"Okay, let's go and work."
Li Jinglin stood up.
Just do it.
The creation of a movie theme song is not something that can be accomplished by just tapping the forehead.
You have to watch the movie itself over and over again and read its contents thoroughly before you can make a qualified theme song.
On the way, Li Jinglin called Han Hong and talked about the matter.
Han Hong was naturally happy to do it.
He agreed immediately.
And, a promise was given.
There will be no money flow during the operation.
Li Jinglin was responsible for converting the profits into medicines, then counting the medicines and transferring them to Han Hong.
Han Hong actually distributed these drugs to patients in need.
Hearing what Han Hong said, Li Jinglin also hung up the phone with relief.
Sitting in the car, Li Jinglin kept thinking.
"Alin, do you have any ideas for the design of this theme song?"
"How could it be so fast?"
Li Jinglin laughed a little and shook his head slightly.
"No, you have to look at the overall emotional tone of the movie, and you need to thoroughly understand the story."
“In music, every use of orchestration, every chord change, and every vocal combination all need to serve the mood, and the theme song music must be designed around the main line of the main work. .”
Theme songs are not that simple, especially those that describe the story.
Just like the creative idea of "Jiuer", even the change in musical theory of a piece of music may be based on the development of the story itself, and the correlation is extremely strong.
How to write it specifically.
It needs to be judged on a case-by-case basis.
soon.
A group of people came to the set.
At this time, the studio was still shooting some additional scenes.
It was a guy playing a police officer who was reshooting some scenes.
Li Jinglin looked over and was slightly startled.
"Xiao Lixun?"
"No, it's from the surroundings. He just looks a bit like Xiao Lixun."
".Another me in the world?"
After coming back to his senses, Li Jinglin went directly to the editing room at the innermost part of the shooting base.
Start watching porn movies.
A plain film is simply a splicing of shots according to the development time of the plot. It has not been edited and has no soundtrack.
However, it’s entirely possible to understand what the entire movie is about.
This mirror movement can also reveal some emotions.
Li Jinglin brushed it four times this afternoon.
The more you read, the more vivid you can feel the depth of the characters' eyes.
Li Jinglin even had an illusion.
This was played by Huang Jun.
MD is wonderful.
Is this him?
Taken away?
"I almost have an idea."
Li Jinglin stood up.
He groaned slightly.
"I need a man and a woman. The duet form will be more pyrotechnic and not too formal."
"The subject matter is a bit depressing. In this case, it is best for the theme song to give a restrained emotional [sense of telling], rather than being so lyrical and eager to express emotions, which would be greasy and too exaggerated."
"And this [sense of telling] is not suitable for a single person to interpret. It would be more difficult to express the various helplessness in the movie."
Every character in the movie seems shocking enough.
The intertwining of so many images and emotions cannot be expressed well by a single person. This is not a question of strength, but a question of the coordination of the different voices of men and women.
"Okay, I'll go find it now."
The literary director nodded.
Then he was ready to start shaking people.
"etc."
Li Jinglin waved his hand.
After considering it for a moment, he spoke.
"The male singer should have a bass, and both of them should be good at eloquent expressions, and they should have a magnetic and translucent feeling."
"okay, I get it."
The literary director nodded.
I didn’t feel that Li Jinglin was trying to make things difficult.
Instead, I felt that I had found the right person.
Having many demands means being demanding and responsible for the music.
Rounding things off, that would be equivalent to being responsible for the movie.
The literary director turned and left.
Li Jinglin came to the recording studio.
Turn on your computer and arranging software.
Holding paper and pen in his hand, there is a blank staff on the paper.
Think carefully about instruments.
He glanced at the piano and shook his head.
No, the sound of the piano is too spiritual.
violin? It's too luxurious and difficult to use at the front. You have to rely on the strings to express emotions at the most emotional points, and it's best not to mess with other parts.
Until my eyes fell on the guitar.
Li Jinglin nodded.
There are many types of guitars.
The nylon strings of a classical guitar will make the sound fuller, warmer, not too sharp, and not too bright like a piano or violin.
The warm tone is perfect for being the protagonist of the theme song.
As for using the guitar to express the content of "The God of Medicine".
I also have unique ideas.
He didn't start writing the melody first.
Since it is to be performed in a "eloquent" way of telling.
After writing and drawing on the staff.
Li Jinglin started holding the guitar and playing broken chords.
A chord is a group of related tones that are formed into sound groups and then pop out at once.
To decompose a chord is to decompose the entire chord one note at a time.
Reflected in the external sense of music.
It was like a wave.
Up, down.
From the beginning, Li Jinglin found the most suitable chord.
