Entertaining Children

  Chapter 183 Selling Copyright

  After dinner, Xiao Yao fulfilled Betty’s wish and replaced the gift for the first visit with a piano song.

  This time, Xiao Yao, who prefers new/age, did not choose KevinKern's tune, but instead played a very rhythmic piano piece in his previous life, "Serenade" by JimBrickman.

  In addition to its good sound, the biggest feature of "Serenade" is its sense of rhythm. Therefore, in addition to the piano sound, the original version also includes rhythm and drum beats as the background sound. In order to restore the overall effect of the central original song in the previous life, Xiao Yao also asked Keith to bring out the electronic keyboard and put a fixed rhythm drum beat on it to accompany his piano music.

Watching Xiao Yao’s fingers dance flexibly on the piano keys, and listening to another beautiful piano song that she hadn’t heard before, Betty couldn’t help but sigh, “I haven’t seen you in a few years. This little guy has not only improved a lot in playing piano skills. , I can play more and more. I just don’t know where he got this new piece of drums and piano."

  Keyes, who plays rock music, is obviously not as interested in this kind of piano music as Betty, but after watching Xiao Yao's performance, he also had to admit his wife's evaluation with conviction. When it comes to playing the piano, he is indeed inferior to the seventeen-year-old boy before him. Although he can also play the piano, he is, after all, the lead singer and guitarist of the band, not the keyboard player.

  The end of the song, Betty and Keith did not hesitate to applaud Xiao Yao's performance just now. Xiao Yao smiled and nodded in thanks.

   "Yang, what was the song just now?" Betty asked.

   "It's called "Serenade", and it's the work of my father's friend XY. It's new this year." Xiao Yao said without changing his face. In a sense, it doesn't seem to be a complete lie. Although I told my dad Xiao Siqi that all new songs I wrote in the future will use his own name, but like this kind of pure music work, Xiao Yao still put him under the name of XY.

  "Are you trying to match up and help Mr. Bernie buy it again?" Xiao Yao looked at Betty and said. Seven years ago, her two piano songs "Childhood Memories" and "Sundial Dreams", which she played in front of Betty, sold the performance rights to her pianist friend Horn Bernie through Betty's intermediary contact.

   "Smart," Betty complimented, and then smiled: "But I don't need to work today. Horn will come over tonight's party ladder later, and let him come to you to talk to you, I don't care."

   "OK, no problem, anyway, I can be the plenipotentiary representative of XY in terms of selling the copyright of the song." Xiao Yao shrugged.

  About an hour later, the friends Keith and Betty invited to the party ladder began to arrive one after another.

  The Craig’s house is large enough. The main area of ​​the ladder is the living room of the house and the lawn around the swimming pool in the courtyard connected to the living room by a huge glass door.

  Although Keith is playing a rock band, there is no crazy show this time. It's just a social gathering of friends, and most of them are holding drinks, walking around at will, chatting, and communicating with each other.

  Of course, as Xiao Yao who came to Craig’s house for the first time. Keith and Betty gave him a brief introduction to the friends who were present, and it can be regarded as bringing Xiao Yao into the circle of friends they are familiar with.

"Kees and Betty organized this party ladder, is it to introduce this Chinese middle school student to us? It's a little fuss, right?" After the brief introduction, everyone walked around and chatted casually, so the guests also met Xiao Yao. Discussion.

"Making a fuss? Betty is still a big figure in the fashion circle from a top model to transforming his own fashion brand. Keith's "Daydream" band has existed for more than ten years and has been popular for seven or eight years, and is also an veteran in the entertainment industry. Are they the kind of people who don't know their brains?" Someone replied with a curled mouth.

"Don't just see that kid is only seventeen years old or a middle school student. But haven't you heard Betty say? He is both a music player and a photographer. Whether it's Keith's music circle or Betty's fashion circle , This guy is on the sidelines, obviously they are both promising guys with great potential. If he can achieve good results in the future, then they who have a good relationship with him now will definitely benefit a lot in the future." People joined the discussion.

"It's just organizing a ladder. Anyway, the two of them drove a lot of ladders, and they would do it once in a while. Even if this kid does nothing in the future, Keith and Betty will have nothing to lose. This kind of investment in relationships, It is the most cost-effective."

  Some of the guests were talking about Craig and Xiao Yao with such enthusiasm, because the three of them are not in the main activity area of ​​the ladder at the moment. After introducing Xiao Yao, Craig’s new friend, the Craig and his wife called Horn Bernie and went to a more private place with Xiao Yao, Keith on the second floor. Music room. In addition to these four people, there is also Horne Bernie, a soundtrack composer Ron Disting who is also a music friend and specializes in film soundtracks.

Hearing that Betty said that XY, who sold him the commercial performance rights of "Childhood Memories" and "Sundial Dreams", has made a new production, Horn Bernie immediately became very interested and attracted his friend Luo who is also a music producer. En followed Betty to Keith's music room.

   "Where is the score? I'll play it and listen to it first." As soon as he entered the music room, Horn was excited to sit next to Keith's piano.

   "Wait," Betty stopped Horn and laughed, "There is no score this time, and you don't need to play it yourself. The people who know the song are here, you just need to sit quietly and listen."

   "Who? Keith?" Horn curled his lips. "He plays the guitar well, but let's forget the piano. It's better to write the score and let me do it myself."

   "Hey, Horn!" Keith exclaimed dissatisfiedly, "Don't think that we are good friends and I won't beat you." With that, Keith yanked his tattooed arm.

   "No, it's not Keith, it's Yang!" Betty held back a smile, pointed to Xiao Yao who was coming in with him and said to Horn.

