Entertaining Children

   Chapter 736

   "This thing that looks like a pot lid is an instrument?" Director Steve McGrov came to look at the phone screen that Dawson Grew took, and asked curiously.

"I seem to have seen this kind of thing somewhere." The soundtrack player Dawson Glu frowned. "It seems to be a kind of musical instrument, which is played directly by hand, right?" Then, Dawson Glu said. The phone was returned to Xiao Yao.

"Yes," Xiao Yao nodded and retracted the phone, "I guess you may have seen it on the Internet. I have recorded a few videos of playing this instrument and uploaded it to the Internet. There are also some other people playing here. This kind of musical instrument. But now this kind of musical instrument is still used for more performances, and it seems that it has not appeared in the soundtrack of film and television works. And the sound of this kind of instrument is relatively ethereal, and it has never been used as the soundtrack of suspenseful plots. Never before."

  "Use ethereal instruments to make a soundtrack to the suspenseful and tense plot? I am very interested." Dawson Grew said immediately, "I would love to see it."

   "No problem," Xiao Yao smiled, "I just said that, if you are interested, you can go to the "Daydream" recording studio to watch my performance and recording at night."

"Do you have to wait until the evening? Our crew has its own recording studio, and you can start working now." Dawson Grew couldn't wait to say something, and then he reacted, "Wait, whose recording studio do you talk about? "Daydream"?" Both of them were attracted by the photo of the musical instrument on Xiao Yao's phone just now, and Dawson Glu obviously didn't pay attention to what Xiao Yao said just now.

"Yes, the "Daydream" recording studio." Xiao Yao nodded, "Although your crew has a recording studio, there is no hand-held disc. My hand-held disc is in the hotel and I need to go back to the hotel to get it. I live in it. The hotel is relatively close to the "Daydream" recording studio, and I was doing arranger accompaniment in their recording studio yesterday. I have been there for a day and I am familiar with their equipment."

"Steve, the progress of the soundtrack is within the plan," Dawson Grew said to the director beside him, "If Young can really get the soundtrack of that suspenseful and tense plot tonight, the progress of the soundtrack will still be In advance, so I think there should be no problem if I don't work tonight." What he meant, obviously, was going to watch Xiao Yao make a soundtrack with a disc.

   "Of course there is no problem." Director Steve McGrov understood what the soundtrack meant and nodded immediately, "In fact, I want to see it."

   "In this case, let's set off now, it's not early now." Xiao Yao stood up and said.

"You are going back to the hotel now, and then take the musical instrument to the recording studio to record?" Zhou Jingyi asked Xiao Yao in surprise, "I am going to invite you to Dino's for dinner. It is a great restaurant, and I have already booked it. Location."

  After the filming of the crew is over, it’s almost time for dinner. Because of work, everyone ate fast food together in the crew at noon. Zhou Jingyi originally wanted to wait until the work was over before fulfilling the friendship of the landlord, and took Xiao Yao and others to have a good meal in the evening. She knew that the director asked Xiao Yao to make the soundtrack, but she thought Xiao Yao was only looking at the video material today, and then slowly conceived the creation after returning in the evening, but she didn't expect Xiao Yao to record the soundtrack immediately.

   "It doesn't matter, you invite my mother and the others to eat." Xiao Yao said, "Anyway, my mother and the others don't have to accompany you when it comes to recording."

   "Still, Minyi, you guys go together too, don't accompany me to the recording studio." Xiao Yao still said with Pei Minyi, "I'm driving the car!"

Xiao Yao turned his head to Zhou Jingyi again and said: "Jin, after dinner, please take them back to the hotel." Then, Xiao Yao took out his mobile phone and walked to the parking lot outside the studio while making a call: "Kies, you Are you still in the recording studio? I'm going to borrow your studio to record at night. Well, I will be there in half an hour! Of course I welcome your place. By the way, I haven't eaten dinner yet. You can bring me something to eat. …"

"Ladies, it’s nice to meet you, and I hope you have a good time here today. Now we are going to watch Yang do the soundtrack, goodbye!" The director and the soundtrack hurriedly greeted Ye Jiaying and others, and followed Xiao Haruka went together.

  While waiting for Xiao Yao to pick up his musical instruments downstairs in the hotel, the soundtrack artist Dawson Gelu also took the opportunity to search for a few videos of hand-disc performances on the Internet and watched them with the director. As Xiao Yao said, the sound played by this instrument is indeed very ethereal, and the music played by hand-disc on the Internet is also in that ethereal and quiet style. While marveling at how this musical instrument that can produce sounds that seem to touch the depths of the human soul was actually invented by Xiao Yao, a young man who seems to be only about 20 years old, I also wonder how Xiao Yao played with this instrument. To create a suspenseful and tense atmosphere.

   When the three of them arrived at the "Daydream" recording studio, Keith Craig, who was out for dinner with Xiao Siqi, had not yet returned. However, Xiao Yao had been in the recording studio for more than half a day yesterday. The staff in the recording studio knew him, and Keith Craig had also called back to greet him, so Xiao Yao carried him unimpeded. Steve McGrov and Dawson Grew walked directly into the studio.