Dm chord.
This minor triad composed of DFA sounds is a very soft chord.
There is no strong emotional expression like the F major triad.
It is more like a silent and gentle confession that can penetrate into people's hearts from the very beginning.
After two sets of gentle Dm chords, there is an inversion chord of Bb/D, which implies that the story has made waves and begins to break down into the C chord.
After the C chord, in the F major triad with strong emotional expression, add a 3rd tone in addition to the 461 tone group to become the F root major seventh chord of Fmaj7.
This strong emotional expression produced some changes.
After that, return to the Dm chord, transition to Gm, C, A7, and return to Dm.
Convert to chord again through Bb/D, C decomposition, Fmaj7 major seventh chord.
The transformation of chords contains this ordinary but extraordinary story, and it also contains the ups and downs of the characters' fate and emotional changes.
at this time.
No melody appears.
But this is the decomposition, transformation, development, and return of the chord.
There is a kind of ups and downs and waves hidden under the plainness.
The sound engineer on the side saw Li Jinglin making music in person for the first time.
I couldn't help but be a little amazed.
Playing the guitar, you can easily change chords with such a wide range of horizontal pressing. This person is definitely not a newbie on the guitar. I can’t say he is proficient in it, but he is definitely not good at it. He is definitely not a serious violinist.
MD, you really deserve to be Brother Lin.
actually.
From the perspective of the recording engineer, the chords and processing methods chosen by Li Jinglin are not really fancy or difficult.
However, when Li Jinglin unfolded.
The sound engineer was surprised to find out.
This seems to be the perfect answer.
I've watched the movie several times.
Feel the changes in several characters in the film.
Immediately, I found the chords and processing techniques that best express these contents from the notes.
This horse riding is not a talent.
It is simply a matter of solid and excellent basic skills.
He really took the ups and downs of the story, the emotions, and the characterization of the characters from the film, and kneaded them into unique chords one after another, and then put them here, and it was logical.
"MD, this Li Jinglin is really outrageous."
The sound engineer smacked his lips.
From God's perspective, maybe I just think that this theme song is natural.
standard answer.
It may be a bit outrageous to make others feel that this is how it should be.
"Well, this is almost a demo. You can try to add something to it."
At this time, there is still no melody.
But.
What surprised the sound engineer was that.
He was already thinking about arranging the music.
Brother, are you so brave?
I haven’t even written the melody yet.
Just a broken chord.
Can we directly deal with the arrangement content? How could it be so outrageous?
But the sound engineer was stunned.
Li Jinglin began to adjust other instruments.
Immediately afterwards, a short drumbeat began.
Shake his head.
He picked up the electric bass and banged it twice, shaking his head.
He took out his electric guitar and played a slide and nodded.
Then I opened the drum kit in the arranging software, listened one by one, and found a lighter drum kit.
"Do you have a clarinet?"
Li Jinglin's words made the sound engineer a little dumbfounded.
Do you know this?
You grew up with a band, right?
".have."
Get the reed and soak it.
Gentleness and softness are the keynotes of Li Jinglin's creation of this theme song.
From the choice of chords to the choice of orchestration, it all revolves around this theme.
Since it is soft and gentle, it must be done to the extreme.
Warm-toned instruments that make people feel soft and gentle, of course there is also a clarinet.
Very suitable for interludes.
In the clarinet interlude, a small use of strings is used to create emotional tension.
basically.
Just add the harmony.
This song is finished.
Install the reed.
After blowing a few times, he frowned.
"Clarine in D? What you're doing is pretty weird. Is there any other key?"
After hearing what Li Jinglin said, the sound engineer couldn't help but roll his eyes.
A clarinet is great, but what else do you want, a bicycle?
Is it really possible to make professional-grade clarinets like B flat, C, A, G, etc. like your band?
"Forget it, just turn it around, please."
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The sound engineer almost lost his temper.
In fact, the sound engineer really thought it through.
When he was in the band, Li Jinglin was really crazy about playing many kinds of instruments.
This laid a solid foundation for later studying "instrument science".
Therefore, with these foundations, it will be smooth sailing when I turn to "musical instrument studies" to study Chinese classical musical instruments.
It's not wrong to say that I ate a band, and it was a national-level band.
"OK, the completion level is almost sixty or seventy."
Li Jinglin stood up.
"It's time to work on the main melody. After that, you can find professional musicians to record the details."
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real.
The sound engineer has never seen anyone so outrageous.
The main melody hasn’t been written yet.
Sixty to seventy percent completion.
You ride on the horse as if you are teasing me.
I know, I do know, that melody development is easy when you have chords.
