Million UP school god plays me every day

A group photo of the debate competition was pressed on the information board of the student association center.

There are a total of more than 20 members in the two terms, standing together looks like a big community.Xie Lan and Dou Sheng were standing in the middle of the back row, Rong Xinxin and Lin Bei were in front holding the awards for outstanding clubs, Dou Sheng lazily raised his hand to hook Xie Lan's shoulder, and compared a pair of scissors to his face.

When the shutter fell, Dou Sheng poked Xie Lan's cheek lightly with his fingertips.

That night, he posted a new post——

@人世少巧太_dm: A big step for overseas returnees.

There are three photos accompanying the dynamic, one is the pre-competition photo that went viral during the school year, one is a group photo of the club, and the other is a close-up shot of Che Ziming during Xie Lan's debate.

As soon as these photos were posted, there was a big wave of licking the screen.Dou Sheng went out of the circle several times in a row, and was broken in his career record by the poverty episode. The number of fans has soared to 400W, surpassing Xie Lan.A screenshot of his news on station B was spread to various forums. Ms. Dadoudou produced it overnight, and the formal handwriting was on the hot list of Xiaopozhan the next day.

On the high-speed train to City B, Dou Sheng flipped through the comments and said with emotion: "When there are more fans, the sense of existence of the old fans will be diluted. The comments are not very meaningful."

As he spoke, he put away his mobile phone in a bored manner, and clicked his tongue lightly: "Dugu seeks defeat."

Du Gu's defeat is another word that Xie Lan doesn't understand.

He sat by the window with his piano case in his arms, and repeated the pronunciation several times into the microphone before matching the correct idiom.

Outside the high-speed rail are rapidly retreating barren mountains and villages, and the signal is not very good.

The small group chat was full of enthusiasm, but he received messages one by one, and the train passed through a long tunnel, and WeChat suddenly spat out dozens of messages.

-Che Lizi: I laughed so hard, the first reaction of netizens when they saw the photos of the debate turned out to be CP, shouldn't they praise the two for their wisdom and martial arts?

- Herring: Netizens are all like that, superficial

- Cherry: Douzi and Xie Lan are really popular now, there are discussions everywhere

-Che Lizi: Damn, I really laughed to death, thousands of people are seriously discussing whether they are gay or not in one building

-herring: this is too outrageous

-Cheerilee: Why is it only me and Herring talking in this group?

- Dai You: Well, outrageous

-Wang Gou: It's outrageous... Forget about it, Xie Lan and Douzi are in the car, right?To interview?

- Dai You: Right?

-Chelizi: Lan cub, give me a rush!Take the lead composer!

- Dai You: Go!

-Wang Gou: Come on!

- Herring: rush

Xie Lan sent an uplifting emoji, the small circle circled endlessly on the screen, and he didn't know if he could send it out.

He put down his phone, looked at the distant platform slowly approaching, and let out a light breath.

"Don't be nervous." Dou Sheng squeezed his fingers aside, "This is just a business cooperation, not an entrance examination for a conservatory of music, it's probably just a chat, it won't make things difficult for you."

Xie Lan hummed.

His strengths are very prominent, but his disadvantages are also very prominent. He has always only regarded arrangement as a hobby, and his professionalism is far less than that of Jiada, so he prepared almost a day and a night before departure, and he memorized the terminology so that he would not let himself be confused. , and carefully reviewed all the works in his career, original adaptations, published ones and unpublished ones, and sorted out his personal style and common skills.

The training will be done the day after tomorrow, the interview will be in the afternoon, and I have to rush back to City H after the interview.

Xie Lan sighed softly, "Go all out."

It was the hottest time in the afternoon when I left the train station, and it took more than an hour for the taxi to get to the interview place after turning around in wide streets and narrow alleys.

Lingxi's base camp is in City G, and City B has only a small studio, which is hidden in a compact commercial apartment, and the staff must come down to pick it up.

Xie Lan and Dou Sheng walked behind the female staff who received the reception. She turned her head frequently along the way, and finally couldn't help it until she got into the elevator: "You two really have a good relationship, do you even have to accompany the interview?"

Xie Lan shook his head, "Huh?"

"Yes." Dou Sheng smiled lightly, put his hand on his shoulder, "take me

Just be Xie Lan's personal assistant. "

Before Xie Lan could react, she saw the corner of the girl's mouth hooked up quickly, and then pressed down quickly.

She nodded solemnly, "Okay."

Xie Lan: "..."

Someone seemed to be in a good mood and started playing the piano on his collarbone again.

Entering a glass door, there is a very compact cubicle inside, with more than a dozen positions, and then there are two offices and a conference room.

