"Little Hands Holding Big Hands" and "First Dream" are two different styles of songs. This song is completely a sweet song.
Whether it is the melody, lyrics, or arrangement, this song is very light.
After the girl listened to "First Dream" just now, she thought that Shizuka Kudo was originally into the inspirational and independent style, so Zhou Yan wrote such a song for her.
But after listening to "Little Hands Holding Big Hands", the girl discovered that Shizuka Kudo's interpretation of this song was even better than "First Dream".
Listening to this song, you can really feel the sweetness in the song, as if every word sung by Kudo Shizuka is full of sweet love.
It seems that Shizuka Kudo is very good at controlling this kind of light and sweet songs.
Moreover, the lyrics of the song "Little Hands Holding Big Hands" are more simple and the image is stronger. After listening to it, I feel like I have watched a short film.
Concerts, fireworks, small hands, big hands, amusement parks, these real-life images can easily weave pictures into the minds of the listeners.
After listening to it, the girl couldn't help but rewind the tape and listened to "Little Hands Holding Big Hands" again. She really liked this song.
Chinese bands actually have very few sweet songs like this. Most of the love songs are of a bitter kind, especially those songs by female singers, each one is more bitter than the last.
It seems that it will not stop until it makes the listener cry.
Even some relatively cheerful love songs are similar to the style of dance music, such as "Little Hands Holding Big Hands", which can't be found at all.
So when the girl heard "Little Hand Holding Big Hand", she was surprised and happy.
As expected, Zhou Yan's approach was different. The songs he wrote were completely different from the current popular songs.
After the boy and the girl stood like this and listened to "Little Hand Holding Big Hand" and "First Dream" twice, the girl walked to the new product shelf and picked up the CD on it.
"Just for these two songs, I have to buy a CD to listen to it."
At this time, a little girl next to her asked her, "Sister, is this album good?"
"It's nice, very nice. Zhou Yan wrote two songs for Kudo Shizuka, both of which are very nice. I haven't listened to the other eight songs yet, but with Zhou Yan's two songs, I've already made money. Little sister, don't hesitate, just go ahead and Let’s get it.”
Hearing what she said, the little girl made up her mind and nodded, “Yes, I’ll buy it too.”
Just for a moment, three items were on the shelf. Zhang's "First Dream" was sold out.
When the girl saw that there was no "First Dream" on the shelf, she kindly shouted to the boss, "Boss, it's time to replenish the stock."
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Zhou Yan originally wanted to take Shizuka Kudo there. Have a big meal, but she must eat mixed noodles.
Shizuka Kudo’s favorite thing to eat here is miso noodles, followed by dumplings.
Dumplings here are usually eaten as a staple food, but Shizuka Kudo likes to eat dumplings as a dish and eat them with rice.
Shizuka Kudo had done it once before in the studio cafeteria, which greatly reduced Zhou Yan's appetite. The last time he felt like this was when he went to Xicheng and saw locals pouring sugar into noodle bowls.
Now if Kudo Shizuka wants to eat mixed noodles, Zhou Yan will be satisfied, but if she wants to eat dumplings, Zhou Yan will not do it.
After dinner, Kudo Shizuka wanted to go to the Audio and Video World to see if anyone would buy her new album.
However, Zhou Yan took her arm and said, "Don't go to the Audio and Video World. I will take you to another video store."
Kudo Shizuka blinked and said doubtfully, "Is there another, bigger than that, video store?"
Zhou Yan shook his head, "No, that video store is much smaller than the big video world."
Kudo Shizuka looked suspicious, "No one buys in the big video stores, so will there be a small video store?"< br>
Zhou Yuan said with a smile, "Believe me."
Seeing how confident Zhou Yan was, Kudo Shizuka didn't ask any more questions and allowed Zhou Yan to hold her hand and walk forward.
Zhou Yan’s destination is the north gate of Yan Normal University.
Xidan is not close to Yan Normal University, it is several kilometers away, but the transportation is convenient. There is a big straight road in the middle, and you can get there in a short drive.
