Chapter 37: Pigs and Pigs

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

He is compiling the five songs sold to Liao Liao.

When it comes to arrangement, outsiders may think it is insignificant, but those who are really engaged in the music industry, without exception, attach great importance to it. Just like a well-known actor who is popular in opera, there must be a "string" around him. If he can't get a string, he will even refuse to appear on the stage. Generally, famous singers often have several arrangers with excellent relationships. , every time I want to release a new song, I will find the right person to arrange the music for me according to the different styles. The effect is very similar, to put it simply - support the cavity!

A good string can always properly express the voice of a famous actor and bring out the unique charm of that singing style 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 help the singer to push out and push the emotion of this song to the greatest extent.

In reality, this kind of situation often occurs: you have heard a certain song, but you don’t think it is very good. One day, you hear this song again on a certain program, but suddenly feel that there is something in front of you. Liang, I think this song is really good!

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

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

In fact, this is one of the reasons why Liao Liao did not hesitate to pay a high price for the song and asked Li Qian to be in charge of the arrangement. As a singer who is particularly sensitive to emotions, although she only heard Li Qian playing the guitar and singing, she But he understood at that time that Li Qian captured the soul and temperament of those two songs very keenly.

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

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It should be admitted that as long as music is involved, Li Qian's memory is absolutely outstanding. After all, he is engaged in this, and he is exposed to it every day, so he can remember a lot of things in this area, and he can remember it accurately.

But no matter how accurate he remembered, "Perseverance" and "Wild Flowers" were indeed classic enough, but after all, they were songs from twenty years ago, and before he fell off Wia and died, there must be at least ten songs. I haven't heard it for several years, so it's not a problem to recall the lyrics and music, but he can only remember some of the most important things about the arrangement.

For example, he probably remembered that the arrangement of "Wild Flowers" was mainly composed of guitar and violin, and he also roughly remembered that the arrangement of "Perseverance" was also based on guitars-in fact, Tian Zhen's album itself was light-hearted. The style of rock and country songs, it is not too difficult to remember this - plus "Cheers, Friends" probably followed this path, so even if I don't remember exactly, I have to re-arrange them, It's not difficult either.

Relatively difficult ones are "Unfinished Love" and "My Hometown of Passionate Love".

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 has been tilted to his works with Lin Junjie, Wang Leehom and others. So much so that although I can recall the lyrics and music of "Unfinished Love", I don't have the slightest impression of what the original arrangement looked like.

As for "My Hometown of Passionate Love", although the song was really popular back then, but because the age is too far away, although Li Qian has heard and liked it, but the memory of it today is only Words and music.

Therefore, these two songs are the key points.

Of course, the most difficult thing for Li Qian is that he has 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 on hand, not even a keyboard!

Therefore, his current so-called arrangement is purely gnawing at the brain - there are not enough things, and imagination is used to make up.

In line with the principle of first easy and then difficult, Li Qian searched for feelings while recalling. It only took an hour or so, and before dinner, he played the three songs "Perseverance", "Wild Flowers" and "Cheers, Friends". After dinner, I took out more than half an hour to go through it twice carefully, adjusted some details appropriately, and it was basically finalized.

Then, he tore off a few clean sheets of white paper from the acting script, and carefully copied his own arrangement version on it, and that was all it took. 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 doesn't have the slightest impression of the original arrangement of "Unfinished Love", but it doesn't matter. After entering the 21st century, with the rise of Jay Chou, with songs such as "East Wind Breaks", "Jiangnan" and "Hair Like Snow" Popular all over the country, as a person who has enjoyed 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 "Unfinished Love", which is a test of his ability to arrange.

As for "My Hometown of Passionate Love", to be honest, when Li Qian grew up, especially after he started playing rock, making arrangements, and making soundtracks, this kind of song is not very popular anymore. However, including this song, including "My Family Lives on the Loess High Slope", the arrangement of this obvious masterpiece of country folk style, has a very obvious tendency.

That is, warm and unrestrained.

Therefore, as long as you use dim sum, it shouldn't be too difficult.

And facing this song, Li Qian will definitely put his heart into it.

Because in his prediction, although several songs such as "Perseverance" and "Wild Flowers" will become more and more popular as time goes by, it is "I'm in Love" that will help Liao Liao's album hit the first shot. Hometown".

There is actually not much reason to talk about this kind of thing. A few songs are good songs, and they are all classic enough. But according to Li Qian's understanding, the most popular music scene in China right now is folk songs, country songs, and folk songs. style of. Among the first-line singers who are truly recognized by the public, only the Flying Band represents rock and roll, Zhou Mo represents urban love songs, and the rest of the big-name singers are almost all in this category, at least mainly in this category .