"Jiada came in the morning. After chatting with Director Pei for a while, he went to drink tea, and then Director Pei came back alone." The girl whispered to Xie Lan: "There is a man and a woman in the room. Sister Kai is the person in charge of this project. , Director Pei is the chief director, and he also worked as a music producer before switching careers as a director."

Xie Lan nodded, "How long did Jiada chat with him this morning?"

"It's about 10 minutes in there, and I went out to drink tea all morning." The girl lowered her hair and sent two messages, "You just go in, I have greeted them."

Dou Sheng leaned against the wall next to him, and raised his eyebrows at Xie Lan.After the reception girl left, he whispered, "Come on, Ermao, I'll wait for you."

The conference room is simply decorated, and the air conditioner blows the wind.Sitting at one end of the long table was a man and a woman. The woman had short, capable hair wrapped in a large shawl.The man was wearing a khaki denim vest and a white T-shirt with splashed ink. He was in his early 30s, with high cheekbones, deep-set eyes, dry and hard hair tied in a short ponytail behind his head, and a light beard. stubble.

The woman smiled enthusiastically, "Xie Lan?"

"Yeah." Xie Lan looked at them one by one, nodded and said hello: "Hello, Miss Kai, and Director Pei."

Sister Kai asked him to sit down, and first chatted with him about Xie Lan's exam and the update of station B.It can be seen that she is following Xie Lan's news, and after a few chats, she clicked on the previous music videos.

Xie Lan answered one by one, and when she had finished the pleasantries, he said in a timely manner: "I compiled a file of all my adaptations and original songs."

"Received." Pei, who was silent on the side, finally spoke. His voice was very low, a little hoarse, and he picked up the tablet next to him and slid down.

Sister Kai smiled gently, "We've seen all that. Neither you nor Jiada are laymen. Although in the end there will only be one opportunity to cooperate as the lead composer, I still hope you can relax. Today is a meeting with netizens in the circle. By the way Let’s talk about cooperation opportunities.”

Xie Lan nodded.

"Actually, when I first found you, I just came across a few adaptations by chance, and I thought they were quite special." Sister Kai opened Xie Lan's homepage on her mobile phone, and randomly swipe down, "Take "Chilian Zhizhi" For the song "Death", I would like to hear from you what is the general idea of ​​the adaptation?"

"I have done many adaptations of "H.Blood", and the one most people know is the version uploaded on Youtube."

Talking about the song, Xie Lan relaxed, "The original anime is a story of starting again after despair. The OP song is mixed with sadness, but in order to match the plot, the intensity is far greater than the sadness. When adapting, I want to enhance the narrative of the music The hopeless atmosphere in the music, so I added an extra melody, and used multiple variations of the antiphonal style before triggering, a total of [-] brief conclusions, pushing and pulling the melody of the listener and the performer to the highest point, probably this is the idea.”

Sister Kai listened to him, clicked on the relevant video, and played that short section again.

"It's also here that attracts me." She said with a smile: "Actually, many people in the folk would use repeated variations to adapt, mostly for the sake of showing off their skills, but I think yours is very different. You have a great control over emotion and rhythm." Qiang, did you sort out the rough rhythm line when you adapted it?"

Xie Lan shook her head, "No, it's just based on feeling."

"This is God's meal." Sister Kai turned her head and said to Pei.

Pei only nodded, and continued to carefully browse the information sent by Xie Lan on the iPad.

In fact, from the moment he entered the door, Xie Lan felt that this person was a bit strange.

Some... can't be said to be unfriendly, but a little cold.

Xie Lan glanced at him, then looked away when Sister Kai spoke.

Sister Kai obviously did her homework, and she followed "H.Blood" to ask questions, all of which were Xie Lan's changes that could be called milestones.

Arrangement, and also focused on the grass concert. After confirming that Xie Lan was responsible for the arrangement of each club, he nodded with satisfaction.

"In fact, our internal evaluation of your demo is also relatively high." She shook the ballpoint pen gently, "Although it was just a canvassing demo, I think it is more in line with the framework I envisioned for the OST of "The Boy on the String" to a certain extent. In addition, I want to ask, if you only get the position of co-arranger, will you accept this opportunity?"

Xie Lan shook his head truthfully and said: "Chief arranger is a rare opportunity, no matter in terms of income or cooperation with folk music masters. I will be in my third year of high school at the beginning of school. If I just cooperate with arranger, I may not consider it right now."

Sister Kai nodded lightly, "Hmm, understandable, but we still need to discuss the final result for a few rounds, so it won't be so soon..."

Pei suddenly interrupted: "But if you are really asked to be the chief arranger, do you have the confidence to complete it?"

As he said, he locked the screen of his tablet, rubbed the bridge of his nose, and half-closed his eyes and said, "I'm speaking bluntly, you are still too student-like, and there are many small designs in the arrangement, but the overall logic is lacking." Good. There are many professionals on the Internet and Bilibili dismantling your arrangement structure, but I actually want to ask, have you formed a basic logic for your own structure?"

