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Chen Jiantian was a little depressed!

Zheng Jun, who aspires to be a rock singer, has been signed with Red Star Production Company for a year. When he signed the contract, he brought two original songs, "Naked" and "Cinderella".

I thought Zheng Jun would be like Wong Ka Kui of the band Beyond, constantly creating high-quality works, but a year has passed and Zheng Jun is still polishing the arrangement of these two songs!

Jiangnan, another singer signed by Red Star Production Company, seems quite impressive. He can not only write songs for himself, but also for female singers. For example, "Sky" is very good.

However, Jiangnan is a student at the Central Academy of Drama and only has time to record songs on Sundays. Even though the demo of "Single Love Song" has been approved by the senior management of PolyGram Music, he still has to wait until Sunday to go into the studio for recording.

Eh…

Sitting in room 8001 of the Liufang Hotel, Chen Jiantian was sighing when suddenly the telephone on his desk rang.

"Hello, who is this?"

"Mr. Chen, it's me, Jiangnan."

"Oh, Jiangnan?"

Why did you suddenly decide to call me? Did you encounter some difficulties at the Central Academy of Drama?

In his personal life, Chen Jiantian is generally a warm-hearted boss. Even when dealing with his artists, his first words are always expressions of concern, rather than asking when their songs will be recorded.

"No!

I just wanted to let you know that I have time to record songs this afternoon, tomorrow during the day, and the day after tomorrow.

Why don't you contact Baihua Recording Studio?

"good!

Go there now, and leave the rest to me.

Chen Jiantian was extremely efficient; as soon as he hung up the phone with Jiang Nan, he began to make arrangements.

First, we asked Zhao Xiaodong, the company's planner, to contact Baihua Recording Studio. We're going to record a song this afternoon, so please make room for the recording studio and practice room.

Immediately afterwards, he began contacting industry bigwigs. Although Jiangnan was the second singer signed by Red Star Production Company, he was the first to enter the studio to record a song. Naturally, he could not be neglected in terms of the lineup of musicians.

For the arrangement, Chen Jiantian contacted Liu Yijun of the Tang Dynasty band, known as Lao Wu.

In 1993, mainland Chinese rock musicians were divided into two major schools in terms of arrangement. One was the Western pop school led by Dou Wei, which mainly focused on psychedelic rock.

The second group is the Chinese folk music school, led by He Yong and Zhang Chu. Their arrangement style leans more towards folk songs, incorporating instruments such as the sanxian, drum, bangzi, flute, erhu, and so on—any classical Chinese instrument that can be used.

Lao Wu is the only arranger who has deeply integrated the heavy metal framework with Eastern classical aesthetics, creating a Chinese epic rock system.

The drummer, Chen Jiantian, was contacted by Zhao Muyang, a guy known as the "King of Drums in Northwest China," whose drumming had an extremely strong sense of rhythm.

  

In the early 90s, most drummers of the same era had a single style. Zhang Yongguang, the drummer of the "Three Drummers," was more jazzy and had a relaxed rhythm; Zhao Nian of the Tang Dynasty was only good at epic slow metal; and Zhao Mingyi, the drummer of the Black Panthers, was more pop hard rock.

Zhao Muyang, on the other hand, can seamlessly handle four completely separate arrangement logics;

The keyboardist, Chen Jiantian, contacted Dou Peng, who is Dou Wei's cousin.

Compared to his contemporaries, Dou Peng is practically a legend. He started learning piano at age four, while also studying erhu, violin, and cello. At 16, he was admitted to the composition department of the affiliated high school of the China Conservatory of Music, and later studied conducting at the Central Conservatory of Music. His knowledge of music theory, harmony, orchestration, and score reading is unparalleled in the mainland rock scene…

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Chen Jiantian is busy!

Jiangnan is busy too!

After having lunch on set, speaking with the boss Chen Jiantian on the phone, and greeting the class teacher Gao Jingwen, Jiangnan, who had a specially made brick from the film crew in his bag, took a taxi to the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles building.

In the early 90s, the Music Copyright Society of China (MCSC) was located in the Federation of Literary and Art Circles building, occupying an entire floor.

Once you arrive at the destination, the process of confirming the rights to the song is very simple.

By paying 10 yuan, Jiangnan can join the Music Copyright Society of China (MCSC) as a member, and then pay an annual fee of 5 yuan. In this way, he can archive his musical works for free in the MCSC.

Submit lyrics, sheet music/staff music, and a description of the composition. Fill out the form for archiving. If you have a demo of the song, that would be best.

Because he didn't want to go through too much trouble, Jiangnan submitted 15 musical works for archiving in one go this time.