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

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

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After copying the score, Li Qian stood up, stretched his waist, thought for a while, picked up his mobile phone, and sent a text message to Wang Jinglu: I have good news for you, go to the rooftop.

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

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

Checks are no problem and can be cashed at any time.

At that time, Dad Li withdrew 50,000 yuan and transferred it to Li Qian's bank card. The remaining 350,000 yuan, he was afraid that Li Qian's young man would not be able to hold on, so he opened a new account and deposited it in.

When they came back, Li's father and Li's mother stopped by an accounting firm and spent 60 yuan to inquire about paying taxes for selling song copyrights.

The result is very surprising: the income from the sale of copyrights of original works of cultural industries such as songs and scripts enjoys the same treatment as the royalties received from publishing and publishing literary works: personal income tax is exempted!

In other words, regardless of whether it is 30,000, 50,000, 400,000, or even more, as much as you want, all belong to the author, and the country does not want a cent!

And according to Father Li, he also consulted by the way. It is said that the derivatives of cultural copyright, such as the sales income of records, tapes, video tapes, and VCDs, as well as the box office income of movies, the ticket income of operas, and the ticket income of dramas, Concert ticket income... and so on, the derivative income of these literary and artistic works, although taxed, the tax rate is also very low.

This news, for Li Qian, who is determined to spend his whole life around music and movies, is of course the best news - this is not just a matter of money or taxes, it represents a kind of The state's attitude towards vigorously supporting the cultural industry, with this attitude, it is difficult for the cultural industry not to prosper!

When the whole industry prospers, only those who live in it can go up!

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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 right away, looking in a good mood.

Li Qian didn't hold back, and said directly: "I sold five songs this afternoon. My original song was sold to a singer!"

Wang Jinglu paused when she heard the words, and then a look of surprise appeared on her face, "Really? Selling songs?"

Li Qian nodded.

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

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

Wang Jinglu let out a "ha", but still asked persistently, "Well, how much is it?"

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

"Wow!"

This time Wang Jinglu was really shocked.

Then, she excitedly clenched her small fists, and unconsciously waved her hands in front of her, "400,000... Oh my God! Ahhhhhh, no, no, you're actually ahead of me! I thought I was ahead of you by a lot!"

While talking, she couldn't help but walk up and down beside Li Qian...

Then she said, said, said...

"Do you know? I heard from my sister that the album released by their group, excluding the expenses of collecting songs, arranging, producing, recording, etc., will not start to make a profit until it sells 300,000 copies. , they will also be able to get the bonus, I remember the last time my sister came back and told my mother that until now, the money earned from that record has only been divided into her hands, only about 20,000 yuan!"

"20,000 yuan, my sister, and the other four members of their group. They practiced singing and dancing hard every day. 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 came 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 about 200,000 yuan, but you actually sold 400,000 yuan after only selling five songs!"

"..."

Li Qian looked at her with some surprise.

He had seen her cheering, it was the first time she showed such a presumptuous smile in front of him after Li Qian's performance in the last monthly exam improved significantly.

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

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

Seeing her joyful and frenzied appearance, Li Qian suddenly felt that even he had regained a little youthful feeling.

Youth... It doesn't mean that you are youthful when you are seventeen years old, or that you are youthful when you are in high school. You don't even sweat when you sit next to a girl, and you don't even sweat when you hold hands with a girl. Blushing, you didn't feel your heartbeat and happiness speed up when you dated a girl...then how can you count as youth?

But now, looking at Wang Jinglu, Li Qian suddenly smelled the scent of 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 have money, I want to eat hard!"

"pig!"

"You're a pig!"

"I only eat one bowl!"

"That's a pig, too!"

"..."

Finally, after venting, the ecstasy gradually cooled down, and she began to calm down slowly, but even though there was no light or moonlight, Li Qian still subconsciously saw: her little face is always flushed!

"Hey, what song did you write that sells for so much money?"

"Several songs, three styles in total!"

"You must sing it to me later!"

"good!"

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

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

"oh……"

I don't know what was thought of, Wang Jinglu suddenly fell silent.

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

"Let me write you a song."

"Huh? Okay, that's great? What song? Did you write it or didn't you?"

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

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

"..."

PS: Don't keep saying that I have few updates, right? Two thousand words is considered a chapter, but I have never less than three thousand words, and I can easily write four thousand five thousand words, right?