I am reborn and just want to concentrate on my studies

After nightfall, the clear river flows through the county town, and lights far and near outline the outline of the city. In winter, there are fewer people hanging around on the streets after all, and the streets with darker lights are often the residences of residents. A car slowly stopped in front of a small building.

Luo Zhengwei got out of the car. It was already late at this time. He looked at the time and sighed silently.

Of course, there will still be overtime work, but the content of the work is not as hard as before. There are indeed many colleagues around me saying that the grassroots are tired and suffering, but for Luo Zhengwei, who has been on the border for so many years, it is really not worth mentioning.

Of course, most of the time he just does things silently by himself, and is too lazy to lecture those lazy colleagues, or advise others to "stop complaining so much". He does his own thing well, and occasionally can give some advice when he is free. How does a newcomer handle a case? He knows that a person's cognition has a lot to do with his environment. Getting others to accept your point of view is the most difficult thing in the world.

After all, now that I have been transferred to an administrative position, I don't have that much time to contact the front line.

Generally speaking, it is a bit uncomfortable. I still miss the days when I was working on cases and faced many dangers... Of course, I don't miss the dangers back then, but I feel that everything I did back then was very meaningful and valuable, and that I was carrying a heavy burden for this society... …Most of today’s things are indeed meaningless. However, the habits he has developed over the years still allow him to complete all work meticulously.

The most fulfilling thing I have done during this period is the competition video. Learn editing software by yourself, collect materials, cut videos, and do post-production... From knowing nothing at the beginning to now being able to produce beautiful videos, it is indeed a meaningful journey. But the hard work was not in vain, and the superiors took a fancy to him. The city made special arrangements and said that the concept of this video is very good and there is room for expansion, but there is still room for further improvement in shooting and production. It can be further improved and the next step can be promoted to the provincial government.

Regarding grades, he didn't care. But this video condenses the emotions he has accumulated over many years of working at the border. If he cannot vent them out, it will indeed be very painful.

The city's attention also made the county attach great importance to it. During this time, he no longer had to do other work and could concentrate on this matter. At the same time, you can borrow a few professionals from the county's publicity department to help and concentrate on filming the film. Some of the video clips are on-site footage from when the brothers and I were performing missions. The first-person perspective, combined with some collected videos, and then shot carefully, the production will have a very shocking effect.

When he got home, his daughter was still studying. He knew that the final exam was coming soon, and he was much more nervous during this period of study.

Without disturbing Luo Luoyue, Luo Zhengwei sat alone in front of the computer in the living room and smoked. His wife had already fallen asleep, so he picked up his headphones, opened a music software, and listened to the song silently.

Actually... I'm looking for a suitable video background music. The song I used last time seems almost boring.

…

Yi Yang will still go to Jiang Lili's place to practice piano. It is considered as a way to relax after studying. In fact, Jiang Lili can no longer teach anything on the guitar. She only understands the guitar so much, but as for music, if you master the music theory and practice it repeatedly while thinking about it, your guitar level will continue to improve. Ultimately, when it comes to music, music theory knowledge and sight-singing and ear training are more important.

Jiang Lili's home was warm with the air conditioner turned on.

Yi Yang began to understand the basic logic of matching chords to a melody... This was just a small breakthrough in music theory, but it was a milestone progress on the guitar. This means that in the near future, if your hearing is better, you will be able to improvise accompaniment without guitar music. At that point, it will be no problem to be a resident singer in any bar.

At present, there are not many things that really need to be learned. When Jiang Lili came here, she mainly practiced sight-singing and ear training on the piano. In the past six months, her listening level has been very good.

During the break, Yi Yang asked a question he had always wanted to ask.

"Teacher Jiang...how can I write a song?"

Jiang Lili was pouring a glass of water and took a sip. Hearing Yi Yang's words, she looked over and saw him holding the guitar and looking at her curiously.

"Well..." Jiang Lili said as she walked towards the piano: "In fact, I think your question is probably a problem that many people who play music will encounter."

"Before coming into contact with music, most people would think that writing songs is a high-level thing. For example, if you hear someone around you say that you have written a song, you will definitely be shocked... I feel Writing songs is too far away from me."

"Um."