YNU has many gates, seven or eight large and small. There is a small street next to the north gate, where you can find food, drinks and entertainment. Students usually like to go shopping here.
Zhou Yan and Wang Xiaoshuai met people from the support club before, also at the north gate.
The original "Sixth Sense" crew office, which is now the Yanjing station of Zhou's company, is right next to that street. Zhou Yan often walked around nearby before, so he knew it quite well. .
There is a video store called "Feihong" next to the north gate. It usually gathers many music lovers, including Zhou Yan's fans.
Normally, it's hard to say who has the most fans in the store, but today is the day when "Initial Dream" is released, so Zhou Yan undoubtedly has the most fans in the store today.
Because of the existence of Zhou Yan’s support club at Yanzhou Normal University, news about Zhou Yan always spreads very quickly here.
The fact that Zhou Yan wrote songs for Shizuka Kudo has been widely known in Yan Normal University since early on, and they also know the exact time when the album will be released.
So early this morning, a large number of Zhou Yan's music fans gathered at Feihong Audio and Video Store, just to check out the album "Initial Dream".
The boss Wu Daoyou had already anticipated this situation, so as soon as the album arrived in the store, he made a new product consultation board specifically for "The First Dream". The entire information board only contained "The First Dream" 》 News about an album.
At the same time, there were twenty "First Dream" tapes and five CDs placed on the best-selling rack near the door. There was a lot of cards.
This is not over yet. Since the morning, Feihong Audio and Video Store has been playing the entire album of "First Dream" on a loop.
In just one morning, Feihong sold more than 30 "First Dream" tapes and six CDs. For a video store of this size, the results are already very impressive.
When Zhou Yan and Kudo Shizuka arrived at the video store, there was no one in the store. The first wave of people had passed in the morning. In fact, it was just lunch time and many people were eating.
The boss, Wu Daoyou, was stocking the new product shelves with new products. When he saw the two people coming in, he smiled and greeted, "What do you two need?"
Zhou Yan lowered his voice and asked, "Boss, do you still have "The Original Dream"?"
"Yes, it's on sale. Are you also a member of the fan club?"
< br>"I'm from the support club." Zhou Yan nodded, then pointed at Kudo Shizuka and said, "She hasn't joined the club yet."
"Your president and vice president have been here this morning."< br>
After the boss put the album on the shelf, he smiled and said, "You can take it by yourself. If you are not sure whether to buy it or not, I have a walkman and a trial version. You can listen to it first, and then Make a decision. I just turned off the speaker for a while while eating. It has been on all morning.”
Kudo Shizuka asked from the side, "Boss, does the album sound good?"
The boss glanced at Kudo Shizuka. He only felt that the girl's pronunciation was a bit strange, but he did not recognize that she was a neon person. After all, she Just said these few words.
"It sounds good. I'm not just saying that to sell your album. All the guests who came today said it sounds good."
As he said that, in order to increase the persuasiveness of his words, Wu Daoyou added another He shouted to a customer in the store, "Fang Zhou, do you think so?"
Fang Zhou was a young man wearing glasses and probably a student from a nearby school. Hearing Wu Daoyou ask him, he pushed Pushing up his glasses, he nodded with a smile, "Boss Wu is right, this album is really good, mainly because of the two songs written by Zhou Yan. One is "First Dream", one is "Little Hand Holds Big Hand", and two The main hits are all very good.”
"Is it selling well?"
"Okay, thirty or forty copies were sold in the morning. I put the rest of the goods on the shelves. I have to make a call soon to replenish the goods. The goods in my store It will last until tomorrow at most." Daoyou Wu smiled and walked into the counter without saying anything to Zhou Yan and the others. "You guys can see for yourself. If you need anything, call me."
Zhou Yan nodded. , "Boss, you're busy, let's take a look for ourselves."
After the boss returned behind the counter, he turned on the speakers in the store and played the album "First Dream".
It should have been played before, so the album is played from the middle.
Kudo Shizuka looked at the dozens of albums on the shelves and was a little curious, "Why is it different here? Is it related to the support club?"
"It's not just related to the support club, this is Next door is Yanjing Normal University. The market for college students is different. They receive information faster. For example, college students generally pay more attention to the scandal between us.”