Xie Lan paused for a moment, "I generally require the main melody to appear in the first 15 seconds, and adjust the interlude with different chord combinations. I don't want the exact same part to appear in the whole song. I am used to letting the climax part back to the main melody, and I will adjust the note type to increase the level of the beat, or simply make variations, do these count?”

Pei shook his head, "It doesn't count."

The atmosphere in the meeting room was delicate for a moment, and Sister Kai slapped Pei's arm, "He is used to speaking bluntly. You don't have a professional background. We knew this from the beginning, but our OST needs to be measured in many ways. , not only professionalism, but also..."

"An anime OST needs more than just a violin and a band." Pei interrupted her again, his eyes fell on the table in front of him, and he tapped his index finger on the table, "For example, a melody, written for the violin, needs a clear main melody, rhythm, Strong sense of rhythm. But if it is written for trumpet and saxophone, it needs to use more harmonies to set off the high-pitched voice. Brass group, woodwind group, string group, and even percussion group, how to play a synergistic effect, How to add special sound effects, this should be coordinated and considered by the commercial lead arranger, even more important than the narrative and atmosphere of the music design, understand?"

"..."

do not understand.

Pei's voice was very low, and when he said these things in a hurry, he cooperated with the movements of his fingers, as if he was chanting scriptures.Xie Lan barely listened to most of it, and probably grasped what he wanted to express.

Candidates can memorize professional terms fluently, but they can't stand the dying of listening equipment.

He pondered for a while before answering: "I really can't explain the arrangement process with professional theory, but it's two different things from not being able to explain it clearly. The classmate changed the score."

As he spoke, he opened the violin case and put the violin against his neck, "For example, the section below is the violin trial version of the previous demo."

With the bow lightly tilted, he quickly played the first twenty bars of the demo.

"Now if I want to adapt it for the piano part, I will make the interlude part thicker and gentler, lower the key, cancel the variation, and then change the melody into a classical triple time."

Hearing this, Pei raised his eyelids and glanced at him.

Xie Lan adapted it on the spot, half relying on his brain to turn quickly, and half relying on his hand feel. He paused in the middle, but still calmly completed the demonstration.

"Then, if it's a trumpet or a saxophone, I'll just drop the main theme. Because under the temperament of this demo, the brass instruments are only suitable for adding a sense of brilliance to the melody. I'll raise the key and level the rhythm."

Using the violin to play the parts modified for other instruments does not sound very good, and it is a bit strange to play, but Xie Lan is still used to it, and everyone used to play like this when they were in the orchestra.

After he finished playing the brass group, he tried to describe his thoughts on bass and drums, and occasionally played a bar or two on the violin to supplement.

After a demonstration,

He put down the piano and said, "I don't know if this counts as polyphonic structural ability?"

Pei didn't know when he had turned his chair to the side at an angle, looking at another tall building outside the window, his eyes still half-downcast.

Xie Lan's expression became indifferent.

This person doesn't seem to have opened his eyes very much. To use classical Chinese to describe it, if he has eye problems.

Pei suddenly said: ""H.Blood", the variation of the dialogue style that is popular on the Internet, can you show it live?"

Xie Lan was silent for a moment, but still nodded respectfully: "Yes."

When Xie Lan played the piano, the conference room was very quiet.He didn't directly play the climax part of Pei's roll call, but cut in from the thought-ridden Adagio, and gradually ushered in the climax.He only pulled the bow for a short time before putting down the bow. Sister Kai was about to applaud with a smile when Pei suddenly said, "A while ago, there seemed to be a song "On the Top of the Red Flame". The style is not the same as before, can you also show it ?”

Xie Lan: "..."

Facing Pei's profile, he pulled up "On the Top of the Red Flame" expressionlessly.

"Have you changed the pure Adagio music? Original music is also fine, let's have a piece."

"..."

"You can also listen to Totoro in the Grass Symphony version."

"..."

After several minutes of paragraph after paragraph, the meeting room was already very awkward, and Sister Kai began to bow her head and play dead.

Xie Lan put down the violin, "Are you ordering food?"

Pei looked back at him for a moment, then chuckled with unknown meaning, "I'm just trying to find a little confidence that I can promise you to be the chief arranger."

"Then did you find it?" Xie Lan's voice was calm.

Pei was silent for a while, then heaved a long sigh.

"Not ideal."

In Xie Lan's eyes, the person in front of him was like a fool whose brain volume was squeezed by the carbon dioxide in the air, and his words and deeds were on the verge of death.