"However, when you enter this circle, you will find that writing songs is actually not that high-end. Let's put it this way, if a person hums and records it with his mobile phone, he has written a song."

"Uh... does that count? Then... there is no music score..."

"Yes, there is no music score. But can you say that he didn't write this song? Of course not. Some people just have some nice melodies in their heads, and they come up with it and it becomes a song."

Yi Yang smiled and said: "Then... no, everyone can write songs?"

"Theoretically, it's like this. Strictly speaking, there is no threshold for composing music. It's just that if you want to turn the music you create into a score so that others can understand it, you need a certain threshold. But this matter can even be handed over to Let professionals do it... Let me tell you quietly, there are some stars, this is how they write songs. If they don’t understand something, they hum it and give it to the producer. Then they don’t have to worry about anything else. In the end, they sign their name as a composer and gain fame and fortune. Double harvest.”

"So simple……"

Jiang Lili pressed a few notes at random on the piano, and then said: "But, after all, there are only a few big stars like that. Even getting a reputation as a composer is just the icing on the cake. It doesn't depend on this... For ordinary people, composition There is no threshold, but if you really want to create a listenable finished song, there is a very high threshold."

"Of course, we are only talking about pop songs here. Classical piano music definitely cannot be composed in this way...Go on, the grassroots need to create a song, a song that can be truly listened to by others in the player. , it’s still quite complicated.”

"You have the music, and you have to have the lyrics too, right?"

"Now that we have the lyrics and music, the next step is production. This process is the threshold that blocks 99% of grassroots musicians. The four major components of arrangement, I've told you before, bass, drums, piano, For guitar, find a reliable arranger to write the harmonies. This step is the most time-consuming and labor-intensive, because when it comes to notation, each instrument and part must have a corresponding score. This is not the rough score for you, anyway. I can't do it... Next, we need to have a recording studio, hire a sound engineer, start recording, then mix, master, and even release later... In short, it is a super complex system project."

"This requires money, and often it cannot be done by one person. Therefore, it is difficult for talented creators to come up with a contract without signing a contract."

"So there are some musicians who, before becoming famous, often sing folk songs. Why sing folk songs? Because folk songs, with lyrics and music, and a guitar accompaniment, you can sing anywhere. If you have a little money, you can find a better one. You can just play and record it in the recording studio and release it, which saves a lot of costs.”

Yi Yang nodded: "I see..."

No wonder many folk singers only have one guitar to accompany them... It turns out that most of them are for this reason.

I roughly understood what I wanted to know.

But Jiang Lili was a little curious, and she asked: "Why do you ask this?"

Yi Yang said: "I want to write a song."

Jiang Lili became happy and clicked her tongue twice: "It's awesome, let me listen to it. If it sounds good, how about I help you make it?"

Yi Yang hummed twice casually: "La ti do re ti do..." Gu Yongzhe's "I love you walking alone in the dark alley, I love the way you never come back..."

Naturally, after listening to these two lines of melody, it is impossible to have such an amazing feeling. It can only be said that it is quite ear-catching, but Yiyang can already sing it using simplified musical notation. It is not bad, and it is better than some so-called creative stars. too much.

At least there's something like a creator.

"Um... gone?"

"It's gone for now."

"Where's the words?"

"Immature."

"How long does this song span?"

"Hmm...within two octaves."

"It's not too high. If the key is not too high, ordinary people can sing it. Okay, then let me know when you have officially created it..."

So far, Jiang Lili doesn't have much expectations for Yi Yang's so-called "creation".

…

After returning home, Yi Yang memorized the words for a while, pulled out the simplified lyrics and music of "The Lonely Warrior" in the drawer, read it silently for a while, picked up the guitar, and played and sang casually...

Sighing slightly, he put the song down.

In fact, this song was “written” about a month ago.

I was just tired of studying at the time, and was bored for a while. I had been sight-singing and practicing ear training for so long. After a little exploration, I could naturally pick out the simple notations of some popular songs' first tunes based on the melody... It took about ten minutes, and it was done. Once it was done, I simply filled in the lyrics.

However, after creating this song, he could not openly announce that he wrote it himself, and he was even more at a loss to monetize it.