Nowadays, there are more college students chasing stars, because generally only college students have this channel and time.
Unlike twenty or thirty years later, middle school students are the main force chasing stars on the Internet.
“Oh, that’s right.”
Zhou Yan picked up a tape from the shelf, looked at it, and said with a smile, "Actually, you don't have much reference value in this kind of video store to see whether the album is popular or not, unless you can cover most of the video stores in Yanjing. Run it again, otherwise the data you get will be inaccurate.”
“I know, you can wait for the sales data to come out.”
“That’s not necessary, the data from China is slower. , not very accurate. If you want to know whether an album is popular, just go to those small stalls. If eight of the ten vendors have pirated copies of the album, it means the album is popular. "
Kudo Shizuka showed a surprised expression, "You mean, piracy?" Zhou Yan nodded, "It's piracy. The sales volume of "Piano Boy" in the mainland is actually less than one million. I'm talking about cassettes. Together with the CDs, if you look at the pirated version, we have sold at least 10 million cassettes.”
"One million, ten million? Such an exaggeration?"
Zhou Yan smiled. This is not an exaggeration. It is said that the sales of pirated tapes of "Black Panther 1" exceeded 100 million.
Although the figure of over 100 million may not be true, the number of pirated tapes of "Black Panther 1" is definitely far more than 10 million, while the genuine sales of "Black Panther 1" have just exceeded 1 million. There is a huge gap. Very big.
There is still some copyright awareness in big cities. In order to support the music they like, some people will spend money to buy genuine copies.
In some small cities or rural towns, there is basically no awareness of copyright, and you can’t even buy genuine copies if you want.
If you want to buy genuine copies, the owner of the video store must be willing to buy genuine copies.
Sometimes it’s not that customers don’t want to buy genuine products, it’s that they simply can’t distinguish genuine products from pirated ones.
Conscientious bosses will sell genuine and pirated products together, but they will also tell customers which is genuine and which is pirated, allowing customers to choose.
It is completely normal for unscrupulous people to sell pirated copies as genuine ones.
Pirated tapes cost one or two yuan to enter the store, priced at eight or nine yuan, and then let customers cut the price to four or five yuan.
While making money from customers, customers also need to say thank you.
The most outrageous pirated version Zhou Yan had seen before was that someone mixed his two albums together and made one album called "Mysterious Boy".
The shop owner also told him that the album was a collector's edition and would cost twelve yuan a piece.
What's even more outrageous is that Zhou Yan bought one for three yuan, and now he still has a copy of "The Mysterious Boy (Zhou Yan Hardcover Album)" at home.
The Feihong Audio and Video Store where they are now actually sells pirated copies, but they are all clearly priced at three or four yuan each.
Because "First Dream" just came out, it hasn't been pirated yet, but it won't be easy to say after a while.
Those who engage in piracy are very powerful. Sometimes pirated versions of albums are made before the original album comes out.
Of course, some of these pirated tapes that were leaked in advance were actually leaked, while others were compiled by pirates.
If a certain king or queen wants to release a film and announce the album name in advance, some pirates will make their own cover, put the singer's photo on it, and then print the album name and sell it for takeout.
After the customer bought it back, he found that it was basically old songs that had been released, and some of them were not even songs by the singer himself.
Shizuka Kudo actually knew in advance that the copyright awareness in China was not very good, but she did not expect it to be so outrageous.
"Do you feel bad?" Shizuka Kudo looked at Zhou Yan, "With so many piracy, you will make a lot less money."
Zhou Yan said with a smile, "Just get used to it."
To say he doesn’t feel bad is of course false. If there were no piracy, he would definitely make a lot more money.
But piracy exists for a reason.
Most people in China now have a monthly salary of less than 200, so how can we expect them to spend too much money on entertainment activities? This is true for music, and so is literature.
At this stage, many people cannot afford even pirated tapes, let alone genuine ones.
The right of these people to enjoy spiritual entertainment has been invisiblely exploited. It is too harsh to ask these people to pay for copyright.
