Five minutes later, Zhou Yan put down the water cup and walked to Nomura Hide with the interpreter, and said to him, "Please get me a violin, cello, and bass."
"Is these enough?" "Enough." Zhou Yan nodded.
Zhou Yan originally wanted to drum, but it was troublesome to move drums around, and there was no problem using a keyboard to realize the drum sound, so he wanted these things.
In fact, electronic pianos can also realize the tone of these instruments, but the tone of instruments such as violins is very different from the actual recording when realizing the tone of electronic pianos, and some technical details cannot be realized.
Anyway, Zhou Yan can do these instruments, and it is not troublesome to get them, so he doesn't need to use the electronic piano to imitate the sound. He plays and records the music himself.
Hide Nomura nodded and asked someone to arrange it.
When setting this link, Zhou Yan said that multiple instruments may be needed, so the program team had already prepared the instruments.
There are many musical instruments in their TV stations, and basically all the more common musical instruments can be found.
The program team had originally considered getting a Steinway to the studio to give Zhou Yan enough quality, but Zhou Yan said it was not necessary.
People who don’t understand may not even know Steinway, and people who understand will not look up to the performer because of Steinway.
After a while, the instrument Zhou Yan wanted came.
This time, Zhou Yan did not directly play music, but sat in front of the keyboard and smiled and said to the audience, "Before starting work, I want to ask everyone a question. Do you think the video was just now What is the subject? ”
After Zhou Yan’s question, the audience was talking, but no one answered Zhou Yan’s question. "Let me do this, I'll call you, the gentleman in red clothes in the second row."
Mihui Ikeda sent the microphone to the audience who was named by Zhou Yan and was clicked. The audience was very happy. He took the microphone and said with a smile, "It's obviously love."
"Well, Love, do you all think so?”
Many viewers nodded seriously and expressed their approval of this statement.
Indeed, the video just now was very short and there were very few things that could be expressed. Everyone’s most direct feeling was love.
Zhou Yan asked again, "If the theme is love, then do you think the tone is sad or happy?"
The audience started talking again.
This time, the decibels of the discussion were obviously higher.
Compared with the previous issue that is not controversial, everyone's views on this issue are different.
The reason why everyone has different opinions is because they can't see the tone from the video just now. It's not right to say sadness or happiness.
This time Zhou Yan did not call someone to answer, and he continued, "The video is very short, we can't see many things, but it doesn't matter, we can just follow our own understanding. Although we can't see them. Is the love ending of the male and female protagonists perfect or tragic, but we can see one thing, that is, the overall rhythm of the video is relatively flat, so the music we should give it is also better to be relatively flat in the musical rhythm." >
"In pop music, the 44-four beat is relatively stable and regular, and it can provide a stable foundation for the emotional expression of the song, so we might as well try to write a 44-four beat song." Zhou Yan said At this point, all the content is relatively simple, and even if you haven’t learned music, you can basically understand it.
Although they don't know why the four-four shots are stable, they just need to remember this.
Zhou Yan raised his hand and played a melody, "Eb major gives people a broad and bright feeling."
After saying that, he played for a long time.
After playing, he explained the motivation for this section just now, "Since you want to seek stability, the interval span in the melody should mainly be promoted smoothly, but in order to make the song more emotional and impactful, then it is promoted smoothly. There are some jumps with a larger span..."
The audience in the audience was very quiet. They felt as if they were back in their student days, the studio became a classroom, and Zhou Yan became a Teacher, they are listening to the teacher’s lecture obediently.
Zhou Yan tried to be in-depth and concise, with the goal of making the audience less dizzy.
It is impossible to let everyone understand it. Although these are the simplest music theory, they are like mountains. For those who have never learned music theory, this is no different from the heavenly book.
Zhou Yan didn't want everyone to understand the Book of Heaven, but just to prevent them from being bored. He had to feel that although he couldn't understand, he felt that he was very pros and cons.
His purpose has indeed been achieved.
Although no one fully understood what he said, as the wonderful notes flowed out from his fingertips, the audience suddenly felt as if they understood something.
Wow, it turns out that composition is so simple, some people even have this idea.
Isn't that all, this way, then that way, that way, that way?
In fact, they just selectively understand. For example, Zhou Yan said that Eb major is bright and vast. Although they don’t understand what Eb major is, they can understand what bright and vast means.
The song Zhou Yan just played did sound bright and vast, which is consistent with what he said before.
For example, Zhou Yan said that if the song has emotional impact, he must have some large span jumps.
Although they don’t even know what interval is, they can understand what “jumps in” is. When Zhou Yan plays this part, his movements are larger than before. Isn’t this just jumping in?
And the melody of this section is indeed more impactful.
After Zhou Yan's explanation, they were immersed in music, and seemed to have unprecedented insights into music.
After recording the piano, Zhou Yan started recording the violin again, followed by cello, bass and drums.
After all these sounds were recorded, Zhou Yan put the sounds together and adjusted them briefly.
After the whole process, it took about twenty minutes.
And in the view of the audience, the reason why Zhou Yan spent so long was mainly because he spent more time changing instruments and equipment.
After all the songs were adjusted, Zhou Yan smiled and said to Nomura Hide, "You can start playing the video just now, but we have to align the music with the video."
On-site conditions do not allow it, otherwise Zhou Yan could cut the tape of the soundtrack and the tape of the video to play it directly.
In fact, the TV station also has an editing workshop, but it would be a waste of time to go to the editing workshop to do this now. It would be better to manually align the picture and the sound on the spot. The effect is actually similar.
Manual alignment is also very simple, because the large screen on the spot and the controller of the audio are in the same place, and as long as the staff in the background moves their hands. Not long after, the cg of "Final Fantasy 8" appeared again on the big screen, and the soundtrack of "Because ofyou" that Zhou Yan just edited on the spot was heard in the studio.