  "Don't you need to wait for Keith Craig to come back to record?" Dawson Grew asked in surprise as he watched Xiao Yao sitting in front of the console and operating the equipment proficiently. He knew that Keith Craig was also an excellent sound engineer and producer. He thought that Xiao Yao insisted on coming to the "Daydream" recording studio because he wanted Keith Craig to record for him.

   "No, no, now my music is recorded by myself." Xiao Yao shook his head and said, "I was familiar with his equipment yesterday, and I know how to operate it."

  After some operations on the console, Xiao Yao entered the recording room holding the hand disc. Taking into account that Keith had never seen his own hand-disc, Xiao Yao did not start playing and recording the hand-disc. Instead, he put the disc aside and picked up the violin in the recording room. The instruments in the recording studio are much richer and more complete than those in Keith Craig's piano room, not only acoustic guitars, but also large and small violins.

"Now it's recording? Is his song written long ago?" Steve McGrove and Dawson Grew looked at each other and put on the monitor headphones on the console at the same time. .

  When Xiao Yao finished the string part of the violin playing, Keith Craig and Xiao Siqi also returned.

After Xiao Yao introduced Keith Craig, Shaw Siqi, Steve McGrov and Dawson Grew to each other, after the four met, Keith Craig will A paper bag was handed to Xiao Yao and said: "In the control room of my recording studio, people were not allowed to eat and drink here, but today, I will make an exception for you."

   "Thank you!" Xiao Yao took the paper bag, "The rules are the rules, should I go out to eat?"

"Come on!" Keith Craig pressed Xiao Yao on the chair in front of the console and said, "What I say here is the rule. Since I made an exception for you, then you can eat here. I will pay. I want to wait for you to finish it early and appreciate your new work."

  "The soundtrack of the film and television works, tsk tsk, you kid is really good at everything!" Keith Craig shook his head again, sighing.

   "Oh, you brought the disc here too." While Keith Craig was talking to Xiao Yao, Xiao Siqi noticed that there was an additional instrument in the recording room.

"Yes," Xiao Yao said while opening the paper bag and digging out the food. "Thinking that Keith hasn't seen me play hand-dishes yet, so I haven't recorded the hand-dish part yet. These three gentlemen probably haven't seen it personally. Someone is playing a hand-dish, anyway, I want to eat now, why don't you play it first and show them a hand?"

"Okay," Xiao Siqi rubbed his palms and said, "It just so happens that I haven't played for a long time." The number of second-generation hand discs is relatively small now, Xiao Siqi considered that his hand discs are only average, and There is already a generation of hand discs, so Ake Robinson was not asked for it when he was in Nashville, only Xiao Yao took one by himself. He had long wanted to find Xiao Yao to come over and play.

   "Hand dish? That? That's a musical instrument?" Keith Craig followed Xiao Siqi's gaze, and found the extra pot lid in the recording studio, pointed and asked.

   "Yes, this is a new musical instrument that Yang invented last year, called a hand disc." Xiao Siqi briefly introduced, ran to the recording room and took the hand disc. Now there are three viewers here, and there are only two monitor headphones on the console, so Xiao Siqi still takes the disc back to the control room to play, so that it sounds more convenient for everyone.

Xiao Siqi didn’t intend to do the hand-disc performance of Xiaoyao’s soundtrack, nor did he ask about the melody of Xiao Yao’s soundtrack. He struck a few times in several zones of the hand-disc and became familiar with the scales of each position. A song "Amidst the Rain and Indigo" was played for three audiences.

What Keith Craig brought to Xiao Yao was a simple fast food. Xiao Yao eats quickly. After Xiao Siqi's "Amidst the Rain and Indigo" played more than three minutes later, Xiao Yao also wiped out the food in his hand. .

   "Awesome!" After the three of Keith Craig and the others listened, they couldn't help applauding.

   "You just said that this kind of instrument is called a hand disc? How can I get one?" Keith Craig asked impatiently. It was the first time that he heard the music played by this instrument, and he fell in love with it all at once.

"I started a musical instrument company in partnership with someone to make and sell this kind of musical instrument." Xiao Yao smiled and took out a business card and handed it to Keith Craig. "We only accept custom-made products. You can place an order. !"

   "You, open a musical instrument company?" Keith Craig glared and took Xiao Yao's business card.

"Partnering with someone," Xiao Yao emphasized, "I give out the patent and half of the capital, and half of the equity, but I don't care about the specific company management. But if you report my name, you should be able to enjoy a certain discount! "

   "You profiteer!" Keith Craig smiled, "I thought you would give me one for free!"

"Please! Thousands of dollars is nothing to you, but I can't break the company's rules!" Xiao Yao said, "The company needs income on the books. If you don't want to pay, it's okay. I will help with this money. your turn!"

   "So, when you made this soundtrack with a hand disc, do you want to advertise your new instrument and your musical instrument company?" Dawson Grew asked.