Of course it's not pretentious or guilty of the original author or any other messy womanly kindness. There are many reasons, and there are even a few emotions similar to worry and anxiety that have been stuck in my chest. The root of all this is that before Jiang Lili’s explanation tonight, I didn’t understand the process and principles of music creation. Now I understand, but I find that making money from a few songs is much more complicated than I thought... The stories in the online novels I read before that you can make a lot of money just by copying songs are quite fake.

First of all, the first question we face is, how to turn this score, which only has music and lyrics, into a song that can be listened to by others in a real sense? There are probably only two ways here. One is to sell it to a certain star... But he doesn't know how to achieve it, and even if it is sent to a certain record company, how to get a dome tape? Then there is only the second way, which is to produce it yourself and then publish it on a certain online platform in the hope that it will become popular. Only when this kind of song becomes popular can it be noticed by others and monetized.

In short, if you want to make money from this, you must invest a lot of costs in the early stage. This is a rather troublesome problem. And this song "Lonely Warrior" is a song that requires a lot of arrangement. It can be said that without a good arrangement, the influence will be reduced by at least half, so the cost will be higher.

Next, even if I put all my efforts into rough production of this song, I have no idea whether this saliva song that will be popular ten years later can cater to the aesthetics of the current audience. You know, even Jay Chou's classic "I'm Very Busy" was criticized by critical listeners when it was first released. They even shouted, "Has Jay Chou exhausted his talents..."

Moreover, he is not Eason Chan. The later "Lonely Warrior" was a top arranger and top singer, as well as the subsequent broadcast channels of the short video platform, which made this song so popular.

So, it’s very possible that after a lot of effort and cost was spent, the song copied out is like a stone thrown into the sea, unable to make any waves, and that would make me cry to death.

Other than that, he is just a teenager no more than a teenager anyway. Writing a song cannot be said to be an appalling thing, but it is still a rare thing, so some people will definitely wonder whether it was composed by him... This process will naturally involve Some people came to ask some professional questions. I heard Jiang Lili say it tonight. She probably has some knowledge and won't expose her secrets, but the process will definitely not be pleasant.

And it will affect learning.

Thinking of this, Yi Yang shook his head and temporarily put aside the idea of ​​making money by copying songs.

I haven't decided yet what major to study in the future, whether to go into business, politics or scientific research, but I think one thing is very clear. He can copy one or two future songs, which can help him accumulate a fortune relatively easily in the future. The primitive accumulation of capital has already been thought about...but not now. The conditions in all aspects are not very mature. Now we still have to focus on learning.

Thinking of this, I felt a little calmer.

For a long time, I fantasized about plagiarizing some songs and becoming rich overnight. I even considered learning music theory guitar with this aspect in mind. Now that I have figured this out, I am not so anxious.

…

During self-study the next morning, Luo Luoyue heard Yi Yang humming the children's song again. She suddenly showed a surprised expression and said, "Yes, yes, that's it... What's the name of your song?" ?”

Yi Yang glanced at Luo Luoyue and said with a smile: "No need to waste your efforts, you can't find this song."

"Can't find it?"

"This song is called Lonely Warrior...I wrote it."

Luo Luoyue suddenly rolled her eyes.

“Bragging doesn’t mean drafting.”

In Luo Luoyue's opinion, writing songs is such a powerful thing, just him?

District... district, him?

I think someone here might say I'm drunk. But it’s not true. I’m just trying to let everyone understand one thing. It’s not that easy to monetize songs in reality. In addition, I do not reject what everyone calls the so-called "copying official documents" behavior. In my opinion, there are no old routines or new routines, everything is just to serve the plot, everything is for "feeling". Some people say that it is divorced from the main plot, because there are always plots other than learning. In fact, I want to say that people who think this way are thinking wrong. "Learning" is not just the knowledge in textbooks, but also how to behave in the world, cognitive ability, physical fitness, and so on. Improvement is a part of learning, so that you can grow into a complete person in the future. You can still indulge a little bit now. After all, in junior high school, you wouldn't be able to play like this in high school.

Then I can show off better in the future.

After all, the essence is still cool writing. Some book friends have rated this book too high, with various meanings... It's quite scary, because my starting point is not to write a work with much literary value. You can see it and feel it. It's quite good, but My original intention is just to hope that this book can be a little entertainment for you after dinner.

I hope Chengzi can always be with you.