When the audience watched this cg before, they felt very average, but this time they watched "because ofyou", they suddenly felt different.
The originally ordinary scene seemed to have suddenly had life, and the thin characters became fuller.
What's even more amazing is that some viewers even felt that the heroine's face became clearer, sometimes with a smile and sometimes with a firm face. Her expression was composed of notes from "becauseofyou".
It turns out that this is the charm of the soundtrack.
Shui Nomura watched the video and listened to the music, and he was even more surprised than the audience.
The audience only thought Zhou Yan was very powerful, but because he knew more about music, he knew more about this matter.
If you just give this video a soundtrack, it is actually not particularly magical. After all, many people can do it, but it is not as fast as Zhou Yan.
But what Zhou Yan does is not just about speed, the key is quality.
Shizu Nomura has never seen a second song that can make such a high-quality song in such a short time.
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Of course, the most outrageous thing is that the rhythm of this music is very consistent with the rhythm of the video.
The time point of the picture change coincides with the place where the AB section of the song intersects.
This is definitely not a coincidence, but Zhou Yan remembered the time point of the picture handover, and then adjusted it specifically when making music. They just saw Zhou Yan adjusting the time of the song.
In other words, Zhou Yan just watched it once and remembered the information in the video.
Is Zhou Yan still a human being? Is his brain still a human brain?
If Nomura Hide hadn't clearly known that she had not been angry with Zhou Yan before, he would have doubted whether Zhou Yan had seen the video in advance.
Of course, Zhou Yan couldn't see this video from other channels, because this video was only produced last night, so the production of the second half was so rough.
Shui Nomura glanced at a man sitting in the first row of the audience again. This video was taken by the man.
The man's name is Yuki Nao Takuma. He is the production director of the development headquarters of SQUARE. He came to the scene today to hear what Zhou Yan made for "Final Fantasy 8".
Takuma Yuki Nao mainly looks at three points. The first point is naturally to look at the quality of this song. It is definitely important whether it sounds good or not. The second point is whether this song is suitable for "Final Fantasy 8". The third point is whether the song can be made into a song. After all, their main purpose this time is to make a theme song for the game.
In fact, their company had already decided to find Zhou Yan, but this time he happened to know that Zhou Yan was coming to Tokyo and was going to participate in the show on Asahi TV, so he thought of this trick.
In Takumatsu Yuki's opinion, without knowing it, the composer's creation is more artistic and spiritual.
If Zhou Yan already knows to make a theme song for a game, then the things he makes are likely to be too commercial and lack aura.
Of course, there is a little risk in doing this, that is, in this case, Zhou Yan may not be too serious and only do ordinary things to perfunctory.
But this risk is nothing, because if they are not satisfied with the song made by Zhou Yan on the spot, they can still ask Zhou Yan to explain the specific situation to him and ask Zhou Yan to make the theme song for them.
The show was released today, which was an attempt by a "genius", at least Takuma Yuki Nao thinks so.
And now, Takuma Yuki Naoki felt that his decision was correct.
Sure enough, without knowing it, what Zhou Yan made was so good.
In fact, when Zhou Yan was recording just now, Takuma Yuki Nao thought this song was very good, and now when the video was played with the music, he was completely conquered by this song.
This song is not only good, but also very consistent with "Final Fantasy 8". The most important thing is that it can obviously be made into a song.
Takuma Yuki Nao had only one thought in his mind now - to win this song!
No, not only to win this song, he also wants to invite Zhou Yan to take charge of all the music of "Final Fantasy 8".
Most of the music in the "Final Fantasy" series before was from Nobuo Uematsu's hands, and he has always done a good job.
But now SQUARE's idea is that "Final Fantasy 8" can be more international.
Considering the internationalization, Zhou Yan is obviously a more suitable candidate. Moreover, Zhou Yan is not only internationalized, he also has unparalleled popularity in Neon.
Looking for Zhou Yan to make game music will not only stabilize the domestic market of Neon, but also hope to make the Chinese and European and American markets better.
In addition to the music producers, singers who sing the theme song are also preparing to find a European, American or Chinese.
Now that hearing Zhou Yan's song, Takuma Yuki Naoki believes that in addition to being more suitable for fame, the music quality is obviously better.
Zhou Yan's only disadvantage is that it is expensive.
Takuma Yuki Naoki knew that the cost of letting Zhou Yan make game music would exceed that of what they did.
But no matter how expensive Zhou Yan is, he is worth the money.
Takuma Yuki Nao had already started to think about how much it should be offered when he negotiated with Zhou Yan later.
The budget for "Final Fantasy VIII" is more than 80 million US dollars, while the budget for music is about 8 million US dollars. The reason why it is so high is because it wants to make a theme song.
The cost of making a theme song is completely different from the cost of making music in games. Not to mention anything else, just asking singers to sing, the cost is not that high.
But Takumatsu Nao is not very confident about the budget of more than 8 million US dollars. Can you really invite Zhou Yan at this price?
Zhou Yan is different from ordinary composers because he is so profitable.
Not to mention anything else, just say that Zhou Yan can write a song for others, and he may get millions by just sharing the income.
Although Takuma Yuki Nao hadn't learned about it carefully, he believed that songs like "youngandbeautiful" and "someonelikeyou" could bring Zhou Yan a great share. After all, he was the lyricist and composing these songs. The share ratio must be very high.
If Zhou Yan can get millions by just sharing his achievements, why do they want to use millions to invite Zhou Yan to make all the game music?
If they would spend millions of dollars on just one theme song, they would definitely not be able to afford it.
If you want to cooperate with Zhou Yan, you either increase your budget or make concessions in terms of copyright and share.
If you want to make concessions, how many steps should you make concessions? (This chapter ends)