  Although I saw this kind of hand-disc video on the Internet when I came here, the feeling of listening to it on the spot is still different. Just now when Keith Craig said he wanted this kind of instrument, Dawson Grew was also moved. But when Xiao Yao said that he started a company to sell this kind of musical instrument, he hesitated again. After all, inventing a musical instrument is not the same as starting a company to sell musical instruments. He and Xiao Yao are not as familiar as Keith Craig and Xiao Yao.

"You can say that," Xiao Yao nodded generously and admitted, "I know that you asked me to do the soundtrack because you want to use my current topicality to promote your series, but in any case, the quality of the work itself is the most important thing. Anyway, I have already played a guest role in your series, and you have already used me to promote the series. If you think my soundtrack is not suitable, you can not use it at all. I will not force it!"

   "It turns out that this Chinese kid understands everything!" Steve McGrov said, "We use his name to promote the series, and he uses the soundtrack in our series to promote his instrument!"

"I don't care about the publicity, I only care about the later soundtrack." Dawson Grew's mind is much simpler, and he said directly, "Whether you use our series to promote your instrument, as long as you make it The stuff is good enough and suitable, I will adopt it!"

   "That's what I meant too!" Xiao Yao spread his hands and took the hand-disc from Xiao Siqi's hands. "Now I want to continue working. You wait and see, oh no, wait and listen to my results."

  Since Xiao Siqi has already demonstrated to the three people, Xiao Yao no longer needs to let them feel the effect of the hand-disc. He took the hand-disc and went directly into the recording room to start recording.

  Dawson Grew and Steve McGrov hesitantly looked at Keith Craig and Shaw Siqi.

   "Please!" Keith Craig, who understood what they meant, waved his hand. This recording of Xiao Yao was work, and the two were waiting for the acceptance results, so Keith Craig and Xiao Siqi did not compete with them for monitor headphones.

   "Thank you!" Dawson Grew and Steve McGrov nodded in greeting, and went to the console again and put on the monitor headphones.

  Through the glass windows between the control room and the recording room, the two could see that Xiao Yao's speed of tapping the hand disc was obviously faster than Xiao Siqi's earlier, and the technique seemed more proficient. From the musical melody he played, it was indeed different from the piece played by Xiao Siqi just now, but they couldn't be sure that this section was suitable for the plot of the soundtrack for them.

  About half an hour later, Xiao Yao finished playing the part of the hand-disc. Then he sat in front of the console, put on the monitor headphones, and began to post-process and synthesize the previously recorded pieces of music material.

"Okay." After more than half an hour, Xiao Yao copied a piece of music that had been produced to a USB flash drive, and handed it to Dawson Gludao, "A total of two minutes and twenty-three seconds, which happens to be that The length of the plot. I saw you come here with your laptop. There are video materials on it, right? You can feel it now."

"Okay!" Dawson Gelu was also welcome, took the USB flash drive that Xiao Yao handed over, opened the laptop he had brought, plugged in the USB flash drive, and then opened the image material in the computer and pulled it directly Go to the position you need and play it synchronously with the music in the U disk.

  Music sounded, and other people on the scene also came over curiously, and felt the effect of Xiao Yao's soundtrack together.

"Great!" More than two minutes passed quickly. Dawson Grew first nodded and said, "I think it can be used in this way." The length of the soundtrack and the scoring of the plot are not bad, and among them The ups and downs of the story are also very well matched with the plot. The most important thing is that the entire soundtrack really brings people into the suspenseful and tense atmosphere of the plot at once.

   "I agree!" Steve McGrov also nodded, "This section uses this soundtrack!"

   "You really opened my eyes!" Dawson Glu said to Xiao Yao, "I didn't expect this ethereal voice with string music to give people such a feeling. Now, I have another question."

   "What's the problem?" Xiao Yao asked with a smile.

  "Can you also give me a business card?" Dawson Glu said, "You have provided me with a brand new soundtrack idea. I think I need to study this new musical instrument you invented."

   "Of course!" Xiao Yao took out a business card and handed it over.

  How many people among TV viewers care about what instrument is used for the soundtrack? Xiao Yao's purpose was to make this musical instrument popular among the behind-the-scenes group of soundtrackers.

   "Speaking of research," Keith Craig interjected, "Young, can this instrument work with rock music?"

   "Why not?" Xiao Yao shrugged, "Music is full of infinite possibilities."

"That's right." Keith Craig nodded, "Then can you teach me how to play this instrument? I think we can add the soundtrack of this instrument to our daydream work in the future. "

"No!" Xiao Yao shook his head and said, "Although I invented this instrument, it does not mean that my way of playing is the only and best. In fact, this instrument is about striking different areas to produce different effects. The sound of the scale, as long as it is a professional musician, can hear the different scales corresponding to different areas. As for the percussion technique and technique, there are no strict rules. My technique was developed by myself, I I also hope that the musicians who play this instrument can create their own playing skills through their own exploration and understanding, and form their own unique way of playing."

  After Xiao Yao invented this new instrument, he has never uploaded any teaching videos. He just hopes that musicians can study various playing methods with interest, so as to make this new instrument more attractive.

  (End of this chapter)