Bright Star Road [Entertainment]

Because the gathering will be at seven o'clock, the hotel thoughtfully set the call time at six o'clock.Under the barbaric chaos, Li Wei hurriedly washed his face and completed the basic maintenance.When going out, Li Wei took a banana and a pack of yogurt from the refrigerator.Since the producer's breakfast time is 08:30, and Li Wei has the habit of eating something as soon as he wakes up, he chose this combination.

In addition to bananas and yogurt, Li Wei also has a large bottle of mineral water and lemon honey water in his backpack, as well as a notebook and an iPad.After getting into the car, [-]% of the contestants chose to catch up on sleep, and Li Wei put a steam eye mask on himself to relieve sleep and reduce the pressure on the blood vessels around the eyes.Tiffany Li can take an hour's rest after lunch, but she doesn't want to catch up on sleep at this time, because it's easy to be sleepy when facing the trainers and other staff, making them feel that you are not professional enough.

Because the rush hour for work has not yet arrived, everyone arrived at Studio [-] of ABC in less than half an hour.The lighting and special effects masters in the stage area are debugging various equipment with the director and on-site directors, and the original rest area has been separated into several blocks, and several larger blocks have set up large floor-to-ceiling mirrors .

After Li Wei arrived at the scene, he took the time to eat yogurt and bananas, which finally filled his stomach a little and lifted his spirit a lot.

At eight o'clock, Zheng Tao, the production team and the people from the notary office came to the front of the rest area, and then said with a loudspeaker: "Everyone, please pay attention. It's out! There are more than 130 themes in this lottery box, all of which are provided by the production team. I don't know the specific content. Every week except Monday when the lottery is drawn, this lottery box is sealed by the notary office Put it in the vault of Wells Fargo Bank. Unless the notary office and I sign at the same time, no one can approach this vault. Well, now we invite the national cooperative radio media of this year's "Asian Avenue of Stars Final Election", the city of The Director of Music Operations will draw themes for everyone."

Under everyone's applause, a middle-aged man with a beard walked over quickly.Then he stirred in the lottery box, pulled out a red envelope and handed it to Zheng Tao.

Zheng Tao took the envelope, opened it, and announced, "The theme of this week's Top [-] Breakout Contest is 'Dream'! The recording of the accompaniment tape will be finished at nine o'clock on Thursday night."

After Zheng Tao announced, he left with the notary and the operation director of City Voice, and the rest of the contestants began to think.

"There are too many songs about 'dreams' on the earth plane. This theme is completely a sub-question." Chen Wendi said rather dissatisfied.

However, Chen Wendi did not consider Huaxia Kingdom in the Earth and Star Plane. Although Huaxia Kingdom has a well-developed genuine market, its pop music has already entered the small pattern of love|love|love|love. This kind of songs about dreams is still Not much really.

"But it's a little bit harder to find a song that fits your voice and your past style."

Because it has not yet reached the stage of bayonet fighting, the strategy discussed by Chen Wendi and Li Wei is to seek stability.Li Wei's voice is extremely rare among male singers, the treble can go up, the bass can go down, and the alto part is also easy to handle.In Chen Wendi's opinion, Li Wei's voice is close to the vocal range of Wu Qingfeng, the lead singer of Soda Green, who can sing from A2 to C6, and the vocal range spans more than three octaves.And the most important thing is that Li Wei can sing C6 without relying on falsetto or closing techniques. This kind of explosive power relying on his own breath and voice conditions is completely a typical example of God enjoying food.If Li Wei can receive more professional vocal training, then Li Wei's treble and bass skills can almost beat all contemporary male singers to the ground.

After Chen Wendi turned around in her mind for several times, she finally chose Zhang Yusheng's "My Future Is Not a Dream", and this song was also sung by Sodagreen.After Chen Wendi showed Li Wei the lyrics and score, Li Wei was also very satisfied with the song.Li Wei hummed lightly a few times, and after the iPad made the arrangement a little bit, he decided to go to the music director to register the song.

The music director's office is just next to the main stage, and the so-called office is just slightly enclosed by a partition.After Li Wei entered, he handed over his score and lyrics, together with his contestant ID, "Contestant Li Wei, the song "My Future Is Not a Dream", original." Li Wei briefly introduced the song he was going to sing.

"Original? Well, you even got the arrangement?" The music director came over, "Have the lyrics been registered? If not, I'll ask my assistant to turn on the computer for you, and you can record it in the copyright library first."

When he learned that Li Wei hadn't registered the copyright, the director immediately ordered his assistant to let Li Wei log into the copyright database to register the copyright.It was too simple for Li Wei, so the registration was completed very quickly, and he just waited for the certificate issued by the copyright library.

"I wrote down the name of the song you are going to sing. If it is confirmed to be original, we can start recording the song. Tsk tsk, so many people took the original route in the first competition, it seems that our Chinese music scene has brought another It's a fad."

