times!"

Wang Jinglu gave a "ha" and asked persistently, "Well, how much is it?"

Li Qian stretched out four fingers, and without waiting for her to guess, he said, "400,000."

"Wow!"

Now Wang Jinglu was really stunned.

Then, she excitedly clenched her small fists, and swung her hands in front of her unconsciously, "400,000... My God! Ahhhhhhh, no, no, you actually walked in front of me! I I thought I was going to be a lot ahead of you!"

During the conversation, she couldn't help walking around beside Li Qian...

Then, she said, said, said...

"Do you know? I heard my sister say that the album released by their group, excluding the expenses of collecting songs, arranging, producing, recording, etc., has to sell 300,000 copies before it becomes profitable. , they will also be able to get the bonus, I remember my sister told my mother last time when she came back, so far, the money earned from that record has been distributed to her, only 20,000 yuan!"

"Twenty thousand yuan, my sister, and the other four members of their group. They worked hard every day to practice singing and dancing, and after a year of hard work, they only earned 100,000 yuan from the album!"

"My sister said that the biggest income of their group comes from commercial performances, but even that, even after they released their album last year, they received fifty or sixty commercial performances in four or five months. It was only 200,000 yuan, but you actually sold 400,000 yuan after only five songs!"

"…"

Li Qian looked at her with a little surprise.

He had seen her cheering and cheering. It was the first time she showed such an impudent smile in front of him after Li Qian's scores in the monthly test had improved significantly last time.

In fact, even in the original memory of Li Qian, except for the few years when everyone ran wild and laughing together, she has always been as beautiful as water, as elegant as the wind, and she is a very good girl. Li Qian never even remembered a moment when she was so excited when she grew up - even after the last monthly exam, although she was happy, she was still somewhat restrained, and she didn't act as excited as she is now. almost out of control.

But... this is what a seventeen-year-old girl should look like!

Seeing her happy and frantic appearance, Li Qian suddenly felt that even he had regained a little sense of youth.

Youth... It doesn't mean that you are young when you are seventeen, nor does it mean that you are young when you go to high school. When you sit next to a girl, you won't even sweat your palms, and you won't blush when you hold hands with a girl. , you don't feel your heartbeat and happiness speed up together when you date a girl... Then how can you count as youth?

But now, looking at Wang Jinglu, Li Qian suddenly smelled youth.

"Hey, if I treat you, how many bowls of rice noodles do you want?"

"Ah? Oh...I want to eat...two bowls...No, three bowls! Anyway, you are rich, I want to eat hard!"

"pig!"

"You're a pig!"

"I only eat one bowl!"

"That's also a pig!"

"…"

Finally, after venting, the ecstasy of UU Reading www.uukanshu.com gradually cooled down, and she began to calm down slowly, but even if there was no light and no moonlight, Li Qian still subconsciously saw: Her little face was always flushed!

"Hey, what songs have you written and sold for so much money?"

"There are several songs, so there are three styles in total!"

"You must sing to me when you go back!"

"it is good!"

"By the way, can I tell my sister... Hey, yes, since you can write songs, then you can write a song for my sister! You write better, and bring out your best work, my sister If you like..."

"Don't even think about this way... Your sister probably won't even look at it..."

"Oh…"

Not knowing what to think of, Wang Jinglu suddenly fell silent.

After a while, Li Qian turned to look at her, as if sensing Li Qian's gaze, she also raised her head and looked at Li Qian shyly.

"I'll write you a song."

"Ah? Okay, that's great? What song? Did you write it or not?"

"Okay, let you guess right, it's already written, I'll sing it to you later!"

"Okay! Then I must record it, and I can take it to the capital in the future, so I can listen to it often!"

"…"

PS: Don't keep saying that I update less often? 2,000 words count as a chapter, but I have no less than 3,000 words, and it’s often 4,500, right?