But that's not as willful as you are.
It can be used as a sound engineer's favorite tool.
Li Jinglin has already started.
This movie, even if it is not complete.
But the more I look at it, the deeper I feel.
Everyone is pursuing their own justice, and everyone has their own difficulties. It seems that everyone is not wrong, and everyone has their own shining points.
Even Zhang Changlin, who had no sense of morality for selling fake medicine and getting into trouble, followed his conscience when he was arrested.
There seems to be only one thing that everyone is pursuing, something that is both easy and difficult.
Peace and joy for yourself and your family.
A simple ordinariness.
At that moment, Li Jinglin naturally wrote two lyrics on the paper.
[Let go of right and wrong to know the answer]
[I don’t want the aura of God, I just want your ordinaryness]
Time passes slowly.
Three days passed in a flash.
"Alin, the singer is here."
The literary director walked into the recording studio with a smile.
Behind him were two singers who looked familiar.
"Bi Chen, Zhang Jie."
"Hello you two."
Li Jinglin shook hands politely.
Look at these two young singers who are very famous and powerful in the music industry.
But he frowned for the unknown.
Bichen said no more.
The voice line is indeed quite suitable, and the interpretation and polishing of the work are online enough.
In Li Jinglin's view, Bichen definitely has a place in telling stories through songs.
It’s just that Zhang Jie
It's not that there's anything wrong with Zhang Jie's strength, it's simply a matter of style and compatibility.
So, Li Jinglin spoke directly.
"I'm not too worried about Bi Chen, but, Zhang Jie, let me tell you clearly that this song may not be very suitable for you."
Zhang Jie looked up and was slightly startled.
But there was no change of mood.
"Is such that."
Li Jinglin greeted several people to sit down.
Take out the singing score and open the demo currently produced.
Pass it to the two of them.
With just one glance, the two knew why Li Jinglin said that this song might not be suitable for Zhang Jie.
The vocal range of this song is very low.
Moreover, the requirement is to speak in a low voice.
However, Zhang Jie's golden vocal range is not the bass, but the mid-range and high-pitched parts.
The voice is very bright and distinctive, but when it comes to this song, it's really a bit difficult.
It’s easy to get overwhelmed.
"Can you let me have a try?"
Zhang Jie asked.
As a singer, do you have to shrink back when faced with more challenging songs?
Zhang Jie is not willing to live in her comfort zone all the time.
Li Jinglin was stunned.
Suddenly I remembered another singer, Xiao Jingteng.
He smiled immediately.
"No problem, you try it and see how it feels."
Singing skills and abilities cannot be equated with high notes.
For high notes, you can rely on closing, mixing techniques, falsetto, or even hurting your voice to forcefully reach the pitch.
But not everyone can control the bass.
Whether the bass is polished is strong or not, in fact, it can often better distinguish the basic skills of a singer.
Zhang Jie tried hard.
However, after trying it, Zhang Jie's own complexion became a little bad.
It’s not that I didn’t suppress it.
It's just that the trace of pressure is a bit heavy.
It sounds like it's a bit "effortful".
Not as natural and rounded as the golden range.
Rub, it's cold.
Zhang Jie felt half-hearted.
But he never expected that Li Jinglin raised his eyebrows and suddenly became interested.
"Huh? Don't tell me? It's interesting!"
"Yes, yes, don't tell me, this strenuous feeling is actually quite right!"
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Zhang Jie looked strange.
Why do I feel like I've been scolded?
For the song "As Long as Ordinary", if you want to feel the emotional changes of the chords and the subtlety of the harmonies written in the article, you need to compare the accompaniment. Therefore, I will add an accompaniment to the song list first to give you a feel.
ps, guitar has six-line notation and five-line notation. Six-line notation is usually marked in position, but often lacks specific pitches. It is very suitable for novices. It is quick to get started, but it has great limitations.
You can also use five-line notation guitar. It is better to say that classical guitar uses five-line notation.
ps, there are a lot of professional content ideas, and I won’t be like this throughout the rest of the article.
It's just that the reason why this song can make people feel very emotional, although it is a relatively depressing subject, but it is very healing, is because the music itself is very meaningful, and I really wanted to write it for everyone to take a look at.
ps, Zhang Jie’s vocal range is not in the bass. At the beginning of this song, you can hear that there are a few words that are quite difficult to press, but it’s just such a strange combination of circumstances. This feeling of effort will not only make the listener The feeling becomes worse, but it can hint at the content of the story expressed in the song. It matches it and is the unintentional finishing touch. So again, matching is the most important thing.
There is one more update, currently being coded, two chapters will be published first.
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