Pei Fangkong waited for a long time before whispering: "It's still the same problem, the professionalism is too weak, and the communication cost during the production is high. Also, all your adaptations are too open, and you won't accept them. The climaxes are really catchy, but It’s tiring to listen to, I feel very strong the first time I listen to it, the second time I feel mentally exhausted, and the third time my heart is not working.”

The last trace of expression on Xie Lan's face left him.

After listening to it for the third time, my heart is not working well, maybe it's not his problem.

In Che Ziming's words, this person probably has kidney deficiency.

He finally couldn't help asking: "I heard that you are a music producer, why didn't you come here directly?"

Sister Kai was so embarrassed that she couldn't hold back her smile, she lowered her head and wrote something that wasn't a word on the paper.

Pei was very calm, and smiled as if facing a reporter, "I'm only a genius, but I'm too lazy to study a major. Music production is a dead end, oh, so I don't really want to find someone like me."

Xie Lan: "..."

"Let's add a WeChat." Pei picked up the phone slowly.

Xie Lan took a deep breath and fumbled for the phone from his trouser pocket.

His eyes were dazzled with anger, he took out his phone and poked it for a long time before he opened his QR code.

Pei stretched out the scanning interface, "Add it first, in case there is a follow-up, I will pass..."

The QR code that had just been stretched out to the bottom of his phone shrank back suddenly, but he couldn't scan it.

Pei looked up, "Huh?"

Xie Lan put the phone back into his trouser pocket, with a stern expression, "I almost forgot that I don't have WeChat. If there is any follow-up, please send me an email."

Coming out of the conference room, he walked out silently with the piano on his back. It was not until he left the small studio that Dou Sheng asked after deliberation: "No way, you look so bad? You look like you're going to eat people."

Xie Lan frowned, "This trip is in vain, that Director Pei obviously doesn't intend to think about me at all, and he is just taking the humiliation for himself."

"Bring yourself to shame." Dou Cheng frowned, "I heard you even played the piano outside, who can refuse?"

Xie Lan recounted the situation just now, and the more he talked, the more angry he became. At the end, Dou Sheng interrupted him with a wave of his hand, "Okay, let's go down and take a taxi first, and I'll ask X."

This

The trip was very rushed, and I was stuck in the most precious time before the provincial training. I rushed to take the high-speed train early in the morning, and I had to take the evening train back, and I couldn't get home until midnight.

Xie Lan was even more depressed when he mentioned this, so he went downstairs without saying a word and directly stopped the rental.

Dou Sheng and X sent messages, and listened to a few voices while wearing headphones.

After a long time, he took off his earphones, frowned and looked out the window.

The mood is visibly irritable.

"How?" Xie Lan asked.

Dou Sheng struggled for a moment, but still told the truth: "X's friend said that it was Sister Kai who pushed you to participate in the election, and it was Director Pei who brought you to Jiada. From the beginning, Pei didn't agree with finding an UP in the music area. Most of them are inflated in popularity, and it is unreliable to be a real commercial arranger. There was a public opinion storm a while ago, and he also advocated canceling the selection and going directly to Lajiada, but because we turned around, the popularity is too high, and the investors want to promote publicity , and then continue to vote.”

Xie Lan became more and more complicated as he listened, and frowned, "So the conclusion is?"

Dou Sheng sighed and squeezed his little finger, "When men and women had differences of opinion before, it was the woman who finally compromised. The situation of each company is different. The authority of the project leader of Lingxi Animation is mainly in the proposal and In terms of progress, the director has the final say on the art, plot, music, and overall control."

Xie Lan understood, "Then why should I come to the interview?"

"Maybe I want to give an explanation to those netizens who voted passionately." Dou Sheng said in a low voice: "The front line is so big, it really just wants to use the popularity of the two parties for free publicity."

Xie Lan stopped talking.

The sunset glow in City B is very beautiful, the gorgeous colors spread across the sky, dyeing through a forest of high-rise buildings.

This trip came and went in a hurry, catching up with the evening rush hour, and it was too late to even take a detour to see his dream university, so the whole day was in vain.

But more than a whole day.

Xie Lan got off the car in silence, entered the high-speed railway station, and ate the hamburger and Coke bought by Dou Sheng.

After checking the ticket and entering the station, he sighed depressingly when he was waiting on the platform for the high-speed train to come.

There were people coming and going on the platform, men, women and children, he took Dou Sheng's hand.

"Boy friend."

"Huh?" Dou Sheng raised his eyebrows in surprise.

It was the first time that Xie Lan called her boyfriend bluntly, and she was a little awkward at first, but soon the awkward feeling dissipated.

After all, just hearing Dou Sheng call him that, I have heard it countless times.

He felt ashamed, as if he was possessed by some herring.

"Quick, find a way to comfort me." He whispered, "I'm going to collapse."