   "It's him!" Seeing Betty pointing at Xiao Yao, Keith didn't insist on playing by himself anymore, giving way to his position. He didn't question Xiao Yao because of Xiao Yao's age. On the one hand, he and Xiao Yao only met tonight. Unlike Keith, he didn't know him so well, so he seemed very rude and uncultivated to say some doubts casually. On the other hand, he didn't know much about Xiao Yao. If he had learned piano since he was a child, he could practice for more than ten years by the time he was seventeen, and he could practice to a very good level.

  You’re welcome, Xiao Yao first turned on the rhythm and drum beats on one of the electronic keyboards, then sat in front of the piano and played the “Serenade” that had been played before.

  Drums and piano. New/age music in this world has not appeared in the present situation, but such an excellent piano piece is still rare.

"Yang, why are you so proficient in playing this piece? What is your relationship with XY?" After Horn listened to Xiao Yao's performance, he first applauded heartily, and then he didn't rush to talk about the performance copyright, but instead I was curious about the relationship between Xiao Yao and XY.

"XY is Yang's father's friend, so he is also Yang's elder." Betty helped answer, "Remember the performance rights of the two songs I recommended you to buy back then? Those two songs were also I listened to from Yang back then. Yes. If you like this piece and want the performance rights to this piece, Yang can be the representative of the copyright transaction of the piece XY, and you can talk to him directly."

   "I like it, of course I like it." Horn Bernie said, "This is a great piece. I hope I can play it in my concert."

"Actually, there is not much to talk about." Xiao Yao said, "I know Mr. Bernie, you are a very famous American pianist and a creator of piano music, so it is also an honor for you to see the music. As far as the performance copyright price is concerned, it’s good to follow your market price. I believe Betty and you in this regard."

   "OK, no problem, I will prepare the copyright transaction contract as soon as possible, and the price will not be disadvantageous to my friends." Horn smiled satisfied. At the same time, Horne Bernie also thought he had discovered the reason for Keith and Betty to run the ladder for Xiao Yao tonight. As far as Xiao Yao's current piano performance level is, and he has an elder with such a talent for music, it is enough for Betty and Keith to befriend him.

   "Hey, Horn, your problem has been solved, but my problem has not been solved yet." At this moment, Ron Distin, who had been a spectator, said.

   "Oh, yes." Horn patted his forehead, then said to Keith and Betty, "Ron has a problem and needs you, especially Keith, you can help him solve it."

   "The problem? Is it the soundtrack of the animated movie you have? You haven't got it yet? I heard it will be released early next month." Betty looked at Ron with a little surprise.

   "That's right." Ron nodded, "That's it. The soundtrack in the movie is basically finished, but the theme song hasn't been finalized yet."

"The theme song of this movie is also my responsibility." Ron continued, "Although it is an animated movie, the audience who enter the theater is not only children, but also adults. The main audience of this movie is children, parents and young people. Therefore, the theme song needs to be acceptable to audiences of all ages, neither too young nor too deep. At the same time, in order to match the theme of the movie, it needs to be active and healthy, but also to reflect the rebellion and personality of young people. And unrestrained."

  "What?" Hearing this, Xiao Yao was a little uncomfortable. "This the **** is not going to show up, right?"

"I haven't written it, nor have I found a suitable movie theme song." Ron shook his head helplessly. "Seeing that the release date is getting closer and closer, but the theme song hasn't been completed yet. This is really unreasonable. Now the director and producer have put a lot of pressure on me. So I wonder if Keith can help me write a theme song like this? Or Betty, you have recommended three great pianos for Horn The song is over. With your personal connections and excellent ears who are good at discovering good music, can you also help me find such a suitable theme song."

  "Positive, healthy, rebellious, individual, unrestrained..." Keith and Betty repeated several key adjectives Ron said with frowning.

Keith first shook his head and said: "The next few words are the style of our "Daydream" rock band, but the first two words, our band's songs are not suitable for the theme songs of animated films. You let me know I have written a song within a few days, and I can’t guarantee it will be completed on time and with good quality.”

   "Excuse me... can I ask what this movie is about?" Xiao Yao finally couldn't help but interject.

Seeing Ron looking at him in surprise, Xiao Yao coughed dryly and explained: "XY's work has also been used for interludes and soundtracks in Huaxia movies, so I think he may have suitable songs in his hands. Of course the lyrics of his songs are in Chinese, but if you just change the lyrics, it is definitely easier than writing a song now."

"Of course." Hearing that XY had also made a film soundtrack, Ron also had a hope in his heart, and he immediately introduced: "The movie is about a stubborn, brave and talented young man in a fictional city. With some teenagers who also have special abilities, they form a "juvenile security guard" alliance to fight against the stories of criminals in the city."

   "There is no big story," Xiao Yao thought regretfully, "it sounds like a juvenile cartoon version of a superhero movie like the Justice League or the Avengers."

  After Xiao Yao’s reminder, Betty remembered the song "Immortals" performed by Xiao Yao and his student band. It seems that the key words Ron mentioned are all in line with this song?

So Betty smiled and said to Ron: "I have a song here that seems to meet your requirements. But I want to remind you that this song is only the work of a student band. The creator is now in our American entertainment industry. But it's not well-known yet."

"It doesn't matter if you are not famous," Ron said indifferently. "This animated film is going to hit this year's Oscar for Best Animated Feature Film. The quality is absolutely excellent. There is no need to rely on the theme song to enhance the film's popularity. I only want the theme song It just needs to match the quality and theme of the movie."

   "It's just..." Ron hesitated, "How good is a student band's work? Can it be worthy of this movie?"

"I have a performance video of this song. As for whether it is worthy of it, please judge by yourself as a professional." Betty smiled and took out her mobile phone and called up the live video of the immortals band that she had recorded. Give it to Ron.

  (End of this chapter)