Musicians from the 90s, such as Cui Jian, Dou Wei, Zhang Chu, and He Yong, felt that everything was going well once they reached this stage.

But the situation is different in Jiangnan, where people have been tricked in their previous lives.

After leaving the Federation of Literary and Art Circles building, he immediately took a taxi to No. 40 Xuanwumenwai Street, where the National Copyright Administration is located. To obtain legal documents confirming the copyright of a song, he had to pay money here to confirm the rights.

Of course, the cost is a bit high.

The music fee is 200 yuan per song, and 300 yuan if the lyrics and music are submitted together. In an era when the average monthly salary is only a little over 200 yuan, even the most outstanding singers in China would not be willing to come here.

Therefore, when the staff of the State Publishing Administration saw that Jiangnan had taken out the lyrics and music of 15 songs and 4500 yuan to register and confirm the rights, their eyes lit up instantly.

"Damn it, since the 'Trial Measures for Voluntary Registration of Musical Works' were introduced in 1991, the National Copyright Administration has finally found a sucker."

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Baihua Recording Studio

Located at No. 16 Baihua Shenchu ​​Hutong, Xinjiekou, Xicheng District, it was formerly the state-owned recording workshop of the Beijing Audio Equipment Factory and officially opened to the public in 1981.

Many famous albums in the history of mainland Chinese rock music, such as Tang Dynasty's "Dream Back to Tang Dynasty", Black Panther's "Black Panther 1", Zhang Chu's "Sister", and He Yong's "Garbage Dump", were recorded here.

Of course, it's really expensive here.

The studio fee is 150 yuan per hour; a full day's studio rental costs 1200-1500 yuan, and this does not include the cost of recording engineers, tapes, instrument rentals, etc.

Here, recording a complete rock album, including the recording engineer, tapes, and post-production mixing, would cost at least 2 yuan, which was an astronomical price in the 90s.

No wonder, Chen Jiantian wouldn't let Zheng Jun come to record the song if he didn't practice it well.

That's fucking expensive.

And so, Jiangnan, who had taken a taxi from the National Copyright Administration, admired the scenery of Beijing in the early 90s through the car window while reminiscing about the past of Baihua Recording Studio.

It moved very quickly, and in the blink of an eye, the yellow van stopped at the entrance of Baihua Shenchu ​​Hutong.

After paying, Jiangnan got out of the car and walked along the familiar path toward the recording studio. However, when he reached the middle of the alley, he saw a petite woman singing and skipping.

There was a girl in the village named Xiaofang.

"Good-looking and kind..."

Hahaha…

Jiangnan wanted to laugh when he saw Young Master Zhou.

It's hard to imagine that an elf on screen could hum such a rustic love song.

Jiangnan's eyes darted around, and he wanted to quicken his pace to catch up with the beautiful woman so he could say hello. Just then, a lot of people came from the other side of the alley.

Ding Wu, Liu Yijun, and Zhang Ju from the Tang Dynasty band; Luo Qi from the Compass band; Li Tong and Zhao Mingyi from the Black Panther band; and Wang Feng, the lead singer of the Baojia Street 43 band, which, although formed, is not yet well-known, are all among this group.

In his previous life, he was in the music industry, and Jiangnan was very familiar with them. He would want to say hello whenever he met them, but when he thought about his current identity, he immediately shut his mouth.

I'm just an ordinary student at the Central Academy of Drama, and I don't even know them.

"You must be Jiangnan?"

"Oh, right!"

Upon arriving at the entrance of Baihua Recording Studio, I encountered these people, and then a tall, beautiful woman stepped out from the crowd.

Upon seeing Jiangnan, she proactively extended her hand.

"I am Jiang Xin, Dou Wei's girlfriend. Thank you for appearing in my life, which has given me a huge sense of relief."

"Well…"

"Hehe, why do you have that expression?"

Didn't Wang Fei fall in love with you?

So, she decided to stop bothering my boyfriend. And speaking of which, you're really handsome!

The beautiful woman spoke with a smile, but Jiangnan remained bewildered, because at that moment, a long passage of text appeared above Dou Wei's head in the crowd.

【Dou Wei

The singer has excellent singing skills, with a complete and effective vocal range of C2 to A4, and can reach A5 with high notes. The lower limit of the low notes is C2, with a deep and solid bass extension and full chest resonance.

In everyday choruses, the high frequencies fall on A4, allowing for dozens of consecutive long notes with dense repetition, without straining the voice, cracking the sound, or altering the timbre;

The vocal register flows seamlessly across the low, mid, and high registers, allowing for an instantaneous transition from a soft whisper to a powerful high note without any distortion or weakness in the timbre. The vocal cords naturally maintain balanced closure. Should you take advantage of this skill?