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Chapter 115 Careful Arrangement of "Love in BC"

In the No. [-] recording room of Fantasy Studio, Fan Nuoxuan was wearing earphones outside, holding the score and listening to Li Hyuk's new album's accompaniment.

In the past few days, "Love in BC" was sung as the accompanying song. The imagination of the theme of this song opened Fan Nuoxuan's eyes.Elements such as Sumerian civilization, cuneiform writing, and Hammurabi's code have a strong sense of history.

And Li Hyuk used the story on the stone tablet more than 3700 years ago to confess to a certain person more than 3700 years later.

Although it is a surreal setting, it is enough to become the most romantic absurdity against the background of the popular love songs such as I love you and you don't love me in the current Chinese music scene.

In terms of arrangement, Lee Hyuk did his best and deliberately chose a very fashionable lofi effect to present the core foundation of the whole song.That is, the guitar riff with a very nice and brainwashing prelude.

Although Fan Nuoxuan is in management, after all, she also took classes at Shanghai Conservatory of Music with Li He, so she still understands the basic knowledge of music theory.

Liu Chong, the producer of Guns N' Roses' first album "Flower Girl", also expressed his opinion after listening to Li He's chorus: "The sound design of this arrangement is very good, very awesome, the rhythm and chord design It's very ingenious.

The prelude of this kind of song can be remembered for a lifetime, and "Love in BC" is well-deserved as the first song of the album. "

Fan Nuoxuan had already learned about Li He's awesomeness, and there was no disturbance at this time, Li He was just operating normally.

However, even with good mental preparations, Fan Nuoxuan still couldn't imagine Li He's abnormality.

Last year, Li Hyuk released a ground-breaking album "Jay". At that time, Fan Nuoxuan thought that it would be difficult for Li Hyuk to replicate such a miracle, such an album.

But unexpectedly, Lee Hyuk, who keeps releasing new songs, still released such a high-quality album half a year after the release of the last one, even better than the last one.

Li He came out to take a break, and Liu Chong specifically asked Li He for advice: "The arrangement of your song is really interesting, can you tell me why you use the effect of lofi? What is the idea?"

As a musician, Liu Chong has no doubts about Li Hyuk's level of lyrics and music, but at the level of arrangement, it is difficult to do well without rich accumulation and experiments.

But Li Hyuk is young, but there is no jerk or obstacle at all, and the arrangement is unconstrained.Perhaps it is precisely because of his young age that his thinking is not limited, so he can transcend the rules and regulations and bring a wild and unconstrained arrangement.

Li He was very happy to communicate with Liu Chong. Liu Chong stayed from Huang's record company and has rich experience and has produced many albums.

Having such a person who provides advice and communication to Lee Hyuk all the time will allow Lee Hyuk to control the entire album more clearly.

"Ms. Liu, I think that when a good arranger uses any tone or effect, it must not be pursued. It is cool or popular for me to do so.

And it must be matched with the whole piece of music, with the intention of making it established. "Li He said.

Liu Chong nodded and agreed: "That's right, lofi's built-in old-fashioned effect is very good to tell people who listen to the song that this is a story from the past, and it can pull people back to the dust-covered stone tablet all at once. before.

Using lofi to open the audience's ears means that the dust attached to the stele has faded away, the cuneiform characters are clearly visible, and the story of the song is about to begin.

There are so many arrangements in a short prelude, boss, you are really a genius. "

Li Hyuk rubbed his nose, he wasn't embarrassed at being praised, nor was he proud, that's how songs are supposed to be.

In fact, the degree of care in the arrangement is not limited to this point. Usually, when the lofi is opened to clarity, basically all the orchestration becomes clearly visible at the same time on the first beat of the next section.

Through this high-intensity contrast, the audience is so refreshed in hearing.

But listening carefully to "Love in BC", in order to make this layer richer, the process of becoming clearly visible on the orchestration has designed a sequence.

First the drums, then the guitars.

In addition to refreshing the audience's auditory experience through this method, what I have to mention is the way this song is handled in terms of modulation.

Generally speaking, rising tones are often used in music works in order to exaggerate the progression of emotion.

Before raising the key, in order to make the transition more natural, an interlude or a bridge is usually added between the main AB sections.

It's like when crossing a river, you need to use a bridge to connect.

But in the piece "Love in BC", Li He not only did not over-arrange, but directly lowered the key from A-flat to G-key at the beginning of the second section A.

If a song's practice of raising the tone twice in a row in order to express the emotional progression is visualized as an ascending ladder, then this song "Love in BC" can visualize it as a concave font.

After the second verse, chorus and bridge in the key of G, the song is pulled straight back to the key of A flat at the beginning.

If it is an ordinary continuous rising tone, three or more tones are used in a song, so that the audience can feel it and you can feel the change twice.

And in "Love in BC", this kind of processing that was born and then forced back, only used two tones to achieve the same effect.

However, this is not the scariest thing, the scariest thing is that this is only the first song on the album.

It’s okay if it’s used as the title song, after all, it’s normal for the title song to be a bit more attentive.

But Liu Chong found that not only "Love in BC", but also other songs on the album are all so hard.

Just listening to the accompaniment, Liu Chong already doubted his life, and suspected that his decades of music producer was for nothing.

But, that’s not all. The most wonderful thing is that the imagination of the subject matter of this album, not only has love songs, but also island ninjas, European vampires, Shang Hai in the old days, Egyptian mummy, it seems to take the audience to the world Like traveling everywhere.

In terms of genre, popular love songs, lyrical, rap and rap, R&B, etc., present a diverse but highly unified album track.

Liu Chong could only sigh again: The boss is a genius!
When Liu Chong was discussing composition and arrangement with Li He, Fan Nuoxuan was reading the lyrics with the written lyrics, and saw the song "Dad, I'm Back" and "Shang Hai [-]".

"Li He, does uncle often beat you at home?" Fan Nuoxuan couldn't help the curiosity in her heart and asked Li He.

Li He was still wondering why Fan Nuoxuan would ask such a question, but he still answered truthfully: "No, my father has a good temper, but my mother didn't give me good looks when I didn't practice the piano well when I was young." Look."

"Then how did you write the song "Dad, I'm Back"? The lyrics are too real." Fan Nuoxuan held up the score of "Dad, I'm Back".

Lee Hyuk said: "As a singer, you have to have your own social responsibilities and thoughts. You love me and I don't love you all day long. What is there to sing about? A great singer must care about social issues. I am also Towards the road of a great singer."

"I'm afraid that if you take this step, Uncle will be miserable. At that time, people won't think he is a domestic violence man!" Fan Nuoxuan already felt sorry for Li He's father.

"Uh," Li He was stunned, and then spread his hands: "I can't help it. For the happiness of thousands of families, my dad has no choice but to endure it. Everyone will remember his contribution."

What a miserable father, I hope he won't faint from anger after knowing this song written by Li Hyuk.

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