When a certain right that should be enjoyed by most people becomes a privilege that can only be enjoyed by a small number of people, then it is not just a problem for a certain person or a certain group of people, but for the entire society. Something is wrong with the environment.
Leaving aside the pros and cons of piracy, at this stage, China does not have the conditions to combat piracy.
Zhou Yan believes that everything will be fine, but it will still take time.
"Perhaps, you can take me there to see those vendors' bags in the future."
"No problem, I will take you to see them later."
Two The man stood in front of the shelf and chatted for a while, and suddenly he heard the sound of a guitar coming from behind the counter.
Zhou Yan followed the sound and saw his boss playing the guitar with headphones on.
After listening to it twice, Zhou Yan probably understood that this boss was picking up the score of "The Original Dream".
This surprised Zhou Yan. It is not difficult for him to pick up music scores, but that does not mean that it is very simple. For ordinary music lovers, it is pretty good if they can do it. The key is " "The First Dream" is not a guitar accompaniment. It cannot be picked up and played on the guitar simply by listening to it. It may also involve some adaptation.
It seems this boss has something, otherwise he wouldn’t even try.
However, Zhou Yan listened for a while and found that the boss's level was not particularly high. He picked up the score very slowly. He was not sure about some places, and there were also mistakes and omissions in some places. It was obvious that he had not done much research on the direction of harmony. Listen hard with a pair of ears.
Zhou Yan wanted to correct him, but he held back. This was a video store, not his classroom. Being a teacher might be annoying.
But after that, the boss became more and more messy, and Zhou Yan became more and more anxious.
Finally, Zhou Yan couldn't bear it anymore, so he took out a small notebook from his pocket and wrote a simple paragraph. He mainly wrote down the direction of several harmonies, so that the shop owner could understand it when he saw it.
Especially when converting the key of Ab to the key of F, the key is that the fifth-level dominant chord of Ab is the seventh-level leading chord corresponding to the minor key of F. Zhou Yan can't teach people the functions of family chords and leading chords, so he can only Write this paragraph directly.
After finishing writing, Zhou Yan tore off two small pages of sheet music, silently placed them on the counter, and then took Shizuka Kudo away.
Not long after Zhou Yan and the others left, Fellow Daoist Wu raised his head.
He was scratching his head just now, focusing on the score, and didn't notice someone putting the paper on the counter.
Looking up now, I noticed two pages of paper lying on the counter.
"What is this?"
Wu Daoyou muttered, took two pages of paper and looked at it, and then he was stunned. There were densely drawn music scores on them.
The score above perfectly solved the problem he just encountered.
Who wrote this? When was it put here?
Wu Daoyou was confused.
He thought of the suspicious man and woman who had just appeared in the store, and suddenly stood up and ran out the door.
But when he ran outside the door, Zhou Yan and the others were nowhere to be found.
Wu Daoyou rubbed his head and returned to the store. The young man from before, Fang Zhou, asked doubtfully, "Boss Wu, what's wrong with you?"
"I met an expert."
"Expert? What expert?"
"I don't know what an expert is, but he is an expert anyway." Wu Daoyou looked at the music score again , "This score is so beautifully written."
Although the paper is small and the score is very dense, it can be seen that the person who wrote the score is very skilled and almost writes it in one go, indicating that this person should write frequently. music score.
Just when Wu Daoyou was looking at the music score and wondering, two students happened to walk in.
Seeing the person coming, Wu Daoyou's eyes lit up, "Huang Nian, you are here just in time. I want to ask you something."
"What is it?"
"Do you have anything from your support club? Music expert? "
"Does Senior Sister Xiaoting count?"
"Forget it, Shu Xiaoting, she is not as good as me."
Huang Nian tilted his head and thought for a while, then said, "Where is senior brother Qin Xu?"
Wu Daoyou shook his head, "I know Qin Xu, but what I want to ask is someone I don't know."
"That's gone. How can we have any music masters in our normal school? And you also know most of the people in our support club."
Wu Daoyou patted his head: "It's strange That’s weird.”
The man clearly said that he was from the support club. (End of chapter)