Chapter 115 The Intentions in the Arrangement of 'Love in BC'
Chapter 115 The Care in the Arrangement of "Love in B.C."
In the No. 2 recording room of Fantasy Studio, Fan Noxuan was wearing headphones outside, holding the music score and listening to Li Hyuk start singing the new album.
The song I sang these days is "Love in BC". The imagination of this song's subject matter opened Fan Noxuan's eyes. Elements such as Sumerian civilization, cuneiform writing, and the Code of Hammurabi are quite historical.
feel.
And Li Hyuk used the story on the stone tablet more than 3,700 years ago to confess to someone more than 3,700 years later.
Although it is a surreal setting, it is enough to become the most romantic absurdity in the context of the popular love songs such as "I love you, you don't love me" in the current Chinese music scene.
In terms of arrangement, Li Hyuk did his best and deliberately chose a very fashionable lofi effect to present the core foundation of the entire song. That is, the intro is a very nice and brainwashing guitar riff.
Although Fan Noxuan is in management, she has taken classes at Shanghai Conservatory of Music with Li He after all, so she still understands basic music theory knowledge.
Liu Chong, the producer of Guns N' Roses' first album "Girls in the Bloom", also expressed his opinion after listening to Li Hyuk's vocals: "The sound design of this arrangement is very good, very awesome, the rhythm and chord design
It's very clever.
The intro 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 experienced Li He's awesomeness. At this time, there were no disturbances. Li He was just operating normally.
However, even though she was mentally prepared, Fan Nuoxuan still could not imagine the extent of Li He's abnormality.
Last year, Li Hyuk released a ground-breaking album "Jay". At that time, Fan Noxuan thought that it would be difficult for Li Hyuk to replicate such a miracle and album.
But I didn't expect that Lee Hyuk, who keeps releasing new songs, would still produce such a high-quality album half a year after the release of his last album, even better than the previous one.
Li He came out to take a rest, and Liu Chong specifically asked Li He for advice: "The arrangement of your song is really interesting. Can you tell me why you used the lofi effect? What is the idea?"
As a musician, Liu Chong has no doubts about Li He's lyrics and music skills, but at the arrangement level, it is difficult to do well without rich accumulation and experimentation.
However, despite his young age, Li Hyuk has no stiffness or obstacles at all, and his arrangements are as wild and unconstrained as possible. Perhaps it is precisely because he is young that his thinking is not limited, and he is able to go beyond rigid settings and create a wild and unconstrained arrangement.
Li He was happy to communicate with Liu Chong. Liu Chong was left from Huang's record company. He was experienced and had produced many albums.
Having such a person providing advice and communication to Lee Hyuk at all times can allow Lee Hyuk to control the entire album more clearly.
"Teacher Liu, I think that when a good arranger uses any tone or effect, it must not pursue the idea that what I do is cool, or that it is popular.
And it must match the whole piece of music and have the purpose of making it complete." Li He said.
Liu Chong nodded and agreed: "Yes, Lofi's built-in distressing effect tells the listeners very well that this is a story from the past. It can bring people back to the dust-covered stone monument.
before.
Opening the listener's ears with lofi means that the dust attached to the stone tablet has faded away, the cuneiform writing is clearly visible, and the story of the song is about to begin.
A short prelude, there are so many arrangements, boss, you are really a genius."
Li He touched his nose. He was not embarrassed at all when he was praised, nor was he very proud. Songs are just like that.
In fact, the degree of care in arranging goes beyond this. 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 listeners will feel so happy.
But if you listen carefully to "Love in BC", in order to make this layer richer, the orchestration process becomes clearly visible. A sequence is designed.
First the drum kit, then the guitar.
In addition to refreshing the listener's auditory experience through this method, what must be mentioned is the way the song is modulated.
Generally speaking, in order to highlight the progression of emotion, rising pitch is often used in musical works.
In order to transition before rising into the key and to make the modulation appear more natural, we usually add an interlude or write a bridge between the main AB segments.
Just like when crossing a river, you need to use a bridge to connect it.
But in the piece "Love in B.C.", not only did Li Hyuk not over-arrange the music, he directly dropped the key from A flat to G at the beginning of the second section A.
If a song's practice of raising the tone twice in a row to exaggerate the emotion can be visualized as an ascending ladder, then the song "Love in BC" can be visualized as a concave font.
After the second verse, chorus and bridge drop to the key of G, the song is pulled directly back to the starting key of A flat.
If it is an ordinary continuous rising key, three or more keys must be used in a song to make the audience feel it and you can feel two changes.
In "Love in BC", this kind of process of descending and pulling back again only uses two keys to achieve the same effect.
However, this is not the scariest thing. The scariest thing is that this is only the first song in the album.
If it's used as the title track, that's fine. After all, it's normal for the title song to be more thoughtful.
But Liu Chong discovered that not only "Love in BC" but also other songs on the album are so thoughtful.
Just listening to the accompaniment made Liu Chong doubt his life and that his decades as a music producer were in vain.
But that's not all. The best thing is that this album is imaginative in terms of themes. It not only includes love songs, but also island ninjas, European vampires, Shang Hai from the old days, and Egyptian mummies. It's like taking the listener to the world.
Traveling everywhere is the same.
In terms of music style, there are pop love songs, lyrical, rap, R&B, etc., showing a diverse but highly unified album repertoire.
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 that had been written, and saw the song "Dad, I'm Back" and "Shanghai 1943".
"Li He, does uncle often hit you at home?" Fan Nuoxuan couldn't help but 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 very good temper, but it is my mother who didn't give me a good look if I didn't practice piano well when I was a child.
look."
"Then how did you write the song "Dad, I'm Back"? The lyrics are so real." Fan Nuoxuan held up the sheet music of "Dad, I'm Back".
Li Hyuk said: "As a singer, you must have your own social responsibilities and be thoughtful. You love me and I don't love you all day long. What's so good about singing? Great singers must care about social issues. I am the same."
Moving towards the road of great singer."
"I'm afraid that your uncle will be in dire straits at this age, and people won't think of him as a domestic violence man!" Fan Nuoxuan already felt pity for Li He's father.
"Well," Li He was startled, and then he spread his hands and said, "There is no other way. For the happiness of millions of families, my dad has no choice but to endure it. Everyone will remember his contribution."
What a miserable dad. I hope he won’t faint from anger after knowing this song written by Li Hyuk.