"Asian Avenue of Stars Final Selection" has extra points for original songs, but original songs are also very troublesome.People who sing existing songs can basically start recording the accompaniment tape on the same day, and prepare to run in with the band and harmony.After all, the arrangement of the existing songs is very mature, and the music director and recording studio only need to make some adjustments to make this song more suitable for the singer.As for the original song, you have to make arrangements and harmonize yourself.According to the competition rules, the organizing committee only provides convenience, not assistance.

Fortunately, there are a lot of guitars and pianos in the lounge. Those who sing original songs can find a way to find time to use the piano or guitar to write arrangements and harmonies for themselves.At this time, Li Wei's own iPad is of great help. Although the GarageBand that comes with the iPad is not particularly professional, it is still enough for recording DEMO.

In addition to Li Wei who is going to sing the original, the rock band Bird Orchestra from the Yanjing Division and Chen Xuan, a folk singer from the Beidao Division, also chose the original.As for the original works of other singers, basically the production team did not pay special attention.As Bird Orchestra itself is a band, they arrange music very quickly; while Chen Xuan's songs have always been easy to arrange, and can be completely done with a guitar.So they chose to record their respective accompaniments on Tuesday, when there were relatively few people, and then they went to work with the band and harmony.

However, Li Wei's accompaniment was quite complicated and was not completed until noon on Thursday.Under Li Wei's arrangement, section A will only have piano accompaniment, and the rest will be supported by his own voice; When repeating section A, the style slides from pop rock to folk rock, which Li Wei is best at, to make the style of the song a little softer; finally, continue to repeat section B with pop rock until the end.

Holding Li Wei's thick sheet music, the director had to admire the young man's ability.Knowing how to write songs is actually not difficult, but those who can arrange music are masters in the pop music circle!A simple melody will have completely different styles in the hands of different arrangers. It can be sad or exciting, and everything depends on the skill of the arranger.Therefore, in the pop music circle, arrangers generally serve as producers of songs, earning the highest salary in the entire song production industry.

Because of the rare arrangement, the music director was also interested in this recording, and sat in the recording studio with the sound engineer for the first time.Because of the standard paradigm of the arrangement score given by Li Wei, the musicians who played the instruments also recorded all the accompaniment sounds that Li Wei needed very smoothly, and the rest was for Li Wei to record his own voice.Even if the "Asian Avenue of Stars Final Selection" uses high-end audio, as long as it is a live broadcast, there will definitely be problems.

According to the agreement reached between Yaxing Production and Asia Broadcasting Corporation, what the audience hears is the original voice of the contestants without any modification; but when the program is broadcast, the voice recorded by the singer in the studio and the live radio will be superimposed, and then the voice will be modified. be more perfect.

Li Wei's performance in the recording studio is still perfect. You must know that many singers have more or less dry vocals.Leaving aside the intonation issue, the sound of breathing, swallowing, etc. will affect the perfection of the final recording version.Therefore, sound engineers and singers need to sing repeatedly and constantly repair.But an overedited sound, like an overedited photo, lacks realism.Therefore, capable singers basically need to record two to three dry notes. Only idol singers need to pick out note by note. Naturally, they have no way to sing live.

After all the sounds were recorded, it was naturally handed over to the sound mixer next door for mixing.

And Li Wei stood on the stage and began to break in.He not only needs to complete the coordination with the band, but also needs to coordinate the chorus with himself. The rest is how to arrange the lighting effects and how to switch the camera.The harmony on the stage is 3+2, that is, three female voices and two male voices.

The reason why there are more female chords is that the vocal range of females is naturally wider than that of males, which is easy to cooperate with.

In addition to making the singer's voice richer, the harmony is also the secret weapon for the singer to regain his pitch at critical moments.We must know that there are many singers with not so solid basic skills who will go out of tune when they go on stage. If he still has a little foundation, he can find his own tune based on the sound of harmony.This is also the reason why everyone can sing better when there are chords in the accompaniment when singing KTV.

Because everyone is a professional, the cooperation this time is not complicated, and everyone quickly found out the feeling.

On Friday, in addition to walking the stage in the morning, everyone was rehearsing with makeup in the afternoon.Because of the large number of people, it was already early morning when the rehearsal was over.Fortunately, the commuter car prepared by the producer did not leave, so everyone took the car back to the hotel to sleep.Due to the exhaustion of rehearsing for a whole day, basically everyone fell down as soon as they got in the car.

Li Wei was no exception, and returned to the hotel in a daze.But Li Wei still took a bath and cleaned his skin before going to bed. Li Wei was glad that he brought a good night jelly mask, otherwise he really didn't want to do any maintenance at this time.

Tomorrow is the official live broadcast at [-] pm, so everyone must arrive at the studio before [-] pm.Because at that time everyone will formally set their makeup and change their costumes.Although Li Wei's lottery showed that he would not be on stage until the live broadcast on Sunday, God knows what will happen during the live broadcast, so Li Wei still chose to go to the live broadcast on Saturday.By the way, let's take a look at how everyone officially broadcast live, and understand the performance of the opponents.

To be continued...